Architect’s Sketchbook – Montclair State University (Sketches by @FrankCunhaIII, 2017)
Posted: August 20, 2017 Filed under: Architecture, More FC3 | Tags: Administratiom, American University, Architect, Architecture, Art, Artist, Artistic, Campis Planning, Campus, Campus Architect, Campus Planner, College Hall, Colonial, Construction, Design, Design and Construction, Design Build, DesignAllDayAndNight, Designer, Facility, FC3, FC3Family, Higher Ed, Higher Education, Historic, History, icon, iconic, Montclair NJ, Montclair State University, MSU, New Jersey, NJ, Normal School, Public, Research, Residence Hall, Revival, Revival Architecture, School of Music, scomm, Sketch, Sketches, spanish mission, State, State College, Student Housing Leave a commentCollege Hall is where the history and the future of Montclair State meet. It’s where every student’s college journey begins with Undergraduate Admissions and ends with the submission of their final audit to the Office of the Registrar for graduation.
College Hall is where it all started. Back in 1903, the New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton could no longer support New Jersey’s growing need for qualified teachers by itself, so the state approved plans for a new normal school to serve northern New Jersey. (A normal school was a post-secondary school devoted to training teachers.) And in 1908, the New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair admitted its first students.
College Hall’s Spanish mission-style architecture, which was adopted for other buildings on campus, was the inspiration of benefactor Edward Russ, a member of the New Jersey State Board of Education who liked buildings he saw on a trip to California. So he integrated the style into plans for College Hall, complete with red-tile roofs—a look that lives on in campus construction today.
In the beginning, College Hall housed almost everything—administrative offices, classrooms, a library and a gym. Today, it is Montclair State’s administrative hub, housing the offices of the President and the Provost, University Advancement, Admissions, the Registrar, the Graduate School and more.
Dedicated to the first president of Montclair State, Charles S. Chapin, in 1928, it is one of the original buildings of the Montclair State Normal School. This former residence hall was renovated in 1974, and again in 2009, and is now the home of the John J. Cali School of Music. The Leshowitz Recital Hall is also located in Chapin Hall.
Russ Hall was built in 1915 and served as the first residential facility of the State Normal School at Montclair, now of course known as Montclair State University. Converted at one point to an administrative building and then later renovated back to a residence hall, Russ Hall provides suite-style accommodations for approximately 100 students.
Dedicated to Allan C. Morehead, an alumnus and former professor, executive vice president and provost at Montclair State. Morehead Hall was used as a demonstration high school from 1929 to 1973. It now houses several student support services offices.
How to Be a Rock Star Architect by @FrankCunhaIII
Posted: May 27, 2017 Filed under: Architecture, More FC3 | Tags: "tips & tricks", advice, Architect, Architecture, Client, Design, DesignAllDayAndNight, Designer, designers, List, Young architect 1 CommentFrank Cunha III, AIA, is a licensed architect in 9 states and has been a registered architect since 2003. He has worked on a multitude of project types over the years and offers some tips to aspiring architects getting started working with clients on design projects.
1) Do Your Homework
Even before you start you should do your background research on project location, preexisting conditions. At the very least check on the site on google maps. You have the internet. No excuses!
2) Listen to the Client
Even if the client isn’t always right, they may have some great ideas on how to make the design better. Ultimately, the space you design is for their use and they should feel like part of the process. It is our jobs to guide them to make the best decisions. Base those decisions on the uniqueness of your particular client since their needs will be very specific to them.
3) Be On Time
Your punctuality reflects your attention to detail and defines who you are. If you want to be valued by the client, you in turn should be respectful of their time. Whether it is a meeting or project deadline be sure to manage the client’s expectations.
4) Always Under Promise, Always Over Deliver
Try to work with the client on mutually agreeable deliverables. Whenever possible try to give yourself a bit of breathing room and when the opportunity arises try to beat those expectations. This will built trust between you and the client.
5) Check-In With Client
Be sure to work in periodic check-in points for approvals to avoid getting to far in a design only to find out that there has been some major revisions and you spent time working on design details that will be modified or deleted. Build these milestones into your contract agreement and avoid difficult conversations about extra compensation later on.
Drink Lots of Coffee (Optional)
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Frank
Better Than a Selfie
Posted: January 2, 2017 Filed under: Isms, More FC3, Photography, Social Media | Tags: Architect Builder, Architecture, College, Construction, CSAM, Design, Design Architect, DesignAllDayAndNight, Education, Higher Ed, Higher Education, Jumping, MBA, Photo, Photography, Pic, project management, Project Manager, Research Facility, Science, Selfie, Steam, STEM, University Leave a comment
Everyone likes to take a selfie (these days). Only thing better is when someone else takes a selfie some place you helped design and build.
