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]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13932 Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:30:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13932-federal-courthouse-by-ten-arquitectos Photo © Luis Gordoa The central courtyard is open to the sky. Photo © Luis Gordoa Each level is encircled with planters featuring a local flower, green here but since grown to a bright yellow bloom. The ground floor mixes planks of a local teak with planted areas. Photo © Luis Gordoa The same black terrazzo of the circular corridors’ floors is used in the built-in seating. Photo © Luis Gordoa A dining hall extends from the circular plan at grade, where there are light wells for the underground parking. Photo © Luis Gordoa Partial terraces on each floor offer panoramic views over the fields and to the mountains in the distance. Photo © Luis Gordoa Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos With affordable housing, a squash club, and a fire station, a building animates a prominent corner in Washington, D.C.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13012 Sun, 01 Oct 2017 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13012-west-end-square-50-by-ten-arquitectos Square 50 layers a fire station, a squash club, and 55 units of affordable housing. Along the primary facade on M Street, the station serves as a vibrant podium. With its doors open, the facility showcases emergency vehicles. Photo © Alan Karchmer With the doors closed, the station provides an uninterrupted band of fire engine red. Photo © Alan Karchmer V-shaped columns are on display in the squash club. Photo © Alan Karchmer Transfer girders and post-tensioned slabs help redirect forces and allow column-grid layouts, ideal for the uses on the levels below and above, including the fourth floor, which has residential units that look out onto a green roof. The apartments on the five levels above are enclosed behind a more solid exterior wall assembly. Photo © Alan Karchmer Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos As you peer through the elegantly glazed vestibule of the new 53rd Street Library in Manhattan, instead of book-lined shelves, you see a large amphitheater with expansive wood tiers.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11923 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11923-rd-street-library-by-ten-arquitectos From a concrete-framed glazed vestibule on West 53rd Street, visitors enter the library’s western end. Photo © Michael Moran/Otto There they find a 34-foot-high open theater fitted with tiers of oak bleachers edged by stairs. Photo © Michael Moran/Otto Sitting on the amphitheater’s stadiumlike steps, visitors face a 20-foot-long screen on the north wall, directly below the sidewalk. Photo © Michael Moran/Otto Corrugated and perforated zinc panels backed by acoustical fabric line the east wall, while, on the west, concrete divides the main reading room from the amphitheater. Live events are planned for evening use.  Photo © Michael Moran/Otto In spite of having more space underground than above, the library seems quite luminous and airy. Suspended white metal-mesh ceiling panels give the reading rooms an added sense of height. Photo © Michael Moran/Otto The children’s reading room, on the lowest level, borrows space from the mezzanine above and from the angled ceiling that follows the shape of the amphitheater. Photo © Michael Moran/Otto At the rear of the library, a skylight and slot-like openings in the floors let daylight permeate the two subterranean levels. Photo © Michael Moran/Otto Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos With all the glitzy-hip hotels opening in New York City these days, you could get very tired of the boutique approach that went into full throttle after Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell opened Morgans Hotel in 1984.

]]> hotel-americano.asp Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7240-hotel-americano Norten fitted an industrial metal screen to a steel armature to create a shimmering facade and address zoning requirements for a street wall.   Photo © Jim Franco /Hôtel Americano The restaurant at the rear of the ground floor receives daylight through a large window wall abutting an elevated dining terrace.   Photo © Jim Franco /Hôtel Americano Below the main floor is Bar Americano, where concrete walls provide a tough-slick setting for wiry, 1950s-style furnishings and cove lighting.   Photo © Jim Franco /Hôtel Americano Some guest rooms feature beds entirely enclosed in larchwood, a move inspired by Japanese inns.   Photo © Jim Franco /Hôtel Americano In the back of the hotel an elevated, secluded patio enclosed by rectilinear planters adjoins the restaurant.   Photo © Jim Franco /Hôtel Americano The roof terrace features views to the north and east, including framed ones of the Empire State Building.   Photo © Jim Franco /Hôtel Americano Rafael Micha of Groupo Habita discusses the hotel with Architectural Record deputy editor Suzanne Stephens on the roof of the Americano.   Photo by Jenna M. McKnight Rafael Micha of Groupo Habita discusses the hotel with Architectural Record deputy editor Suzanne Stephens on the roof of the Americano.   Photo by Jenna M. McKnight Rafael Micha of Groupo Habita discusses the hotel with Architectural Record deputy editor Suzanne Stephens on the roof of the Americano.   Photo by Jenna M. McKnight Rafael Micha of Groupo Habita discusses the hotel with Architectural Record deputy editor Suzanne Stephens on the roof of the Americano.   Photo by Jenna M. McKnight Rafael Micha of Groupo Habita at poolside on the roof of the Americano.   Photo by Jenna M. McKnight Photo by Jenna M. McKnight Photo by Jenna M. McKnight Photo by Jenna M. McKnight Image courtesy Enrique Norten/TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy Enrique Norten/TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy Enrique Norten/TEN Arquitectos mercedes-house.asp Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7308-mercedes-house Mercedes House Mercedes HouseTEN ArquitectosNew York, NYPhoto © Alexander Severin/Razummedia; courtesy Two Trees Management Co. LLC Mercedes House Mercedes HouseTEN ArquitectosNew York, NYPhoto © Alexander Severin/Razummedia; courtesy Two Trees Management Co. LLC Mercedes House Mercedes HouseTEN ArquitectosNew York, NYPhoto © Will Femia/Two Trees Management Co. LLC Mercedes House Mercedes HouseTEN ArquitectosNew York, NYImage courtesy TEN Arquitectos Mercedes House Mercedes HouseTEN ArquitectosNew York, NYImage courtesy TEN Arquitectos Mercedes House Mercedes HouseTEN ArquitectosNew York, NYImage courtesy TEN Arquitectos Toward the turn of the 20th century, the world’s fair as galvanizing cultural phenomenon had long been capturing the collective imagination, while its more demure cousin, the regional expo, busily proliferated in its shadow.

]]> chopo_museum.asp Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7376-chopo-museum The insertion exists as a building within a building. The two structures touch only at their northern end (background), where the new penetrates the wall of the old.   A café occupies a cantilever at the structure’s concrete base. A theater lobby sits below, while galleries surround it on the ground floor of the original building.   Poured concrete floors with white epoxy resin, exposed white steel tube structure, and translucent glass lend a lightness to the gallery spaces. A plywood-clad shear wall holds the elevator shafts and supports the building seismically.   Three sets of fire stairs march in a line across the eastern side of the insertion and serve its various levels.   The arched cast-iron trusses and other elements of the original structure are reflected in the insertion’s glass-clad upper reaches.   The museum’s Erector Set–like towers rise above the surrounding Santa María la Ribera neighborhood. Photo © Iñigo Bujedo The information center and archive occupies the insertion’s top level, offering dramatic views of the soaring, cathedral-like space. Photo © Iñigo Bujedo Photo courtesy Chopo Museum Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos