Luke's Essay on Rem is published in this month's issue on CLOG. You can checkout/buy the issue HERE. Or come join us at the Launch Party on June 26, 7-10pmTHE APARTMENT BY THE LINE76 Greene St. Floor 3, if you're in town.
The PARKING LOT PERFORMANCE ARTS CENTER re-imagines what a parking structure can be. Here we have combined it with a performing arts center and a visual arts gallery, so that during the parking off hours the space is open for public use. Our intention was to vertically extend New York City's unique urban street culture into an otherwise dead Parking Lot.
It became clear that what seemed to be an isolated incident was in reality the final straw for the people fed up by the government’s forceful positioning on multitude of issues ranging from censorship, regulation of alcohol consumption, police brutality, and urban renewal projects in the likes of Gezi Park and Taksim Square.
The L-House project is the rebuild of a 1940s TYPE B-1 housing unit designed by Turkish architect Kemal Aru, student of Bruno Taut, in Levent, Istanbul. The rebuild design attempts to further enhance living and spatial qualities while preserving the essence of the original historical building.
MNBAQ structure is almost all up! Next up the cantilevering Grand Hall!!
Very exciting to see it come up so fast.
Courtesy to OMA & construction site webcam.