Yesterday‘s Architeaser was from the Hall-Davidson Building at Capital and Louisiana.
Category Archives: Architecture
Architeaser – April 2
Yesterday‘s Architeaser was one of the rose windows at First United Methodist Church in downtown. Here is today’s Architeaser.
Architeaser: April 1
In April, each day there will be an architectural element featured. Many will be obvious, others may be less visible. The identification will be listed in the next day’s entry.
Here is April 1.
Deadline Approaching for Arkansas Arts Summit Registration
The Arkansas Arts Council is pleased to be a sponsor of the 2012 Arkansas Arts Summit April 17-18 at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. This intensive, two-day event will provide practical training for board members and arts administrators to help build and maintain art organizations and programs.
The conference will also offer performances, social events and networking opportunities. Registration is $95 and deadline to register is April 1. Click here to download a registration form, which includes a conference agenda and hotel information.
The Summit is presented by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center.
Led by Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser, the conference will equip participants to:
- Recruit and manage board members
- Achieve fundraising success
- Create institutional image with impact
- Improve strategic financial planning
- Develop and support effective marketing campaigns
Sponsors include the Arkansas Arts Council, the William J. Clinton Foundation, Donna and Mack McLarty, Kaki Hockersmith, Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, the Windgate Foundation, Stella Boyle Smith Trust, the City of Little Rock and the City of North Little Rock.
Another elite architectural award for a Little Rock firm and building
Polk Stanley Wilcox of Little Rock was awarded the American Architecture Award for its design of the Heifer International Murphy Keller Education Center in Little Rock.
In the last five years, PSW has won this award for both the Acxiom Data Center and the Heifer International Headquarters.
The Murphy Keller Eduction Center provides a place for visitors, staff, volunteers and the international development community to come together to learn about world hunger and poverty and current solutions to these problems.
It features an interactive learning center that includes exhibit space, a conference hall, a fair trade gift market and food service area.
“This recognition is proof that good design matters, and can contribute to getting an organization like Heifer’s message out into the public eye, which is critical for their humanitarian efforts,” Reese Rowland, the project’s principal architect, said. “We are also excited to bring more national exposure to downtown Little Rock as well.”
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design & Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., selected the Polk Stanley Wilcox design for the award, one of 46 given this year.
The American Architecture Award aims to celebrate the “most outstanding new architecture” designed and built in the United States by American and international architects.
About 1,000 projects from around the world were considered for the award.
CALS Lights Way at New Library Construction Site
Photo courtesy of CALS
Just as libraries are places for illuminating minds, lights are shining on the Central Arkansas Library System’s (CALS) Children’s Library Initiative project at 4800 West 10th Street.
A tree on the site was lighted in November, and continues to highlight the work that has progressed. The structural steel is being erected, and roof beams are now being placed. The slab for the lower level has been poured, and the project is on schedule for the upper floor slab to pour very soon. Interior finishes are being selected, with the products and colors chosen for the countertops and the flooring carpet, tile, and cork.
Library staff is currently designing programming with Arkansas Out of School Network (AOSN), Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Central Little Rock Promise Neighborhood (CLRPN), the Clinton School of Public Service, and other organizations in preparation for the opening of the facility in early 2013. The library will offer programming for infants through middle school-aged children, including Storytime, crafts, music, and book clubs. The opening of the children’s library will allow CALS to expand the number and types of programs available for children. Public computers and a computer lab will allow more children to learn how to use and have access to computers and the Internet. Computer safety classes will teach them, and their parents, how to access the Internet safely.
Other planned features of the facility and site include a kitchen, gardens, and a greenhouse that will provide opportunities for enrichment activities for children in a wide variety of areas which cannot be duplicated currently by any other single organization. Located south of I-630 between the Pine/Cedar and Fair Park exits, the new Children’s Library will help anchor the renewal of the 12th Street Corridor Revitalization Project.
Preservation Conversations: Historic Tile
When one sees a restored building or a building in need of restoration – the quality of tile work is often a key factor in the success. Little Rock City Hall and the Capital Hotel are two notable examples of restorations which have showcased their historic tiles. With that in mind, this month’s Quapaw Quarter Association “Preservation Conversation” is on historic tiles.
Bryan Byrd, a ceramic engineer at American Restoration Tile will be giving the presentation. American Restoration Tile is a custom ceramic tile manufacturing company based here in Little Rock. It specializes in reproducing the tiles of the past to facilitate restoration of historically significant buildings and residences. We use modern manufacturing technology and decades of ceramic engineering experience to exactly duplicate the sizes and colors of old ceramic tile installations.
Beginning at 5:00, Curran Hall will be open for patrons to enjoy a glass of wine, programs start at 5:30 p.m. and last for one hour. After the official program concludes, all are invited to keep the conversation going and enjoy a discounted dinner at nearby Copper Grill, 300 East Third Street.
The Quapaw Quarter Association is a non-profit historic preservation advocacy organization whose mission is to promote the preservation of the historic buildings and neighborhoods of Greater Little Rock. Rhea Roberts is the Executive Director.
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