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Eastside Recreation Center 
Craig Borum and Ply has been working with Jen Maigret and Maria Arquero of MAde Studio and a group of Graduate students from UM on conceptual designs for a...
public-space, Progress, News 
MOCAD: Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead 
Ply is overseeing the construction of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead. The project is a full-sized replica of the 1950’s ranch house that Kelley grew up in....
public-space, Progress,  
The Elert House [Crane Residence] featured in Concentrate Media 
http://www.concentratemedia.com/features/midcenturymodernhomes0207.aspx Modern Yet Historic, Vintage Yet Sustainable Denise McGeen | Wednesday, August 22,...
news, publications 
Le Moniteur Architecture 
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in the April 2011 issue of Le Moniteur Architecture. Le Moniteur Architecture AMC no 205 April 2011
Publications 
Wagner Farms 
An addition to a 1940's farmhouse, extends the living space on the upper floor while providing a bedroom suite at the lower ground level opening on to the...
residential, projects 
Outside In House 
The ultimate version of the weekend house was precipitated by yet another shift in parameters imposed by the client. Economic constraints were tightened...
residential, projects 
59th Annual P/A Awards 
Architect Magazine has awarded the Outside In House with a P/A Award Citation. You can follow this link to their webpage: Architect Magazine
news, awards 
Elert House (Crane Residence)  
The challenge in restoring of Dean Robert Metcalf’s 1953 Crane Residence is striking the balance between maintaining the original design aesthetic which...
residential, project 
Central Glass Competition 
Ply was awarded a Merit Prize in the 46th Annual Central Glass International Architectural Competition,...
news, awards 
2011 R+D Award 
The Storm Glass Research wins a 2011 R+D Award from Architect Magazine. Also featured in the awards program is University of Michigan colleague, Vivian Lee's...
news, publications 
101 W Liberty St Loft 
This project for a two-story apartment in a converted racket club in downtown Ann Arbor reconfigures and redistributes the spatial arrangements of the apartment...
residential, projects 
Ayaka Sushi 
Ayaka Sushi makes a strong use of color in an attempt to pull people off the sidewalk and into the space. Depending on the perspective, the amount of color...
restaurants, projects, commercial 
Case Study House, Cleveland 
residential, projects 
Saica Japanese Restaurant 
This project developed as a synthesis of dual research agendas – articulation of a furniture / field relationships and investigations into fabrication...
restaurants, projects, commercial 
Storm Glass 
Storm Glass, a nineteenth century weather-predicting instrument, is a sealed glass container with a mixture of distilled water and chemicals, which predicts...
research 
Storm Glass House 
A second version of the weekend house was precipitated by a substantial increase in programmatic scope of the house, including a second bedroom and a separate...
residential, projects 
Parkridge House 
This project redefines the internal organization and exterior form of an existing 1960’s single story ranch house. The project for a new master bedroom suite...
residential, projects 
Orchid House 
The commission of a weekend house in Three Oaks, Michigan was the first opportunity to explore the storm glass wall system at the full spatial and architectural...
residential, projects 
Photostudio 
In 2003 a photographer shot the Horton Kuwada Residence for a magazine advertisement. He liked the project so much that he decided to work with us to develop...
residential, projects 
American Architecture Awards 
The Storm Glass House wins American Architecture Award The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and the Eurpoean Center for Architecture Art...
news, awards 
Park House / Ply Studio 
The Park House addresses generic and specific aspects of residential construction. The site specifics are the adjacency of a city park on the North and a...
residential, projects 
Instability: Young Architects 8 
Instability: Young Architects 8 Princeton Architectural Press from the book jacket: Instability is the eighth book in an annual series of publications,...
news, publications 
Horton Kuwada House 
Thomas Jefferson’s Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 created the regulations for surveying and land acquisition for the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains....
residential, projects 
Damdi  
Various PLY projects are published by DAMDI in Advanced Interior Design and Advanced Public Design. Damdi - Advanced Interior Design (includes firm profile,...
publications 
Terumo Heart 
This project for a new office wing of a newly renovated clean room research and manufacturing facility attempts to provide interconnected relationships between...
office, projects, commercial 
eat! Best of Restaurant Design 
Omi Sushi is published in eat! Best of Restaurant Design. Eat! Best of Restaurant Design
publications 
PLY Lights + Surfaces 
The paper luminaries investigate the translucent qualities of paper by exploiting its ability to transmit light and cast shadows. Constructed from laser-cut...
products, research, projects 
Big Ten Burrito II 
Experiments for the second BTB interior also emerge from a series of questions about the relationship between the craft of making and new technologies of...
restaurants, projects, commercial 
Architectural Diagrams 
Architectural Diagrams Multiple projects by PLY Architecture have been included in the 2011 DOM Publishers book Construction Design Manual – Architectural...
news, publications 
Big Ten Burrito 
Experiments for the Big Ten Burrito interior emerge from a series of questions about the relationship between the craft of making and new technologies of...
restaurants, projects, commercial 
Robbins Elementary 
The Assembly Required proposal responds to an expansive attitude toward education and community where the potential of each emerges from its relationship to the...
school, projects, public 
Young Americans 
Various projects are published in Young Americans: New Architecture in the USA. Engelhorn, Beate (ed.)Young Americans: New Architecture in the USA. 1st....
publications 
Woodside Drive Addition 
The exterior cladding for the residence uses pre-manufactured fiber reinforced concrete planks to unify the exterior form of the addition and capture exterior...
residential, projects 
Mies van der Rohe Plaza 
This project is an installation to honor Mies van der Rohe, and was the winning entry for a two-stage competition to revitalize the central area of the...
