This week, we're sharing projects from Argentina to Ohio, Vietnam, and New York, with several stops in between. In addition to the projects that we cover in detail, we highlight work that architecture firms share with us every day through Project Gallery, the user-generated portion of ARCHITECT's website. To date, we have more than 16,000 projects.
Mercy Health, Deerfield Medical Center, Mason, Ohio
GBBN Architects
"Block units of five clustered components—physician office, medical assistant office, and three exam rooms—fit together like Lego pieces to become active collaboration pods. Because the pods are all the same, everyone gets the same experience. It’s modular, consistent, equitable, and repeatable throughout the Mercy Health system."
FADEEAC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
MSGSSS
"Architecture will accompany this attitude of social responsibility, with buildings organized according to their functions, designed according to their requirements. With its own characteristics, it takes advantage of the advantages of its location, providing the buildings with ventilation and natural light, with open buildings linked to the environment, in contact with the nature of the place."
Solforest Ecopark, Hanoi, Vietnam
Dewan Architects + Engineers
"Beyond delivering a striking design, the vertical gardens that engulf the 42- and 35 -story buildings deliver a bold and effective solution that elevates the project’s sustainability."
Hurricane Maria Memorial, New York
Pulp Studio
"The Hurricane Maria Memorial features an ascending glass spiral, meant to echo a hurricane and a shell, which is a symbol of protection against the elements. The glass in this memorial uses Pulp’s D2G process for ceramic application and then is bent, tempered and laminated."
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, New York
Mecanoo, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners
"This dramatic linear atrium separates three floors of flexible, daylit reading areas on one side and five levels of book stacks on the other, a creative and efficient solution to balancing the need for a browsable collection and the desire for more public reading room space."
Ballard Food Bank, Seattle
Graham Baba Architects
"The front door, while still visible from the main street, is set back along a side street to provide a more private and welcoming entry to the building. Directly inside, a waiting area serves as a center point for the community with other services radiating out from a central service desk and seating area."
Spectrum Center, Irvine, Calif.
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
"The buildings’ 40-foot column spacing and carefully detailed floor-to-ceiling glass allow for light-filled work space and unobstructed views. The column-free office plates are highly adaptable, facilitating collaboration and connectivity."
Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, Jersey City, N.J.
Office for Metropolitan Architecture
"The Centre Pompidou will provide its expertise to create an ambitious program emphasizing education via hands-on artistic and cultural experiences, with a community component central to Jersey City’s ambitious and inclusive vision for the future, making the Centre Pompidou × Jersey City a promising multidisciplinary art laboratory for cultural and educational programming."
University of Chicago William Eckhardt Research Center, Chicago
HOK
Completed in 2015, the University of Chicago's William Eckhardt Research Center united the school's molecular engineering program and physical sciences research groups under a single roof. The national firm HOK designed the project to foster collaboration, including "carefully planned interaction spaces" throughout, according to the firm's project description. ARCHITECT recently spoke to HOK's Chicago-based marketing principal Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, as part of the magazine's One Year Later series, about changes within the architecture profession in the year after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. You can read more about Dowdell's observations and hope that "conversations around the power of design as a societal change agent evolve," here.
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