The days are longer, the temperature is rising, and we can practically smell the burgers sizzling on the grill. As you prepare for the summer entertaining season, make your deck garden party-ready with a fresh coat of paint or stain in one of the top expert-recommended deck colors of the year.
“We’re naturally spending more time outside, so you want to make your exterior spaces, whether that’s a patio or balcony, an extension of your home,” says Tash Bradley, director of interior design at Lick. A fresh coat of paint is a sure way to freshen up your deck and inject it with personality. Whether you’re re-staining the entire deck or simply adding a few painted planters, she recommends using Lick’s Red 03 as an accent color to create a Mediterranean al-fresco dining feel or using Pink 04 to embrace the Barbiecore trend. For other ideas on the best deck colors for your outdoor space, take a look at these expert picks.
Muted Blue
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“The blue family is becoming a popular color choice for the deck,” says Sue Kim, director of color marketing at Valspar. She expects Blue Twilight, a muted blue-gray shade that sets a calm and contemporary scene in your backyard, to prosper this summer. “Blue is a timeless choice, and the gray undertone elevates the finished look with understated luxury,” she says.
Rich Mahogany
Courtesy of Benjamin Moore
Spruce up an old deck with Mahogany ES-60, a semi-transparent stain in a rich, warm brown. “Semi-transparent stains enhance the beauty of the wood with color while still allowing most of the wood’s natural grain and texture to show through,” says Hannah Yeo, manager of color marketing and development at Benjamin Moore. Mahogany pairs well with various colors, making it a versatile deck color choice.
When choosing a stain color, Yeo recommends paying attention to the wood type, the opacity of the stain, and the color. “The combination of these three elements will greatly impact the final look,” she says.
Deep Chocolate Brown
Courtesy of Sherwin-Williams
Give your deck a makeover with Chestnut SW 3524, a rich chocolatey brown stain by Sherwin-Williams. “Pair this stain with lighter-colored furniture to contrast its dark hue, like white or light beige,” suggests Dennis Fiorilli, director of product excellence and Sherwin-Williams. The SuperDeck Exterior Waterborne Solid Color Deck Stain provides durable, opaque color offering lasting protection against weathering, chipping, and cracking. It also contains agents that inhibit the growth of mildew, so you won’t have to reapply stain as frequently.
Grounding Green
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams
Increase your proximity to nature by painting your deck Pewter Green HGSW6208, a dark mossy green that is elegant and grounding. Whether you’re in the city or somewhere more remote, “embracing the colors of nature on the exterior of your home will conjure a calming environment,” says Ashley Banbury, manager of color marketing for HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams. Pewter Green is also a great shade for highlighting architectural features, like doors, architraves, and exterior shutters.
Midtone Golden Brown
Courtesy of Dunn-Edwards
Celebrate the natural warmth and color of your wood deck with Handcrafted DESS15, a rustic, midtone brown stain with a warm, ochre orange undertone. “Inspired by the trend of creating objects by hand, from artwork and furnishings to home interiors and outdoor gardenscapes, Handcrafted celebrates vintage and classic design,” McLean says. The rich, golden brown stain color is simple and practical yet feels immediately welcoming and grounding, making it the perfect pick for your deck or front porch.
Deep, Sophisticated Brown
Courtesy of Behr
Behr recently named Cordovan Brown its first-ever Exterior Wood Stain Color of the Year. “It’s a rich, satisfying finish for a sophisticated and timeless look in any residential or commercial outdoor space,” says Erika Woelfel, vice president of color and creative services at Behr. The deep brown stain pairs well with beige, gray, and soft off-whites, like Blank Canvas, to create contrast. “Use it on its own for a complete transformation or as a finishing touch to refresh your deck, patio, or entryway spaces ahead of the outdoor entertaining season,” she says.
Cool Gray
Courtesy of Benjamin Moore
“Out of 3,500+ colors available in Benjamin Moore Arborcoat solid stain, Sea Gull Gray ES-72 is one of my top picks,” says Yeo. “As a mid-tone neutral gray, it balances warm and cool, making it easy to color-coordinate.”The warm gray tone also compliments natural materials such as brick, slate, and stone. Solid stains provide the most shielding and color, making it an excellent choice for old decks or homeowners wanting to make a color statement.
Sage Green-Gray
Courtesy of Dunn-Edwards
“Smoky Brushland DESS27 is a muted sage green color with a hint of gray and is part of our SOLID-COLOR Exterior Deck, Fence, and Siding Stain Collection,” says Sara McLean, color expert and stylist at Dunn-Edwards. She expects this sage shade to fly off the shelf this summer as questions of sustainability and wellness remain at the forefront of design trends. “Emphasis is placed on quaint, homey ideals and rustic elements as customers crave spaces of refuge,” she says.
Inside is the sister festival of the World Architecture Festival (WAF), the world’s biggest live architectural awards programme, celebrating the very best in interior design. Both Inside and WAF finalists will present their projects to a panel of judges live at the international festival in Singapore.
