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The @GlenstoneMuseum may be one of the greater Washington area’s best-kept secrets, but expect that to change this fall. The museum has outgrown the 9,000 square feet of gallery space of its Gwathmey Siegel & Associates–designed facilities, prompting a dramatic expansion at the hands of @thomasphiferandpartners with @peterwalkerandpartners, which adds 50,000 square feet of gallery space—along with an arrival center, two cafés, and storage and administrative spaces that bring the total addition to 240,000 square feet—in a cluster of variable-sized concrete boxes dubbed “the Pavilions.” Nestled into Glenstone’s landscape, these pavilions—eight of which are planned as single artist galleries—surround an open-air, 18,000-square-foot water court. Read more about the forthcoming #AR_Project at http://ow.ly/rO5630k6SdL Text by Deane Madsen Photo © Architectural Record by Deane Madsen #ThomasPhifer #glenstone #potomac #museum #museumdesign #artanddesign #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at Potomac, Maryland)

The new Markel Center at Virginia Commonwealth University's @icavcu in Richmond anchors its busy corner site at the edge of campus like an urban-scaled sculpture. Designed by @stevenhollarchitects, the ICA is a calming antidote to the rough and tumble intersection on which it sits, where trucks rumble by and car radios blare out of sunroofs. With its intriguing, torqued geometry and camouflaged porosity, it is a gateway that metaphorically links art to the larger world and literally connects the surrounding neighborhood to the university. The building is composed of an elegant, 240-seat cherry-lined auditorium and a lobby called the Forum (pictured), topped by an exhibition space; these are housed in two colliding volumes that torque as they rise. Read more about this #AR_Project at http://ow.ly/IAMx30keIwk Text by Beth Broome Photo © @iwanbaan #stevenholl #richmond #virginia #artanddesign #interiorarchitecture #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at Richmond, Virginia)

Few would pick a daylight-deprived basement as an ideal setting for a cafeteria. Yet, thanks to an imaginative scheme by the Frankfurt-based firm ttsp hwp seidel with lighting design by @lichtkunstlicht, employees at the HSBC Global Asset Management headquarters in Düsseldorf are transported to the Rhine River while a soothing circadian-rhythm-based illumination program supports their internal biological clocks. Read more about this #AR_Project at http://ow.ly/nx9d30k8eW1 Text by Mairi Beautyman Photo © Johannes Roloff/Licht Kunst Licht #lichtkunstlicht #interiorarchitecture #light #lightingdesign #interior #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at Düsseldorf, Germany)

At @stevenhollarchitects' new Maggie’s Cancer Caring Center at Barts Hospital in London, light seems to assume near-tangible properties. “Light has always been my favorite building material,” says architect Steven Holl, who worked with lighting designers @lobservatoire_intl on the project. Commissioned by a charity that has created more than 20 such freestanding centers designed around the UK by top architects, the facility offers cancer patients and their families practical and emotional support. Inside, the wood-warmed lighting suggests that the building itself is the source of illumination. Together they give the interior a calm stillness and luminous aura captured and held within the space. Holl describes the layers of the building’s structure as a “vessel within a vessel within a vessel,” and this seems apt for a protective, enveloping container of light. Read more about this #AR_Project at http://ow.ly/8VDH30jZKIt Text by Chris Foges Photo © @iwanbaan #stevenholl #london #facade #facadelovers #light #colors #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at London, United Kingdom)

“Light has always been my favorite building material,” says architect Steven Holl. At @stevenhollarchitects' new Maggie’s Cancer Caring Center at Barts Hospital in London, light does seem to assume near-tangible properties. Commissioned by a charity that has created more than 20 such freestanding centers designed around the UK by top architects, the facility offers cancer patients and their families practical and emotional support. This center uses carefully moderated illumination to draw in those who feel anxious, to lift their mood and foster intimate conversations. Read more about this #AR_Project at http://ow.ly/8VDH30jZKIt Text by Chris Foges Photo © @iwanbaan #stevenholl #london #facade #facadelovers #light #colors #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at London, United Kingdom)

“It was like returning to the roots of architecture,” Álvaro Siza says about the experience of creating a small chapel at the top of a hill, on former farmland in Portugal. The first project by the Portuguese Pritzker Prize–winner to be built in the Algarve, the country’s southernmost region, it would also be the first part of a larger spiritual retreat. The pristine sanctuary is pure form—devoid of plumbing, HVAC, and electrical systems. A south-facing entry leads to an open passage where three murals, drawn by Siza on Portuguese ceramic tiles, depict the birth, baptism, and death of Jesus Christ. Read more about this #AR_Project at https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13369-portuguese-chapel-by-%C3%A1lvaro-siza Text by Ana Martins Photo © @joaodmorgado #ÁlvaroSiza #portugal #contemporarydesign #minimalism #brick #interiorarchitecture #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at Portugal)

Made of white reinforced concrete, the freestanding 40-foot-high Anastasis Church by the Portuguese Pritzker Prize–winner Álvaro Siza is straightforward in form: a cylinder on top of an orthogonal volume dotted in each corner by four turret-like blocks. This geometry not only fits comfortably within the surrounding urban fabric, it also exemplifies the work of Siza, 84, whom the Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti called, in his essay for the 1992 Pritzker laureate, “the father of the new architectural minimalism.” Beyond this apparent simplicity, however, lies a complex story. Read more about this #AR_Project at http://ow.ly/TY3b30joI5o Text by Ana Martins Photo © Duccio Malagamba #AlvaroSiza #france #ducciomalagamba #facade #concrete #minimalism #minimalist #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at Rennes, France)

In addition to designing the new @qatarnationallibrary, @oma.eu also designed the recently completed headquarters for the @qatarfoundation. The cubic, perforated building, a few hundred feet from the library, “looks deceptively simple from the outside,” says @rem.koolhaas. Inside, a naturally-ventilated, central L-shaped void reveals a jumble of volumes of different shapes and sizes. Midway up the building’s exterior, an 8-foot-tall incision slices horizontally around the entire perimeter, becoming a low-ceilinged terrace. Read more about this exclusive #AR_Project at http://ow.ly/RXlk30jsG63 Text by @minutillo_josephine Photo © Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti #oma #remkoolhaas #doha #contemporarydesign #interior #light #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at Doha)