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WELCOME to our new studio and the launching of our new communications matrix. With the help of John Paolini, Executive Creative Director of SULLIVAN, we have reorganized the structure of our practice under the rubric:Architect / Build / Collaborate / Design / EnvironmentEach name stands, and stands in for a direction, a focus, a set of interests, and ultimately, a web of belief for our work and design practices. The domain names are not meant as proper nouns or departments, but rather as areas of research, investigation and as conceptual triggers and probes.
The SUMMER 2010 NewsBAR is loosely organized along these lines of thought and interactivity. It is a continuous scroll, open-ended, quick, inviting, surprising and interactive.
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The loop between “inspiration >< collaboration” is the co-variant force that keeps our work in motion and keeps the practice open-ended and relevant.
Enjoy > Click > Discover > Experience
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RECENT AWARDS:2010 National AIA Housing Award
One and two family custom residence:SPIRAL HOUSE
The American Institute of Architects officially announced winners of its National Housing Awards in May. Amongst the prestigious recipients is the Spiral House in Old Greenwich by Joeb Moore + Partners, Architects. The firm received the award under the “Custom Home” category. It is the only house in the New England region to receive this distinction. It is considered the highest national honor award for residential architecture in the US.
Jury comments included:
“Beautifully considered exterior spaces that provide opportunities for residents to view one another from different outdoor rooms.”
“Conceptually taut, yet has a whimsical quality.”
“Simple wood cladding does a good job regularizing the elevations and the changes in mass.”
2010 Connecticut Cottages and Gardens
Innovation in Design Awards > Architecture > Grand Award:
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2010 Custom Home Design Awards
Custom Home > Grand Award:
PL 44
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FEATURED PROJECT:BRIDGE HOUSE > Kent . CT
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FEATURED INTERIOR:HOBBY BARN TRANSFORMATION > Pound Ridge . NY
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HH RESIDENCE > New Canaan . CT
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TERRA VERDE OFFICE > Greenwich . CTAn office dedicated to ecologically sensitive and socially responsible materials and design.
BUILD ON > Worldwide
Through the unique duality of its programming, buildOn empowers U.S. high school students to improve their own lives and communities, as well as to take an active role in the construction of schools in developing countries. buildOn works in some of the poorest and most isolated regions in the world, empowering communities to overcome the crippling cycle of illiteracy, poverty and low expectations by opening the door to education.
For more information or to support this organization follow the link below:
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ON-THE-BOARDS:
HOBBY BARN STUDIO > Pound Ridge . NY
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New Canaan Townhouse receives LEED Silver:
This Spring the New Canaan Townhouse was approved LEED Silver by the U.S. Green Building Council. It is one of the few houses in Connecticut to receive this environmental distinction.
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EMERGING ARTIST:
Naoki Honjo
Honjo photographs containers, urban environments, express highways, sporting events, and countryside. They are mostly populated with people. The photos are as shot from towers, skyscrapers, or helicopters using a tilt shift lens, which makes the environments appear to be model-like. They are not altered through computer manipulation. Honjo aims to express a “sense of falseness” about the environments we live in. This gives the viewer the strange sense of looking at an image that is between fiction and reality. |
PERFORMATIVE DRAWING:
 Coat Rack designed by Slastic > Ana Mir and Emili Padros |
CULTURAL EVENTS:
Tour Philip Johnson’s Glass House
New Canaan . CT  Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers
Hirshhorn Museum > Washington DC
Cooper Hewitt: National Design Triennial
New York . NY
Summer Public Art on the High Line
New York . NY
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TRAVEL:EXPO 2010 SHANGHAI CHINA:If you find yourself traveling to the orient this summer, and you have time, it may well be worth a trip to 2010 World’s Fair in Shanghai.
UK Pavilion > Heatherwick Studio
Another brilliant built and cultural work situated at the operational and conceptual boundaries between architecture, art, action, and cultural production. Again, it is a kind of “non-building, building,” but this project seems to operate within the emotive lines of Boulle’s Newton Cenotaph. It is a kind of sensation machine. At the end of each acrylic rod is one of 6000 seeds from around the world. During the day the rods refract light into the interior, at night the fiber optic rods glow in the evening light. What an odd, eccentric construction that could hardly be mistaken for a building and a work of art until one enters it. I admire its utopian, and yet cunningly playful status as a “building.
 DANISH PAVILION > Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
Utilizing a continuous double loop path, this project is conceptually external and internal, building and landscape. Showcasing sustainable practices and built with sustainable materials and construction techniques, the bike and pedestrian path offers an experience that is simultaneously exhibit and play, introspective and social.
Bjarke Ingels Group adds:
“Sustainability is often misunderstood as the neo-protestant notion “that it has to hurt in order to do good”. “You’re not supposed to take long warm showers – because wasting all that water is not good for the environment” or “you’re not supposed to fly on holidays – because airtraffic is bad for the environment”. Gradually we all get the feeling that sustainable life simply is less fun than normal life. If sustainable designs are to become competitive it can not be for purely moral or political reasons – they have to be more attractive and desirable than the non-sustainable alternative. With the Danish Pavilion we have attempted to consolidate a handful of real experiences of how a sustainable city – such as Copenhagen – can in fact increase the quality of life.”
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PUBLICATIONS: RECENT MAGAZINES:JUNE / ARCHITECTURAL RECORD
AIA National 2010 Housing Award
SPIRAL HOUSE > Old Greenwich . CT
GREENWICH TIME
May 27, 2010 > REAL ESTATE / DESIGN
WOOD DESIGN AWARD > SPIRAL HOUSE > Old Greenwich . CT
MAY / RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECT MAGAZINE
SPIRAL HOUSE > Old Greenwich . CT
MAY / LOS ANGELES TIMES: HOME & GARDEN
SPIRAL HOUSE > Old Greenwich . CT
MAY / EAST COAST HOME + DESIGN
STORY BOOK COTTAGE
MARCH / ARCHITECTURE WEEK
WOOD COUNCIL AWARD interview
SPIRAL HOUSE > Old Greenwich . CT
SPRING / EXTERIEURS DESIGN MAGAZINE
COURTYARD HOUSE > Greenwich . CT
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