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Brett Minarik, Phoebe Fraser, and Adam Harvey, owners of the proposed Lawrence Hall

THE BIG STORY

LAWRENCE STALLED A Pittsburgh zoning requirement means a proposed food hall in Lawrenceville is four spaces short of becoming a reality

BY RYAN DETO // RYANDETO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

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INCE 2017, three Lawrenceville residents

have had a dream to bring a food hall to Butler Street. It would host five different food stalls, and convert an abandoned warehouse right in the heart of Lawrenceville’s business district. It would be called Lawrence Hall.

Adam Harvey, one of the residents behind Lawrence Hall, believes the food hall will fit in well in the neighborhood because it would give smaller restaurateurs opportunities in a Butler Street market dominated by popular, large, and mostly sitdown restaurants.

“For this thriving commercial district, we are short on space,” says Harvey. “We hope small businesses come here to thrive, and a rising tide would lift all boats. We are interested in creating a footprint here that vibes with the neighborhood.”

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But there is a problem. Pittsburgh zoning code requires buildings seeking zoning variances to provide a certain amount of off-street parking. After many different proposals, the three residents — Brett Minarik, Phoebe Fraser, and Harvey — have been able to provide seven surface parking spots and bike parking at a lot nearby, but it isn’t enough.

Zoning code requires a development of Lawrence Hall’s size to provide 11 off-street parking spots, and even though the Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment granted the food hall a variance lowering the parking requirements, that decision was appealed by another Lawrenceville resident and notorious citizen activist, and the judge ruled the zoning variance was improper.

Basically, the only thing standing in the way of Lawrence Hall becoming a reality is four off-street parking spaces.

Minarik, Fraser, and Harvey have the capital, and the experience in the hospitality industry.

They are confident Lawrence Hall will be a success, but have grown frustrated at the stoppage. Even so, they have garnered considerable support to their side. Both neighborhood community groups — Lawrenceville United and Lawrenceville Corporation — have rallied to Lawrence Hall’s cause, and are lauding the three residents for their commitment to working with the community and responding to the many residents’ needs. Minarik says Lawrence Hall has also received support from the administration of Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, who has been involved with helping the team file appeals in court over the development. They even proposed an alternative-transit plan for Lawrence Hall, which would have been pioneering in the Pittsburgh zoning world, had a judge not dismissed it.

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A July 2018 architectural rending of Lawrence Hall’s exterior

But experience and desire, as well as community and governmental support, doesn’t mean much when it comes to zoning decisions. And, in this case, just one person opposed to the project can stall it for years, even over just four off-street parking spaces.

“Parking is a concern for everyone.

We don’t take that lightly,” says Minarik.

“Everything is positive about this project, but it’s four parking spaces.”

Minarik and Fraser, who are married, moved to Lawrenceville in 2017. Soon after, the couple became interested in the property on 4609 Butler St., saw a for sale sign, and started to think about its potential as a food hall. Not long after that, they met Harvey, who had extensive experience in the restaurant and hospitality industry. They all realized Pittsburgh is short on food halls compared to other cities, and thought the large property on Butler Street was perfect for their concept.

First built in 1890, the property at 4609 Butler St. has had several uses over the years. Minarik says at one point it was a theater, then it became an auto shop in the 1940s, and then, after being utilized for a construction business, it eventually was used for storage. For years it has stood vacant. Inside, the ceilings are over

two dozen feet high, and it boasts about 6,000 square feet of space.

Minarik says they want to preserve the original structure as much as possible, and would build skylights to add in natural light. The plans are for five vendor stalls inside the space that would accommodate seating and room for about 130 people. The hall will also include a 26-seat bar, serving beer, wine, and cocktails.

board’s decision in June 2019. Minarik, Fraser, and Harvey went back to the drawing board, and came back with an adjusted plan meant to meet the appeal to the judge’s ruling.

