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Old Posted May 7, 2011, 5:15 PM
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The Palladium in Carmel, Indiana. It was finished within the past year or so.


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The Carole Weinstein International Center at the University of Richmond. It was finished within the last year.


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The recently completed Brauer Hall at Washington University in St. Louis.


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Brauer looks great. Needs some trees though. A university, like a park, needs a good tree canopy.
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Princeton University - Princeton, New Jersey (Whitman College)

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Inspiring...

There are very few (but not none) 'modernist' buildings that achieve the serenity and approachability of 'historical' styles.
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Old Posted Aug 13, 2011, 2:27 PM
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2011 Brick in Architecture awards were recently released and here are some of the better submissions.




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Award: Bronze Award
Entry Name: Hopkins School, Thompson Hall
General Project Overview: Thompson Hall is a new 37,500-SF academic and arts building for Hopkins School, a 650 student independent day school, grades 7 through 12. The building’s primary function is to house classrooms for grades 7 and 8 as well as the visual arts and music departments which serve all grades. The opportunity to blend arts activities for all students within the academic home of the youngest students was seen as a distinct asset for the building. Large open classrooms, resource rooms and faculty offices occupy the top floors with bright commons space at both ends of the building. The lower level is arts-focused with four visual arts studios including a ceramics and woodworking space and two music rehearsal rooms accompanied by acoustically equipped practice rooms. Site features include an exterior 100 seat tiered amphitheater for musical performances on the west side of the building that helps to bring daylight to the lower level music studios. The traditional design of the building exterior has presented a glowing presence on the Hopkins Campus both inside and out. The intelligent use of special shapes for the detailing of this building is what makes the façade stand out and be so attractive to the eye.



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Award: Gold Award
Entry Name: University of Notre Dame, Eck Hall of Law
General Project Overview: Administrators at the University of Notre Dame recognized that the existing Law School building was not adequate to support the School’s needs. S/L/A/M was asked to develop a new program and come up with a design solution that would accommodate the needs of the Law School while satisfying the preference for retaining the Law School at its current campus location with a linked expansion to an adjacent site. The selected option results in a new building to house the majority of teaching spaces as well as faculty offices and the Law School Commons. Additionally, the existing Law School complex was completely renovated to accommodate an expanded Law Library as well as Admissions, Law Reviews, Career Services and additional classrooms. The new construction is approximately 85,000 square feet and designed in such a way as to readily accept a future addition. It is organized around a central atrium with a mixture of classrooms and faculty office suites to maximize student/faculty interaction. The renovation of the existing 104,000-square foot Law School building provides a rationalized configuration for the Law Library. This is accomplished by reducing the current seven floor levels to four, with expanded collection space at the building core and reading rooms arrayed around the perimeter.



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Entry Name: The Brownstones at Park Potomac
General Project Overview: The project is in a mixed use (residential, commercial, retail) community. The first challenge was to define the residential style of architecture and the shape of the homes. The design warranted a tight urban community with a residential component in a fairly suburban broader environment. There was emphasis placed to create residential single family homes in an urban setting that will target and command a high price point. This factor warranted larger and wider homes. The solution was clear, a brownstone style of architecture. This approach works well in tighter urban settings at higher densities, while appealing to the more elegant affluent buyer with a richer style.
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That Park Potomac project is really nice... you can see it from 270 at Montrose Road.

My only gripe is that the streets feel a little odd... the proportion is just slightly too wide. The streets should be narrower. They have that weird swath of greenspace alongside them, but they're trying to evoke an intense urban environment where such parcels would never exist naturally.

The architecture itself is beautiful, but the streetscape just feels a bit odd.


The Thompson Hall project is ruined by the awful 2-dimensional windows and the terrible glass entry doors (what significant Georgian/Colonial/Neoclassical building has glass entry doors?)

The brickwork is fantastic though, and so is the slate roof, the moldings, and the gutter detail.
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Not sure how I feel about this one:

Burling Place at 1725 N. Burling in Chicago

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Preston M. Green Hall at the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis is under construction.


Early rendering

Most accurate rendering
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Bavaro Hall, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia - Completed 2010

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Richard T. Farmer School of Business, Miami University - Completed 2009

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Student and Academic Services Buildings, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Completed 2007




North Quad Residential and Academic Complex, The University of Michigan - Completed 2010



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^^^^ Incredible, honest to god Art Deco, who says things like that have to go out of style? I'm especially in love with that interior shot of the new Farmer school of business' Atrium and the Forsythe commons area. Really Digging that art deco at the University of Michigan.
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Here is a rendering of the new Mormon temple in Philadelphia. Construction began about a month ago.



If this rendering is accurate then it should be one of the more impressive religious structures built in the United States in some time.
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I think this is a great thread! I've joined the forum just so I can eke it out a bit more

In the UK, I think there are fewer good traditional style buildings being built that the US or mainland Europe, which for my taste, is profoundly depressing.

Still, one thing that has heartened me is a small revival here in self-build oak frame buildings. Also, most of the buildings posted here tend to the grandiose, so perhaps it would be nice to have something more vernacular.

http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/your-p...e-country-home



Perhaps too much window for authenticity, but pleasing nonetheless.
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Cuneo Hall at Loyola University

http://www.scb.com/?mainpage=2&pagetype=Architecture&p=615&firstlevel=3&seclevel=6#

is modeled after the old Dumbach and Cudahy Halls built in the early 1900s

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jetsetter's image isn't working for me, so I went out and found another rendering of the Philadelphia temple.


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Cuneo Hall at Loyola University

http://www.scb.com/?mainpage=2&pagetype=Architecture&p=615&firstlevel=3&seclevel=6#

is modeled after the old Dumbach and Cudahy Halls built in the early 1900s

http://www.luc.edu/home/archive.html
I was actually just about to mention this one. I was impressed when I saw this the other day, it actually looks like it's turning out decently and like they are using real materials, not imitations. They have the real clay tile roof with copper trim and it appears they are actually using cut limestone for the accents and not fake concrete accents as I had feared.
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I was actually just about to mention this one. I was impressed when I saw this the other day, it actually looks like it's turning out decently and like they are using real materials, not imitations. They have the real clay tile roof with copper trim and it appears they are actually using cut limestone for the accents and not fake concrete accents as I had feared.
Dude, Garanzini is actually doing a really awesome job with the school... And whereas I kind of would like to see maybe something like Flanner or the library rebuilt as some slick modern building (Logan Center for the Arts at UofC or similar vein), the current Loyola building boom is progress very nicely.
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I guess I should post my photoshopped version of the Philadelphia temple. Cross posted from skyscrapercity. Thoughts.


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I prefer the original version. Chiseled golden text does it for me.
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