There’s No Place Like Work
The 10-story atrium at One Shelley Street—an office building in Sydney, Australia—is jaw-dropping enough to make you polish up your resume. A series of meeting pods, decorated with bright bursts of color, hang into this open space like rooms in a high design tree house. Visitors have a first-row seat to all the energy and action above. And employees get the chance to move around this open-architecture environment to work in the spot that best suits the task at hand.
Judge Jeanne Gang appreciated the integration of the architecture and graphics with a new way to work while her fellow environments juror pondered the impact on your mind. “I like the idea that you have space to work, and by space I mean volume—open space for your imagination and creativity and freedom of thought,” says judge Sebastien Agneessens.
Design architect: Clive Wilkinson Architects
Team: Clive Wilkinson, John Meachem, Alexis Rappaport, Ruben Smudde, Neil Muntzel
Executive architect: Woods Bagot
Team: James Calder, Amanda Stanaway, Eleana Yi, Mohammad Khaled, Felice Carlino
Workplace consultant: Veldhoen + Company
Team: Eric Veldhoen, Luc Kamperman, Pierre Buijs, Kim Diederen
Graphics consultant: EGG Office
Team: Christian Daniels, Jonathan Mark, Kate Tews
Base building architect: Fitzpatrick + Partners
Client: Macquarie Group
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“It’s very poetic and playful. It’s very inviting to be able to be floating on top of a garden. I just want to hang out there for the whole afternoon. It’s a great way to experience the smell of the garden.” –Judge Sebastien Agneessens
Project website: www.jardinsdemetis.com
Description: Dymaxion Sleep is structure of nets that suspends visitors above a garden of aromatic plants.
Designers: Jane Hutton and Adrian Blackwell
Structural Consultation: Walter Blackwell
Netting Consultation: Créations Fil Lion
Client: Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens, Grand-Métis, Québec
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“The environmental graphics are so integrated with the architecture that there’s a seamless quality to it. You can’t separate one from the other.” –Judge Jeanne Gang
Description: Program of signage and environmental graphics for The Cooper Union’s new academic building at 41 Cooper Square, New York.
Design firm: Pentagram
Website: www.pentagram.com
Art director: Abbott Miller
Designers: Abbott Miller, Jeremy Hoffman, Brian Raby, Susan Brzozowski
Architect: Thom Mayne/Morphosis
Client: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
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Project website: http://hoberman.com/portfolio/gsd.php?projectname=Adaptive+Fritting
Description: Hoberman’s Adaptive Fritting technology builds on the practice of standard fritting with the ability to control its transparency to modulate between opaque and transparent states—a performance achieved by shifting a series of fritted glass panels so that their graphic patterns alternately align and diverge. An installation at Harvard Graduate School of Design combined six Adaptive Fritting panels into a 24-foot long dynamic field where light transmission, views, and enclosure continuously adapt and change.
Design: Hoberman Associates
Website: www.hoberman.com
Principal: Chuck Hoberman
VP engineering: Matthew Davis
Director of technology/project lead: Ziggy Drozdowski
Mechanical engineer: David Wight
Client: Harvard University
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Description: A new pop-up store for Dr. Martens designed with a no frills aesthetic using inexpensive industrial materials, readily available and quick to assemble. The design was inspired by the brand’s heritage and attitude that catapulted it from a working-class essential to a counter-cultural icon.
Design: Campaign
Website: www.campaigndesign.co.uk
Art Direction: Fresh
Photography: Hufton+Crow
Client: Dr. Martens
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Description: O+A designed the new headquarters for Facebook, facilitating interaction, connection and reflecting on the company’s mission as a social networking website provider.
Designer: Studio O+A
Website: www.o-plus-a.com
Client: Facebook
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Description: Through a series of distinctly modern yet discreet interventions, MUMA has created a new suite of galleries to house the V&A’s renowned Medieval and Renaissance collection while providing equality of access to six levels of the building.
Architect: MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects)
Exhibition design: MUMA
Website: www.muma.co.uk
Historic building consultant: Julian Harrap Architects
Structural engineer: Dewhurst Macfarlane & Partners
Quantity surveyor: Davis Langdon
MEP/fire engineer: Arup
Vertical transportation: Arup
Daylighting consultant: Arup
Artificial lighting consultant: DHA Design
Graphics consultant: Holmes Wood
Acoustician: Sound Space Design
Project managers: Lend Lease Projects, March Consulting
Main contractor: Holloway White Allom
Client: Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum
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Project website: www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/MetabolicCity
Description: Metabolic City examines midcentury modernist architectural proposals and artworks by the Japanese Metabolists, the British collaborative Archigram, and the Dutch artist Constant, to consider the influential vision of cities as complex interrelated organisms. The exhibition design plays on themes of Metabolic City by considering visitor movement, reciprocal dialogue of two and three-dimensional studies and cinematic strategy that engages layers of viewing distance and orientation.
