SERA teamed on this integrated design-build project with Fortis Construction. The new Major General George White Headquarters facility provides an innovative workplace environment for both the Oregon Army National Guard and the Air National Guard. Set within a meadow, the headquarters contrasts with neighboring Oregon Military Department (OMD) facilities by foregoing brick—the dominant building material on the campus—and adopting a low-slung contextual building designed to visually merge with its natural setting. The place-based design concept —rooted in the particulars of the location—connects the indoors with the outdoors for a more productive and appealing work environment while lowering operating costs for the end-users.
The two-story, 50,000-square-foot building is composed of two independent wings connected via a two-story glass lobby. The building’s wings are gently swept back away from the central entry. The entry also serves as pre-function and breakout space for the adjacent assembly spaces, and as a gathering space for ceremonies. The lobby, which visually connects to the wetlands located behind the building, encourages users to take advantage of both indoor and outdoor spaces for informal meetings and workspaces. The entry’s central location is optimal in providing views throughout the building.
The renovation of this 29-story office tower for developer Tishman Speyer consisted of a lobby redesign, as well as exterior façade updates. Originally constructed in 1983, the building had experienced several additions to the façade throughout the 1990s. With this latest renovation, the goal was to reestablish 520 Pike as a modern building.
“One of the greatest design challenges in a climate like Seattle, is to create a light filled space. This drove every decision we made from elevating the ceiling plane, to opening up the window wall and inserting a variety of nuanced white finishes and light experiences throughout the space.” –Kirsten R. Murray, FAIA, Design Principal
Positioned on the southern edge of the 5½-acre Pepper Park at the mouth of the Sweetwater River Channel, this single-story, two-structure aquatic center was designed to facilitate recreational and educational services for the community. Replacing a makeshift facility housed in trailers for over a decade, the center serves as a beacon that marks the channel entry while capitalizing upon its unobstructed views towards protected wetlands, San Diego Bay and beyond. A large community gathering and activity space is located in the easternmost structure under a faceted, flying roof. Perched atop a base of clear glass walls, the roof appears to glide kite-like into the sky creating a fluid dynamic for its larger counterpart to the west. Across an open-air walkway, offices are contained in a box comprised of 4’ intermittently operable windows. Like the bridge of a ship, the box also serves as a lookout, its clear glass walls enabling observation of activities taking place on the water and the center’s surroundings. To the west, an angular concrete block structure floats behind like a barge, and contains boat and equipment storage, restrooms and locker rooms. Separate yet unified, the buildings are secured and coalesced with custom galvanized steel gates accented and brushed acrylic panels.
Architects Orange Multi-family / Parking Structure Marvel: The George, features a Five-Story Wrap Project Supporting a Swanky Amenity Deck with Pool and Beer Garden.
The George in Anaheim, CA, minutes from Disneyland and Angel Stadium, is an award winning luxury mulit-family unit adjoined by a modern five-story wrap parking structure.
Located in downtown Anaheim, the luxury development exudes a whimsical, freewheeling sense of recreation. Midcentury chic permeates the property, evoking a hip and vibrant indoor-outdoor California lifestyle. The centerpiece is a jaw dropping 32,000 SF rooftop deck which spans the entire roof surface of the parking structure. The 578 stall, 9 level efficient parking structure provides added value as the support structure and platform for a lush rooftop amenity deck, pool, fitness center, and beer garden overlooking Angeles Stadium and a spectacular view of the daily Disneyland fireworks. A total of 375,000 cubic feet of concrete was used for elevated slabs, footings and concrete walls.
As a “living memorial” for President John F. Kennedy, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts takes an active position among the great presidential monuments in Washington, D.C. Through public events and stimulating art, the Kennedy Center offers a place where the community can engage and interact with artists across the full spectrum of the creative process. The REACH expansion, designed by Steven Holl Architects, adds much-needed rehearsal, education, and a range of flexible indoor and outdoor spaces to allow the Kennedy Center to continue to play a leadership role in providing artistic, cultural, and enrichment opportunities.