“We had reduced the scope of our buildout, purchased the only available lot in the area that could provide some parking, and restructured our project and zoning package to significantly reduce what we were asking the ZBA to

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BY FOUR PARKING SPACES.” In 2018, the residents’ plan was approved and granted a zoning variance by Pittsburgh’s Zoning Board of Adjustment. But in October of that year, Raymond Czachowski and Eric Kukura appealed the zoning board’s decision.

Kukura is co-owner of The Abbey, a large restaurant, bar, and cafe space located very close to 4609 Butler St. Czachowski is a longtime Lawrenceville resident and property manager.

A judge ruled in favor of Czachowski and Kukura, and overturned the zoning

approve,” reads the Lawrence Hall website.

After this adjusted plan, Kukura didn’t showcase public opposition, but Czachowski did speak out at the zoning board hearing in February 2020. When the zoning board again approved the variance for Lawrence Hall, Czachowski filed another appeal to the courts.

According to the residents, they started to negotiate possible solutions with Czachowski. These included bringing valet-style parking to a small lot they purchased on the corner of Butler and

Plummer streets. The residents also tried to get permission to park cars at the nearby lots of Busy Beaver hardware store and the Boys and Girls Club, but those were non-starters, legally speaking.

According to the Lawrence Hall website, Czachowski then “moved the goalposts” and said that valet-parking must be undertaken at the Lawrence Hall entrance (not the satellite parking lot), which community groups strongly opposed.

Instead, the residents worked with the community groups to create an alternative transit plan to mitigate any possible traffic concerns. These included permanent discounts for customers who rode bikes or used ride-hail services to visit Lawrence Hall, commitments to prioritize hiring employees who could walk to work, and paying public transit costs for all of Lawrence Hall employees. This alternative transit plan mirrored workforce plans that are generally lauded by environmentalists and transit advocates.

But in November 2020, a judge ruled against the zoning board again, and called Lawrence Hall’s alternative-transit plan “aspirational in nature” and said it is “impossible to quantify how many employees are walking, taking the bus, biking, or using a rideshare program to get to work.” (The American Community CONTINUES ON PG. 6

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The exterior of Lawrence Hall

Survey estimates how many people commute to work using various methods — like walking, public transit, bike, driving, and taxi — every year and publishes the data on the U.S. Census website.)

Fraser adds that the way the judge ruled against Lawrence Hall could even set a precedent against other developers who may want to institute alternative parking plans as a way to limit off-street parking requirements.

Harvey says it doesn’t make sense that the Lawrence Hall development is being blocked because if he, Minarik, and Fraser were to purchase a large restaurant space on Butler Street, and not change the use of the building, they wouldn’t have to supply off-street parking spaces.

According to Lawrence Hall’s website, if instead of one 6,000-square-foot space, they had three 2,000-square-foot spaces — even containing the same number of businesses, customers, employees, etc. — no parking would be required.

An old heater (left) and an old advertisement (right) from Lawrence Park Garage, one of the original owners, inside of Lawrence Hall

“We are being stymied by four parking spaces,” says Harvey.

The man behind the challenges and successful appeals, Czachowski, has a long record of opposing development projects, including apartment buildings and converting out-of-use churches. By many accounts, he’s known throughout Lawrenceville as a NIMBY, a term that means “Not In My Backyard” and is generally applied to citizen activists that oppose development of neighborhoods, whether that is housing, business, or transit.

In 2012, Czachowski spoke out against a proposed redevelopment of the Holy Family School, a church and rectory, into market-rate apartments. That proposal, now scrapped, included 57 apartment units and 88 parking spaces, which is well above zoning requirements.

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The inside of Lawrence Hall

on the basis of the “intensity of the residential part. It’s too many units.”

Czachowski did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story.

Minarik is from Cleveland, Fraser is from Southern California, and Harvey is from New York, but all have made Lawrenceville their home. All told, Minarik says the group has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal and consultant fees alone trying to get Lawrence Hall through a zoning change. This is separate from the money it would cost to renovate and run the facility.

“I’ve dealt with Brooklyn and Manhattan zoning boards, and we have found a way to yes,” says Harvey.

“But this is crushing. We explored every option, even excavating our site, and would still fall short [in terms of parking.]”

