The Architect's Newspaper June 2023
Land Collective and HWKN complete Grand Junction Park and Plaza page 10
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Office conversions to create affordable housing in downtown Chicago page 11
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AN visits Colloqate to learn how the practice unites engagement and design page 26
Studio Gang and SCAPE expand the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts page 28
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SPACES OF INCLUSION
Let the Biennale Begin!
Lesley Lokko’s Africa-centered version of the global architecture exhibition is now open in Venice. Read on page 16.
Where we gather to discuss, learn, and reflect. Read on page 33.
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SOM’s Baxter Powerhouse The (W)rapper Vitruvius in Under Threat Circulation Herzog & de Meuron in Brooklyn. Read on page 20.
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As a young architect with SOM in 1972, Richard Tomlinson saw something special in the Baxter International suburban office campus, which was already underway when he joined the firm. “It was conceived as a dynamic campus that made flexibility a fundamental principle,” he told AN. “What fascinated me about Baxter was its application of flexibility principles from high-rise office buildings for corporate and commercial clients to a campus environment.” It wasn’t one of his assigned projects, but he took it on as a “hobby” anyway. “I basically volunteered to help out after hours, weekends, whatever the firm needed, and I did that with Baxter,” Tomlinson recalled. After the 600,000-square-foot development for a medical equipment giant opened in 1975, he stayed on, working with the client through an expansion in the ’80s and beyond, making it one of his longest-term clients at SOM, from which he retired in 2014. continued on page 14
Eric Owen Moss Architects in Los Angeles. Read on page 22.
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All arts and crafts have a history, and histories must start somewhere. Around the end of the Middle Ages scholars of ancient literature—first in some Italian cities— began ruminating on the idea that architecture was born on the shores of Greece and Italy (and not in the ancient Near East, as the Bible claims); they also concluded that Greek and Roman architecture built during the age we now call classical was the best of all time, which in turn prompted architects to imitate it—or “revive” it, as they claimed. This was the beginning of the classical tradition that has since held sway over the architecture of Christian Europe, with some interruptions, almost to the present day—in Europe and elsewhere. When Renaissance humanists started their studies of antiquity, they stumbled on a book on architecture written around the end of the first century BCE by someone named Vitruvius—apparently a military engineer—and they thought that book could help them continued on page 64
Windows, Walls & Doors
Architecture’s ins and outs. Read on page 41.
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