The winner of the 2008 AIA Institute Honor Award along with a slew of other awards and recognitions (even one from Vanity Fair), the Bloch Building has helped put Steven Holl on the map as well as the Kansas City cultural scene. Designed to create contrast, the project was envisioned as a “Feather to the Stone” of the original museum. Light, airy, open and outwardly directed, the extension consists of a series of five “light lenses” that feature open floor plans, views of the surrounding sculpture gardens, and light-filled spaces. The light lenses are made of translucent glass and serve to gather, diffuse and refract light into the museum during the day, providing a naturally daylit interior. At night, the interior lighting shines out of the lenses to illuminate the museum like a glowing beacon.
[...] new Resnick Pavilion is part of a larger redevelopment plan for the art museum called the Transformation. The impressive endeavor includes the neighboring five-story Broad [...]
[...] new studio, teaching and research building. The project focuses on reducing energy use by providing daylight infiltration deep within the building. Recycled glass is used exclusively throughout the entire facade of the [...]
[...] working today. His architectural work is widely recognized and covers extensive ground ranging from museums, educational facilities, residences, and much more – but it has been his carefully [...]
A friend, Dan, and I brainstormed brick shaped plastic bottles, interlocking (tongue & groove), to reduce waste, offer free building blocks, reducing amount of space taken for storage of normal shaped soap, soda, etc., bottles, in addition to reducing brick production polution. Just fill them with the dirt under your feet. Talking the companies into switching to standard sized, interchangable bottles may be slow at the beginning, but, the others would fall ino step, out of goodheartedness, guilt and reason, like people are buying the green over black products..