This week, we're sharing projects from Barcelona to Saugus, Mass., and from Miami to Stanford, Calif., 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.
Villa Benhavis
Barcelona
DNA Barcelona Architects
"The villa consists of three floors with very spacious and bright rooms, offering several bedrooms, a kitchen with a dining room, bathrooms, an outside swimming pool, a parking space, and a terrace to have an optimal rest. The design of the villa is thought out in a way to provide the residents with a very comfortable and modern life but, at the same time, to give them an opportunity to enjoy the privacy and nature around."
Seaport World Trade Center Revitalization
Boston
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
"Construction has begun on the redesign of Boston’s Seaport World Trade Center, an expansive mixed-use development on historic Commonwealth Pier in the city’s Seaport District. Designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen, the adaptive reuse project will introduce new ways to explore and engage with the waterfront. These include a public plaza, an enhanced Harborwalk, retail, and first-class Seaport Hotel event and meeting spaces, as well as a unique, flexible workplace."
The O'Donahue Family Stanford Educational Farm
Stanford, Calif.
CAW Architects
"Our design centrally organized farm structures amongst six acres of field crops and orchards, frame open gathering space, and create a promenade through the fields that lead to it. Central to the design is the Huffington Barn, a large and iconic structure that combines the desired programs of barn, classrooms, office space, and open demonstration pavilion. Two greenhouses and a lath house act as accessory structures to the barn, embodying a purely functional design. This new working farm will supply Stanford dining halls with over 15,000 pounds of produce each year, and cultivate a new generation of experts versed in both the principles and practices of sustainable farming."
One Park
West Hartford, Conn.
Amenta Emma Architects
"One wing of the historic building will continue to be owned and occupied by the sisters who have seen their numbers decline in recent decades and needed to “right size” in order to ensure long-term financial independence. The remaining 111,000 square feet of the Colonial Revival-style convent is undergoing renovation into a mix of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. An additional 230,000 square feet connected to the existing structures, including a four-story addition over a one-story parking deck, are designed to look like a series of separate buildings and provide a neighborhood feel."
Amon Carter Museum
Fort Worth, Texas
Schwartz/Silver Architects
"Gallery carpet flooring was removed and replaced with American white oak, and the original dark ceiling is now a soft white. Permanent collections galleries have coffered ceilings that hint at Johnson’s original intention to include skylights. They are composed of fabric and LED laylights designed to evenly illuminate the galleries and enhance their acoustics. The spaces were reconfigured to allow for a continuous exploration through different eras of American art. New mobile, modular gallery walls are highly adaptive, allowing the museum flexibility to expand and contract spaces and accommodate new and changing exhibits."
Iowa City Public Works
Iowa City, Iowa
Neumann Monson Architects
"This project represents the ambitious first step in a 14-acre master plan to consolidate and upgrade a scattered set of aging municipal operations. The predominately concrete structure houses the Streets and Water Departments along with their associated vehicles and equipment. Program includes shop space, large-scale storage, mezzanine storage with elevator and forklift access, a fire training tower, fire pump truck training, police and fire storage, and vehicle/equipment wash bays."
Una Residences
Miami
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
"Slated for completion in early 2023, Una Residences will be comprised of 135 spacious condominiums spanning 47 floors boasting unobstructed views of the Atlantic Ocean, Biscayne Bay, and the Miami city skyline. Residences range from two-to-five bedrooms, measuring between 1,100 to 4,786 square feet in size, with two ultra-exclusive penthouses available. The tower’s secluded waterfront location, situated in the picturesque and private South Brickell area at 175 SE 25th Road, is only moments away from downtown Miami’s metropolitan city life, offering buyers the best of both worlds. Residences are priced from $1.9 to $7.4 million, with penthouses up to $21.6 million."
Saugus Middle/High School
Saugus, Mass.
HMFH Architects
"The 271,000 sf facility brings together 1,360 middle and high school students in a STEAM-driven complex of fabrication labs, collaboration spaces, and project areas that offer hands-on opportunities for exploratory learning. Distinct middle and high school classroom wings are separated by shared, core spaces, while eighth and ninth graders share the same floor to ease the transition from middle into high school. Grade-level classroom pods create smaller learning communities that are flooded with natural light from monumental lightwells. Each pod’s identity is reinforced by dynamic and colorful wall graphics, which honor Saugus’ pioneering industries in iron, ice, and lobstering."
Table Top Apartments
New York
Kwong Von Glinow
Conceptualized by the New York–based firm Kwong Von Glinow, the Table Top Apartments deploy a modular stacking system—inspired by table tops—to create a set of apartments with staggered balconies. Aiming to meet the variety of needs in New York city, the concept proposal is adaptable; modules can be combined to form a variety of building and unit configurations, "emphasizing the project’s assertion that diversity paired with density makes for a healthy and sustainable living environment," according to the firm's project description. Read more about Kwong Von Glinow, which ARCHITECT selected as its October Next Progressives firm, and discover why Table Top Apartments ranks as one of the firm's favorite projects, here.
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