Northeast 2016 Projects 15 Created 10-Apr-16 By Agne B, Chicago, United States Montreal Biosphere Montreal, R Buckminster Fuller exposition space, museum, pavilion MIT Chapel Kresge Auditorium Sharp Center for Design Habitat 67 Kleinhans Music Hall 5 Michael Lee-Chin Crystal Galleria and Heritage Square 11 Toronto Dominion Centre 12 Art Gallery of Ontario 13 Toronto, Gehry Partners gallery 6 Absolute World 14 Mississauga, MAD architects housing, landmark 7 Kentuck Knob 15 Dunbar, United States Frank Lloyd Wright private house 8 Buffalo, United States Eliel Saarinen music theatre Toronto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe office Montreal, Moshe Safdie Associates housing 4 Toronto, Will Alsop education, laboratorium, university Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Building 10 Toronto, Santiago Calatrava commercial space, mixed-use development, retail Mill Run, United States Frank Lloyd Wright monument, private house, sculpture 3 Cambridge, United States Eero Saarinen auditorium, university Fallingwater House Toronto, Foster & Partners laboratorium, university Cambridge, United States Eero Saarinen chapel, university 2 FRAC 16 Orléans, France Jakob + MacFarlane gallery, museum, music theatre 9 Toronto, Daniel Libeskind museum http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 1
photo: Martin Ujlaki photo: Víctor Castelo Montreal Biosphere Chemin du Tour-de-l'Isle 160 H3C 4G8 Montreal http://biosphereecgcca/ The America Pavilion for the 1967 Expo in Montreal was as high as a 20-storey building, and soon became the focal point on the Île Sainte-Hélène site In the space of six months it was visited by 53 million people, making it the busiest pavilion at Expo '67 It measures 76 metres in diameter, and 62 metres in height During the Exposition, it contained 6 inner floors housing American artefacts The structure was covered by a transparent outer shell composed of tinted acrylic panels, which later burned in a 1976 fire, shutting down the building for fourteen years In 1990, Environment purchased the site to turn it into an interactive museum, showcasing and exploring the water ecosystems of the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence River regions The new museum was completed in 1995 and is currently in operation 1967 R Buckminster Fuller rtaube photo: Martin Ujlaki January 13 to March 31, 2018: Thu to Sun 10 am to 5 pm From April 1 to May 31, 2018: Wed to Sun 10 am to 5 pm http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 2
photo: Frankss photo: Frankss MIT Chapel Massachusetts Avenue W15 77 Cambridge Massachusetts 02139-4307 United States http://webmitedu/campus-activities/www/html/chapelhtm l Eero Saarinen designed the non-denominational MIT Chapel in 1955 It is located opposite the Kresge Auditorium which was also designed by Saarinen The oval chapel is a cylindrical brick form constructed of rough and imperfect bricks which catch the sunlight on its textured surface The building sits in a shallow moat and is supported by a series of low arches of different radii which rise out of the moat that reflects patterns of light onto the exterior wall of the chapel and evokes images of bridges spanning a river To enter the small chapel, one walks from the public spaces surrounding the chapel into a small grove of birch trees, enters through the timber doors which are located off the main oval and turns 180 degrees to head back through a enclosed glazed bridge into the circular chapel and is then drawn towards the light falling onto the white marble altar from the ceiling 1955 Eero Saarinen thom photo: Thom Mckenzie The MIT Chapel is open seven days a week from 0700-2300 When nothing is scheduled during those times, it is open to members of the MIT Community for private meditation The chapel is located within the grounds of MIT Take the Red Line subway at the Kendall Stop Parking is available on the campus http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 3
photo: Frankss photo: Frankss Kresge Auditorium Massachusetts Ave 48 Cambridge Massachusetts 02139-4307 United States http://webmitedu/campus-activities/www/html/kresgehtm l Kresge Auditorium was designed by Finnish architect Eero Saarinen It is located opposite the MIT Chapel on the Kresge Oval The pair of buildings were designed to define MIT's social cohesion The Auditorium was designed for formal events and the chapel was designed for marriages and memorial services with the oval in between as a public space for civic events The auditorium has an elegant copper-clad roof which springs from the ground at three points with sheer glazed walls that fill in the arches created by the form of the roof These sheer glazed walls offer views into the lobby and out onto the green The roof was constructed as a thin-shell structure of concrete which was an innovative building technique at the time of construction The building contains a concert hall which can seat 1226 people and a small theatre with 204 seats, rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, offices, bathrooms and lounges The domed roof allows the interiors to remain column free photo: Thom Mckenzie Project is not public! 1955 Eero Saarinen thom The building is located on the MIT Campus Take the Red Line subway to Kendall Stop Parking is available on campus http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 4
