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MARCH 2013

100 big ideas

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100 big, bigger, biggest

Making the extraordinary from the ordinary by sculpting in paper, innovating innovation in a decaying paint factory, exploring your inner child while defying gravity. These are mere morsels of the delicious—and staggeringly creative—feast that we are proud to serve up for you in the Big Ideas issue. A firsttime attempt on this theme, it proved an exhilarating mammoth of an undertaking. The old adage that the best policy is to leave well enough alone is often impossible to follow when there’s a whole world to explore, discover, and rediscover. But, heck, I will try. Why wait for me to extol this issue’s many virtues when you can turn to page 45, and dig right in? Without further ado or idle chatter, my editorial staff and I are ecstatic to bring you 100 outstanding projects and products in design, architecture, art, and everything in between. May they inspire you not just to wish for the unimaginable but also to realize it, to be your own dream-maker. Let’s discuss. Later.

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RACK UP THE CREATIVITY POINTS by Mairi Beautyman

Furch Gestaltung + Produktion reinvents the bottle rack at Weinhandlung Kreis in Stuttgart, Germany.

Photographic constructions by Filip Dujardin transport us to an imaginary world.

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Paper became a passion for designer Irving Harper, celebrated in a book from Rizzoli.

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FIND YOUR INNER CHILD by Matthew Powell

That’s what Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects did for Denmark’s IBC International Business College.

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was less confusing to show them at ground level,” he says. Champsaur’s biggest challenge was a new extension to house offices, meeting rooms, VIP lounges, and a 200-seat restaurant and bar. The 30,000-square-foot structure is separated from the sales ring by a wall of glazing, which allows diners to follow the auction proceedings. Horses, however, can be spooked by reflections in glass, so he screened it with floor-to-ceiling vertical slats of Douglas fir, strategically angled to allow you to see through only when directly in front. “The result is really quite serene,” he says. And certainly preferable to watching someone tuck into bœuf bourguignon while you’re bidding on a future champion! —Ian Phillips

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make a grand entrance You could say Martín Lejarraga’s new Terminal de Cruceros is a both/and situation. Located in the busy Spanish port of Cartagena, it comprises a dozen curvaceous, open-air pavilions stretching along a concrete pier. Functionally, they provide shelter and immigration facilities for arriving passengers. But the Martín Lejarraga Arquitecto principal wanted the terminal to be both a threshold to the city and a part of its day-to-day life. So he designed a complex that not only meets the requirements of the client, Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena, the local port authority, but also enlivens the experience of passengers—both when they look down on it from the decks of arriving liners and when they pass through it en route to the city’s tourist attractions. All this while creating a structure that would become an identifying brand mark for Cartagena. “We had to consider polar opposites of scale, from near and far; position, from above and below; and function, as a border crossing and a city icon,” the architect says. He and his team transformed the empty, 120,000-square-foot pier via simple, durable concrete canopies. Supported on stainless-steel columns, they can tolerate the extreme conditions imposed by temperature, water, humidity, and corrosive salt air. On the flat roofs, colorful ceramic tiles, laid in fragmented patterns inspired by aquatic life, nod to Mediterranean-wide mosaic techniques. Below, panels of curving glass in aqueous shades of blue and green, screenprinted with schools of fish, connect the pavilions to the water. Says Lejarraga, “It’s a meeting point between the city and the sea.” —Raul Barreneche

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Although the injunction “shop till you drop” might promise big profits for department stores, Selfridges & Co. would rather not drive its customers to a state of retail-induced exhaustion. To give them a place to rest and recuperate during extended buying expeditions at the London flagship, on one of Europe’s busiest shopping streets, executives commissioned Alex Cochrane Architects to design the Silence Room, 2,500 meditative square feet at the end of a dimly lit corridor. Soft wool felt in a neutral tone tops lacquered oak-veneered seating and covers walls and floor. LEDs, recessed into the floor and ceiling, were chosen for their warm tone. Check shoes and electronic devices at the door, tune in, and drop out for a few blissfully relaxing minutes. —Deborah Wilk

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Clockwise from top left: In this temporary pavilion at SAP, a suspended canopy incorporates halogen fixtures. A computer rendering shows the form of the 2,400-square-foot structure. Multimedia presentations are projected on a wall. Custom copper pendant fixtures hover near built-in interactive components. The reception station is acrylic composite. Portholes are flush-mounted glass.

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do not disturb

firm: scope office for architecture site: walldorf, germany

Construction is noisy. So building a 2,400-square-foot structure in the internal courtyard of an office complex without kicking up a racket seems downright impossible. But Scope Office for Architecture did just that with a temporary pavilion at the headquarters of the software developer SAP in the German town of Walldorf. Merging two polygonal volumes, one being an enclosed gangway to the main building, the futuristic pavilion houses “40 Years of Future,” a year-long celebration of SAP’s 40th anniversary. The exhibition was created in cooperation with ARS Electronica Linz and Havas Worldwide and is divided into three thematic multimedia areas. All use video presentations and touch-screen displays to explore the past, present, and future of SAP. Appropriately for SAP, computer-based 3-D modeling played a large role in Scope’s design process. CNC-cut parts were then delivered as kits. “We were able to assemble the entire building envelope in just two nights,” principal Oliver Kettenhofen says. SAP’s 12,000 employees remained undisturbed while the interior of the pavilion was being built, too, because there are no large openings in the thick plywood shell, and interior drywall conceals a layer of sound-absorbent mineral wool for further acoustic insulation. Both the interior and exterior of the pavilion are coated in polyurethane, part black and part white. “This makes it appear to be two separate volumes,” principal Mike Herud says. Tech-savvy visitors with a background in computer coding will notice the arrangement of the portholes punched out of the gangway’s black enclosure. In binary code, they spell out “40 Years of Future.” —Mairi Beautyman

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When Italcementi, one of the top concrete manufacturers in the world, enlisted Richard Meier & Partners Architects to design its new headquarters, iLab, what resulted is rock-solid but startlingly airy, too. Interior Design Hall of Fame member Richard Meier constructed the 250,000square-foot building, which culminates in an arresting V-shape prow, primarily with a high-strength, low-maintenance reinforced concrete that Italcementi specifically developed for the project. The product reacts with ultraviolet rays to break down harmful automotive and industrial emissions—leading to one of the first LEED Platinum certifications in Europe. —Nicholas Tamarin

cement client relations firm: richard meier & partners architects site: bergamo, italy

Clockwise from top left: In the entrance atrium at Italcementi, a ramp’s laminated-glass floor panels are supported by a cast-in-place concrete structure. Designed for the 2012 Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, an installation in precast fiberglass-reinforced concrete now rises from a reflecting pool. A roof in precast concrete cantilevers 66 feet. The glassed-in gallery protrudes 20 feet through a precast-concrete screen supported by stainless-steel pipe.

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move forward From top: A digitally altered photograph imagines EDG (China) Corporation’s meeting pod in a wind-turbine field. Back in the office, the pod can be used with its door removed. Similar semipermanent rooms were constructed from polycarbonate, glass, and steel. The Forbidden City is another imaginary backdrop. Opposite, from top: An internal neon fixture turns the pod into a lantern. Ductwork brings HVAC into the semipermanent rooms.

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If you’re visiting EDG (China) Corporation, and you think you see a giant pumpkin glowing in a quiet corner, you haven’t lost your marbles. The pumpkin is actually a meeting pod. Cinderella’s coach inspired not only the pod’s shape but also another unorthodox feature, a set of wheels—it is literally ready to roll. David Ho, then EDG’s chief designer, dreamed up the nifty contraption while recounting the fairy tale to his two young daughters. (He has since become design director at Iaction.) Measuring 14 feet in diameter, the pod comprises a PVC skin and a steel frame. The wide door panel can come off its hinge mechanism altogether, opening the interior to the rest of the office. In addition, the structure is lightweight enough to be moved anywhere in the building, and the frame can be partially disassembled if the pod needs to be taken farther afield. Transport is made easier by timber knobs. Under normal office conditions, the translucent shell admits enough light. At night, neon tubing turns the pumpkin into a lantern. “Transformation is an active concept in the structure itself, which is meant to encourage collaboration and creative thinking,” Ho says. He riffed on the pod aesthetic for two somewhat more permanent, rectangular rooms nearby. Built from polycarbonate and glass in a steel armature, they’re not meant to be regularly mobile. But they’d be easy for a contractor to relocate should the need arise. —Alexandra Seno

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Inspired by Timothy Pachirat’s book, Every Twelve Seconds, “Veal,” a performance orchestrated by multidisciplinary collective Harrison Atelier, had a prime-beef goal: to cattle-prod vegetative minds into reassessing their relationship to the meat industry. Principals Ariane Harrison, a designer, and her husband, Seth, a biotechnology entrepreneur with an MD, combined music, dance, video, sculpture, and sets into a visceral work that bombarded the senses. When audience members arrived at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn, New York, they were herded into a room where three nearly nude dancers ran, jumped, and hung like meat from plastic straps. They were then led into an adjoining space containing a looping video mural, tall steel racks crafted into lyres, singers, and a dozen headless bovine forms, two of them fitted with bagpipes that could be played. —Georgina McWhirter

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Clockwise from top: Dancers began “Veal,” a two-part multimedia performance in February at the Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York. Julie Haagensen and Biraj Barkakaty sang an operalike score. Geoff Gersh played a lyre made from steel, piano wire, and ceramic disks. Silas Reiner, movement researcher at Harrison Atelier, concluded the performance dancing before a video looping images of animal feed. The “livestock” was made of painted milled foam. Two were fitted with playable bagpipes.

