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PDA is assisting with a lightning-fast tenant improvement project. A vibrant yet maturing tech start-up is moving to a new space adjacent to UCLA. They’re growing, so it’s 3x the size of their current HQ. @WhitakerConstruction started demo this AM with a full crew of eager and skilled workers. Has removing vinyl plank flooring ever looked so good?!? Please forgive the hideous water bottle! PDA uses only refillable containers. Should we photoshop it out? Viewer poll, please! 🙂
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PDA returned to the site of his graduate education in architecture - the University of Virginia in Charlottesville - on the occasion of the School of Architecture’s 100th anniversary. The remarkable original central campus (called the “Academical Village” by its designer/founder, Thomas Jefferson) is considered one of the great masterpieces of American building design. “The Rotunda” (shown here) was the library, a fitting central focus for an expansive lawn flanked by student and faculty housing on both sides. This complex was finished around 1813.
We were impressed to see a great circular monument under construction outside - a long overdue “Memorial to Enslaved Laborers”; the campus was built by slaves. How important to come to grips with these terrible realities!
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This strikingly strange and lovely plant is thriving near Abbot Kinney in a nearly tone-on-tone stucco niche. It’s positively Octopoid! Prehistoric! PDA is delighted to share this Blossfeldtian moment with you all. But will we be grabbed and eaten when we return?!?
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A few final Berlin images will now appear! This one brings Modern Times and a sort of “Wings of Desire”-mood together, right?
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OK here is a quick additional posting on a very fine chunk of architecture, especially for my friend @gumptiongirl2016, who is waiting impatiently! Note that these images are views of the same dramatic double-height space, half of which is subterranean. A very tall timber shaft of enigmatic provenance is presented here.
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Even the coatcheck is exceedingly handsome at Chipperfield’s new William Simon Galerie. Be ready for a few more images of this place, because it merits reportage!
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Berlin’s Museum Island is home to a cluster of the world’s greatest collections, in truly grand 18th c. buildings. Now David Chipperfield’s gleaming and minimal William Simon Galerie serves as a serene and welcoming frontispiece to them all. A single day in this complex of treasures entirely justifies the journey to this amazing city - but there is much, much more!
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