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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Classical architecture, Refurbishment / Extension, Tom Eliot Fisch, USA architecture
Hoover Pavilion first opened as Palo Alto Hospital in 1931 and was expanded in 1939. Stanford University operated the hospital for the city until taking over ownership in 1959, renaming it Hoover Pavilion and converting it to house medical offices. Designed in the Art Deco style, the 85,000-square-foot building features ziggurat massing with four-story wings [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Architectural video, Car Park, Concrete, Herzog & de Meuron, USA architecture
DigiVision Productions shared with us their production of Herzog & de Meuron‘s raw and sexy parking garage in Miami Beach. The parking garage has transformed a utilitarian structure into art & mix use. It also has ignited world wide conversations about it’s design & use.
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Tonic Design, USA architecture
The clients wanted a new house but not a new neighborhood. On one of their daily walks they found a 40-year-old structure for sale. The house, beyond repair, occupied a promising lot with a southeast exposure to a small lake. This gave the couple the idea to build their “home and vacation home at the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: BIG, Fluid form, Skyscrapers, USA architecture, Waterfront architecture, White
BIG + Raymond Jungles + Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates + Esrawe + Desimone + HNGS, transform the Coconut Grove Waterfront with twisting towers in South Florida, USA. The Grove at Grand Bay residences, located on the former site of the Grand Bay Hotel and just minutes from key areas including the airport, downtown [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Classical architecture, LEED, Library, Refurbishment / Extension, Tom Eliot Fisch, USA architecture
As part of the San Francisco Public Library’s Branch Library Improvement Program, Tom Eliot Fisch and Paulett Taggart Architects renovated the historic Golden Gate Valley Branch Library in the city’s Cow Hollow neighborhood. Completed in 1918 as a Carnegie library, the two-level brick and terra cotta Beaux-Arts structure was designed by Ernest Coxhead in the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare Tags: Bruce Damonte, Glass, USA architecture, WRNS
The new Jill and John Freidenrich Center for Translational Research at Stanford University’s School of Medicine provides a home for innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary clinical and translational research. It is the first completed piece in the School of Medicine’s plan to transform some of its medical center properties from a parcel-zoned, suburban land use to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Bruce Damonte, David Baker, USA architecture
Fillmore Park offers 32 affordable new for sale units for first-time homebuyers who are working families or individuals earning between 70 and 100% of the area medium income. Flats and townhouses with outdoor patios ring a private landscaped courtyard, creating a quiet community just a block from the bustling Fillmore District, within walking distance to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Car Park, Perforated, Random pattern, Tim Griffith, USA, USA architecture, WRNS
In San Francisco, WRNS Studio has recently completed a new 10-story parking structure for the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Medical Center. The UCSF Medical Center parking structure is a 10-story, 627-vehicle capacity garage located on the western edge of the new UCSF Mission Bay Medical Center site. Designed for hospital visitors, the parking structure [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Tonic Design, USA architecture
The modern 3500-square-foot house was designed and built for art collectors John and Molly Chiles. It was constructed on the bones of an old modern, steel-framed and wood-paneled house overlooking Crabtree Creek in Raleigh, NC, that was abandoned in the 1960s.The original house was in terrible shape: Its wood walls and floors, camouflaged by kudzu [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Education, Interior Tags: David Wakely, Library, Noll & Tam, USA architecture
Nestled at the foot of a wooded hillside, the two-story, 30,250-square-foot Los Gatos Library provides a visual connection between the Town’s historic Pageant Park and the adjacent Civic Center. The design concept is based on the lantern, which in architectural terms suggests an open, light-filled structure. Daytime illumination optimizes the use of natural daylight, with [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Lattice screen, Stair, Tonic Design, USA architecture
The Crabills bought the five-acre property near Hillsborough, NC, with the intention of building a simple, modern home in a clearing amidst a lush forest. They wanted the house to disturb the natural environment as little as possible and accommodate local wildlife. Our clients asked us to design a unique live/work house that inspire [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Noll & Tam, Recycle, Timber, USA architecture
In 1972, a group of El Cerrito residents decided to create a recycling center and asked the city council for a small patch of land that had previously housed a rock quarry and then a landfill. The operation was so successful that it outgrew its volunteer roots, and the city took over operations in 1977. [...]
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