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paint a diplomatic picture A U.S. government arts program celebrates 50 years with help from David Stark

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Art in Embassies, a U.S. Department of State program, promotes crosscultural dialogue through the visual arts. So does David Stark, though his works usually come with hors d’oeuvres. For AIE’s 50th anniversary, the event designer transformed a courtyard at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington into fête central. A makeover at the Smithsonian. Was that intimidating?

No, but old institutions have quirks that you must think about when planning. The elevators and doorways are rather small. So, if you want large elements, they need to come in small pieces.

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Clockwise from top: A 16-foot-high pyramid of 1.5 million Crayola crayons was the centerpiece of Art in Embassies’s 50th anniversary gala at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington. The David Stark Design and Production president and creative director. Flagging tape and powder-coated steel yielding a gravity-defying cube. Printed polyester at the entry.

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Clockwise from top: Jessie Hemmons, aka Ishknits, knitting a globe at the event. The entry’s double-sided partition stretched on a freestanding aluminum frame. Gallon cans of Benjamin Moore & Co. paint forming the 50th anniversary “cake.” The Post-it– clad viewing platform.

Was that the challenge?

The room is immense—26,000 square feet, with an 83-foot ceiling—and required huge components. So, we created a landscape of installations, performance art, sculpture, video, sound, and drawing, all stemming from basic geometric shapes. How big is big?

A 20-foot-tall viewing platform, ‘upholstered’ in thousands of Post-its. The guests could climb a staircase up to it and look down on the entire event. What made you proudest?

Materials were donated by venerable American companies like Crayola and Benjamin Moore. After the event, everything was given to Materials For the Arts, which provides thousands of New York public schools with art supplies. It took 1.5 million crayons to make the event’s pyramid and they all went on to children who wouldn’t otherwise have them. Truth be told, do you ever just relax and enjoy the party, or are you always on duty?

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A little of both, actually. But when the last programmatic element happens, I can let go. Once Nick Cave and the 50-piece marching band whipped the room into a dancing fervor, I couldn’t help but join in. —Mark McMenamin

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firm: filip janssens site: aalst, belgium

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Scouring Flanders for a site to build a house, furniture designer Filip Janssens found a ¼-acre property on the edge of woods in Aalst, northwest of Brussels. Tom Lierman Office of Architecture and Interiors designed him a barnlike residence with oversize windows that frame the natural surroundings. “We only see the green,” Janssens says. Then, for an even stronger connection to the outdoors, he built a small garden folly beside the vegetable plot out back. Like the main house, the pavilion has an exterior clad in larch planks that will be left to weather silver gray. The 110square-foot interior, fully insulated, comprises a tool shed and an airy garden room with a painted plywood floor. Large glass pocket doors disappear into both sidewalls, opening the room to the surroundings. “I rolled one door back on a chilly afternoon this winter and sat in the sunshine for an hour,” Janssens reports. A daybed with cushions covered in stainresistant linen is built into one of the walls between the doors. Opposite the daybed, he built one of his signature white storage walls. It accommodates a surprising amount of paraphernalia, including a flip-down desk, drawing supplies, barbecue equipment, and a rarely needed electric heater. Between cabinet doors, oiled-walnut shelves provide perches for small ceramic birds, a nod to the doves that roost on the green roof, planted with ivy. —Craig Kellogg

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Clockwise from top left: Furniture designer Filip Janssens rolls open one of his backyard pavilion’s two glass pocket doors, framed in African padauk. A storage wall in spray-painted MDF hides supplies and equipment. Chris Martin and Magnus Elebäck’s chairs sit on the larch deck. Yori Sanagi designed the stool near the daybed. Flooring is painted birch plywood.

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When ING Direct Italia aquired a bricks-and-mortar home in Rome, the online bank charged two firms, New Architects and Newtone Architects, with making the storefront work as both a banking institution and a concept store. The designers started with the brand’s avatar, a pumpkin: reproducing its shape and shade of orange in the form of a 13-foot-long, 8-foot-high lacquered pod that sits in the middle of the 4,800-square-foot branch. Customers enter to receive personalized services while seated on leathercovered banquettes in a cozy, enveloping environment. Glass slippers not included. —Georgina McWhirter

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firms: new architects; newtone architects site: rome

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Clockwise from top left: At the restored Hizuchi Elementary School, a reading balcony projects from the library. The complex was damaged in a 2004 typhoon. A corridor connects the existing structures to the new wing. Beech chairs populate a multipurpose room there.

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A World Monuments Fund initiative sponsored by Knoll, Modernism at Risk identifies endangered buildings and advocates their preservation. A laudatory outgrowth of the program is the biennial Modernism Prize, given to designers who ensure the survival and rejuvenation of these landmarks. The honor was most recently claimed by a six-member consortium of professionals and academics who rebuilt Hizuchi Elementary School in Yawatahama, Japan. Completed in 1958 by Masatsune Matsumura, who trained under a Frank Lloyd Wright protégé, the twobuilding, 15,000-square-foot complex was

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seriously compromised by a 2004 typhoon. The consortium seismically retrofitted both structures, safeguarding distinctive elements such the library’s suspended reading balcony and staircase, which appear to float above the Kiki River. More than 90 percent of the existing architectural elements were found suitable for repurposing. Of the 462 original columns in Japanese cedar, all but three were retained and repaired. Where materials could not be salvaged, faithful reproductions fill the gap. Paint colors were investigated and replicated. Damaged tiles were exchanged with replacements cast from the same molds.

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Clockwise from top right: Window walls enclose the renovated teacher’s lounge. Porcelain mosaic tiles clad a wash station. The original library was restored with cedar paneling, beech flooring, and a foil-covered ceiling.

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But ultimately, to accommodate the demands of 21st-century learning, a few more invasive procedures were required. The classrooms were reconfigured as multipurpose spaces. A two-story, 6,700-squarefoot addition gently expands Matsumura’s footprint yet honors his vision, with its double-height fenestration and generous use of woods such as cedar and cherry. After all, the only thing better than a new idea is to rescue a good one that already exists. —Mark McMenamin

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Clockwise from top left: Même, an experimental house, sits on 45 acres and is used as a guesthouse by scholars studying at Memu Meadows: Centre for Research of Environmental Technologies. Panels of silicone-coated glass-fiber cloth cordon off the bedroom. Surrounded by tatami flooring, the woodburning fireplace in the living-dining area helps to heat the whole house, which stays warm even when the outside temperature drops to 13 degrees Fahrenheit. At night, the fireplace and LEDs illuminate the house, which is encolsed by a translucent three-layer membrane. 74

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When Kengo Kuma & Associates was commissioned by the Lixil JS Foundation, which owns Memu Meadows: Centre for Research of Environmental Technologies, for a prototype house on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, the firm began by studying the dwellings of the indigenous Ainu people. Called chise, and developed because central Japan’s traditional wooden post-and-beam structures were unsuited to the region’s harsh climate, these houses had exterior walls of thatched sedge or bamboo grass and an unpartitioned interior centered on an ever-burning fireplace. KKAA’s modernized version, dubbed Même, includes a frame of locally harvested larch clad in fluorocarbon-coated polyester, lined with a removable glass-fiber fabric, and insulated with a polyester membrane made from recycled PET bottles—which makes for a translucent structure that holds heat efficiently. The mostly open-plan 850-square-foot interior has a central woodburning fireplace, hot-water pipes flowing through the walls and floor, and is lit by LEDs, which are only needed at night. —Matthew Powell

