{"id":1284,"date":"2009-08-19T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/1284\/"},"modified":"2010-05-06T11:58:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T15:58:50","slug":"1284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/1284\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum\/Institutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mc-landscape_terrace.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mc-landscape_terrace-424x328.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mc-landscape_terrace-424x328.gif 424w, http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mc-landscape_terrace-296x228.gif 296w, http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mc-landscape_terrace.gif 1294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/site-plan2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/site-plan2-136x136.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/south-w_shade.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2179\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/south-w_shade-136x136.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ment-plan.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ment-plan-136x136.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mc-firstfloor-plan.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2178\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mc-firstfloor-plan-136x136.gif\" alt=\"mc-firstfloor-plan\" width=\"136\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/section-aa.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/section-aa-136x136.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mc-section-cc.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2183\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mc-section-cc-136x136.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>Private Gallery<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> Mettawa, Illinois<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Designed as a gallery and research facility to house an internationally recognized collection of maps and Far Eastern sculpture, the Architect&#8217;s challenges included the tasks of connecting to an existing home, responding to an existing pool and guest house and adhering to a confining set of requirements established by the local zoning authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The program includes a subterranean sculpture gallery with natural lighting through a glass floor above, main map display gallery and research library at the upper level.  The intent is for the building design to express the notion that the collected objects form a rational core of lasting historical record.  And that this record might be protected and shared within the layers of a more contemporary and open sense of plan organization.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"pagenav\" href=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/portfolio\/commercial-projects\">next<\/a><a class=\"pagenav\" href=\"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/1048\/\">previous<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private Gallery Mettawa, Illinois Designed as a gallery and research facility to house an internationally recognized collection of maps and Far Eastern sculpture, the Architect&#8217;s challenges included the tasks of connecting to an existing home, responding to an existing pool and guest house and adhering to a confining set of requirements established by the local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.graterarchitects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}