What: Center for Environmental Life Sciences
Where: Montclair State University
Who: Architect ; Photographer ; Builder ; Project Manager
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Under Construction: Hurricane Sandy Rebuild #JerseyShore #Residential Designed by @FC3ARCHITECT
Posted: September 15, 2013 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, More FC3, My Firm | Tags: Architect, Architecture, Design, DesignAllDayAndNight, FC3, hurricane, NJ, Re-Design, rebuild, Sandy, Spring Ahead, Storm, Superstorm, Transformation, TRANSFORMERS Leave a comment* * * UNDER CONSTRUCTION * * *
This home was impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
The repairs and alternations will include aesthetic enhancements and updates.
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Architect: FC3 Architecture + Design
Builder: Fortis Developers
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Location: Linden, NJ
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The Architecture of Peter Bohlin
Posted: June 21, 2013 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, More FC3 | Tags: Apple, Architect, Architecture, DesignAllDayAndNight, ILMA, Modern, peter bohlin, TGIF 1 Comment
About a week after the death of Steve Jobs, I sat down for an interview with Peter Bohlin, Architect of Apple’s spectacular glass-walled retail stores. The subject of our interview was a new house designed by Bohlin in the Connecticut woods, but of course I could not help but ask about Jobs. “Steve helped me in these years to drive even harder,” Bohlin told me, speaking of Jobs’s relentless push for excellence. I had noticed in one of the countless postmortem articles a listing of Jobs’s patents, and this included the glass circular stair of the Apple stores. Had Jobs actually designed that? Bohlin just smiled. “What do you think?”
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ILMA: Throwback Thursday — Model Building Spring 1995 @NJIT_CoAD
Posted: June 20, 2013 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, More FC3 | Tags: Architecture, Design, DesignAllDayAndNight, FC3, Throw Back, ThrowBackThursday 1 CommentInteresting project we did back in 1998 with our studio professor — project won an Honorable Mention Award for Atlantic City Housing Competition back in 1995 in Architecture school.
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Exclusive ILMA Interview with Aspiring Architect, Ian Siegel
Posted: May 30, 2013 Filed under: Architecture, Expose, JustArch, More FC3 | Tags: Architecture, AvanteGarde, Concrete, Design, DesignAllDayAndNight, Glass, green, Ian, Ian Siegel, Modern, Portfolio, Solar, student 2 CommentsAbout Ian Siegel
Ian Siegel, a recent graduate of NJIT’s College of Architecture and Design, is featured in an interview on the Student Showcase section of the website for Autodesk, an American multinational corporation that focuses on design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media and entertainment industries. Learn more about Ian by clicking here.
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Inspire (Spire)
Posted: May 10, 2013 Filed under: Architecture | Tags: 911, Architecture, DesignAllDayAndNight, FC3, ILMA, Inspire, NYC, Spire, TGIF, WTC 2 Comments
(Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP)
Associated Press
To cheers from spectators and workers alike, construction crews set a silver spire atop New York City’s One World Trade Center on Friday to bring the structure to its full 1,776 height and cap an emotional 12-year effort to restore a key part of the city skyline shattered by the 9/11 terror attacks.
The 408-foot spire, which weighs 758 tons, includes a broadcast antenna and a light that will be visible from miles away to serve as a both a beacon for aircraft and a permanent signal of triumph over extremists who jolted the city and the country.
“This really is a symbolic moment because this building really represents the resiliency of this country,” Port Authority Vice Chair Scott Rechler told TODAY’s Matt Lauer, who was perched on the 104th floor to witness the process. “These people, the thousand men and women who have worked here tirelessly, really as a tribute for the people that perished on 9-11 right on this site.”
The needle will be held in place by a temporary structure until iron workers finish off the permanent base in the coming weeks.
The 1,776 feet — or 541 meters — is symbolic of the year 1776, when the U.S. declared its independence.
The building is rising at the northwest corner of the site where the twin towers were destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The area is well on its way to reconstruction with the 72-story Four World Trade Center and other buildings.
The tower is slated to open for business in 2014. Tenants include the magazine publisher Conde Nast, the government’s General Services Administration and Vantone Holdings China Center, which will provide business space for international companies.
