https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/1392 en-us http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15450 Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:05:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15450-grant-high-school-by-mahlum-architects A dynamic school replacement in Washington seeks to stimulate learning, curiosity, and joy.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13829 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 09:45:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13829-arlington-elementary-school-by-mahlum The architects created a covered play area facing the street and painted its ceiling a bright persimmon, an optimistic hue the community selected. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Another protected outdoor space features a “rain table” to connect students with nature. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Students wanted logs and rocks to play on. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider “The hill is the playground,” students told architect JoAnn Wilcox, leading her team to leave the site’s small hillside free of the building and to populate it with slides. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Ample glazing connects activity areas to outdoor and central spaces. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Family members can join students for meals in the cafeteria. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Modular furniture enables spontaneous learning. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Clerestories bathe internal areas with light. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Image courtesy Mahlum New guidelines and rating systems help architects design buildings that can respond to a broad range of threats.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13660 Mon, 01 Oct 2018 08:30:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13660-continuing-education-resilience-rating-systems FSY’s Silver Star Apartments, housing for formerly homeless veterans in Los Angeles, incorporates a variety of strategies that should help it weather disruptive events. The measures include orientation-specific window shading, rooftop PVs with battery storage, and a configuration that promotes natural ventilation. Photo © Natalia Knezevic Photography Silver Star Apartments—Sustainability Measures Image courtesy FSY The buckling-restrained braced frame structure at the Mahlum-designed middle school for Oregon’s Beaverton School District should enhance its seismic performance. Photo © Josh Partee The middle school’s commons has a backup power supply so that it can serve as an emergency shelter for local residents. Photo © Josh Partee Perkins+Will’s schemes for a pair of hospitals, one in Corpus Christi, Texas (shown), and another in Oklahoma City, respond to threats specific to their locations, including hurricanes and tornadoes. Photo courtesy Perkins+Will Perkins+Will’s schemes for a pair of hospitals, one in Corpus Christi, Texas, and another in Oklahoma City (shown), respond to threats specific to their locations, including hurricanes and tornadoes. Photo courtesy Perkins+Will Image courtesy Perkins+Will The Bell Museum of Natural History, in St. Paul, Minnesota, by Perkins+Will, has features aimed at preserving biodiversity, including bird-safe glass incorporating a subtle horizontal frit, and a pond that fosters wildlife habitat. Photo © Corey Gaffer The Bell Museum of Natural History, in St. Paul, Minnesota, by Perkins+Will, has features aimed at preserving biodiversity, including bird-safe glass incorporating a subtle horizontal frit, and a pond that fosters wildlife habitat. Photo © Corey Gaffer Design helps a Seattle waste facility get along with the neighbors.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13224 Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13224-north-transfer-station-by-mahlum The North Transfer Station sits between Lake Union and Seattle’s Fremont-Wallingford neighborhood. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider The south facade provides a human-scale street edge for the industrial-scale volumes behind. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider A glassy administrative block fronts onto the street and overlooks the facility’s scale yard. Public art from salvaged rebar represents the site’s original terrain. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider A landscape buffer provides recreation facilities for the adjacent community. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Skylights above the steel trusses provide illumination. Polycarbonate panels admit additional daylight to the 57,000-square-foot tipping floor. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider For safety and efficiency, traffic flow is configured to provide garbage trucks and self-haulers with separate access. Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Image courtesy Mahlum Image courtesy Mahlum Image courtesy Mahlum SNAP talks to the Seattle-based firm about upcoming projects and products.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13098 Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13098-snap-interviews-mahlum-architects A communal space celebrates a Native American tribe's identity and helps keep age-old rituals alive.

