“There was a wide variety of projects selected from the over 400 entries the jury reviewed for 2006. The jury was interested in projects that fit their context whether it was a chapel, an office building, a campus infill or urban intervention,” said Jury Chair Robert E. Hull, FAIA, from The Miller/Hull Partnership in Seattle. “The diverse background of the jury insured that our selections appealed to a wide range of architectural design. In our deliberations and site visits there was the realization of the special qualities, vitality, and importance that great architecture brings to our society. The projects selected for the 2006 honor awards are a celebration of our profession’s continued vitality.”
Ballard Library and Neighborhood Service Center, Seattle, by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, for the Seattle Public Library The first major building designed and built within its neighborhood’s new municipal center master plan, this project’s library and service center share a gently sloping site adjacent to a city park currently under construction. The structure draws on the community’s Scandinavian and maritime roots, all the while anticipating its projected demographics of a younger, more diverse population.
Bigelow Chapel, New Brighton, Minn., by Hammel, Green and Abrahamson Inc., for the United Theological Seminary of the Twin CitiesThis 5,000-square-foot chapel serves an ecumenical graduate and professional school of theology that houses 250 students of all faiths—from Roman Catholic to Jewish to Unitarian. Rather than thinking of the chapel as a Christian worship space, the architect set forth to embody a “trinity of spiritual qualities” in intimacy, warmth, and light. The space captures intimacy and warmth through use of rippling, honey-colored, translucent, 32-inch-deep maple panels; light streams through the panels and from clerestories and skylights.
Frieder Burda Collection Museum, Baden-Baden, Germany, by Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP, with associate architect Peter W. Kruse-Freier Architekt, for Sammlung Frieder BurdaThis new museum for a private collection harmonizes with its surrounding public park as well as an adjacent Kunsthalle, or art museum. A glass-enclosed bridge connects the new museum to the existing one and shows proper respect to its venerable neighbor by touching its façade as gently as possible.
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, by Koning Eizenberg Architecture, with Perkins Eastman Architects PC, for Children’s Museum of PittsburghThe architects say this museum expansion was inspired by the Chinese proverb that instructs parents to give their children two things: roots and wings. The project expands an existing museum from its home in an 1897 post office into an adjacent planetarium that had long stood vacant.
Joseph A. Steger Student Life Center, University of Cincinnati, by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners, with associate architect glaserworks, for the University of CincinnatiThis 114,700-square-foot building housing administrative classrooms, computer labs, retail, and food service, as well as a restored 1920s classroom, is a dynamic part of a new spine of campus activity organized along major pedestrian and topographic paths.
Museo Picasso Malaga, Malaga, Spain, by Gluckman Mayner Architects, with associate architect Camara/Martin Delgado Arquitectos, for Fundacion Museo Picasso MalagaThis museum, dedicated to the works of Pablo Picasso, graces the historic city center of Malaga, the artist’s birthplace. The architects fully restored the 16-century Palacio de Buenavista to house the main entry and permanent collection galleries within a project that also included inserting six new buildings into the urban fabric to enclose some 80,000 square feet.
TRUMPF Customer and Administration Building, Ditzingen, Germany, by Barkow Leibinger Architects, for TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG
Situated between the Autobahn and the existing buildings of a high-tech machine-tool company, this new building for 300 employees creates a new entry courtyard for visitors and customers. The architects worked with three crystalline-formed volumes at the base of the building—lobby, auditorium, and exhibition spaces—and built up at split-level increments to the sixth floor.
Visiting Artists House, Geyserville, Calif., by Jim Jennings Architecture, for Stephen H. OliverThis 1,700-square-foot residence of two suites accessible to studios serves artists commissioned to work onsite at a former northern California sheep ranch. The architects defined the structure with two 200-foot-long poured-in-place concrete walls that “slice along the crest of a hill, retaining the earth along the length of the cut and carving out prescribed areas for indoor and outdoor living.” The sleeping areas offer private views of the landscaping, which includes a small lake that also feeds water of constant temperature to the building’s mechanical systems.
Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., by TVS – D&P Mariani PLLC; with associate architects Thompson Ventulett Stainback PC, Devrouax & Purnell Architects Planners PC, and Mariani Architects Engineers PC; for the Washington Convention Center Authority
The design team faced the challenge of creating the largest enclosed gathering space in the nation’s capital: 2.3 million square feet on a 600,000-square-foot footprint that stretched across six vacant lots. The result is the first vertically stacked, long-span convention center in the country. Given the relatively small footprint and the city’s strict height limits, the architects devised a spatial “sandwich” that buried one of the exhibit halls underground and elevated the other, so that lobbies, meeting rooms, and registration spaces could be at ground level.
Washington State Legislative Building Rehabilitation, Olympia, Wash., by SRG Partnership Inc., with associate architect Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, for Washington State General AdministrationThe challenge with the 1920s, 300,000-gross-square-foot, four-story brick-and-stone structure that was on the verge of collapse was to extend its life expectancy for another 50 years. The team succeeded in installing all new heating, cooling, plumbing, and fire-protection systems while keeping the historic features of the building intact. Additionally, the capitol dome—via its 16 columns—was reinforced to withstand a severe earthquake.
William J. Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, Ark. by Polshek Partnership Architects; with associate architects Polk Stanley Rowland Curzon Porter Architects Ltd, Witsell Evans Rasco Architects and Planners, and Woods Caradine Architects; for the William J. Clinton FoundationWhile the principal design goals—to create an inviting, memorable, and inspiring place, and a visually and intellectually accessible destination—seem in the mainstream for a presidential library, this project represents a radical departure from its predecessors in that its site selection intended to rehabilitate a derelict area of abandoned warehouses.
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The Ingredients of Paint and Their Impact on Paint Properties ( Click here)Different types and grades of paint provide different application and resistance properties, depending upon the kinds and levels of ingredients used to create the paint. In turn, the properties of a paint determine the general quality of the coating. Some of the many paint properties affected by the ingredients are highlighted in this report.
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Color is integral, and indispensable, to architecture and design. It follows that the architect can benefit from an understanding of how color is achieved with paint, and how paint ingredients can affect color — both initially and over time.
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Due to the vulnerability of unprotected metal surfaces to the corrosive effects of moisture and the atmosphere, architects must take different considerations into account when specifying paints for these substrates, compared to substrates such as wood and masonry. This module focuses on those considerations, ranging from the choice of primers and paints to the importance of the topcoat
