If a picture is worth a thousand words that means photography often tells the story for us. In this photograph of the Pell Laboratory for Advanced Biological Studies at Penn State, a brief rainstorm broke through a gray, cloudy day and then left as quickly as it arrived. This flash of nature brought us a sweeping photograph of a highly technical building consisting of two distinct zones: the headhouse and the biocontainment zone. As soon as the skies cleared photographer Warren Jagger climbed his ladder and got the shot.
If you look closely you can see the rainwater in the scupper. While you’re looking, notice the panel near the front entrance – that graphic is based on what the plague looks like under a microscope. Fitting for a biocontainment facility, isn’t it? The building celebrated its grand opening earlier this month.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center recently completed a new inpatient building in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical Area. A rich texture and palette of materials adorn the wall along the base of the building. Polished black granite forms the watercourse and seat walls, warm gray granite is used on the large wall panels, and an alternating texture of black granite, green glazed terracotta, and weathered steel is applied to the vertical recesses between the granite wall panels.
This design accentuates key elements in the landscape and introduces an intimate human scale and craftsmanship to the pedestrian realm.
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