EOP Competing in AIA East Kentucky DESIGN SLAM!

Where can you go to support Habitat for Humanity, have a local micro brew, and watch Lexington architects battle it out? Design Slam!

Sponsored by the AIA East Kentucky Chapter + Fayette Alliance, Design Slam will pit five teams from local architecture firms against each other as they design a building for downtown Lexington...in one hour.

Each team is connected to a projector and projection screen which will display the progress of their work from start to finish. The audience will vote for their favorites, while Griffen Van Meter of Kentucky for Kentucky will MC.

Admission if free but there is a $5 requested donation. All proceeds will benefit Habitat for Humanity. Starting at 6:00pm, the event will be held on Saturday, June 1st at West Sixth Brewery in Lexington. For more information, contact info@aia-ekc.org.

EOP Featured in AEC Cafe

AEC Cafe features the EOP-designed Southland Christian Church.

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EOP Featured in ArchDaily

The EOP-designed Southland Christian Church is featured in ArchDaily, a premier forum showcasing the world's best architecture with 45 million pageviews a month.

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AIA Kentucky Honors EOP with Citation Award

 

At its November regional conference, the AIA Kentucky presented the 2012 Honor Awards for Excellence in Architectural Design.  EOP was awarded a Citation for Excellence in Architectural Design for Urban Active at Polaris in Columbus, Ohio. 

“The Jury was very impressed with the interior spatial development, which suggested an exciting and enriching community environment.  The spatial and volumetric development inside enhances this sense of community, perhaps doing what trainers aspire to:  make exercise interesting.  It seems like a great place to see and be seen – would make me want to work out more.”

Click here to read more about the AIA Kentucky Honor Awards. 

For more information on EOP’s design for Urban Active at Polaris, click here.



EOP's Upcycling Initiative Featured in Business Lexington

LEXINGTON, Ky., November 8, 2012 — EOP Architects, an award-winning architecture and interior design firm based in Lexington, is transforming its old drawings and scrap paper into sketch pads for students in the Fayette County Public Schools. With production help from Lynn Imaging, EOP has produced 150 sketch pads in this ongoing initiative.

“Each sketch pad has been created using only materials we had on hand,” states Paul Ochenkoski, AIA, an EOP principal. “We always recycle our paper, but we knew there had to be another use for it. We always look for ways to make a positive impact in the community and that’s when we hit on upcycling the paper into student sketch pads.”

Each pad has approximately 100 sheets of paper that is blank on one side. But on the other side, there are pieces of architectural drawings, color renderings, hand sketches, floor plans and even old code manuals.

“This innovative gesture from EOP will go a long way towards helping our Graphic Design and Drafting students understand the real-world applications to what they are learning in class,” remarks Tresine T. Logsdon, Energy & Sustainability Curriculum Coordinator for Fayette County Public Schools.  “Teachers will be delighted to incorporate these sketch pads into their classroom instruction and familiarize their students with authentic work of architecture and similar career pathways.”

Click here to read the feature in Business Lexington.

EOP to Design New Clinic for HealthFirst

After searching all over Lexington for months for a building to renovate, HealthFirst Bluegrass announced Wednesday the planned demolition of a 29,000-square-foot building at 496 Southland Drive and an 11,000-square-foot adjacent building. An $11.7 million federal grant initially pegged for renovation will be used for constructing a new clinic.

Rick Ekhoff, AIA, LEED AP, will lead the design of the new clinic.  "As a medical facility, especially one that will serve a good number of children, the building will have to feel inviting, not threatening."

Read the Herald-Leader article here.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/10/24/2383571/renovation-is-out-construction.html#storylink=cpy

EOP Architects to Participate in International PARK(ing) Day Friday, Sept 21

LEXINGTON, Ky., September 20, 2012—EOP Architects is transforming a downtown Lexington curbside parking space into a miniature park on Friday, September 21st from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in recognition of international PARK(ing) Day. The movement, which began in 2005, challenges people to rethink the use of urban space since the vast majority is dedicated to the private vehicle, while only a fraction of that land is allocated to open space for people. This will be the first year Lexington has participated , joining nearly 200 cities around the world.

In urban centers, inexpensive curbside parking results in increased traffic, wasted fuel and more pollution. A metered parking spot is an inexpensive short-term lease for a plot of precious urban real estate. There is a range of possibilities for creativity in a space usually dedicated to the storage of a private vehicle.

There will be more than a dozen mini-parks around downtown Lexington on Friday. Stop by EOP’s park on West Short Street across from Shakespeare & Co. and find out how we re-envision urban space.

For more information on PARK(ing) Day, visit www.parkingday.org.