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Congratulations to @abby_turin @kallosturin and ...

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Sep 11

Congratulations to @abby_turin @kallosturin and thank you to @archdigest for this beautiful story on the home of Kallos Turin co-founder Abigail Turin.
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Originally, Turin's 1925 Italianate home was two stories, with a garden accessible via its small basement. The garden featured, among other things, a large eucalyptus tree whose curved branches had grown in an embrace of the house's architecture.
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When designing the new lower level, Turin wanted it to feel more a part of the garden than the house. A steep, sloped condition is common in the hilly city of San Francisco, but usually results in a house that reads as two stories on the uphill side and three on the downhill side, leaving you with a three-story facade looming over a garden. Instead, Turin wanted to preserve the feeling that this was a two-story home set within a larger landscape. But she also wanted more space that enjoyed direct access to the garden and 1950s plunge pool. So the garden plinth idea was born — a concrete expansion beneath an upper deck, that was then densely planted so that, ultimately, the concrete will be entirely covered by green.
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The interiors of the house are a tribute to the punk-rock sensibility of Abby and her husband. Their approach to collecting both art and furniture is a combination of their fierce intelligence, their rock-and-roll attitude, and their absolute passion for the subject matter.
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BIG THANKS to @amyastley, @michaelsshome, @sanganphotography, @efazzare, @alevasseur1, @samuelcochran and the entire AD team.

@exhibitcolumbus has, since it was founded, ...

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Sep 10

@exhibitcolumbus has, since it was founded, considered education a key part of its mission. As such, the local High School Design Team (HSDT) has always been a key part of the exhibition. A group of students work much of the year and through the summer to design and construct an installation.
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This year, the HSDT made Machi. In Japanese, 街 (Machi) signifies a busy downtown area or main street, making the installation a perfect fit with the location on Washington Street.
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Machi is a space for all. Constructed of more than 1,000 linear feet of steel tubing, Machi measures 64 feet in width and 53 feet deep. A large group space is defined within its overall boundaries while several small, intimate spaces are created around its perimeter.
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Machi contains moveable chairs, tables, and more that allow every person to customize their own gathering space as they imagine it to be. Machi also integrates a multi-level canopy that grants opportunities for making art, taking selfies, or gathering under shade. The overal goal of Machi was to make a space that feels welcoming and secure for all.

One of the signature programs of ...

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Sep 10

One of the signature programs of @exhibitcolumbus is that of the University Design Research Fellows. This year there were seven UDRFs and the work of Joseph Altshuler (@archatillinois) and Zack Morrison (@couldbearchitecture) exemplified the spirit and impact of the installations. Joseph and Zack collaborated with many people and organizations in Columbus and around the country to build A Carousel for Columbus, which is bright and colorful feature on 4th Street in Ovation Plaza.
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A Carousel for Columbus is a locomotive love letter in-the-round. Shapely silhouettes sampled from the city’s iconic architecture huddle together to form a curious carousel, a backdrop for public life in the city. Supergraphics, also sampled from the city’s architecture, animate the walls and ground surfaces of the plaza. The graphics sync into and out of optical alignment with the carousel as it spins in place or as visitors circulate around it.
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When programmed as a stage, the rotating platform offers the flexibility for performers to reorient themselves outwards toward a festival crowd along Fourth Street or inwards toward a more intimate audience within the plaza. During un-programmed times, the carousel provides an active platform for physical engagement and visual play. Taken together, the carousel, supergraphics, and performances offer a locomotive landscape that celebrates the power of shape, color, character, and sound to generate a public platform by design.
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A Carousel for Columbus is located on a plaza that was a formerly overlooked urban space. Not only has the installation brought dynamism to this corner of the city, but the installation prompted numerous permanent improvements to the plaza.

J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Recipient ...

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Sep 10

J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Recipient @PORTurbanism created the installation, THE PLOT PROJECT, at Mill Race Center in the iconic Mill Race Park, which was designed by @MMVA.inc in 1993 and is located in downtown Columbus, Indiana for @exhibitcolumbus 2023, Public by Design.
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THE PLOT PROJECT interfaces with the Mill Race Center and its surrounding landscapes to place the Center’s diverse activities and the park's biodiversity into public dialogue.
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By extending and inscribing the arced shape of the Center’s building into the landscape, PORT defines a new arc approximately 1250 feet in length, covering half an acre of ground. This zone is subdivided into 12 plots that serve as testing beds for landscape rewilding experiments that have been grown over the course of a nine-month growing season. Some plots are left un-mown, while others are prepped and over-seeded with mixes of native warm-season grasses. Bands of wildflowers, seeded with a mix of native and naturalized annuals and perennials, highlight the transition between plots.
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Along the outside curve of the rewilded area, survey poles are arrayed at 25-foot intervals, allowing the geometry of the arc to be visible from the ground. At three points along the arc, conservation outreach stations are positioned as new places to reflect that invite social interaction and education. The color of the stations riff on the mid-century formal architectural heritage and color palette of Columbus.
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Photos by the GOAT @hadleyfruits.

