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On Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a scenic park at Pier 35, designed by SHoP Architects and Ken Smith Workshop, is now open.
“We don’t fetishize the tool as much as other generations,” [Baccon] says. Gone are the days of protracted office tutorials and hand-wringing about how to incorporate new technology. Instead, “everyone dives in and really embraces what is next.”
In the lead up to Urbanity ’19, the Urban Developer caught up with Sharples about his global design firm and what inspires him.
“Yes, skyscrapers are large, but building dense, tall buildings close together, with high-quality public space, connected to mass transit, is the most sustainable thing we can do.”
For the rectangular site, the team created several gardens and a large, sloping metal screen that will eventually be covered with foliage. In the evening, the perforated structure is illuminated by golden light.
On Staten Island, [SHoP] has matched the outlet aesthetic with good-value design — durable and moderately stylish, with an occasional touch of flair (escalators sheathed in orange glass).
“To celebrate Uber’s vision of our shared transportation future, we shaped the architecture around the experience of boarding and takeoff, that bold first step into the future of urban flight,” said Shannon Han, project director at SHoP Architects.
Bill and Chris Sharples, co-founders of SHoP, talk to A.J. Baime about their grandfather’s 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Vantage. Photo courtesy Gordon Grant for the Wall Street Journal.
Questions concerning how students learn do not automatically suggest design solutions, but when the Benchmark School approached William and Chris Sharples, two of the founding principals of SHoP Architects, for help in the development of robotics as a teaching tool, they saw opportunity.
The plans, designed by SHoP Architects, call for a new lobby inside the atrium with different kinds of seating, plants and a whimsical sculpture by Takashi Murakami, along with a slew of new amenities.
A university campus designed by SHoP Architects has broken ground in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. With the first phase of the project set to open in 2022, Fulbright University Vietnam will be the country’s first independent, not-for-profit institution of higher education.
