The 4 Salvaged Boxes exhibition opened July, 22nd at the Sir JJ College of Architecture in Mumbai, India. The opening brought students and faculty alike from many schools all over Mumbai to view and interact with the exhibition. The opening was followed by a lecture by a wHY team member in order to start a dialogue with other architects abroad about green design and practice.
Kulapat was one of the speakers among artists, green policy and green business leaders at the National Summit on July 14, a collaboration of Wolf Trap, the Aspen Institute and American for the Arts. Please visit wolftrap.org
The Cultural Affairs Commission of the City of Los Angeles presented wHY Architecture with their highest honor for the design of the Art Bridge at the AIA Awards on June 4th, 2008. This award highlighted wHY's design on a pedestrian bridge in North Hollywood that integrated the public art work of muralist and founder of the Social Public Arts Resource Center (SPARC) Judith Baca.
4 Salvaged Boxes exhibition will travel to Asia, starting in Bangkok as one of the main exhibition at the Association of Siamese Architects' Annual Convention, April 30 to May 4, 2008, then relocating to the new Bangkok's Contemporary Art Center until the end of June. The exhibition is planned to travel to India, Singapore and Japan after Thailand.
February 2008 issue of Architectural Review features Grand Rapids Art Museum
IIT's School of Architecture kicks start the Winter / Spring Semester Lecture series with Kulapat's lecture on February 20, at IIT School of Architecture's Crown Hall.
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Cathleen McGuigan of Newsweek selects Grand Rapids Art Museum as one of the seven best international buildings in 2007.
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Blair Kamin highlights GRAM in his article Best of 2007: Architecture, in Chicago Tribune on December 23, 2007.
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Kulapat Yantrasat speaks at Grand Rapids Art Museum about wHY Architecture and the process of designing and building with integrated sustainable solutions
The alternative concept in art-culture venue, Royal / T, opens for preview in a bowstring truss building in Culver City, coinciding with the opening of the Murakami exhibition at LA MOCA. The space will fully open for the public early next year.
Visit http://royal-t.org/ for details and schedule.
Architect magazine highlights the Grand Rapids Art Museum as the cover story of the green issue, October 2007. The magazine features the architectural qualities of the building as well as the green design of the museum.
Groundbreaking begins at the Art institute of Chicago (AIC) for the Prints and Drawings Gallery. This is the first of a dynamic plan to renovate and update the iconic museum in preparation for the next generation of museum visitors and patrons.
Grand Rapids Art Museum will open to the public on October 5,2007. the museum is the first new art museum building in the country to receive the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification. The museum is located in the center of Grand Rapids, Michigan and adjacent to Maya Lin's urban sculpture - park "Ecliptic".
A new POLA Kirei spa opens in Santa Monica on Montana Avenue. The new store continues the design exploration originated in the flagship store in Beverly Hills by creating a calm sanctuary for the senses within a very small urban space. Multiple types of Japanese paper are used to create various layers of tactility, with metaphor for the skins.
Grand Rapids featured as one of the greenest cities in the country focusing on the sustainability of new construction particularly the Grand Rapids Art Museum
Chicago Tribune profiles wHY Architecture as one of the lead designers that will make significant transformation to the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago. wHY is currently working on multiple gallery re-design and re-installation projects at the Art Institute with timeframe from 2006 to 2010 and beyond.
Art in America, the country's leading art journal features GRAM in the front page column with focus on GRAM being the first "green" art museum in the country. GRAM will hold its first Christmas Tree Lighting on November 1, 2006 in the plaza in front of the new museum building. The museum's staff plan to move in to their new office by the end of 2006, and the new museum will open to the public in the fall of 2007.
POLA Kirei flagship store opens in Beverly Hills at the corner of Brighton and Bedford. wHY is the architect of this exclusive cosmetic / skin care spa from Japan. POLA prides itself for the most advanced technology in skincare together with the Japanese sense of care and hospitality. The store is designed to make visitors feel the experience of a Japanese garden with also the use of Japanese paper and textures on walls as metaphors for skins and tactility.