Lauren Byrne Connelly is the director of the community development group Lawrenceville Corporation. She says the Lawrence Hall owners worked

through the group’s community process and met with Lawrenceville residents multiple times to address concerns they had about the project. She says Lawrence Hall would be a good fit in the neighborhood’s business district.

a real estate market like Lawrenceville.”

Connelly also lauded the residents for exploring the possibility of a workforce development partnership with the Boys and Girls Club, where youth and young adults could gain experience in managing

“WHAT EXISTS NOW IS OUTDATED AND INCONSISTENT.” “These buildings have been vacant for years, and the reactivation of this part of the business corridor was exciting to us and to many others in the community,” says Connelly. “We have seen the food hall model work in other places, and we thought that this could be attractive to start-ups and entrepreneurs. It was already tough to bring a food concept into your own brick and mortar retail location before COVID and that has only become more challenging since, and especially in

a business. She says she is hopeful the struggles of Lawrence Hall will help motivate Pittsburgh zoning changes, especially ones that help encourage non-car mobility and creative parking solutions.

“What exists now is outdated and inconsistent, and doesn’t contemplate 21st century mobility values, networks and uses,” says Connelly. “Additionally, there are seas of surface parking just behind where the [Lawrence Hall] is proposed that sit underutilized while

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others nearby can’t identify parking solutions. Shared parking agreements and solutions are something we have been working to figure out and specifically those issues that property owners raise related to demand and liability.”

City government has become more willing to lower and eliminate some parking requirements in order to better accommodate development. In 2020, Pittsburgh ended the off-street parking minimums for newly constructed single-unit attached residences, and followed that by restricting curb cuts to maximize on-street parking spaces and maintain better street conditions for pedestrians.

But parking requirements for commercial spaces haven’t been adjusted on a wide scale, and the zoning code as a whole hasn’t been rewritten in decades.

Minarik says he has reached out to Pittsburgh city councilors for help, and adds that the “nicest thing we can say is they have been unresponsive.”

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F A RESTAURANT has been around

for nearly 100 years, there is no questioning its success, even if its cooking methods are unorthodox.

That’s the story with Jim’s in West Mifflin. The hot dog joint has been open since 1927, and is also known for Jim’s Famous Sauce, a spicy sweet-sour condiment loaded on its hot dogs. (The name of the restaurant will also show up on internet searches as Jim’s Famous Sauce.) The joint also sells and distributes its famous sauce, with a label claiming its greatness on “hot dogs, steaks, chicken, pasta and more.”

But what really makes Jim’s stand out is how it cooks hot dogs: after grilling the wieners and assembling everything together with sauce and chopped onions on a bun, Jim’s throws the whole thing back under the broiler to provide a little extra char. According to Jim’s website, this additional broil helps keep the hot dogs toasty and delicious, even after a trip home.

Eventually, Jim’s figured out the addition of melty cheese to the broiled hot dog led to a browned, blackened creation that satisfied customers. It has

become Jim’s most popular item and is what you should order when visiting the Mon Valley staple.

On my visit to Jim’s, I ordered from the window two cheese dogs with the works (a cheese sauce covering a grilled dog loaded with chopped onions and Jim’s Famous Sauce), and then enjoyed them at a small metal counter under an overhang. There are tables and other outdoor seating available, but this is mostly a grab-and-go establishment.

JIM’S FAMOUS SAUCE 2600 Skyline Drive, West Mifflin. jimsfamoussauce.com

The appearance of the cheese dogs can be a bit deterring. The Velveeta-style cheese gets cooked and forms black and brown spots, as well as a little skin from the broil. They look like the hot dog version of Altoona Hotel Pizza, the quirky Central Pennsylvania pie with ingredients beneath a yellow-cheese topping that is sometimes charred at the edges.

But the flavor and textures are scrumptious. The dog has a great snap

to it, and the bun is crispy, even though everything is covered in wet ingredients.

The char clearly helps everything stay crispy and hot.