The 2024 Inside Shortlist represents over 80 interior projects from across the globe, in cities including: New York City, Dubai, Beijing, Osaka, São Paolo, Phuket, Delhi, Auckland, Mexico City, Lisbon, and London. Leading design firms to feature in this year’s shortlist include Foster + Partners, Broadway Malyan, Nikken Sekkei and Office AIO. Many emerging design firms will also be on stage, live pitching against the big names.
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It celebrates the best new completed interiors across ten categories, ranging from Hotels to Workplace, and Residential to Retail, each giving a window into the most cutting-edge interior design concepts and trends from around the world.
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Inside and WAF will be back in Singapore for its 17th edition. This follows previous editions of the festival in Lisbon, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Berlin. In addition to the unique live-judged awards programme and crit presentations, this year’s event will include a live events programme with keynote talks and insightful seminars from an international panel of speakers around the theme of ‘Tomorrow’.
On the final day of the festival, category winners from across all ten Inside awards will go head-to-head for the accolade of 2024 Interior of the Year. On the same day the WAF finalists will compete against each other for Landscape of the Year, Future Project of the Year and World Building of the Year.
Amongst the interiors projects to be shortlisted this year are the Zhengze School by WIT Design & Research, the renovation of an abandoned paper mill in Beijing into a primary school, the Embassy of Australia, Washington D.C., by Bates Smart, and The Fennia Block, by Olla Architecture, which sees the redevelopment of a historic block in the centre of Helsinki, Finland into a restaurant and retail space.
Shortlisted Public Buildings include the Young V&A in east London, by AOC Architecture and De Matos Ryan, the UK’s first national museum built with and for young people, and the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra Hall, by MAMA architects, celebrating Lithuanian culture through innovative acoustics and design.
The full shortlist for this year’s Inside projects can be viewed here.
Inside programme director Paul Finch comments: “A welcome increase in entries this year has given the shortlisting judges a pleasant challenge – with a record number of finalists heading to Singapore this year. Emerging trends include vivid colours, greater use of planting, and the creation of innovative hybrid spaces for multiple uses. We look forward to meeting the finalists this November, and to rewarding creative work of a very high standard.”
Last week, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced funding dedicated to the protection and restoration of 30 lesser-known, at-risk sites across the United States with enduring ties to Black history through its African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. Of those 30 endangered sites, eight of them will share $3.1 million in historic preservation-dedicated grants supported by the Getty Foundation’s Conserving Black Modernism program. The initiative is an offshoot of the foundation’s larger Keeping it Modern grant program, which bestowed 77 grants amounting to a collective $11.8 million between 2014 and 2020 with the aim of safeguarding and sustaining vulnerable works of Modern architecture across the globe. The just-announced round of Conserving Black Modernism funding follows an inaugural round in 2022–2023. During that cycle, there were also eight awarded sites, all of them works by Black architects and designers, including sites in Watts, California, and Wichita, Kansas.
Azurest South, Petersburg, Virginia, by Amaza Lee Meredith. Photo by Hannah Price, courtesy National Trust for Historic Preservation
The sites selected for this round of funding are no less programmatically and geographically diverse, with grantees including Amaza Lee Meredith’s Azurest South at Virginia State University, which is the first building in the program to be designed by a Black woman, and two works—a community center and a home/studio—designed by trailblazing Buffalo architect Robert T. Coles. Also included is an early project by J. Max Bond Jr., a namesake founder of Davis Brody Bond.
“With Conserving Black Modernism, we’ve taken actionable steps to save endangered sites that represent African American activism, creativity, and resilience,” said Joan Weinstein, director of the Getty Foundation, in an announcement revealing the 2024 grantees. “Our partnership with the National Trust has been critical to supporting cultural heritage that embodies Black excellence in modern architecture.”
Below is a list of all eight 2024 Conserving Black Modernism grant awardees, including brief descriptions of the sites and details about how the funding provided by the Getty Foundation will be used.
Azurest South | Petersburg, Virginia
Completed in 1934, Azurest South is the home and studio designed by the pioneering African American architect Amaza Lee Meredith. Located on the Virginia State University campus, where she established the Fine Arts program and lived with her partner Dr. Edna Meade Colson, the home is a colorful example of the International Style. Funding will support the implementation of a conservation management plan for the building.
Dansby, Brawley, and Wheeler Halls at Morehouse College | Atlanta
Leon Allain, a prominent African American architect in the Atlanta area, designed Dansby, Brawley, and Wheeler halls at Morehouse College in the early 1970s. Funding will support building assessments and a Historic Structures Report for the three halls.
Ira Aldridge Theater, Washington, D.C., by Hilyard Robinson and Paul R. Williams. Photo by Visual 14, courtesy National Trust for Historic Preservation
Ira Aldridge Theater, Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University | Washington, D.C.
The Ira Aldridge Theater was named for a famed 19th-century African American actor, best known for his performances of Shakespeare. Designed by Hilyard Robinson and Paul R. Williams, the theater was completed in 1961 as part of Howard University’s campus. Funding will support a Historic Structures Report and an interpretation plan.
John F. Kennedy Community Center | Buffalo
The JFK Community Center was designed by Robert T. Coles as his thesis project at MIT and completed in 1963. The building currently hosts a range of nonprofits and community activities. Funding will support a comprehensive preservation plan.
