LAKEMOOR A village hall that will fit the look of the town is what Lakemoor officials are thinking after their first workshop with a recently hired architecture firm, its village president said.

The Lakemoor Village Board approved an agreement with FGM Architects of Oak Brook at its meeting Thursday evening.

Village President Todd Weihofen said he's pleased with the pick, adding the firm is one of the top municipal architect firms in the Chicago area.

The new building would include village offices and the police department, and would be about 12,000 to 13,500 square feet in size, according to village documents.

The village would either sell the current police department at 27901 W. Concrete Drive or figure out if there's another use for it, Weihofen said.

The new campus also would incorporate the ideas laid out in the village's comprehensive plan, mainly villagewide walkability.

The designs for the new village hall should be ready in five to six months, and officials plan on going out to bid on the project this year so work can start in the spring.

Weihofen said they saw no reason to rush the process because the village is already renting offices and starting work in the winter could rack up unforeseen costs because of the weather.

The total project is estimated to cost $5.4 million with total construction costs estimated at $4.5 to $4.9 million, according to village documents.

FGM Architects is to be paid $445,500 plus expenses, according to the proposal provided by the village.

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A new library and research facilities are at the center of refurbishment plans for the London Science Museum. The commission to refurbish around 400 square meters (4305 sq ft) of space on the ground floor and mezzanine levels was recently awarded to Coffey Architects. As well as providing space for research and study, the new facility will allow access to more than half a million sources contained in the Wroughton Library, including archives and original materials.

The project for the new Science Museum Research Center will be carried out in the Wellcome Wolfson Building, part of the Wellcome Wing extension to the museum that was completed in 2003. Its focus is a large main reading room, which will act as the central core of activity.

From here a stair leads up to the more enclosed spaces of the mezzanine. According to the architects, the scheme is defined by two main elements: the bookcase and the light-filtering canopy. Made of pale timber, the bookcases, desks and floor create a continuous material landscape for students and researchers, as well as serving the practical storage and display functions. The continuity of material also has the effect of a sort of warm embrace at the lower, functional, portion of the rooms.

Above this timber section, the overall interior atmosphere will be enhanced by the addition of a double-height, translucent canopy, which also controls acoustics. Punched through with thousands of oculi, the canopy will attenuate the natural light flowing into the space and is meant to "give the feeling of reading a book while sitting under a tree."

In one area, the canopy will cover the large section of glazing that runs along the upper portion of the main wall and wraps over the lip of the roof. In another it is used to create a soft tunnel of light all along a high, narrow space.

In addition to the library and reading room, the scheme will include a number of different areas for research, and a "research bar" (perhaps inspired by the Eagle pub in Cambridge, where Watson and Crick made the famous declaration of their discovery of the secret of life).

There will be private study areas among the book stacks on the ground floor, as well as offices and separate research rooms for resident scholars on the upper floor. The project is set for completion in 2015.

London's Science Museum was founded in 1857 under the patronage of Prince Albert. It moved to its current premises in the 1860s and was launched as a center of scientific enquiry with an exhibition of an international collection of scientific instruments in 1867.

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Celebration of Hampshire architects to be held in Winchester

2:00pm Sunday 8th June 2014 in News By Andrew Napier

A MONTH long celebration of architects and landscape design in Hampshire is starting in Winchester next week.

The Live Work Play exhibition is open to the public from June 14 to July 6 at the Discovery Centre in Jewry Street, Winchester.

It shows recent work by 26 architects including several based in Winchester.

Exhibitors include award-winning practices such as PAD Studio (recent winner of three RIBA Awards), Design Engine (RIBA and Civic Trust Award winners, 2014), AR Design Studio, Design ACB, ADAM Architecture, John Pardey Architects, Hampshire County Council and Ruth Butler Architects.

Design workshops with local schools is being held at the centre on June 16, June 25 and July 2 on the work, live and play theme. They are being run with local firms Architecture PLB, PAD Studio and Design ACB.

A series of lectures are also being held at the Discovery Centre by accomplished architects including Richard Jobson, Design Engine (June 25) and Robert Sakula, Ash Sakula (July 23), talks including Keith Myers, MD of The Myers Touch Designing kitchens with light, space and laughter (June 17), design workshops for local schools.

A football tournament is being held at Kings School, Winchester on June 21.

The Hampshire Festival of Architecture is being organised by the county branch of RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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Above the whine of a power saw and the pound of hammering, nine architecture students chatted in three different languages while working on the new Ragdale Ring outdoor performance space in Lake Forest.

While some tightened supports at the base, others balanced on ladders to tack down the netting.

The group worked steadily to complete the supports for the straw wattles, lying on the ground like a jumble of giant earthworms behind the Ragdale House artist-in-residence retreat. The wattles think super-lightweight logs will cover the structure and spill onto the grass below.

We wanted something that blended seamlessly with the ground and you could actually grow things in, architect Michael Loverich said. Over the course of the summer, things will start sprouting in it and the existing lawn will grow through it. It actually becomes much more alive as the summer goes on.

Loverich and Antonio Torres of The Bittertang Farm in New York and Guadalajara submitted the winning design in the second international competition to create an interpretation of the outdoor performance ring designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw for what was originally his summer home, Ragdale, located at 1230 N. Green Bay Road in Lake Forest. Like Shaws original performance ring, their design will also play host to a series of artistic performances this summer.

In the first week of the design-build project on May 28, Torres was still pinching himself.

We were given this chance to stay here at Ragdale with a team of 10 people and that is just really amazing, said Torres, a native of Chicagos Pilsen neighborhood. There are not that many opportunities or projects that allow you to have a team stay and be fed for the duration of the project. Weve been able to make a lot of progress, because were all focused on what were here for to build the pavilion.

Jeffrey Meeuwsen, executive director of Ragdale, believes this years winning team embodies the vision the projects creators intended when the competition was first conceived in 2013.

The fact that it pulls a really diverse group of people from across the U.S. and Mexico and theyre here working together, learning together, experimenting, and creating something that is really special and unique to this area that will inspire a whole series of other artistic programming, is really sort of perfect, Meeuwsen said.

The Bittertang group had the same thoughts when they first arrived on the Ragdale campus on May 19 and saw in person the home and landscape they had only ever viewed in photographs.

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KINGSCLIFF architect Matt Cooper will be one of four north coast architects to showcase their work tomorrow at Architecture on Show in Casuarina.

NSW Country Division Chair of the Australian Institute of Architects Sarah Aldridge said it would be a great opportunity for the public to come along and meet some local architects to see how projects in their area are developed and designed.

"This is the first time we have put on a free showcase event with local architects at Casuarina," Ms Aldridge said.

The four presenting architects will have 15 minutes each to showcase their work.

Matt Cooper has been an architect for 20 years and started his business Aspect Architecture 15 years ago.

"I think it's a very good opportunity for people to get an idea of what architects do and why they do it," Mr Cooper said.

"It's important for the public to see how architects work and what they can do for you.

Casuarina architect Scott Carpenter will be curating the event, which precedes a regional seminar.

He said many regional architects are somewhat isolated from the rest of the industry.

"This conference will offer a meeting of minds, where they can discuss issues from design to practice management," he said.

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