#smithgroup

[wadegriffith]

I'm proud to have photographed the new award-winning office of SmithGroup in Dallas, Texas.

The strategic relocation celebrates sustainable design and fosters flexibility in a hybrid work style. The space boasts biophilia, oversized graphics and reclaimed Texas post-oak wall paneling, along with individual focus and shared workspaces.

The new office design recently took home a Best In Show honor at the 2023 American Society of Interior Designers - ASID Celebrating Design Texas Awards for Commercial Corporate <15,000 SF. It is the latest in a series of SmithGroup offices nationwide currently reimagining the future of work.

© Wade Griffith Photography 2023

[walkingdetroit]

Run downtown through Capitol Park 🏃🏼‍♀ 

[detroitography]

Event: #PlanDetroit Master Plan Update Kickoff Meetings

Join us in shaping the future of Detroit! Attend upcoming DON meetings for a virtual kickoff of the city’s Master Plan update. Let’s go forward together. #PlanDetroit

[smithgroupinternship]

SmithGroup is excited to invite 2 Virginia Tech students to our DC architecture office for an immersive, paid experience from January 6 - 17, 2025, to build knowledge, skills, and capabilities for future success #smithgroup

[ehzdesign]

Architecture CodeX #98 Museum of The Bible by Smithgroup

[internationalrealestatenews]

[ad_1] One in all Houston’s actual property titans is increasing its master-planned group in Conroe by a partnership with Sam Houston State College. The Sam Houston State College Well being Professions Constructing, spanning 85,000 sq. toes, will rise inside Johnson Improvement’s 2,000-acre Grand Central Park, the Houston Enterprise Journal reported.  The four-story constructing, set to price an estimated $70 million, can be positioned subsequent to SHSU’s School of Osteopathic Medication. It can function a hub for the college’s allied well being applications, together with athletic coaching, dietetics, doctor’s assistant and bodily remedy. The Grasp of Science applications in athletic coaching and dietetics will relocate from Huntsville. The constructing, designed to strengthen “the mission and imaginative and prescient of the School of Well being Sciences,”  will characteristic abilities labs, collaborative school rooms, examination rooms and a demo kitchen. Exterior areas will lengthen the training surroundings outside, together with an outside health space for the bodily remedy gymnasium. A campus library, meals pantry and varied pupil companies are additionally deliberate, the outlet stated.  Building is predicted to start in Might and be accomplished in January 2026. Michigan-based SmithGroup will oversee design, whereas Arizona-based Kitchell serves as the development supervisor.  The undertaking aligns with SHSU’s broader growth plans for its Conroe campus, the place its enrollment headcount is predicted to develop from about 200 to 750 college students by fall 2031.  Johnson Improvement, in the meantime, is spearheading quite a few master-planned communities throughout the Houston space, together with a 4,900-home undertaking in Hockley and a pair of,800-home improvement in Katy.  At full construct, Grand Central Park is ready to incorporate 1,700 luxurious houses, a 13-acre amenity complicated and greater than 250,000 sq. toes of retail, in response to the agency’s web site. —Quinn Donoghue  Learn extra [ad_2] Supply hyperlink

[picturedetroit]

“Cathedral of Finance” The Guardian Building is considered one of Detroit’s top architectural jewels. Originally built for the Union Trust Bank, it’s nickname was “The Cathedral of Finance”, and no expense was spared when it came to materials and labor. There is a great book that goes into detail regarding the materials, artists, murals, etc., but the thing that has always blown my mind is the ceiling. Looks pretty beautiful, right? There is a ¾” layer of insulation above the main bank lobby (@bankofamerica is now located in the building) and that insulation is HORSEHAIR. But for me, the most amazing aspect is that the whole ceiling is PAINTED canvas. That’s right, the same stuff artists have painted on for centuries is what you’re looking at in this photo. There’s also a cool story behind the clock, but I’ll save that for another time. According to Dan Austin, of @historicdetroit, the work was done by 16 painters. Keep this in perspective, I could barely get one person to just paint the ceiling in my living room white… Wishing you all a happy Thursday! Shot: 6.11.15 © Christina x @PictureDetroit • • • • • #PictureDetroit#DetroitArchitecture #GuardianBuilding @smithgroup #SmithGroup #ArtDeco (at Guardian Building) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgjaiEhuMlk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bradfordhow]

Shooting with one of the best eyes in the biz @chrisbstacey #realestate #roomwithaview #lagunabeach #smithgroup #itcouldbeyours (at Laguna Beach, California)

[airportarchitecture]

Detroit Metropolitan McNamara terminal (2002), by SmithGroup

[feminist-space]

"Yes, you read that right: Chicago is spending $33 million to build fake housing and commercial buildings in an overpoliced community that could really use their actual, real-life equivalents. No Cop Academy organizer Destiny Ball laid it out plainly to Block Club Chicago: “To find out that they’re building a scenario village when there are thousands of people, homeless, with nowhere to go … it’s sickening.”

Architecture sometimes lays bare the contradictions in urban life, but rarely does it do so this explicitly, if not mockingly. A first phase of the training campus is nearly done, and the “tactical village” will begin construction this summer. The campus, which rises on the site of a former rail yard, will replace seven facilities currently in use. The second phase will be built by a joint venture of Berglund and Brown & Momen. The City’s website lists the design architect as DLR Group. The company recently published a blog post in which Andrew Cupples defended its work on juvenile justice systems, claiming that DLR remains “undeterred in the belief that design excellence contributes to better outcomes for youth who enter the justice system.”