The chopped onions add a little crunch that pairs well with the famous sauce, which is a bit spicy, and moderately sweet and sour. It reminds me of a fastfood sweet-sour sauce, but with a bit of a chili kick. I can imagine it going really well with chicken. It gets a bit more addicting as you go, but is missing some fat to help form a bit of a base to compliment the sourness. The cheese sauce provides some of the richness I desire, but not all of it.

But I also am not accustomed to Jim’s style of hot dogs, and have never had anything like them. Part of me kept thinking the sauce would be a chili sauce, but instead was met with a bit of spice in a gooey sweet and sour form.

The charred cheese dogs overall were very savory and satisfying, as well as extremely intriguing.

Jim’s is worth a trip to Skyline Drive in West Mifflin. If you’ve been open for 100 years, you surely have found the formula to keep customers coming back.

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Millie’s Homemade Ice Cream Multiple locations. millieshomemade.com Millie’s is still pretty new in Pittsburgh, but has become a staple for frozen treats.

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Frio Creamery 4127 Butler St., Lawrenceville. friocreamery.business.site Frio has four creamy vegan ice creams made from a coconut cream/almond milk base. Flavors include pistachio, and gluten-free chocolate cookies and cream, blueberry lavender, and gluten-free key lime pie.

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Homewood Children’s Village CEO Walter Lewis

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IT TAKES A VILLAGE

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OMEWOOD IS a Pittsburgh neighborhood rich with history.

It was once a popular destination for Pittsburgh’s wealthy elites during the 1800s and throughout the 1900s. It wasn’t until 1950 that things began to change, spurred by the phenomenon known as “white flight,” when upper and middle class white residents left Homewood after Black people began moving into the neighborhood.

The Homewood Children’s Village website attributes this change in part to

the displacement of Hill District residents by the construction of the Civic Arena.

This led to an economic downturn in the neighborhood, which saw a devastating population decrease — from 30,523 in 1960 to 6,422 in 2010, by HCV’s numbers — and an uptick in rental properties, as many new Black residents couldn’t afford to buy homes.

Despite the shift, Homewood Children’s Village CEO Walter Lewis believes Homewood remains a neighborhood full of creative energy.

“There is so much richness in this community in terms of who’s here today,” says Lewis. “Like walking down the street, talking to your neighbors, getting to know people, we have artists, writers, we have leaders, executives, people working for all different kinds of industries, folks that are craftsmen and owners of their own business.”

When Lewis first moved to Homewood about 10 years ago, he discovered Rebuilding Together — a Pittsburgh nonprofit that helps to repair communities

— and how the group was working on homes in the area. Lewis, who describes himself as a lover of film, decided to follow them with his camera and as a way to get to know his neighbors.

Originally from the Baltimore area, Lewis moved to Pittsburgh in 2009 to attend Carnegie Mellon University to study Computational Biology, after receiving his degree from Cheyney University in Delaware County. During his time at CMU, he says he felt like he was being pulled in two different

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directions: science and community work.

Lewis volunteered with the Homewood Children’s Village before being offered a position as a Program Coordinator in 2012.

He slowly rose in the organization until becoming interim CEO in 2018, with the position becoming permanent six months later.

“The mission of the Homewood Children’s Village is to improve the lives of the children of Homewood and simultaneously reweave the fabric of the community in which they live,” says Lewis. “And for me, it’s a mouthful, but really what it means is we’re here to meet the needs of the children and the young people that we serve.”

He adds that improving the lives of these children is not just about what happens in schools, but what occurs in the community as a whole. “Kids have to leave home and walk past the abandoned buildings and vacant properties and blighted properties and things of that nature that’s impacting their environment, which is ultimately negatively impacting their opportunities for education and further advancement,” he says.

HOMEWOOD CHILDREN’S VILLAGE 801 N. Homewood Ave., Homewood. hcvpgh.org

Cradle to Career is a program Homewood Children’s Village designed to tackle this problem. The program involves community partners supporting children from early childhood to when they are preparing to enter the workforce. Some of the partners HCV works with are Trying Together, the YWCA and YMCA, the Pittsburgh Public School system, Higher Achievement Pittsburgh, and Operation Better Block.

