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Studio Gang to design new home for University of Kentucky’s College of Design

2022-05-02T14:03:00-04:00

The picture is getting clearer for the Studio Gang-envisioned new, unified home for the University of Kentucky's College of Design after final renderings and a project timeline were just revealed.

The firm beat out five other top-flight firms for the renovation of the former Reynolds Building, which was announced three years ago and has since been bolstered by a $5.2 million gift from local developers Gray Construction.

The building is located in a former tobacco warehouse at the edge of campus. Image courtesy of the University of Kentucky College of Design.

Now simply named the Gray Building, the 145,000-square-foot structure, originally conceived as a tobacco storehouse, had been sitting largely unused for a period of several years (a rare occurrence on most college campuses) and is now set to become the combined home of the College’s five academic programs and landscape department. A special joint studio between the Biomedical Engineering and Product Design programs and a new coll...

Get Lectured: University of Kentucky, Spring '18

2018-02-15T15:44:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2018

Archinect's Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

See what events are coming up in the University of Kentucky College of Design's Spring 2018 Architecture/Interiors/Historic Preservation lecture series.

Feb 2-3
Karen Lewis / Ohio State University

Feb 7
Sarah Dunn / UrbanLab

Feb 28
Jeanne Gang / Studio Gang

Mar 26
Patrick Hobgood / Hobgood Architects

Mar 30
Alan Ricks / MASS Design Group

Apr 9
Diana Agrest / Agrest & Gandelsonas Architects

For more event info + the latest updates, click here or visit design.uky.edu.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pinterest page!

Want another way to share your school's even...

Get Lectured: University of Kentucky, Fall '17

2017-11-03T14:46:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2017

Ready or not, it's the start of a new school year. Back for Fall 2017 is Archinect's Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Here's the Fall 2017 lecture series from the University of Kentucky College of Design School of Architecture.

Aug 30
José Oubrerie

Sept 25
Pete Wenger / Patkau Architects

Oct 6
Daan Roggeveen / MORE Architecture

Oct 30
Marie & Keith Zawistowski / onSITE Architecture

Nov 1
Adrian Parr / University of Cincinnati

Nov 6
Diana Agrest / Agrest & Gandelsonas Architects

Nov 10
Mark Rakatansky / Mark Rakatansky Studio

Nov 13
Sarah Dunn / UrbanLab

The College of Design at the University of Kentucky/Architecture/ Interiors/Historic P...

Get Lectured: University of Kentucky, Spring '17

2017-03-14T19:20:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter & Spring 2017

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session for Spring 2017. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss. Mark those calendars!

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Here's a look at the Spring '17 lecture series at the University of Kentucky College of Design in Lexington.

Jan 21
Dwayne Oyler

Jan 28-Apr 23
Exhibition: Mike McKay / Art Museum at UK

Feb 2
Marlon Blackwell

Feb 13
Phillippe Chavance, Ou Ning & Eric Reece

Feb 17-18
Keely Colcleugh & Nathan Capaccio

Feb 24-25
Satoru Sugihara

Mar 6
Tobias Armbost

Mar 31
Historic Preservation Symposium: “Conflict, Violence & Preservation”

Apr 7
Winka Dubbeldam

For times and locations, click here. Visit design.uky.edu for other info.

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The creative fight to save a masterpiece of Lexington modernism from the wrecking ball

2015-11-19T12:03:00-05:00

Built in 1962, the People’s Bank has distinct glossy, off-teal bricks and a sawtooth, vaulted rooftop. The building is not only one of the finest remaining examples of Googie commercial architecture in Kentucky — it is one of the finest examples in the nation. However, after years of neglect, locals are working to ensure that the building isn’t leveled into a movie theater parking lot.

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Get Lectured: University of Kentucky, Spring '15

2015-02-27T12:42:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter-Spring 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session! Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

The next featured poster comes from the University of Kentucky College of Design.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Below are upcoming events only. Free and open to the public.

Feb 27
2:30 pm
Design Chat - School of Interiors
Mary Lee O'Bryan / The Design Studio - Louisville, KY
Jennifer Dumesnil / Swope Design Group - Louisville, KY
at Pence Hall, Room 209

Mar 6
9 am - 3 pm
HPGO Symposium: Rebranding Historic Preservation
Andrew Hurley / Author of "Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner-Cities" - St. Louis, MO
John-Mark Hack / Partner of Marksbury Farm - Midway, KY
Ro...

