The previous two conferences tapped directly into national and local cultural shifts as they directly relate to justice architecture. This year, the conference theme arced high with best practices, enabling broad input from our continuously evolving specialty, emphasizing the critical areas and...
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The session will focus on how courthouses in three distinct cities, Savannah GA, Washington DC and Boston MA are meeting judicial needs while influencing and responding to their current urban context and history. The presenters will consider the challenges faced by established and new justice...
CT-04.pdf
The Thunder Bay Courthouse is a unique and interesting courthouse project which is under construction for the Ministry of Attorney General in the Province of Ontario, Canada. This culturally significant courthouse is proceeding through the Infrastructure Ontario Design Build Finance and Maintain...
Planning and designing the new Palace of Justice in Kuwait. At three million square feet, the project is arguably the largest courthouse facility in the world with over 150 courtrooms and an unusually complicated program. It is being planned and designed by Perkins Eastman Architects in concert...
This session analyzes courtroom configurations: corner bench, center bench and re-centered bench. This includes case studies of recently completed courtrooms that represent the latest thinking in courtroom design. The Pros and Cons of each layout are discussed as well as challenges that are...
CT-01-Designing for the Contemporary Courtroom26.pdf
In 2005 the City of Bellville commissioned a Master Plan that outlined the reintegration of the former industrial lands on the west side of the Moira River into the downtown urban fabric. The Quinte Courthouse will be the first major development in this new and revitalized “courthouse district”....
CT-07.pdf
In its short history, Judicial Council of California-AOC has achieved a portfolio of 59 courthouse projects (56 trial courts and 3 appellate courts) including 9 completed projects, 8 projects under-construction or pending construction this year, 13 projects in design and 29 projects in site...
CT-08 Planning for and Designing New Courthouses11.pdf
This presentation examines the challenges, complexities, and lessons learned in creating a new federal courthouse as part of the GSA ’s Design Excellence Program. Using the new 400,000 square foot Federal Courthouse in Jackson, Mississippi as the case study, representatives from the project team...
CT-07 - Rethinking Civic Architecture in Mississipi1.pdf
As the landlord of the largest inventory of civic buildings, the GSA plays a significant role in how we cope with the aging of our American courthouses. The AOC in California is founded on similar principals. How do both agencies evaluate existing courthouse inventories and decide to reinvest in...
CT-05 Commitment to the Aging American Courthouse21.pdf
New courthouses in Europe base their formal strategies on partis conceptually distinct from those widely used for new courts in the US and Canada. Based on observations gained on a recent tour sponsored by the Court of the Future network the insights gained suggests more critical and nuanced...
CT-03 New European Courthouses Critique, Irony, Theatrics (poetics)21.pdf