Sustainable Architecture & Design Austin, TX
The 12th Street Studios were a design/build project; a laboratory for material and process. Three studio spaces occupy a busy corner in a transitional neighborhood in East Austin. The corner is defined by a masonry wall that contains a quiet cactus garden. The top of the wall is at eye level, to give simultaneous views of arid landscape inside and lush neighborhood yards outside. [more...]
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Detail Magazine published Pollen’s 12th Street Studios in the November-December 2010 issue on timber construction.
Read the full article here. Click on “Studios in Austin” or scroll to page 18.
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Pollen’s 12th St. Studios project is featured in Massing for the Masses, an architectural exhibition exploring affordable design strategies and their impact in the community. Coleman Coker will deliver the keynote address entitled “Architecture in the Community.” The exhibition runs November 6-10, 2010 at the Austin Museum of Art.
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Pollen Architecture_12th St Studio_AIA Award from Pollen Architecture on Vimeo.
Here is a video clip of the AIA jurors – Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam and Michael Imber – discussing our E 12th St studio project. Marlon’s comment about wanting to go to church there is right at the end! Whenever you’d like Marlon…..
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AIA Austin held their annual awards ceremony in April which ’showcases excellence in design’ by local members. We were thrilled to be given a Citation of Honor for our 12th St Studios. The jury this year included Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam and Michael Imber. Our favourite juror comment was by Marlon, who commented that he’d like to go to church at our project! 15 awards were given in all, from an initial submission of 97. Congratulations to all the winners for their beautiful work – you can link to photos of the projects through the AIA Austin website.
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E 12th St Studios was published in the July 2007 issue of Architectural Record as part of a feature entitled “Made to Measure”, designed to highlight “outstanding – and small” projects which might otherwise pass under the mainstream radar. We were honored to be profiled alongside a beautiful barn in Sonoma County by Aidan Darling Design and a chapel in Osaka, Japan by Jun Aoki.
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