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Morimoto New York, New York, New York

Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Osaka, Japan

Gotodesigngroup LLC, New York

Guggenheimer Architects, New York

Located in the ormer loading dock o an

early twentieth century manuacturing

building, Morimoto is a 12,000-square-oot

restaurant specializing in contemporary

Japanese cuisine with seating or 160 on the

main levelincluding 24 seats at the sushi

bar surrounding the 1,500-square-oot open

kitchen and an omakase (ches choice) table

or 8and 40 in the lower-level lounge.

The renovation o the existing space

included the addition o a reinorced con-

crete oundation to accommodate the lower

level o the new restaurant, as well as rein-

orcement o the existing structure to create

column-ree space or the central staircase

and clear sightlines rom the upper level

down to the lounge and bar. At the street

entrance are 130-oot-long inset panels o

blackened galvanized-steel and an oversized

noren, a traditional Japanese divided curtainhung in the doorway o a shop or restaurant

to indicate that it is open or business, as

well as or protection rom heat, light, dust,

and weather.

The ceiling o the street-level space is

covered with panels o white canvas pressed

into undulating olds and sprayed with

berglass to hold their shape. For visual and

acoustical privacy, dining tables are sepa-

rated by glass partitions ritted with white

ceramic dots; in the lounge, the dots are

larger and spaced closer together or greater

opacity and privacy. A concrete stair with

a glass balustrade leads down to the lounge

and bar, its landing cantilevered over the

lower level.

Separating the main stair rom the com-

munal dining room is a 20-oot-square two-

story-high wall o 17,400 water-lled bottles

mounted on both sides o a structural steel

rame that acts as a light diuser or an

installation o warm and cool white LEDs

inserted lengthwise into both sides o every

third row o bottles. A metal grid betweenthe two layers o bottles supports the LEDs

and electrical wiring conduits. Behind the

bar on the lower level is a foor-to-ceiling,

single-layer water-bottle wall, three rows o

two bottles stacked vertically with the

opening ends joined and an upright top

row. Other indirect and concealed lighting

sources are located within vertical and

horizontal suraces: in continuous bands

at the intersection o the ceiling sot and

perimeter walls, within the seams and

inserted through the berglass-reinorced

ceiling, and embedded within the volume o

the transparent resin bar in the lounge.

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Entrance on Tenth Avenue

Opposite

Basement lounge

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Top: Light-cove detail,

rice-paper wall (let);

light-cove detail, decorative-

abric wall

Middle: Light-cove detail,

decorative-abric wall

Bottom (let and right):

Main stair and bottle wall

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Top: Section detail, rice-paper wall

in elevated dining area (let);

section detail, rice-paper wall in

private dining areaBottom: Dining room (let);

sushi bar


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Top: Plan detail, cellar-lounge

bottle wall (let);

plan detail, cellar-lounge bar

Middle: Section detail, cellar-

lounge bottle wall (let);

section detail, cellar-lounge bar

Bottom: Three-quarter view o

bottle-wall mockup with LEDs (let);

bottle-wall mockup, double-socket

detail

This pageRight: Bottle wall rom main stair

Bottom (let to right): Bottle-wall

prototype; bottle wall, side view;

bottle-wall detail with warm and

cool LEDs

Morimoto New York


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Site plan

Opposite

Top: Rosebrugh Court, view north

Bottom: West elevation

Terrence Donnelly Centre or Cellular and Biomolecular Research , Toronto, Canada

Behnisch Architekten, Los Angeles, Caliornia

architectsAlliance, Toronto

The University o Torontos Terrence

Donnelly Centre or Cellular and

Biomolecular Research (TDCCBR) is a

collaborative and interdisciplinary research

center or our hundred specialists who

perorm groundbreaking research on genet-

ics and disease. The location o the TDCCBR,

at the southeast corner o the University o

Torontos St. George Campus, establishes

physical and symbolic links with the univer-

sity community to the north and the

medical center to the south.

On the narrow building site, ormerly a

parking and service area, Behnisch

Architekten and architectsAlliance designed

a rectangular structure twelve stories high

distinguished by its environmental respon-

siveness, connections to the surrounding

urban context, transparency, and inormal

spaces that promote interdisciplinary col-laboration. In contrast to neighboring brick

buildings, the TDCCBR is a slender tower

with a crisp, light, and colorul acade that

rises graceully over neighboring structures.

Designed as a north-south thoroughare,

the TDCCBR is entered through an exterior

granite-paved orecourt surrounded by

gardens and neighboring buildings. The

granite pavement continues into the con-

course atriuman indoor-outdoor environ-

ment with multicolored skylights, lush

plantings, a caeteria, lounges, oces, and

seminar roomsthat provides public

passage through the building. The subdued

materials and planting palette o the atrium

contrast with the buildings complex colors

and orms.