photo: Julie Fuchs photo: Julie Fuchs Fallingwater House Mill Run Road 1491 Mill Run Pennsylvania PA 15464 United States http://wwwfallingwaterorg/ End of construction in 1939 for Mr Kaufmann, situated on the road 381 in Pennsylvania This house takes place on a concrete platform, put on the natural rocks, above a waterfall, which can't be seen from inside, but only heardverandas and cantilevers are in the middle of nature Fallingwater stands as one of Wright's greatest masterpieces both for its dynamism and for its integration with the striking natural surroundings Integration with the setting extends even to small details For example, where glass meets stone walls, there is no metal frame; rather, the glass is caulked directly to the stone All the furniture was designed by F L Wright, with an extremely precision photo: Julie Fuchs 1939 Frank Lloyd Wright Edgar Kaufmann Sr jfuchs Advance ticket purchase or reservations are essential for all tours at Fallingwater Tickets may be purchased on-line or by calling Visitor Services at 724-329-8501 daily 8:30 am to 4:30 pm ET For opening hours and information about different tours visit the website: http://wwwfallingwaterorg/82/tours-and-tickets Fallingwater is located in southwest Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands about 90 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh The house is located along PA Route 381 between the villages of Mill Run and Ohiopyle It's approx 19 miles south of the Donegal exit (Exit #91) of the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-76) or 10 miles north of US Route 40 Please use caution when following directions provided by mapping programs In particular, avoid any directions that send you via Tabey Road Visit website for more tips http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 5
photo: Julie Fuchs photo: Julie Fuchs Sharp Center for Design McCaul Street 100 ON M5T Toronto http://wwwocadca/about_ocad/campus_overview/sharp_ce ntrehtm This was built to accommodate an expansion of the Ontario College of Art & Design in downtown Toronto The project was funded by the College, the Province of Ontario, and Rosalie and Isadore Sharp - the benefactors after whom the building is named The building houses new art studios, lecture theatres, exhibit spaces, and faculty offices The center is a two-story, black and white rectangular volume set atop brightly coloured, 26 meter tall columns, straddling existing buildings of the College In addition to this most visible part of the building, an unbuilt space between existing buildings was filled, creating space for new functions while providing the elevator and stair core that services the upper levels Provocative, unconventional, hopeful, whimsical, and perhaps irreverent, the building is remarkable in the context of Toronto As a winner of a 2004 RIBA Worldwide Award, the building was described as "courageous, bold and just a little insane" 9-2004 Cooperating designer Will Alsop Robbie Young + Wright / IBI Group s Ontario College of Art & Design jfuchs photo: Julie Fuchs There are no plans to provide public tours of the facility The general pubic are invited periodically to OCAD for special exhibitions The Graduate Exhibition held the second weekend every May is a great time to visit OCAD The Sharp Centre for Design is located on McCaul Street, just south of Dundas Street, and north of Queen Street It stands approximately one kilometer straight north of the CN Tower By Subway: Take the University Line Subway to StPatrick Station Walk west on Dundas Street to McCaul By Street Car (called 'the TTC' in Toronto): Take the Dundas Street Car to McCaul Street and walk south on McCaul; or, take the Queen Street Car to McCaul Street and walk north on McCaul http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 6
Habitat 67 Avenue Pierre-Dupuy 2600 H3C 3R6 Montreal http://wwwhabitat67com/ Habitat was the major theme exhibition of the 1967 World Exposition in Montreal It pioneered the design and implementation of three-dimensional prefabricated units of habitation 365 construction modules connect to create 158 residences ranging in size from 600-square-foot one-bedroom dwellings to 1,800-square-foot four-bedroom dwellings, exhibiting fifteen housing types in all Stepped back in their modular placement, each residence has its own roof garden Children's play areas are provided throughout the project Three elevator cores direct vertical circulation throughout the complex, with elevators stopping at every fourth floor to serve pedestrian streets Every part of the building, including the units, the pedestrian streets, and the elevator cores, participate as load-bearing members; units are connected to each other by post-tensioning, high-tension rods, cables, and welding, forming a continuous suspension system (text from architect's website) photo: David Ross Project is not public! Floor area/size 1967 22160 m² Moshe Safdie Associates Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition MI_MOA Tel : 5148665971 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 7
