Category: Architecture

Pemberton Heights, one of the most established, exclusive and expensive neighborhoods in Austin, Texas, has an air of history and sophistication coupled with down-home neighborliness.

Minutes from the city’s downtown, “it has an extensive legacy of being home to some of Austin’s most influential residents with a close-knit traditional neighborhood feel,” said Nicole Kessler, broker associate of the Nicole Kessler Group at Compass.

Pemberton Heights is one of the city’s most coveted neighborhoods because of its central location—in addition to being close to downtown, it also is a quick drive to the main campus of the University of Texas at Austin and to the Texas State Capitol Complex—its beauty and the fact that there are only 613 houses within its borders.

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Boundaries

Part of the Old West Austin Historic District, Pemberton Heights is bounded on the

British Academy of Film & Television Arts Headquarters / Benedetti Architects

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Text description provided by the architects. The design reimagines BAFTA’s iconic

Sandringham House / Ellul Architecture

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Text description provided by the architects. Sandringham House is a refuge for a young family in the Bayside suburb of Melbourne. The restrained black pavilion is nestled into the landscape under the canopy of a substantial oak tree. A series of courtyards are carved out of the simple form to provide a calming sanctuary within.

Concepts:
• Sandringham House is a single-story family home in the Bayside suburb of Sandringham.
• A substantial oak tree in the front yard compromised the existing 1950s house causing it to fall into a state of disrepair. The existing house was a dark, damp rabbit warren of rooms.
• A thorough interrogation of the brief led to a design that satisfied their spatial requirements whilst being simple in form.

The Future of Architecture: Imagining a World Where Buildings are Constructed from Living Materials

Can you imagine a world in which the built environment around us is 3D printed from living materials? That buildings will germinate, bloom, wither, produce new kinds of material, and eventually return back to the soil? To Grow a Building is a performative lab space that 3D prints – in real time – a live structure. The project presents a new approach to integrating flora into the design process, by developing a novel material for 3D printing, through which seeding is an inseparable part of the fabrication process. To Grow a Building is a gate into a future world in which there are people who build buildings, and there are people who grow them.

Hayden Library / Kennedy & Violich Architecture

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Text description provided by the architects. The re-design of MIT’s Hayden Library transforms the 1951 modernist repository for post-WWII collections into a dynamic and inclusive learning space for collaboration and innovative research. The ‘Research Crossroads’ concept highlights the potential for new modes of thinking at the intersection of digital and analog collections and analysis.

A pair of two-story pavilions—one glass and one wood—introduces a mediating scale into the undifferentiated volume of the original reading room. Where the pavilions cross, a new sculptural stair and elevator establish z-axis, breaking through an existing floor slab to provide a direct vertical connection to all levels.

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