A cold front may have moved to Kansas City this weekend, but our hearts have been warmed by an outpouring of eldo love in the press.
Locally, The Kansas City Star devoted a front page article to our Habitat for Humanity prototype house. Last week we unveiled an early schematic design for the home at our Kansas City office, in partnership with Heartland Habitat for Humanity.
Over on the eastern cyber-seaboard, The Atlantic Cities featured el dorado prominently on their website. (more...)
We received some exciting news Wednesday from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. President Obama just announced a $749 million grant to fund housing for low-income seniors and persons with disabilities. reStart Inc., a Kansas City organization dedicated to providing shelter and supportive services to combat homelessness, was awarded one of the grants.
We’ve teamed with reStart and a stellar team of partners to design a fifteen unit housing complex for this purpose in midtown Kansas City. (more...)
The AIA Kansas City Design Excellence Awards were held last Friday, and el dorado was clapped at four times under the Uptown Theater’s starry ceiling. In case you were curious, this painted sky is the defining feature of an “atmospheric theater” a type of movie palace popular in the 1920s. (The Orpheum in Wichita was the first in the U.S.) Adding to the atmosphere of the atmospheric theater was a masked surf-rock band called Sun Dog, as well as the usual spirits and libations. (more...)
Theaster Gates is an artist, cultural planner and catalyst among artists, institutions and audiences. His work engages issues of race, class and place through performance, urban interventions, micro-development and sculpture. He’ll speak this Friday, November 11th at the Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium in Lawrence, the final installment of KU’s School of Architecture, Design & Planning Fall Lecture Series. The lecture is at 11:30. It's free and open to the public. (more...)
There's something about the city of Wichita that makes people want to sing. The phenomenon started in '68, when Glen Campbell topped the country charts with Wichita Lineman and probably peaked somewhere around 2004, when the White Stripes namedropped the city in their smash-hit Seven Nation Army. You know the one I'm talking about. It had a bass riff that got lodged in your head and, just when you thought you had it out, you heard it again - at the mall, at the Wal-Mart, at the Grammy's. The song was ubiquitous. Was it any coincidence that "I'm going to Wichita" was the best line? While it's a well-known fact that all of us here at el dorado are above average singers, Wichita doesn't really make us want to sing. It makes us want to design buildings. (more...)
November 21, 2011