This week, we're sharing projects from São Paulo to West Stockbridge, Mass., and from Detroit to Norrköping, Sweden, 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.
Portalen Pavilion
Norrköping, Sweden
Map13 Barcelona
"This pavilion is the result of a bottom-up, participatory process started by the community of Portalen and supported by the Public Art Agency Sweden through the project Art is happening. The Portalen Pavilion is a public art piece, meeting space and venue, supporting local residents and new immigrants in their path towards employment. It is a lightweight, deployable timber gridshell, designed in the tradition of Frei Otto and his Institute for Lightweight structures (IL), seeking to cover the maximum space with the minimum material using an efficient construction technique and a sustainable and local material in a country with a large tradition in wooden construction."
The Hamilton Midtown
Detroit
Hamilton Anderson
"In addition to restoration and upgrades to the building’s facade and exterior, the team collaborated to gut the interior and refinish all spaces from the first floor common areas to corridors and residential units. The 76,300 SF, $18.8 million project features 97 micro-, one-and two-bedroom units ranging from 224 to 810 SF. With a program specific to catering to the amenity needs of tenants, HAA activated previously underutilized areas to provide resources such as a fitness/wellness room and a laundry room/lounge, and the former tenant laundry room was transformed into the leasing/manager’s office and concierge."
Azul Airlines MRO Center
São Paulo
Ghafari Associates
"The new MRO center can accommodate multiple configurations of aircraft for both line and heavy aircraft maintenance for Azul’s Embraer, ATR and Airbus fleet. Support spaces include technical service shops, logistics management, administrative areas, management and engineering offices, and a technical training center. We worked closely with project stakeholders and end users to plan a facility that would enhance their productivity and provide a safe working environment for Azul employees."
Mary Potter Academy
Oxford, N.C.
Evoke Studio Architecture
"In the context of the school’s powerful legacy and the city’s complicated racial history, the new Mary Potter Cultural Complex thrusts new life into the Oxford community while simultaneously promoting the Academy’s memory and mission. The revitalized complex will welcome multiple generations and races to gather, discuss, collaborate, engage, and celebrate. Rather than approaching each building as separate entities with duplicating uses, the design embraces the collective, distributing programs capable of accommodating a variety of groups and activities."
Table Top Apartments
New York
Kwong Von Glinow
"The Table Top Apartments emerges from the use of a few simple modular elements which aggregate to create a new mode of living between the inhabitants, their neighbors and the public. The post-and-slab units stack and aggregate, to form different combinations of unit-types, emphasizing the project’s assertion that diversity paired with density makes for a healthy and sustainable living environment. A simple storefront glazing system mediates between the interior of the units and the exterior, while private spaces and bathrooms are enclosed in wood cabinets. The use of three different unitary shapes, which are deliberately misaligned when stacked, create apertures in the slab between units."
Residential Addition in South Bohemia
South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
Huť Architektury Martin Rajniš
"In terms of articulation of form, the extension is in complete harmony with the original farmhouse. In terms of structure, however, the transparent timber frame, along with its zen atmosphere, is a complete contrast. The ground floor serves as a storage for firewood. Once through, one can climb up a spiral staircase onto a bridge connecting the old attic with the new. Each of the spaces encloses a single room. The old attic serves as an astronomical observatory, the new as a lookout. The plank-assembled exterior shading of the new attic allows one to peek through and observe the surrounding landscape. The observatory in the old attic, on the other hand, is a dim space that provides a lot of privacy, since light only comes in through a narrow window."
Metropolis Phase II
Los Angeles
Harley Ellis Devereaux
"HED is the Executive Architect for this larger mixed-use project. A collaboration with Gensler, the Concept Designer, the approximately $600-million Phase II development features 1,199 residential units, 60,000 square feet of retail, an eight-level above-grade parking structure, and two subterranean parking levels for a total of 1,800 cars."
Tanglewood House 2
West Stockbridge, Mass.
Schwartz/Silver Architects
"The house, designed by Warren Schwartz, is the summer residence of his wife, Sheila Fiekowsky, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The house is located near the top of a hill, and, small as it is, takes advantage of the location to command the landscape. The building skin uses industrial materials, with commercial glazing and corrugated anodized aluminum siding. The living area, at the end of a forty-five-foot cantilever, opens onto spectacular views."
Metz Bicentennial Grand Carillon, Indiana University
Bloomington, Ind.
Susan T Rodriguez | Architecture • Design
It's hard to find an architect with experience working on a carillon—in fact many might have trouble identifying one. But when Indiana University approached Susan Rodriguez, FAIA, of New York–based Susan T Rodriguez | Architecture • Design to ask if she would be able to design a new bell tower to house the 65-bell instrument, she eagerly accepted the challenge. Read more about the unique design process, covered in ARCHITECT's October 2020 issue, here.
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