Kenneth G. Neigh Dormitory Complex | West Point, Mississippi
Designed by J. Max Bond Jr. and completed in 1970, the Kenneth G. Neigh Dormitory Complex is currently in an advanced state of deterioration as Mary Holmes Community College has been closed since 2005. Funding will support an adaptive reuse feasibility study for the complex.
Masjid Muhammad, Nations Mosque, Washington, D.C. by David R. Byrd. Photo by EA Crunden, courtesy National Trust for Historic Preservation
Masjid Muhammad, Nations Mosque | Washington, D.C.
Completed in 1960, Masjid Mohammad, Nations Mosque was designed by David R. Byrd. The building represents one of the oldest Black Muslim congregations in the U.S. Funding will support engineering and environmental studies for the building’s planned expansion, in addition to limited capital improvements.
Universial Life Insurance Co. Building, Memphis, by McKissack and McKissack. Photo by Trey Clark, courtesy National Trust for Historic Preservation
Robert T. Coles House | Buffalo
Robert T. Coles, the first African American Chancellor of the American Institute of Architects, designed and built his house and studio in 1961. The two-story building is composed of prefabricated units set back in a garden and courtyard. Funding will support a Historic Structures Report, conservation plan, and a reuse and feasibility study.
Universal Life Insurance Co. Building | Memphis
Designed in 1947 by McKissack and McKissack, one of the oldest existing Black-owned architectural firms in the U.S, the Universal Life Insurance Company Building was completed in 1949. Funding will support a cultural interpretation plan and critical repairs to certain sections of the building.
Text description provided by the architects. This project is located in Houjie Town, Dongguan City, which used to be the building complex of the First Industrial Zone in the Liaoxia district. With due consideration for the comprehensive protection and utilization of the existing old industrial buildings, we aim to transform them into a cultural and creative complex neighborhood——“Houjie Times”, themed around industrial culture and urban striving spirit.
The architectural complex itself embodies a microcosm of the contemporary history of economic development in the Pearl River Delta. The original factory site located in the town center, faced growing consumer demands of the surrounding population and synchronous trends in consumption upgrading. This presented a need for current diverse consumption scenes, making it an optimal site for the new spirit of Houjie, leading to the inception of the “Houjie Times” project. In consideration of this context, we approach the project concerning the original building’s construction logic.
We adopt a restrained and precise approach of addition and subtraction on the original building’s skeletal framework. The design strategy primarily involves the removal of the aging outer decorative layers, exposing the structural framework to highlight the distinctive construction features of the industrial factory buildings from that era. This approach is not only rooted in the protection and utilization of industrial architecture but also in the inheritance and continuation of its era-specific memories and characteristics.
Building upon this spatial foundation, we then employ an “addition” strategy by incorporating scaffolding as a featuring element of facade installation which is commonly seen in construction sites. This not only introduces a sense of high innovation to the space but also shapes the project’s unique overall image, creating memorable points and enhancing recognition. More importantly, the lightweight nature of these materials and the flexible construction method align perfectly with Houjie’s continuous development process of adapting to changing times. Even in the face of the rapid iteration of the current commercial market, this adaptable and changeable design can respond to subsequent project operational changes swiftly and efficiently.
The first phase of the “Houjie Times” project officially opened in October 2023, with additional venues set to gradually debut next year, accommodating more diverse business formats and consumer scenes. Together, they aim to create a comprehensive neighborhood that is free, lively, organic, and sustainable.
The University of California, Berkeley, is teaming up with NASA’s Ames Research Center and developer SKS Partners to create research space for companies interested in collaborating with UC Berkeley and NASA scientists and engineers to generate futuristic innovations in aviation, space exploration and how we live and work in space.
The Berkeley Space Center, announced today (Monday, Oct. 16), aims to accommodate up to 1.4 million square feet of research space on 36 acres of land at NASA Ames’ Moffett Field in Mountain View, leased from NASA.
The new buildings, some of which could be ready for move-in as early as 2027, will house not only state-of-the-art research and development laboratories for companies and UC Berkeley researchers, but also classrooms for UC Berkeley students. These students will benefit from immersion in the Silicon Valley start-up culture and proximity to the nation’s top aeronautical, space and AI scientists and engineers at Ames.
“We would like to create industry consortia to support research clusters focused around themes that are key to our objectives, in particular aviation of the future, resiliency in extreme environments, space bioprocess engineering, remote sensing and data science and computing,” said Alexandre Bayen, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and associate provost for Moffett Field program development.
Alex Bayen, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences who helped lead the project to create the Berkeley Space Center at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, spoke about the potential benefits during a press conference at NASA Ames on Oct. 16, 2023.
Brandon Torres for NASA Ames
“We’re hoping to create an ecosystem where Berkeley talent can collaborate with the private sector and co-locate their research and development teams,” he added. “And since we will be close to NASA talent and technology in the heart of Silicon Valley, we hope to leverage that to form future partnerships.”
Ever since Naval Air Station Moffett Field was decommissioned in 1994 and NASA Ames acquired an additional 1,200 acres, NASA has been focused on developing those acres into a world-class research hub and start-up accelerator. Initiated in 2002, NASA Research Park now has some 25 companies on site, including Google’s Bay View campus.
