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Inspired by Japanese architecture, Pelli Clarke & Partners opens adaptive reuse sake brewery in Hyde Park, New York

2024-05-02T13:54:00-04:00

Pelli Clarke & Partners and Jun Mitsui & Associates have shared photos of the recently completed Asahi Shuzo’s Dassai Blue Brewery project in Hyde Park, New York. The adaptive reuse of a former grocery store into the first American home for the popular Japanese brand pays homage to the naturalism of its native country while mirroring the “dance” of fermentation.

Image courtesy Pelli Clarke & Partners

Inside, 55,000 square feet of space for rice washing, Koji-making, drying, steaming, and other parts of the fermentation process are enabled without any major alterations being made to the building’s footprint. Production flows counterclockwise to accommodate a volume of approximately 140,000 cases annually.

Image courtesy Pelli Clarke & Partners

Elements from traditional Japanese architecture feature throughout, and the exterior is also rendered in the same character, beset by a materials palette led by Yakisugi...

Five tasteful bars and breweries by Bergmeyer: Your Next Employer?

2023-07-31T17:44:00-04:00

Following last week’s visit to Connecticut-based Joeb Moore & Partners, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Southern California this week to explore the work of Bergmeyer.

From their studios across Los Angeles, Boston, and Columbus, Bergmeyer has built a diverse portfolio around their core pillars of creativity, connectedness, and curiosity. “We are a design collaborative; inspired through partnership, thoughtfully creative, inherently curious, and driven to fulfill our clients’ needs,” the firm notes about its philosophy.

Over on Archinect Jobs, they are currently hiring a Managing Director for their LA office. For candidates interested in applying for the position, or anybody interested in learning more about the studio’s work, we have rounded up five brewery and bar projects by Bergmeyer that demonstrate their design approach.

Tree House Brewing Company. Image credit: Bergmeyer

Tree House Brewing Company, South Deerfield, MA

Tree House Brewing Company’s brief invol...

SAH Archipedia aims to chronicle America's built environment

2019-07-03T14:07:00-04:00

The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) has unveiled a new "archipedia" website focused on extensively cataloging a wide range of structures and other facets of the built environment.

Dubbed SAH Archipedia, the online encyclopedia was developed by SAH and the University of Virginia Press. The site contains detailed historical information, interactive maps, photographs, and drawings for over 20,000 structures and places. To aid in research efforts, the database is tagged by subject, and includes indexes organized by architectural style, demographic and cultural information, location, and historical period.

Chronicled sites include Frank Lloyd Wright's Arizona Biltmore Hotel, the architecture and historical sites of Alaska, California's Spanish missions, breweries across the United States, and many others.

A view of the Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Image courtesy of Paul J. Jakubovich, Wisconsin Historical Society, and SAH Archipedia.

The bulk of the information is dra...

First glimpse of COBE's LERVIG Visitor Center and Brewery in Norway

2017-12-20T14:07:00-05:00

COBE teamed up with Norwegian brewer LERVIG to design a new 11,000 m2 visitor center and brewery in the company's hometown of Stavanger. Located on a former industrial pier in the heart of the city, the forthcoming project is a milestone for LERVIG as they continue to expand their business.

Although breweries tend to be perceived as closed-off facilities, Lervig's new visitor center and brewery wants to embrace the public. The new building will have the brewery at the center, which will be surrounded by the visitor center, a 360-degree public promenade, harbor baths, a public roof garden, and the first street-food market on Norway's west coast.

Image credit: COBE.

“Designed as a series of spectacular wooden arches, a large roof connects all functions of the visitor center and brewery. Drawing on the materiality of the traditional brewery halls and embracing the regions proud tradition of constructing with wood, the complex adds an iconic focal point to Stavanger’s harbour front,” CO...

Michael Rotondi’s legendary Carlson-Reges House is now for sale

2017-02-22T17:27:00-05:00

For the first time ever, the Carlson-Reges House designed by Michael Rotondi is up for sale. A collision of industrial materials and a 1920’s era power plant, the home is an iconic work of Los Angeles architecture that was awarded an American Institute of Architects award. It is listed for $12.5 million.

Back in the 1990s, Richard Carlson and Kathy Reges commissioned Rotondi to design the building, intended to serve as the heart of The Brewery, the massive Lincoln Heights live/work art colony that they developed. The home doubled as an art gallery and a kennel for purebred dogs (as well as rescues).

Check out this review by Orhan Ayyüce from a few years ago for more on the project. And head over here to find out more about what makes Rotondi tick.

h/t LA Mag

LIVE·MAKE Industrial Arts Center Cincinnati Results

2013-02-13T14:29:00-05:00

Results have recently been unveiled in the international design ideas competition LIVE·MAKE Industrial Arts Center Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in partnership with the Over-the-Rhine Brewery District Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation had launched this competition as a call for architectural proposals of a membership-based facility that will [...] help shape a new economic opportunity for the city of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Review: Carlson-Reges House, RoTo Architects

2012-06-01T06:19:00-04:00

Built 1992-onward in Los Angeles by RoTo Architects, Carlson-Reges House is an inimitable masterpiece.

Its architect Michael Rotondi describes the building as if various parts piled on top each other like children construct their building piece by piece, one component supporting the other one, until the whole structure holds together. He also adds, in that building process, the form of the piece is the end result of more important goal, the idea of having the structure stand up.
In the case of Carlson-Reges House, the resultant form is quite poetic. The architect, in my reading, while choreographing the construction, holds onto ever changing concept of spatial relativities. Sometimes thought out before hand sometimes spontaneous, these are series of intellectual and material strategies.

My first inclination to call the building is “story within a story.” A good way to describe the new components inserted within an old concrete shell. However, this is not a nesting concept, as the story...