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As part of a larger re-branding project, Aol wanted its new offices in Palo Alto, California, to help it feel like a young company again. “We took aim at some of their early start up energy and re-kindled it in this new space,” says Primo Orpilla, principal, Studio O+A. The result is an office that mixes bright colors and eye-popping patterns with raw construction materials and an open floor plan. Instead of dedicating square footage to private offices, this space fosters big ideas wherever they happen: over a game of ping-pong, inside a circular meeting room or lounging on a sofa.
This is a tech company, so you’ll find fancy video conference rooms and the like. But, here, it’s thoughtfully deployed. “I like to think of technology like it’s better to be seen and not heard,” Orpilla says. “So it’s there, but it’s not in your face.” The space balances its high tech features by leaving room for analog experiences. You can write your thoughts on the white boards in the hallway or kick back any number of places with an old-school print magazine. After you’ve scanned The Huffington Post headlines on your iPad, of course.
Firm: Studio O+A
Principals: Primo Orpilla, Verda Alexander
Architect: Clem Soga
Director of design: Denise Cherry
Director of projects: Perry Stephney
Designers: Virginie Manichon, Alfred Socias, Liz Boze, Albert Claxton, Justin Ackerman, Alex Ng, Kroeun Dav, Emily Ellis, David Hunter
Photographer: Jasper Sanidad
Client: Aol
— Judge Clive Wilkinson, President and Design Director, AIA, RIBA, Clive Wilkinson Architects
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Brockman Hall for Physics features a family of transparent facades, each tuned to its solar conditions and adjacency to other buildings, minimizing the building’s volume and allowing abundant natural light to enter the building. The facades incorporate the predominant proportions and material palette of Rice’s architecture while employing materials that carry the legacy of classic Rice University buildings into the 21st century.
Firm: KieranTimberlake
Design partners: James Timberlake, Stephen Kieran
Associate in charge: Jason Smith
Client: Rice University
Client project manager: Erik M. Knezevich
External project manager: Tom Butler
Construction project manager: Gregory M. Coffman
Structural engineer: Haynes Whaley Associates
MEP engineer: CCRD Partners
Lab consultant: Innovate Lab Systems Design
Landscape architect: The Office of James Burnett
Acoustical consultant: JE Acoustics
Civil engineer: Walter P Moore
Geotechnical engineer: Ulrich Engineers, Inc.
Construction administration consulting architect: Jackson & Ryan Architects
Lighting consultant: ARUP
Specification consultant: Wilson Consulting, Inc.
Commissioning/LEED consultant: Working Buildings
Fire protection consultant: Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc.
Door hardware consultant: ASSA ABLOY
Concrete design consultant: Fred Langford Architect
— Judge Clive Wilkinson, President and Design Director, AIA, RIBA, Clive Wilkinson Architects
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Design exhibition based on a single triangular module of plywood plates that solve both the organization through vertical elements and the support of the objects exhibited through the horizontal furnitures.
Firm: MagiaLiquid + Larroulet – Dominguez – Montegu
Architects: Felipe Montegu, Sebastian Larroulet, Augusto Dominguez
Additional team members: Alfredo Thiermann, Paula Pastor, Cristián Montégu, José Covarrubias
Client: Ministry of economy, Universidad del Desarrollo, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
— Judge Barry Richards, Principal and Studio Leader, Rockwell Group
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For Carlo Pazolini, retailer of women’s and men’s shoes and accessories, this 386 square meter flagship location in Milano’s Piazza Cordusio will be their first western European opening, with a redefinition of the company’s store concept. The project plays out over time, on an urban stage for the piazza, or as color compositions shift as one moves through the space.
Firm: Giorgio Borruso Design
Principal architect: Giorgio Borruso
Client: Carlo Pazolini
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The Nam June Paik Library is a new public art library in Nam June Paik Art Center in Yong-In, Korea, open to the general public on April 15, 2011, that collects, preserves, and provides access to historical and contemporary material related to Nam June Paik and his art. The library houses and circulates the center’s Nam June Paik Archives Collection, Nam June Paik Video Archives, and rare Fluxus Footages Collection, as well as user-generated material.
Firm: N H D M
Principals: Nahyun Hwang, David Eugin Moon
Client: Nam June Paik Art Center
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For the software engineers and information analysts at Quid’s San Francisco headquarters, the prevailing aesthetic is Stanley Kubrick meets Isaac Newton meets John Le Carre. Our design emphasizes cool surfaces, indirect lighting and graphics that speak to the interconnectivity of data in all its forms.
Firm: Studio O+A
Principals: Primo Orpilla, Verda Alexander
Architect: Clem Soga
Director of design: Denise Cherry
Director of projects: Perry Stephney
Designer: Kroeun Dav
Client: Quid
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The Hinman project preserves an important piece of Georgia Institute of Technology’s built heritage and transforms it into a flexible new annex for the College of Architecture with new studio, classroom and research programs. The original building was oriented around a 50-foot tall industrial high-bay shed, which we redesigned with a concept of flexibility: uninterrupted horizontal floor plates yield multiple layouts as studio space, theater, parties and graduation, while suspended infrastructure overhead amplify the programmatic infrastructural needs—lights from ceiling, “crib” studio from crane, and spiral stair from truss.
Firm: Lord, Aeck & Sargent in collaboration with Office dA
Principals: Jack Pyburn, FAIA (Lord, Aeck & Sargent), Nader Tehrani (Office dA)
Project managers: John Kisner, AIA, LEED AP (Lord, Aeck & Sargent), Daniel Gallagher (Office dA).
