The Architect's Newspaper July/August 2019
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SO – IL’s CDMX housing page 11
Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019) page 14
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In Detail: Brant Foundation page 20
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DS+R’s impact on New York page 18
Virgil Abloh at MCA Chicago page 62
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Glass Special Patently Immoral Peak Biennial? Products of border wall research may expand to the rest of The global design circuit Section the construction industry. comes to a head this fall. See page 28.
Over ten days this past spring, a privately funded group named We Build the Wall hurriedly constructed a segment of the proposed United States–Mexico border wall in Sunland Park, New Mexico. The rapid erection of this so-called “gift to America” shocked nearby communities, and the project served as a startling proof of concept for emerging wall construction technologies. Developed under the auspices of the Trump administration’s border wall request for proposals, these are the products of a technological arms race to improve the speed and efficiency in which national security infrastructure can be delivered. The segment is the first product of what will surely become a growing
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The Turk’s Inn The Turk’s Inn graces Brooklyn with a jazzy ’70s supper club straight from Wisconsin. See page 16.
list of building technologies developed as part of the xenophobic border wall project. These technologies will shape project delivery expectations, methods, and outcomes in the borderland and beyond as the building industry and the built environment inherit securocratic technologies developed in the shadow of the wall. As construction companies attempt to curry favor with the administration, there has been an uptick in patent filings for construction continued on page 12
AGENCY
“syzygy noun syz·y·gy | \ ˈsi-zə-jē: the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system.” —Merriam-Webster It seems like somehow all the world’s design triennials and biennials have lined up to happen in the fall of 2019. September is especially packed with continued on page 10
Soccer City, USA
Allied Works designs a stadium for the Portland Timbers.
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Portland, Oregon, has dubbed itself “Soccer City, USA” and cultivated an ardent fan base for its two professional teams, the Timbers and the Thorns. Allied Works’ founding principal Brad Cloepfil is among those fans and has watched various iterations of the Timbers play since the mid1970s. When he heard that the teams’ owners were investigating adding seats to Providence Park, their historic stadium, Cloepfil volunteered his firm to do a study.
What followed was an exploration of how to design a stadium expansion in a tight urban space hemmed in by roads, utilities, buildings, and a light-rail line. Where previous expansion studies had looked at the south side of the stadium, Allied Works focused on the east side and upward expansion. The architects found a precedent in the raucous Estadio Alberto J. Armando in Buenos Aires, Argentina, known as La Bombonera, where steep stands form a “U” around three sides of the pitch with a fourth flat side—similar to the configuration of Providence Park. Not being traditional stadium architects, the firm found another successful example of going vertical in London’s Globe Theatre, a venue whose stacked levels of outdoor seating manage to bring audiences close to the action below. From the outset, the project’s signature gesture was an arched canopy that sweeps from the edge of the existing seating on the lower level over three continued on page 15
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