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Eastside Recreation Center
Craig Borum and Ply has been working with Jen Maigret and Maria Arquero of MAde Studio and a group of Graduate students from UM on conceptual designs for a...
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MOCAD: Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead
Ply is overseeing the construction of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead. The project is a full-sized replica of the 1950’s ranch house that Kelley grew up in....
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The Elert House [Crane Residence] featured in Concentrate Media
http://www.concentratemedia.com/features/midcenturymodernhomes0207.aspx Modern Yet Historic, Vintage Yet Sustainable Denise McGeen | Wednesday, August 22,...
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Le Moniteur Architecture
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in the April 2011 issue of Le Moniteur Architecture. Le Moniteur Architecture AMC no 205 April 2011
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Wagner Farms
An addition to a 1940's farmhouse, extends the living space on the upper floor while providing a bedroom suite at the lower ground level opening on to the...
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Outside In House
The ultimate version of the weekend house was precipitated by yet another shift in parameters imposed by the client. Economic constraints were tightened...
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59th Annual P/A Awards
Architect Magazine has awarded the Outside In House with a P/A Award Citation. You can follow this link to their webpage: Architect Magazine
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Elert House (Crane Residence)
The challenge in restoring of Dean Robert Metcalf’s 1953 Crane Residence is striking the balance between maintaining the original design aesthetic which...
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Central Glass Competition
Ply was awarded a Merit Prize in the 46th Annual Central Glass International Architectural Competition,...
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2011 R+D Award
The Storm Glass Research wins a 2011 R+D Award from Architect Magazine. Also featured in the awards program is University of Michigan colleague, Vivian Lee's...
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101 W Liberty St Loft
This project for a two-story apartment in a converted racket club in downtown Ann Arbor reconfigures and redistributes the spatial arrangements of the apartment...
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Ayaka Sushi
Ayaka Sushi makes a strong use of color in an attempt to pull people off the sidewalk and into the space. Depending on the perspective, the amount of color...
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Case Study House, Cleveland
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Saica Japanese Restaurant
This project developed as a synthesis of dual research agendas – articulation of a furniture / field relationships and investigations into fabrication...
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Storm Glass
Storm Glass, a nineteenth century weather-predicting instrument, is a sealed glass container with a mixture of distilled water and chemicals, which predicts...
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Storm Glass House
A second version of the weekend house was precipitated by a substantial increase in programmatic scope of the house, including a second bedroom and a separate...
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Parkridge House
This project redefines the internal organization and exterior form of an existing 1960’s single story ranch house. The project for a new master bedroom suite...
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Orchid House
The commission of a weekend house in Three Oaks, Michigan was the first opportunity to explore the storm glass wall system at the full spatial and architectural...
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Photostudio
In 2003 a photographer shot the Horton Kuwada Residence for a magazine advertisement. He liked the project so much that he decided to work with us to develop...
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American Architecture Awards
The Storm Glass House wins American Architecture Award The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and the Eurpoean Center for Architecture Art...
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Park House / Ply Studio
The Park House addresses generic and specific aspects of residential construction. The site specifics are the adjacency of a city park on the North and a...
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Instability: Young Architects 8
Instability: Young Architects 8 Princeton Architectural Press from the book jacket: Instability is the eighth book in an annual series of publications,...
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Horton Kuwada House
Thomas Jefferson’s Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 created the regulations for surveying and land acquisition for the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains....
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Damdi
Various PLY projects are published by DAMDI in Advanced Interior Design and Advanced Public Design. Damdi - Advanced Interior Design (includes firm profile,...
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Terumo Heart
This project for a new office wing of a newly renovated clean room research and manufacturing facility attempts to provide interconnected relationships between...
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eat! Best of Restaurant Design
Omi Sushi is published in eat! Best of Restaurant Design. Eat! Best of Restaurant Design
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PLY Lights + Surfaces
The paper luminaries investigate the translucent qualities of paper by exploiting its ability to transmit light and cast shadows. Constructed from laser-cut...
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Big Ten Burrito II
Experiments for the second BTB interior also emerge from a series of questions about the relationship between the craft of making and new technologies of...
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Architectural Diagrams
Architectural Diagrams Multiple projects by PLY Architecture have been included in the 2011 DOM Publishers book Construction Design Manual – Architectural...
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Big Ten Burrito
Experiments for the Big Ten Burrito interior emerge from a series of questions about the relationship between the craft of making and new technologies of...
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Robbins Elementary
The Assembly Required proposal responds to an expansive attitude toward education and community where the potential of each emerges from its relationship to the...
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Young Americans
Various projects are published in Young Americans: New Architecture in the USA. Engelhorn, Beate (ed.)Young Americans: New Architecture in the USA. 1st....
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Woodside Drive Addition
The exterior cladding for the residence uses pre-manufactured fiber reinforced concrete planks to unify the exterior form of the addition and capture exterior...
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Mies van der Rohe Plaza
This project is an installation to honor Mies van der Rohe, and was the winning entry for a two-stage competition to revitalize the central area of the...
