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Month: October 2016
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David Adjaye’s firm to masterplan San Francisco shipyard revitalisation
British firm Adjaye Associates has announced that it will serve as masterplan architect for the redevelopment of The San Francisco Shipyard neighbourhood. Read more
Ancestry / Rapt Studio
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- Architects: Rapt Studio
- Location: W Traverse Pkwy, Lehi, UT 84043, United States
- Chief Creative Director: David Galullo
- Team Lead: Christine Shaw
- Project Architect: Jeffrey Warren
- Area: 132.396 ft2
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Jeremy Bitterman
- Senior Designer : Tanja Pink
- Designers: Joanna Paull, Sarah Hirschman, Andrea Hsieh
- Art Director: Sam Gray
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From the architect. Every single one of us is a living, breathing collection of data. Ancestry can take that data — any kind of data, really — and translate it into stories of human connection. The story of Ancestry itself is a tale of family, genealogy, migration, and attention to detail. To create the company’s ideal space, Rapt Studio brought all those components together, turning abstract ideas into something you can touch, see, and feel.
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That meant making sure the space felt like home for both the young, agile tech side of things and Ancestry’s longtime employees — self-described “crusty book nerds” who’ve been there for nearly four decades. Throughout the building, you can find portraits of senior employees paired with archival photographs of their relatives found through the website. It shows firsthand how historical imagery gets personal in context.
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At the entry point to the building, there’s a multicolored, multidimensional graphic installation in the lobby. The different colors represent different ancestries of various populations, like you might see in a map showing migrations over time. Because the colors are repeated, it suggests a kind of shared global heritage. It’s one of many examples of the link between family and global genealogy, including break areas and family rooms that serve as central, collaborative spaces on each floor. These are supplemented by a variety of dens, living rooms, and kitchen tables arranged to help teams work and relax side-by- side. The cafe is a nod to “Sunday dinner at Grandma’s house,” and includes a long,communal table beside a pizza oven, surrounded by decorative plates from around the world. It reminds us of the shared ways we all break bread together.
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Ancestry goes beyond connecting you to a long-lost relative. It can also show you how we all go back to just a few big populations, a few big families. Now it has a headquarters built on that brand principle and identity.
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Light Installation Diagram
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Theresa May: back from Brussels but still in fantasy land | John Crace
After putting EU leaders in their place over the weekend the prime minister revealed her Brexit masterplan: we are going to make it up as we go along
What a difference a few days can make. On Friday, Theresa May had looked rattled at the indifference with which she had been treated. A “pff” here and a “bof” there had been the only tangible evidence of anyone having taken any notice of her presence in Brussels at the European council summit. But now she’d had time to reflect on her performance it had been nothing less than a total triumph.
Far from being a graveyard slot, the five minutes she had been given – “if you must, Theresa” – long after dinner had finished and everyone had gone to bed was absolute primetime. Didn’t everyone always leave the most important item on the agenda till after “Any Other Business”? And those noises her insecurity had allowed her to think of as snores were, now she came to think of it, purrs of approval.
Related: UK will need interim EU deal before Brexit, says ex-Foreign Office chief
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