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jetsetter · #1 Posted **Jan 28, 2011, 11:40 PM**

Some better photos of St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas.

Above from http://www.pbase.com/artichoke/image/57010857/original

Three photos above from http://www.castingdesignsinc.com/Ima.../StMartins.htm

photoLith · #2 Posted **Jan 29, 2011, 12:36 AM**

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What in the world, how could I have not known about that? That is amazingly beautiful and incredibly well done.

jetsetter · #3 Posted **Jan 29, 2011, 4:57 AM**

Indeed. It was completed in 2004. The church was one of the more ambitious projects and it seems that few know about it.

Nowhereman1280 · #4 Posted **Jan 29, 2011, 6:34 PM**

There is something not quite right about seeing a cathedral in the middle of a giant parking lot...

mhays · #5 Posted **Jan 30, 2011, 9:18 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280

There is something not quite right about seeing a cathedral in the middle of a giant parking lot...

Definitely!

But a very nice building.

photoLith · #6 Posted **Jan 30, 2011, 6:22 AM**

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Wow, thats pretty damned awesome the development over the highway, that should catch on in more cities to connect them back together. I applaud the developer.

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photo by me from 2 weeks ago.

All 4 of these buildings on the right side of this photo were completed in the past 5 years in Fayettville, Arkansas on Dickson St.

Cirrus · #7 Posted **Jan 30, 2011, 10:18 PM**

I *love* the Columbus highway deck, but they kind of ruined it architecturally by cheaping out on materials. It needed to be limestone.

And while I like the Alexandria building, I think the lack of details, wrong proportions, and contemporary materials pretty clearly disqualify it from this thread. There are some good examples in Alexandria though.

mhays · #8 Posted **Jan 30, 2011, 10:49 PM**

I would guess that weight played a role on the Columbus overpass. Lighter materials would have let them be ambitious in other ways without adding weight, given that the overpass structure has a defined load capacity (unlike a piece of land). Or maybe it was about cost?

Cirrus · #9 Posted **Jan 30, 2011, 10:53 PM**

Perhaps. Either way it doesn't look great in person.

Still a way cool development, though.

jetsetter · #10 Posted **May 7, 2011, 5:15 PM**

The Palladium in Carmel, Indiana. It was finished within the past year or so.

GK Photo @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/36026557@N05/5678017669/

GK Photo @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/36026557@N05/5678019015/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36026557@N05/5678582718/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36026557@N05/5678054501/

jetsetter · #11 Posted **May 7, 2011, 10:07 PM**

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

Kacie @ http://spiderdiaries.richmond.edu/kacie14/2010/10/08/

jetsetter · #12 Posted **May 23, 2011, 12:06 AM**

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

wustl @ http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21165.aspx

Jeffrey Edward Tryon @ http://tryography.blogspot.com/2010/...-st-louis.html

wustl @ http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21165.aspx

mhays · #13 Posted **May 23, 2011, 12:21 AM**

Brauer looks great. Needs some trees though. A university, like a park, needs a good tree canopy.

giantSwan · #14 Posted **May 23, 2011, 1:44 PM**

Completed in 2007

Luca · #15 Posted **Jun 16, 2011, 7:22 AM**

Inspiring...

There are very few (but not none) 'modernist' buildings that achieve the serenity and approachability of 'historical' styles.

jetsetter · #16 Posted **Aug 13, 2011, 2:27 PM**

2011 Brick in Architecture awards were recently released and here are some of the better submissions.

Quote:

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.

ardecila · #17 Posted **Aug 13, 2011, 4:26 PM**

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.

Hed Kandi · #18 Posted **Aug 13, 2011, 4:29 PM**

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jetsetter · #19 Posted **Aug 13, 2011, 8:57 PM**

Not sure how I feel about this one:

Burling Place at 1725 N. Burling in Chicago

YoChicago1 @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/yochicago1/3402413666/

YoChicago1 @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/yochicago1/3401608631/

YoChicago1 @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/yochicago1/3402413336/

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

Early rendering

Most accurate rendering

jetsetter · #20 Posted **Oct 19, 2011, 11:17 PM**

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

macjammer @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jam5x/4915776025/

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

muohace_dc @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmstaley/5894539400/

Dec_Athlete @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceithcreekmur/5829104222/

Tec Inc @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/38277640@N02/4932945722/

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