Golden Hammer Awards this Thursday, November 1!

Historic Richmond and Storefront for Community Design are excited to partner again to host the 2018 Golden Hammer Awards honoring architectural preservation and neighborhood revitalization in the greater Richmond area.

Join us THIS THURSDAY from 6pm to 8pm at Monumental Church (1224 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia) as we recognize professionals working in neighborhood revitalization, blight reduction, and historic preservation in the Richmond region!

With over 30 nominations submitted, specialty cocktails by Belle Isle Moonshine you wont want to miss this event! Purchase your tickets today!

Free parking: Virginia Department of Transportation Parking Lot located at 1401 E. Broad Street

Golden Hammer Awards 2018

Historic Richmond + Storefront for Community Design will co-host the Golden Hammer
Awards for the second year on Thursday, November 1, 2018 at the historic Monumental Church. Call for submissions will close September 15.

Historic Richmond Executive Director Cyane Crump said, “As Richmond-area nonprofits with interests in historic preservation and neighborhood revitalization, we are delighted to co-present the awards to recognize professionals working in neighborhood revitalization, blight reduction and historic preservation in the Richmond region.” Projects completed after January 1, 2017 located in the greater Richmond area (City of Richmond, Counties of Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico) will be considered for the categories of: Best Restoration, Best Adaptive Reuse, Best New Construction, Best Placemaking and a new category Best Residential focusing on single-family projects.

“With over 45 submissions last year, we are excited to see which projects in the area will be nominated,” said Ryan Rinn, Executive Director of Storefront for Community Design. “Teamwork and partnerships have always been critical to preservation and placemaking in Richmond and we look forward to another year of high quality submissions.”

We are open for submissions and the portal will close September 15, 2018 at midnight. Applications for the 2018 Golden Hammer Awards can be submitted through Historic Richmond's website.

6PIC turns 1!

6PIC's one year anniversary is June 6th! Come say Happy Birthday!
Join us on Wednesday, June 6th 5:30-8:00 for food, dancing, door prizes and 6PIC updates!

Can't meet us? There are still ways to support 6PIC and youth empowerment in Highland Park. Storefront for Community Design is celebrating 6PIC’s 1-year birthday by working to secure many more years of youth empowerment and community ownership in Highland Park.  
 
Join our 100x100 Challenge this June to raise funds for 6PIC’s operating costs (think: power, water, Internet + the amazing people that keep it running seamlessly every day).

It’s easy: be one of 100 people to give $100* to Storefront, so we can keep the 6PIC goodness flowing for years to come.
 
www.6picrva.org/donate/


*Any amount is much appreciated—we just like round numbers.  

6PIC Spring!

The Six Points Innovation Center's Spring programming has begun. Programming this semester includes Empowerment Hour, Green Team with GroundworkRVA, Lyrics and Beats, ArtStories, Multimedia Street Art, Blackademic in Residence, Design classes, Jobs for Life classes, and Higher Education Preparation and Assistance classes. There will also be various workshops and topics classes for teens in Highland Park who want to engage in arts, environment, advocacy, education & history. Six Points is also proud to launch the program, City Builders, which empowers youth to activism and understanding racism in city policy.

Learn more about 6PIC here and check out the spring calendar here.

Golden Hammer Awards !

Are you interested in learning more about the nominations for the Golden Hammer Awards this year? Now that the application is closed, we are taking inventory of the amazing range of projects that were nominated for the Golden Hammer Awards. Stay tuned this month as we reveal more about the event. 

If you didn't get the chance to nominate a project, please make it out to the two big events on November 2nd.

The Awards Ceremony will be held on November 2nd, 2017 at Monumental Church from 6pm to 8pm. Tickets to the event are $20 and can be purchased via email from our partners at Historic Richmond: info@historicrichmond.com/

Luckily, the night doesn't end there! From 8:15-10, Storefront will be hosting a Golden Hammer Awards After Party bonanza at the Valentine Museum. A $100 ticket's proceeds go straight to Storefront for Community Design and will buy your entry to an evening at the Valentine Museum and Wickham Garden, a dj, an open bar, and a specialty cocktail designed for the event: The Golden Hammered. 