Lewis says HCV is not interested in reinventing the wheel; there are many programs that exist in Pittsburgh to support children, so they want to partner with these organizations to create a holistic approach to wellbeing.

“Children don’t exist in isolation from the community, from their families, from their peer networks,” he says. “And so, part of that reweaving the fabric of the community means we support parents and family members. We support the other institutions in the community that make a community vibrant. And while we may not do all of that work

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IN THIS COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF WHO’S HERE TODAY.” ourselves, we’re deeply invested in forming partnerships with folks that do those other supportive programs and services.”

Some of the pressing issues facing the children of Homewood currently are related to poverty, which has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Lewis says that while some solutions have arisen, like moratoriums on evictions, the reality remains the same for many families.

“There’s not enough financial resources and opportunities to allow them to sustain the kind of lives that you need to sustain in order to raise healthy, happy children and families,” says Lewis. “So a lot of the issues, I think, stem from that kind of reality.”

Lewis says that while being the CEO of a nonprofit was not a part of his plan, he brings an important perspective to the work.

“My background is in computer science and computational biology. I was doing scientific research before I came to the village,” he says. “But I think that research mentality and that approach and that computer science approach has definitely aided me in my journey.

I think about things a little differently as a computer scientist.”

Lewis adds that his research background has helped him to realize just how much we don’t know about the world we live in, and this expands to working with children. “If people had all of the answers to this stuff, all of the communities would have been transformed by now,” he says, adding, “The reality is we’ve got pieces of it.”

Ultimately, HCV and Lewis want to see the community and its residents uplifted. He says that, though it sounds cliche, it really does take a village. “What Homewood can become is limitless,” he says.

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Pittsburgh CLO actors Dan Deluca (Scarecrow), Jessica Grove (Dorothy), Evan Ruggiero (Tin Man), and Drew Leigh Williams (Lion) pose in front of the stage in Heinz Field.

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back after a year of being in the dark due to the pandemic, but not to where many might expect. Instead of the Benedum Center in Downtown Pittsburgh, the theater company is making an unprecedented return at the home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, trading in football helmets and black-and-gold jerseys for a witch’s hat and a yellow brick road to debut their 2021 summer season opener, The Wizard of Oz, at Heinz Field.

“Toto, we’re not at the Benedum anymore,” says CLO executive producer Michael Fleischer.

A stage has been built in the end zone to showcase the theater’s most talented performers in a two-show series titled “Summer Under the Stars” featuring the aforementioned Frank Oz classic and Pittsburgh CLO’s Broadway Musical Celebration in honor of the company’s 75th anniversary. American Idol alumni Clay Aiken, originally slated to star in The Drowsy Chaperone this July at the Benedum Center before the pandemic forced the CLO to cancel their original season line-up, is now hosting Broadway Musical Celebration, and both shows will be accompanied by the Pittsburgh CLO

Orchestra. The unorthodox venue will hold up to 4,000 guests, including tables and chairs directly on the field in front of the stage.

The Wizard of Oz, the first installment of the series, begins on Thu., July 8 and continues through July 10.

“It’s a show that grandmother and grandfather loved, and grandchild, and everyone in between,” Fleischer says.

“The idea was we thought it was a perfect show to bring neighbors and family members out together in the outdoors.”

The first day of rehearsals was on Thu., July 1. The skies were grey, and the

SUMMER UNDER THE STARS PITTSBURGH CLO’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY BROADWAY CELEBRATION July 8-10, July 21-24. Heinz Field. 100 Art Rooney Ave., North Side. $15-85. pittsburghclo.org

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mid-summer humidity lingered in the air, but that didn’t seem to bother the cast of The Wizard of Oz. The stars of the show who play Dorothy (Jessica Grové), Tinman (Evan Ruggiero), Scarecrow (Dan DeLuca), and Lion (Drew Leigh Williams) appeared in awe seeing the stage being completed on Heinz Field for the first time. “Summer Under the Stars” will be their first time returning to a stage in over a year.

