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Helsinki New Museum of Architecture and Design Des

Helsinki New Museum of Architecture and Design
Design Competition
The City, to the west; the Sea and Fortress, to the east.
The new museum concept engages and reinforces these city and sea adjacencies – in its scale, in its public access, in its form and shape, in its material choices.
Four metaphorical ships arrive at Helsinki, four multilevel museum volumes ‘dock’ at a ‘wharf’ composed of three horizontal floor planes.
The first floor plane, on the ground level, is contiguous with the existing public plaza to the north and along the water’s edge. A glazed entry lobby, extending north and south with covered outdoor exhibition venues.
To east and west along both the city and sea perimeters of the plaza, a new public garden and landscape is created. It includes meeting, exhibit, and public leisure spaces, partly covered, then extending under the open sky.
The second level is the primary museum concourse, open, providing changing exhibitions, space for talks, and including direct access to each of the four ship volumes and exhibition, administrative, special event, and technical programs that adjoin above and below the concourse floor.
The third level, above the concourse level, is a public outdoor deck, including views to the surrounds, city and sea, interior and exterior exhibit space, gardens, and access to the four sail volumes.

Samitaur Tower Culver City, CA The tower consists

Samitaur Tower
Culver City, CA
The tower consists of five circular steel rings, approximately 30 feet in diameter. The rings are stacked vertically at 12-foot floor-to-floor intervals and staggered in plan to establish viewing angles at various heights. Rear projection screens on each floor are oriented to cars on surrounding surface streets, to freeways, to passengers onboard the moving trains, and to pedestrians at key vantage points.

Midnight at the oasis

Midnight at the oasis

Pterodactyl Culver City, CA "Eric Owen Moss total

Pterodactyl
Culver City, CA
"Eric Owen Moss totally transforms the rooftop of this parking facility, giving it an apparently disordered aspect that announces its contemporary presence. The stacking effect of the new office is revolved in an orderly fashion as the images and plans show."
-Philip Jodidio, Rooftops

Aronoff Guest House Tarzana, CA "(Moss wants his

Aronoff Guest House
Tarzana, CA
"(Moss wants his own manipulation of primary volumes to be seen not just as fragmentation, but equally as reintegration; and he wants each of the parts to carry within it some trace of other parts."
J. Dixon, New World Architect

Trebinje Congress Center Trebinje, Bosnia and Herz

Trebinje Congress Center
Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Congress Hall concept design originates with a cylindrical form which is then broken into parts/volumes as the project program and organization require, leaving a clear residual form language that associates the separate parts with an a priori conceptual whole to which, in theory, the parts could return.

Sagaponac House #22 Sagaponac, NY

Sagaponac House #22
Sagaponac, NY

(W)rapper Los Angeles, CA "Everything about (W)ra

(W)rapper
Los Angeles, CA
"Everything about (W)rapper departs from the rigid formula and orthogonal geometry of other developments. A curved ramp to the subterranean parking skirts a paved evaporative water feature. You can walk under the building from the surface parking and the hyperbolic walls that link the bands on either side rise through the lobby and an adjoining café, creating a dramatic, cave-like overture to the crystalline, light-filled floors above."
-M. Webb, The Plan

Jinju National Museum Jinju, South Korea

Jinju National Museum
Jinju, South Korea

Umbrella Culver City, CA "In this case, the archi

Umbrella
Culver City, CA
"In this case, the architect and his clients have tried to, as Moss puts it, ‘cross the boundaries of architecture into music’... Intended for outdoor performances, the Umbrella sums up their reinvention of the basic warehouse, while pointing the way, Moss claims, ‘to something we cannot know’."
-A. Betsky, Architecture Magazine

(W)rapper Los Angeles, CA "Curvilinear steel ribb

(W)rapper
Los Angeles, CA
"Curvilinear steel ribbons frame the building like an elegant weave, but they are actually the elements of an exoskeleton that props up the building, which is the winner of the 2023 Innovation by Design Award in the Spaces and Places category. Instead of the internal columns found inside most mid- and high-rise buildings, (W)rapper’s structure is also its perimeter."
-Fast Company
2023 Innovation by Design Award Winner

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Beehive Culver City, CA "From the very outset of

Beehive
Culver City, CA
"From the very outset of work in this area, Moss’s idea was not to eliminate the ‘sleeping industrial skeletons’ but to involve them in a metamorphosis, allowing the new forms to incorporate the existing structures, refuting them, altering their essence, and celebrating their diversity."
-E. Giorgi, L’Architettura Magazine
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3535 Hayden Culver City, CA "The essential state

3535 Hayden
Culver City, CA
"The essential state of incompletion marks the Pittard Sullivan building… it acts as a self-conscious metaphor of a lack of definition that pervades our culture... this lacuna... is a space that opens up the possibility of wonder (or fear) of what cannot and should not be known."
-A. Betsky
Photo by @mxm_lfbvr
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Vespertine Culver City, CA Was the building …

Vespertine
Culver City, CA
Was the building … breathing?
It was definitely humming. I heard it as soon as the valet standing outside Vespertine opened the car door for me: a series of three falling chords. Each chord appeared slowly, built gradually and faded out again with the controlled rhythm of a yoga teacher’s long, deep, inhalations.
-Pete Wells, New York Times
photo by @Sistematico_
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Samitaur Tower Culver City, CA