]]> 1502-muckleshoot-smokehouse-mahlum.asp Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7992-muckleshoot-smokehouse Muckleshoot Smokehouse Visitors pass through a central open space into the performance hall on the left or dining room on the right. Huge red-cedar logs serve as both supporting columns for a framework of Douglas Fir header logs as well as symbolic sentinels for the Smokehouse. Variegated tongue-and-groove cedar cladding brings the expansive facade down to a human scale.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Muckleshoot Smokehouse The Smokehouse follows the precepts of traditional Native American longhouse architecture and is in strong dialogue with its flat agrarian site.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Muckleshoot Smokehouse The Dining Hall accommodates the tribe’s core ritual of communal feasting on hunting and fishing bounty. Woven pendant lights imbue the space with a warm glow.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Muckleshoot Smokehouse The Ceremony Hall hosts dancing, storytelling, and other rituals. Its “dirt” floor is a specially mixed soil compound that is compactable and dust-free.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Muckleshoot Smokehouse Firewood, for heating the hall during ceremonies, is stored in a special closet.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Muckleshoot Smokehouse Wood is also the primary building material, and structure is prominently expressed, as in an exterior cloistered promenade.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Muckleshoot Smokehouse Image courtesy Mahlum Muckleshoot Smokehouse Image courtesy Mahlum A forward-looking design expresses a commitment to collaboration and blurs the lines between work and play.

]]> 1501-wilkes-elementary-school-mahlum.asp Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7301-wilkes-elementary-school-by-mahlum-architects Wilkes Elementary School A generous entry porch encourages lingering and leads into a long, inviting vestibule.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Wilkes Elementary School Bars of classrooms, with facades of concrete, dark brick, and stained cedar, reach out into the slope.   Photo © Jeremy Bittermann Wilkes Elementary School The original school stood on the site's lower portion, where the parking lot now is.   Photo © Jeremy Bittermann Wilkes Elementary School Skybridges connect the classroom bars and are popular with students, who go out of their way to traverse them. 'They're cool and give us more space for the playground,' says third grader Cameron Albee.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Wilkes Elementary School The architects thought of the grass areas below the bridges as amphitheaters, but the children immediately turned them into hills to roll down. A covered play area, at right, occupies space under the library.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Wilkes Elementary School Extensive glazing links interior spaces to each other and to the outdoors, as in the library (left), classrooms, and shared learning spaces. Thermal comfort is aided by radiant heat beneath the recycled-rubber flooring and sensors that instruct teachers when to open windows.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Wilkes Elementary School Shared learning spaces link classrooms to each other and to the outdoors.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Wilkes Elementary School Shared learning spaces link classrooms to each other and to the outdoors.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Wilkes Elementary School Drawing courtesy Mahlum Wilkes Elementary School Drawing courtesy Mahlum With a bold new entrance, the Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center Pediatric Emergency Department stands out from the crowd.

]]> 1405-pediatric-emergency-department-expansion-providence-sacred-heart-medical-center-mahlum-architects.asp Fri, 16 May 2014 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7476-pediatric-emergency-department-expansion-providence-sacred-heart-medical-center Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center’s new emergency entrance is clad in bright-red metal panels with floor-to-ceiling glazing along much of the east facade.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center A narrow double-height atrium marks the children’s emergency room.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center On the second floor, large window walls partially covered by a metal perforated screen bring light and views to the children’s play area, used by patients and their siblings.   Photo © Benjamin Benschneider Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center Image courtesy Mahlum Architects Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center Image courtesy Mahlum Architects Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center Image courtesy Mahlum Architects A two-story, 218,500-square-foot public high school with classrooms, a student activity center, a multipurpose forum for presentations and lectures, a library, TV and radio studios, a gymnasium, and offices.

]]> nathan-hale-high-school.asp Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7266-nathan-hale-high-school Nathan Hale High School Nathan Hale High School MahlumSeattle, WashingtonPhoto © Benjamin Benschneider Nathan Hale High School Nathan Hale High School MahlumSeattle, WashingtonPhoto © Benjamin Benschneider Nathan Hale High School Nathan Hale High School MahlumSeattle, WashingtonPhoto © Benjamin Benschneider Nathan Hale High School Nathan Hale High School MahlumSeattle, WashingtonImage courtesy Mahlum Nathan Hale High School Nathan Hale High School MahlumSeattle, WashingtonImage courtesy Mahlum Nathan Hale High School Nathan Hale High School MahlumSeattle, WashingtonImage courtesy Mahlum Nathan Hale High School Nathan Hale High School MahlumSeattle, WashingtonImage courtesy Mahlum