“If you’re a native Pittsburgher, you love Pittsburgh sports — that’s the biggest thing. So to be doing a musical on an NFL field is absolutely so exciting,” DeLuca says. “It’s a sense of community and homeness.”

CLO’s original production Broadway Musical Celebration follows Oz, launching on Wed., July 21 and continuing through July 24. It’s a 90-minute ode to Broadway featuring iconic numbers and medlies

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CLO dancers learn new routines in a rehearsal room at Heinz Field.

from a variety of popular Broadway musicals, such as Mamma Mia, In the Heights, The Color Purple, and An American in Paris.

Fleischer says CLO invited back numerous famous alumni for the Broadway Musical Celebration, including Aiken, who Pittsburgh City Paper called “fab-u-lous” as Teen Angel in CLO’s 2019 performance of Grease. About 13 other notable alumni will be present, including Norm Lewis, Robert Fairchild, Joe Serafini, and Ali Ewoldt.

“It’s a celebration of Broadway,” says Fleischer. “It’s a celebration of CLO. It’s a celebration of Pittsburgh.”

any mandatory COVID-related safety measures like mask mandates. However, the tables on the field are spaced about six feet apart. He adds that with the abundance of room Heinz Field offers, guests can choose to sit close to others or far apart in the stadium seats.

The season at Heinz Field also signals a throwback for Pittsburgh CLO, which initially opened in 1946 at Pitt Stadium.

After a devastating year of isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pittsburgh CLO aims to uplift the community once again with musicals, and a return to their roots.

“We went to the Steelers, and they

“IT’S A CELEBRATION OF PITTSBURGH.” To make the production of each show the best it can be, Fleischer says CLO hired experts from New York who usually work in live concert productions. Lighting designer Andrew Giffin — who previously attended the Pittsburgh CLO and received their Gene Kelly Award in 2014 — has worked on prestigious events, including Justin Bieber’s Believe world tour.

The stage Pittsburgh CLO is using was originally placed at Flagstaff Hill in Oakland with additions of runways on either side of the stage. As for scenery, they’re incorporating a giant digital video wall rather than traditional backdrops. CLO is also installing multiple IMAX screens by the stage where cameras provided by the Steelers will shoot live close-ups of cast members during the performance for those seated farther from the stage.

Fleischer says there will not be

couldn’t have been more gracious,” Fleishcer says. “[The Steelers and Pittsburgh CLO] are both here to try to take care of the community, and I think it’s going to be great.”

When the Pittsburgh CLO announced their indefinite closure in April 2020, the CLO lost 252 performances, and their academy moved to online learning. During this time, the organization launched their “Raise the Curtain Campaign,” which Fleischer says did “really well.” CLO raised enough to keep the theater company afloat and to bring back shows when conditions allowed.

“I have to say, and I’m sure you can talk to any theater or nonprofit in the town, no matter what they serve, this city has stepped up in a way to make sure we’re all here on the other side,” says Fleischer. “Pittsburgh has great pride in its institutions.”

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dismissed the role of humans and the surrounding environment. Heinz Architectural Center curator-at-large Raymund Ryan points this out as we explore Fabricated Landscape, a new exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art. He describes modernist architectural renderings of past projects as being “lifeless.”

“Often, there are no people,” he says. He then gestures to displayed works by the London-based firm Assemble, including a dollhouse-like model, an overview of a Liverpool neighborhood, and a children’s book-style drawing commissioned by French illustrator Marie Jacotey, all of which feature occupants or passersby. “So, this is almost the opposite.”

On view through Jan. 17, 2022, Fabricated Landscape is described in a press release as asking “What does it mean for architecture to have a civic consciousness?”

The exhibition tries to answer this question with a look at 10 architectural practices from around the world, all of which “embrace a new sense of urgency regarding nature and the planned environment how and where we live to how we engage with the world around us.”

The array of models, prints, textiles, installations, and more also expands the potential and varied interests of architects.

