Brooklyn-based Almost Studio provides a new interpretation of mobility with their winning competition proposal 'That's a Wrap'

2021-04-13T14:06:00-04:00

Co-founders Dorian Booth and Anthony Gagliardi established Almost Studio in 2018. Along with junior designer Isabella Calidonio Stechmann, the team considers a successful project "as never complete and always becoming: exposing unknown cultural, social, and spatial potential as time passes." With this design methodology, the team has become well known for projects such as "Playground for a Fashion Designer," RADICAL, House for a Sojourner, and Tent in a Vegetable Garden. The design studio entered the Ragdale Foundation's annual competition, the Ragdale Ring competition, and selected as winners for their design "That's a Wrap."

Original 1912 Ragdale Ring by Architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. Image courtesy of Ragdale Foundation

The Ragdale Foundation is a national artist residency program located in Lake Forest, Illinois. In 2013, the Foundation launched a competition to "reinterpret the Ragdale Ring" designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1912. Shaw's ring design helped spring...

Architecture grad students get (canopied) field experience with the Port Authority

2016-01-20T13:16:00-05:00

Graduate students from the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture’s Graduate Design and Build Studio program will officially begin work for the Port Authority of Houston Wednesday. The project aims to build an open shade structure for a security checkpoint where officers would check I.D.s. under the protection of a canopy.

Is working for the Port Authority as a grad student like interning for the government, especially when "The $75,000 [grad-student designed] project is more cost effective than the previous designs that would’ve cost between $200,000 to $400,000"?

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Brooklyn-based Almost Studio provides a new interpretation of mobility with their winning competition proposal 'That's a Wrap'

Architecture grad students get (canopied) field experience with the Port Authority