{"id":3405,"date":"2019-07-15T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2024-04-25T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T13:10:39","slug":"art-in-the-city-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/?p=3405","title":{"rendered":"Art in the City Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes two entities can come together so seamlessly that they create something even better. At Baker Barrios we work to create connections everyday between creativity and functionality, between design and performance and sometimes\u2014art and architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent Baker Barrios project, CitiTower, has united the two in an entirely new way, providing Orlando with a new apartment building that rises above the rest (literally) to create a unique experience for the building\u2019s residents and the citizens of Orlando.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ascending 24 stories into the downtown Orlando skyline, CitiTower merges a modern architectural design with vibrant art pieces from Miami-based artist Israel Guevara. The luxury apartment complex\u2019s design includes an all-white exterior that pops against the blue Florida skies and includes mezzanine floors, wrap-around balconies and panoramic views of Lake Eola Park. The building\u2019s exterior is adorned with 11 60-foot, 3-D art panels designed by Guevara, featuring geometric shapes and bold colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baker Barrios provided architecture and interior design services for the project, and in addition to its sharp design, CitiTower includes over 200,000 square feet of living and retail space. It\u2019s a large project with a striking presence, and with 11 four-story metal art panels adorning the sides of the building, you can\u2019t miss it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Guevara, the panels\u2019 design was inspired by a thank-you card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAbout four years ago, I sent a thank-you card to Marlene Weiss and Albert Socol in Naples, Florida,\u201d shared Guevara.&nbsp;\u201cThe couple had purchased three of my works for their private residence in Naples and I just wanted to thank them for their purchase. Being architects and designers, they loved abstract work with geometric abstractions and colorful lines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weiss and Socol \u2013 the developers of the CitiTower project \u2013 liked the artwork on the card so much that they decided they wanted to incorporate it into the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Top-deck-25-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Top-deck-25-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Top-deck-25-1024x683-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Top-deck-25-1024x683-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMarlene and Albert showed the thank you card to the City of Orlando\u2019s Planning &amp; Building Department and told them that they would like to do the art panels around the building with my designs,\u201d added Guevara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The super-sized versions of Guevara\u2019s work took several months to complete. The design was transformed to include 11 colors (from 36 used in the original work) and then converted into a digital file and sent to a fabricator to construct the panels. The panels then took several more months to install.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Combining art and architecture wasn\u2019t a simple process, according to Guevara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a challenge for me to integrate my artwork with architecture on the CitiTower project,\u201d said Guevara, \u201cThere had to be mutual cooperation between the art and the building\u2019s architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly, there was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the 60-foot art panels remind all those who see them of the harmony that can be found between art and architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Baker Barrios we work to forge connections everyday between creativity and functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"post_tag":[45,50],"article_author":[41],"service_type":[],"coe":[],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thought-leadership","author-baker-barrios"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5789,"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/5789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_tag&post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Farticle_author&post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"service_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fservice_type&post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"coe","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakerbarrios.baba.staging.findsomewinmore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoe&post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}