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@rexarchitecture's pleated facade at Five Manhattan West offers office space within abundant daylight despite immense floor plates that range from nearly 90,000 to over 120,000 square feet. The architects were hired to reimagine the 1969 building by Davis Brody & Associates (now @davisbrodybond), which was originally designed as a warehouse that included floors for light manufacturing. The structure went through all kinds of renovations over the years, including ones that touched the enclosure—but were only partially or incorrectly documented. “On a daily basis, we found things that no one knew existed,” says REX principal Joshua Prince-Ramus. Embracing that reality as part of the design, “instead of trying to create a curtain wall in which we would use slab embeds to hold it up, we decided to avoid that entire possible problem and create our own elements." Read more about this #AR_CEU project and earn continuing education credits at http://ow.ly/tSPT30iLUYP Text by @minutillo_josephine Photo © @laurianghinitoiu (at New York, New York)

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@smithgroupjjr made a 20-foot-wide, 19-foot-tall precast rammed-earth wall the focal point of the main lobby for the Stadium Tech Center in Santa Clara, California—a six-story office building completed in 2016 with a shell designed by the Bay Area firm Arc Tec. The designers saw the precast panel as the perfect backdrop to the 25-foot-tall reception area, envisioning it as “a large elemental work, like a Mark Rothko painting,” says lead designer Matt Smialek. The panel, which retains the stratified layers of more traditional cast-in-place rammed earth, also serves to offset the aesthetic coolness of the lobby’s polished-concrete floors and sleek white walls. Read more and earn continuing education credits about this #AR_CEU project at http://ow.ly/2M9U30iyGkx Photo © Michael David Rose Photography, courtesy SmithGroup JJR (at Santa Clara, California)

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Exterior shades’ best chance of surviving the process euphemistically known as value engineering is to serve more than one goal. The Jackman Law Building, by Toronto-based @hariripontariniarchitects (HPA) and @bh_architects exemplify a new generation of shading-integrated exterior envelopes that do more than keep their cool. For the Jackman Law Building, a 2016 renovation and addition to the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, the challenge was to unify the school’s disparate and organizationally disjointed pieces, built over a span of nine decades, and to give it a physical expression commensurate with its institutional significance. Says Siamak Hariri, principal at HPA, “The need for shading gave us a way in, to do something that gives an order and a presence to the entire building.” Located on a prominent site with five major frontages, the irregular building’s new and renovated parts are wrapped in a simple rhythm of vertical shade fins. Within the reading room, the fins are continued as white-painted pilasters that act as vertical light shelves. Read more about this #AR_CEU project and earn continuing education credits at http://ow.ly/dG0U30jZJHe Text by Katharine Logan Photo © Ben Rahn / A-Frame #HaririPontariniArchitects #bharchitects #toronto #uoft #facade #facadelovers #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at Toronto, Ontario)

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In 2011, Brookfield hired Brooklyn-based @rexarchitecture to reimagine the 1969 building by Davis Brody & Associates (now @davisbrodybond) known today as Five Manhattan West. In addition to reskinning the building, the architects' interior renovation included a dramatically improved and expanded lobby. Read more about this #AR_CEU project and earn continuing education credits at http://ow.ly/pmPL30jf5zJ Text by @minutillo_josephine Photo © Laurian Ghinitoiu — #rexarchitecture #newyork #davisbrodybond #amazon #brutalism #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture #lookingup (at New York, New York)

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In 2011, Brookfield hired Brooklyn-based @rexarchitecture to reimagine the 1969 building by Davis Brody & Associates (now @davisbrodybond) known today as Five Manhattan West. The old facade was stripped down to the columns while the building was still occupied. Rather than anchoring brackets into the old concrete, the design team put steel collars around the columns and attached new steel tubes to the collars just above each floor, knowing that facade attachments could be fabricated in the shop and adjusted with tailored precision. The resulting new pleated glass facade offers office space with abundant daylight. Read more about this #AR_CEU project and earn continuing education credits at http://ow.ly/pmPL30jf5zJ Text by @minutillo_josephine Photo © Laurian Ghinitoiu — #rexarchitecture #newyork #davisbrodybond #amazon #brutalism #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at New York, New York)

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In 2011, Brookfield hired Brooklyn-based @rexarchitecture to reimagine the 1969 building by Davis Brody & Associates (now @davisbrodybond) known today as Five Manhattan West. The former warehouse building, which included floors for light manufacturing, was seen as a perfect space to attract higher-paying commercial tenants—as soon as something could be done about its exterior, which had been overhauled in the 1980s transforming a once handsome pile into a giant eyesore. The renovation included reskinning the building in class and, on the second level, REX opened a portion of the facade to create a breezeway. Read more about this #AR_CEU project and earn continuing education credits at http://ow.ly/pmPL30jf5zJ Text by @minutillo_josephine Photo © Laurian Ghinitoiu — #rexarchitecture #newyork #davisbrodybond #amazon #brutalism #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture #lookingup (at Manhattan, New York)

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DL-Atelier conceived the San Bao Peng Art Museum near Jingdezheng, China, as a 300-foot-long by 27-foot-wide compound defined by rammed-earth perimeter walls. The walls were built in a process similar to that used for cast-in-place concrete, with grids of rebar for reinforcement. The formwork was set up in a series of lifts and moved vertically with each successive pour. Soil was placed inside the forms of 8-inch-wide horizontally placed boards in layers before compaction with pneumatic tampers. Read more and earn continuing education credits about this #AR_CEU project at http://ow.ly/2M9U30iyGkx Photo © Haiting Sun (at China)

