Azure magazine: K College building one of top 10 in 2014
When Azure magazine rounded up the Top 10 big projects of the year, Kalamazoo College’s Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership made the list of “the most mind-bendingly ambitious buildings completed this year.” Others in the list included a distillery greenhouse in the south of England (by the always-inventive Thomas Heatherwick) and Jean Nouvel’s skyscraper in Sydney (draped entirely in greenery).
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“As a learning and meeting space for students, faculty, and visitors, the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College, Michigan, only needed to provide basic facilities; as the architecture firm’s website points out, “a church basement, a living room, or even a kitchen table” would have sufficed. But Jeanne Gang’s intention was to elevate the pursuit of social justice in both a literal and a poetic sense, by creating a space that evokes harmony and the convergence of ideas in a physical way.”
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Source: Azure magazine
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