“We believe that the research and the capabilities of a major university like Berkeley could be a significant addition to the work being done at Ames,” said NASA Ames Director Eugene Tu. “In a more specific way, we would like the potential of having proximity to more students at the undergraduate and graduate level. We would also like the possibility of developing potential partnerships with faculty in the future. The NASA mission is twofold: inspiring the next generation of explorers, and dissemination of our technologies and our research for public benefit. Collaboration between NASA and university researchers fits within that mission.”
UC Berkeley hopes eventually to establish housing at Moffett Field to make working at the innovation center easier for students — without a 47-mile commute each way. Bayen noted that Carnegie Mellon University already occupies a teaching building at Moffett Field. With the addition of UC Berkeley and the proximity of Stanford University, he expects the intensity of academic activities in the area, both instructional and research, to increase immensely.
NASA Ames Director Eugene Tu spoke at an Oct. 16 press conference announcing the Berkeley Space Center. UC Berkeley’s Alex Bayen is at left.
Brandon Torres for NASA Ames
“We have major facilities here at Ames — the world’s largest wind tunnel, NASA’s only plasma wind tunnel to test entry systems and thermal protection systems, the agency’s supercomputers — and the university will likely build facilities here that that we might leverage as well. So, I look at that as a triad of students, faculty and facilities,” Tu added. “Then the fourth piece, which is equally important: If the project is approved to move forward, the university will likely bring in partners, will bring in industry, will bring in startups, will bring in incubators that could be relevant to NASA’s interest in advancing aeronautics, science and space exploration.”
“What they’re doing at NASA Ames is transformational, but in order to make it heroic, in order to make it even larger than what is now possible, they have to use the combined resources of the number one public university in the world, private industry and the most innovative place on the planet, which is Silicon Valley,” said Darek DeFreece, the project’s founder and executive director at UC Berkeley.
Automated aviation
Bayen emphasized that many academic institutions are now becoming global universities: New York University has demonstrated the ability to operate independent campuses on different continents — the Middle East and Asia — while Cornell has successfully opened a second campus in Manhattan, five hours from Ithaca. In the same vein, UC Berkeley is innovating by launching this research hub that, over the decades to come, could evolve into a campus as instructional and research and development activities grow.
An artist’s rendering of a grassy lawn at the planned Berkeley Space Center, an innovation hub where drone research would thrive.
Field Operations and HOK
“This expansion of Berkeley’s physical footprint and academic reach represents a fantastic and unprecedented opportunity for our students, faculty and the public we serve,” said UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ. “Enabling our world-class research enterprise to explore potential collaborations with NASA and the private sector will speed the translation of discoveries across a wide range of disciplines into the inventions, technologies and services that will advance the greater good. We are thrilled. This is a prime location and a prime time for this public university.”
Claire Tomlin, now professor and chair of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, conducted her first research on automated collision avoidance systems for drones at Moffett Field, and foresees similar opportunities there for UC Berkeley students, especially those enrolled in the College of Engineering’s year-old aerospace engineering program.
“With our new aerospace engineering major, it is the right time to get started at Moffett Field. It offers an outdoor testbed for research on how to integrate drones or other unpiloted aerial vehicles, which are being used increasingly for aerial inspection or delivery of medical supplies, into our air traffic control system,” she said. “I anticipate great collaborations on topics such as new algorithms in control theory, new methods in AI, new electronics and new materials.”
Tomlin envisions research on networks of vertiports to support operations of electric autonomous helicopters or e-VTOLs (electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles), much like UC Berkeley’s pioneering research in the 1990s on self-driving cars; collaborative work on how to grow plants in space or on other planets to produce food, building materials and pharmaceuticals, similar to the ongoing work in UC Berkeley’s Center for the Utilization of Biological Engineering in Space (CUBES); and collaborations on artificial intelligence with top AI experts in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research lab (BAIR).
Claire Tomlin, professor and chair of electrical engineering and computer sciences, sees Moffett Field as a perfect place to conduct research on how unpiloted drones can be integrated into the nation’s air control system.
Noah Berger for UC Berkeley
“This is the decade of electric automated aviation, and the Berkeley Space Center should be a pioneer of it, not just by research, but also by experimentation and deployment,” Tomlin said. “We’re interested in, for example, how one would go about designing networks of vertiports that are economically viable, that are compatible with the urban landscape, that are prone to public acceptance and have an economic reality.”
“Advanced air mobility and revolutionizing the use of the airspace and how we use drones and unpiloted vehicles for future air taxis or to fight wildfires or to deliver cargo are other areas of potential collaboration,” Tu added.
Hannah Nabavi is one UC Berkeley student eager to see this proposed collaboration with NASA Ames and industry around Silicon Valley, even though she will have graduated by the time it comes to fruition. A senior majoring in engineering physics, she is the leader of a campus club called SpaceForm that is currently tapping NASA Ames scientists for research tips on projects such as how materials are affected by the harsh environment on the moon.
“I think one of the primary advantages to UC Berkeley of having this connection is it allows students to obtain a perspective on what’s happening in the real world. What are the real-world problems? What are the goals? How are things getting done?” said Nabavi, who plans to attend graduate school on a path to a career in the commercial space industry. “It also helps students figure out what they want to focus on by providing an early understanding of the research and industrial areas in aerospace.”
