Visitors to an Automobile Museum planned for Nanjing will drive their cars into the building and up an undulating, uneven ramp to the roof. As designed by 3Gatti.com Architecture Studio, which has offices in Shanghai and Rome, the 15,000-square-meter museum will offer a drive-through experience, as well as exhibitions, restaurants, shops, a special events space, an automobile sales office, a design center, and laboratories to be visited on foot. Image courtesy 3Gatti.com Architecture Studio 3Gatti.com Architecture Studio has designed an automobile museum planned for Nanjing, China. “We designed a building geared to the automobile, where the car is the point
Ano-nonsense brick structure built in 1910 to house Chinese laborers, the East Kong Yick Building lacked the kind of architectural features that provide excitement when an old building becomes a museum.
Project Specs Wing Luke Asian Museum Seattle, Washington Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen << Return to article the People Architect Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects 159 South Jackson Street, Suite 600 Seattle, Washington 98104 USA P: 206-624-5670 F: 206-624-3730 Rick Sundberg, FAIA, LEED AP, Principal in Charge (registered architect) Stephen Yamada-Heidner, AIA, LEED AP, Project Manager (registered architect) Martha Rogers, Project Architect (Construction Phase)(registered architect) John Kennedy, LEED AP, Project Architect (Design Phase) (registered architect) Misun Chung Gerrick, Job Captain (registered architect) Debbie Kennedy, Interiors Interior designer: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects – Debbie Kennedy Project Manager: HomeSight Engineer(s): Civil Engineer:
During its 20 years of designing, renovating, and building houses mostly in Southern California, Marmol Radziner + Associates has soaked up a rich tradition of Modernism and interpreted it in a series of projects that engage nature as an instrument of architecture.
Project Specs Inner-City Arts, Phase III Los Angeles, California Michael Maltzan Architecture << Return to article the People Architect Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc. 2801 Hyperion Avenue, Studio 107 Los Angeles, CA 90027 T 323-913-3098 / F 323-913-5932 www.mmaltzan.com Design Principal: Michael T. Maltzan, FAIA Project Director: Tim Williams Project Manager: Stacy Nakano Design Team: Kurt Sattler, Krista Scheib, Jeff Soler Project Team: Owen Tang, Terence Cheng, Yvonne Lau, Michael McDonald, David Freeland, Brad Groff Architect of record Michael Maltzan, FAIA Associate architect(s): Phase I Associate Executive Architect of Phase I Marmol Radziner and Associates www.marmol-radziner.com/ Engineer(s): Structural Engineer: John A.
To support the expansive roof, RPBW designed a set of four masonry structures—one at each corner—incorporating two of the original academy’s Neoclassical limestone walls in the northeast structure and using poured concrete for the others.
Project Specs California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, California Renzo Piano Building Workshop << Return to article the People Architect Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Stantec (formerly Chong Partners Architecture) 2000-2008 California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, California Client: California Academy of Sciences Renzo Piano Building Workshop, architects in collaboration with Stantec Architecture (San Francisco) Design team: M.Carroll, O.de Nooyer (senior partner and partner in charge) with S.Ishida (senior partner), B.Terpeluk, J.McNeal, A.De Flora, F.Elmalipinar, A.Guernier, D.Hart, T.Kjaer, J.Lee, A.Meine-Jansen, A.Ng, D.Piano, W.Piotraschke, J.Sylvester; and C.Bruce, L.Burow, C.Cooper, A.Knapp, Y.Pages, Z.Rockett, V.Tolu, A.Walsh; I.Corte, S.D’Atri, G.Langasco, M.Ottonello (CAD