CultureNOW | A Celebration of Culture & Community

June Edmunds discusses the process behind how she won a proposal to do a mosaic for the Long Beach MTA. She designed a Venetian glass project with mosaicist Monica Scharf  that celebrates the different cultures of the area. She also explains the process and people influential in the project's completion.

The artist talks about creating the mural featuring people in her local community.

The artist June Edmonds recounts the narrative as told to her by storyteller Michael D. McCarty that was the inspiration for her piece, which is named after an African proverb.

One of the first Venetian Glass mosaics that June Edmonds worked on was with the Inglewood Cultural Arts to produce a mural.  She talks about working with the disadvantaged youth, how the mural was made and then finally installed a decade later in the Library.

Andrea Leers discusses the design elements behind the Library Services Building at Harvard. Even though the building is not open to the public, the glass walls allow the public to view into the workings of the library.

Andrea Leers discusses the design behind the Harvard University Library Services Building's architecture.

Architect Jane Weinzapfel discusses the MBTA Operations Control Center. 

Jane Weinzapfel talks about the Paul S. Russell Museum of Medical History's building. The museum is free and open to the public, so the design of the building needed to be welcoming.

Miriam Kelly, Restoration Architect with Beyer Blinder Belle talks about the restoration process involved in the design of Met Breuer. Marcel Breuer's iconic 1966 building –originally designed for the Whitney Museum –has been restored and transformed into a new home for The Metropolitan Museum of Art's modern and contemporary art program.  Breuer was at the height of his career when he designed what was his first museum and was the recognized master of using what he called “close to Earth materials,” particularly stone and concrete. The building is bold and intimate at the same time, with an integrity, beauty, and honesty of design, materials, and execution that places it among the most distinguished mid-century modern buildings in New York. 

As the fastest growing, privately owned Media Company in the country, Horizon Media’s growth is reflected in the on-going development of their workplace. A+I first designed parts of three floors at 75 Varick for Horizon Media, with the goal of fostering connectivity between the newly co-located staff. After the recent completion of the fourth —the build-out of the full 15th and 16th floors—A+I is now working on the fifth expansion, adding 125,000SF across the 11th and 12th floors. The offices at Horizon Media have inspired an impressive change in their culture, and has become an engine for transformation of workplace behavior. The design promotes new and different modes of collaboration with enough variety to increase the volume of time spent collaborating. Employees are afforded the luxury of flexible, elastic work spaces which benefit from the light, airy quality of the space. The workplace manifests Horizon’s commitment to the wellbeing of their team and to fostering collaboration between them.