November 2022
News
Architensions’ Drawings Featured in a83’s “Parallel Rules” Exhibition
Architensions’ The Playground drawing series, depicting their recently completed installation for Coachella 2022, is now on view at a83 gallery in New York, as part of the exhibition “Architectural Drawings: Parallel Rules,” on view until January 20, 2023.
The Playground drawings, produced in collaboration with a83, present a series of vibrantly coloured towers composed of a scaffolding system, with shapes of various forms and materiality superimposed within the structural grid. The project’s design takes its inspiration from Constant Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon, a city of improvisation, chances, and play as a critical alternative to the burdens imposed by production. In an analogy with Aldo Rossi’s Il teatro del Mondo, The Playground creates an environment similar to a theater, in which people can interact in a sort of performance.
Architensions' drawings are featured in the exhibition along with works by 5 other architects: Bruna Canepa, Carole Lévesque, Galo Canizares, Aelitta Gore/Daniel Hall, and Young & Ayata. Read the press release here.
Photos courtesy a83.
Michael K. Chen to Discuss the "Image vs Reality Complex" on Upcoming Panel at NeueHouse NYC
Michael K. Chen, founder and principal of MKCA, will participate in a panel on December 5 at NeueHouse NYC, entitled Wine & Design: The Image vs Reality Complex. The event will be moderated by Corey Kingston and Liza Curtiss, Principals at Le Whit. Catch Michael, along with Jack Balderrama Morley, Managing Editor at Dwell Magazine; Angela Hau, Interior and Architectural photographer; and Estelle Bailey-Babenzien, Founder of Dream Awake Design Studios and Co-Founder of NOAH, discussing everything from the questionable power of renderings to the effects of the prolific digital age on inspiration.
NeueHouse Madison Square
110 East 25th Street
New York, New York 10010
Monday, December 5th
Doors Open at 6PM | Programming Begins at 6:30PM
Portrait by Max Burkhalter.
Press
Frederick Tang Architecture's Studio Design for Artist Adam Pendleton is Featured in Architectural Digest
Frederick Tang Architecture’s (FTA) design for artist Adam Pendleton’s Clinton Hill studio is featured in Architectural Digest’s December 2022 print issue. The renovation transforms two former storefronts in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York into a tailor-made studio for Pendleton. Writes Kat Herriman: "Through invitingly tall glass gallery doors, shipped from Italy, they [Pendleton and Tang] carved out a series of discrete private chambers—Pendleton’s first purpose-built painting studio, library, and office—as well as a 13-foot-high white box viewing room. On the building’s brick facade they added a band of raked black stucco that calls to mind the textural surfaces of Pendleton’s paintings." Click here to peek inside the studio and read the full article online, or pick up the current issue on newsstands.
Photos by Jason Schmidt.
Spiegel Aihara Workshop's Wraparound House is Spotlit in Interior Design Magazine
As Brooke Robinson writes in Interior Design: “For a 1930s Spanish Revival home in the Marina neighborhood of San Francisco—once a landfill—Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) worked from the ground up. The property’s more challenging aspects also fueled creative thinking. ‘We really like constraints,' says Megumi Aihara, SAW founding partner and landscape architect, ‘they lead to unexpected solutions.’” Read more about Wraparound House’s “rich textures, soft curves, and an elegance befitting its history” in Interior Design.
Photo by Paul Dyer.
Frederick Tang Architecture’s State Street Townhouse Featured in NY Magazine’s Curbed
Wendy Goodman profiles Frederick Tang Architecture’s (FTA) interior design and architectural renovation of a 3,500-square-foot townhouse in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn in NY Magazine's Curbed. Spread across six floors, the 3 bedroom and 3.5 bath single-family townhouse is connected by a central, curved plaster staircase with custom reeded glass and brass stair rails. The living area on the ground floor boasts 20-foot ceilings accented by a wall of windows with southern exposure, and is anchored by a fireplace that FTA re-designed in a sculptural plaster form inspired by the work of artist and artisan Valentine Schlegel.
Photos by Gieves Anderson.
Dwell’s The Deep Dive Explores Worrell Yeung’s Spa Shed at North Salem Farm
“Brooklyn-based architects Max Worrell and Jejon Yeung not only created a compound that is rich with amenities—pool, pond, guesthouse/studio,” writes David Sokol in Dwell’s The Deep Dive, “but also moved regionally-inspired modernism in a new direction.” The compound’s spa is the focal point of this article, “a destination where homeowners retreat to a sauna and outdoor shower.” Sokol expands, “the spa shed boasts an overall mysterious appeal because it intangibly resembles the compound setting”.
In the article, Worrell notes, "Compression and openness isn’t unlike the relationship between meadow and forest. Playing with that duality is something we like to do in a lot of our projects." Continue to take a deeper look at the spa shed online in Dwell.
Photo by Naho Kubota.
Alda Ly Architecture Profiled in Hospitality Design Magazine
Alda Ly Architecture (ALA) is interviewed in Hospitality Design Magazine's October Wellness Issue. "While biophilic design principles have become mainstream for healthcare practices, ALA is helping to evolve the idea of wellbeing beyond nature-inspired designs to include self-care and empowerment," writes Alissa Ponchione of Hospitality Design Magazine. "The firm’s projects are as diverse as the definition of wellness today".
ALA Founder and Principal Alda Ly notes, "It’s not about the actual program we’re designing, but it’s how we make the users feel in the end." Learn more about how the ALA team is designing spaces that are not only beautiful but incorporate biophilic design principles and interiors inspired by old-school apothecaries, by picking up a copy of Hospitality Design Magazine’s October 2022 print issue, or reading it online here.
Photo by Reid Rolls.
Awards
Congratulations to SAW & The LADG for winning AIA Los Angeles’ Next LA Awards. The Next LA Awards honor excellence in unbuilt work in Los Angeles or by Los Angeles architects. SAW was honored with the Cityscapes Merit Award for their PLA project and The LADG won the Single-Family Residential Citation Award for their Dusty Mile project.
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