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There’s an increasing demand for affordable living spaces in big cities worldwide. Acknowledging this truth, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development launched the adAPT NYC competition to develop proposals for buildings containing micro-apartments. N Architects won with My Micro NY, comprising 55 prefabricated modular apartments ranging in size from 250 to 370 square feet—the first such development in Manhattan. Each apartment will take two weeks to build before being shipped to the site and hoisted into place; the resulting nine-story structure will then be clad in brick. (Move-in for the first My Micro NY apartment is scheduled for 2015.) Another competition entry, designed by Clei and Amie Gross Architects has already been built, at full scale, as part of the Museum of the City of New York’s “Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers.” —Matthew Powell

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firms: adn garden design; ra architectural & design studio; subvert site: lisbon

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Most contemporary architecture seeks to add to the distinction of a city through its skyline. But one small house distinguishes itself— and its Lisbon neighborhood—by creating one of those pockets of pedestrian discovery, an unexpected corner of delight, for which great cities are famed and loved. In an act of municipal-minded generosity, the four-story, 2,700square-foot house, with its 1,100 square feet of vertical garden, has provided a drab cul de sac with a new kind of park. A private residence is also a public amenity.

On the roof of the house, a 30-foot lap pool hugs a glassed-in cabana topped with solar panels that power the water heater.

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bigidea The work of father and son Luís and Tiago Rebelo de Andrade—of RA Architectural & Design Studio and Subvert, respectively— with Manuel Cachão Tojal of ADN Garden Design, the bushy little house situates itself confidently near a tall weeping fig tree, as though standing next to an old friend. And with 25 indigenous Iberian and Mediterranean plant varieties growing on the facade, it’s practically a botanical garden. For its residents, the house is a city within

the city. The central feature, a narrow staircase that ascends between towering walls, evokes the stepped streets of Lisbon’s oldest district, Alfama—thereby lending the illusion of urban enticement and exploration to domestic life. On the roof, a lap pool is an urban oasis, like a fountain in a square. Luís Rebelo de Andrade, who says he has wandered Lisbon since he was a boy, always finding “fantastic things,” was out to enhance, not disrupt, its texture. He managed “to make something ‘invisible’ that everyone sees,” he explains. That’s the magic of the world’s great places. —William L. Hamilton 84

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Clockwise from top: The vertical garden’s irrigation is controlled by a system that monitors weather and solar conditions. The lap pool slightly widens at one end, outfitted with a timber deck. Portholes in the bottom provide daylight to the rooms below. Conversely, at night, light from the dining and living rooms illuminates the pool like conventional underwater lighting. Stairs are afzelia. Opposite: A steel frame attached to the concrete façade supports the PVC pockets that contain the plants.

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It was the perfect Canadian hideaway: a secluded 3,800-squarefoot, two-story log cabin with five bedrooms, five bathrooms, gabled windows—even a lake. Everything about the 15-year-old retreat appealed to the discreet Belgian house-hunters who bought the property. Except the interior color. “It was all varnished pine,” InStore founder Pierre Hoet says. Hired to renovate the amber-colored lodge, the designer’s first thought was to sand the surfaces, but he feared that would damage them. He decided to paint everything either white or black. “I’m very categorical,” he explains. Examining the logs and boards, he realized that white would reveal imperfections. So black it would be. The owners saw magic in the designer’s madness and gave him carte blanche—or, rather, carte noire. Soon a color called Black Tie, applied with airless paint pistols, covered nearly every surface, inside and out. The ground level’s oak-plank flooring was washed with chlorine. “Locals thought we were part of a cult,” he recalls with a laugh. Hoet outfitted the Méchante Cabane, killer cabin in Quebecois slang, with mostly black furnishings—a few carefully chosen colored items, such as a vivid red painting, are thrown into radiant relief. Outside, the forest setting took on a new relationship to the house: In autumn, seasonal colors appear intensified by the dark structure in their midst; in winter, the picture windows frame the glowing, snow-covered landscape. But the most enchanted moment is nightfall. “When it gets dark, the walls seem to disappear,” he says. “You feel like you’re outside. It’s extraordinary.” Killer, indeed. —Seth Sherwood

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Clockwise from top left: A hallway’s painted pine logs and molded painted oak doors are illuminated by incandescent lighting. The house sits at the edge of Lac Denis, amid 1,200 acres of private forest. The kitchen has chlorine-washed oak flooring. Weathered pine decking allows outdoor living in summer. Michele De Lucchi floor lamps and Roberto Barbieri chairs provide punctuation against the living area’s Antonio Citterio sofas. A custom rabbit-skin rug softens the master bedroom.

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“Walls in Western architecture tend to cut you off,” UID Architects principal Keisuke Maeda says. In his opinion, that draws too strong a distinction between interior and exterior: “Walls in Asia function to open nature up to you. I’m more interested in buildings where you can’t tell what’s architecture and what’s nature.” Even a garden is too great a distance between the two. That view served him well

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while designing a house set in a suburban development in Fukuyama, so the back of the two-level, 1,350-squarefoot structure extends into unspoiled woods. His nickname for the house, Node, references the way it straddles the man-made and natural environments. Both realms are immediately connected by what he calls the “sky pass,” a wide open-air passage that serves as the entry and offers a view to the thicket beyond. A similar transition occurs inside. The upper, main level comprises a single tunnellike space punctuated by partitions and sitting areas; to move

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olds, porticoes, verandas, and similar structures, and tategu, the various doors, windows, screens, shutters, and blinds. “Japanese people,” he notes, “are most comfortable living in a space where we can experience the four seasons.” —Benjamin Budde

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From top: Minimal seating appoints the living area. Not a single tree was removed to build the house. Japanese cedar clads the exterior. A 117-squarefoot bedroom suite occupies the entire lower level.

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from one end to the other is to transition from suburbia to a tree house high up in a forest glade. “My aim,” he continues, “is for my architecture to be new but rooted in traditional Japanese practice.” His Fukuyama house draws on elements such as engawa, the transitional space between indoors and outdoors, marked by thresh-

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respect the past Felix Claus will ask you to take off your shoes when you enter his Paris pied-à-terre. Not because it’s particularly pristine. It isn’t. But out of respect for the heritage of the 2,500-square-foot rental—the former home of Auguste Perret, one of France’s greatest 20th-century architects. Famous for the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, he was a pioneer of reinforced-concrete construction. His pupils included Le Corbusier and Ernö Goldfinger. In 1932, Perret completed a trapezoid-shape building and constructed his own apartment on top. When Claus first visited from Amsterdam, where Claus en Kaan Architects has an office, the landmarked penthouse had been unoccupied for decades.

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From top: In the penthouse’s living room, chairs by Gerrit Rietveld and Jasper Morrison gather with a Foster + Partners cocktail table on the oak parquet. Auguste Perret, who designed the penthouse and lived there, used to nap on the antechamber’s built-in beech daybed. Clockwise from top left: Chairs by Charles and Ray Eames surround a table by Eero Saarinen in the dining room, with its original floor tile in polished granite. The mixed-use building is reinforced concrete construction, a Perret signature. Columns in the living room are reinforced concrete. The ceiling is Venetian plaster, the paneling French oak.

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Clockwise from top left: A bed by A.G. Fronzoni meets a floor lamp by Marcel Wanders. Perret customdesigned the sconces above the bathroom’s polished limestone tub, which no longer works. The public staircase combines limestone and steel. Ceramic mosaic tiles abut oak paneling in a windowed alcove.