But beyond the practical benefits, she said, “I think that seeing all of these scientists and engineers tackling issues and questions at the forefront of aerospace can serve as a huge inspiration to students.”
AI and machine learning
In addition, data science and AI/machine learning are rapidly disrupting the aviation and space industry landscape as it evolves toward automation and human-machine interaction and as ever bigger datasets are being produced. The workforce needs retraining in these rapidly evolving fields, and UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) is well positioned to provide executive and professional education to meet these needs.
Space Technologies and Rocketry (STAR), a student club at UC Berkeley, launches its Bear Force One rocket in Mojave, Calif., on Saturday, June 5, 2021. Clubs such as STAR highlight the great interest in aerospace research among UC Berkeley undergraduates.
Photo courtesy of Space Technologies and Rocketry/Berkeley Engineering
“Berkeley Space Center offers the possibility for CDSS students to work on these new challenges, particularly in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics, planetary science and quantum science and technology,” said Sandrine Dudoit, associate dean at CDSS, professor of statistics and of public health and a member of the Moffett Field Faculty Steering Committee.
DeFreece noted that there are NASA collaborations already happening on the UC Berkeley campus. Many leverage the mission management and instrument-building skills at the Space Sciences Laboratory, which is responsible for the day-to-day operation of several NASA satellites and is building instruments for spacecraft that NASA will land on the moon or launch to monitor Earth and the sun.
UC Berkeley researchers are already investigating how to print 3D objects in space, how to create materials to sustain astronauts on Mars, how to test for life-based molecules on other planets and moons, and whether squishy robots could operate on other planets. UC Berkeley spin-offs are developing ways to monitor health in space and provide low-cost insertion of satellites into orbit.
“The Berkeley Space Center could be a place where half of the day students are collaborating with center neighbors, and the other half of the day they might be taking classes and seeing their mentors who are supervising class projects on the satellite that is hovering over their heads at that very moment,” Bayen said. “Experiences like these just don’t exist anywhere else at the present time.”
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Berkeley Law are also working on issues surrounding the commercial exploitation of space, including asteroids and other planets, and the laws that should govern business in space.
“Space law and policy are also areas where I think there’s some tremendous opportunities to collaborate with the university,” Tu said. “What are we going to do when we find resources on the moon, and other countries do as well, and companies want to make money from that?”
A focus on sustainability
In return for its investment and partnership, UC Berkeley will receive a portion of the revenues that the real estate development is projected to generate. While market-based returns are always subject to change, the joint venture conservatively estimates that the research hub will receive revenues more than sufficient to ensure that Berkeley Space Center is self-sustaining, as well as provide new financial support to the core campus, its departments and colleges, and faculty and students.
Artist’s rendition of a pavilion that could someday become a gathering place for students and researchers at the Berkeley Space Center.
Field Operations and HOK
UC Berkeley also expects significant additional revenue from other, project-related sources, including new research grants, industry participation and partnerships, and the incubation and commercialization of emerging companies born from translational research and technologies created at the site.
SKS Partners, a San Francisco-based investor and developer of commercial real estate properties in the western U.S., will lead the venture. The planning team for the Berkeley Space Center will pursue LEED certification for its buildings — a mark of sustainability — by using solar power, blackwater and stormwater treatment and reuse, and emphasizing non-polluting transportation.
While construction is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2026, subject to environmental approvals, UC Berkeley is already creating connections between Silicon Valley companies on the NASA Ames property, including executive education programs.
The logo of the new Berkeley Space Center at NASA Research Park.
Field Operations and HOK
“In the next couple of years, we could conceivably have a semester rotation program, where UC Berkeley students spend one semester at Berkeley Space Center, take three classes taught there, do their research there, are temporarily housed there for a semester, just like they would do a semester abroad in Paris,” Bayen said. “Ultimately, we hope to build experiences that currently do not exist for students, staff and faculty and create an innovation ecosystem where breakthroughs that require public-private partnerships are enabled.”
The development team includes as co-master planners HOK, an architecture, engineering and planning firm, and Field Operations, an interdisciplinary urban design and landscape architecture firm.
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Chinese architects Tao Liu and Chunyan Cai, founders of Shanghai-based Atelier Tao+C, have joined Dezeen Awards China 2024 as judges. Here, they select five projects that best reflect their work.
“In recent years our work has been in small-scale architectural remodelling and interior design, aiming to make connections in the often neglected gap between architecture and interiors”, Liu and Cai told Dezeen.
“Our interest lies in finding expression in craftsmanship and detailing, using straightforward generic materials and unusual construction techniques,” they added.
“We aim to accommodate the change and growth of objects, of people and light and time, to allow life to unfold in all its complexity.”
Dezeen Awards China 2024 has launched in partnership with Bentley. Last week we announced our second set of Dezeen Awards China judges, architects Amanda Levete and Doreen Heng Liu, interior designers George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, designer Mario Tsai and art journalist Cao Dan.
The entry deadline for Dezeen Awards China 2024 is 23 August. Register your details and submit your projects by then to avoid late entry fees.
