May 25

For the last few months, we’ve had some serious fun restoring former Dean Robert Metcalf’s 1953 Crane Residence. It was his first house commission in Ann Arbor, and miraculously hadn’t been mangled by subsequent owners in the last 60 years. Linda and Jim Elert have recently purchased it and their goal is to return the house to its original glory while integrating new energy efficient technologies. As was typical with Metcalf’s work, the house was design with sophisticated passive energy strategies in mind, so our work isn’t as difficult as is might have otherwise been. Also Kate Lazuka (of BTB2 fame) has been meticulously painting the interior. She has an amazing eye for color!

Apr 12

Daubmann at University of Colorado Boulder

Karl will be presenting the work of PLY and related digital design and fabrication research at the University of Colorado Boulder on April 16th.

Mar 27

Borum at Tulane

Craig Borum will present a lecture on recent work: “…weather is what we get” at “Inside//Out: New Materials, Technologies, and Uses” colloquium at Tulane University on Friday, March 30. He will also be part of roundtable discussions on Saturday, March 31.

Feb 19

PLY wins P/A Award Citation

Architect Magazine has awarded the Outside In House with a P/A Award Citation.
You can follow this link to their webpage: Architect Magazine

Jan 29

Images for a screen porch addition. The project adds living space to the back of an existing house and integrates the landscaping and pool. Construction to begin in the spring.

Jan 8

Multiple projects by PLY Architecture have been included in the 2011 DOM Publishers book Construction Design Manual – Architectural Diagrams. Projects included are BTB, BTB 2, Robbins Elementary School, PLY Wood Lights, Paper Lights, and Screen Wall Prototype. The book is a survey of instrumental diagramming techniques used by designers at various scales and types of design work.

Nov 27

Ply wins AR+D Award

Karl’s Shadow Pavilion has been awarded a commendation from the 2011 AR+D Awards for Emerging Architecture. The winning and commended entries were announced Nov. 23 at the AR Awards for Emerging Architecture held at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London.

The evening was hosted by Catherine Slessor, Editor of The Architectural Review, marking the launch of the ar+d Emerging Architecture exhibition at the RIBA, which will be running until the end of February in Florence Hall. (click on the title above for the Architectural Review Press Release)

Images from the AR+D Awards reception at the RIBA London.

Oct 12

PLY Awarded in Central Glass Competition

Ply was awarded a Merit Prize in the 46th Annual Central Glass International Architectural Competition, co-sponsored by Shinkenchiku-sha Co. Ltd. and Japan Architect Magazine.

The theme of this year’s competition was Glass 2050.
Our entry will be exhibited at the Tokyo International Forum in conjunction with the next world congress of the International Union of Architects (UIA).

Sep 7

PLY wins American Architecture Award

The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and the Eurpoean Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies has selected the Storm Glass House for a 2011 American Architecture Award. For more info:

http://www.chi-athenaeum.org/archawards/2011/index.html

Aug 28

in progress

Storm Glass installation at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

Aug 19

Ayaka wins 2011 Metalmag Interiors Award

Augut 2011

Metalmag has selected Ayaka Japanese Restaurant for its 2011 interiors award.

Aug 17

Storm Glass Wins R+D Award

August 2011

Architect Magazine selected the Storm Glass Research for the fifth annual R+D Awards. The Awards appear online and in the August 2011 issue of Architect Magazine

http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?i=78011

http://www.caup.umich.edu/news_and_events/news/?news=541

Aug 3

in progress

installation of acoustic ceiling surface at the BLU conference room

Aug 1

in progress: Storm Glass

Storm Glass mock up at Taubman College’s new Liberty Lofts Research Annex. A new Storm Glass wall will be installed at the Grand Rapids Art Museum as part of the ArtPrize Competition in September.