https://www.geoffreydiamond.com/work daily 1.0 2023-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1552764356320-BTW30W2G4BVSPQXDNMX5/CCH+01.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1552764750536-A7EENM12DRKWWXZM3DMS/OSF+02.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1553568027626-R9VF7YPO9KFI8FI2G59A/Cadillac+01.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1496286913991-LMISR5KVIE2I7GDLYOUW/c01+EDITED.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1560219000246-8RZGR7DWU5N7OCAD7WMC/Oakdale+07.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1467860156587-BX48N7RVRUP4NT6N4RS3/01.jpg Work - Capitol Federal Hall, The University of Kansas Images Copyright 2016 Garrett Rowland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1604242146845-SMF0DG7IAXRTEQPVSCZZ/LIPCH_MI-Homes_CoryKlein_16.jpg Work - Midtown Office Building, Columbus, OH Designed in 2018, the new 110,000 SQFT commercial office property in Columbus, Ohio was conceived as a gateway to the wildly-successful Easton Town Center’s newest expansion. Dubbed the Midtown Office Building, the the five-story structure serves as the new headquarters for M/I Homes, as well as a number of premium retailers at the ground floor. The building was designed to seamlessly blend the classical motifs of the larger district while serving as a bridge to a more modern future. A black brick base, punctured by a series of deep rhythmic openings, plays foundation to a lighter framework of glass and aluminum above. The building’s overall form was eroded at the corners to provide each floor with private outdoor space. All images copyright © Cory Klein, Gensler and M+A Architects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1467862196610-9JWWSL7C6TLZ1KTKALLS/One+World+Place-8.jpg Work - One World Place, Manila, Philippines One World Place is a 143-meter tall, LEED Gold-certified tower located in the Bonifacio Global City district of Manila. Four levels of underground parking and six levels of above-ground parking are split by retail tenancy across the entire ground floor and serve to anchor the 32-story tower. The tower features a highly-efficient, compact 1,100 square-meter floorplate with an offset core. It employs high-performance daylighting optimization, natural ventilation, and highly-efficient insulated glass with interior and exterior shading devices. All images copyright © Gensler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1467861775203-80Z517CDUA3ZXVI5GEL1/rendered+01.jpg Work - Tiny Homes Competition, Chicago, IL The Simple House was designed in response to the AIA Chicago’s 2015 Tiny Homes competition. The competition outlined budgetary, programmatic, technical and site constraints to be used in the development of a small-scale and repeatable dwelling typology to combat the City’s affordable housing shortage. Homes had to be less than 350 square-feet and include fully-functioning kitchens and baths, while the given site had to accommodate 10-12 units in total. Material and mechanical costs were not to exceed $30,000, while total construction costs of each unit were to remain under $60,000. The proposed solution was a highly-functional and surprisingly spacious take on the notion of a traditional gabled-roof home. A densely-packed “bar” of services strung together three disparate zones (live, eat and sleep) and offered storage, appliances and amenities well beyond the those mandated by the project brief. The estimated construction cost of a single unit was just over $29,000. Click here to view the full competition entry. All images copyright © Geoffrey Diamond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1615144609288-IIXG6S5CTHM1ZQOCRVTH/option+02a+03.jpeg Work - Confidential Address, New York, NY Working along the ‘Ladies Mile’ portion of Sixth Avenue in Manhattan is no easy task. Tight quarters, and historically-significant architecture that is often subjected to preservation restrictions can make a stiff challenge out of even the most simple renovation. This confidential lobby repositioning in one of the area’s most treasured buildings is part of no simple renovation. Picking up on architectural cues generated as part of a planned building addition, the planned lobby features a series of scalloped wood panels that serve to provide a filigreed counterpoint to the base palette of honed travertine and blackened steel. An elegant, yet whimsical, custom light fixture adorns the compact elevator lobby offering an intricate focal point while passengers await and depart the tower’s three elevators. All images copyright © Gensler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1632363798430-Y0OVPN46NPB5LC9ZWR5F/TTCX+01.jpeg Work Nestled in a natural landscape just outside of New York City, this proposed 17,000 square-foot childcare