Read on to find Atelier Tao+C’s views on the five projects that best reflect its work:
Capsule Hotel and Bookstore in Qinlongwu Village, Zhejiang, China, 2019
“An old country house was transformed into a 20-person capsule hostel, rural community bookstore and reading room.
“Two separate structures were incorporated into the space to serve as the boys’ and girls’ wing. Instead of using normal floor heights for the accommodation area, the height required for sitting, 1.35 metres, was used with interlocking floors to create interesting perspectives and unusual spatial scales.
“The entire mountain wall on the east side is cut open and a transparent structure made of wooden frames and corrugated polycarbonate panels is embedded within it, allowing a wide view of the green mountains and forests beyond.”
Read more about Capsule Hotel and Bookstore ›
Ziin Beijing Store, Beijing, China, 2022
“We transformed a 1960s Beijing textile warehouse into a new showroom for a young domestic furniture brand, Ziin.
“Seeking a balance between the existing site and new function, we inserted two intersecting square frameworks, rotated 45 degrees and detached from the original four walls, forming a building within a building.
“The project uses industrially produced materials and products that are widely available. We exposed these and the structure of the building, showing the steel skeleton, timber column framing and assembled material surfaces, each component clearly identifiable.
“The finished frames show both the design and construction process, telling the story of how the structure was built.”
Read more about Ziin Beijing Store ›
The Clash of Ideas exhibition, Shanghai, China, 2022
“Presented at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Design and initiated by Wallpaper* magazine, this exhibition was made up of questions and answers from 34 groups of designers to reflect on the conditions of contemporary Chinese design.
“A continuous and unconventional table traverses a 40-metre-long staircase, providing a sharing platform for everyone’s views on the subject.
“We used five-millimetre plywood supported only in the centre, causing a natural droop at the ends, making gravity visible and allowing people to look more easily down upon it.
“As a temporary exhibition with a short timeline and small budget, we needed to complete it economically and efficiently, and at the same time, make it easy to disassemble and recycle.”
Hushiguang Tourist Center, Tingtangwe village, China, 2023
“At the entrance to Tingtangwe village we built a tourist centre. Not only does it serve as a resting place for tourists, but it is also a place for villagers to relax, converse and meet travellers.
“A corridor was made along the perimeter of the yard, enclosing a rectangular courtyard that forms a slight angle with the old house.
“The materials used for the gallery are industrial galvanised square tubes and stainless-steel corrugated sheets, cut and welded on site.
“The materials and construction methods used are simple and familiar to the residents in the village, creating a sense of home and security.”
Naïve bookstore, Zhangjiakhou, China, 2024
“Collaborating with furniture brand Ziin, the bookshelves are made of fibreglass with stainless steel brackets. As the sun and shadows pass, the fibreglass softens the hard light creating a beeswax colour that vibrates and flows through the space.
“The concrete frame of the original building is replaced by a new steel and wood frame system, creating areas with no clear boundaries and new spatial relationships.
“The light-coloured birch wood and the fibreglass reflect the snowy landscape outside, lightening the original grey concrete space, like a warm mist rising from the snow.”
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Dezeen Awards China 2024 in partnership with Bentley
Dezeen Awards China is the first regional edition of Dezeen Awards which celebrates the best architecture, interiors and design in China. The annual awards programme is in partnership with Bentley as part of a wider collaboration to inspire, support and champion design excellence and showcase innovation that creates a better and more sustainable world. This ambition complements Bentley’s architecture and design business initiatives, including the Bentley Home range of furnishings and real estate projects around the world.
This may sound odd coming from someone who grew up in New York City, but my first immersive experience with modern architecture came when I moved to Ithaca. For three of the four years I spent in that isolated upstate New York town as a student at Cornell University, I was a docent at the school’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The building, designed by I.M. Pei and opened in 1973, was often called the “sewing machine” for its uncanny resemblance to one, with its thick base, shaft to one side, and cantilevering upper floors over the base. I didn’t know what to make of it at the time, only that I loved being inside of it.
Rendering of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Image by J. Henderson Barr
The Johnson Museum is among a narrow selection of Pei’s buildings featured in an exhibition—the first retrospective of the architect—that opened in late June at M+ in Hong Kong. An early drawing for the Johnson Museum shows an unrealized plan for a tunnel cutting through rock beneath the building, leading to the edge of the gorge above which the towering structure presides and offering stunning views to Cayuga Lake beyond. It’s a fascinating detail for those who know the building, and the locale, and even for those who don’t.
As an architect who designed many acclaimed works and whose career spanned 60 years—from when Pei joined William Zeckendorf to head the architectural division of giant real-estate-development firm Webb & Knapp in 1948 to the design of his last project, the Miho Institute of Aesthetics Chapel in Japan in 2008—it is, after all, his unrealized work that is most surprising. Take, for example, Pei’s proposed scheme for La Défense in Paris (1971) or the Hyperboloid, Pei’s first skyscraper design, from 1956. The 108-story tower was meant to replace Grand Central Terminal. (Plans for it were fortunately abandoned, in 1958.)
