This week, we're sharing projects from Chicago, to Cape Town, South Africa, and from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Amsterdam, 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 14,000 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.
Chicago Public Schools Englewood Stem High School
Chicago
Moody Nolan
"Moody Nolan, in collaboration with Design-Build partner Ujamaa-Power Joint Venture, designed and developed this new 160,000 sq. ft. high school located in Chicago’s Englewood community. The new Englewood school will help transform the landscape of Chicago’s Southside; envisioned as a modern campus intended to replace an existing, aging high school located on the site. Among other programmed spaces, the high school includes flexible break-out spaces along the main academic corridors, a multi-functional gymnasium / auditorium space, competitive athletic fields and facilities, and a library center highlighted by an angled terminus in the building. The Metra Rock Island District/Union Pacific Railway line serves as the site’s most prominent feature – a point strengthening the Architectural design vision to “Reach Beyond."
Mondelez International Headquarters
Chicago
Solomon Cordwell Buenz
"Spacious, flexible and interactive, the four-story open office is completely comprised of free address bench-style workstations, including those of the executive team and CEO. Complementing the open office are a variety of support spaces such as phone rooms and conference rooms, as well as informal meeting spaces and cafes to accommodate individual and group workstyles. A “Connect Zone” on the fifth floor provides staff with a company store, a communal kitchen, and large gathering area with a stage for all staff meetings and presentations. The “Connect Zone” opens to one of the office’s two large outdoor terraces, which offer additional opportunities for community building amongst staff."
The Brooklyn Bluff
New York
DGillen Design
"In order to respect the original design, the architectural addition is a clear and legible distinction between contemporary and historic. The strength and utility of the Brooklyn Bridge is balanced with a progressive approach to architecture, evaluating a multitude of factors including social conditions, fiscal longevity, and safety while enhancing the iconicity of the structure. A large public park (POPS privately owned public space) balances the private economic incentives for the site."
Monroe Place Apartment
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
ASK Studio
"The redevelopment of the 1961 Monroe Elementary School into a 19-unit affordable housing apartment building is a model for preserving an underutilized structure, giving it a new lease on life while helping to solve an affordable housing shortage. As the first school building in Cedar Rapids to be converted into housing, Monroe Place was designed with the surrounding neighborhoods and families in mind. This project consisted of redesigning classrooms into two, three, and four-bedroom apartment units within the existing footprint of the building and without subdivision of the historic spaces."
Roatán Próspera Residences
Roatán Island, Honduras
Zaha Hadid Architects
"The design’s modular system is founded on the use of sustainable timber, sourced nearby from certified forests on the Honduran mainland and treated locally, to form the main structural elements. Digital information technologies will optimize the use of all parts of the sustainably-forested logs to minimize waste and pollution. This process also contributes to reducing the embedded construction energy and carbon footprint of the development."
The Brink Tower
Amsterdam
Mecanoo
"The Brink Tower will soon become a green, sustainable and vibrant vertical neighbourhood, with a great diversity of homes that will accommodate a diverse group of people who will be able to live, work, study, do business and relax in a pleasant way. And all this in a green and healthy environment. The plan offers a solution to the dire shortage of high-quality housing for young professionals, starters, young couples, (international) students and researchers in Amsterdam."
Aqua Verde Residence
Austin, Texas
Clark Richardson Architects
"The existing home was a brick and stucco two story residence and was wrapped in heavy masonry porches on both the front and rear of the residence which faces the view. The interiors of the home, which had undergone a few interior renovations since being built, were somewhat jumbled with a series of disconnected living spaces and perhaps most importantly little to no positive connection to the amazing views beyond the property. Windows to the lake view were sparse and further separated from the outdoors by the heavy masonry colonnades to each side of the home."
Conch Lecture Hall
Universitaria Guadalajara, Zapopan, Mexico
Conjuntos Empáticos
"Conjuntos Empáticos in collaboration with an architecture students group of Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (Mexico) built collectively a prototype of pneumatic architecture, for the generation of an outdoor lecture hall in the campus garden. This action consists of different moments to be carried out, such as: design, pattern, cut, weld joint, inflation and enjoyment. This sequence of moments summarizes the workshop, whose objectives are the transmission of technological knowledge and the deepening of a specific methodology for activating educational space, in this case through the construction of a space in the garden."
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Terminal 2
Mumbai, India
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
This year, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill won a number of awards, including an ARCHITECT 2020 R+D Award for their Stereoform Slab structure and a 2020 AIA Architecture Award for Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Terminal 2 in Mumbai, India, an "x-shaped, four-level plan that seamlessly fits the site," according to AIA's description. The coming months will hold even more growth for the firm as they welcome their first all-female executive committee on Oct. 1. Listen to Carrie Byles, Laura Ettelman, and Xuan Fu—the three women who will lead the firm into the future—discuss their careers and goals in ARCHITECT's recent podcast episode.
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