Hard Hat Tour of the Soon-to-Open Four Seasons Hotel

Thursday October 13th, 11:00am and 12:00pm, Cost $25 Members Only

Don your hard hat and join us as we get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Baltimore’s newest hotel, The Four Seasons.

Designed by the architecture team of BH&C (Beatty, Harvey & Coco) of New York and Baltimore and Hill Glazier Architects of Palo Alto, California, featuring floor to ceiling glass curtain walls that allow the harbor views to permeate the interior. The interior design by Brayton & Hughes Design Studio, San Francisco uses dark american walnut, marble, and glass throughout and is highlighted by purchased and commissioned pieces by Washington Color School and other contemporary artists.

In addition to getting a look at some of the luxuriously appointed suites and rooms, we’ll peek at the soon to open restaurants led by famed restaurateur Michael Mina and take in the exceptional views of our harbor. We’ll also visit the 10,000 square foot spa and the two pools including a year-round heated pool with an infinity edge that virtually spills into the harbor and a wide sunny terrace.

Due to the construction, this tour is limited to 5 people for each session.
Please RSVP to Tracey at baf@baltimorearchitecture.org and indicate which time you prefer: 11:00am or 12:00pm.

Hard hat will be provided. Parking is available in the garage under the Four Seasons.

Cost: $25 (Members Only)
RSVP: baf@baltimorearchitecture.org

Location
200 International Drive
Baltimore, MD 21202

Thursday, May 26, 2011 :: 6:30 PM

Tom Holdsworth Photography

City Arts Apartments
440 East Oliver Street
Baltimore, MD 21202

The event is free to members, wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. This will be a chance to mingle with fellow members and meet our newest board members. Additionally, we will be bestowing our annual Golden Griffin and Roger D. Redden Awards. The organization’s annual awards for achievement in the field of architecture will be presented to Jubilee Baltimore and Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson.

The event will take place in Station North at the City Arts Apartments Gallery Space. Baltimore Architecture Foundation members, friends and family of both honorees are invited to attend.

CONTACT:

Tracey Clark
Phone (410) 539-7772
Email baf@baltimorearchitecture.org

GROUNDHOG DAY 2011

Saturday, February 5th, 2011 :: 7:30 PM – late

The Maryland Club
1 East Eager Street
Baltimore, MD 21202

INFO

Please join the Baltimore Architecture Foundation for our annual Groundhog Day Fundraiser. After roughing it for many years in some of Baltimore’s best industrial spaces we had such a positive response from everyone who enjoyed the fireplaces, heated rooms, comfortable chairs, and working bathrooms of The Maryland Club, we’ll be going back again this year! The Swingin’ Swamis, plentiful food and drink, carnival games, and auction items will once again be offered amongst the architectural finery of the Club’s parlors.

The Club was designed by the prominent Baltimore firm of Baldwin and Pennington in the Romanesque Revival style in 1891. The Maryland Club features Beaver Dam marble on the exterior while the interiors are a rich interplay of oak, marble, ornate plaster, and faux finishes characteristic of high Victorian tastes of the time. The building today, after it’s 1995 fire, has been restored to its original grandeur and is an architectural time capsule of 19th century Baltimore.

Parking is on site in the Maryland Club lot. Guests can access the lot on the 900 block of N. Charles Street. There is a gatehouse just past Kumari on the right side of the street. Click here for a map showing parking lot and entrance.

Join us for Baltimore’s best Groundhog Day Party!

Tickets may be purchased at the door on the evening of the Party or via Paypal (beginning January 1st).

THEME

Light and Shadow

black/white cocktail attire is encouraged

COST

$50 :: Members
$60 :: Non-Members

CONTACT & RSVP

groundhog@baltimorearchitecture.org or leave a voicemail at 410-539-7772

A sampling of Groundhog Days Past

Tour of First and Franklin Presbyterian Church and Rectory

December 5th, 2010 :: 2:00pm

First & Franklin Presbyterian Church
210 West Madison Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Map|Directions

Please join us on December 5th for a FREE tour led by The Honorable James F. Schneider, long time First and Franklin Street parishioner and Baltimore historian. We’ll take a look at the recently completed interior restoration, and tour the adjacent Rectory building.

Designed in the Gothic Revival style by Norris G. Starkweather, of Philadelphia, the cost of construction was $150,000 in 1859 with an additional $33,000 for the steeple in 1874.

