https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/1988 en-us Boston is at a crossroads—one that is every bit as transformative as the epic battle between the Brahmin establishment and the emerging Irish political class in the 19th century.

]]> 1410-in-demand-cities-boston.asp Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5892-in-demand-cities-boston Boston The 2004 construction of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, the ongoing Boston Harbor cleanup and 36-mile Harbor Walk, and the recent arrival of businesses'new and old'has resulted in a thriving waterside hotel and restaurant scene.   Photo © Peter Vanderwarker Boston Among the latest in a spate of projects recently completed on the revitalized South Boston waterfront, District Hall is described as 'the world's first freestanding public innovation center.' Designed by Hacin and Associates, it includes classrooms, collaborative work and meeting spaces, and a restaurant with harbor views.   Photo © Peter Vanderwarker Boston The Fort Point neighborhood is crowded with old industrial brick buildings, which for decades were home to artists. Fort Point now houses entrepreneurial firms and residential buildings, such as Factory 63, a former shoe factory built in 1908, which has been converted into 38 apartments.   Photo © Peter Vanderwarker Boston In recent years, there's been a flurry of construction on onetime parking lots in the District, yielding buildings such as the 21-story, mixed-used 100 Pier 4 apartment complex, by ADD Inc. (with the Seaport World Trade Center in the foreground).   Photo © Peter Vanderwarker Boston Soon after Filene's department store'designed by Daniel Burnham in 1912'went out of business in 2006, the complex's two newer buildings were demolished, leaving a giant crater in the Downtown Crossing shopping district. The new mixed-use project by Millennium Partners preserves the facade and will include a 56-story luxury condo and retail tower by Handel Architects.   Photo © Peter Vanderwarker Boston The new mixed-use project by Millennium Partners preserves the facade and will include a 56-story luxury condo and retail tower by Handel Architects.   Photo © Peter Vanderwarker Boston Residential construction has followed in the wake of the Ritz-Carlton's move to this formerly seedy neighborhood, restored during Mayor Menino's reign. The 15-story, 256-luxury-unit Millennium Place is another new building by the developer of the nearby Filene's project.   Photo © Peter Vanderwarker Boston CBT Architects' Atlantic Wharf, opened in 2011, is the city's first sustainable high-rise. Perched between the Harbor Walk and the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, the LEED Platinum mixed-use project houses 86 residential units, retail, restaurants, public space, and several smaller offices, including the Boston Society of Architects (designed by H'weler + Yoon).   Photo © Peter Vanderwarker Boston The historic center of the Roxbury neighborhood is now in the crosshairs of gentrification thanks to significant public investments, including transit upgrades. The city is nearing completion on the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building (left), by Mecanoo Architecten and Sasaki Associates, which links three historic buildings and will house the downtown Boston Public School headquarters, as well as retail and public space.   Photo © Peter Vanderwarker Boston After an ambitious plan by OMA for Harvard's Allston expansion was replaced by a more incremental approach, the university and the city engaged in a land swap in which a deteriorated nonprofit housing project was moved to a nearby location. The new neo-traditional Charlesview Residences includes affordable rentals and market-rate condos.   Photo © Peter Vanderwarker Even on a particularly airless late-summer evening, the appeal of the Bywater, a once-working-class New Orleans neighborhood just downriver from the French Quarter, cuts through the oppressive humidity. 