“Justice system,” to this critic, reads as a remarkable euphemism for a place to detain children. Incredibly, the City lists the project as part of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s INVEST South/West platform which seeks to direct about $1.4 billion in funding to previously underdeveloped neighborhoods.

The City neglects its citizens—especially its Black and Brown ones—before policing them with militarized tactics. This is, after all, the police force that was found to be using “black site” tactics—essentially kidnapping and torturing civilians at Homan Square, a property it owned on the West Side—until an exposé in The Guardian in 2015 spelled its demise. This is the police force whose officers shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo to death in 2021 and paralyzed another unidentified 13-year-old boy just a few weeks ago. These are the law enforcement officers who have made arrests in only 6 percent of rape cases. Per Alex Vitale’s book The End of Policing, this is the police department that arrested 8,000 Black schoolchildren, more than half of whom were under 15, in 2013–14 alone.

Chicago suppresses funding for housing, schools, environmental remediation, public health, and transit, but it generously funds cops. This is not only ineffective, given the statistics and reality of police brutality, but immoral.

Any architect who participates in realizing the carceral program of police surveillance and terror is complicit. Architects often characterize their work as impartial, but the reality is that the form of the built environment is regularly weaponized by those in power. Architects are moral actors who have the agency—individually, but especially collectively—to see a project like this and decline to participate.

At times, activism comes in the form of saying yes to certain advances, but in this case it more powerfully comes in saying no. This denial of service can come in the form of whistleblowing to journalists, organizing political resistance among your peers, or finding a new job. After George Floyd’s murder in 2020, when Michael Ford (the hip-hop architect) learned that his then employer SmithGroup was to work on civic buildings with holding facilities, he left. In the fall of 2020, AIA New York attempted to discourage members from working on spaces of incarceration. The work of Colloqate explicitly demands the end of architects working on behalf of police and provides alternative solutions for reallocating police funds toward endeavors rooted in community building and racial justice.

Architecture exists at the all-important nexus where political ambition is given form. Resistance to terrible carceral projects from architectural firms matters—if no one draws the plans, the efforts stall. Sure, someone else can do it, but the broad systemic woes of capitalism don’t excuse us—mere individuals—from living ethical lives. It is unethical to work on a project that will be used to oppress and terrify Chicagoans, just as it is a project of criticism to be explicit about architecture’s role in surveillance, police expansion, and, by extension, urban policies that govern by force, not by support. So, to the leaders of architecture offices who are currently overseeing construction documents for a fake strip club in western Chicago, I see you. The architecture world sees you. You can and should do better than this."

-Kate Wagner is an architecture critic and a journalist.

[wadegriffith]

The University of Houston-Downtown Wellness and Success Center was designed by SmithGroup in association with HarrisonKornberg Architects, and built by Vaughn Construction.

The 75,000-square-foot facility includes fitness and recreation amenities such as sports courts, a strength training area, cardio and group fitness studios and an elevated track. It also features a demonstration kitchen where students can cook and learn about nutrition, as well as a student lounge space that is vital to building community on what is largely a commuter campus.

© Wade Griffith Photography 2023

[walkingdetroit]

I stumbled upon Selden Innovation Corridor shortly after moving to the neighborhood, a wonderful example of re-imagining an existing space and turning into a place for people. 

This is still one of my favorite examples of placemaking in Detroit! You can find it at Selden between Second and Third.

[archatlas]

Society’s Cage SmithGroup

Society’s Cage is a timely interpretive installation born in the aftermath of the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor murders as our society reckons with institutional racism and white supremacy. The public installation features a bold interpretive pavilion sculpted to symbolize the historic forces of racialized state violence. 

The experience educates visitors and functions as a sanctuary to reflect, record and share personal thoughts. It is conceived in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement as a mechanism for building empathy and healing.

The initial installation coincides with the March on Washington in support of Black Lives, and is located on the National Mall at 12th Street and Madison Drive NW.  It is open to the public August 28 - September 12, 2020.

[mslafaver]

REACTION — “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” (with 21 Hosts)

REACTION — “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” (with 21 Hosts)

https://archive.org/download/AAN909reaction/909%20Reaction.mp3 Featuring:Group 1    Ryan Matlock (The Odyssey ScoopCast)    Allie Barrett (The AIOWiki Podcast)    Hannah Matlock (AIO Audio News)    Rayah SmithGroup 2    Rose Beasley (Odyssey Moments)    Timmy Baze (AIOWiki)    Shiyanne Steele (The Town of Odyssey)    Gianna Therese (The Town of Odyssey)    Naomi Williams (Odysseynerds)    Hannah…

[oaarchitects]

MSU Cook Recital Hall - East Lansing, MI

by: @kirkegaard @smithgroup @auerbachconsultants @MusicMSU

Bora trabalha com o College of Music da Michigan State University desde 2001 para programar, planejar, projetar e implementar a transformação de suas instalações de ensino e performance. O Cook Recital Hall com 180 lugares no Music Building é um dos dois locais para apresentações concluídos como fases do plano atualizado. Transformamos este espaço, não só removendo o proscênio, mas também demolindo a varanda, para criar um recital de primeira classe com acústica excepcional para apresentações de pequenos conjuntos em um edifício histórico de 1939.