The PLAY LOUNGE - UK/CoD students transform Lexington's 2013 Beaux Arts Ball

2013-09-19T19:30:00-04:00

Jason Scroggin, of Lexington, KY-based Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin (D.O.T.S.), has shared with us the project The PLAY LOUNGE—the result of a fabrication course Scroggin taught last Spring at The University of Kentucky College of Design, School of Architecture.

The resulting objects were then part of Lexington's annual Beaux Arts Ball (previously).

The PLAY LOUNGE is the result of a graduate elective course entitled Tectonics, Typology, and Distribution taught by UK/CoD Assistant Professor Jason Scroggin (DOTS) in Spring 2013 that investigates participatory design and interactive manufactured objects. The class is treated as a laboratory for exploring these issues through research, discussion, and fabrication. An analysis of simple toys set up the discussion and acts as the motivating driver for a series of material constructs that consider new relationships between digital design and assembly processes to examine how physical form can engage the public realm. ...

SCAPE Wins Lexington Town Branch Commons Competition

2013-02-06T18:36:00-05:00

A five-member jury has selected the winner of the Town Branch Commons Design Competition in Lexington, Kentucky. The brief calls for the creation of a long, serpentine park following the path of a historic stream in downtown Lexington. From a shortlist of five finalists, the entry "Reviving Town Branch" by SCAPE / Landscape Architecture team was chosen as the winning proposal.

Other finalists were Coen+Partners, Minneapolis; Civitas, Denver; Inside Outside: Petra Blaisse, Amsterdam; and JDS / Julien De Smedt Architects, Copenhagen.

Previously: Five teams shortlisted for Town Branch Commons in Lexington, Kentucky

Five teams shortlisted for Town Branch Commons in Lexington, Kentucky

2012-11-26T15:15:00-05:00

A public symposium will be held in February where the final proposals will be displayed. The final design will be chosen by a jury. "People can expect some high-level proposals", said Speaks. "We will be the beneficiaries, and the city will get a high-quality project."

The lead firms on each of the five teams are:

Civitas, a Denver-based firm of architects, urban designers and planners
Coen+Partners, a landscape architecture practice based in Minneapolis.
Inside Outside, a design firm with offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that addresses interior and exterior space.
JDS / Julien De Smedt Architects, which focuses on architecture and design from large-scale planning to furniture, based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
SCAPE / Landscape Architecture, a landscape architecture and urban design studio in New York City.

UPDATE: SCAPE Wins Lexington Town Branch Commons Competition

Rainbow Massimal by Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin

2012-07-31T14:35:00-04:00

Lexington, KY-based Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin (D.O.T.S.) has sent us images of its installation "Rainbow Massimal", one of the attractions at Lexington's 2012 Beaux Arts Ball and winner of a 2011-12 A' Design Award.

UK design dean: Rupp redo would invigorate city's brand

2012-01-23T13:54:00-05:00

The Rupp Arena, Arts and Entertainment District Task Force hired Gary Bates and his firm, Space Group, as master planners for the district. The group's final report to the Urban County Council and Lexington Center Board is scheduled for the end of January. The initial results from Space Group's study are compelling and should be implemented. How that might happen, and more importantly, how the proposals will be funded, are questions now on the table.

UK/CoD Dean Michael Speaks discusses the value of Space Group's Rupp Arena proposal.

Previously: Arena master planner: Rupp could be renovated if convention center moved

Architect Jeanne Gang no longer involved with CentrePointe, developer says

2011-10-27T20:35:00-04:00

Chicago architect Jeanne Gang, hired in March to come up with a new design for downtown Lexington's empty CentrePointe block, is no longer involved in the project, developer Dudley Webb said Thursday. Webb said Gang and her firm Studio Gang Architects were hired to do a master plan for the block "and share her vision of what she thought this project might be."

Arena master planner: Rupp could be renovated if convention center moved

2011-08-29T13:55:00-04:00

Gary Bates, one of three founders of Space Group, a 12-year-old architecture and urban planning firm based in Oslo, Norway, was chosen over 13 other firms earlier this month by the Arena, Arts and Entertainment District Task Force's Planning and Design Committee.

Jeanne Gang's initial proposal for a block in the center of Lexington KY is well-received

2011-06-04T16:24:00-04:00

"It's more about listening to people and hearing what they say is important," Gang said... "And it's also to say, 'Hey, this is a new day because we are starting this again.' It's not going to be the same building that you saw before that looked like it could be anywhere, Atlanta or wherever," she said.

A block on which several historic buildings were razed for a project that then never happened (with accompanying scandal) has a new opportunity for something special. Gang's plan gets high marks from local critics for her interaction with the community, the attention to the existing urban scale, and for her initiative to involve Kentucky architects in some of the individual projects that arise out of the process.

More here, here, here, and here.