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“There were leaks, and the floor was a wreck,” the architect recalls. By paying three years’ rent in advance, he made possible a renovation under the auspices of the national Monuments Historiques. “It didn’t go as far as a full restoration,” he says. “It was simply fixed up to look as if it had aged naturally.” Original features, left in place, include reinforced-concrete columns in the circular living room. “I wouldn’t know how to remake those,” he admits. “Perret was so technically advanced.” Perret’s taste in decoration, however, was rather conventional; archival images show the living room furnished with art deco chairs and Oriental rugs. Claus took a sparer, more modernist approach, using items more or less contemporary with the building, such as Alvar Aalto’s Savoy vase. Later 20th-century design classics, among them a dining table by Eero Saarinen and chairs by Charles and Ray Eames, also appear—in subdued colors that don’t compete with the architecture. There is, meanwhile, the odd flash of red or yellow. “Otherwise,” Claus says, “it would have been just too reverential.” —Ian Phillips

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firm: iroje khm architects site: seoul, south korea

Clockwise from top: The house’s multilevel courtyard is hidden from street view. Walling off the master bathroom, urethanecoated stainless-steel frames translucent polycarbonate. The kitchen’s oak flooring is radiant-heated. Curved eaves reference traditional Korean roofs.

spread your wings For a single-family house in a densely populated neighborhood of Seoul, South Korea, Iroje KHM Architects faced opposing challenges: The clients’ respect for classic Korean architecture, with its landscaped interior courtyards and curved tiled roofs, conflicted with a strong desire for both high security and the latest in design and technology. To reconcile these seeming opposites, 3,600 square feet of intricately overlapping interior spaces encircle a 2,200-square-foot courtyard that maximizes light penetration and air circulation—important concerns, given the hot, humid climate. “We modernized traditional landscaping,” principal HyoMan Kim says. “To the expected native grasses, bamboos, and pine trees, we added sculptural elements such as triangular handrails and a

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narrow stainless-steel fountain-planter on legs.” A stone garden path, craggy boulders, and concrete ramparts punctuated with indentations reference the ancient stone walls found throughout the country. In a reinterpretation of the vernacular, the roof is a sweeping bat-wing structure in oxidized zinc. The deep eaves are fitted with LED spotlights that mimic a starry sky. Interiors are marked by a lack of 90-degree angles. Flooring is radiant-heated. Walls, illuminated by fixtures concealed in slender horizontal slits, also feature ample built-in shelving. The color palette is austerely monochromatic with the exception of the orange glass wall tile in one of the bathrooms—no bat reference here. As Kim reports, “The bathroom belongs to a young lady of the house.” Who has a taste for color. —Bradley Lincoln

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Clockwise from top left: Oxidized zinc sheathes the roof. Built-in shelving against a window is illuminated by natural light. The master bedroom is one of three. Painted perforated steel panels line the home theater.

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firm: arkitektstudio wrb site: stockholm archipelago

imitate to innovate A summer house’s textured concrete panels echo the end gable’s heartwood pine planks.

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Seeking inspiration for a summer house, on Stockholm’s outer archipelago, Arkitektstudio WRB found a suitably pastoral muse: the centuries-old barns that speckle Sweden’s countryside. Beyond aesthetics, this robust model—a spacious interior supported entirely by a durable hardwood shell—promised longevity, the ultimate expression of sustainability. But the idea of an impenetrable facade was at odds with the client’s desire for a nearly open-air retreat. Several brainstorming sessions later, Arkitektstudio WRB came up with a conceptual compromise: Retain the inspiration; upend the application. Wood remains critical to the 1,800-square-foot house. A single sturdy species, heartwood pine, was milled for both structural and decorative elements. However, rather than relying on perimeter walls to buttress the 84-foot-long

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From top: A window’s glass is multilayered. A soapstonetopped island separates the dining area from the kitchen. Low-voltage lighting is recessed in eaves and interior walls. Sliding doors in the master bedroom offer a view of the Baltic Sea.

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Seville is often referred to as the frying pan of Spain: A blazing sun delivers blistering summer heat. But sunlight was a scarce commodity in the two-story building architect Carlos Pedraza moved into to use as his residence and office for Carlos Pedraza Arquitectos Asociados. Located at the center of a deep city block, with only 15 feet of frontage on a narrow alleyway, the 1965 former industrial warehouse and storefront had few windows and no skylights. So, for the gut renovation, Pedraza turned to a centuries-old Iberian Peninsula tradition: the interior courtyard. In fact, he removed enough roofing to create three such internal courtyards, strategically siting them to separate work and living quarters, maximize warming winter light, and minimize harsh summer sun, making the boxed-in structure positively luminous.

Clockwise from left: A lacquered-steel staircase joining two floors of office space at the live-work building winds around a freestanding oak wall. For the entrance, a door of perforated and corrugated stainless steel tilts up electronically to reveal a brick-lined corridor leading past the office toward living quarters in the rear. A lemon tree grows in the main courtyard. The building terminates with the residence, which overlooks a 26-foot lap pool and an iroko deck. Opposite: The main courtyard separates the residence from the office, a portion of which is fronted in channel glass.

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Clockwise from top left: The architecture studio has a Frank Gehry pendant fixture and a wall of exposed original brick. The double-height dining area, furnished with Hans Wegner chairs, opens to the pool and deck through shutters of perforated stainless steel. The master bathroom overlooks the same deck. An olive tree is visible from the master bedroom. Featuring a 15-footlong Corian-topped island, the kitchen accesses the smallest of the three interior courtyards. 110

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From the alley, the 5,800square-foot building seems as impenetrable as a closed drawbridge. Corrugated-steel shutters locked tight beneath black-lacquered steel plates dominate the whitewashed brick facade. But concealed in those corrugations is a pivoting door, which comprises plates of micro-perforated stainless steel. When the interior lights are on, the facade glows like a gauzy veil, calling to mind a modernist version of a Moorish screen or an industrial-grade lace curtain. Inside, Pedraza installed new granite floor slabs in the office and marble ones in the residence and exposed original brick throughout. He furnished spaces, such as the architecture studio and the dining area, with pieces by Hans Wegner, Charles and Ray Eames, and Konstantin Grcic— further melding past with present. —Raul Barreneche

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firms: levitt goodman architects and scott torrance landscape architect site: toronto

Once Dorothy was done in Oz, she discovered that everything her heart desired was right in her own backyard. Levitt Goodman Architects followed the road to an identical revelation for a Toronto family that was yearning for a quiet outdoor hideaway. Rather than scouring the countryside in search of an untouched site, the firm homed in on the client’s own residence, located on the banks of Don River, as the ideal location. A neighboring house on a ¼ acre was acquired and demolished, the discarded materials and fixtures repurposed by Habitat for Humanity Toronto. That set the stage for collaborator Scott Torrance Landscape Architect to conjure a patchwork of open-air diversions: walking and butterfly gardens, a waterfall wall, sand play area, ipe decks, and, most notably, a lagoonlike saltwater swimming pool. Art installations and custom fencing

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Clockwise from top: The ¾-acre site’s existing Austrian pines were preserved to border the new pool house and saltwater swimming pool, enclosed by fritted glass panels. Sliding glass doors connect the house’s new addition to the ipe deck. Native grasses and wildflowers line the walking garden’s pebble paths. Locally sourced limestone forms a fireplace in the 800-square-foot addition. A green roof tops the addition.

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and furnishings further embellish the property. But not everything is alfresco: There’s a 475-square-foot pool house that LGA built of fritted glass, mahogany, and fiber cement board and a 1,000-square-foot garage featuring panels pierced to reveal constellation patterns when backlit. A few steps up from the lush grounds, an 800-square-foot addition to the rear of the main

house contains a new livingdining area. The transition from exterior to interior is softened with such natural materials as oil-rubbed mahogany, zinc, local limestone, and plaster. The extension, like the garage and pool house, has a roof planted with indigenous grasses, furthering the concept that the most satisfying things are often found close to home. —Mark McMenamin

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Clockwise from top left: Heidi Earnshaw Design’s custom table and chairs furnish one of the decks. The perforations in the garage doors’ fiber-cement panels form the constellations of Sagittarius and Scorpio. Limestone surrounds the pool.

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think inside the box firms: gwynne pugh urban studio; studio j; waisler design & development site: los angeles

A three-pronged program at a Los Angeles animation studio was achieved, logically enough, by a trio of collaborating firms. Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio and Waisler Design & Development together took on architecture and interiors, while Studio J effected landscaping. The project’s macro component was renovating the 1,700-square-foot structure, a 1940’s warehouse with bowstring trusses and skylights: Most of the mezzanine was leveled to make room for a new red-steel stairway, and oversize sliding glass doors and windows were installed to meld the indoors with the staff outdoor lounge, which is outfitted with a 16-foot-high green wall. The big move, however, is dead center back inside. A freestanding acoustically isolated red-cedar cube houses the screening and IT rooms plus two edit bays. —Edie Cohen

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Clockwise from top left: A new 1,100-square-foot cube and steel stairway anchors circulation at an animation studio. Decomposed granite, a wall of red trumpet vines, heat lamps, and tables and chairs of recycled anodized aluminum furnish the outdoor lounge, which connects to the kitchen counter via a 10½-foot-wide sliding window. The cube, clad in red cedar planks, stands beneath the 1940’s warehouse’s 25-foot ceiling. Open-plan workstations populate the polished-concrete floor.

