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A two-story central atrium exhibiting community artwork and artifacts. Two child development activity rooms for young people. A teaching kitchen to host cooking classes. A rooftop patio with herb gardens for seniors. A music recording studio adjacent a teen lounge. A half-court gymnasium.

Local architects Regina Winters and Kenneth Boroson showed these features and more in a presentation of preliminary plans for the rebirth of Dixwell Community Q House.

Community members gathered in Wexler Grant Schools auditorium Thursday night responded favorably to the plans and eagerly offered suggestions for new programs and design elements.

We heard you, said Winters, whose company Zared Enterprises was hired to design the center, together with Kenneth Boroson Architects. The architects worked off of a site, a budget and a list of things the community wanted, she said.

The results included design elements tailored to different portions of the community, from kids to seniors, and activities ranging from socializing to skills training.

They did an excellent job of capturing it, said Jacqueline Bracey, the chairwoman of the Concerned Citizens for the Greater New Haven Dixwell Community Q House. She has led the campaign to reopen the center for more than 10 years.

Winters and Boroson proposed a set of symbols to decorate the Q House that would represent the heritage and hard work of the people who fought to re-build it. The design for the Q is a set of concentric circles the inner circle represents family and the outer circle represents house. Together, it literally represents community, Winters said.

The Q House on Dixwell Avenue served as an anchor for the black community through much of the last century, a home away from home for local kids. The 1924 settlement house closed in 2013 after running out of money. The state approved $1 million in March to hire an architect and engineer for the centers pre-development phase, after spending $40,000 for a feasibility study last year. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is expected to deliver around state bonding money to have the center built.

Mayor Toni Harp made revamping the Q House a cornerstone of her 2013 election campaign.

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Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) September 12, 2014

Laura Morris, AAHID, LEED AP BD+C, IIDA, Lean Green Belt Principal & Senior Interior Designer at Array Architects is providing design guidance to leading healthcare systems throughout the nation.

She brings an inherent sense of space, accentuates patient-centered care with her designs and improves staff workflows by employing the tenets of process-led lean design. Integral to the success of New York Presbyterian's Milstein Patient Tower renovation project, view this video to learn more about Laura's skill set.

"Laura has helped accelerate our growth as a knowledge-based practice. Integrating Lauras expertise with Array's process-led lean design approach, has resulted in numerous successful projects in her two years with the firm. We are delighted to recognize the contributions she has made to our firm, notes Patricia Malick, AAHID, EDAC, Lean Green Belt, Practice Area Leader for Interior Design.

Laura can be reached at 610-270-0599 and lmorris(at)array-architects(dot)com.

Array Architects offers a full complement of knowledge-based services including planning, architecture, interior design and advisory services. Array is ranked by Modern Healthcare in the top 35 largest firms in the US, by design fees earned in 2013. When comparing fee volume of design firms focused exclusively on healthcare, Array has a #1 ranking across the U.S. In Architectural Records Top 300 List, Array is ranked 83 worldwide.

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The subject of Washingtons buzziest architecture competition isnt a Smithsonian museum or a downtown office building, but a series of concrete piers jutting out of the Anacostia River a dozen blocks east of Nationals Park.

More than 40architecture teams comprised of 82 firms initially expressed interested in designinga park traversing the Anacostia what could become a local version of New Yorks High Line Park atoppiers thatheld up the old 11th Street Bridge before it was replaced.

The four finalists submitted their proposals to the projects organizers Tuesday, andtheyleave nothing to the imagination: there are amphitheaters, education centers, dining piers, urban gardens, waterfalls, climbing walls and an array of eye-catching architectural features, any of which could transform the old bridge site into adistinctivelandmark.

Scott Kratz, director of the 11th Street Bridge Park, said the project has the chance to bring needed attention toa river that has suffered environmentally and long served as a barrier between the majority of the city and some of its poorest communities. He said he was thrilled at the quality of responses.

These are some of the best designers in the world and their work reflects that, he said. We were hoping that the proposalswould not just be shades of gray and we received reds and blues and greens and purples. They are all so different while still responding to the communitys vision.

The teams will come to Washington to present their ideas to a jury of experts in design, architecture, health and economic development onSept. 29-30 anda final decision is expected Oct. 16.