center will serve as a critical campus amenity for a confidential Fortune 500 client when it opens in 2023. The cross-laminated-timber (CLT) building represents a cost-effective, yet gestural, take on the canonical idea of “home” shared by children around the world. All images copyright © Gensler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1632364695905-KJA12WLCZ77AUXHU4ZB7/Oyster+01.jpeg Work A proposed addition to the aging campus of a Fortune 500 company just north of New York City, this 120,000 square-foot administrative and visitor center was designed to serve as a new focal point to a reimagined and transformed campus experience. The new building’s architecture was conceived to be thoroughly modern but simultaneously respectful of the existing campus vernacular. A deep metallic veil in terracotta hues, accented with expanses of zinc, pick up on the surrounding architecture to present something at once both new and familiar. All images copyright © Gensler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1632363444549-CQBTKPVWRBWI9BSAYHZE/BNL+03.jpg Work Scheduled to break ground in late 2021, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s new 75,000 square-foot Science and User Support Center (SUSC) will act as a new gateway to the historic laboratory campus. The building’s iconic form is the perfect expression of its key programmatic components: a visitor processing facility, a world-class conference center, and a modern workplace for many of the Laboratory’s administrative staff. All images copyright © Gensler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1665965601723-LXP80Y4RP1BSW1R74XM6/MBFS+01.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1632364226063-US70LLVH5G39V5I4QXH4/ECB+01.jpeg Work A highly-confidential proposed 750,000 square-foot office facility belies its massive 95,000 square-foot floorplates with an elegantly conceived and timelessly enclosed architectural form. The building takes a cue from its surroundings by following a subtle bend in an adjacent roadway, but does so without introducing the kinds of planning irregularities and eccentricities that lead to inefficient and ineffective workplaces. A simple bent volume resides on either side of a large central core, subtly shifting in opposite directions to transform what could have been an ungainly mass into an elegant, almost sinuous arrangement of three well-proportioned facades. All images copyright © Gensler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1665966688593-3O5EFP5XDBOVD6DQ6G5F/Condesa+01.png Work Envisioned as an icon on the Mexico City skyline, Espacio Condesa represents an evolution of one of the City’s most important neighborhoods. The pair of towers contain disparate uses - one commercial, one residential - and required unique strategies to optimize for each; an artfully-executed application of varying shading strategies that wove the pair together into a cohesive, identifiable whole. All images copyright © Gensler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1632363272292-9P3B4W8A6P6N1X3KTA6B/167+01.jpg Work The 2021 NAIOP Office Development of the year, 167 Green Street is a 750,000 square-foot mixed-use tower that offers a unique ground-level retail, dining and civic experience dubbed “the mews”. A through-block passageway that connects Halsted Street to Green Street and offers a unique mid-block office lobby approach. Best-in-class amenities fill the tower’s entire top floor, including a multi-story basketball court which seamlessly converts to an event forum with space for more than 400 guests. Designed by Gensler, 167 Green Street was being developed by Shapack Partners, Focus and Walton Street Capital. All images copyright © Gensler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1665967619860-NTL1C2ABIY3KC0P6D8ZA/North+Shore+01.jpeg Work Nestled among the pine barrens of Long Island’s north shore, just 30 miles east of the urban cacophony that is Manhattan, the North Shore Residence is a pure, formal response to the desire to blend outside with in, while separating public from private. A plan comprised of perpendicular “bars” is organized around a common outdoor space and is perfectly tuned to maximize serenity and privacy while harnessing the natural solar conditions of the site. An in-situ concrete mass forms the spine of the entire home, while weathered cedar and black metal accents round out the simple, natural palette. At just over the 3,000 square-feet, the modest home is comprised of three bedrooms and three bathrooms. https://www.geoffreydiamond.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-08-01 https://www.geoffreydiamond.com/about-forte daily 0.75 2021-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56020667e4b0641e3a0df74c/1615673441226-N3UX2C41XTCYWRUBGJEL/headshot.jpg About