Communitycenter
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Project • By AUX Architecture • Cultural Centres
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum
The Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum began with a conventional brief: a new concrete community events building on a Cold War museum campus. Instead, the design team reframed the challenge from a high embodied carbon project into adaptive reuse of an abandoned 2,000 sf MGM A-frame prop house. This decision became the foundation for a 9,500 sf civic hub that aligns sustainability with cultural purpose.
Bruce Damonte
Bruce Damonte
Bruce Damonte
Designed to advance the museum’s mission of engaging Cold War history through education and public discourse, the project includes light-filled classrooms and flexible performance and gathering spaces. On a constrained site, the building is elevated to allo... More
Project • By Studio Joseph • Community Centres
Pet Adoption Center
Animal Care and Control's Harlem facility is a large complex that combines medical care, animal safety, control, and euthanizing with pet adoption. The situation in NYC reached crisis mode as the facility couldn't keep up with finding adoptive families for the plethora of abandoned dogs and cats. As a publicly funded/managed project, it was 10 years in the making and is LEED Gold.
Alex Fradkin
Alex Fradkin
Alex Fradkin
Project Vision Design
The Pet Adoption Center is in an adaptive reuse of a 1930s garage. Previously used for storage, the brick structure was one of many small-scale buildings in this area of East Harlem. With gentrification, multi-story new construction now dominates. The decision to retain the buildin... More