The design for The REACH merges architecture with the landscape to expand the dimensions of a living memorial. The landscape design includes a narrative reflection on the life of President Kennedy: a grove of 35 gingko trees, which will drop their golden autumn leaves in late November, acknowledges John F. Kennedy’s position as the 35th President of the United States; and a reflecting pool and mahogany landscape deck are built in the same dimensions and mahogany boards of Kennedy’s WWII boat, the PT109.
The new Charles Library at Temple University has opened its doors for the start of the Fall 2019 semester. Sited at the intersection of two major pedestrian pathways, Polett Walk and Liacouras Walk, and at the nexus of Temple’s Main Campus, the project anchors a new social and academic heart for the university’s diverse student body of over 39,000. Woven into the fabric of North Philadelphia, the building sits just one block off of Broad Street, the connecting artery to the city. Within its dynamic urban context, Snøhetta’s design, developed in collaboration with Stantec, reinterprets the traditional typology of the research library as a repository for books, integrating the building with a diversity of collaborative and social learning spaces. And in offering more than double the amount of study spaces than its 1960s predecessor, Paley Library, the 220,000-square-foot Library anticipates over 5 million annual visitors. By uniting a plethora of academic resources, disciplines, and cutting-edge technology under one roof, Charles Library stewards Temple’s progressive mission to provide equitable learning experiences for its students, its faculty, and the surrounding community.
Since the beginning in 1959, Kum & Go stores have been proudly serving and employing the people of Iowa and have grown to do so in many of the surrounding states as well. In nearly 60 years of business the stores and brand have come to play an important role in the communities which they serve and the inherent sense of responsibility to community and company associates formed the underpinnings of the new corporate headquarters.
McDonald’s has just opened the first Landini Associates designed flagship store in New York City’s iconic Times Square. The new store replaces the original restaurant that opened in 1984, located on the corner of 45th and Broadway.
Built over three floors, the restaurant is an evolution of Landini’s global format for McDonald’s, Project Ray, named after the brand’s founder Ray Kroc. The colourful graphic environments that became the signature for McDonald’s internationally are replaced with a quieter approach; the walls of the store decorated only with occasional abstractions of the golden arches, framing the view outside.
This flagship adopts a composed yet bold approach to design, creating a calm environment of respite in contrast to the energy of the square outside. A three-story glass curtain wall provides customers with spectacular dining room views out to the beating heart of NYC, and a yellow staircase injects a pop of vibrancy whilst threading its way skywards.
The design for this modern Mexican restaurant in downtown Austin establishes a protected urban sanctuary for Comedor’s progressive dining experience. Located on Fifth and Colorado, a busy intersection in Austin’s central business district, the new building takes a strong corner position to leave space for a protected open-air inner courtyard.
“Veiled transparency evokes a sense of refuge from the busy urban street outside. Yet while you’re enjoying the protected courtyard space, you don’t lose sight of the surrounding urban context. You remain absolutely rooted in Austin.” –Tom Kundig, FAIA, RIBA, Design Principal
Article source: Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC
Many buildings in the Financial District were built in the early part of this century. They are assertive buildings, strong in form and bold in scale. Their architects interpreted freely from the language of classical architecture and, with exuberance, employed the full range of compositional elements.
The mid-block site of the fifty-one-story tower extends from Wall Street through to Pine Street. Across the street is 55 Wall Street, an 1842 landmark, from which development rights had been transferred.
The design of the building involved the challenge of devising a tower that was technologically and functionally contemporary, with state of the art communication systems, energy efficient and prepared for computerized offices, yet respected the quality mixture of 19th and early 20th century buildings in the area. It also provided a special opportunity to create a distinctive public space at street level, as a needed respite from the famous narrow canyons of the financial district.
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