This week, we're sharing projects from New Haven, Conn., to Pune, India, and from Richmond, Va., to Telemark, Norway, with several stops in between. In addition to the projects that we give more detailed coverage, we like to highlight some of the work that architecture firms share with us every day through the Project Gallery—the user-generated portion of our site. So far, we have more than 15,000 projects, most of which were directly uploaded by firms to share with us and our readers.
In this weekly roundup, we showcase some of the coolest new projects to be added to the gallery—thanks to architects like you.
Red Hook Library Renovation
New York, N.Y.
LevenBetts, SCAPE
"This comprehensive renovation transforms a one-story 1970s-era library into an iconic neighborhood resource with multi-generational programming to meet the needs of the surrounding community. Enlarged windows bring light into the building and open up views to the surrounding landscape, providing equitable and healthy workspaces within. The relocated entrances enhance site circulation, pedestrian safety, and connectivity."
CoLaboratory Headquarters
Chicago
Moss Design
"We transformed a bow truss warehouse into an illuminated food and beverage industry co-working center for our latest commercial project. This adaptive reuse building is now home to CoLaboratory, Chicago's first food-centric shared workplace. … The 20,000 square foot space serves as a creative laboratory space featuring various flexible work areas, lofty common areas, meeting rooms, a commercial kitchen, and two bars. Inside, food scientists and beverage developers can collaborate and find inspiration for new ideas while working in open communal spaces or office pods, and private glass-enclosed conference rooms, all illuminated by natural light."
A Time Capsule Carriage House in San Francisco
San Francisco
Medium Plenty
"With a growing family and no space to breathe in their circa 1800s San Francisco mid-block carriage house condo, this couple hired Medium Plenty to help them expand and utilize a uniquely under-utilized space in their building. Not wanting to leave the city, the clients reclaimed the building’s previously untouched hayloft, directly below their condo."
Prefabricated Country Home Set to be Certified LEED Gold
Ivry-sur-le-Lac, Quebec
Figurr Architects Collective
"The modular design is unique, created according to precise plans by the architect. The insulation, windows, and flooring were all assembled before shipping. Transporting the giant modules proved to be quite a challenge. The process included preparation, coordination, and navigating through country roads with ninety degree turns in inclement weather."
Yale Science Building
New Haven, Conn.
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Stantec
"The Yale Science Building replaced the 60-year old J.W. Gibbs Lab which has long been slated for demolition due to its aging infrastructure. The main design challenges of this new building involved developing a cohesive identity among 20 disparate buildings and correcting numerous circulation and access problems. To address issues of aesthetic differences, the design features glass façades with copper-colored vertical piers and horizon sun shades to emulate the architectural qualities of other Science Hill buildings."
Symbiosis University Hospital and Research
Pune, India
IMK Architects
"Sitting along a slope, the building is strategically positioned to minimize the cut-and-fill of the hill site. Planned as a robust curve along the contours of the land, it forms the façade of the project. Imbibing the client brief of 'grandeur' being a key element, two significant and symbolic entrances have been designed, distinct in approach to cater to the client brief of unique identities for the hospital and the academic block. While the entry to the hospital is welcoming, peaceful, it also provides a sense of grandeur along with a structure that expresses Solidarity, resonating care, and shelter for the patients in distress. A large open-to-sky courtyard separates the Centre from the hospital."
Powerhouse Telemark
Telemark, Norway
Snøhetta
"Situated in the historic industrial city of Porsgrunn in the county of Vestfold and Telemark, the new 11 story building marks a symbolic continuation of the district’s proud history as Telemark is home to one of the early 19th Century’s largest hydropower plants. Powerhouse Telemark indicates the area’s growing investment in the green economy, positioning the county as a leader in decarbonizing new construction. The south-east facing façade and roof of Powerhouse Telemark will generate 256 000 kWh each year, approximately twenty times the annual energy use of an average Norwegian household, and surplus energy will be sold back to the energy grid."
Richmond National Slavery Museum at the Lumpkin's Slave Jail Site
Richmond, Va.
SmithGroup
SmithGroup led a multidisciplinary team that included Chora, Gallagher & Associates, KEi Architects, Gray & Pape, Mikyoung Kim Design, Greening Urban, and Silman to develop the design for a structure that acknowledges the painful history of what is known as the “Devil’s half acre”—the site of the notorious Lumpkin’s Slave Jail in Richmond, Va. In the mid-1800s, when Richmond was the second-largest hub in the American slave trade, scores of Black men, women, and children were imprisoned, sold, tortured and killed in the buildings that once occupied the land.
The design for a new pavilion that preserves the archaeological remains of the slave jail—as well as houses interpretive displays and artifacts from the site—erupts from the ground, its form “based on this idea of unearthing buried history, buried truths,” says SmithGroup principal Dayton Schroeter, AIA. The façade uses the iconography of stripes—which Schroeter says recall the American flag and “the uniforms of Black men on chain gangs during Reconstruction, physical jails, and even the rows of cotton of Antebellum slavery, in which African labor was exploited.” Read more about the design for Richmond National Slavery Museum at the Lumpkin's Slave Jail Site, which ARCHITECT featured in the magazine's October 2020 issue, here.
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