]]> 1410-in-demand-cities-new-orleans.asp Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5893-in-demand-cities-new-orleans The first section of a new promenade along the Mississippi River'with a design overseen by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple'opened in February. The 1.4-mile stretch of green space brings a new civic amenity to the rapidly gentrifying Bywater neighborhood.   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski As desire for residential space in downtown New Orleans has grown, developers have begun transforming commercial buildings in the Central Business District into housing. HRI Properties recently converted the Hibernia Bank tower, a 1921 landmark, into mixed-income housing.   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski Demand has also led to new construction, such as 930 Poydras, a luxury rental building designed by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple.   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski Bywater and other neighborhoods with a stock of historic Creole cottages and shotgun houses have been magnets for a recent wave of migration to New Orleans.   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski Bywater and other neighborhoods with a stock of historic Creole cottages and shotgun houses have been magnets for a recent wave of migration to New Orleans.   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski With the new population has come new businesses, such as Bywater Yoga and Maurepas Foods, known for its eclectic and inventive menu.   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski With the new population has come new businesses, such as Bywater Yoga and Maurepas Foods, known for its eclectic and inventive menu.   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski The new restaurants join more traditional offerings, such as Frady's One Stop Food Store, an unassuming market with a reputation for excellent po' boys.   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski After Hurricane Katrina, the city's stock of public housing was cut by more than two thirds, as projects'damaged or not'began to be redeveloped into mixed-income communities. The new developments, based on New Urbanist principles and featuring designs that mimic traditional New Orleans architecture, include the Guste Homes (shown here under construction).   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski After Hurricane Katrina, the city's stock of public housing was cut by more than two thirds, as projects'damaged or not'began to be redeveloped into mixed-income communities. The new developments, based on New Urbanist principles and featuring designs that mimic traditional New Orleans architecture, include Marrero Commons (with the former Calliope housing awaiting demolition in the foreground).   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski After Hurricane Katrina, the city's stock of public housing was cut by more than two thirds, as projects'damaged or not'began to be redeveloped into mixed-income communities. The new developments, based on New Urbanist principles and featuring designs that mimic traditional New Orleans architecture, include Faubourg Lafitte on the former site of the Lafitte Houses.   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski One strategy for fighting blight in New Orleans has been enlivening commercial corridors. The historic St. Roch Market, which will become a multi-vendor food hall, is on a retail strip along St. Claude Avenue.   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski The New Orleans Healing Center stands across the street on St. Claude.   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski A revitalization initiative on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in Central City includes Eskew+Dumez+Ripple's renovation of a fire-gutted school into a fresh-food market (opening this month). A culinary museum and a jazz-performance venue are also under way on the boulevard.   Photo © Bryan Tarnowski Portland is a strange land: a place where curbside compost is picked up more frequently than garbage, where the first new bridge over the Willamette River in 40 years doesn't allow private cars, and where the mayor would like to build tiny houses for the homeless on public property.

]]> 1410-in-demand-cities-portland.asp Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5894-in-demand-cities-portland South Waterfront A swath of once-blighted industrial land along the Willamette River has been redeveloped for several luxury residential towers as well as affordable housing. The first apartment projects, completed between 2006 and 2008, were designed by THA Architecture, TVA Architects, GBD Architects, and Perkins+Will. GBD did the master plan. Photo © Jeremy Bittermann South Waterfront In 2006, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) opened its first building in the South Waterfront, the $150 million 16-story Center for Health & Healing. The LEED Platinum 412,000-square-foot facility was designed by GBD. An aerial tram also opened that year to shuttle OHSU affiliates from the new building to the old campus up the hill. Photo © Jeremy Bittermann ArtHouse Located in the Pearl District, the ArtHouse opened this summer as the first ground-up residence hall for students at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Designed by Lever, the six-story, 46,000-square-foot building contains 50 dwelling units, a lobby, café, bike room, and outdoor courtyard. Photo © Jeremy Bittermann Pearl District In 2002, Jamison Square, a 0.9-acre pocket park designed by Peter Walker & Partners, was the first completed park in the Pearl District redevelopment master plan. Two more followed. The parks are interspersed between high-rise condos near the waterfront. Photo © Jeremy Bittermann North Williams Every day, thousands of cyclists commute between Northeast Portland and downtown on North Williams. The street is also bursting with infill projects, from multifamily to a striking black office building, the Stem, designed by MOSI Architecture and a local creative agency, The Felt Hat. Photo © Jeremy Bittermann SE Division Street Development + Partners (UD+P) has built five multifamily housing projects along SE Division Street, including 3339 SE Division, designed by THA Architecture. Trendy restaurants and retail, like the artisanal ice-cream shop Salt & Straw, have leased ground-floor space in UD+P's buildings, adding to Division's reputation as a foodie destination. Photo © Jeremy Bittermann The Emery Urban Development + Partners (UD+P) has built five multifamily housing projects along SE Division Street, including 33rd & Division, designed by Works Partnership Architecture. Photo © Jeremy Bittermann The Emery In the South Waterfront, ZGF's 118-unit apartment complex aimed at students and faculty at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) opened in October 2013. Rents range from $999 per month for a 450-square-foot studio to $3,000 per month for a two-bedroom. Photo © Bruce Forster Glisan Commons Holst Architecture, a 22-year-old Portland firm known for its well-designed market-rate multifamily work, recently has entered the affordable-housing sector. Its second completed project in this category is Glisan Commons, a $13 million five-story, 67-unit LEED Platinum building in the emerging Gateway District in east Portland. The ground floor is the headquarters of Ride Connection, a nonprofit that provides transportation for the elderly and disabled. Photo © Andrew Pogue