Bernheimer Architecture traveled up to Rhode Island this week for the launch of construction on the Quonochontaug House. The site has been cleared and grading and utility work have begun. While there, we were treated to a birds eye view of the site and surrounding area.
Our design for the Yossi Milo Gallery is nearing completion. The gallery, currently on 25th Street in West Chelsea, will be relocating and expanding to the commercial space at 245 Tenth Avenue and re-opening in January of 2012. With spaces on two floors, we composed the gallery as a collection of variously sized and separated white boxes. This offers a series of spaces in which art of various scales can be presented. Another construction photo after the jump.
My alma mater, Williams College, is building a new library, the work of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Upon a recent visit to the campus we were up bright and early and wandering the grounds of the school, and came across the odd sight above, which shows an older college building readied for a move elsewhere. While not quite as nutso as what we stumbled across in Los Angeles this was, nonetheless, an odd sight to see in pastoral western Massachusetts.
During a visit to California last week we came upon this astounding building site in downtown LA, on the edge of Chinatown and right near High School #9 by Coop Himmleb(l)au. The picture doesn't quite do justice to the oddness of the scene, or the massive scale of the shoring. An amazing site/sight.
A couple of pictures from a house addition in Wainscott, Long Island. The above image shows the bulk of the addition, a garage at grade with a bedroom suite above, slightly shifted off the lower floor. The primary move in the house is a double height cut at the kitchen, extending through to the roof and adjacent to an upstairs hallway leading to guest bedrooms.
Some good news for one of our projects, the previously stalled 245 Tenth, which is back buzzing as the developer and their partners work to complete construction. Josh Barbanel penned a story on the resuscitation of the project for the Wall Street Journal, you can read it here.
Construction on R-House is finally complete. Our office, along with ARO, was very fortunate to have the great photographer Richard Barnes document the house. Richard has shot projects for us previously (including Artreehoose and 23 Beekman Place), but his real genius is in his own artwork, so head to his site to see some beautiful, intellectual images.Herein are a few from the photo shoot. Passive house and LEED certification are next up on the docket.(and, there are some additional images at the R-House project page)
More pics from the house. Landscaping continues while the house gets tweaked inside.
Lightbox construction is wrapping up. The shot above is of the front of the house, with light filtering through the transom windows along the entry facade. The image below shows the intersection of the three major articulated volumes and their associated materials (fiber cement panel, cedar, and Cor-Ten steel). Move-in for the client starts (we hope!) in approximately a week to two weeks.
Another site visit, another step towards completion. More painting done, floor finishing, additional Cor-Ten installation, stucco on the exterior ramada. The ramada has a very large and dramatic cantilever, engineered (as was the entire house) by our friend Nat Oppenheimer at Robert Silman Associates. More pictures after the jump.
We inch closer and closer to completion...Painting has started, decorative metalwork has been installed, and the Cor-Ten steel for the exterior has finally arrived and is going in. A couple of additional pictures after the jump.
Here's a video about R-House up in Syracuse featuring DB Studio Director Garrick Jones, Mike Hughes of Home Headquarters, David White of Right Environments, and Kevin Stack of Northeast Natural Homes. It's a nice summary of what has gone into R-House from a design and technical standpoint.
Up in Syracuse R-House has made it through testing for air infiltration and these measurements are enough to to eventually obtain Passivhaus certification, a big step. Marie Morelli has more information on the energy monitoring and the progress of the three FTGU houses at Syracuse.com.
As promised, some additional photography from Garrick's visit to the site yesterday. As the photos show, the interior is fully insulated (the insulation is 16" deep with a value of approximately R-70) and they are almost ready to sheetrock the interior. The house next door, TED by Onion Flats, is mostly clad, while R-House should be done in a week to ten days.
DB Studio Director Garrick Jones is up in Syracuse today and sends along a picture of the aluminum siding installation at R-House. The siding was fabricated by LITSCO and is stucco embossed mill-finish aluminum. The protruding piece of flashing that runs mid-elevation is being cut back slightly to reduce its prominence, and the house should be fully clad within days. More pictures from the visit when Garrick returns, potentially some from a device other than Garrick's pinhole phonecam.
Some more progress at Lightbox. This week saw the installation of the Cedar ceiling in the main living/dining room, Beech flooring, more sheetrock work, radiant heating, and an Ikea kitchen.The kitchen is white, by the way, not white and blue. Though we do like the color of the protective film!
An update from Syracuse - R-House is getting very close to adhering to the air infiltration requirements for Passivhaus acceptance. Head to the Syracuse Post Standard for a full update on all three houses under construction.
Some images from today's visit to Lightbox, in the Hamptons. Progress included the concrete pour on the ground floor, roofing on the photography studio and window/door installation, and continued GWB work.
DB Studio Director Garrick Jones is on-site in Syracuse today to review the cladding details, so R-House should be getting wrapped up, quite literally, over the next two weeks. Pictures to follow.
From a couple of weeks ago at The Architects Newspaper, Matt Chaban links over to Syracuse.com and their update on the From the Ground Up construction. The work is moving fast on our house, designed in collaboration with ARO, along with the houses by Cook+Fox and Onion Flats.
Almost there!
