The award-winning Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services is nearly complete after a major renovation and expansion of the non-profit’s beloved 56-year-old temple. In addition to being the future home to Vista Del Mar’s innovative therapeutic performing arts programs, the building will provide the city with a new 300-seat event venue. Construction is scheduled to be fully complete in mid-Spring 2021, with the center opening soon thereafter.
Windmill Ranches residence was designed for an amazing family with a true passion for art and design. Its delicate sloped roof volumes float above the site capturing the stunning views of the lake, while dramatic double-height living and entertaining areas maximize the relationship between the interiors and the exteriors.
A renovation of a 1950’s era home into a gathering space for a custom furniture maker, an architect, their family, and friends. The existing home was an 825-square-foot bungalow on a large corner lot. While the original house was small, the property had a lot of potential for an addition as well as a large garden. Over the years, the garden flourished and the owners decided to build an addition to provide more space for their growing family and create a courtyard that backed up to the garden.
To modernize and expand the Career and Technical Education Center at the Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario, Oregon, the Cushing Terrell team designed a 12,000 sq. ft. addition plus renovations to the existing 15,000 sq. ft. shop facilities. The new spaces and systems enhance the student learning environments for the college’s agriculture, natural resources, automated systems, welding, and fabrication programs.
A trailblazing boutique condominium in Brooklyn’s historic Red Hook neighborhood, The Huntington introduces a new luxury lifestyle to the area that thoughtfully complements the surrounding community and aesthetics. The Huntington’s brick and metal exterior maintains a modern, timeless residential feel while simultaneously paying homage to Red Hook’s industrial roots, with windows reminiscent of warehouses. Elegantly landscaped with an unpretentious façade, the design is tranquil, human-scaled, and evokes a traditional townhouse style.
Article source: TEN Arquitectos/Enrique Norten with ASA/Andrea Steele
Make the Road New York is a 23,000-member organization that seeks to empower underserved individuals by offering leadership in education, immigration, and health, environmental, and housing justice. To establish a hub for the members and let the city at large know that Make the Road is here to stay, the organization needed a permanent space that was visible, accessible and embodies the mission of this civic-minded community. The design creates a strong connection with the neighborhood by conceptually extending the public streetscape into the building, providing the community with a civic landscape for change, exchange, and an inviting connection to resources.
Article source: Dick Clark + Associates Architecture + Interiors
Composed as a series of layers, the facade of this stunning home unfolds behind a screen of mature live oak trees. The main living space transitions from grounded in the site to completely transparent, floating over the lower level in a breathtaking cantilever, while the back of the house opens up to the hillside, providing panoramic hill-country views.
“casiTa,” spelled with a capital T, derives its name from its ‘T’ shaped plan that features 2 symmetrical bedrooms that sandwich a kitchen/laundry/bathroom plumbing core adjacent to the open living space. The 974 square foot home lives much larger than its footprint thanks in part to a 750 pound, 12 foot wide pivot door that opens up the living area with a simple push to a patio covered by a cantilevered roof, adding an additional 255 square feet of living space. This large roof shades floor to ceiling glass on the South, North, and East elevations that further connect the interior to the landscape. The exterior features low maintenance materials such as board formed concrete, stucco, steel, and glass, with a stained plywood ceiling in a custom pattern. Built as a guest house on an urban lot in the desert climate of Phoenix, Arizona, “casiTa” was designed to be adapted to a variety of climates with small modifications such as an indoor fireplace or customized to be used as a cabin to take in views and all that nature has to offer.
Voith and MacTavish Architects completes a decade-long renovation, restoration, and reconfiguration of a 19th century townhouse in CenterCity, Philadelphia. Now finished, it conveys the traditional character of the original architecture while producing an extraordinary personal expression of the owners’ tastes.
Meeting A Need
The clients, avid connoisseurs of art and classical music, relocated from Wilmington, Delaware to CenterCity, Philadelphia. They selected this 8,000 sq. ft., four-story townhouse for its history and its proximity to major orchestral venues in the city.
For this project, TGA modernized and expanded a modest tract home that the client had lived in for more than 30 years, heightening features they had always appreciated and resolving long-standing frustrations with the original design. The redesign preserves the bones of the existing structure but transforms it from a cramped, dark, and dated space into an open and daylit home imbued with mid-century modern character.
An ultra-low-profile butterfly wing roof replaces the old pitched one, clarifying the roofline and making space for clerestory windows without raising the house’s overall height. The new roof uses 10×100 steel I-beams to achieve a depth of just 10 inches. The clerestory windows fill the interiors with sunlight from a high angle, enlivening the space with dramatic shadows. The windows also open a distant view to the Hollywood Sign, a landmark the clients never before realized they could see from their property.
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