Updates

December 7, 2009

KieranTimberlake has been selected as part of an internationally experienced team (including Cooper Robertson & Partners, master planners; OLIN, landscape architects; and HR&A Advisors) to develop the Master Plan for the Central Delaware Waterfront in Philadelphia. The focus area extends from Allegheny Avenue on the north to Oregon…

December 1, 2009

The transformation of Houghton Chapel and addition of a new Multifaith Center required an intense dialogue with both the past and future at Wellesley College. Design From Dialogue: Houghton Chapel and Multifaith Center at Wellesley College by the Reverend Victor Kazanjian…

November 6, 2009

Who says you can’t build a house in a day? A time-lapse video from the Orange County Register documents the Newport Beach, CA, installation of the KTLH 1.5 house we designed for LivingHomes. In a matter of a few…

October 27, 2009

In the spring of 2008, we began design for Brockman Hall for Physics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. This 110,000 square-foot facility will house research, teaching, and office space for the Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Nestled between existing buildings in the…

September 3, 2009

In Bosch Rexroth’s lean manufacturing podcast, James Timberlake discusses how aluminum structural framing, commonly used in factory applications, was used to build Cellophane House™. “We aimed to create a mass customizable system of building, not just a one-off. We wanted to show how a…

September 3, 2009

Cellophane House™ was recently featured on Big Ideas for a Small Planet, Season 3, Episode 5. An award-winning original documentary series from the Sundance Channel, this episode of the show asks the question, “Can we imagine architecture built on sustainability?” This episode features interviews with forward-thinking…

August 24, 2009

ArchDaily sat down with Partner Stephen Kieran and Research Director Billie Faircloth to discuss the history of research and its integral role in our practice, including projects like monitoring at Sage Bowers, the Yale Sculpture Building, and Sidwell Friends School. AD Interviews: KieranTimberlake…

May 28, 2009

It was announced last month that the Yale School of Art Gallery and Sidwell Friends Middle School received 2008 Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards, presented by The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association and The Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau. Three of our recent projects make use of…

May 1, 2009

The April 2009 issue of Builder magazine featured our sustainable modular homes, developed in partnership with LivingHomes, which are fabricated off site and can be assembled on site in just four days. Survival of the Fittest Small, green, and factory-built, Builder’s 2009 show home…

April 1, 2009

Construction is scheduled to begin this spring for the new 12-story Center City Building for UNC Charlotte. Located at Ninth and Brevard Streets in downtown Charlotte, the new building will house the University’s MBA program and other programs including graduate-level classes in the colleges of Engineering, Health and Human…