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A New York hotel by Paul C. Dominguez welcomes everybody, gay and straight The Out NYC markets itself as Manhattan’s first openly gay hotel. Rather than pander to stereotypes, however, the namesake principal of Paul C. Dominguez Architect aimed at

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making the 105-room urban resort “straight-friendly”— restaurant, trendy dance club, spa, and all. Indeed, a sizable minority of guests are heterosexuals.

but not the elevators or fire stairs.

No, it was a three-story motel built for the 1964 New York World’s Fair. The ground floor was a garage. I worked around the existing structure, relocating some plumbing

Clockwise from center top: The principal of Paul C. Dominguez Architect. The Out NYC. Synthetic lawn climbing a courtyard wall. Reception’s vinyl logo.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: MAGDA BIERNAT (3); RICKY FREUND

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You brought the word out into the branding?

The new facade is like a giant Times Square sign spelling “OU-T,” which is recognized by gay communities in many cultures. I added NYC, so it could work in other cities, too.

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neighborhoods. It’s moderately priced, because the community is diverse. For guests who cannot afford a private room, there are quads with four double-width bunks that go for $70 apiece and come with a locking closet.

You really kept costs in mind.

We are not trying to be a W or a Four Seasons, though the architecture is aspirational. I used colorful paint in existing stairwells and inexpensive

bamboo flooring in the restaurant, and the wall coverings look more high-end than they actually are. Those were decisions made as both designer and client, since I’m one of the owners. —Craig Kellogg

CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: MAGDA BIERNAT (2); COURTESY OF THE OUT NYC

Clockwise from top: The spa’s waterfall and poplar cladding. LED-illuminated acrylic railings in the nightclub. Mirror backing a guest room’s bed.

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firm: ehrlich architects site: tempe, arizona

Arizona State University’s latest science and technology building may be Ehrlich Architects’s most complex commission yet. The seven-story, 300,000-square-foot structure needed to house both the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, each requiring labs, offices, and meeting rooms. In other words, the engineers and researchers would share a building with the developers of the instruments that enable research. To encourage togetherness, Steven Ehrlich planned interiors around two atria. The one connecting the first two levels, which contain a science museum and a 3-D planetarium, is public; the upper one, ringed by glass-fronted labs, is private. A ribbonlike connecting stair is clad with perforated steel, its patterns a riff on geological strata—detailing that was the fortuitous outcome of conversations with the stair’s fabricator. The design team’s takeaway? Collaborate, early and often. —Edie Cohen

Clockwise from top left: A stainless-steel stairway rises through the lower atrium at this Arizona State University science and technology building. The pattern of the upper atrium’s custom nylon rug derived from space images taken with ASU instruments. PearsonLloyd chairs gather around Minimal tables. Portion’s of the school’s meteorite collection are displayed on the second level. Brick clads the ground-level planetarium.

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firm: studio o+a site: redwood city, california

Clockwise from left: Custom vinyl wall covering in the library of the Reputation.com office references the management of a client’s name online. The colors of meetingroom doors were inspired by Caribbean storefronts. Steel pendant fixtures, a custom plastic-laminate desk, and wool-felt carpet tiles furnish reception. The main work area evokes a lab vibe with corkboards mounted on aluminum frameworks, Parsons-style work tables, and painted-steel stools. 130

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On the Internet, a spotless name can be muddied in a digital minute. So, protecting a client’s online image, the focus of Reputation.com, is serious business. That’s why, even though it’s a youthful tech company, its 30,000-squarefoot office in Redwood City, California, is no funhouse. Thanks to Studio O+A, reception projects cheerful corporate minimalism via polished concrete flooring, exposed-bulb pendant fixtures, an up-lit white block of a reception desk, and mid century– style furniture arranged on a gray checkerboard patch of carpet tiles. Back of house is more “vintage lab”—think Unistrut dividers, corkboards, and Parsonsstyle work tables. A bit of buzz comes in the form of surface treatment: Meetingroom doors are painted melon, azul, avocado, and turquoise, and the library’s wall covering depicts the “mockumentation” of a tabloid. —Edie Cohen

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Clockwise from top left: Laminated glass panels blur the dining room’s indoor/outdoor border. A banquette of cherry wood demarcates a central dining zone. The canopy is made of strips of a laminated West African hardwood, ovangkol. Hand-painted MDF tops the tables. Dried-palm-leaf ornaments are suspended over the sushi bar.

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The menu at Ikibana melds Japanese and Brazilian cuisines, and the challenge for El Equipo Creativo was to translate this fusion of the minimalist and the exuberant into a coherent restaurant design. The solution lay in botanical imagery. “We discovered that it’s an extremely important element in both cultures,” co-founder Natali Canas del Pozo says. So the 2,700-square-foot interior joins the restaurant’s name in referencing Japanese principles of flower-arranging, using all parts of a plant to emphasize line and form. But this is no austere ikebana composition. Thanks to petal-shape tables, an equatorial profusion of decorative foliage, both real and artificial, and a canopy of sinuous hardwood “branches,” the space throbs with Amazonian heat. —Georgina McWhirter 132

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The Port Theater, a classic 1949 SoCal movie palace in Corona del Mar, went dark in 1998. More than a decade later, the theater was renovated, and the lights turned back on for the 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival. And the prize for best update of a beacon, while respecting it, goes to . . . Laidlaw Schultz Architects. Craig Schultz’s main move reinvented the facade, which became a palisade of panels. At street level, they’re steel, punched and painted inky purple on the front, hot magenta on the back—thanks to a mirror wall behind the perforations, passersby glimpse themselves as flickering, quasi-cinematic reflections. Above the steel-beam canopy, the panels are aluminum, bent into a decoinspired relief pattern. Highest of all, prow-shape refurbished signage proclaims that the theater is now the New Port. —Edie Cohen

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Clockwise from top left: Refurbished signage from 1949 points to the New Port Theater’s origins. Painted bent aluminum panels clad the upper facade. Street-level steel panels are punched, painted, and backed by mirror. Acoustical panels line the 500-seat screening room. Fronting the concession stand, die-cut vinyl letters are mounted on backlit glass. firm: laidlaw schultz architects site: corona del mar, california

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Aspects of Houston defined a lounge by MaRS for a contemporary art fair Young’uns. That’s what you could call MaRS, a design firm established in 2010, and the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, which debuted in Houston in 2011. But newly formed doesn’t mean novice, especially when it comes to MaRS founders Kelie Mayfield and Erick Ragni, architects who first worked together at DMJM Rottet a decade ago. Houston natives, their knowledge of the city and art won them the VIP lounge commission at the 2012 Texas Contemporary Art Fair—and they’ve been hired again for 2013. Here’s the skinny.

Clockwise from top: MaRS founders Kelie Mayfield and Erick Ragni in front of an Aerosol Warfare mural at their office. Umbrellas, nylon carpet tile, and repurposed shipping pallets, all donated, like MaRS’s design services, defining the VIP lounge. An Ann Wood installation in a corner of the lounge. Former cable spools as tables. Exerciseball ottomans made from suction cups, glue, and zip ties.

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second busiest. The tables of repurposed cable spools tied into our energy-sector prominence. And the exercise balls?

That was our nod to the ongoing effort to change Houston’s image as one of the fattest cities. We grouped five differentsize balls into ottomans, connecting them with suction cups, glue, and zip ties. We’re actually in discussions with an investor to produce them.

How about the color palette?

The fair’s logo is white and red, the latter specifically Pantone 1797 U. So of course we incorporated red to emphasize the brand. Shaw donated the carpet tiles, which we plan to reuse for this year’s fair, but only had so much red in their inventory. We then turned to gray, which complimented and softened the red and is relaxed yet elegant.

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Why the umbrellas and shipping pallets?

Faucets, showers and accessories. Beautifully handcrafted in England.

Anything funny written on the two chalkboard walls that flanked the lounge?

Yes. TX IS: big and juicy. ART IS: ding dong delicious. People would add on to what others wrote—the walls became an evolving work of art. MaRS is an acronym for your names, but is there also an outer-space aspect to it?

Not directly, but we do find the planetary connection lends a bit of personality to the studio. To answer the phone ‘Welcome to MaRS’ is quite enjoyable. We try to include humor in every job. We feel seriousness is sufficiently covered in the marketplace. —Annie Block

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stage high drama Clockwise from top left: Castconcrete flooring was added around existing catwalk stairs in the former fly tower. The fly-tower renovation yielded a 266-seat performance theater. The movement studio includes a sprung floor and rigging under a new skylight. The movie theater sports Thomas Hart Benton’s 1933 murals, custom speaker/chandeliers, and seats upholstered in recycled polyester.

