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Current project news, press, and happenings.
A big "Thank you!" to all of our wonderful clients and collaborators! We look forward to continuing to work with all of you, and wish everyone a happy and successful 2017!
To celebrate, we had a little fun with our Habitat for Humanity project in Glendale, California; please take a look at the project page for more information.
Job Description
[au]workshoparchitects+urbanists located in Fort Collins, Colorado, the 2015 AIA Colorado North Firm of the Year, is seeking a well-rounded Architectural Intern or recently licensed Designer to create awesome buildings with us. This position includes completing directed architectural assignments on large and small-scale urban projects. We offer competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefit package and the opportunity to live and work in downtown Fort Collins, consistently rated one of the best towns in the US. Browse our website to learn more about [au]workshop.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Submit Resume and portfolio to “want2work@auworkshop.co” Submissions without portfolio or link to same will not be considered.
Job Description
[au]workshop architects+urbanists located in Fort Collins, Colorado, the 2015 AIA Colorado North Firm of the Year, is seeking an experienced Architect/Project Manager to lead project teams in creating awesome buildings and places. This position includes managing all aspects of the design process for variously scaled, multi-disciplinary projects ranging from international mixed-use developments, to civic and institutional projects and local multi-family housing. We offer competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefit package and the opportunity to live and work in downtown Fort Collins, consistently rated one of the best towns in the US. Browse our website to learn more about [au]workshop.
Qualifications
Responsibilities
Resumes and portfolios should be sent to “want2work@auworkshop.co”
[au]workshop is proud to help sponsor the first Fort Collins Book Fest! On Saturday, October 22nd, the River District and Downtown Fort Collins will be host to a celebration of the local intersection between books and beverages.
Fort Collins' overlapping cultures of independent books and craft coffee, tea, beer and spirits are one of our favorite reasons to live here, so we're excited to be a part of the event! And it all takes place within a five minute walk of our office.
More information is available at the event website. We hope to see you there!
We had some fun with the new aerial camera last week while in Pasadena for another project, so we put together a quick overview of the nearly-completed Andalucia (previously El Molino Court).
We've been working on the project with RTKL, Mill Creek Properties, and Mack Urban Development for quite some time, so we're excited to see the project nearing the finish line!
For more information on the project, please see our project page and http://liveandalucia.com/.
[au]workshop has designed a renovation for the historic Dairy Gold Creamery (located between Laporte and Howes Streets in Fort Collins) for a new coffee shop tenant. The building, a good local example of the Googie style of architecture, was carefully relocated slightly to the East in order to accommodate the new Utilities Administration Building, itself a collaboration between [au]workshop and RNL Design.
Out-of date mechanical and electrical systems, lack of accessibility compliance, and the absence of restrooms and other services, dictated a complete interior renovation, with the goal of making it a lively tenant space. Working closely with the City of Fort Collins, we developed a plan that houses a customer sales space and seating, a limited commercial kitchen and an accessible restroom all in an area less than 400 square feet.
Work is now beginning on the renovation itself, and construction is expected to take approximately a month, so we'll post another update when it is completed.
The City of Fort Collins Utilities Administration Building (UAB) at Laporte and Howes is wrapping up construction this week. We partnered with RNL Design for the project, and we're pleased to see its progress. Final touch-ups are being made this week, with the city scheduled to begin moving in shortly thereafter.
The new facility houses some 112 open office spaces and a dozen private offices, along with training spaces and customer facilities, all designed to maximize natural light yet minimize glare. The mechanical and electrical systems, including rooftop solar and heat pumps, are also engineered to tie-in with future projects as the city develops a civic campus. Currently the project is on target to achieve LEED Platinum.
Our office took a tour recently, so we thought we'd share a few photos (below). We'll be uploading professional photos (and possibly drone footage!) soon.
Final interior touches and steel painting in-progress.
Brick Facade with stained glass visible behind.
Art wall showcasing the history of electric power by Chevo Studios.
Stained glass in the stairwells by Creative Stained Glass Studio.