Axi:Ome team:
Curator and design principal: Heather Woofter
Design principal: Sung Ho Kim
Project coordinators: Kyla Hygysician, Nathaniel Smith
Design team: Kelley van Dyck, Kara Sharpe, Hannah Novack
Construction team: Joshua Choi, Liu Xi, Jonathan Stitleman, Jeff Sullivan
More team members:
Millwork: Confluence-Design Fabrication
Metalwork: American Classics Metal Fabrication
Websites: www.axi-ome.net, www.wknarchitects.com
Client: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
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Project website: http://vimeo.com/10634660
Description: Raised ventilation grilles that include bicycle racks and seating to mitigate flooding during large storms in vulnerable areas of downtown Manhattan.
Designer/project leader: Casimir Zdanius, head of industrial design, GRIMSHAW
Designers: Vincent Chang, partner, GRIMSHAW; Chung Won, architect, GRIMSHAW
Designer’s website: www.grimshaw-architects.com
Client: New York City Transit for the Metropolitan Transit Authority
Client individuals: John O’Grady, program official, NYCT; Sandra Bloodworth, director, Arts for Transit and Facilities Design MTA; Yong Teoh, lead design manager, NYCT; Stephen Petrillo, deputy design manager, NYCT; Ashok Patel, program manager, NYCT
Additional credits: HNTB, hydrology engineering; Systra, ventilation engineering; Billings Jackson Design; SCAPE Landscape Architects
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Project website: http://www.rogersmarvel.com/MTAfloodmitigation.html
Description: Retained by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as part of a team to protect the subway from a hundred-year storm, Rogers Marvel Architects designed a series of raised subway grates that prevent water from entering subway tunnels while providing required ventilation and minimizing obstruction of the sidewalk. The undulating form of these raised grates responds to the varied depths of expected flooding, emulating the flooding that the grates help solve.
Design: Rogers Marvel Architects, PLLC
Website: www.rogersmarvel.com
Architect of record: di Domenico + Partners, LLP
Fabricator: Art Metal Industries
Client: Metropolitan Transportation Authority/New York City Transit
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Description: The architectural forms and weight of the Oaza Zdravlja Pharmacy reference the beautiful intricacies of the human body and healing process.
Designer: Karim Rashid
Website: www.karimrashid.com
Space director: Camila Tariki
Interior architect: Julie Lee
Client: Oaza Zdravlja
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Project website: www.snaiderousa.com
Designer: Giorgio Borruso
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Website: www.borrusodesign.com
Snaidero USA project manager: Tim Lillis
Specialty millwork contractor: T. Alongi
General contractor: Omara
Client: Snaidero USA
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Description: A Building that is unmistakably, though perhaps unconventionally, contemporary but not as obvious as another glass box.
Design architect: Bill Peterson, Architect PC
Website: www.bill-peterson.com
Design team: Bill Peterson, Mark Castellani, Miki Sawayama, Miwako Tanaka, Hiromi Watatani
Client/developer: The Brownstone ’05, LLC, Bill Peterson and Carol Swedlow
Photography: David Sundberg/ESTO
General contractor: ABR, GC
Retractable facade engineering: McLaren Engineering Group
Retractable facade fabrication and installation: Showman Fabricators, Inc.
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Description: The Housing Tower is an 80-room residential dormitory that uses sliding sun screens, radiant heating and cooling, and natural ventilation to become a compact cornerstone of sustainability for the institution while enabling human connections to the Berkshire context in all seasons.
Design: The Rose + Guggenheimer Studio
Website:www.roseandpartners.com
Architecture: Peter Rose, Peter Guggenheimer, Matthew Snyder, Erkin Ozay, William Bryant, Amy Beckman, Jon Chase, Duong Bui, Van Wilkes Fowlkes, Louis Kraft
Landscape architect: Michael van Valkenburgh Associates
Structural engineer: Richmond So Associates
Climate engineer: Transsolar Klimaengineering
Mechanical engineer: Icor Associates
Construction manager: Barr & Barr Inc., Builders
Client: The Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health (Stockbridge, MA)
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