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Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden / Ayers Saint Gross

November 06, 2024

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Architects: Ayers Saint Gross
Manufacturers: Terrazzo & Marble

One Hundred / Studio Gang

October 26, 2024

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Architects: Studio Gang
Area: 520000 ft²
Year: 2020
Manufacturers: Lorin Industries, Terrazzo & Marble
Professionals: Magnusson Klemencic Associates, dbHMS, Charles E. Jarrell Contracting Co, Sachs Electric Company, DeLuca Plumbing, +9

Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis

July 03, 2023

This fall the Pulitzer Arts Foundation gleans insights into pressing issues of the built environment by way of building artifacts, the architectural salvage left in the wake of urban renewal and accelerated material change in St. Louis. Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis presents more than 25 objects—from a theater façade to a hand-pressed clay brick—drawn from the National Building Arts Center (NBAC), the nation’s largest collection of architectural, structural, and industrial artifacts, located in a former steel foundry 10 minutes from St. Louis’s downtown.

Washington University McKelvey School of Engineering / Perkins Eastman

February 17, 2022

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Architects: Perkins Eastman
Area: 86400 ft²
Year: 2021
Professionals: Michael Vergason Landscape Architects, KPFF, Cole, Ross & Barruzzini, McCarthy Building Company, +2

Gateway Arch Museum / Cooper Robertson

July 03, 2018

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Architects: Cooper Robertson
Area: 47000 ft²
Year: 2018
Manufacturers: Terrazzo & Marble, Electrix Illumination

AD Classics: Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project / Minoru Yamasaki

May 15, 2017

Few buildings in history can claim as infamous a legacy as that of the Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project of St. Louis, Missouri. Built during the height of Modernism this nominally innovative collection of residential towers was meant to stand as a triumph of rational architectural design over the ills of poverty and urban blight; instead, two decades of turmoil preceded the final, unceremonious destruction of the entire complex in 1973. The fall of Pruitt-Igoe ultimately came to signify not only the failure of one public housing project, but arguably the death knell of the entire Modernist era of design.

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PXSTL / Freecell Architecture

May 21, 2014

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Architects: Freecell Architecture
Area: 2400 ft²
Year: 2014
Professionals: J.E. Novack Construction, Robert Silman Associates

PXSTL Competition Finalist Proposal / Freecell Architecture

August 02, 2013

Freecell Architecture's proposal for the PXSTL Competition was recently announced one of the three finalists by the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University. Participants were asked to reimagine a vacant lot in St. Louis’ Grand Center cultural district while exploring the critical role arts and culture play in creating vibrant, growing communities. The competition aims to demonstrate how small-scale interventions can spur large-scale urban transformation, and Freecell's proposal was selected for their ability to visualize Grand Center’s long-term vitality, emphasizing community engagement, interactive elements, and cross-disciplinary collaboration among St. Louis’ many cultural organizations. More images and information after the break.

St. Louis Public Library / Cannon Design

April 12, 2013

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Architects: CannonDesign
Year: 2012
Manufacturers: 3M, Designtex, Ellison Bronze, Lutron, Color Kinetics, +54ELEVATE, Erco, Interface, Sherwin-Williams, Signify, Zurn, Armstrong Ceilings, BASWA acoustic, Belden, CertainTeed, Cooper Lighting, Daikin, Delta Faucet, ELP, Eaton's Lighting Division, Elka, Engraphix, Expanko, Focal Point Lights, Forms + Surfaces, G Lighting, Global Granite, Golterman & Sabo, Gotham Lighting, Gravois Planing Mill, HAWS, Irwin Seating Company, Karastan, Kurt Versen, McGrory Glass, Mecho Systems, Modern Metals, Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope, Paintsmiths, Polycor, Pulp Studio, RPG, Rigidized Metals Corporation, Roppe, Rulon International, Selux, Skyline Design, Spacesaver, Stuart Dean, Tandus Centiva, The Lighting Quotient, Total Door Systems, USG Ceilings, VT Industries, Viracon, WASCO Skylights, Wausau Window and Wall Systems, YKK AP, Zahner-54

'Future of Cities' Daniel Libeskind Lecture

March 29, 2013

Taking place this coming Tuesday, April 2nd at 6:30pm, Daniel Libeskind, one of the most celebrated architects working today, will be delivering the 'Future of Cities' lecture as part of the Assembly Series at Washington University in St. Louis. His presentation, sponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the Architecture Student Council, is free and open to the public and will take place in Graham Chapel. Well known for his Jewish Museum in Berlin, the museum’s radical, strikingly asymmetrical design, is a true icon for the city and the country of Germany. He has received numerous awards including the 2001 Hiroshima Art Prize - an award given to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace, never before given to an architect. Fore more information, please visit here.