Patron Steven Holl and Fellows Phil Enquist and Michael Manfredi each took home a 2011 AIA Institute Honor Award. Holl and Manfredi won in the Architecture category, for the Horizontal Skyscraper Vanke Center and the Barnard College Diana Center, respectively; Enquist’s Beijing CBD East Expansion master plan (pictured at left) was honored in Urban Design. Congratulations to all three men!
The Times Square Alliance has selected Light Hearted (pictured at left) as the winner of its third annual Valentine Design Competition. This clever interactive sculpture is the work of Freecell, a design studio co-founded by Fellow John Hartmann, who recently returned to New York from a month-long fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. Light Hearted will be on view in Duffy Square from February 10-20. Pre-registration is currently open for people who would like to “hold the heart.” Sign up today!
The Wall Street Journal spoke to Richard Dattner about his design for a new salt shed in Manhattan’s Hudson Square neighborhood (pictured at left); Board Member Winka Dubbeldam has been quite popular at New York magazine lately — the publication featured a slideshow of her design for singer John Legend’s new Bowery apartment, as well as a fascinating debate between Winka, Fellows Gregg Pasquarelli and Robert A.M. Stern, and several other NYC luminaries on the city’s greatest building; the New York Times looked at Phil Enquist’s master plan for the redevelopment of a massive former US Steel complex on Chicago’s South Shore; Vince Ferrandino was interviewed by WestfairOnline as part of a special report on civic leadership; Architectural Record announced that Daniel Libeskind will design a mixed-use complex on the mainland side of a bridge connecting Sicily to the Italian peninsula; David Manfredi presented his firm’s plans for Kendall Square at a community meeting in Cambridge; Architect took a look at Moshe Safdie’s Marina Bay Sands complex; and Curbed featured a sizable set of images of Claire Weisz’s recently-unveiled plans for Manhattan’s Astor Place/Cooper Square area.
Fellow Beverly Willis was honored as a co-founder of the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, with the first-ever Chair’s Medal during the museum’s 30th anniversary gala; Beverly’s “My Story” video was also used recently in celebration of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s 100th Anniversary.
Jack Nyman will moderate the panel Cities as Accelerators of Sustainable Development at Baruch College on 1/19; Olympia Kazi will moderate the panel Plywood, Concrete, Paint 2! at New York’s Center for Architecture on 1/20; Jim Venturi, son of Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, will screen his new documentary Bob and Denise at the Las Vegas Market on 1/25; Gregg Pasquarelli will present SHoP’s recent work (pictured at left) at an Architectural League lecture on 1/26; Peter Walker will present conceptual landscape plans for the Point Wells development in Snohomish, WA, on 1/27; and Craig Dykers and Claire Weisz will take part in the discussion Reimagining Times Square Through Design on 1/27.
Daniel Libeskind’s Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre in Bern, Switzerland, has been named as the winner of the 2010 Prime Property Award. The building, which contains 1.5 million square feet of shops, restaurants, and entertainment areas (including a giant water park!) was praised by the jury for the holistic quality of its design.
Fellow Matthias Sauerbruch’s firm Sauerbruch Hutton has been selected as the winner of the International Honour Award of the Castilla y Leon Sustainable Construction Awards for 2010 for its outstanding work in promoting sustainable construction methods.
Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture, led by Alan Balfour, recently completed the $9.5 million renovation of their new home, the Hinman Research Building, in Atlanta; Thomas Balsley and Shane Coen will both serve on the jury for ASLA’s 2011 Student Awards; Construction of the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s BNYC 92 facility, designed by Matthew Berman, is in full swing, and the building will open in November 2011; Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta has been shortlisted in the competition to design the Victoria & Albert’s Exhibition Road expansion; Newport’s lavish Bellevue Avenue has been enlivened by a series of Heritage Trail-esque markers by Ronald Lee Fleming’s Townscape Institute; Chad Floyd recently penned a paean to energy efficiency at Jetson Green; Anthony Flint joined the debate about a “new kind of Modernism” at ArchitectureBoston; The NY Observer interviewed Daniel Libeskind about his continued involvement in the reconstruction process at the World Trade Center; Jonathan Schrag spoke to Risk.net about the future of carbon trading in the US; and Henry M. White will design a new network of public spaces at a planned neighborhood in Chandigarh, India (pictured at left).
Fellow Theo David’s design for the GSP Athletes Estia was honored as a distinguished project in the 2010 Architecture State Awards in Cyprus, the ceremony for which took place in the presence of the President Christofias.
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