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The question posed to MGA Partners Architects by Indiana University: How to repurpose a 1930’s, 38,000-square-foot theater rendered obsolete by the completion of the Bloomington school’s new drama center? The easy answer was to make it a 300-seat movie theater and draw its color palette from a quartet of 1933 Thomas Hart Benton murals the university had in its possession. But what to do with the triple-height fly tower now that there was no use for it? Luckily, officials were also looking to add movement and acting studios. . .inexpensively. By dividing the cavernous volume into three floors, MGA created two studios, one that doubles as a performance theater, at a fraction of the cost of building new spaces. Original brick walls and steel framing were retained, lending character along with a targeted LEED Silver certification. Bravo. —Nicholas Tamarin

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Clockwise from top right: Drywall molded onto a wavy metalstud substructure defines the waiting area and links the two practices at Studi Medici Associati D’Apolito Malacarne Tucci. Color-changing LEDs light the dentist’s office. The drywall extends into the speech-therapist’s office. Flooring is linoleum and upholstery is vinyl.

firms: steve e. blatz, architect; antonio pio saracino site: rome

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It makes perfect sense: a pediatric-dental practice teaming up with a children’s speech therapist. But how to unite the two Rome businesses functionally and stylistically? Such was the challenge Studi Medici Associati D’Apolito Malacarne Tucci posed to Steve E. Blatz, Architect, and Antonio Pio Saracino. The team’s response is most apparent in the waiting area, where “a system of ribbons creates an all-around spatial experience,” Saracino says. Said ribbons are actually thin layers of drywall, which were moistened on-site, so they could be molded over a wavy substructure to form inviting benches, shelving, stairs, and even the ceiling. Green, the color both practices chose as their brand identity, provides further unity, appearing in the upholstery and coves, the desk in the speech-therapist’s office, and the LEDs lighting the dentist’s office. —Annie Block 140

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Clockwise from top: Fluorescent tubes in the entry form the logo of 1871, a shared workplace. Glass panels adhered with colored film are meant to evoke the Chicago River’s ripples. A mural by local artist Justus Roe simulates reflections from Lake Michigan as seen from above. Also local, Chris Silva’s found-wood mural spells out 1871. The 40-foot-long vintage sofa by Bertrand Goldberg doubles as a moveable space divider.

Todd Heiser waxes ironic recounting his vision for 1871, a shared office space for digital entrepreneurs, its name referencing the year of the Great Chicago Fire. “Ultimately, it was designed to be hackable,” the Gensler design director explains. In other words, the 55,000-square-foot Merchandise Mart facility is essentially a compliant shell, ready for users to customize their own work areas within. As members come and go, so do the walls, courtesy of a rotating series of murals by local artists. Beyond workstations, café tables and a break room foster kinship between moguls-to-be. Throughout, vintage furnishings boast Chicagoan provenance, such as the serpentine sofa originally commissioned in the 1960’s to Bertrand Goldberg, who designed it for his Marina City project nearby. It now offers the city’s budding history makers a place for afternoon naps. —Mark McMenamin

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To promote confidence, autonomy, and a sense of community among young adults with autism, this prototype building will provide eight apartments, a ground-level gallery, staff office, and rooftop garden.

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live independently firm Jordan Mozer and Associates. project JMTF residence, Chicago.

take two firms Juli Capella; Core Group. project Barmini, Washington.

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Chef José Andrés partners again with fellow Spaniard and friend, architect Capella, for this experimental cocktail bar focusing on dualities: contemporary and classic, man and woman, edgy libations and comfortable furnishings.

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firm: innocad architektur site: graz, austria

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To transform a 1950’s toy factory in Graz, Austria, into a workplace for lighting manufacturer XAL’s 70 designers and engineers, Innocad Architektur focused on walls. Three areas now define the 20,500-squarefoot layout: The two Clockwise from top left: outer areas contain One of XAL’s meeting rooms research, laboratory, looks over the vertical garden and open office in the atrium. A laboratory space, while the houses a goniophotometer, central area offers used in the development of LED products. Aluminumcommon zones incomposite sheets wrap the cluding reception, facade. Studio Massaud’s meeting space, a chairs and Piergiorgio and kitchen, and Michele Cazzaniga’s table lounges—where furnish the meeting room. foosball tables and pinball machines recall the building’s former occupants. But perhaps the most pronounced indicator of a new era is the facade. Innocad concealed tired concrete walls under cost-effective corrugated aluminum-composite sheets, perforated to resemble bar code. —Mairi Beautyman

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Chapman University in Orange, California, has its fair share of commuters. Until recently, students had to go off campus to the adjacent Old Towne Historic District to find places to eat, socialize, or group study between classes. University officials were looking to give them an on-campus alternative: a fun, well-designed hangout of their own. So the school asked AC Martin to renovate and enlarge an existing building—a logical move, since the firm had designed the two-story structure in the 1980’s. Under the leadership of Christopher King, director of interior architecture, what’s now called Argyros Forum, after its benefactor, encompasses a third-story addition that opens onto a green roof deck, bringing the total square footage from 21,000 to 42,500, outdoors included. The faculty lounge lays claim to that new top floor, while admissions offices occupy the second. But the ground floor is dedicated to a Clockwise from top left: Wool and bona fide student center that’s been nylon carpet tiles in a custom plaid conceived as a grand living room. “To anchor one seating group in the break down the large scale, we created nine seating areas, each with its student center at Chapman own look and feel,” King says. An open walnut volume with green or gray University’s Argyros Forum. Jasper Morrison’s stools are cork, making built-in banquettes, Jasper Morrison stools, and corkboards is one option. them easy to move. The third-floor A comfy, cozy carpeted area with custom sofas, armchairs, and foam addition opens to a roof deck blocks is another. For that all-important nourishment, there’s a snack planted with indigenous grasses counter near the entry and a cafeteria in back. Now, traveling to Old and succulents. The walnut Towne is old hat. —Edie Cohen volume has polyurethane banquette upholstery, corkboards, and rubber-cork flooring.

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firm: ac martin site: orange, california

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To refresh three outposts of Yoshinoya, a popular fast-food chain with 1,700 branches worldwide, AS Design Service focused on incorporating the idea of a modern home. The trio of prototypes are all inside Hong Kong shopping malls, so underscoring Yoshinoya’s unique identity was a priority. ASDS worked toward creating a crisp, energetic aesthetic that would appeal to the young, but that was also infused with the brand’s history: Yoshinoya, which specializes in rice bowls topped with beef, was established in Tokyo in 1899. Since it was a project for a chain, affordability, durability, and functionality were important considerations when choosing materials. ASDS specified vinyl seating upholstery and walls of aluminum panels that resemble shingles or plasticlaminate planks, all in bright orange—Yoshinoya’s trademark color—which also helps grab shoppers’ attention. The modern-home theme was carried out by installing simple yellow house-frame shapes throughout the restaurants—above the main dining area, surrounding the menu board, in signage, and at the service and pick-up windows. Wood-block menus, ceilings clad with black Japanese roof tiles, and origami-inspired triangles provide the desired hint of tradition. For feature walls, ASDS lined niches with vinyl printed to look like wood for showcasing Yoshinoya’s custom serving bowls. The project presented an opportunity to improve green practices. Lighting was changed to fluorescents and flat-screen TV’s are LED models. Sounds delicious. —Alexandra Seno

Clockwise from top left: In the Mong Kok branch of Yoshinoya, a fast-food chain, beams of powder-coated aluminum outline traditional house shapes. A similar frame defines the service counter. The three redesigned Yoshinoyas, including this one in Tuen Mun, are in shopping malls. Against Mong Kok’s plastic-laminate planks, Corian surrounds an LED flat-screen and Yoshinoya paraphernalia. A wall of backpainted glass forms Tuen Mun’s pick-up window.

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Clockwise from top: Kurt Steger’s mixed-media sculpture stands before the glass-block south facade of Les Yeux du Monde gallery. A floating stair of white-oak treads leads to painter Russ Warren’s mezzanine studio. In October 2011, “Russ Warren: While We Sleep,” a series of his acrylics on canvas, was exhibited in the gallery, which is owned by his wife, Lyn. The 480-square-foot gallery is double-height. The gallerystudio, a freestanding pavilion of glass block, Cor-Ten steel, plywood, and concrete, shares the 30-acre property with the Warrens’ residence.

