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A big congratulations to This by That clients Worrell Yeung Architecture, Michael K. Chen Architecture, Frederick Tang Architecture, and ALA Studio for being named to AN Interior's 2024 Top 50 Architects & Designers. "Every year, AN Interior’s editors assemble a Top 50 List, which recognizes the most outstanding North American architecture and design firms working in interiors. This list identifies those in pursuit of delivering better spaces and better lives for the people who use them." 🎉⁠ ⁠ Pick up a copy of AN Interior’s Fall/Winter 2024 print issue or click the link below to read more about the firms. ⁠ https://lnkd.in/gDj5FEJ2 ⁠ Top left: portrait of Jejon Yeung, AIA LEED AP (left) & Maxwell Worrell (right), photo by Daniel Seung Lee; top right: portrait of Michael Chen, photo by Max Burkhalter; bottom left: portrait of Barbara Reyes (left) & Frederick Tang (right), photo by Gieves Anderson; bottom right: portrait of Alda Ly, photo by Christine Han⁠ #design #architecture #antop50

L.E.FT Architects' redesign of Pratt House at Vassar College is featured in Azure Magazine. The adaptive reuse project converts a three-story, red brick former residence into a new center for the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices (RSLCP), which serves twelve religious and spiritual student groups.⁠ ⁠ From the beginning, the project was shaped by the desire for a communal spatial experience. Led by L.E.FT, the programming phase included a series of town hall meetings that brought together students, college faculty, staff, and administrators in design workshops and lectures on the history of shared religious buildings. Taking inspiration from the long tradition of reuse found in historical religious architecture, it transforms Pratt House’s structure into a layered condition of interwoven spaces and religious practices. ⁠ The design rearticulates traditional spatial practices in a contemporary language, meeting the needs of an ever-shifting socio-religious landscape. Major interventions were both aesthetic and functional, and included the removal of the second floor slab, a new skylight, a new elevator shaft, and accessibility improvements. Multifunctional built-in components were designed to serve the liturgical needs of the RSLCP’s multiple religious communities, including a multi-denominational multi-directional prayer carpet, kosher/halal kitchen, and the first Americans with Disabilities Act compliant ablution basin in the U.S. ⁠ ⁠ L.E.FT co-founder, Ziad Jamaleddine, tells Azure about the process, “It was so illuminating. When you ask this younger generation about their understanding of certain practices, it is slightly different than when you ask religious institutions. The students were much more permissive and accepting of others, even when discussing religious representation.”⁠ Click the link below to read more about the project! https://lnkd.in/giYCaRVQ Photo by Michael Vahrenwald / ESTO

Excited to be sharing models for collaborative practice and the equality focused work of Design Advocates at Pratt and the Architectural League on Monday.

CO Adaptive Architecture's recent transformation of an 1860s row house in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill neighborhood was recently featured in Remodelista. Applying the firm’s energy-efficient, climate-resilient approach to a 160-year-old structure, the firm preserved historic details original to the house while ensuring better energy performance and minimizing the embodied carbon required to update the two-family home for 21st century living.⁠ ⁠ “This project was about smartly using our budget to update the systems, the kitchen, and bathrooms – modernizing it while respecting the history of the space. We had to be very surgical about how these new insertions were made,” explains Ruth Mandl, AIA, co-principal of CO Adaptive.⁠ ⁠Click the link below to read more about the project! https://lnkd.in/g58khSJW Photo by Naho Kubota

Bernheimer Architecture's design for (MALIN+GOETZ)’s new Silver Lake location—one of two new stores designed by the studio in the Los Angeles area, gets a spotlight in Hospitality Design! Click the link below to read about the project.

