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“Studio Slavonice,” a landscape architecture workshop led by OLIN Partners Laurie Olin and Hallie Boyce at the University of Pennsylvania, explores sustainable development of the Green Belt, an area of the former Iron Curtain containing some of the most significant habitats for biodiversity in Europe. Olin and Boyce, along with 15 of their students, travelled to Slavonice to present the results of the workshop with the local community at the Centre for the Future, an organization that promotes research directed toward a sustainable, just and diverse future.
OLIN is proud to announce that its team, led by renowned architects KieranTimberlake, has won the design competition for the new U.S. Embassy in London. Partners Laurie Olin and Hallie Boyce will lead the design efforts. From among 37 architectural submissions, four finalists were chosen to explore the symbolism of the Embassy and its presence and position in the cityscape of London. OLIN was the landscape architect of choice for three of the four competition finalists: KieranTimberlake, Morphosis and Richard Meier & Partners, all of whom worked for nearly a year before making their final presentations to the jury.
The U.S. Department of State’s goal was to create an Embassy and landscape with a timeless quality to appropriately represent the United States of America in the United Kingdom. The winning team was selected by a distinguished jury of both American and British leaders in the fields of architecture, academia and diplomacy for a design which “met the goal of creating a modern, welcoming, timeless, safe and energy efficient embassy for the 21st century.”
The anticipated ground breaking for the Embassy will be in 2013 with a goal to complete construction in 2017. In addition to KieranTimberlake and OLIN, members of the winning team include Arup for Sustainability, MEP/FP and Civil Engineering; Weidlinger Associates for Structural and Blast Engineering; Gensler for workplace design; Davis Langdon for Cost Consulting; and Sako & Associates for Technical Security.
The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York; view to north from Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park, another award-winning OLIN project.
That looks fun.
The Museum of Jewish Heritage at Battery Park City in New York has received an ASLA New York Chapter Merit Award. Principal-in-Charge Lucinda Sanders’s landscape was inspired by Jewish mysticism, where creation is seen as an active process. In this view of creation, divine light flows into vessels, some of which shatter when they are unable to contain the light. OLIN’s use of light and glass and the forms of the planters and fountains combine to create an experience echoing this spirituality. In addition, a cutting-edge soil mix was created, resulting in optimum growth for plants and allowing the park to be maintained solely through organic means. The soil, along with the selection of native plantings and drip irrigation, significantly reduce water use.
OLIN is pleased to announce the appointment of Hallie Boyce, Skip Graffam, Chris Hanley and Richard Newton to partner. The leaders of OLIN are committed to the inventive and responsible creation of a more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable world.
