The Horse in Ancient Greek Art
Teaming with Madge Bemiss Architect and Explorers Studio, LoCh Design provided design services to showcase Greek vases, sculpture, and coins from the 8th through the 4th centuries BC. The exhibition opened at the National Sporting Library & Museum in Middleburg, VA and then moved to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Design services were provided for both installations.
Photography: Provided by the VMFA.
Congo Masks: Masterpieces from Central Africa
Teaming with Madge Bemiss Architect and Explorers Studio, LoCh Design provided design services to showcase the rich and varied artistry embodied by ceremonial masks from the Congolese region of Africa. The design used geography to create thematically zoned galleries and was inspired by the spacial organization found in regional fabrics and the masks.
Photography: Provided by the VMFA.
The Museum of the Mississippi Delta, located in Greenwood, Mississippi, was awarded a small grant to improve their existing facility. Housed in a 1950's era office building and situated on busy Route 29, the facility doesn't immediately register as one housing dinosaur bones and a spectacular collection of Native American pottery, as well as contemporary art exhibitions. Madge Bemiss, who guided the highly successful renovation of the Mississippi Museum of Art, was brought on to guide the project. LoCh Design provided a phased masterplan of renovation and the design and documentation of the project's first phase. Local architects Beard + Riser provided construction administration.
Collaborator: Madge Bemiss Architect
The Commonwealth Public Safety Memorial is a commemoration of the Virginians who have died in their service to public safety.
Forever bearing their names, the memorial’s wall of regional white granite stands in the midst of a broad pedestrian thoroughfare adjacent to Virginia’s Capitol Square. The names are dispersed across the vertical stone panels in an orchestrated, yet random pattern – an approach that allows for the integration of additional names over time.
On axis with the thoroughfare, the wall’s gently folding planes create a ripple in the natural flow. As passersby make slight adjustments in their paths, the tactile sensation of subtle redirection signals a place to pause, acknowledge, and reflect. Underfoot, the sense of a special place is reinforced as the brick pavers change to monumentally scaled pavers of locally quarried Virginia Mist granite
Pools of water flowing over rough-cut stone provide a unique and intimate ambient sound.
The memorial's design is a collaboration of LoCh Design's Bill Church, Anne Durkin Design Studio and Gilbane Building Company
