Rate the Return

Last updated Mar 31, 2010

So which projects being considered or newly finished have the best or worst Return on Design? What can be done to improve the design investment? Which projects are headed down the wrong road or should be scrapped entirely?  Which are shining examples of strategic architecture? 

 

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  • Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
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    Posted by Kate Lynch, Jul 29, 2010






















    Building for the brain
    Opened:     May 2010
    Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
    Height: 75 feet tall
    Architectural Firm: Gehry Partners
    Chief Architect: Frank Gehry
    Cost: $100 million

    Project Goal: Built by famed architect Frank Gehry, this steel-shelled structure is Cleveland Clinic’s newly opened Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas.  Gehry’s design splits the building into a pair of separate wings: an office wing and a main hall.  The two wings, one rational-seeming and contained and the other free-flowing and layered appear in opposition and unified at the same time.  With its complex, duel-winged design based on folded fabrics, Las Vegas politicians hope that the combination of Gehry’s design and the Center’s association with the Cleveland Clinic will bring medical tourists to Las Vegas.
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  • The High Line
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    Posted by Kate Lynch, Jul 29, 2010






















    An elevated park
    Opened:     2009 (Section 1)
    Planned Opening: 2011 (Section 2)
    Location: New York City, New York
    Size: 1.5 mile long elevated park spanning 22 blocks
    Architectural Firm: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
    Landscape Architectural Firm: James Corner Field Operations
    Lead Architect: James Corner (James Corner Field Operations)
    Design Architect: Matthew Johnson (Diller Scofidio + Renfro)
    Cost: $152 million

    Project Goal: The High Line is an elevated park currently being built on an abandoned railroad running through New York City’s West Side neighborhoods of the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen.  The idea for The High Line originated in 1999 when two community board members wanted to find a way to save the abandoned railroad from demolition.  Over the next ten years, The High Line’s designers blended agriculture and architecture to create a public park and walkway inspired by the natural landscape which bloomed after the trains stopped running.  Since the completion of The High Line’s first section, the park has become a beacon of light for the neighborhood, sparking a community renaissance of more than 30 new construction projects.
    Published 29 July 2010 - 0 comments (View/Post Comments)    Bookmark and Share
  • Kroon Hall, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University
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    Sustainable education
    Opened:     2009
    Location: New Haven, Connecticut
    Size: 58,000 square feet
    Architectural Firms: Hopkins and Centerbrook
    Head Design Architect: Sir Michael Hopkins (Hopkins)
    Executive Architect: Mark Simon (Centerbrook)
    Cost: $33.5 million

    Project Goal: Built as a model of Yale’s commitment to sustainable ideals, this stone, concrete, steel and glass structure is LEED Certified and serves as the new home for the university’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.  Satisfying the university’s goal of sustainability, Kroon Hall consumes half the energy of an equivalent academic building and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 62 percent.
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  • MAXXI Contemporary Art Museum
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    Rome’s new contemporary art museum
    Opened:     2010
    Location: Rome, Italy
    Size: 98,425 square feet
    Architectural Firm: Zaha Hadid Architects
    Design Architects: Zaha Hadid
    Project Architect: Gianluca Racana
    Cost: $192 million

    Project Goal:     Built on the site of former army barracks, Rome’s new contemporary art museum showcases today’s contemporary artistic expressions.  The MAXXI serves not only as a place to exhibit art, but also as a research workshop to help bridge architecture and the arts of contemporary design, fashion and film. 
    Published 29 July 2010 - 0 comments (View/Post Comments)    Bookmark and Share
  • Barnes Museum
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    • Current Rating: 3.5 Total Votes: 4
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    Posted by Kate Lynch, Feb 05, 2010


    New Home for Collection of Modern Masterpieces
    Planned Opening:     2012
    Location: Philadelphia, PA
    Size: Two-stories, 93,000-square-feet
    Architectural Firm: Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
    Lead Architect: Billie Tsien
    Cost: $150 million
     
    Project Goal: The building will be the new home of the Barnes Foundation’s collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, African sculpture, Pennsylvania Dutch decorative arts, and other important works.  The collection is currently housed at the Gallery and Arboretum in Merion, PA, and will be moved to a new location on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.
    Published 05 February 2010 - 4 comments (View/Post Comments)    Bookmark and Share
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