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Playground shade sails protect patients
September 1, 2023 | Case Studies, Features
Could there be a more feel-good project than one that gives a little bit of joy to children being treated (or having completed treatment) for cancer?
Updating an ’80s Brutalist campus landmark
July 1, 2023 | Case Studies, Features
The School of Architecture building at the University of Florida, Gainesville, is fully of its era—massive, raw concrete slab walls that frame major outdoor spaces; angled facade planes with deep overhangs that produce stark shadows in contrast to the bright white massing of the all-concrete build…
A home run for reuse of abandoned ball field
June 1, 2023 | Case Studies, Features
In 2017, the city of Bridgeport, Conn., was dealt several strikes against its home-based sports attraction when its minor league baseball team, the Bridgeport Bluefish, packed up and moved away for greater glory.
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Orchestra requests tent seating for 1,700, tall enough for a bus
May 1, 2023 | Case Studies, Features
With a large hospital fundraiser coming up, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra wanted to temporarily expand its home at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
ETFE enhances Oregon stadium acoustics, fan experience
April 1, 2023 | Case Studies, Features
Envisioned as the “finest track and field facility in the world,” the reimagined Hayward Field, Eugene, Ore., is designed to give University of Oregon’s (UO) student athletes, and athletes from around the world, an unparalleled stage on which to push the limits of what is possible.
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Pat Perry Tent
March 1, 2023 | Case Studies, Features
To help the Virginia Arts Festival celebrate its 25th Anniversary at a new venue, a new custom tent was needed. Tents LLC, of Frederick, Md., approached the Tukwila, Wash.-based Rainier Tent with a bold and creative idea for the Pat “Bunny” Perry Pavilion, a staple for the annual festival. Raini…
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Tern Point Shade Renovation
February 1, 2023 | Case Studies, Features
Sometimes building a home to capitalize on the view of its surroundings may introduce some unintended problems.
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Your ship has come in
November 1, 2022 | Case Studies, Features
Along-awaited waterfront ferry terminal is up and running on Seaplane Lagoon, Alameda, Calif. Against a backdrop of the decommissioned USS Hornet aircraft carrier and the Alameda Naval Air Museum, the Seaplane Lagoon Ferry Terminal provides regular weekday commuter services from Alameda, Oakland and…
Time, time again
October 1, 2022 | Case Studies, Features
Shigeru Ban’s corporate campus in Biel/Bienne for the Swiss watch company Swatch Omega Group is a study in contrast. Expanding on a motif the international architect first developed for the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, Ban created a massive load-bearing timber diagrid shell that encloses and form…
The Feeling: We’re in Kansas now!
September 1, 2022 | Case Studies, Features
Overland Park, Kan., is the second largest city in its state, as well as within the Kansas City metro area. The city’s website claims it is “America’s largest inhabited park,” and it feels like it if you stand in any open field and look northeast toward downtown Kansas City where the green-g…