Clifford A. Pearson

Tucson Mountain Retreat

Beneath the Sheltering Sky: A design-build firm uses earth and space to connect its first project to a remarkable desert site.

Clifford A. Pearson

April 16, 2013

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Cade Hayes admits he was nervous when he started work on the Tucson Mountain Retreat, a 3,650-square-foot house on the edge of Saguaro National Park.

Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction

Clifford A. Pearson

April 16, 2013

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By Christopher Bascom Rawlins. Foreword by Alastair Gordon. Metropolis Books/Gordon de Vries Studio, 2013, 202 pages, $60. Consider this book a handy time machine set to take you to a sun-soaked place in a hedonistic era. Bring your Speedo and Ray-Bans and let go of your hang-ups. Both a cultural history and an architectural meditation, Fire Island Modernist captures the look, feel, and sensation of gay society in the 1960s and '70s that flourished on the sandy shores and shifting dunes of the 31-mile-long barrier island of its title. Separated from the Hamptons by Great South Bay, Fire Island developed

SkyVille@Dawson

Gardens in the Sky

Clifford A. Pearson

March 16, 2013

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Right next to SCDA's SkyTerrace, WOHA's SkyVille@Dawson offers a different response to the Singapore Housing & Development Board's call for new approaches to public housing.

SkyTerrace@Dawson

Bridging Generations

Clifford A. Pearson

March 16, 2013

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With its population jumping from 4 million in 2000 to 5.2 million in 2011 and housing prices rising fast, Singapore needed to expand its supply of public housing at the end of the last decade.

SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City

Clifford A. Pearson

March 16, 2013

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Edited by Paul Hardin Kapp and Paul J. Armstrong. University of Illinois Press, 2012, 224 pages, $60. SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City, edited by Paul Hardin Kapp and Paul J. Armstrong. University of Illinois Press, 2012, 224 pages, $60. Focusing mostly on Rust Belt cities in the United States, this book examines urban-revitalization strategies in places such as Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, and Peoria, Illinois. In a lively foreword, urbanist Richard Florida argues that these cities should be wary of megaprojects like “heavily subsidized convention centers and downtown sports stadiums” and should look instead to smaller-scale, grass-roots efforts

Urgent Architecture: 40 Sustainable Housing Solutions for a Changing World

By Bridgette Meinhold

Clifford A. Pearson

March 16, 2013

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The author, who covers architecture for Inhabitat.com, examines the need for new kinds of housing in the wake of disasters, poverty, and climate change, and shows projects from around the globe.

Baroque Court Apartments

Heart of glass: Located in the historic core of the Slovenian capital, a residential project transforms a set of buildings from the inside.

Clifford A. Pearson

February 15, 2013

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Like a good poker player, the Baroque Court Apartments in Slovenia's capital city show a public face that reveals almost nothing of what's going on inside.

Holl Stays Busy in China

Clifford A. Pearson

February 14, 2013

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This article originally appeared in the Chinese edition of Architectural Record. A pair of museums designed by Steven Holl Architects will anchor a new cultural district in the Eco-City area of Tianjin. Holl envisions the two museums—one dedicated to ecology and the other to city planning—as complementary buildings, both in terms of their missions and their architectural forms. A collaboration between the governments of China and Singapore, Tianjin Eco-City is being built on a site in the Binhai New Area that had been a polluted salt pan 25 miles from the center of Tianjin. The 11.5-square-mile-project, which aims to be

Sandy High School

A Walk in the Woods: By breaking a large program into a set of components, a Portland firm creates a high school that hugs the land and minimizes its carbon footprint.

Clifford A. Pearson

January 16, 2013

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In a town of just 8,000 people, a 310,000-square-foot building is a big deal, especially if it's the new high school.

Rail Complex to Anchor New Business District in Bengbu

Clifford A. Pearson

December 27, 2012

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A new high-speed train complex in Bengbu is nearing completion. Designed by Shanghai-based Verse Design, the two six-story buildings bracket an existing train station, which opened in 2011, and define the north and south sides of the new plaza.