If you would like to support Storefront programming and the Golden Hammer Awards, please purchase a ticket via our Donate page and choose the $100 Golden Hammer After Party Ticket option. You can also buy a ticket over the phone (804.322.9556) or via email (hello@storefrontrichmond.org)

See you on November 2nd!

Six Points Innovation Center Opens

We want to give a huge thank you to everyone who came out to the Grand Opening of the Six Points Innovation Center! This is an exciting time for the Highland Park neighborhood and for all of us, so it was great to share that with so many warm, smiling faces!

Here's just a sampling of what's happening over the summer:

• Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Training

• Empowered for Life Class- 4 Day job readiness program

• Gender Neutral Bathroom Mosaic Curated by I Am My Life

• Green Team Energy Audit -Assessment to create 6PIC sustainability plan

• Changemakers Mural Project

• Urban Agriculture Corps Various Site Projects

• Groundwork RVA/ Bus Rapid Transit - Teaching young people to ride bus rapid transit!

Highland Park Spring Break 2017

On Saturday April 29th, Highland Park residents joined us for the Highland Park Spring Break Event. The event featured 8 different non-profit organizations working within the community. The goal was to engage with community members about how they might envision the growth of their neighborhood, to describe the resources these organizations offered, and most importantly to eat, dance, and perform in the talent show. 

At least 100 people showed up to dance, hear about the Storefront for Community Design, Groundwork RVA, Saving Our Youth, the CPDC, LISC, and Tricycle Gardens. On display in the 6PIC space were plans for architectural plans for local business improvements that community members voted on. The day was unusually hot but that didn't stop the talent show from continuing!

mObjOb8 Round-Up

mObjOb8 ended on Friday with an exhibition, a bridge, and a poster from each of the six teams. The Middle of Broad students (mObians) each suited up for the evening after a long night of model-making. Solutions across the interstate included a hill and vaulted ceiling, housing to replace the housing demolished by the infrastructure, and an amphitheater complete with a goldfish.

mOb on Monument

Courtesy of middleofbroad.tumblr.com.

Every semester, Storefront's community design apprentices at mOb respond to a prompt from faculty and a guest critic. These weeklong investigations, called mObjObs, are intensive, speculative, and often provocative design exercises. This year, mOb invited guest critic Burt Pinnock — a Storefront co-founder, Baskervill principal, and architect. Students adopted a fictitious design competition format as an entry point into the national debate about what to do with confederate heritage. Proposals for the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue included:

Turn it upside down.
Replace it with Maggie Walker.
Cover it with kudzu.
Envelop it with smoke.
Auction it off.
Pixelate it.
Pepper it with #blacklivesmatter signs.
Put a tutu on it.
Or just leave it.

During First Friday November, mObjOb 6 concluded with Richmond's very first public forum to unpack contemporary views on confederate heritage. A panel discussion titled, "General Demotion? General Devotion?" was moderated by the Valentine's Bill Martin, and guests included architectural historian Calder Loth, Richmond Times Dispatch columnist Michael Paul Williams, and VCU Art Education professor Dr. Melanie Buffington.

Proposals are on view for the month of November at our studio space at 205 East Broad Street. Stream or download the discussion below.

From left: Buffington, Williams, Loth, and Martin.

Discuss "Richmond as a Work of Art" with leaders in Arts & Design

A panel discussion on the exhibit Richmond as a Work of Art will be held on Saturday, October 24th at the VCUarts Depot (2:30 – 4:00pm) featuring a selection of Richmond’s cultural figures: Edwin Slipek, Bill Martin, Ed Trask, Burt Pinnock as well as Dimitra Tsachrelia (Steven Holl Architects, New York). 

Richmond as a Work of Art studies the founding conditions of a historic city to distill the modern consequences and to project a future civic vision. Archival research and original drawings of the city’s architectural form, infrastructural systems, and array of park spaces demonstrate the layering of history, the transformation of urban elements and their radical formal and programmatic reinvention.

