architecture

Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. United States Courthouse, Miami, Florida. [Washington, D.C. : General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, 2007. Arquitectonica and Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum. via babel.hathitrust

https://www.tumblr.com/birdbird/787468486580535296/wilke-d-ferguson-federal-courthouse-miami-fl

Maya Lin Studio

Flutter, 2005
Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Federal Courthouse, Miami, FL
459’ x 105’ x 3′ tall

The artwork … is … her response to the boat-like imagery of the building. She envisioned creating a series of grassy waves that the building “floats” upon.

Visitors are able to walk through this rippling grassy landscape. This work typifies the artist’s interest in the ambiguity of form, creating a rippling wave that is equally reminiscent of a drifting sand dune.

https://www.tumblr.com/birdbird/787470583270096896/united-states-general-services-administration

GSA’s Art in Architecture Program.

Who is eligible for an Art in Architecture commission: American artists who are citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States.

To be considered for:

All new commissions for the next ten years, join the National Artist Registry.
One commission at a time, respond to the solicitation announced in SAM.gov.

Suburbia: What a concept by Allison Arieff.

What what most tangible in Open House was the work that remained most invisible. The design team of EFGH (Hayley Eber and Frank Gesualdi) with Irina Chemyakova explored the potential benefits that changes to code, zoning and other regulatory modifications might have on the existing suburb. The things they proposed, much in keeping with the work of others spearheading the movement to rethink suburbia like Ellen Dunham-Jones, June Williamson and Galina Tachieva, included increasing density, retrofitting existing buildings for new uses, and experimenting with public/private space.

These changes, along with residents’ inclination to improve their own communities, could lead to better models for future development. I’ve observed little glimmers of the possibilities in truly collaborative projects like Farmer D’s suburban agriculture communities in the southeastern United States, the Ainsworth Collective’s efforts to develop a sustainable neighborhood in Portland, Ore., or the livable community projects of the Dallas suburb Oak Cliff.

Research for Project Kendall.

Tag: architecture

Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. United States Courthouse

Conceptual Suburbia: A Design Project Descends on Levittown – NYTimes.com