Kleinhans Music Hall Symphony Circle 1 Buffalo New York 14202 United States http://wwwbpoorg/html/kleinhanshtml Kleinhans Music Hall ranks among the Saarinens finest work, exemplifying their sophisticated aesthetic and artistic principles: the shape of the music hall represents both organic and functional notions, with the graceful curvilinear massing encasing a large auditorium and smaller music chamber This fine sense of balance is representative, in Eliel s words, of the structure s 'masculine' and 'feminine' traits as exhibited by 'strongly indicative line' in the former and 'playful pattern of wall surface' in the latter The result is a structure of incredible beauty and utility, with an international reputation as one of the acoustically finest concert halls in the world Home of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra since 1940, Kleinhans was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989 and is slated to be a major venue for the National Historic Trust s Conference in 2011 (text from project's website) Public access unknown! 1940 Main designer, Eliel Saarinen Eero Saarinen Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo photo: Matthew Mancuso Arch Take I- 90 West to the last exit Merge onto NY-33/Kensington Expressway via exit 51W toward Buffalo (33 West) Get off at Goodell Street Go straight through to Elmwood Avenue Turn Right onto Elmwood Avenue Go up three lights to North St and make a left onto North Go around the circle and Kleinhans will be right in front of you http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 8
Michael Lee-Chin Crystal Queen s Park 100 M5S 2C6 Toronto http://wwwromonca/crystal/ As one of the most important architectural projects and a distinctive new symbol of Toronto for the 21st century, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal marks the beginning of a new age for the Royal Ontario Museum The Crystal Age announces the Museum as the country s premier cultural and social destination Inspired by the ROM s gem and mineral collection, Libeskind sketched the initial expansion on paper napkins while attending a family wedding at the ROM The design was quickly dubbed the 'crystal' because of its crystalline shape The Lee-Chin Crystal is composed of five interlocking, self-supporting prismatic structures that co-exist but are not attached to the original ROM building, except for the bridges that link them 2007 Daniel Libeskind Royal Ontario Museum Bjorn_Utpott tel: 4165868000 Monday to Thursday :10:00 am - 5:30 pm Friday: 10:00 am - 9:30 pm Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 am - 5:30 pm The main entrance to the new Michael Lee-Chin Crystal is located on Bloor Street West There are two additional entrances located on the ROM Plaza: ROM Museum Store and Bennett Music Court (the latter provides after-hours access to c5 Restaurant Lounge) The St George stop on the Bloor-Danforth subway line is closest to the ROM s main entrance on Bloor Street W The President's Choice School Entrance is located at the Museum stop on the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 9
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Building College Street 144 M5S 3M2 Toronto http://wwwpharmacyutorontoca/ Your comments on this project Noof Comments: 0 Add comments Read comments The design of the Leslie L Dan Building for the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto will provide state-of-the-art facilities for more than 1000 students The multifunctional building centralises teaching, research and administrative spaces - many of which had been dispersed throughout the campus in a single structure The building has been designed to sensitively respond to its immediate surroundings, with its main mass elevated above a 20m-high, five-storey, colonnaded circulation space that matches the cornice heights of two neighbouring historically-listed university buildings and the nearby Ontario Parliament Building Two silver-coloured pods are suspended within this lower glazed space to house a 60-seat lecture theatre and a smaller classroom/faculty lounge A central atrium runs through the upper floors Floor area/size 9-2006 16500 m² Foster & Partners University of Toronto Bjorn_Utpott Telephone: (416) 978-2889 Fax: (416) 978-8511 immediately west of Queen's Park Crescent http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 10
Galleria and Heritage Square Bay Street 181 M5J 2T3 Toronto http://wwwbceplacecom/ The Allen Lambert Galleria and Heritage Square, or BCE Place is comprised of shops, restaurants, the old Bank of Montreal building which houses the Hockey Hall of Fame, office towers for financial, commercial and legal firms, and 11 heritage buildings In order to meet the city public art requirements, an invited competition was held for the design of the Gallery and Heritage Square in 1987, the winner being Santiago Calatrava The Galleria is five stories high and runs parallel along Front Street The roof provides cover for the street Galleria and connects Bay Street to Heritage Square The design is spacious and inviting, and was also recognized as a 'hall of light' The structure is comprised of eight free-standing steel supports on either side of the Galleria These supports branch out into parabolic shapes that are reminiscent of a forest canopy As for the Heritage Square, there are 16 supports that branch out in a similar fashion to the ones in the Galleria 1992 Santiago Calatrava Bjorn_Utpott http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 11
Toronto Dominion Centre Wellington Street West 66 ON M5K 1A1 Toronto http://wwwtdcentreca The Toronto-Dominion Centre, or T-D Centre, is a cluster of buildings in downtown Toronto, consisting of 6 towers and a pavilion covered in bronze-tinted glass and black painted steel, and serving as the global headquarters of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, as well as providing office and retail space for many other businesses 21,000 people work in the complex, making it the largest in Designed by renowned architect Mies van der Rohe, the original TD Centre consisted of a grouping of two steel-and-glass towers and a banking pavilion The 55-storey Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower was the first to be completed, officially opening on s 100th birthday, July 1st, 1967 The pavilion opened in 1968 and one year later the 43-storey Royal Trust Tower was completed Three more buildings have since joined the complex: CP Tower in 1973, TD Waterhouse Tower in 1985 and the Ernst & Young Tower in 1991 Philip Johnson described the project as "the largest Mies in the world" 1967 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Bjorn_Utpott Public Transit: From the TTC or GO Transit, exit north from Union Station, via the Royal Bank Plaza using the PATH system Private Vehicle: From the Don Valley Parkway, exit west at Richmond Street, turn south (left) at Yonge Street, turn right (west) on King or Wellington Streets From the Gardiner Expressway, take the York/Bay/Yonge exit north to Bay, turn west (left) on Wellington Street http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 12
