Steven Holl's Bloch Building was completed over three years ago, but even now the beautiful extension to the Nelson-Atkins Muesum of Art in Kansas City continues to garner significant acclaim. The luminous energy-efficient modern art museum boasts a green roof garden and a beautiful translucent facade that floods the interior spaces with light throughout the day. The extension serves to compliment the existing buildings by bringing a modern green vision to the historic museum.
[...] 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..