Peter Culley and Berenika Boberska present ‘Poetics of Sprawl’ Paper at Changing Cities II, Greece
June 26th, 2015: Porto Heli
Corporate Castles of Mythical Burbank Photo by Berenika Boberska As part of the international conference on the future of cities, Peter Culley and Berenika Boberska presented their ideas for a future Los Angeles urban typology: the Hinterlands are now embraced in a new poetic light, a fertile plain to host colonies of the new walled...
Read Full PostBridgePark featured on NBC12
June 18th, 2015: Richmond, VA
NBC12 features BridgePark at Storefront for Community Design for the full coverage, click here
Peter Culley presents Richmond BridgePark concepts at Storefront for Community Design
June 10th, 2015: Richmond, VA
Image by Scott Elmquist, Style Weekly As part of the National ACD neighbors-themed Conference, Peter Culley presented the thinking behind the Richmond BridgePark ideas study along with RBP president, Ted Elmore, and other members of the Spatial Affairs team. The event was featured by Ed Slipek in the June 16 edition of Style Weekly -...
Read Full PostSpatial Affairs’ Metropolitan Museum Guard Booth featured in A+D magazine
April 25th, 2015: Stuttgart
"Not craving attention, but nevertheless self-assured": German publication Architecture + Detail features the South Guard Booth, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's David H. Koch Plaza Redesign, in its No 44 'Building with Fibre Cement' issue. The article states: "the absence of visible fixings and the tight and precise details at...
Read Full PostPeter Culley photos in Mayor Garcetti’s new sustainability pLAn
April 8th, 2015: Los Angeles
The first ever Los Angeles Mayor's sustainability plan has been launched today and we're pleased to be a small part with some of Peter Culley's images included. From the press release: 'The pLAn lays out ambitious short (by 2017) and long term (by 2025 and 2035) targets in 14 categories related to our environment, our economy, and equity...
Read Full PostFinal Piece of the Plaza
February 4th, 2015: New York City
Today the bronze clad north guard booth landed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It marks the last component of the Olin-lead David H. Koch Plaza project which opened to the public in September 2014. Spatial Affairs Bureau provided architecture and site furnishings including two new utility buildings, as well as custom benches and...
Read Full PostSpatial Receives Round Hill Pavilions Honor Award for Excellence in Contextual Design
November 7th, 2014: Richmond, VA
'This is a marvelous project!' – Helene Combs Dreiling, National President AIA 2014. Today, at a ceremony at Richmond's historic Jefferson Hotel, Stacey accepted our award for the Round Hill Project. The jury stated that the project "reflects the agrarian sensibility and arrangement of a family farm without resorting to pastiche." In...
Read Full PostVenice Beach House starts on site
September 25th, 2014: Venice CA
Our house for ad executive Nick Barham starts in earnest after today receiving our LADBS permit. Watch this space for a transformation of this 1930's rabbit warren of a bungalow into beach-cabin chic. For more details on the project please follow this link
Metropolitan Museum of Art unveils new David H. Koch Plaza
September 9th, 2014: New York City
Spatial Affairs, under landscape architect and primary consultant OLIN, and in tandem with Rick Mather USA, is proud to be a part of the new 5th Avenue four block long David H. Koch Plaza. Spatial Affairs designed 14 new monolithic stone benches, 14 asymmetrical custom jumbo parasols that will help to add structure to the street vendors...
Read Full PostSpatial Affairs launches new website
September 9th, 2014: London, New York, Charlottesville, Los Angeles, Richmond
WELCOME TO OUR NEW SITE. You're already here, so please pass us along. We are also pleased to announce that the Metropolitan Museum of Art new David H.Koch Plaza is formally dedicated today. Please click here for our Metropolitan Museum of Art project page.