public space, projects 
1000x Architecture of the Americas 
The Park House is published in 1000x Architecture of the Americas. 1000x Architecture of the Americas
publications 
Omi Sushi 
The design of Omi grew from a desire to make a very clear, bold, and graphic statement with the space that would function as a place and as an identity. The...
restaurants, projects, commercial 
Urban Spaces Squares & Plazas 
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in Urban Spaces Squares & Plazas. Kottas, Dimitris. Urban Spaces: Squares & Plazas. 1st. Barcelona: Links, 2007. (pp. 144 -...
publications 
Futurewood 
Various PLY projects are published are published in Futurewood. Future Wood, Innovation in Building Design + Manufacturing - Ed. Neumann & Beesley
publications 
Azure 
Big Ten Burrito 2 is published in the May 2006 issue of Azure “Material World: Ecological Pavers.” Azure July/August 2006: 106.
publications 
Trouble in Paradise 
The Tea House for Robots is published in Trouble in Paradise.
publications 
Joy Road House 
We approached the interior from both the inside out and the outside in. The three existing living rooms (kitchen, dining and living) were opened and combined...
residential, projects 
Landscape Architecture Environment Design 
PLY is published in Landscape Architecture Environment Design volume 33.
publications 
Advanced Interior Design 
Various PLY projects are published in Advanced Interior Design.
publications 
Competitions 
The Robbins School Elementary School Competition is published in the Winter 2006/2007 issue of Competition. Maas, Anna Martin. “Integrating the New with the...
publications 
Quito 
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in the 2006 issue of XVBAQ. Lozada, Diego Salazar (ed). Visible Cities. 1st. Quito: Trama, 2006. [78 - 81]
publications 
Contract 
Various Ply projects are published in the July 2006 issue of Contract. Milshtein, Amy. “Fresh Approach.” Contract July 2006: 40 - 41, 58 - 63.
publications 
Lunch 
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in Lunch volume 4.
publications 
Azure 
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in the July/August 2006 issue of Azure. Cameron, Leah. “It’s a Wrap.” Azure May 2006: 38.
publications 
a+t 
In 2005, Mies Van Der Rohe Plaza is published in A+T In Common II Collective Spaces Velazquez, Alicia. “Mies van der Rohe Plaza.” A+T In Common II -...
publications 
Architectural Record 
Big Ten Burrito 1 and Big Ten Burrito 2 are published in the November 2005 issue of Architectural Record. Joch, Alan, and Snoonian, P.E., Deborah. “Design...
publications 
Architecture Magazine 
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in the September 2005 Architecture. Klara, Robert. “Order in the Court.” Architecture Magazine September 2005: 70.
publications 
Canadian Architect 
Big Ten Burrito is published in the May 2005 issue of Canadian Architect Taggart, Jim. “Cutting Edge.” Canadian Architect May 2005: 26 - 30.
publications 
Robustness 
In 2004, Karl Daubmann is interviewed by Olv Klijn in and published in Robustness. Klijn, Olv. “A Joint Practice: Interview with Karl Daubmann.” Concrete...
publications 
Wood Design & Building 
Big Ten Burrito wins 2004 Wood Design Honor Award, is published in the Autumn 2004 issue of Wood Design & Building and the Wood Design Honor Award...
publications 
l'architecture d'aujourd'hui 
In 2004, Case Study House is published in l'architecture d'aujourd'hui Place, Jean-Michel (ed). “Case Study House, Cleveland.” L’architecture...
publications 
International Design Magazine 
Plywood Shades were published in the The International Design Magazine's 50th Annual Design Review. Codrington, Andrea. “Environments.” ID, the...
publications 
Ottagono 
Horton Kuwada House is published in the February 2004 of Ottagono. “L’Oriente in Campagna,” Ottagono, February 2004
publications 
Oz Journal 
Case Study House is published in Oz Journal volume 25 2003. Benfer, Matthew, Amelia Nelson, and Mike Stofiel. “Case Study House.” OZ: Kansas State Journal of...
publications 
House: Case Study Cleveland 
PLY's Cleveland Case Study House Competition entry is published by SPACES Channing, Susan R. (ed.) House: Case Study Cleveland. Exhibition Catalog 1. Cleveland:...
publications 
Architecture for Education 
PLY is included in Chicago Public Schools Competition's publication Sharp, Robert V. (ed). Architecture for Education: New School Designs from the Chicago...
publications 
Metropolis 
Cleveland Case Study House is published in the December 2002 issue of Metropolis Sokol, David. “Casing the Joint.” Metropolis October 2002: 46 - 47.
publications 
Architectural Record 
PLY's Cleveland Case Study House Competition is published in Architectural Record Lerner, Kevin. “Ply Architecture: Four’s Company.” Architectural Record...
publications 
Architecture Boston 
PLY is published in Architecture Boton's 2001 Year in Review In 2001, PLY's project for the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a competition sponserd by the church...
publications 
Thresholds 
PLY published in Thresholds 20 In 2000, PLY's project for the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a competition sponserd by the church commnity, is publish in the...
publications 
All American 
Building Design Workshop has several projects published in All American: Innovation in American Architecture.
publications 
Competitions 
Chicago Public Schools Competition entry is included in Cornell School of Architecture's Competitions publication PLY's finalist project for Chicago Public...
publications 
Residential Architect 
Big Ten Burrito is published in the April 2005 issue of Residential Architect. Drueding, Meghan. “In Salsa Veritas.” Residential Architect April 2005: 96 -...
publications