The Linked Hybrid located in Beijing China was designed by Steven Hall and has an area of 220000 square meters. Linked Hybrid has won several awards such as the Best Tall Building Overall Award by the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. It was built from 2003 to 2009 and it has over 2500 inhabitants. It contains 750 apartments, commercial areas, parking, hotel, cinema, and educational facilities including a kindergarten and Montessori school. Linked Hybrid is recognized for its environmental design. Its ground source heat pump system shoulders 70% of the complex’s yearly heating and cooling load. The system consists of 655 geothermal wells, 100 meters below the basement foundation. 

In 2007, Steven Hall finished the Bloch addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2007, Time magazine ranked the museum’s new Bloch Building number one on its list of “The 10 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvels” and it considers places from all over the world. Steven Hall won the international competition for the design and his plan was to build five glass pavilions to the east of the original building which they call lenses. The lenses top a 165,000-square-foot underground building known as the Bloch Building. The addition cost around $95 million. The design for the new addition utilizes sustainable building concepts such as green roofs to achieve high insulation and control stormwater. Also, the double-glass cavities of the lenses gather sun-heated air in winter or exhaust it in summer. Hall built this addition in a way to not upstage or block the existing build.

The Hunters Point Library was proposed 15 years before it was finally finished being built. Steven Hall won the competition for the design, but it is believed it took so long to build because the city gives the contract to build the design to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidder often times has problems finishing builds and they are still given projects. The library is 22,000 square feet and was finished it 2019. It is a public library located off the river in Queens New York and is also a public park. It as an aluminum-painted concrete shell its windows pull in natural light. The inside is made of bamboo which creates a warm atmosphere. There is a ground level auditorium and a terrace on the roof which creates amazing views of the city. The inside of the library is very open and flows which makes for the most energy efficient design and the greatest amount of public green space.

Steven Hall entered into a competition to make renovations for the Kennedy Center. He won the REACH competition and completed it in 2019. The entire cost ended up totaling $175 million and added 72,000 square feet in addition to rehearsal rooms, event spaces, and classrooms. Hall decided to make most of his additions underground as a way to not upstage the work of the previous architect. His additions were elegant and paid tribute to the 35th president. He made a memorial garden with 35 gingko trees. There are inspirational quotes emblazoned all over the complex from JFK and there is even a skylight pavilion that is half-buried.

Dale Hall gives me conflicting feelings. First off, when I think of Dale Hall, I just think of the front building on the south oval and not Dale Tower. There is something simplistic but nice about the building. I had the majority of my classes at Dale Hall both my freshman and sophomore year. I also have ROTC classes in Dale Hall every semester since freshman year. And finally, I have had and run all my skydiving club meetings in Dale Hall. During the day, I think of Dale Hall as super busy and congested with traffic. During the evening, I think of it as peaceful with clubs having meetings. When I think or look at Dale Hall, I get a mix of anxiety (from ROTC and classes with exams) and comfort (because of knowing the building very well and it is a familiar sight). I have probably spent most of my time at Dale Hall during my time at OU so it definitely has more sentimental value than other buildings. I also have a lot of fantastic memories at Dale Hall like running my club meetings which add to the sentimental value.

This is my house back in Maryland. I moved a lot growing up so we were constantly moving houses, but this one is the last one we moved to. We moved into this one my junior year in high school so I only lived there for about two years before I moved off for college. Although I only lived there for less than two years, there is still a sense of home when I come back during breaks. I feel security and comfort when I look at this house, especially when I have not been home for months. I got homesick only one time during college and that was during the fall of freshman year. It was around two months into the semester and this was the house I thought of when I thought of home. The architecture is pretty straight forward and nothing special about it. But it is how it makes me feel which is the important part. It is home.

This is the house/apartment I have lived in since sophomore year of college so it is now my third year living in it. I thought it was a very interesting design and kind of reminded me of small beach houses. All the buildings are similar but they all have different colored siding just like at the beach. What I thought was really interesting is all the houses are backwards in the complex. The houses face each other with a sidewalk in-between the rows. All of the parking is at the back of the houses which means you are always at the back and enter through the back door. However, the front of the house is very appealing and I love the front porch and the balcony. The house gives me a comforting feeling because I know it is home and it is what I am familiar with. Even though there are exact same models of my home, I don’t feel the same way when I enter other peoples houses. I have grown accustom to the smell and decorations of my house. I have a very weird feeling when I think about having to move out at the end of the school year.