Stanford University Sarafan ChEM-H (Chemistry, Engineering & Medicine for Human Health) and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Designed to innovatively co-locate two emerging research institutes – Stanford Neurosciences Institute and Stanford Chemistry, Engineering Medicine and Human Health (ChEM-H), the building houses leading and rising scientific minds investigating fundamental problems in neuroscience, chemistry, engineering, and medicine. https://player.vimeo.com/video/728139233?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 The building’s massing and activated ground floor plan take advantage of its pivotal location on campus […]
The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering, Engineering Education and Research Center
https://player.vimeo.com/video/254040310?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 The breadth of Engineering education has seen a massive explosion of diversity and increasing potential for real life applications. The EERC is designed to not only meet these and future challenges through architecture but to do so with the recognition that both students and faculty are part of one communal collaborative effort to find […]
Anderson Collection at Stanford University
We took full advantage of the abundant natural California sunlight while protecting the extremely valuable, light-sensitive pieces within the building to produce a bright gallery for this outstanding collection. Richard Olcott, Design Partner Part of a University directive to develop a prominent arts district, this new gallery building provides an inviting home for the Anderson […]
University of North Texas Denton Business Leadership Center
Conceived as a marketplace – the root of all business transactions – the Center is a series of discrete buildings surrounding and organized by a “public square.” This strategy addresses the vast scale of the school and creates a central gathering place where students, faculty and professionals interact in large or small groups, formally or […]
Natural History Museum of Utah
https://player.vimeo.com/video/326676101?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 Utah’s natural environment memorializes the story of how human beings interpreted their world and their land over one thousand years ago. The material quality of the building’s exterior roots it in its context, recalling the importance of landscape in Utah’s human and natural history. Todd Schliemann, Design Partner Utah’s singular landscape and the ways […]
The Santa Fe Opera
The design is contextual, yet evocative of distant times and places: its roof form subtly echoes the profiles of the surrounding mountains and evokes the billowing tents associated with itinerant festivals appropriate to opera’s origins and Santa Fe Opera’s summer season. James S. Polshek, Design Partner The waved roof of this formally-striking, technically-sophisticated and enlarged […]
The Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA
My conceptual approach to the design envisions the theater as a playful assemblage of forms, which actively choreographs the theater experience and expresses the energy and spirit of the multi-cultural arts community. Todd Schliemann, Project Designer The tension between purely architectonic concerns and social ones is expressed in the design of this flexible, state-of-the-art public […]