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The assignment seemed simple enough: Design a freestanding studio and gallery for a married couple, adjacent to their house in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. “We both needed separate places to work, but didn’t want to be cut off from each other,” says gallerist Lyn Warren. Her husband, Russ, is a neoexpressionist painter whose figurative work is well-known in contemporary-art circles. Though far from simple, the solution from W.G. Clark Associates centers on one theme: using natural light to unify form and function throughout the 1,120-square-foot, twostory pavilion in Charlottesville. “Light is the defining characteristic,” says WGCA associate architect Josh Stastny. “How it enters and how the space inside changes during the day because of it.” A wall of translucent glass block with a deep painted plywood overhang on the southern exposure minimizes the effect of summer sun, while welcoming that of winter. Inside, where flooring is a uniform white oak, cantilevered walls ensure the interior is washed in indirect sunlight, right down to its corners. “It doesn’t need artificial illumination,” continues Warren, whose gallery, Les Yeux du Monde, occupies the pavilion’s ground floor. “All day, gentle light is on the paintings, so visitors can see how they’ll look.” The intervention can lay claim to a boost in creative output, too: “Russ is in the smallest studio he’s ever had,” she says of the artist’s mezzanine space. “But he’s produced more paintings here than anywhere else.” Little wonder. —J. Michael Welton 152

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firm: w.g. clark associates site: charlottesville, virginia

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From left: A rendering shows heat-retaining ceramic floor tile, specified to help create a constant indoor temperature at TCI of New York. The exterior’s corrugated steel roofing, brick-veneered walls, and fiberglass windows and doors are energy-efficient and cost-effective.

bigidea Clockwise from left: The alley from the street to the garage is wide enough for motorbikes but not cars. Sliding doors clad in custommilled cedar create indoor-outdoor flexibility for events. The ceiling’s steel frame, gloss-painted to bounce daylight into the interior, incorporates operable skylights and supports a roof garden.

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firm: dameron architecture site: brooklyn, new york

Christopher Dameron gave ’90’s grunge a hipster makeover with a motorcycle garage and courtyard behind an apartment building in Brooklyn, New York. This former marble workshop, first stripped down to its stained and graffiti-covered concreteblock walls, became an indooroutdoor space that allows its owner to store, work on, and display his vintage motorbikes. Refined elements include a steelframed roof, engineered to support a fully planted garden, and a facade clad in custom-milled cedar planks, which also cover two sliding steel doors. The latter open to accommodate art shows and music gigs, taking the garage-band concept to an elegant new level. —Georgina McWhirter 154

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dive deep firm WXY Architecture + Urban Design. project SeaGlass Carousel, New York.

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The chambered nautilus inspired the steel-framed pavilion, which will have smartglass panels that change from clear to an opaque cobalt blue, simulating a descent to the ocean floor for riders.

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Patients walking along a corridor can read a Juro Osawa short story flocked on Braille Project wallpaper by Ilias Fotopoulos.

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firm Elliott + Associates Architects. project NewView Oklahoma Low Vision Clinic, Oklahoma City.

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Michael White is uniquely qualified to comment on commercial sites. When we first met the architect, he was a managing partner at HLW in Los Angeles, focusing on large-scale office projects. Then he broke the news: He was going to the other side, to Cresa, a real-estate consulting firm dealing mostly in Class A buildings—meaning those classified as the highest quality and usually newest on the market. But we always thought he’d be back, and he confirmed our hunch by joining Gensler as principal in 2010. He talks to us about office environments for today’s creative class, specifically Latitude 34 in Playa Vista. What was the old standard for a Class A building?

Lots of granite and opulent materials, a high-rise environment, certain metrics for core-to-window depth, and the fact that they were engineered relative to finance, not design.

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What about today’s Class A’s?

The focus is now on the user experience. In multitenant buildings, each company wants its own entrance along with a connection to outdoor office space, i.e., landscaped courtyards with work areas. There’s an attitude change. As people are promoted, it’s turning out

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A former real-estate consultant, Michael White is designing Class A Los Angeles buildings worthy of their designation

that they don’t want bigger offices and fancy furniture. They want a cool, flexible environment—and coffee bars! How does this translate to design?

With new construction, it’s buildings that are authentic. No faux bowstring trusses. With existing buildings, we’re creating outdoor connections where there aren’t any, among other things. With both, we need to design from a tenant’s perspective, from the inside out. What is Gensler doing at Latitude 34?

It’s a 2008 six-story building and we completely gutted it. Nothing was sacred. To appeal to film, music, and gaming companies, we brought in corrugated metal, mesh screens, wood slats, and graffitilike billboards. Outside spaces have Wi-Fi and flat-screens. External stairs give each company its own entrance. Green landscaping replaces concrete. We worked closely with the developer, Lincoln Property Company, so that the connotation for lessees will be ownership, not just tenancy. Overall, does this affect rent rates?

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Indirectly, yes. People had been renting useless square footage before. Now, we won’t build unneeded space. —Edie Cohen

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sail the high seas artist Max Mulhern. project Aqua Dice.

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They may look like fun and games, but these phosphorescent cubes in epoxy-coated plywood and pine are, in the artist’s conception, to serve as a feasibility study for unmanned, wind-powered transatlantic shipping—plus, they’re 100 percent recyclable.

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artist Timothy Paul Myers. project Adrift, New York.

At the Masters & Pelavin gallery, Myers took you back in time by turning old postcards, photographic slides, and other artifacts into artworks that offer glimpses of long-lost private worlds.

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rise above firm SPG Architects. project Modular Home II.

Designed for flood plains, this stucco house built on pilotis of waterresistant hardwood demonstrates that good looks and interior flow needn’t be sacrificed for affordability.

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grade on a curve firm Spacesmith. project School of Visual Arts, New York.

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measure pleasure firm RTKL Associates. project The Shape of Green.

Picking up on the flexible teaching approach of Design for Social Innovation, a new MFA program, the department features easily reconfigurable public spaces and a curved wall that hosts interchangeable graphics.

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chalk it up artist David Adamo.

project Untitled (Bâtons Rompus), Berlin.

For a solo show at the MD 72 gallery, this artist arranged thousands of pieces of chalk in a meticulous herringbone pattern, creating three rooms’ worth of parquet—and a window into an obsessive mind.

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grow stronger firm Servo. project Aqueotrope, Los Angeles.

Comprising glass pendant fixtures, porous ceramic tiles, and “algae” made of cable wire, this installation at SCI-Arc’s gallery addressed roof-scapes as sites for the development of architectural systems that integrate organic matter.

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sleep at the wheel firm Mathew Arthur. project Van x Year.

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After retrofitting a 1987 Dodge Ram, this designer is living in it for 365 days, examining how to create comfort in a small space.

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bet on it firm Site.

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project Denny’s, Las Vegas.

Intertwining golden bands, actually painted aluminum, signal a first for the nationwide chain— it’s a diner and a wedding chapel— and symbolize the revitalization of the city’s downtown.

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start young firms Handbuilt; Osborn Architects. project Playa Vista Elementary School, California.

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In addition to pursuing LEED Platinum certification, this building for kindergarten through fifth grade features kid-friendly graphics that simultaneously entertain and educate on sustainability.

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worship the divine firms Brooks + Scarpa Architects;

KZF Design. project University of North Florida

interfaith chapel, Jacksonville.

Inspired by the flow of a wedding gown, this competition proposal presents a sanctum with a northfacing window, framing a view of Polaris, and a spire in the shape of the infinity symbol.

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firm EDG. projec t Portable Dining Unit, San Francisco.

For DIFFA’s Dining by Design, pleated plastic panels were held together by zip ties and slotted into an OSB platform for stability—all with today’s young, mobile chefs in mind. 174

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firm HOK. project Youth Center on Highland,

Los Angeles.

At this shelter, an annex to the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, furniture, finishes, and artworks in the rainbow-flag palette encourage and empower residents.

order up an education firm DAS Architects. project Honeygrow, Philadelphia.

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“Honest eating” is the slogan at this fast-casual chain, where touch-screen menus inform customers of their selection’s environmental impact, and walls are clad in locally sourced white pine. Circle 63 176

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nurture with nature firm TRO Jung/Brannen. project Al-Jahra Hospital,

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be a good neighbor firm Laura Guido-Clark Design. project E.C. Rheems Academy of Technology and Arts, East Oakland, California.

