<b>Please describe a recent project of your choice.</b> I was excited to show the Writers Theatre here today at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin. Located in Glencoe, an old little village in Illinois, the former small theatre used to operate out of the back of a bookstore. They had no identity and they found that the people wanted to gather after the show for more conversations. We kept the character of a very intimate theatre, but then we made this incredible space where people can come together. We are really loving watching how it's being used in all kind of interesting ways. For me, one of the things that is most important about architecture is making place for people to meet each other and to build relationships with the architecture. I’m seeing that unfolding in the Writers Theatre. <b>Could you tell us about the materials that have been used?</b> We decided to use materials that are very warm, like wood. We used the wood structurally, plaster as a material and… continue
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