I.M. Pei: Life is Architecture, which runs until January 5, 2025, covers Pei’s long career and famously long life. The curiously organized exhibition, separated into six sections that have several of the projects appearing repeatedly, spans a sprawling 17,000 square feet of gallery space within Herzog & de Meuron’s superlative museum building in the West Kowloon Cultural District. Before Pei died at the age of 102, in 2019, he was approached by then M+ architecture and design curator and RECORD contributing editor Aric Chen, and tentatively gave his consent for a retrospective at the institution, after reportedly refusing one for years.
Hong Kong is an apt location for the exhibition—Pei’s family relocated there in 1918, after Ieoh Ming was born in Guangzhou the previous year, and it is the site of one of the architect’s best projects, the Bank of China Tower just across Victoria Harbour from M+. That skyscraper—briefly the tallest in Hong Kong and Asia from 1990 to 1992—is included in the show, as are all the hits, like the National Gallery of Art East Building (1978) in Washington, D.C., and Paris’s Grand Louvre, completed in 1993. There are also a couple of less well-regarded works, according to cocurator Shirley Surya, who describes Beijing’s Fragrant Hill Hotel (1982) as not successful; it was called by many a Postmodern building, though Pei rejected that notion. (The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, an outlier in his oeuvre, is not in the show—perhaps the building missed a beat.)
But even the apparent misses become hits. “Villain Turned Hero” read one paper’s headline about Pei’s hard-fought battle to get the Louvre pyramid built. Regarding his Society Hill project in Philadelphia (1957–64), journalists wrote: “No Longer Are They Laughing at Pei Homes,” and “Pei Homes Now Paying Off.”
Pei was a celebrity during his lifetime, and the exhibition, particularly a section devoted to “Power, Politics & Patronage,” is chock full of material featuring the architect in the press (including a cover of RECORD) and with famous world leaders such as François Mitterrand and artists including Henry Moore and Alexander Calder. What it lacks is a deeper understanding of Pei’s process. The section on Material & Structural Innovation, which showcases, among other things, various concrete forms Pei employed, is where I hoped to see more information about his partners, Harry Cobb and James Ingo Freed, and collaborators like Les Robertson.
“This isn’t a show for architects,” said Surya during its opening days. The absence of sketches is startling even if the kind of detailed drawings or analysis of process I expected could be a turnoff to a general audience. Aside from drawings by Pei’s hand from his student days at MIT and Harvard, there is not even a single hand-drawn parti for, say, the Louvre pyramid. “He would make a very simple sketch, one or two lines, and then sketch on top of other people’s drawings. It was a very iterative process,” said Pei’s son Sandi, who worked with his father on the Bank of China Tower, and who was also present for the exhibition opening. (Sandi’s brother Didi, with whom he ran PEI Architects, died unexpectedly in December 2023.)
Despite some shortcomings—in part due to scant materials at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners’ offices (note to architects about preserving their archives)—the exhibition is a worthwhile look at a sometimes underappreciated figure, his Pritzker Prize notwithstanding. Pei was never accorded the same reverence as his contemporaries Louis Kahn or Paul Rudolph (whose unusual blue-walled double office tower, Lippo Center, sits across the road from Pei’s Bank of China building in Hong Kong). Adds Sandi Pei about his father, “He wasn’t a provocateur.”
Pei was, instead, the envy of many architects for the sheer number of buildings—icons, even—he completed (perhaps even the envy of Kahn, against whom Pei won the commission for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, featured unremarkably in the exhibition). Travel the world and you’ll see his work, in places from Singapore, Beijing, and Paris to Lincoln, Nebraska (and, yes, even Ithaca). The show itself, set to travel to Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha in 2026 and reportedly elsewhere, seems executed to fully establish Pei’s reputation for the future. Whether that happens is a question. So far, there are no plans for the exhibition to come to the U.S.
Dutch studio MORE Architecture has completed a concrete museum on an island in a manmade lake in Jiaxing, China.
Named Ginkgo Gallery after the ginkgo trees that cover the island, the contemporary art museum comprises exhibition rooms, an auditorium, a reading room and a workshop space.
Ginkgo Gallery is located on an island in Jiaxing
Designed as a small-scale museum and constructed with a minimalist use of materials, the 1,500-square-metre Gingko Gallery was intended to be different from the larger-scale museums that have often defined the past decade of the “museum boom” in China.
“Ginkgo Gallery is the antidote to the ‘museum boom’ phenomenon – a humble, intricate museum where art and nature merge into one immersive experience,” MORE Architecture said.
Different sections inside the museum are connected under one curved roof
Located on an island in a manmade lake in Jiaxing, eastern China, the museum design was informed by the typical layout of local villages.
By combining a free-flowing design plan with more traditional routed museum layouts, the studio aimed to both open up the curatorial possibilities and improve the visitor experience.
“The DNA of the typical Zhejiang village, with its small scale and sophisticated network of spaces that differ in size, is the true inspiration for this museum,” said MORE Architecture.
“The museum invites visitors to wander through and discover the different sections as if they were exploring a small town, creating a floorplan with ‘fluid spaces’, merging two traditional museum typologies – the conventional ‘guided’ routing and the ‘free flow’ plan – into one museum,” it added.