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project Allen Center, Houston.

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Oversize windows, overlooking a farm, and interior vertical gardens will draw on the restorative effects of the natural world.

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project Domestic violence shelter, New York.

In a pro bono DesigNYC project, furnishings by Verner Panton, Philippe Starck, and Eero Aarnio, bright finishes, and streamlined layouts improve recreational and educational spaces for children in crisis.

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project Guapos Tacos.

Who says street food has to be no-frills? This food truck is a-glitter with 50,000 bottle caps. 180

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go back to school firm Perkins + Will. project : Sprout Space.

This modular, net-zero prototype envisions an affordable, sustainable, and flexible space for students to learn in.

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get the show on the road artist John Baldessari. project ForYourArt, Los Angeles.

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A dozen modes of transport have been painted school-bus yellow and emblazoned with “Learn To Dream” on one side and “Aprende a Soñar” on the other, part of a public-art exhibition and fund-raising campaign to support L.A.’s public schools.

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Canadian offices are becoming more accessible to all, thanks to Susan Ruptash of Quadrangle Architects How does Canada—supposedly America’s kinder, gentler neighbor—not have a national disabledrights act? Ontario only passed one seven years ago. Local design firms have adapted quickly, and at the forefront is Toronto’s Quadrangle Architects, which launched its AccessAbility Advantage division in 2010. A collaboration with the March of Dimes Canada, today AAA is a global consultancy specializing in workplaces. Quadrangle managing principal Susan Ruptash expounds on the initiative.

tunity there. Partnering with them, we’re able to provide more in-depth services, such as sensitivity training and office-policy formation. What kind of environments has AAA created to date?

One example would be our own office, which we use as a showcase for integrated universal design. We’ve redesigned the restrooms, enlarged conference rooms, and brightened our color palette and lighting systems. With these changes and others, we’re able to prove that universal design can enhance, not restrict, the possibilities—and look good, too. What are you doing differently from others in the field?

There really isn’t a similar organization that offers the complete broad

Clockwise from top left: Quadrangle Architects managing principal Susan Ruptash, who heads up the firm’s AccessAbility Advantage initiative. Quadrangle’s Toronto office, where the weathered-steel reception desk accommodates a wheelchair. Quadrangle’s training classroom with tables and storage at different heights. A conference room at Quadrangle.

We’re just way behind the global market. That’s been a gap in our legislation. How did you connect with the March of Dimes?

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range of services we do, from office design to employee training and educating on how to serve disabled customers. Are designers considering all aspects of accessibility?

I don’t think so. Universal design has dealt mostly with people in mobility devices; people who are deaf, blind, or have cognitive impairments are not foremost in designers’ minds. And they have to be. —Ian Volner

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Brooklyn, New York, temporarily went West when this video projection, on the Boiler gallery’s ceiling, gave viewers the sense of riding in a convertible through Los Angeles.

travel in place artist Kevin Cooley.

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A modern-day Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, these pediatric areas supersize everyday objects, for example a 10-foot-tall chair in MDF and aluminum.

firms Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture; Studio Myerscough. project Royal London Hospital Activity Space and Sky Garden.

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project Clifford Chance, Singapore.

This regional office conforms to a law firm’s global guidelines but injects its own personality in the cafeteria via walnut and citrus accents. 188

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firm Rockwell Group.

UNICEF’s project P.L.A.Y. portable playground, for children living in disaster recovery areas and extreme poverty, is currently a pilot program in Haiti and Bangladesh.

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When Arkin, a psychiatric-care institution in Amsterdam, approached D/Dock Design Development to create a prototype treatment room, design director Francesco Messori looked to the uterus for inspiration. “It’s where the fetus is protected and growth, warmth, and evolution are essential,” he says. The 430square-foot result is divided in a way that allows for different treatments to take place simultaneously. A cocoonlike curved space for isolation treatment can be closed off, while a booth with banquettes for active therapy and a relaxation area with a massage chair are both open. The palette of natural colors soothes. But a computer touch screen can add colored lighting and music when a boost is needed. —Nicholas Tamarin

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Renovating a young family’s house in part of a 19th-century former industrial building in Paris, Chiarodo Maillet Architectes gutted the attic and turned it into sleeping quarters for three sisters. Rather than divide the aerie into separate rooms, Jérôme Chiarodo and Régis Maillet left the volume open but gave each little girl a place of her own, working with a cabinetmaker to develop three identical chambers. Made of beech, and outfitted with built-in beds and skylights, the 7-by-6-foot units roll on casters to be positioned wherever the children please. Playtime and homework take place in the common space. If someone needs a little alone time, she can retreat into her own box. And because girls will be girls, the units are fitted with sliding doors that cannot be slammed during not-so-ladylike moments. —Deborah Wilk From right: Three custom beech sleeping boxes share the sisters’ bedroom. Each box rolls on casters. MARCH.13 INTERIORDESIGN.NET

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For “Fuera de Serie” at CentroCentro Cibeles de Cultura y Ciudadanía in Madrid, plastic bottles were wrapped with cotton or palm-straw weavings by artisans from indigenous Colombian tribes to become pendant fixtures.

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hit the bottle designer Alvaro Catalán de Ocón.

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up-and-coming Begun to foster the development of young talent, the annual Electrolux Design Lab, now in its 10th year, attracted some 1,200 global entrants who were challenged to create products that stimulate the senses. The 10 finalists made their closing presentations to the jury in Milan’s Triennale Design Museum last October. Poland native Jan Ankiersztajn won first prize and a six-month internship at the Electrolux global design center, thanks to his Aeroball, a floating bubble that cleans the air while hovering in space. New Zealander Ben de la Roche took second place for Impress, a modular refrigeration wall that allows users to press storage containers and bottles directly into it instead of opening a door and doesn’t run when empty, saving energy. Third place went to Danish designer Christopher HolmHansen’s Tastee, a digital spoon that indicates when seasonings such as salt or sugar need to be added to a dish. —Arlene Hirst

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The signature bold patterns take off with Finnair, arriving on plane exteriors, flight-attendant uniforms, and tableware.

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expand your portfolio company Sicis.

Debuting at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, the glass HBA Collezione by HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates, conjured by a think tank of the firm’s designers, is an unexpected evolution of the manufacturer’s signature mosaics.

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mind the gap firm Barber Osgerby.

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Joining Queen Elizabeth II, a circa 1967 train from the London Underground’s Victoria Line is immortalized by the Royal Mint on a £2 commemorative silver-and-gold coin celebrating the system’s 150th anniversary.

replicate it designer David Nosanchuk.

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The near-magic technology of 3-D printing turned a paper prototype of the Hex Link light fixture into an actual client-worthy sample, practically overnight.

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designer Massoud Hassani.

The wind-powered Mine Kafon is a landmine detonator made of bamboo and biodegradable plastics that can set off up to four mines, shedding legs as it rolls.

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forget about function artist Jeremy Hutchison.

A pair of conjoined tennis rackets, a pump with two heels, pegs too large for their holes: This collection of household items at a London pop-up completely removed practicality from the equation.

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firms Ayse Birsel; Ishinomaki Laboratory.

Born out of a furniture workshop in Japan, this 17-inch-high pine table has a retractable handle, making it—and teatime—portable.

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Invented to alleviate dependence on wells in parched regions of northern Ethiopia, the WarkaWater tower has nylon mesh suspended inside its 29½-foot-high bamboo frame that extracts potable water from fog.

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DORMA’S WORLD OF ACCESS TO DESIGN AND AESTHETICS — A Room Full of Possibilities

DORMA introduces its design center concept—a 360-degree experience in access technology located centrally in New York City. This spacious, beautifully appointed setting is a center of gravity for architects, designers, planners, and business partners. Interactive displays exhibit the right products for every project and every location, with industry experts on hand to advise on the best possible implementation. More than just a conventional showroom, the design center features an innovative multimedia table, granting access to hassle-free technology with state of the art presentation.

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tap new reserves firm Architecture and Vision.

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drive fast and clean company Mercedes-Benz.

The SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive ups the hybrid experience from glorified golf cart to Formula 1, going from zero to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds.

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rebrand designer Yves Behar.

Nivea’s new pared-down packaging for its 1,600 products is modeled after the century-old skin-care stalwart’s Bauhaus-era typography.

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firm FXFowle Architects.

With help from applied research firm SCRA, carbon fibers harvested from old aircraft were molded into this appropriately aerodynamic bar.