Project architect: Karen Gravel, AIA, LEED AP (Lord, Aeck & Sargent).
Project coordinator: Tom Beresford, LEED AP (Office dA).
Design team: Jihan Stanford, LEED AP, Tom Butler, LEED AP BD+C, Claire Oviatt, IIDA, Jim Nicolow, AIA, LEED AP, Cobb Quarles, Seth Hammonds, LEED AP, Benjamin Scott, LEED AP, Ben Ridderbos, LEED AP (Lord, Aeck & Sargent). Jeff Dee, Arthur Chang, Remon Alberts, Brandon Clifford, Jonathan Palazzolo, John Houser, Sarah Dunbar, Samuel Ray Jacobson, Pepe Giner Ivars, Harry Lowd, Marzouq A. Al-Mutairi, Yousif J. Alsaleem (Office dA)
Structural engineer: Uzun & Case Engineers, James Case, PE, John Hutton, PE
Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection engineer: EMC Engineers, Douglas Gray, PE, Chip Tabor, PE
Cable mesh systems: Officium Design Engineering, David Bradley, AIA
Concrete repair and rehabilitation: Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Paul Gaudette, PE
Civil engineer: Haines Gipson & Associates, Robert McCann, PE
Acoustics: The Sextant Group, Brian Patrick
Construction manager: The Beck Group (millwork contractor/custom furniture contractor), Bill Hicks, project executive, Brad Oliva, project manager, Troy Nixon, project engineer, Steve Wheeler, superintendent
Client: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Hair, Spikes, Cattail, and Turkeyfoot seeks to discover new construction drawing conventions by exploring the oral tradition of thatch alongside the representational demands of digital fabrication. Oral traditions often involve intricate techniques that are difficult to represent and are therefore seldom documented. Digitally fabricated designs catalogue an array of the produced parts, but lack thorough explanation in the assembly of the components. This project combines two methods of construction—digital and oral—to explore the role of sequence-based drawing in current architectural practice.
Firm: University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Assistant professor: Wei-Han Vivian Lee
Graduate student – research and design assistant: Tarlton Long
Undergraduate student – research and design assistant: Peter Yi
Structural engineer (consultant): Andy Greco, SDI Structures
Master thatcher (consultant): William Cahill, Custom Roof Thatch
Fabrication and construction assistants: Patrick Ethen, Lauren Jones, Nate Smalligan, Jon Swendris
Photography: James Macgillivray, Anya Sirota, Alex Watanabe
Client: Robert Grese, Director of Matthaei Botanical Gardens; David Michener, Associate Curator of Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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¡Disco Silencio! is a custom designed environment that transformed SCI-Arc’s main gallery by employing technologies of superficial deception inspired by WWI Razzle Dazzle camouflage conjoined with reflective embedded mirror ball fragments to create a hybrid of military and disco architectures of surface. At the Disco, the graphic pattern and mirrored surfaces reflect, distort, and echo the surroundings to create an immersive environment for dancing, resting, interacting, playing or lounging.
Firm: Bestor Architecture
Principal: Barbara Bestor
Design director: Catherine Johnson
Design team: Daniel Rabin, Kyd Kitchaiya, Matt Harmon, Erin Lani, Rebecca Landau, Elinor Nissley, Selena Linkous
Projections: FAIR ENOUGH, Julia Tsao and Adam Guzman
Effects: Mel Horan
Construction: Peter Fanello Construction & Monte Ross Construction
Digital fabrication: Woodbury University Digital Fabrication Laboratory
Panel finishing: Woodtek, cabinetry/painting
Sound and soundtrack: John Huck
Sound equipment: Beats by Dr. Dre
Structural Engineering: Paul Franceschi, Paul Franceschi Engineering
Lighting: Kaplan Gehring McCarroll, Daniel Weinreber, John Martin
Light fixtures: BARTCO Lighting
Installation/production team: Adriana McElwain, Astri Bang, Betsy Cole, Chris Martin, Chris Parcell, Chris Skeens, Danielle Yip, Duygun Inal, Edwin Nourian, Harris Silyec, Hassan Ismail, Jane Sathigoseeya, Jesus Guerrero, Keegan Quick, Mishal Hashmi, Nina Handelman, Noorey Kim, Robert Cardenas, Sarah Blahut, Shane Reiner-Roth, Tiffany Liu, Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, Uriel Alexander Lopez
Client: SCI-Arc (host institution)
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On Lusk Alley in San Francisco’s SOMA district, a 1917 smokehouse has been renovated to become a 265-seat restaurant and bar. The two-level space weaves graceful forms and sophisticated materials through the massive, historic warehouse, emphasizing a counterpoint between old and new, raw and refined.
Firm: CCS ARCHITECTURE
Design principal: Cass Calder Smith, AIA
Project architect: Bryan Southwick
Interior design director: Barbara Turpin-Vickroy, IIDA
Contractor: Teutonic
Lighting designer: Heather Libonati, Luminesce Design
Food service: Federighi Design Inc
MEP: ACIES Engineering
Structural: Peoples Associates
Artwork: Melissa Werner
Photographer: Paul Dyer
Client: Twenty Five Lusk (Matthew Dolan, Chad Bourdon, Chris Dolan, Jamie McGrath)
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Fashion retail shop obtains a new style, making use of convenience store design that realizes light shopping. The rhythmical packaging draws customers’ attention.
Firm: MOMENT
Designers: Hisaaki Hirawata, Tomohiro Watabe
Client: ISSEY MIYAKE INC.
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