First and Franklin Presbyterian Church is Baltimore’s oldest Presbyterian congregation, dating to 1761. First Presbyterian evolved from it first simple log building, to a magnificent neoclassical style church known as the “Two Steeple Church” at Fayette and Guilford, completed in 1795, to its current High Gothic style church in what was then the “center of fashion”, where many church members lived. Ground for the current building was broken 1854, and the church was dedicated in 1859.

This tour is FREE to members of The BAF.

Brown Bag Luncheon with David W. Barton, Jr.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 :: Noon – 1:00 PM

The Baltimore Architecture Foundation
@ the offices of SMG Architects
1016 Morton Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Map | Directions

2010 Free Fall Forum
Tom McGilloway, ASLA : Downtown Baltimore Open Space Masterplan

Friday October 29, 2010 at Noon

This Friday, the Baltimore Architecture Foundation concludes its Free Friday Forum Series with a discussion led by Tom McGilloway, ASLA of Mahan Rykiel, the firm selected to direct the Downtown Baltimore Open Space Master Plan.  The goal of the design is to create a plan that incorporates the preservation and enhancement of existing parks and open spaces and recommends creating new opportunities that together establish a viable open space network for its downtown area. Come hear Tom McGilloway’s impressions of the process so far and what to expect from the plan.

The Baltimore Architecture Foundation’s free noontime Forum is being held in a new location and on a new day this Fall.  The Forum events are held in the Poe Room of the Enoch Pratt Library’s Central Branch (on the 2nd floor across the hall from the Fine Arts department). Bring a lunch.

Enoch Pratt Free Library Central Branch :: Poe Room, 2nd Floor
400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Map|Directions

2010 Free Fall Forum
Janet Felsten : Baltimore Green Map

Friday October 22, 2010 at Noon

Janet Felsten, Founder and Director of the Baltimore Green Map, which uses mapping as a tool to document, promote and advocate for a sustainable city. Through outreach activities, the project encourages the discovery, use and stewardship of the Baltimore region’s natural, cultural and green living resources for city residents and visitors alike. The maps reflect the cumulative power of many small actions toward building a healthy urban environment for the benefit of all.

The Baltimore Architecture Foundation’s free noontime Forum is being held in a new location and on a new day this Fall. The Forum events are held in the Poe Room of the Enoch Pratt Library’s Central Branch (on the 2nd floor across the hall from the Fine Arts department). Bring a lunch.

Enoch Pratt Free Library Central Branch :: Poe Room, 2nd Floor
400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Map|Directions

Remaining Schedule of Forum Series

2010 Free Fall Forum
Peter Doo, AIA, LEED AP : Baltimore’s Green Building Requirements

Friday October 15, 2010 at Noon

Peter Doo, AIA, LEED AP, founding partner of Doo Consulting will discuss the newly adopted Baltimore Green Building Standards which went into effect in September.  The BCGBS is one of the nation’s first and most comprehensive standards for sustainability.

The Baltimore Architecture Foundation’s free noontime Forum is being held in a new location and on a new day this Fall.  The Forum events are held in the Poe Room of the Enoch Pratt Library’s Central Branch (on the 2nd floor across the hall from the Fine Arts department). Bring a lunch.

Enoch Pratt Free Library Central Branch :: Poe Room, 2nd Floor
400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Map|Directions

Remaining Schedule of Forum Series

This is a reminder that the 2010 Robert E. Lewis Memorial Lecture will be delivered this Thursday evening at 6:30 PM by Philip G. Freelon, FAIA on the campus of Morgan State University. The event is free and open to the public and promises to be an interesting discussion of the work of Mr. Freelon and his colleagues, as well as delving into current trends in museum design. We hope to see you there.

The (FREE!) 2010 Robert E. Lewis Memorial Lecture
Philip Freelon, FAIA

Thursday October 14th, 2010 :: 6:30 PM

Student Center Theater, Morgan State University
1700 East Cold Spring Lane
Baltimore, MD 21251

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Philip Freelon, FAIA is Principal of the Freelon Group, and part of the group (Freelon Bond Adjaye) selected to design the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The Robert E. Lewis Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the Baltimore Architecture Foundation through a gift from the family of architect Robert E. Lewis. This Free Fall Baltimore program is funded in part by a grant from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts.

More information about the 2010 Lewis Lecture can be found here.