The exhibition is currently on view at the intersection of East Broad and North Second Street in the windows of 201, 122 & 124 East Broad with an additional presentation in the gallery of The Storefront for Community Design. It first premiered in May of 2015 at Main Branch of The Richmond Public Library to the following review:

“Richmond as a Work of Art,”... offers a refreshingly different and highly enlightening lens through which to view infrastructural RVA. In a series of graphically simple, but elegantly designed wall scrolls that contain drawings, architectural plans and powerful photographs, curator Emma Fuller and photographer/draftsman Michael Overby offer up a highly contemporary architectural aesthetic that may challenge what places and spaces many folks consider worthy of consideration...

Edwin Slipek, Style Weekly, May 26 2015

The new iteration of the exhibition looks outwards from the storefront windows, with lighting during the evening hours to create a glowing installation across the intersection. The fabrication and current showing was made possible by support from CultureWorks, and the project draws on historic primary resources from local institutions including The Virginia State Library, The Virginia Historical Society, The Valentine Museum and The Richmond Public Library.

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PANELISTS

CRITIC: Edwin Slipek, Style Weekly
Edwin Slipek is a generator of architectural discourse in Richmond as the critic for Style Weekly, a professor of architectural history at VCU, and through his presence as a cultural figure in the city. He has designed theatrical sets, hosted exhibitions, documented Richmond through extensively published writings, and most recently co-founding the website ArchitectureRichmond. For his writing and teaching he has been awarded honorary membership in the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects.

DIRECTOR: Bill Martin, The Valentine
William J. Martin is the Director of The Valentine Museum. As an institutional leader he has transformed the museum’s identity and promoted the idea of an actively engaged archival resource. He works collaboratively with the city and local groups to publicize the rich history of Richmond and holds positions on several civic councils.

ARTIST: Ed Trask
Ed Trask is known for his murals internationally and has a main body of work in the Richmond Downtown area. His paintings have been included in the permanent collections of Gap, G.E., Capital One, Fortune Magazine, NBC, Philip Morris, Media General, Mars and Play, and his work is currently on view at the Glavekocen Gallery.

ARCHITECT: Dimitra Tsachrelia, Project Architect Steven Holl ICA Building
Dimitra Tsachrelia is an Associate with Steven Holl Architects and is the project architect of the Institute for Contemporary Art. As well as practising professionally, Dimitra also teaches a masters design studio at Columbia University with Steven Holl. She received her Diploma in Architecture from the Patras University School of Architecture, Greece and a M.Arch from Columbia University GSAPP.

ARCHITECT Burt Pinnock, Baskervill
Burt Pinnock is a Principal at Baskervill where he is the lead designer of the Black History Museum, a transformation of The Leigh Street Armory, as well as the Slavery and Freedom Heritage Sites. Previously he was a founding member of the award winning practice BAM Architects. He is a recipient of the Virginia Society AIA’s award for Distinguished Achievement.

Closing remarks by Tyler King
Tyler King is the Program Director of the Storefront for Community Design. He received a Bachelors degree in Urban Studies from VCU and attended Bauhaus Universitat’s Institute for European Urbanism. He serves as the President-Elect of Design VA at the Branch Museum for Architecture & Design and volunteers at ROSMY. 

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EXHIBITION DESIGNERS

Emma Fuller
Emma Fuller is a native of Richmond VA who moved to New York to receive her Bachelors from The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. She currently teaches at Pratt Institute, is an Associate with Diane Lewis Architect, and pursues independent research projects. Her writing has appeared most recently in The Richmond Times Dispatch and Style Weekly, as well as an essay and recent drawings in the Cooper Union’s Open City published by Charta Milano. She is a guest contributing writer to the website ArchitectureRichmond and her first article will be published this fall. Emma has participated in symposia at both The Architectural League and the NY AIA Center for Architecture. Her work focuses on city plans and the development of architectural projects from historic research, existing plan relationships and the position of significant structures in the urban fabric.

Michael Overby
Michael Overby is a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Architecture and was a finalist for the 2014-15 Rome Prize in Architecture. He is currently an Associate at RUR Architecture in NYC. His work addresses the latent subject matter embedded in architectural drawings and models, pursued through a variety of works including his most recent projects Little Monuments, Painted Fortresses, Broken Blocks, and In the Heather, a collaborative publication with a poet. He has been a teaching assistant in design studios and seminars at Princeton University, Columbia GSAPP, Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, and the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.