Month: September 2016
US job of the week: senior designer at Aesop
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior designer at skincare brand Aesop, whose Chicago store features walls with bricks arranged in pinwheel pattern (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Ark Encounter / LeRoy Troyer
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- Architects: LeRoy Troyer
- Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Area: 235600.0 ft2
- Project Year: 2016
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- Client: Answers in Genesis/Crosswater Canyon
- Destination Concepts & Development: Cary Summers & LeRoy Troyer
- Answers In Genesis : Patrick Marsh; Exhibits & Theming
- Carpentry Amish Carpentry Crews From: Amish Carpentry Crews from IN, OH, PA, IL, KY, TN, GA
- Project Mechanical/Electrical: Ron Troyer, P.E. (Troyer Group)
- Project Structural Engineer: Jason Hickle, P.E. (Troyer Group)
- Structural Consultant : Tamarack Grove Engineering (Bow and Stern of Ark)
- Colorado Timber Frame: Heavy timber milling
- Roofing: TruCraft
- Structural Wood Systems : Glulams
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The one-of-a-kind Ark Encounter project, said to be the largest timber-framed structure in the world, has been completed in Williamstown, KY (40 miles south of Cincinnati, OH).
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A family-oriented, historically authentic, and environmentally friendly themed attraction, the Ark Encounter is a to-scale replica of the Biblical Noah’s Ark, which market studies suggest will see 1.2 – 2 million visitors annually. Phase 1 of the Ark Encounter also has a 1,500 person seat restaurant, zip line courses, and a petting zoo. The project began nearly 7 years ago with the planning and permitting process, now the Ark Encounter officially opened on July 7th, 2016.
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The Noah’s Ark story is about a man with great faith who built a large ship to hold his family and 2 of every living animal species to spare them from a catastrophic flood. Today, the life-sized reconstruction is a design feat unlike any other structure, and is a park for all to visit.
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Wright & Wright unveils first addition to London’s historic Lambeth Palace in over 180 years
12 Projects Announced as Winners of 2016 AIA Education Facility Design Awards
The American Institute of Architects (AIA)‘s Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) has announced the winners of the 2016 CAE Education Facility Design Awards, which honor educational facilities that “serve as an example of a superb place in which to learn, furthering the client’s mission, goals, and educational program, while demonstrating excellence in architectural design.”
This year’s theme was “Visioning and Re-Visioning,” which focused on “the ways in which pedagogical innovation and cutting-edge design impact and influence each other.” The AIA also notes that education facility design may now be more important than ever, as recent studies have indicated that a positive learning environment can affect a child’s academic progress over a year by as much as 25%.
Find out which projects received awards, after the break.
Award of Excellence: Henderson-Hopkins School; Baltimore, Maryland / Rogers Partners
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Associate Architect: Architects+Urban Designers
A 125,000-square-foot, K-8 partnership school and early childhood center is a progressive learning environment for children and a laboratory for the next generation of educators. The school is a cluster of “containers for learning” inspired by East Baltimore’s row houses, stoops, and social civic spaces. Through its intentionally porous, safe, urban plan, and the craftsmanship of light, materiality and performance, its design respects history and supports the future of education and of its neighborhood.
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Award of Excellence: Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School; Washington, DC / Studio Twenty Seven Architecture
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Mundo Verde is a bilingual, sustainability-focused public charter that consists of two buildings: the renewed and refined historic school and a new Pre-K annex. Within the older building, breakout nooks and cubbies are carved from the generous corridors and abandoned ventilation chases. New windows provide natural light to the building core. As in the Annex, high ceilings and grand window expanses are supported by highly coordinated building system integration. The Pre-K annex facade is designed to be deferential to the historic school. A third floor learning terrace, large window openings, and building orientation provide for light-filled classrooms which frame the natural landscape of the interior play court.
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Award of Excellence: Regional Plant 2 Teaching Facility, Wake Technical Community College; Raleigh, NC / Clark Nexsen
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Located at the entrance of Wake Tech Community College, building creates a gateway to the campus and symbolizes the merging of technology, education and sustainability. While the primary function of the Regional Plant is to house heating and cooling systems, the project was an opportunity to highlight the striking aesthetic of building technology and to create a unique educational experience that reveals technology’s role in preserving the beauty of the natural world. The building serves as an educational facility for teaching students about energy efficient building systems. A simple rectilinear glass and steel box with a perforated metal screen layer houses, screens and displays the technology and creates a unique educational space for the college.
