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Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
- Area: 93500 ft²
- Year: 2019
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Billie Jean King Main Library / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
The Rainbow Bridge / SPF: architects
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Architects: SPF: architects
- Area: 10800 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Carl Stahl, B-K Lighting, Drinking Fountain, Flouronar, Lumenpulse, +3
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Professionals: Hood Design Studio, Arup
Aquarium of the Pacific Reveals New Design for Major Expansion
San Francisco-based architecture firm, EHDD, has just unveiled their design for Pacific Visions, a 29,000 square foot, two-story expansion for one of the nation’s largest aquariums, the Aquarium of the Pacific. Pacific Visions' facilities will integrate the arts and research sciences which will allow visitors to understand the world’s oceans. The expansion is scheduled to open in the fall of 2018.
(RE) Configured-Ecologies: Recycled Shipping Container Structures to Revive Long Beach
The city of Long Beach, California recently asked firms WE-designs and XP& Architecture to design a landmark project to revitalize its downtown area using a low budget. The initial ideas are represented here as a series of re-configured old shipping containers, truncated and placed upright. The futuristic cluster of low rise buildings, called (RE) Configured-Ecologies, may eventually become multi-use space with an open playground feel. It will comprise of an education center, a café, retail space and 13 work/live loft spaces as well as an open roof terrace. Through proposing three types of innovatively reconstructed modular shipping containers, the overall construct leads to open courtyards, interlocking units, and playfully generated programs that introduce a new innovative topological creation that regenerates and reconnects the community.
More images after the break!
New City Farm / Studio One Eleven
Our friends from Studio One Eleven have just broken ground on Long Beach’s newest urban farm. The design is an extension of the New City School, a charter campus within the Long Beach Unified School District, that will teach children important lessons about the environment and nutrition.”The need to grow locally, provide affordable organic foods, and reconnect people to the land is an issue we are very passionate about at Studio One Eleven. All of our projects…represent our interest in improving the natural and built environment while creating a better community,” explained Michael Bohn, principal of the firm.
More images and more about the urban farm after the break.