When Azure magazine rounded up the Top 10 big projects of the year, Kalamazoo College's Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership made the list of "the most mind-bendingly ambitious buildings completed this year." Others in the list included a distillery greenhouse in the south of England (by the always-inventive Thomas Heatherwick) and Jean Nouvel’s skyscraper in Sydney (draped entirely in greenery).
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"As a learning and meeting space for students, faculty, and visitors, the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College, Michigan, only needed to provide basic facilities; as the architecture firm’s website points out, “a church basement, a living room, or even a kitchen table” would have sufficed. But Jeanne Gang’s intention was to elevate the pursuit of social justice in both a literal and a poetic sense, by creating a space that evokes harmony and the convergence of ideas in a physical way."
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Source: Azure magazine
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