In a field that favors the 50 and over crowd, Fabricated Landscape deliberately represents younger, forward-thinking talents, with every architect being born in or after 1975. Doing so demonstrates how this new generation values collaboration and the needs and character of a community, unlike architects of the past, who, unfairly or not, are thought of as chasing god-like status by seeking out only the most extravagant, high-profile projects, regardless of their impact.

FABRICATED LANDSCAPE Continues through Jan. 17, 2022.

Carnegie Museum of Art. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland.

Included with museum admission. cmoa.org

As a result, visitors are introduced to thoughtful social housing plans in Liverpool, where Assemble has worked to save existing homes in the run-down district of Toxteth, and in León, Mexico, where New York firm SO-IL developed “Las Americas Social Housing.”

While it could be seen as just another apartment complex, Ryan points out how “Las Americas Social Housing” — on display in the museum as a model — was designed to combat the highly populated city’s urban sprawl. It also forms a figure-eight to promote flow, not only in terms of how people move throughout the building, but in terms of air circulation, an important asset in a city as hot as León. The piece touched on other beneficial aspects of the project, including that the building materials would be produced in the city, creating jobs and lessening the carbon footprint of construction.

What struck me most was the effort to avoid disruption, as the chosen architects appear far more concerned with reusing, reinventing, or building on, as well as creating spaces that are more flexible and democratic. This comes through in Assemble’s contributions and those by the studio of Dutch architect Anne Holtrop. “Murad Boutique Hotel” presents Holtrop’s effort in a three-dimensional form to showcase the preservation of a historic site in the Kingdom of Bahrain, while also expanding its potential use. “PORET Kindergarten” combines two- and three-dimensional works to demonstrate CONTINUES ON PG. 18

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“The Grand Interior” by MAIO, part of Fabricated Landscape at CMOA

German architect Anna Heringer’s hutlike, ready-to-assemble kits, designed as an easy and familiar housing alternative for people in remote parts of Africa.

The color pink makes more than a few appearances, particularly in “The Grand Interior” by the Spanish firm MAIO. What at first looks like a random selection of Pepto-Bismol tinted miniatures sprawled across a mirrored tabletop actually investigates the role of private versus public space, and how they can co-exist, an idea conveyed by the many tiny doors.

In MAIO’s print Public Space Systems, connected outdoor spaces are populated with clip art people playing out various narratives, as well as touches like a spaceship or the Nyan Cat meme. The firm’s apparent penchant for whimsy succeeds in making architecture less intimidating and more accessible to a general audience.

The mission of Fabricated Landscape expands beyond the built environment into nature with sustainable projects aimed at connecting with the surrounding environment. The puzzle-like work Shapes of the Forest by LCLA Office depicts ways to create unobtrusive civic spaces in an Oslo forest, all of which are carved out in an ivory-colored carpet sample. Series of photos show Pilotis in a Forest by

THE FIRM’S APPARENT PENCHANT FOR WHIMSY SUCCEEDS IN MAKING ARCHITECTURE LESS INTIMIDATING AND MORE ACCESSIBLE. Japanese architect Go Hasegawa and Ballen Houses, another LCLA Office project.

The former — an elevated structure located three hours outside of Tokyo — features slatted floors and walls of windows meant to keep inhabitants close to the surrounding wilderness, its stilted legs mimicking the towering trees. The latter chronicles an ongoing project in El Retiro, Colombia, where small, custom houses are built to fit into the topography.

While architecture may seem disparate from other art forms, Fabricated Landscape sets out to show how it informs and is informed by other media.

Everything from literature (a house by Office KGDVS was inspired by the Franz Kafka story “Der Bau”) to fine art (“The Grand Interior” takes cues from Marcel Duchamp) to photography (a series by Luisa Lamberi captures the finer details of Go Hasegawa’s Chapel in Guastalla)

are represented here.

The most memorable of these are the textiles provided by Heringer, notable less for how they look than where they came from, as they were produced by Bangladeshi women and Rohingya refugees. These refugees are a systemically persecuted Muslim group in Myanmar devastated by genocide and displacement.

The textiles demonstrate the architect’s role as not only an artist, but as an activist. The pieces providing income and a voice to those who produced them.

