Archive for May, 2010

New London Embassy Competition Exhibit

26 May 2010  |  Announcements, Exhibitions

The New London Embassy design competition exhibit officially opened today at the headquarters of the American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C. The exhibit is open to the public through June 30th, weekdays from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, at 1735 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC. Admission is free.

The exhibit celebrates the completion of the design competition to select the architect for the New London Embassy for the United States of America. Models and information boards from the final four competing architectural firms, KieranTimberlake, Morphosis Architects, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Richard Meier & Partners will be on display as well as the model of the current London Embassy designed by Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen in the late 1950's.

Loblolly House Critical Detail

13 May 2010  |  Design for Disassembly (dFd), Exhibitions, Offsite Fabrication, Research

The built detail (left) and the reconstructed detail (right)

KieranTimberlake constructed a full scale critical detail of Loblolly House in our Philadelphia shop, now on display at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's National Design Triennial, Why Design Now? exhibition, on view from May 14-January 9, 2011.

Continue Reading »