David Ireland’s 500 Capp Street Project and the Linde Center for Global Environmental Science .]]> https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/1470 en-us A surgical restoration preserves an eccentric artist's singular home in San Francisco.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11483 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 09:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11483-close-up-david-irelands-500-capp-street-project-by-architectural-resources-groups-and-jensen-architects 500 Capp Street The house as seen from the corner of Capp Street and 20th Street. Photo © Henrik Kam 500 Capp Street The living room features custom-made couches, a blowtorch chandelier, and honey-colored polyurethaned walls. Photo © Henrik Kam 500 Capp Street The dining room with animal skulls is “everybody’s favorite” room. Photo © Henrik Kam 500 Capp Street A hallway is animated by a sculpture David Ireland made of brooms found on the premises. Photo © Henrik Kam 500 Capp Street The front parlor, with South China Chairs. Photo © Henrik Kam 500 Capp Street Some of Ireland’s installations become part of the architecture, such as Copper Window (circa 1978). Photo © Henrik Kam 500 Capp Street A second floor rear room. Photo © Henrik Kam 500 Capp Street Bedroom. Photo © Henrik Kam 500 Capp Street Jensen Architecture’s addition at the back of the house contains an archive and gallery space, with a rooftop deck. Photo © Henrik Kam 500 Capp Street A stair in the new addition leads down to the archive. Photo © Henrik Kam goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) Architectural Resources Group renovates a historic laboratory building in California, combining respect for the past with technical innovation and energy conservation.

]]> linde-center-global-environmental-science-architectural-resources-group.asp Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:30:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7579-the-linde-center-for-global-environmental-science-by-architectural-resources-group Caltech's Linde Center for Global Environmental Science has decorative details that refer to its original use as the home of the astronomy and astrophysics departments, including the solar and zodiac symbols on its stucco-and-cast-stone facades.   Photography by David Wakely Built in 1932, Linde includes features common to Spanish Colonial Revival buildings, such as its stately groin-vaulted first-floor corridor.   Photography by David Wakely The library now houses a pair of seminar rooms created without disturbing important original features, such as the ceiling's stenciled concrete barrel vaults. The space also contains a real-time image of the sun projected by the refurbished rooftop coelostat.   Photography by David Wakely The coelostat, housed under a domed enclosure, consists of flat mirrors that turn slowly to project a beam of light into a fixed telescope.   Photography by David Wakely Linde has custom-designed fiber-optic lighting fixtures that guide sunlight from the coelostat into the laboratories.   Photography by David Wakely The fiber-optic illumination system includes silvered mirrors and lenses housed within optical tubes for concentrating and directing the daylight.   Photography by David Wakely The project team made the most of limited floor-to-floor heights in the laboratories by relying on water circulated through radiant ceiling panels for cooling instead of a traditional variable-air-volume system. Leaving all overhead utilities exposed also helped maximize the available height and should facilitate the inevitable reconfiguration of the research spaces.   Photography by David Wakely The architects made a few carefully considered changes to Linde's public spaces, including the second-floor corridor. Here they replaced the original painted concrete floor with cork and added skylights.   Photography by David Wakely Photography by David Wakely Photography by David Wakely Photography by David Wakely Photography by David Wakely