The Saarinen office had a penchant for glass designs that took the High-Modernist curtain wall in new directions. Of note among these is the Bell Labs project [figure 1 1956, 1962/1967, Holmdel, New Jersey] for which reflecting glass, which makes the glass skin possible in a practical sense, was first designed. This first solar performance glass was mirrored (which will become the skin of choice after the energy crisis), and was developed by Kinney Vacuum Coating of Detroit. [1] For his part, Anthony Lumsden had been the project designer on Bell Labs, and it was an idea of his to reverse the vertical mullions to form an exterior skin, an idea that was rejected at that time. [2]
"[Residents] couldn't have hoped for a better developer to come in," Tattar says. "We are not a bull-in-china-shop developer. We have a long history of taking out burned-out structures and revitalizing them." (The developer recently transformed an early 20th-century factory into offices.)
too bad. they should try harder for adoptive re-use of the building which is packed with history. the developer says they don't know what to do with the site yet..! (but they are bulldoze happy nevertheless)
Mixed-use complex to replace Saarinen Lab
Arch Record was kind enough to include a 3 paragraph, 1/8 page article to the gross and aweful dismissal of this Sarrinen lab in NJ.
Here's an article that talks a bit more about it.
Where is the AIA and other organizations that we pay dues to, to keep this from happening?
Damn NJ corruption.
i bet the new building will be 'pretty'.
from; los angeles forum for architecture and urban design
"[Residents] couldn't have hoped for a better developer to come in," Tattar says. "We are not a bull-in-china-shop developer. We have a long history of taking out burned-out structures and revitalizing them." (The developer recently transformed an early 20th-century factory into offices.)
too bad. they should try harder for adoptive re-use of the building which is packed with history.
the developer says they don't know what to do with the site yet..! (but they are bulldoze happy nevertheless)
Arch Record states that the developer has decided to demo as soon as the sale's final.
the aia sucks
the aia sucks
my dad worked there from 1969 to 1975- should ask him about it...
please do, and report back :).
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