Archinect - News2024-05-15T15:02:35-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150335298/kevin-daly-architects-completes-new-houston-endowment-hq-project
Kevin Daly Architects completes new Houston Endowment HQ project Josh Niland2023-01-11T18:02:00-05:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3c/3cc643291f3561f0946ee2772bfb0ad4.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/129874652/kevin-daly-architects" target="_blank">Kevin Daly Architects (kdA)</a> recently celebrated the completion of their new <a href="https://archinect.com/news/bustler/7704/first-look-kevin-daly-architects-productora-s-winning-houston-endowment-hq-proposal-three-runner-up-designs-also-unveiled" target="_blank">Houston Endowment headquarters</a> project, designed in collaboration with Mexico City-based studio <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/19656917/productora-df" target="_blank">PRODUCTORA</a>.</p>
<p>The 32,000-square-foot building stands beside the city’s Spotts Park and offers the 96-year-old Endowment a new and more sustainable location that is better suited to its organizational aims and the needs of its public representation overall. </p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8e/8e7dbaaf182a07508121fb2be13a8e75.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8e/8e7dbaaf182a07508121fb2be13a8e75.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo: Iwan Baan, courtesy Kevin Daly Architects.</figcaption></figure><p>Challenged with creating a building they say is simultaneously a “front door and a back porch” to the Endowment, the design team came up with a two-story hybrid steel and CLT solution that sits underneath a column-supported lattice canopy covering recessed volumes which are then lined in a dynamic facade of optic white aluminum rain-screen panels. <br></p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cf/cf61052c664465e582ef0b7b8396a382.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cf/cf61052c664465e582ef0b7b8396a382.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo: Iwan Baan, courtesy Kevin Daly Architects.</figcaption></figure><p>While noticeably similar to the 36-year-old Menil Collection just outside the city, the headquarters building also offer...</p>
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Kevin Daly's Backyard BI(h)OME provides affordable housing for humans and wildlife Julia Ingalls2015-06-18T15:40:00-04:00>2015-06-22T21:18:30-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/gn/gnte54xaz8txvwtq.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Fittingly, Poolside’s version of “Harvest Moon” echoed off the wooden planks of the Broad Arts Center at UCLA on June 10th as a crowd of optimists, architects, and Ira-Glass lookalikes drank their way in and out of the opening reception for BI(h)OME, <a href="http://kevindalyarchitects.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kevin Daly Architects</a>’ proposed “granny flat” solution to the L.A. Housing Crisis. The music was fitting because it was a laid-back cover of a much older tune: instead of raw passion, a more pragmatic vision of affordable housing was being unveiled, a 350-square foot, EFTE-enveloped, recyclable component-laden dwelling with wall cavities for bats, birds, and bugs. The students from <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/37807656/citylab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cityLAB</a> who manually assembled the mock-up of the BI(h)ome formed a lab-coat wearing cluster of “house doctors” as they stood behind Dana Cuff, <a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/105047/frances-anderton" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Frances Anderton</a> of KCRW, and Kevin Daly for a twenty-minute panel-style discussion about the future of housing in Los Angeles.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/dz/dzjpg28y8qkdfiz3.jpg"></p><p>Part sales-pitch, part design lecture, the discussion encompassed the difficulties that Lo...</p>