The TDCCBR is linked to the Medical

Sciences Building by ground-level walk-

ways and a glass bridge on the sixth level;

an upper-level connection leads to the

Rosebrugh Building, which was restored

during the construction. To better adapt to

the scale o surrounding buildings, the

TDCCBR is broken into two vertically

stacked volumes divided by an intermediate

sixth level that houses mechanical systems

or lower foors. Laboratory space is orga-nized below on foors 2 through 5 and

above on foors 7 through 12. The smaller

foor area o the sixth level divides the build-

ing orm into two volumes, allowing the

laboratory foors below to remain fexible,

open spaces. Mechanical systems serving

the upper levels and six o the seven air-

handling units are located on the rootop

in an oval stainless-steel clad penthouse;

a seventh unit is located on the ground foor

and serves the basement.

The cladding on each o the our eleva-

tions is designed to enrich the buildings

mass and meet occupants needs or

privacy and shading. Color is used exten-

sively throughout: shades o yellow, blue,

and orange animate the laminated glass on

the eastern and western acades. Colored

interior walls are visible through the pat-

terned ceramic rit glass, used to mitigate

solar gain on the west elevation, which is

urther articulated with bay-window volumes

that house lounges, caes, and stairways.

The richly textured, transparent south

acade, the buildings main elevation, is

double walled and double glazed or maxi-

mum acoustic and solar control.

Qualities o transparency, fexibility,connectivity, and unctionality inorm the

design o the interior spaces. Airy spaces

and extended foor-to-ceiling heights were

achieved by omitting suspended ceilings

and exposing services and the superstruc-

ture. Shallow foor plates and glass walls

allow or high levels o transparency and

natural light throughout the labs, while


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color, lighting, and materials dierentiate

work zones. Wet and dry laboratories are

located in the central service spine, which

runs north and south through the middle

o each foor. The laboratories are designed

or easy conversion: wet labs can be altered

to accommodate biology, chemistry, or

bioinormatics usage, and dry labs can be

converted to wet labs with the addition o

ume hoods and laboratory casework.

Spacious circulation corridors on the

west side o the building provide entry to the

labs and research-associate stations beyond.

Connected by staircases, the corridors on

levels 2 through 5 overlook the atrium and

provide inormal spaces or employee inter-

action. On levels 7 through 12, bay-window

volumes contain interconnecting stairways,

lounges, and caes, and there are three

double- and triple-height indoor gardensaround the perimeter.

The TDCCBR incorporates both passive

and active environmental design eatures

to increase energy eciency and promote

employee quality o lie. Two energy

zones minimize the buildings overall

requirements, with labs and oces sepa-

rated rom common areas that can sustain

higher mean temperatures. The architects

also challenged traditional ventilation stan-

dards or laboratory spaces by reducing

air changes per hour to between ten and

twelve rom more than twenty.

Low-E, high-perormance glazing limits

solar gain, and the polymide thermal breaks

on the aluminum extrusions have superior

insulating properties. The double acade o

the south elevation has 2.5 eet o air space

between the exterior single-glazed skin

and a second interior thermal skin o argon-

lled, thermally broken double glazing.

Sunblinds on the interior side o the single-

glazed skin reduce heat loss and gain and

provide wind protection and acoustic buer-

ing. Motorized dampers and vents on the

outer skin and retractable perorated alumi-num louvers located between the skins ur-

ther reduce heat gain, redirect daylight into

the building, and modulate the natural stack

eect to heat and vent the interstitial space,

compartmentalized rom foor to foor. The

retractable louvers have 4-inch concave slats

programmed to tilt according to the suns

angle, blocking direct sun rom contact

with the interior glazing. Glass foors within

the cavity allow or maintenance without

compromising the acades transparency.

The principal researchers oces on the

southern side have operable windows and

sunblinds, which can be controlled by

individual users but are also connected to

the computerized building management

system, ensuring override control. When

users open their windows, programmable

heating and cooling units in the ceiling

switch o.

The circulation corridors, garden, and

lounges are powered by a mechanically

assisted natural ventilation system, and the

atriums automated operable windows con-

nected to the building management system

naturally ventilate the corridors on labora-tory foors 2 through 5. The double- and

triple-height gardens on the upper levels

that lter air and provide oxygen and humid-

ity to the common areas are irrigated and

drained as part o the buildings stormwater

reclamation system.

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Lab foor plan (let);

east elevation

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Top: Diagram o east-west

section airfow

Bottom: Entrance with seminar

rooms and winter garden (let);

Rosebrugh Court,

view south


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Lab section

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Top: West elevation

Bottom: Rosebrugh Court, night

view (let); south elevation


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Top: North elevation (let);

west elevation

Bottom: Tower-perorations detail,

enlarged

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Top: Tower-perorations layouts

Middle: Tower-panel layouts

Bottom: Tower-perorations detail

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