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Award of Excellence: Richard Ivey Building, Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University; London, Ontario, Canada / Hariri Pontarini Architects
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Echoing the architecture of Western University’s campus, a full height great hall anchors the main circulation, with the dining hall, library and amphitheatre extending into the surrounding landscape as distinct pavilions. Designing from the inside out, the architects created spaces that support Ivey’s unique case-based and team learning pedagogy. The research-based design process involved numerous workshops and a survey of 60 top business schools. The building’s materials—stone, concrete, glass, copper, steel, walnut, and Douglas fir—were selected for their elemental and timeless qualities. Innovative site strategies and embedded technologies were employed to achieve a sustainable design.
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Award of Excellence: Seton Hill Arts Center, Seton Hill University; Greensburg, PA / designLAB architects
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Channeling the Pittsburgh area’s industrial heritage, the steel frame and metal clad building was conceived as a “Factory for the Arts.” The project features an outdoor Arts Yard where the making of 3D arts is visible from the commercial Main Street in its host city of Greensburg. The four-level facility features a full complement of studio spaces for traditional disciplines like painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, dance and theater, along with tech-heavy digital and graphic arts. The new building is an economic catalyst for the city’s cultural district, drawing local artists, gallery observers, and performing arts attendees to support and critique student work.
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Award of Excellence: Vol Walker Hall Renovation & The Steven L. Anderson Design Center, University of Arkansas; Fayetteville, AR / Marlon Blackwell Architects
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Associate Architect: Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects
The addition provides 37,000 square feet of new studio, faculty office, and seminar space as well as a 200 seat auditorium and an exhibition gallery. This project is a complex but resolute hybrid of a historic restoration and a contemporary insertion and expansion. Post-tensioned concrete and Indiana limestone honor the weight and substance of the historic, while the west-facing fritted glass brise-soleil and steel curtainwall create a contemporary figure. The overall design is a didactic model, establishing a tangible discourse between past and present, while providing state of the art facilities for 21st century architectural and design education.
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Award of Merit: Dwight-Englewood School Hajjar STEM Center; Englewood, NJ / Gensler
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This new building at Dwight-Englewood embodies the school’s STEM mission, while still blending into the existing campus. Designers found inspiration in the integrative STEM curriculum to create a facility that fosters a cross-disciplinary community and is adaptable to change. Inside, seven flexible classrooms and eight science labs center around a double height community area that serves as an “Innovation Hub” where students are free to explore. Moveable furniture, audio-visual capabilities and writable surfaces encourage students to “hack” the space and their own learning process. Contrasting with the classrooms’ brick and wood façades, the warm cedar exterior also allows the building’s character to shift with the seasons.
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Award of Merit: Fayetteville High School Addition and Renovation; Fayetteville, AR / Hight Jackson Associates
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Associate Architect: DLR Group and Marlon Blackwell Architects
To maintain its competitive advantage in academics, Fayetteville Public Schools tasked the design team to strategically re-structure its high school education program into a small learning community (SLC) model. At more than 500,000 square feet, this project is the largest civic project in Fayetteville over the past 50 years. SLCs are designed with core learning studios that feature discovery, project-based learning, digital and applied learning labs to foster collaboration. Distributed administration, resource centers and dining allow students to spend a majority of their day within their SLC. The addition features abundant glass and overlooks a new landscaped street that creates a collegiate campus feel reflective of the school’s ties to the University of Arkansas.
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Award of Merit: GateWay Community College Integrated Education Building; Phoenix, AZ / SmithGroupJJR
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As an anchor in the heart of campus, this 122,000-square-foot facility meshes an entire new campus of functions into a single three-story structure. The building integrates mediated classrooms with life and physical science labs, a campus library, learning center, one-stop-shop for student services, and a multi-purpose classroom for performing arts. Outdoor spaces, both at grade and at the upper levels of the building, provide a popular amenity and an enhancement to student community life. Such spaces include an accessible roof deck and other educational areas catering to different college and community functions throughout the year. The project is targeting LEED Gold Certification.
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Award of Merit: Harvard Business School, Tata Hall; Boston, MA / William Rawn Associates
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Located on the banks of the Charles River, the arc-shaped building creates a porous edge to the campus and a new sense of openness between the school and the city of Boston. Dedicated to the Executive Education program the building groups students into clusters of eight-person suites, each with a common space for work, collaboration and presentations. The detailing and performance of the exterior facade allows the transparency of the ground floors to expose the public parts of the building.
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Award of Merit: Indian Springs School; Birmingham, AL / Lake|Flato Architects
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Associate Architect: Architecture Works
The 350-acre boarding and day school campus, originally planned by the Olmsted Brothers, was functional and serviceable but aging facilities were inhibiting the growth of educational programs and opportunities. This first phase of a comprehensive master plan includes new academic and administrative buildings and complementary landscapes that create a memorable, meaningful place. Porch ceilings and overhangs are crafted of wood and are natural frames of the surrounding environment. Roof monitors on the buildings provide daylighting to each classroom, while a storefront system and high-performance glazing afford views along the covered walkways and to the campus beyond. The project is targeting LEED Silver certification.
