Residenza Forma
residence
A mid-century residential block in The Canopy District, Residenza Forma was designed as a demonstration of how the private life might be lived in full aesthetic fidelity to the public realm. Its twelv...
The Panopticon of Good Taste — Buildings
The Archive of Resolved Forms
archive
Set deep in The Plinth beneath a grass-covered berm, the Archive is visible from street level only as a long horizontal slot of amber light at ground plane — a Kahn-ian gesture of compressed approach ...
The Plinth Pavilion
civic hall
A temple of lateral thinking risen from the heart of The Plinth district, the Pavilion is pure Miesian grammar rendered at crushing civic scale — floor-to-ceiling glass curtain walls suspended from a ...
Café Trauerende
coffee shop
Wedged into a narrow plot at the edge of The Canopy District, Café Trauerende was built around a single ancient weeping willow whose trailing branches press against — and occasionally through — the ca...
The Green Nave Observatory
observatory
At the high end of The Green Nave, where the park's avenue of weeping willows reaches its terminus, a circular tower of pale concrete and structural glass rises just enough above the tree canopy to se...
Werkhaus Fringe
craft workshop
The Werkhaus squats at the ragged boundary of The Atelier Fringe like an argument in physical form — a long shed of corrugated iron and reclaimed brick, its facade interrupted by hand-painted signage ...
The Broken Wiggle
public pavilion
At the far edge of The Atelier Fringe, where the maintained bicycle infrastructure gives way to unmaintained gravel, stands what was once a public rest pavilion built around a set of monumental Frank ...
The Promenade Lamp Hall
market hall
An open market hall running the length of The Promenade of Good Objects, its roof a long undulating canopy of weathered Corten steel supported on tapering white concrete piloti. Between the piloti, ov...