InterOculus was designed by @vishaanchakrabarti ...

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Aug 30

InterOculus was designed by @vishaanchakrabarti and his team at @we.are.pau.
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Located at the crossroads of Indiana’s Columbus, at the intersection of Washington and Fourth Streets, Its canopy form, celebratory purpose, and equitable invitation are derived from an extensive community engagement process.
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Inspired by influences as diverse as the iconic Pantheon in Rome, local carnival vernacular, ice cream sundaes from Zaharakos, and the wigwams of the Miami and Shawnee peoples, the design creates a visual and physical destination that can help revitalize downtown day and night through the experiences of suspension, illumination, and projection. The project asks the community to enjoy the structure, revel in the city’s historic downtown, and advocate for permanent urban public space that connects Columbus's diverse communities and mindsets through positive social friction.
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It was also the site for Rock the Block, the dance party and celebration of community that officially marked the opening of @exhibitcolumbus 2023.

For @exhibitcolumbus 2023 exhibition, ...

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Aug 30

For @exhibitcolumbus 2023 exhibition, @studio_zewde designed Echoes of the Hill at Mill Race Park.
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Also timed to the 30th anniversary of this beloved public park, Sarah Zewde and her team explore the deep history of the site—from indigenous landscape technologies to localized histories like the River Rats and the Mill Race Monster. The firm conducted research on the community’s favorite stories and spots in this place to identify a strong relationship to landmarks such as the hill, the pond, the trails, and the architectural elements.
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This installation engages the interface between one of these beloved landmarks—the hill—and one of these spaces of opportunity—the Festival Field. In the dedication ceremony 30 years ago, the designer of this park, Michael Van Valkenburgh of @mvva.inc, made explicit reference to the hill’s form echoing the ancient mound-building traditions from the Missippean culture. This installation echoes this hill with red frames and makes the mound’s circle complete, suggesting a new public space for gathering. As a hollow form, the interior of the installation can be activated by special events or everyday usage, while offering a festive backdrop to the open lawn. The installation presents a literal and metaphorical “frame” on the pasts, presents, and futures of this land.
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All photos by the inimitable @hadleyfruits who has documented Exhibit Columbus and the city and architecture of Columbus for years and whose photos are second to none.

Wednesday Woman.
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“I wanted to paint ...

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Aug 9

Wednesday Woman.
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“I wanted to paint this feeling of: When I get home and no one’s around, who am I? Who am I without this façade? And the interior space was perfect for that,” Danielle Mckinney.
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In pensive, cinematic portraits, painter @danielle_mckinney_ (b. 1981; Montgomery, AL) captures solitary female protagonists in moments of leisure and respite. Set in dream-like domestic interiors, Mckinney's figures sprawl across unmade beds, lounge in overstuffed armchairs, and splay on the floor in various states of undress. They smoke, read, and nap; immersed in their own worlds, ensconced in their own space, these women are consumed with rest, with pleasure, with leisure, with being. Hinting subtly at the busy routine of these figures' lives, Mckinney withholds their motivations, their thoughts, their comings and goings—in turn captivating viewers with narratives implied in elusive shadows and revealing details.
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Mckinney's practice is an ongoing exploration of portraiture, color, and composition informed by an expansive dialogue with art history. Her figures emerge from deep, dark backgrounds reminiscent of Zurbarán's haunting portraits of saints and martyrs. With gestural brushstrokes and flickers of brilliant pink and orange oil paint, Mckinney evokes the work of Matisse while the striking quality of light in her scenes-and its narrative implications-echo the paintings of Vermeer. Perhaps most notably, Mckinney draws on the intense, unsettling voyeurism of Hopper with her masterfully-crafted interiors, occasionally borrowing his compositions directly, yet filling them with her own figures, her own details, her own vision. In these paintings, Mckinney ultimately enchants viewers with her expert handling of paint, the subtle emotional pull of her figures, and her radical commitment to beauty.

"I found an old photo from the ...

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Aug 5

"I found an old photo from the nineteen-sixties of a kid wearing goggles as he basked in the spray unleashed by a fire hydrant. It made perfect sense to me. If you can’t make it to the pool or the beach, why not still wear goggles? It was so imaginative and practical. For some kids, the fire hydrant is the pool or the ocean" - artist Kadir Nelson
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Kadir Nelson's "Summertime City" is a beautiful painting that celebrates the century-old metropolitan tradition of turning fire hyrdants into sprinklers in the sweltering summer heat. It was featured on the cover of the New Yorker in 2018.

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