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Ordos 100 | Inner Mongolia [ AIA/BSA Unbuilt Architecture & Design Award ]
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Czech National Library
Prague, Czech Republic [international competition, jury selection] As both a secure repository of books and a symbolic civic building, a national library must negotiate the spatial dichotomy between storage and display. Through a strategy of ‘light monumentality’ the book stacks are formed into a curved two-way truss that protects and defines a public winter-garden […]
Asian Cultural Complex
Gwangju, Korea [honorable mention, international competition] The act of encircling has both literal and metaphorical meanings: In an urban environment like Gwangju, encircling implies both the demarcation of a special precinct within the city’s existing fabric as well as the creation of a new public common ground. Providing a porous, non-hierarchical edge to the urban […]
BAC-Sasaki Exhibition
Boston, MA SsD was selected to design and exhibit recent work in the BAC gallery on Newbury Street in Boston as well as teach a cross-discplinary studio as Distinguished Visiting Critics. Funded by the Hideo Sasaki Foundation, the work revolved around the notion of ‘socio-structural’ – how structural solutions can converge with ideas of shaping […]
Big Dig House in CNN Money
Six years after its completion, the Big Dig House is still receiving much attention. Instead of the initial ‘wow factor’ of the house however, the project is being looked at as a new way of thinking: It is an example of how we can salvage material that typically goes into our waste stream. As ‘down-cycling’ […]
Framing completed for White Block Gallery
The structural frame for the White Block Gallery has recently been completed. Matt Johnson of SGH helped us design a 'wall-umn' system (wall + column) so that the interior spaces are free of columnar obstructions giving the curators more spatial opportunities to display art and media. Distributing the load to many smaller columns rather than a […]
Boston Harbor Pavilion
Boston, MA [honorable mention, international competition] It is the reciprocal edge between water and land that makes an island an extraordinary natural resource and public amenity. As an urban gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands, the structural roof-form or this design becomes a literal/metaphorical reference to this junction of water and land. Where the ‘actual’ […]