It seems fitting that a design competition open to college students should focus on a dorm room. That was the challenge of the 2007 Robert Bruce Thompson Student Light Fixture Competition—to create an attractive, durable dorm room light fixture to address students' general living and study needs.
Architecture today often is praised for its tectonics, floating volumes, and sensational, gravity-defying stunts of “starchitecture.” Yet, very so often there is a building that inspires descriptions of the sublime, the experiential, and the power of light and architecture to transcend our expectations. The new Meinel Optical Sciences Research Building, designed by Phoenix-based Richärd+Bauer for the University of Arizona, Tucson, is one of these architectural rarities.
SmithGroup's YMCA design energizes downtown Detroit.
With a project brief that demanded no less than unifying three architecturally diverse buildings, strict lighting criteria for priceless artworks and manuscripts, and the creation of new daylit public spaces, the renovation/addition to the Morgan Library is not your average project.
Growing awareness of the devastating repercussions of the global warming crisis is causing people to rethink their actions, whether it be how they travel to work, what kind of products they purchase, or how spaces are designed, built, and lit. However, those of us now standing at that crossroad are light-years behind the green-minded people responsible for the newly renovated and expanded Sidwell Friends Middle School in Washington, D.C.—the first LEED Platinum-rated K-12 school in the world and the first Platinum project in Washington, D.C.
Solar studies aid in the creation of architectural form and program for a day-care center.
High-performance design creates healthy environments for high-performance learning.
An individual and institutional evolution is taking shape on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, and the author of that transformation--Pritzker prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki--is once again at the helm. For the past 46 years the visual arts have occupied three separate buildings on the southwest corner of the campus--the beaux-arts style Givens Hall, home to the school of architecture, its twin Bixby Hall, home to the school of art, and the modernist-inspired Steinberg Hall, Maki's first commission, anywhere.
An ideal lighting scheme for the Minneapolis Central Library enhances the architecture, supports human comfort, and exceeds demands for energy efficiency.
Media artist Ben Rubin explores the interaction between light, sound, and symbol.
Home to the Pratt Institute's school of architecture, Higgins Hall's new center section is historic preservation with a twist, giving the school a modern update and bringing new character to the complex's historic aesthetic and landmark status.