Art Gallery of Ontario Dundas Street West 317 M5T 1G4 Toronto http://wwwagonet/home This project completely transforms the original Art Gallery of Ontario which was built in successive stages from 1918 to 1993 The existing spaces were renovated and reorganized The entrance was relocated to the centre of a new 180m long, curved glass façade along Dundas Street in the north The glass façade, which is cut and peels back at the both ends, wraps the 1974 addition Behind it, the continuous sculpture gallery allows visitors to look out over Dundas Street To the south, a dramatic blue titanium clad gallery block towers over Grange Park, complementing the new Ontario College of Art and Design building An expressive sculptural staircase cantilevers out of a glazed area in the gallery block Floor area/size 11-2008 26662 m² Structural engineer Gehry Partners Yolles Engineering Solutions Art Gallery of Ontario Bjorn_Utpott Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 17:30 except Wednesday 10:00 to 20:30 (2010) Take the Bloor University Spadina Subway to St Patrick Station and walk 250m west on Dundas Street http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 13
Absolute World Hurontario Sreet 4003 L4Z 0A9 Mississauga http://wwwabsolutecondoscom/ These unique 50 and 56 storey condominium towers are located in Mississauga, a suburban city 20 km west of downtown Toronto Winner of an international design competition, the design was chosen by the developer's panel of judges as well as a poll of 6000 residents The 2 towers' twisting shapes, are created by oval floors that rotate by different degrees on different levels The degree of rotation increases toward the middle before decreasing again towards the top of each building The effect is more dynamic than it would have been with a constant degree of rotation Each tower is sited so that it complements the other: the bulge in one tower corresponds to the narrowest part in its fraternal twin The sculptural buildings are gaining landmark status in Mississauga Project is not public! Floor area/size 2011 85000 m² Structural engineer MAD architects Sigmund Soudack & Associates Inc Fernbrook Homes and Cityzen Development Group Bjorn_Utpott Take the TTC Bloor Danforth Subway west to Islington Sation, then board a Mississauga Transit bus bound for Square One Shopping Centre (numerous lines) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 14
photo: Kentuck Knob photo: Kentuck Knob Kentuck Knob Kentuck Road 723 Dunbar Pennsylvania 15421 United States http://wwwkentuckknobcom In 1953, Bernardine and IN Hagan purchased 80 acres in the mountains above Uniontown, in Western Pennsylvania, where their families had lived for generations After falling in love with their friends, the Kaufmann's home, Fallingwater, they telephoned Frank Lloyd Wright and asked if he would design a house for them His answer was; "Of course Come on out" At 86, and hard at work on the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Beth Shalom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania and about 12 residential homes, Wright said he could "shake it (Kentuck Knob) out of his sleeve at will" never even setting foot on the site, except for a short visit during the construction phase This would be one of the last homes to be completed by Wright 1956 Frank Lloyd Wright Bernardine and IN Hagan kaprina photo: Kentuck Knob Guided tours daily, 1000h - 1600h, year-round (call for winter hours) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 15
photo: Shawn Cooper photo: Shawn Cooper FRAC rue du Colombier 88 45000 Orléans France http://wwwfrac-centrefr/_en/ FRAC is a space for contemporary art to come together with experimental architecture, from the 1950s to the present day Includes seminal projects of the architectural avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s, known by the umbrella term 'radical architecture' Today, the FRAC Centre collection includes some 600 works, 800 architectural models and maquettes, and more than 15000 drawings, as well as many architects' collections It is represented through 150 architects and 170 artists This collection forms a unique heritage of experimental architecture of the last fifty years linked with artistic creation, rivalling the world's greatest architectural collections (Centre Pompidou-MNAM in Paris; MoMA in New York; CCA in Montreal; DAM, ural Museum, in Frankfurt) Well worth a visit to Orleans, France just to see this place! photo: Shawn Cooper Floor area/size 2013 3400 m² Structural engineer Acoustics consultant Jakob + MacFarlane Batiserf Jean-Paul Lamoureux ShawnC From Wednesday to Sunday: 12 pm - 7 pm Late night opening until 8 pm every first Thursday of the month Closed on 25 December, 1st January and 1st May Car would be best i think http://wwwmimoaeu/users/sabartsilb/guides/northeast%202016/ 16