While conceptually dense and farreaching, Fabricated Landscape highlights a more promising future for architecture defined by harmony in both the built and natural world. The museum will also release three consecutive publications — the first one, Domestic, is now available at the exhibition entrance — to assist visitors on their journey into this new frontier.

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THU., JULY 8 ART • VIRTUAL Curators’ Lecture: Fashioning an Exhibition at the Frick Art Museum will ing offer insight into the process of creating the Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls e of 1800 to 1960 exhibit. Fashion Institute rator Design & Merchandising Museum curator Christina Johnson will share her experiences, and curators from the Frick will join her to discuss women’s sports fashion in the Western world.

7 p.m. Free. Registration required. thefrickpittsburgh.org/exhibitions

FRI., JULY 9 COMEDY • IRL Stand-up comedian, actor, and writerr Fortune Feimster takes the stage at the he Pittsburgh Improv. She has appeared on TV shows like Conan and Late Night ght with Seth Meyers, and has an hour-long ong special out on Netflix. In addition to appearing on the big and small screens, ns, she’s done voiceover work for animated ted TV shows. Some seating may be sold out,

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7: 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Continues through Sa Sat., July 10. 166 E. Bridge St., Homestead. $3 $35-85. improv.com/pittsburgh

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10 a.m.-6 p.m. 3533 Butler St., Lawrenceville.

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The event will showcase 29 Ga artists and their work, and awards will ar be given based on a juried selection.

The T opening reception will be held on Friday for members of the organization, F and a is available to the public Thursdays through Saturdays. 6 p.m. Continues t through Aug. 28. 711 S. 21st St., South th Side.

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SAT., JULY 10 S MARKET • IRL M O the second Saturday of every On month, tattoo shop and gallery Sanctuary m Pittsburgh hosts local artists and artisans Pi for a pop-up vendor market. The market fo will take place at the parklet across w

KIDS • IRL Bring the kids to Schenley Plaza for a free afternoon of fun. Kid’s Day will feature a balloon artist, crafts, performers, free rides on the PNC Carousel, and more. When you’re in need of a cooling refreshment, get ice cream from Millie’s Ice Cream Truck, which will also be on site for the August, September, and October Kid’s Days. 12-4 p.m. 4100 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. pittsburghparks.org/event/ kids-day-in-schenley-plaza

MARKET • IRL The Carnegie Farmers Market celebrates the conservation of monarch butterflies with the Butterfly Festival. The festival is held at the market with numerous activities, including crafting butterfly masks and artwork, educational materials, chalk drawing, butterfly hopscotch and more. Mayor Stacie Riley of the Carnegie

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12-3 p.m. E. Main St., Carnegie. Free. carnegieborough.com/monarch

EVENT • IRL The Irwin Business & Professional Association hosts C.A.R.L.Con - Collectables & Cosplay Show, a small convention for collectors at Shidle Hall. The event will feature various categories of collectibles to buy, sell, or admire, including vintage baseball cards, Golden Age comic books, Star Wars, local beer cans, and more.

C.A.R.L.Con will also include activities such as basket auctions and a cosplay contest, where guests are encouraged to dress up as their favorite characters.

Food from local vendors will be available as well. 12-5 p.m. 417 Main St., Irwin. $6. downtownirwin.com

MON., JULY 12 ANIMALS • IRL Explore the biodiversity of Africa’s wildlife during African Adventure at the National Aviary. The immersive show presents birds from the grasslands, savannahs, deserts, and tropical forests, including an African Penguin, a Grey Crowned-crane, and a Red-billed Hornbill. The ongoing show, presented by AAA Travel, will also teach viewers about how they can support conservation efforts in Africa. 11-11:30 a.m.

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7 p.m. Free. jumpcuttheater.org

WED., JULY 14 FILM • IRL Southside Works continues their summer long series, Movies On The Mon, with an outdoor screening of the 2009 romantic comedy Adventureland starring Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg. The plot follows young amusement park workers in summer 1987 and was shot in Pittsburgh’s very own Kennywood. The event begins with a live performance by Pittsburgh musician John Gresh.

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