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1000x Architecture of the Americas
The Park House is published in 1000x Architecture of the Americas. 1000x Architecture of the Americas
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Omi Sushi
The design of Omi grew from a desire to make a very clear, bold, and graphic statement with the space that would function as a place and as an identity. The...
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Urban Spaces Squares & Plazas
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in Urban Spaces Squares & Plazas. Kottas, Dimitris. Urban Spaces: Squares & Plazas. 1st. Barcelona: Links, 2007. (pp. 144 -...
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Futurewood
Various PLY projects are published are published in Futurewood. Future Wood, Innovation in Building Design + Manufacturing - Ed. Neumann & Beesley
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Azure
Big Ten Burrito 2 is published in the May 2006 issue of Azure “Material World: Ecological Pavers.” Azure July/August 2006: 106.
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Trouble in Paradise
The Tea House for Robots is published in Trouble in Paradise.
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Joy Road House
We approached the interior from both the inside out and the outside in. The three existing living rooms (kitchen, dining and living) were opened and combined...
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Landscape Architecture Environment Design
PLY is published in Landscape Architecture Environment Design volume 33.
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Advanced Interior Design
Various PLY projects are published in Advanced Interior Design.
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Competitions
The Robbins School Elementary School Competition is published in the Winter 2006/2007 issue of Competition. Maas, Anna Martin. “Integrating the New with the...
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Quito
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in the 2006 issue of XVBAQ. Lozada, Diego Salazar (ed). Visible Cities. 1st. Quito: Trama, 2006. [78 - 81]
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Contract
Various Ply projects are published in the July 2006 issue of Contract. Milshtein, Amy. “Fresh Approach.” Contract July 2006: 40 - 41, 58 - 63.
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Lunch
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in Lunch volume 4.
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Azure
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in the July/August 2006 issue of Azure. Cameron, Leah. “It’s a Wrap.” Azure May 2006: 38.
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a+t
In 2005, Mies Van Der Rohe Plaza is published in A+T In Common II Collective Spaces Velazquez, Alicia. “Mies van der Rohe Plaza.” A+T In Common II -...
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Architectural Record
Big Ten Burrito 1 and Big Ten Burrito 2 are published in the November 2005 issue of Architectural Record. Joch, Alan, and Snoonian, P.E., Deborah. “Design...
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Architecture Magazine
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in the September 2005 Architecture. Klara, Robert. “Order in the Court.” Architecture Magazine September 2005: 70.
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Canadian Architect
Big Ten Burrito is published in the May 2005 issue of Canadian Architect Taggart, Jim. “Cutting Edge.” Canadian Architect May 2005: 26 - 30.
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Robustness
In 2004, Karl Daubmann is interviewed by Olv Klijn in and published in Robustness. Klijn, Olv. “A Joint Practice: Interview with Karl Daubmann.” Concrete...
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Wood Design & Building
Big Ten Burrito wins 2004 Wood Design Honor Award, is published in the Autumn 2004 issue of Wood Design & Building and the Wood Design Honor Award...
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l'architecture d'aujourd'hui
In 2004, Case Study House is published in l'architecture d'aujourd'hui Place, Jean-Michel (ed). “Case Study House, Cleveland.” L’architecture...
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International Design Magazine
Plywood Shades were published in the The International Design Magazine's 50th Annual Design Review. Codrington, Andrea. “Environments.” ID, the...
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Ottagono
Horton Kuwada House is published in the February 2004 of Ottagono. “L’Oriente in Campagna,” Ottagono, February 2004
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Oz Journal
Case Study House is published in Oz Journal volume 25 2003. Benfer, Matthew, Amelia Nelson, and Mike Stofiel. “Case Study House.” OZ: Kansas State Journal of...
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House: Case Study Cleveland
PLY's Cleveland Case Study House Competition entry is published by SPACES Channing, Susan R. (ed.) House: Case Study Cleveland. Exhibition Catalog 1. Cleveland:...
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Architecture for Education
PLY is included in Chicago Public Schools Competition's publication Sharp, Robert V. (ed). Architecture for Education: New School Designs from the Chicago...
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Metropolis
Cleveland Case Study House is published in the December 2002 issue of Metropolis Sokol, David. “Casing the Joint.” Metropolis October 2002: 46 - 47.
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Architectural Record
PLY's Cleveland Case Study House Competition is published in Architectural Record Lerner, Kevin. “Ply Architecture: Four’s Company.” Architectural Record...
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Architecture Boston
PLY is published in Architecture Boton's 2001 Year in Review In 2001, PLY's project for the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a competition sponserd by the church...
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Thresholds
PLY published in Thresholds 20 In 2000, PLY's project for the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a competition sponserd by the church commnity, is publish in the...
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All American
Building Design Workshop has several projects published in All American: Innovation in American Architecture.
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Competitions
Chicago Public Schools Competition entry is included in Cornell School of Architecture's Competitions publication PLY's finalist project for Chicago Public...
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Residential Architect
Big Ten Burrito is published in the April 2005 issue of Residential Architect. Drueding, Meghan. “In Salsa Veritas.” Residential Architect April 2005: 96 -...
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