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A 2011 study of activity levels among 8- to 11-year-olds over the course of a school day found they were sedentary for 70 percent of class time. Aiming to do better, St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s School in New York hired Murphy Burnham and Buttrick Architects to transform a utilitarian structure in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood into a building more sympathetic to a holistic, child-centered philosophy. One of these projects, a collaboration with landscape architecture firm RKLA Studio, is a rooftop play deck for the lower school (pre–K to grade three). Not just an area for outdoor activity (which in itself is something of an achievement on this tight urban site), the design uses materials and spatial composition to offer variety and choice, appeal to multiple senses, and generate a feeling of security and comfort. Read more about how schools are addressing fitness –and earn #AR_CEU credits– at http://ow.ly/SWhF30i1L8p Photo © Frank Oudeman (at New York, New York)

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The new Central Library in Austin, Texas, by @lakeflato and @shepleybulfinch, represents a new breed of library: a dynamic, polyvalent gathering place. The 200,000-square-foot facility's six-story atrium has extensive skylights, clerestories optimized for their solar orientations and a generous east-facing curtain wall. Read more and earn continuing education credits from this #AR_CEU project at http://ow.ly/BPFk30hd2Qp Photo © Casey Dunn (at Austin, Texas)

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Few buildings are designed for acoustics more deliberately than performance spaces, as @studiogang's Writers Theatre in Glencoe, Illinois illustrates. The 36,000-square-foot building comprises two performance spaces (a main stage and a smaller black-box venue) opening onto a glass lobby structured by timber trusses. Read and earn continuing education credits from this #AR_CEU project at http://ow.ly/BPFk30hd2Qp Photo © Steve Hall/Hedrich Blessing (at Glencoe, Illinois)

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Acoustic tranquility is a necessity in the Temple of Light –designed by @patkauarchitects– a sanctuary and meeting place for the Yasodhara Ashram, a yoga retreat and study center in the mountains of southeastern British Columbia. A chandelier of melamine-foam baffles absorbs excess acoustical energy. Read more about this #AR_CEU project on acoustics and earn credits at http://ow.ly/eSul30gXKe5 Photo courtesy Patkau Architects

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If acoustic tranquility is welcome even in the new, more dynamic breed of library, it is a necessity in the Temple of Light, designed by @patkauarchitects, a sanctuary and meeting place for the Yasodhara Ashram, a yoga retreat and study center in the mountains of southeastern British Columbia. Read more about this #AR_CEU project on acoustics and earn credits at http://ow.ly/eSul30gXKe5 Photo © Daniel Séguin

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An early scheme for the Temple of Light by @patkauarchitects included wood slats with acoustic backing on the underside of its petals. These interior surfaces were ultimately constructed of painted drywall with compound curves to help mitigate sound-focusing problems. Read more about this #AR_CEU project on acoustics and earn credits at http://ow.ly/eSul30gXKe5 Photo courtesy Patkau Architects

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#TBT In May 1970, RECORD gave its assessment of a new industrial building in Midtown Manhattan, which had been completed a year before. “A warehouse too handsome to remain one,” the headline proclaims. Known then as the Westward Building, the “confident giant” was designed by Davis, Brody & Associates (now @davisbrodybond) and was celebrated in the pages of RECORD for the “special engineering feats” embedded within the design to solve a a series of challenges—among them train tracks which ran underneath the building and a program that ranged from offices to light manufacturing. That said, about 65 percent of the building was intended to be used for industrial tenants, but the Brutalist building attracted far greater interest from non-industry tenants. More than four decades later, the building’s new owners, Brookfield, hired @rexarchitecture to reimagine the building, which is now known as Five Manhattan West and houses tenants such as Amazon. Read more about the building today, and earn continuing education credits, in this month’s #AR_CEU at https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13267-continuing-education-five-manhattan-west-by-rex Article by @minutillo_josephine Photo by Norman McGrath, © Architectural Record — #AR_History #davisbrodybond #newyork #amazon #rexarchitecture #brutalism #modern #1970s #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at New York, New York)

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By the time solar radiation hits an interior blind, the fight to save energy has been lost. The great advantage of exterior shading devices is that they block the heat outside, before it can penetrate the building envelope. Depending on their design, they can also improve daylighting by reducing glare and bouncing indirect light deep into interior spaces. They can even strengthen a building’s identity. Exterior shades’ best chance of surviving the process euphemistically known as value engineering is to serve more than one goal. The Jackman Law Building, by Toronto-based @hariripontariniarchitects and @bh_architects exemplify a new generation of shading-integrated exterior envelopes that do more than keep their cool. Read more about this #AR_CEU project and earn continuing education credits at http://ow.ly/dG0U30jZJHe Text by Katharine Logan Photo © Ben Rahn / A-Frame #HaririPontariniArchitects #bharchitects #toronto #uoft #facade #facadelovers #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at Toronto, Ontario)

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In 2011, Brookfield hired Brooklyn-based @rexarchitecture to reimagine the 1969 building by Davis Brody & Associates (now @davisbrodybond) known today as Five Manhattan West. The former warehouse building, which included floors for light manufacturing, was seen as a perfect space to attract higher-paying commercial tenants—as soon as something could be done about its exterior, which had been overhauled in the 1980s transforming a once handsome pile into a giant eyesore. “The decision to reclad it entirely in glass was driven by a recognition that the market demands natural light,” explains John Durschinger, senior vice president for global design at Brookfield. Reskinning old buildings in glass is nothing new, but the building’s sloping sides presented several obstacles, from both an aesthetic and practical point of view. Read more about this #AR_CEU project and earn continuing education credits at http://ow.ly/WNwF30iLSrz Text by @minutillo_josephine Photo © @laurianghinitoiu (at New York, New York)