Whoever is named the projects designer will do so with a caveat, as some $40 million needs to be raised to build and operate the park.The project is a collaboration between the D.C. government and the non-profitBuilding Bridges Across the River, and already the D.C. government has committed to providing $14.5 million of the $25 million construction price tag, Kratz said.

Here is an initial look at each of the proposals. In addition to the jury, public input will play a factor in making a final selection, so for readers interested in taking a more detailed look at the proposals and offering opinions, please take our poll. (All images are courtesy of the architecture teams, via the 11th Street Bridge Park.)

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The Tel Aviv Municipality and the Israel Architects Association are planning a contest for the redesigning of Rabin Square. Tel Aviv's city engineer, architect Danny Kaiser, announced plans for the contest at a conference in honor of International Architects' Day last week. No date has been set, so for the moment the contest is just one more step in the winding road to a new design for the square.

It was actually the local planning and building committee that decided to hold the contest, when it received - more than six months ago - the plans for the underground parking lot to be built beneath the square.

Some committee members objected to the appointment of the project's planners - namely, Kaiser - and insisted that continuing the procedures for approving the parking lot should be conditional on running a contest for redesigning the square itself.

The plans for the parking lot have stirred up a stormy public debate, which even reached the Knesset Interior and Environment Committee.

At a meeting held in June, the committee warned that if the contest proposal was not accepted, a bill would be presented to the Knesset for the expropriation of Rabin Square from Tel Aviv's jurisdiction.

So far, the parking lot plans have not been submitted to the Knesset committee or to the regional planning committee, nor has an expropriation law been promulgated. Deputy Mayor Michael Ro'eh says that plans will be submitted soon, when the city and the Knesset committee finish dealing with more urgent matters.

Meanwhile, the city council is set to hold a public debate regarding Rabin Square at one of its plenary sessions.

Intellectuals and architects will participate in the debate, which was proposed by council member Mordechai Virshubski. "It will be philosophical, ideological and democratic," promised Ro'eh, although it will have no bearing on actual planning procedures for the square, which are in the hands of the various legally appointed planning committees.

This is without a doubt the reverse of what should have happened. Now, instead of discussing the matter before it is sealed, it is being debated afterward. Had the city's ideology been discussed democratically, all the suspicion could have been avoided.

The city's leaders were the main forces behind the vagueness, whisperings, rumors and misunderstandings over the plans.

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Enduring architecture award nominee, the Apostolic Nunciature by Enrico Taglietti. Photo: Enrico Taglietti

When Canberra architect Enrico Taglietti set out to design the Apostolic Nunciature in Red Hill, he began by thinking about one of Pope Paul VI's letters to Catholic bishops.

"I went to Rome. I found there an incredible acceptance of architectural urban design, which was supported by the then pope, Paul VI," Dr Taglietti said. "He had an encyclical recognising the revelation of design of art had an enormous impact on all the life of the planet."

Dr Taglietti's design of an all-embracing roof, accepted in the Holy See, proposed practically emphasising the total roof as a symbolic embrace from the Catholic Church towards the rest of the world, as protection, and protection of principle.

Enrico Taglietti with Archbishop Paul Gallagher at the Apostolic Nunciature in Red Hill. Photo: Jay Cronan

The Holy See rewarded Dr Taglietti with a papal knighthood.

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The Australian Institute of Architects has acknowledged Dr Taglietti and the Catholic Church as custodians of the building, short-listing the Apostolic Nunciature for the 2014 national awards in the enduring architecture section.

The Vatican gave Italian-born Dr Taglietti plenty of freedom over his design of the two-storey brick, concrete and terracotta tile building, which has wide timber eaves and is on the national heritage list.

"It was quite exceptional; I did not have carte blanche, in relation to expression of architecture, I was in control, they were happy for me to be in control, apart from [the] usual constrain on costs," Dr Taglietti said.