Entry feature wall with Poudre River topography, by Chevo Studios.
We are extremely excited to be able to announce another project that we've been hard at work on in Honolulu! We have begun having community meetings and are in the process of developing the project further with a potential hotel operator.
From our project narrative:
1500 Kapiolani Boulevard is located in urbanized Honolulu, along a tree-lined boulevard which links downtown with Waikiki. The site is within a recently designated transit oriented district, which raises the allowable FAR to 10.0 in order to increase walkability and discourage automobile dependency.
In this context, our client asked us to design an iconic 400 foot tower (the height ceiling) combining street-oriented retail, a four star hotel and complementary housing, with the goal of capitalizing on views over and around existing buildings in all directions.
Our solution focuses on a simple massing and an iconic form befitting the prestige of Kapiolani Boulevard, distinctly visible from Kahnamoku Lagoon, the Ala Moana Mall, and other areas of the city. We created two separate small-footprint towers—allowing the overall mass to be oriented Mauka-Makai (Mountains-to-Ocean as desired by island residents) preserving view corridors and breeze patterns. For residents, the two-tower scheme maximizes views and cross-ventilation, as well as value: all eight units per typical level are corner units.
The central design move was to maximize usable common and private open space and create actively programmed spaces on multiple datums, culminating in a lushly-landscaped sky garden bridge/platform for building residents at 350’ in the air, indexing the city’s previous height limit. This sky garden metaphorically replaces a ground level context lost when Oahu urbanized and reconnects the site to the horizon
Hawaii’s mild climate and pleasant breezes are woven into the scheme at every turn with the goal of dissolving the barrier between conditioned and exterior space. At higher floors, breezes are mitigated with appropriately placed massing. This is evident at the hotel floors which link the towers, creating a natural wind eddy at the podium, and at the sky garden, where building mass and landscape elements shield the gathering spaces.
Open space/green space is a central focus on vertical and horizontal surfaces in our solution. In fact, as shown in the image above, the cumulative horizontal intensive and extensive open space is nearly 2.3 times the site area and is complemented with additional vertical gardens on multiple surfaces.
This project is scheduled to begin construction in late 2017.
More information is available at the project's page. We are hard at work continuing the design process and we will continue to post updates, so keep an eye on the blog!
[au]workshop architects+urbanists has just been selected to design new offices, volunteer work spaces, a central kitchen and warehouses for the Food Bank for Larimer County. The new facilities will be located in an as-yet-to-be-announced location.
We are more than pleased to be able to provide architectural services for this fine organization whose mission is to provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs.
The Food Bank for Larimer County believes no one should be hungry and their dream is to deliver health, hope and humanity to stabilize the lives of their clients and build a vibrant community. They are a private non-profit organization and the only Feeding America clearinghouse for donated food in the county. Each year, the Food Bank for Larimer County provides food to nearly 36,000 people in need through community partnerships and hunger-relief programs. Visit their website for more information.
We're excited! EmQuartier and the rest of the Em District have been featured in New Design Retail Thailand, an English-language compendium of "recently-completed high-end shopping mall[s], department store[s], hypermarkets, [...] from Li Zenn Publishing"
The book contains some wonderful photographs and drawings of the projects. Check out a preview on Issuu, or order a copy on the publisher's website here for 1400.00 Baht (about $40). Don't forget to see our own EmQuartier page for more information.
It's always nice to see our work out in the world!
The site has been cleared and the ground broken! We're very excited to see the project progress! Learn more about the Desiderio Homes (and their awesome site at the base of the Colorado Street bridge in Pasadena) here. To donate to or volunteer for the project, visit the San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity.
He's actually been here for awhile, but we're proud to announce that Spencer Lindstrom, one of our designers, has successfully completed the Intern Development Program and the Architectural Registration Examinations, and is now officially a licensed architect in the State of Colorado.
Spencer had this to say:
"I can't say how grateful I am for [au]workshop's support and guidance through this process. I'm excited to continue learning and making great places with them!"
We're excited too, and wish him a hearty congratulations.