Samitaur Tower
Culver City, CA

(W)rapper Los Angeles, CA Located along the Expo

(W)rapper
Los Angeles, CA
Located along the Expo Line light rail connecting West Los Angeles with Downtown, the project conforms to the City’s long term planning goal to increase density along mass transit routes. In a neighborhood that historically limited heights to 45 feet, the 235 feet tall (W)rapper implements a new scale, density and purpose for the area.
Unlike conventional high-rise structural systems based on columns organized along modular grid lines, (W)rapper is supported by a network of curvilinear steel bands originating from geometric center points. Each curving band is wrapped around the rectilinear building envelope, and folded around each vertical and horizontal corner of the building until it reaches the ground. The steel bands are coated with cementitious fireproofing and support the office floors without the use of conventional columns.
The steel bands are positioned on the building perimeter creating an open, column-free floor plan. The seventeen office floors are distributed as three different floor-to-floor height options – 13’-6”, 16’-6”, and 24’-0” – with a mezzanine hung from the ceiling above on the 24’-0” floor. The elevator and utility core of the building is offset to the south, freeing the office interiors, and providing the maximum floor plan flexibility.
The base-isolated structure is five times more seismically resilient than a typical American high-rise. This allows occupants to return to the office after a major earthquake where other high-rise building will sustain significant damage and require repair or demolition. The increased structural lifecycle of (W)rapper will reduce the carbon footprint of the project substantially over its useable lifetime.
(W)rapper offers the highest possible seismic safety rating and is the only high-rise commercial office building in America that utilizes such a base isolated structure.

Beehive Culver City, CA "The Beehive is part of M

Beehive
Culver City, CA
"The Beehive is part of Moss’s ongoing investigation of kinetics, structural transformation, and contradiction–what he terms the ‘balanced imbalance.’"
D. Hutt, Architectural Record Magazine

Strait is the Gate Culver City, CA "... the world

Strait is the Gate
Culver City, CA
"... the world we know topped with a world we would like to know".
A. Moody, Specifier Magazine
Culver City, CA

The Box Culver City, CA "Moss’ architecture exp

The Box
Culver City, CA
"Moss’ architecture explores the irrational and the agonized; he is attracted to the psychological realm of unresolved or irresolvable problems. "
M. Newman, Architecture Magazine

Strait is the Gate Culver City, CA "The main body

Strait is the Gate
Culver City, CA
"The main body of the building, however undistinguished, is not repudiated, but becomes the volume to which new elements are attached or added, establishing an unexpected dialogue between generic construction and anomaly."
L. Molinari, Lotus

Stealth Culver City, CA "… how to introduce non

Stealth
Culver City, CA
"… how to introduce non sequiturs into a building and make them sequiturs".
M. Pidgeon and E. Young, Architecture and Design Magazine

Hayden Tower Culver City, CA "The process of desi

Hayden Tower
Culver City, CA
"The process of design has to be personal. I’m not sure that the word design is useful if it simply signifies the resolution of a list of problems".
E. Moss, Gnostic Architecture

The City of the Future Los Angeles, CA "Moss’s

The City of the Future
Los Angeles, CA
"Moss’s projects strike me as such a form of education. The knowing spontaneity of his forms, the hands-on approach implicit in their strong, sculptural contours, the relationship they describe between a city’s vitality and the creative potential of its individuals: these coalesce into tangible lessons about how a city should face its future."
H. Muschamp, The New York Times

Austria Under Construction Venice, Italy "... It

Austria Under Construction
Venice, Italy
"... It’s both asset and liability simultaneously, so it fits us... It adds to a provisional vocabulary in architecture."
Eric Moss, The End of Architecture?

Petal House Los Angeles, CA "I would like to mak

Petal House
Los Angeles, CA
"I would like to make a premise out of the idea of the evolving premise. You come to the truth momentarily. Then you lose it again".
E. Moss, Architectural Monographs No.29

Samitaur Culver City, CA "He (Moss) is intereste

Samitaur
Culver City, CA
"He (Moss) is interested in the transitional, seeing danger in what is free and instinctual becoming method".
H. Beck and J. Cooper, UME Magazine

Jose Vasconcelos Library Mexico City, Mexico "...

Jose Vasconcelos Library
Mexico City, Mexico
"... where the order is extreme, the disorder is really a joy".
S. Holl, Progressive Architecture Awards

The Box ’I’ve long been interested in the ide

The Box
’I’ve long been interested in the idea that no matter how fragmented a building may appear, it should come together in the end’ (E. Moss)
A. Betsky, Architecture Magazine

Vespertine Culver City, CA "The architecture of E

Vespertine
Culver City, CA
"The architecture of Eric O. Moss is characterized by the fruitful coexistence of two approaches. One pursues a rational and logical definition of space... the other aims... to arouse emotion and wonder in the user".
M. Constanzo, L’Architettura Magazine

A+M House Santa Monica Canyon, CA "With an upsid

A+M House
Santa Monica Canyon, CA
"With an upside-down form that makes the most of a small plot".
Alice Morby, Hypebeast

8522 National Blvd Culver City, CA The new steel

8522 National Blvd
Culver City, CA
The new steel tube columns and wide flange beams are positioned over, under, around, and through the original trusses and posts, so that the built conclusion is a spatial amalgamation of two distinct construction types rarely found together in a single building.

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