Worrell Yeung Architecture's Frame House graces the pages of Architectural Record's 2024 Record Houses print issue! Click the link below or pick up a copy to read about how the home set on a bluff overlooking Gardiners Bay in East Hampton, New York, eschews the traditional hallmarks of an East End property and creates something wholly unique for a client looking for an alternative way to enjoy the natural beauty of the region. ⁠

Welcome to our regular dispatch from This by That. Sure it’s hot out, but despite the heat, This by That’s clients are unfailingly killing it this month. Whether it’s MILLIØNS’ transformation of the East Wing at the Everson Museum Of Art or ALA Studio’s design of Christian Louboutin’s Americas headquarters in Manhattan, there is something for every lover of impactful design.  Click the link below read more and to subscribe to our newsletter! https://lnkd.in/dB6hXqSB Image credits: top left Ridge House designed by Worrell Yeung Architecture, photo by Rafael Gamo; top right: Everson Museum of Art designed by MILLIØNS, photo by Ian Baan; bottom left: Dogtrot House designed by Studio Becker Xu, photo by Keith Isaacs; bottom right: Christian Louboutin Americas headquarters designed by ALA Studio, photo Brooke Holm.

MILLIØNS, led by Zeina Koreitem and John May, has reimagined the entire East Wing of the Everson Museum Of Art, including the design of a new café, Louise. In 2019, MILLIØNS was invited to work on the project after winning a two-stage, international architectural competition. The resulting adaptive reuse project that expands public access to the museum’s collections, strikes a balance between innovation and deference to the building originally designed by I.M. Pei in 1968.⁠ ⁠ Opening today, the new café houses a 4,000 plus collection of functional ceramics from Dallas-based collector, Louise Rosenfield. MILLIØNS’ design centers around a series of two-story glass towers that house the Rosenfield collection, whose donation stipulated that the pieces must be used by museum-goers. The towers feature open shelving, which will allow visitors to reach in and pick out any ceramic object they want to eat or drink from—a rare blurring of the lines between art and the public.⁠ MILLIØNS’ redesign also turns the formerly private, “back-of-house” lower level into a semi-public space for events and exhibitions while creating a new research library and renovated staff offices.⁠ ⁠ The designers were inspired by Pei’s Brutalist masterpiece, and specifically by the way in which Everson’s massing produces intense contrasts of darkness and light. This is particularly the case in the East Wing, which is mostly below grade and where the daylight conditions produce a chiaroscuro effect. MILLIØNS offset this by introducing materials and surfaces that multiply the reflection and refraction of natural light. Custom elements include dichroic curtains designed in collaboration with Paris-based artist Justin Morin and produced by 4Spaces in Zurich, chairs by Jonathan Olivares of Knoll, and custom tables designed by MILLIØNS and fabricated in Los Angeles by California Carts. ⁠Hit the link below to read more about the project in Wallpaper*. https://lnkd.in/efSjFSfg

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Welcome to our regular dispatch from This by That. Summer is in full swing! Here in Los Angeles, we kicked off the sunny season with the inaugural edition of LA Design Weekend. The three-day festival highlighted LA’s robust design scene through neighborhood-centric activations which included an open studio tour of Formation Association Architecture, Inc.’s Chinatown office and an afternoon with Public Art Company. Last month we also toured the Dr. Patricia Bath Residence in View Park, LA for Hood Mid Century Modern’s Open House: Black Modernist Edition Pt. 2 series. The home, originally built in 1950-51 by architect Leopold Fischer, has undergone minimal renovations. Dr. Bath, a renowned ophthalmologist, artist, collector, and the first Black woman to hold a medical patent in the US bought the property in 1977. For a recap of the experience, check out our instagram! We've got some exciting news to share from our clients—from Wallpaper*’s USA 400 list, ALA Studio's design of a cafe/bar/cinema in Reykjavik, Architensions named to Architectural Record’s 2024 Design Vanguard, Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design's Updated Historic Cold Spring, NY Residence in Upstate House, to Michael Chen, Max Worrell, Jejon Yeung, AIA LEED AP, and Studio J.Jih in Jean Lin’s new book, What We Keep. Click the link below read more and to subscribe to our newsletter! https://lnkd.in/gcbhVT8M