Turkel Design
editPartners: Joel Turkel, Meelena Oleksiuk Turkel, Jake Wright
Founded: 2008
Location: Somerville, Massachusetts
Turkel Design is an architectural design firm that specializes in modern custom homes using panelized prefabrication. They provide residential architecture services to homeowners in any location by designing and manufacturing a building component package, which is shipped to the building site and assembled by a specialized crew or a local contractor.
History
editTurkel Design was founded in 2008 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Joel Turkel and Meelena Oleksiuk Turkel,[1] graduates of the Master of Architecture program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] In 2009 Jake Wright, a graduate of the Master of Architecture program at the State University of New York Buffalo, joined the practice as a third partner.[3]
In 2009 Time Magazine named Turkel Design among its Green Building 100 list.[4] In 2014 the practice partnered with Dwell magazine to introduce the Axiom Series of prefab home designs, as part of the Dwell Homes Collection, which range from 1,850 to 3,250 square feet and can be modified according to the client’s specifications.[5]
In 2023 the firm opened a design studio at CALA (Community Art Landscape Architecture), a mixed-use development housed in a former high school in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Notable Works
editThe firm is responsible for more than 200 home designs in 34 U.S. states and 7 countries.
Notable works include:
Lake Muskoka Boathouse in Port Carling, Ontario, received an Honor prize at the Canadian Wood Council’s Wood Design and Building Awards 2022-2023,[6] and an Honorable Mention from the Architect Magazine Residential Design Awards 2023.[7]
Mulmur Hills Farm in East Mulmur, Ontario, Canada was named House of the Month in the December 2022 edition of Architectural Record.[8] It was an ArchDaily.com Building of the Year nominee for 2024.[9]
Desert House in Palm Springs, California, is a single-level post-and-beam modern home that Joel and Meelena Turkel designed for their family in Palm Springs, California. It was a Featured Home at Palm Springs Modernism Week in 2019.[10]
In 2013, Howe Sound House, on Gambier Island, off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, received three Best in American Living awards from the National Association of Home Builders; two awards and one finalist mention from the BC Georgie Awards; and two Ovation awards and two finalist mentions from the Homebuilders Association Vancouver.[11]
Modern Cottage in Hillsdale, New York, was the 2012 recipient of the National Association of Home Builders’ Best Green Built Home Award.[12]
External Links
edit- ^ "About". Turkel Design. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
- ^ "USModernist Archives". usmodernist.org. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
- ^ "LinkedIn".
- ^ Kroll, Betsy (April 29, 2009). "The Green Design". Time. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Walker, Connor (December 4, 2014). "Dwell Partners with Turkel Design for Modern Prefab House Series". ArchDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Smith, Brooke (January 2024). Celebrating Excellence in Wood Architecture: 2022-23 Wood Design Award Winners (in eng). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Wood Council. pp. 18–21. ISBN 978-1-989039-11-3.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Rao, Anjulie (December 6, 2023). "Lake Muskoka Boathouse: Turkel Design". Architect Magazine. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Mulmur Hills Farm". ArchDaily. March 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Moonan, Wendy (December 2022). "Turkel Design creates a family getaway at Mulmur Hills Farm in Ontario". Architectural Record. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Dawson, Kelly (November/December 2019). "This Palm Springs Prefab Is a "Living Lab" for its Designer Residents". Dwell. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Custom Homes". Home Builders Association West Virginia. November 13, 2017. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Turkel Design's "Modern Cottage" awarded highest honor by NAHB Building Systems Council". August 12, 2016. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
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