United States | Futurist Architecture

UB02: A Residential Program with A Two-Story Structure and Vertical Development

As the program’s first project in Central City, New Orleans, UB02 can represent the first step in its commitment to the neighborhood. Through this residential program, URBANbuild and a group of students from Tulane School of Architecture try to improve the quality of life for residents of Central City by designing an awesome house. This house is developed vertically with a two-story structure that creates a reduced footprint.

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UB14: An “Infill” Prototype of A Single Level House with A Strong Adaptability

This project is a continuation of research conducted by the Tulane University School of Architecture’s residential design-build program. Located in 1920 Harmony Street, New Orleans, the mission of UB14 is to design and build a single-family dwelling with two bathrooms and bedrooms. A team from URBANbuild also offers one of the significant strengths of this house: adaptability.

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UB15: A Single Level Infill Prototype with A Flexible Floorplan and Generous Volume

This project focuses on the development and continuation of the previous year’s URBANBuild project. UB15 is a single level infill prototype that produces dense urban multifamily options with duplex, triplex, or extended multifamily assemblies. This prototype is designed with a flexible floorplan and generous volume.

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Pleasant Valley Residence: A Weekend Getaway with Three New Structures

Completed in 2013 by Michael Graves Architecture & Design, Pleasant Valley Residence is a weekend getaway located in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. With 7,800 SF in size, this residence is designed with three new structures and a simple linear plan to organize its room.

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Matchbox House: A Weekend House with Elevated Spaces for An Urban Family

This modern house is designed by Gluckman Tang for an urban family. Matchbox House is a weekend house that maximizes the relative calm of its surrounding environment. Some spaces are also elevated to allow the family to enjoy more beautiful views outside. It is a 2001 project located in Orient, New York.

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Center for Global Conservation: A New Building with An Environmentally Conscious Structure

Center for Global Conservation is designed as headquarters for international programs of the Wildlife Conservation Society. It is an organization dedicated to protecting wildlife and places worldwide. The new building activates a dialogue between nature, conservation, and program, built with an environmentally conscious structure. This project is completed by FXCollaborative in 2009.

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Steve Jobs Theater: A Modern Theater with A Lens-Shaped Roof

Sits on a small hill in Cupertino, Steve Jobs Theater is an awesome extraordinary eight-year collaboration between Apple and Foster + Partners. This modern theater is big and designed with a lens-shaped roof, the largest carbon-fiber roof in the world. This project is started in 2009 and completed in 2017 with a 1,000 seat auditorium of its capacity.

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Up-Cycled Warehouse, Richmond: A Comfortable and Energy-Efficient Family Home

The main goal of the conversion of this 1960’s warehouse is to re-use and retain the existing building as much as possible. Up-Cycled Warehouse is designed by Zen Architects and located in Richmond, United States. This warehouse is transformed into a comfortable and energy-efficient family home.

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Winspear Opera House: A Series of Welcoming Spaces Wrapped around the Auditorium’s Rich Red Drum

The ambition of this project is to create a building that has a central role in the cultural life of Dallas and becomes a destination in its own right for a non-opera-going public. Winspear Opera House is designed by Foster + Partners for AT+T Performing Arts Center and finished in 2009 with 23,500m² in size. The building structure is inverted to create a series of welcoming spaces that wrap around the rich red drum of the auditorium.

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Norton Museum of Art: A New Masterplan of Museum with Flexible, Welcoming Visitor Facilities

This awesome museum was built in 1941 to house the art collection of the industrialist Ralph Hubbard Norton and his wife, Elizabeth. Norton Museum of Art can be found in West Palm Beach and it was laid out by the architect Marion Sims Wyeth. In this project, Foster + Partners uses a new masterplan to balance the building’s different heights and also providing flexible, welcoming visitor facilities. This project is completed in 2019.

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Alice Tully Hall: A New Public Space with A Shear One-Way Cable Net Glass Facade

This 2009 project is a seemingly simple but also strikingly delicate challenge for FXCollaborative. Located in New York with 80,000 GSF / 7,400 GSM in size, Alice Tully Hall is about opening up a heavy, Brutalist building to the world around it. With a shear one-way cable net glass facade, this building is transformed into an awesome new public space.