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Architectural Record - February 2024

2024 February

For February, RECORD focuses on projects—they include an expanded Art Deco movie palace in Massachusetts, a transformed midcentury diplomatic complex in Oslo, an L.A. supermarket-turned-wellness center, and a landmark New York library that’s undergone a series of thoughtful interventions—that all embrace the prefix “re,” whether they’ve been restored, reinvented, revitalized, or reused. In that spirit, we also take a deep dive into building recladding and survey 15 Postmodernist buildings worth protecting. Also in this issue, we travel to the House of the Month in Pittsburgh and showcase four spaces with elevated design and clever structural solutions in our special Kitchen & Bath section.

Check back throughout the month for additional content.

Ambassaden

Renovation, Restoration, & Adaptive Reuse 2024

February 1, 2024

RECORD explores recent works by architects who restore, reclad, and reuse existing buildings to accommodate contemporary context, expanded capacity, or reimagined function.

Coolidge Corner Theatre

Höweler + Yoon Aims for Box Office Gold with an Ambitious Expansion to a Boston-area Landmark

Brookline, Massachusetts

A. Krista Sykes

February 7, 2024

Packed with film references, the Coolidge Corner Theatre's addition primes the nonprofit art house cinema for its next century of operation.

Melbourne Holocaust Museum

Melbourne's Holocaust Museum Counters Historical Trauma with Daylight and Warmth

Melbourne

Joann Gonchar

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

February 5, 2024

Kerstin Thompson Architects frames the museum's difficult subject matter with a welcoming and nuanced structure.

Victory Wellness Center

Patterns Reinvents a 1940s Supermarket as a Verdant Hub for Wellness

North Hollywood, California

February 1, 2024

The Los Angeles–based firm convinced its client to reuse the bones of a WWII-era relic in the San Fernando Valley for the home of the Victory Wellness Center.

New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle Update the New York Public Library's Beaux-Arts Main Branch

New York

Linda-Lentz

February 1, 2024

A series of surgical interventions advances a treasured 1911 landmark for new generations.

Ambassaden

Diplomatic Design Reinvents the Former U.S. Embassy in Oslo

Andrew Ayers

February 1, 2024

Eero Saarinen's striking 1959 chancery—one of three buildings in Europe by the architect—now houses offices, a multifunction event space, cafe, and restaurants thanks to Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem.

100 Stockton

Continuing Education: Building Recladding

For three moribund buildings, new envelopes restart the clock

Katharine Logan

February 5, 2024

With an increasing focus on energy performance and embodied carbon, facade retrofits gain ground.

Crest ADU

2024 RECORD Kitchen & Bath Projects

February 14, 2024

RECORD showcases four Kitchen & Bath projects that stand apart through their deft navigation of limited footprints and use of thoughtful and utilitarian materials.

Crescent House Demonstration Kitchen

DROO Deftly Blends a Demonstration Kitchen into a London Rowhouse

London

February 13, 2024

A residential kitchen that doubles as a studio for the client's culinary YouTube channel walks the line between the theatrical and the practical.

Inside-Out Bath

BAAB’s Inside-Out Bath in Upstate New York Turns a Paradigm on Its Head

Kerhonkson, New York

Matthew Marani

February 19, 2024

Clever design decisions accommodate aging-in-place for a miniscule residential bathroom.

Crest ADU

Mork-Ulnes Architects Nestles an ADU with a Flexible Kitchen into a Bay Area Hillside

Marin County, California

Matthew Marani

February 13, 2024

A temporary living space packs in as much overlapping program as possible.

Starlight Park Comfort Station

Gray Organschi Architecture Dignifies a Public Bathroom in the Bronx with Thoughtful Design

The Bronx, New York

Pansy Schulman.

February 16, 2024

The newly expanded Starlight Park boasts a lavatory that pushes against expectations of public facilities.

Josephine Minutillo, Editor in Chief of Architectural Record

February 2024 Editor’s Letter

Old is Gold

Josephine Minutillo

Josephine Minutillo

February 2, 2024

With its focus on reuse and restoration, this month's issue explores myriad transformative interventions that eclipse demolition.

Atlantis Condominium

Robert A. M. Stern Identifies 15 Postmodern Landmarks-in-Waiting

Death by Distaste: Preserving Postmodernism’s Legacy

Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA

February 9, 2024

As an increasing number of Postmodern buildings face the threat of demolition, architect Robert A. M. Stern assembles a list of 15 "landmarks-in-waiting."

Charleston, South Carolina

RECORD Forum

On Preservation: Heritage, History, and Exclusion

Susan Nigra Snyder George E. Thomas

February 5, 2024

Forum: Susan Nigra Snyder and George E. Thomas argue that historic districting is a form of social injustice.

Landscape

LDA Design and Stallan-Brand Revive a 19th-Century Garden in Aberdeen

Aberdeen, Scotland

Matthew Marani

February 13, 2024

The reimagined Union Terrace Gardens emerged from the Scottish city's initiative to rethink the grounds as a new cultural civic space.

Office Complex and Fire Station

Guess the Architect: February 2024

February 13, 2024

This office complex incorporates an existing fire station alongside a bold, glassy addition that appears to hover above it.

Thorne Residence

House of the Month

Pittsburgh's Legacy of Heavy Industry Endures in a Rugged House by studio d'ARC

Pittsburgh

Leopoldo Villardi

Leopoldo Villardi

February 10, 2024

Sprawling and low-slung, the Thorne Residence is replete with nods to the region’s history—from hot-dip galvanized steel to sooty charred-wood cladding.

El Borinquen

Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse Collect Strategies to House the Nation

Excerpt: 'Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing,' edited by Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA Victoria Newhouse

February 8, 2024

In this forthcoming volume, experts take stock of America’s affordable-housing crisis and suggest various solutions to rectify it.

Untimely Moderns

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen Investigates the 'Untimely Moderns' of 20th-Century Architecture

Review 'Untimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past,' by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

A. Krista Sykes

February 8, 2024

A book examines Yale University as a former incubator for architects and designers—Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph, and Eero Saarinen among them—who shared a “penchant for conflating the past, present, and future.”

8 Bleeding Heart Yard

Snapshot: With the Revamp of a 1960s-era Office Building in London, Groupwork Evokes a Long-Demolished Past

Tim A

February 21, 2024

The Amin Taha–led studio preserves and expands a humdrum postwar building at 8 Bleeding Heart Yard while cleverly echoing its Victorian predecessors.

New Kitchen and Bath Products for Winter 2024

New Kitchen & Bath Products for Winter 2024

February 13, 2024

Elegant and practical cabinetry, fixtures, and cladding products elevate kitchen and bath design.

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