ART & MEDIA INSPIRED THEORY & DESIGNS, RESOURCES, COMMISSIONS, RELATED LARGE SCALE PROJECTS
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DM Building Products Company Design Proposal, Brooklyn, NY, 2012-3. Revisit and remagining of urban image and marketing potential of colored building products panel line to re-present and showcase new directions in building curtainwall to market products of existing NYC builing product distributor. Use of colored panel product as stop motion architectural element on the flank of main warehouse building to arrest attention. Linked outboard advertising constructions, at grade in the manner of David Smith, sculptor, and in a traditional raised corner billboard, designed as a collage..
Harlem River Yards Venture, South Bronx, NY. Office and Spanning Portal Building. Entry Advertising and Entry Building to South Bronx, NYC Industrial Yard, including currently Fresh Direct Distribution and Fed Ex. Adjacent to the RFK Bridge over the East River. Prefab bridge design, from Excel Bridge, San Mateo, CA, presented here as office and entry control building for the entire riverfront complex. Prefab tube brought in intact from CA across the George washington Bridge. 2012-14.
Golz Motors. Building over Building. Deerfield, Illinois. 2008-10. Cost and Space efficient architectural proposal to exploit capital potential of site, by expanding current luxury automobile enterprise up and over former masonry printing plant. Separate custom 100' spanning warrent truss designs, designed by Thornton Tomasetti SE, Chicago. bearing precast hollow core concrete planking to bear 40 automobiles. Alternate structural studies with simple fixed moment framing.
Interiors Designs Studies for Use of 24,000 gsf Gymnasium. Culture, Assembly, Sports Events. for Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL. Commissioned Design. 1997. Feasibility and Technical Studies for a variety of collegiate uses of large intact institutional building. Use studies ranged from large scale Athletic, including Fitness Center and Olympic Pool, to Collegiate Indoor Assembly and Theater, University Resources Center. Media and messaging in relation to Building Repurposing, intersection of traditional architectural languages with contemporary design programming and needs.
ASFA | Alabama High School for the Fine Arts. Birmingham, AL. Private Urban high school for the Fine and Lively Arts. Dormitories, library, Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Studios, Theaters, Classrooms. Competition Proposal for New Construction. 1990. Establishing and validating the relation of Art and Media to the Urban Community.;
Estonia Academy for the Fine Arts. Tallin, Estonia. New 100,000 ten story long span concrete School for the Arts. In the model of the Glass Art Factory, Bauhaus, 1931-5. Urban Longspan Concrete 10 story Glass Building for Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Theater Arts. Glass Art Factory set in the Heart of the City. Building as Billboard Building as Message. Pivotal Role of Artistic and Media Narrative in Culture. Includes Black Box Theater. Competition Proposal for New Construction. Shortlisted. 2008 ;
PAC | Performing Arts Center, Site Design incl. Exterior Media. Milwaukee, WI. Redesign of Urban Park to include Electronic Billboard in Building Aracade, LCD Urban Kiosk, Riverfront Reworked Dining Pavilion, Urban Landscape RiverFront Park. Design adjacent to Uhlein Symphony Concert Hall. Competition Proposal. Exterior Site and Media Design. 1990;
Electronic Student Media Center. for Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL. Flexible Use Multipurpose Student Social Center, for Traditional and Electronic Arts, Lectures, Performances, etc..Commissioned Design. 1997.
Armani Store, Michigan Avenue & Oak Streets, Chicago, IL, 1980. Interior Design and Detail. Showcases, Exhibtion, Materials, Finishes. Redesigned, rebuilt by Others, 2015 ff..