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Since the 19th century, the Catskill Mountains have offered a serene and scenic reprieve for the increasingly urbanized northeastern seaboard of the United States. Thomas Cole enshrined the landscape into the American conscious by painting its grand sylvan panoramas, inspiring a generation of artists known as the Hudson River School. The Piaule Landscape Retreat project, submitted by Garrison Architects, was designed to immerse visitors into that same natural setting while emphasizing the pristine beauty of the region.

The hotel is comprised of 24 individual cabins scattered among the trees on a secluded hill that overlooks the Catskill Escarpment. Each cabin is oriented to a large operable window wall that opens up to the outdoors to give bedrooms the feel of a screened porch. These windows are designed to present visitors with the sensory atmosphere of outdoor camping from the comfort of an indoor cabin.

The cabins are clustered in groups, some are linked by a flexible living room to create 2-bedroom suites. The wood structures were factory-fabricated in Quebec, transported, and craned into their locations to minimize on-site disturbance, preserving local habitats and ecosystems.

The Main House is a communal space that can be utilized as a library, dining room, and contains a lounge, fireplace, and bar. The dining room accommodates 80 guests. Hidden below the green terrace is a full featured spa, fitness room, and a deck area with a pool.

The landscape retreat encourages visitors to explore beyond the hotel grounds, which are traversed on foot with nature trails that loop in and out of the surrounding woods and wetlands. The landscape hotel is designed to foster interaction among visitors in communal spaces, while allowing them to relax at the spa and retreat to private cabins, providing a getaway amidst the Catskill Mountains.

TQL Stadium serves as the home to soccer club FC Cincinnati and a canvas to express the team and city’s evolving identity on a global stage. Nestled between two of Cincinnati Ohio’s most notable neighborhoods — the historic West End and the Over-The-Rhine district — TQL Stadium, submitted by Populous, enhances connectivity between FC Cincinnati, the city and the overall community.

The venue is oriented to welcome avid MLS supporters and boasts an expansive eastern plaza that dramatically connects the urban environment to the excitement within. The exterior design draws direct inspiration from the kinetic energy of the club’s fan base. More than 500 formed aluminum elements wrap the exterior — each lined with a one of-a-kind linear LED video fixture that — boldly displaying state-of-the-art dynamic digital content.

The formed aluminum façade defies stasis, shaped in such a way that creates a singular twisting motion across the expanse of the stadium with the overall form, signifying the tension between two teams about to take the pitch. When viewed straighton, narrow openings provide soccer fans a glimpse inside to build anticipation for the experience to come.

A grand plaza staircase welcomes fans to it all, an entry sequence like no other in the MLS. At dusk, the exterior skin comes alive. By implementing a one-of-a-kind LED lighting system, a brilliant and colorful video display results which showcases the club brand, atmospheric graphics and match day messaging.

Once inside, 360-degree multitiered seating bowl and a roof canopy overhead direct the energy of the spectators to the field of play.

From its urban site location to its unifying design elements, TQL Stadium serves as a connecting fabric within Cincinnati strengthening societal connections at every scale.

COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL LARGE PROJECTS, GREATER THAN 5,000 SF

Tql Stadium

CINCINNATI, OHIO

SUBMITTED BY: POPULOUS