The elegant spire gives the building the extra height needed to claim the status as the tallest structure in the U.S. and the third-tallest in the world, although building experts dispute whether the spire is actually an antenna — a crucial distinction in measuring the building’s height.
Without the spire, the One World Trade Center would be looking up at the Willis Tower in Chicago, which tops out at 1,451 feet, not including its own antennas.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago-based organization considered an authority on such records, says an antenna is something simply added to the top of a tower that can be removed. By contrast, a spire is something that is part of the building’s architectural design.
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Modern Retreat in Argentina, “Casa BB” by BAK Arquitectos
Posted: April 16, 2013 Filed under: Architecture | Tags: Architect, Architecture, Awesome, babfari, Design, design all night, DesignAllDayAndNight, diseñar toda la noche, diseño, dulce, el amor, el arquitecto, FC3, grande, Great, impresionante, la arquitectura, Love, Minimal, Minimalism, minimalismo, minimalist, minimalista, Modern, moderno, retiro, retreat, Sweet 2 Comments
The design of this house is a continuation of a ‘building in the forest’ research done by BAK arquitectos, which started in 2004 with the design of their first house in Mar Azul. The architects examine the possibility of building without losing the environmental quality of the site, proposing alternatives to ensure the survival of natural environments. This involves a Minimal Architecture in terms of not only of form but in materials and particularly minimum site intervention. This is achieved by ‘listening to the forest’ and what the site tries to communicate, along with practicing ‘seeing for the first time’ on behalf of the architects.
The low budget along with the no maintenance requirement set the aesthetic and construction limitations of the project. High compact, waterproof, fair faced concrete provided the necessary insulation and covered the no maintenance factor. The use of glass captures natural light and allows views of the landscape in all directions.
Casa JD has two bedrooms with the flexibility to transform part of the large living/dining space into a third one, a kitchen as well as generous outdoor spaces. The design concept is based on two intersecting prisms situated on a naturally inclined site within the trees, in this way hiding part of its volume. The trees seem to penetrate the house as wood, along with concrete, is a predominant feature of its interior. Wooden steps and a deck lead to the living room. Wooden sliding panels provide a seamless continuation of the exterior and the interior. This level of access is a unique space where different uses are defined by height differences caused by the intersection of prisms and cross sections of concrete walls. Except for the beds, couches and chairs the rest of the equipment of this housing is concrete cast.
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R.I.P. Yukio Futagawa (1932-2013)
Posted: March 23, 2013 Filed under: Architecture, More FC3, Photography | Tags: Architecture, DesignAllDayAndNight, Photo, Photographer, Photography, RIP, Yukio Futagawa Leave a commentAcclaimed Japanese architectural photographer and founder of Global Architecture (GA) magazine Yukio Futagawa died on March 5, 2013, at the age of 80.
Futagawa spent his 60-year career as a photographer, editor, and publisher, depicting and interpreting the architecture and culture of Japan, as well as the architecture of leading designers from other countries. He worked with many renowned architects and historians, including Christian Norberg-Schultz, Philip Johnson, and Kenneth Frampton.
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Photograph of Yukio Futagawa taken in Sao Paulo, Brazil, while he was photographing works by Architect Oscar Niemeyer (2008).
Photo by Yukio Futagawa
Photo by Yukio Futagawa
Photo by Yukio Futagawa
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Before and After – 2 Dramatic Transformations Designed by @FC3ARCHITECT
Posted: March 10, 2013 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, More FC3, My Firm | Tags: Architect, Architecture, Design, DesignAllDayAndNight, FC3, NJ, Sandy, Spring Ahead, Transformation, TRANSFORMERS Leave a commentCommercial Transformation
The client is looking for modest cost effective design solutions to enhance his storefront on a main street of an urban center.
Existing Photograph
Proposed Improvements
Residential Transformation
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Spring is the Perfect Time to Renovate Your Home and/or Office
Posted: March 9, 2013 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, More FC3, My Firm | Tags: Architecture, Design, DesignAllDayAndNight, Portfolio, Spring Ahead Leave a commentSpring Ahead…. Spring is a perfect time to not only clean out your clutter – like the boxes in your garage you have been avoiding, but it’s an optimum time to meet with a design professional and consider different options to renovate your home. Whether you are looking to enhance your home for yourself or to re-sell, an Architect can help you get the most out of your project. Here are some quick sketches after 2 client meetings, where the clients were looking to update their kitchen. Once approved we will move on to design development and construction drawings, which can be used for obtaining pricing from contractors and permits for construction.
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