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This past May, octopus bacon--a little surf, a little turf--landed Superba Snack Bar in a spot on Jonathan Golds hotly anticipated 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles list. The food isnt the only thing playing fast and loose with diners' expectations. The interiors capture Venices mongrel vibe--Dogtown meets Silicon Beach. There are bike racks, of course, and artist and skateboarder Geoff McFetridge designed the wallpaper. But the zany details, created by Los Angeles-based Design, Bitches, keep going: A tile wall near the open kitchen mimics the inside of a swimming pool, ticking off the depths, and surfer-esque poncho fabric covers the banquettes. What is architecture? Its design, bitches.

Early in the process we were talking a lot about skateboarding in empty swimming pools and you can see that coming through in the finished project, says Paul Hibler, foodie visionary and founder of American Gonzo Food Corporation, and owner of several of L.A.s hottest restaurants including Pitfire Artisan Pizza, Superba Snack Bar, and Superba Food & Bread. Everything about the restaurants design mashes up cultural references in a way that only makes sense in Los Angeles' sprawling food scene.

Its not a year to mess with Design, Bitches. Architects Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph are keeping pace with L.A.s appetite for unusual, unstuffy food experiences. Theyre on a roll with the opening of two new restaurants Superba Food & Bread in Venice and the Hollywood outpost of The Oinkster, a burger joint with a cult-like following; an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara; and the imminent opening of The Springs in downtown Los Angeles Arts District, a self-proclaimed urban oasis serving up yoga, organic juice, and a raw vegan restaurant, plus wine bar.

Its a far cry from 2010 when Johnson and Rudolph founded their firm on a bit of a lark, entering an architecture competition together with an in-your-face name. The name could mean many things, but for the partners, whose chatty and overlapping conversation is inflected with art-house references and hip-hop phrases, it answers the question: What is architecture? Its design, bitches.

The pair has a holistic take on restaurant design, considering the architectural context, the interests of the owners, the goals of the chef, and the specifics of the menu, as they create the narrative of the experience. But that could be said of many architects. What sets Design, Bitches apart is the way they use the whole of L.A. culture as their palette--movies, everyday materials, art, food, fashion. Their approach reflects the casual mixing-and-matching of cultures that has helped transform L.A. from a "culinary backwater," to quote the Daily Beast's Andrew Romano, into one of the most exciting restaurant scenes in the U.S.

We are observers, Rudolph says. Were constantly gathering inspiration from everywhere into our memory banks. We really like mashing up ideas in ways that are relevant to the project at hand and might feel familiar yet somehow a bit odd or unexpected. . . . Our designs are not about preciousness or minimalism. Our goal is to create social spaces that bring people together to share food.

To date, the two architects and their small support staff have designed around a half dozen restaurants and food-related venues, including a second for Hibler, Superba Food & Bread. They transformed a 115-year-old auto body shop into a 4,377-square-foot all-day eatery, serving up pretzel croissants in the morning and butchers steak with bone marrow bordelaise at night. Industrial wood trusses combine with Japanese cabinetry and wall-sized supergraphics. Huge garage doors roll up during business hours so the airy dining room stretches effortlessly onto the patio. Southern California design has a long tradition of ignoring the distinctions between indoors and out.

The DBs bring a quirky, intelligent, off center sensibility to the table, Hibler explains. They challenge the conventional norms of restaurant design. When you work with a typical restaurant designer they have their usual bag of tricks and solutions. I am looking for a slightly disruptive result.

The growth of Design, Bitches practice parallels the changing food scene in L.A. Some food trucks begun in the free-wheeling craze a few years ago are putting down roots and adding storefronts. A couple years ago Johnson and Rudolph created brick and mortar outlets for Coolhaus Ice Cream--best known for their micro-trucks that serve up signature ice cream sandwiches with architectural names like the Frank Berry. They used the brands signature bubble graphics (rendered in neon, metallic balloons, and as wall murals) and a playful sensibility to transition Coolhaus into two 400-square foot retail spaces in Culver City and Pasadena. Design, Bitches uses the whole of L.A. culture as their palette--movies, everyday materials, art, food, fashion.

For Rudolph, the migration from four wheels to four walls poses as many opportunities as challenges--excited audiences and expectant chefs, but also micro budgets. We work with the clients to distill the essence of the brand and keep that vibe and culture wherever they go and grow, she says. You don't want to lose community that gets created around the truck and the excitement of following it, but we also want to make comfortable places for people to gather. Their excitement helps feed our creative fever.

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