https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/1592 en-us http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15008 Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15008-schinkelplatz-and-humboldt-forum-by-rafael-moneo-and-franco-stella Moneo-Building-01-B.jpg Rafael Moneo’s new building sits beside the Friedrichswerdersche Church, its orange stucco and Soria limestone facade a complement to the church’s red brick. Photo © Duccio Malagamba At Princeton University, an architect unites two disciplines with splashes of daylight and easy sociability.

]]> 1411-princeton-neuroscience-institute-peretsman-scully-hall-rafael-moneo-architects.asp Sat, 15 Nov 2014 23:30:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7596-princeton-neuroscience-institute-amp-peretsman-scully-hall Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall Technology-intensive neuroscience research occupies a low wing, connected to the psychology department in a taller, curved slab.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall The sloping site partially buries two levels, which are revealed from the south.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall The sloping site partially buries two levels, which are revealed from the south.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall A rainscreen of molded glass panels casts diffuse light through tall clear-glass windows, leaving desk-level views unobstructed.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall Neuroscience and psychology meet in the two-story lobby, where a lounge and wood-paneled alcoves (the pattern echoing that of the exterior molded glass) offer a variety of formal and intimate meeting spaces. The glass-topped tables were designed by Moneo.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall Moneo uses daylight in a variety of ways. In the Human Neuroscience area, offices borrow light from a clerestory-lit shaft that includes an inviting stair.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall Daylight enlivens the corridor outside the neuroscience-lab core, which is interrupted by an open stair lit by clerestories.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall High windows in offices capture light diffused by the exterior molded-glass panels (though the pulled shade obscures this in photo), which passes through glazed sliding doors.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall The Neuro Lab offers lounge spaces on three levels.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall Image courtesy Rafael Moneo Architects Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully HallRafael Moneo ArchitectsPrinceton, New JerseyImage courtesy Rafael Moneo Architects Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully HallRafael Moneo ArchitectsPrinceton, New JerseyImage courtesy Rafael Moneo Architects Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully HallRafael Moneo ArchitectsPrinceton, New JerseyImage courtesy Rafael Moneo Architects Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully HallRafael Moneo ArchitectsPrinceton, New JerseyImage courtesy Rafael Moneo Architects The design for a convention center in central Spain's historic city of Toledo presented Rafael Moneo with a fascinating problem: how to insert a modern, 400,000-square-foot building into a city that has scarcely changed since El Greco painted it in the 16th century.

]]> 1305-el-greco-congress-center-rafael-moneo.asp Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7931-el-greco-congress-center El Greco Congress Center Only the entry sequence, with its porch and a pedestrian bridge supported by a sculptural pylon, adds a note of contemporaneity.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba El Greco Congress Center Cut out of granite bedrock, the building rises amid Toledo's fortified walls and is topped by a terrace with spectacular views. Moneo's strategy is mimetic, reinterpreting the texture of existing stonework.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba El Greco Congress Center Escalators drop nine levels from the entry plaza to link the city center to nearby bus and train stations.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba El Greco Congress Center The facade, which abuts existing structures, consists of granite rubble bands with concrete trim. The 'buttresses' are vents for the parking garage.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba El Greco Congress Center Moneo designed the signage for the porchlike entry, which opens to the street leading up to the city center. Stairs and exterior paving are made of basalt, and walls are of poured concrete.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba El Greco Congress Center The restaurant space on the lowest level opens to a terrace at the foot of old city walls uncovered during excavations.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba El Greco Congress Center A stair descends from the entry level through a skylit well. It is the focal point of the circulation spaces, which have floors of gray Sierra Elvira limestone and cedar-paneled surfaces.   Photo © Duccio Malagamba El Greco Congress Center The main auditorium, finished in cedar and oak, rises four levels from the stage, with upper seats close to the ceiling due to height limits. Moneo first designed the seating for his Kursaal Auditorium in San Sebasti'n, Spain (RECORD, May 2000).   Photo © Duccio Malagamba El Greco Congress Center   Image courtesy of Rafael Moneo El Greco Congress Center   Image courtesy of Rafael Moneo El Greco Congress Center   Image courtesy of Rafael Moneo According to Rafael Moneo, who designed the Gregorio Marañon Maternity and Pediatrics Hospital in Madrid with specialist José María de la Mata, a hospital “should be clear, clean, and luminous.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12143 Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12143-maternity-and-pediatric-hospital Photography © Duccio Malagamba Photography © Duccio Malagamba Photography © Duccio Malagamba