The museum also houses an auditorium
The result is a building comprised of connected museum halls, located under curved concrete slabs that span up to 17 metres.
MORE Architecture used board-marked concrete, arranged in a horizontal pattern, for the entire building, creating a unique pattern and texture on its facades and ceiling.
On its front and back facades, green aluminium mullions frame full-height windows that contrast the roughness of the concrete.
Curved concrete creates a decorative ceiling
“It became clear that a modest museum design also required a modest use of materials,” the studio explained.
“So, we decided to focus on the spatial quality of the museum, and limit the number of materials, and therefore transport movements, construction waste, packaging and so on.”
Ginkgo Gallery’s exhibition halls increase in both size and height from the south side of the museum towards the north, inviting views of the surrounding landscape and letting in plenty of natural light on the northern side.
Concrete was used as the main material for the structure of the building
Meandering walking paths allow visitors to explore the rest of the island, which can also be used for outdoor exhibitions.
Working internationally with its team based in Amsterdam and Shanghai, MORE Architecture also designed the Floating Hotel featuring a continuous zigzagging roof, as well as a fortress-like clubhouse complex, both in China.
The photography is by Kris Provoost.
Project credits:
Design lead: Daan Roggeveen Design team: Robert Chen, Lina Peng, Pedro Martins, Emilio Wang, Mengyao Han, Anna Clement, Mae Szeto, Jeffrey Kuo Structure/MEP/HVAC: 9LEON, Jiaxing Contractor: Zhejiang Zhongcheng Construction Engineering Group Facade: Shanghai Meite curtain wall Co Ltd
Forrester is delighted to announce the opening call for our annual global technology awards in two categories: the Technology Strategy Impact Award and the Enterprise Architecture Award.
The Forrester Technology Strategy Impact (TSI) Award and the Forrester Enterprise Architecture (EA) Award recognize high-performing organizations that have enhanced business outcomes with their IT capabilities.
The Forrester Technology Strategy Impact Award
The Forrester Technology Strategy Impact Award is the only award dedicated to recognizing excellence in IT strategy that continuously improves business results through the use of technology. We aim to highlight and reward organizations for enhancing business outcomes with their technology and IT capabilities, emphasizing alignment, trust, and adaptivity. This is the essence of high-performance IT.
We invite nominations from companies that exemplify one or more of the following high-performance IT styles:
Enabling capabilities: demonstrating excellence in stabilizing, operating, and protecting the business.
Amplifying capabilities: utilizing automation, data and analytics, AI, and other technologies to optimize outcomes and drive business efficiency at scale.
Co-creating capabilities: showcasing the rapid development, delivery, and operation of new products, features, or services.
Transforming capabilities: scaling and rapidly deploying emerging technologies that create or disrupt new business models.
Take the time to recognize and celebrate the achievements of those at the forefront of technological innovation and business transformation. Nominate your high-performance IT organization today! (Links to submit your nomination based on your region are available at the end of this blog.)
The Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award
The Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award is the only global awards program dedicated to recognizing excellence in enterprise architecture. We continue our partnership with The Open Group — author of the TOGAF® Standard, developed by The Open Group Architecture Forum — to co-judge the EA Award category this year.
The recipients of this award can demonstrate their EA practice’s material contribution to their firms in managing risk, driving cost efficiency, improving customer experience (as well as employee experience), and increasing revenue (or supporting mission outcomes for nonprofit, governmental, and military organizations). They may also demonstrate:
An EA roadmap that contributes to the high performance of its technology organization and the entire business.
EA practices that drive change, growth, and differentiation through timely yet strategic decisions.
An EA organization that embodies the six foundational priorities: valuable, influential, agile, accountable, innovative, and collaborative.
EA metrics that focus on customer outcomes and experiences.
This year, we also have a special opportunity. Many organizations are increasingly integrating their enterprise architecture, configuration management databases, service management, DevOps, portfolio, FinOps, and related tooling. If you have a specific integration architecture, please consider submitting.
We encourage all companies that have achieved success in outcome-driven EA practices to participate in the Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award.
Who Should Apply?
Nominations for both award categories are open to organizations with 1,000 or more employees in sectors other than software or professional services that are executing a high-performance IT strategy and/or pursuing outcome-driven architecture as defined by Forrester. Technology leaders, including chief information officers, chief technology officers, chief digital officers, and enterprise architects, across three regions — North America; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia Pacific (APAC) — are encouraged to apply.
Last year’s winners for the Technology Strategy Impact Award were Falabella in North America, İşbank in EMEA, and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories in APAC. For the Enterprise Architecture Award, the winners were U.S. Bank in North America, Schneider Electric in EMEA, and Union Bank of the Philippines in APAC.
You can find more information about the award categories, plus detailed submission packages and instructions, on the websites for our three Technology & Innovation Summits below. Please choose the appropriate link for your region:
North America
EMEA
APAC
Submissions close on May 31, 2024, for North America; June 20, 2024, for EMEA; and July 31, 2024, for APAC. We will notify finalists by the end of July 2024. At that time, we will ask for additional information. We will then announce finalists and award recipients ahead of Forrester’s Technology & Innovation Summits in North America, EMEA, and APAC.
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