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Award of Merit: Kennedy Child Study Center; East Harlem, NY / Pell Overton Architects
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Renovating a 1930’s warehouse building, the design team’s adaptive reuse of the 25,000-square-foot space presented a number of difficult challenges, including an unusually low ceiling and absence of any natural light. In response, one primary design feature took the form of a series of large, colorful lighting bays cut into the otherwise smooth ceiling effectively creating the perception of greater height and illumination from above. To further address the compressed nature of the lower floor, the administrative offices are arranged around two large open work areas, providing direct visual access to new windows and allowing natural daylight to filter deeper into the floor.
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The jury for the 2016 Educational Facility Design Awards included: Karina Ruiz, AIA (Chair), DOWA-IBI Group Architects; Christina Alvarez, Delaware Design Lab HS; Helena L. Jubany, FAIA, NAC/Architecture; Bruce Lindsey, AIA, Washington University in St. Louis; Zachary Neubauer, University of Portland and Steve Ziger, AIA, Ziger/Snead Architects.
For more information on the winning projects, visit the AIA website, here.
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Four Simple Ways to Teach Your Kids to Say “NO” to Junk Foods
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Brightly colored candy wrappers, cartoon characters on packages and treats that pop out of toys- I can’t even begin to count all of the junk food obstacles we are faced with every time we leave our house.
Then, one time in the grocery store, I made the mistake of turning my already tired child around to face the drink cooler… “Ooh, mommy look! Seltzer Water! I want it pleeaaaaase!”
Unfortunately, it’s not seltzer water- it’s soda. After a long discussion that resulted in us settling on a bottle of unsweetened tea, it was finally our turn to check out and get out of the store.
This is not a new concern for anyone trying to get their kids to eat healthy and keep their families in top shape.
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Personally, I feel like I am in a never-ending battle with my kids whenever I need to tell them why the fun foods are not good for them. Sometimes, I resort to telling my son that his muscles will disappear if he eats sugary candy. I know that method isn’t going to work forever, but this new three-year-old kid is excited about the fact that he will have big muscles one day.
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You can’t shield your kids from the temptation of eating sweet treats in every situation. Eventually, they’ll be going to places without you. They’ll hang out with their grandparents who don’t know how to say no. They’ll go off to birthday parties and school events where you can’t control what they put in their mouths.
I have discovered that, as a mom, I could either stress myself out about the foods they eat OR I could instill a good foundation of healthy eating. I choose to teach them how to make good food choices so that even though I may not be with them all the time, I know they’ll be conscious about the foods they eat.
Here are 4 (yes, just 4!) simple ways to train your kids to say no to junk foods:
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1. Teach them to cook
Even at 3, my son helps me in the kitchen. He can add ingredients that I measure out for him. He loves to mix or chop with a plastic knife.
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When kids cook food, they become proud of it and will likely feel more encouraged to eat it.
My goal is to teach my kids about real food and real ingredients as they grow up. This is to help them learn how to pay attention to the ingredients they eat along the way.
2. Packed lunches and treats are the new fast foods!
I get teased for bringing my own snacks, but it’s always good to know that I have a treat for my family if ever they get hungry.
When I send my kids to their grandparents for the weekend, I always send “approved” treats in hopes that they will eat them instead of the treats from their grandparents’ candy jar. I pack my husband lunch every day, too.
See Also: How To Eat Your Vegetables Without Trying
3. Talk to your kids about healthy choices
Kids are not too young to start learning about health.
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We teach our kids about how meat helps our brain grow and how broccoli makes us strong. We talk about how having too many sugary treats makes us hyper or sick.
My son is always telling on his grandmother for giving him ice cream or candy because he knows I wouldn’t let him have those things. While he is only three, he is starting to get the idea that there are foods mommy and daddy don’t like him to have.
4.Create alternatives and special moments
We have a few “go-to” treats that we allow in our house on occasion, whether they are Paleo baked goods or almond milk ice cream. I know my husband loves ice cream. So, in the summer, we go out for special ice cream dates and we talk about how we are on a special adventure.
We aren’t teaching our kids that they cannot ever have a sweet. What we are teaching them is that we can’t eat junk food all day, every day. I want my kids to understand that foods can heal or harm the body depending on how one eats them.
See Also: Five Useful Tips for Healthy Grocery Shopping
It really is a tough job to raise healthy kids in a world full of unhealthy foods. Saying “No” and preparing yourself for the EPIC meltdown that could follow is not fun. But, knowing that my kids rarely get sick and that they enjoy foods grown in a garden makes all the hard work worth it.
Kids are the future of our world and setting them up for success should start with the foods they eat.
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