Thursday, December 29th, 2011
Dwell sat down with Craig Dykers to talk about Snøhetta’s design process for the expansion of SFMOMA. On the relationship of the new wing to the museum’s iconic Mario Botta-designed home, he explained that “I think the best way to say it is that we’re working with a dancing partner, and you have to be sure not to step on your partner’s feet.” And back in New York, Patricia Lancaster spoke to the Observer about the recently-announced plans for modular towers (pictured at left, and designed by Gregg Pasquarelli) to rise at Atlantic Yards, stating that “I think prefab is the wave of the future, and I think it will come to New York. The only question is when, and how much power the unions have to do something about it.”
Tags: Architecture, atlantic yards, brooklyn, Craig Dykers, Dwell, Gregg Pasquarelli, mario botta, modular, museums, New York City, New York Observer, Patricia Lancaster, prefab, quotes, San Francisco, sfmoma, SHoP Architects, Snohetta
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
The first Breakfast Club of the new year will take place on January 25th at Buro Happold’s offices at 100 Broadway from 8:30-10:00 AM. Board Member Toni Griffin will be presenting her research on shrinking cities, and we’re very much looking forward to a productive and thought-provoking discussion. You’ll need to be registered in order to get into the building, so please make sure to RSVP if you know that you’re planning to attend.
Tags: Breakfast Club, Buro Happold, shrinking cities, Toni Griffin
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
The AIA’s New York chapter, led by Rick Bell, has just put out the call for entries for the 2012 AIANY Design Awards (deadline: 2/3/12); Francis Cauffman, led by James Crispino, has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing A/E/C industry firms on ZweigWhite’s annual Hot Firms List; Patron Steven Holl was named as the winner of the prestigious 2012 AIA Gold Medal; SOM’s Chicago Office, where Philip Enquist is the Partner in Charge of Urban Design and Planning, received AIA Chicago’s Firm of the Year award; Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin included the opening of Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago (pictured at left) in his round-up of the best architecture of 2011; Board Member Enrique Norten will serve as a juror for this year’s Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, which will focus on Cape Town, South Africa (deadline: 2/24/12); AmericasMart founder John Portman will receive a special honor, the “Legend for Life” award, in recognition of his five decades of entrepreneurship and service to the home decor industry; Board Member Saskia Sassen made Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for her “passionate advocacy of an urban-based society”; and the undergraduate program at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture, led by Frederick Steiner, was ranked second in the nation by DesignIntelligence.
Tags: A/E/C, advocacy, AIA Design Awards, AIA Gold Medal, AIANY, AmericasMart, Architecture, Austin, awards, Blair Kamin, Cape Town, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, DesignIntelligence, Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, Enrique Norten, Firm of the Year, Foreign Policy, Francis Cauffman, Frederick Steiner, Helmut Jahn, Hot Firms List, James Crispino, john portman, Legend for Life, Manuseto Library, Philip Enquist, rankings, Rick Bell, Saskia Sassen, SOM Chicago, Steven Holl, Top 100 Global Thinkers, University of Chicago, University of Texas at Austin, Urban Design, UT School of Architecture, ZweigWhite
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Monday, December 19th, 2011
Curbed included Board Member Winka Dubbeldam’s 597 Greenwich Street on their list of Innovative Residences You Need to Know Right Now; Mayor Dave Bing announced the re-launch of the Detroit Works program, with Board Member Toni Griffin heading up the development of a long-range development plan for the troubled Rust Belt city; Mary Margaret Jones (whose Olympic Park in London, pictured at left, was just completed) has been selected to design a new public entertainment waterfront attraction in Corpus Christi, Texas; Bill Kelley is leading the charge to add more sidewalk cafe space to Greenwich Village’s West 8th Street; good news came for two skyscrapers designed by Daniel Libeskind: the developers of his Zlota 44 building in Warsaw secured financing to complete construction, while his Eden Center in Jerusalem received official approval to move forward; Anne Locke spoke to WestfairOnline about the recent boom in medical facilities construction; “The Mobius,” Michael Manfredi’s entry to the Portal to the Point ideas competition in Pittsburgh, was featured on ArchDaily; Moshe Safdie released renderings for a massive $3.1 billion, six-tower, 10 million-square-foot mixed-use complex planned for Chongqing, China; a course designed by NJIT’s Darius Sollohub in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity was featured in a round-up of innovative and unconventional college courses around New Jersey; and Robert A.M. Stern was interviewed about his skyscraping One Horizon Center project in Gurgaon, India.
Tags: 597 Greenwich Street, Anne Locke, ArchDaily, China, Chongqing, construction, Corpus Christi, Curbed, daniel libeskind, Darius Sollohub, Detroit, Detroit Works, Eden Center, Greenwich Village, Gurgaon, Habitat for Humanity, India, Jerusalem, landscape urbanism, london, Mary Margaret Jones, Mayor Bing, medical facilities, megaprojects, Michael Manfredi, mixed-use, moshe safdie, NJIT, Olympic Park, One Horizon Center, Pittsburgh, Point State Park, Portal to the Point, residential, retail, robert a.m. stern, rust belt, shrinking cities, skyscraper, streetscape, Texas, The Mobius, Toni Griffin, urban planning, Warsaw, waterfront, Weiss/Manfredi, West 8th Street, William Kelley, Winka Dubbeldam, Zlota 44
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Friday, December 16th, 2011
If you’re looking for some ideas for what to give to design-minded friends, family, or colleagues, we’d recommend browsing through the list of our Fellows’ publications over the past year: Tom Angotti’s New York For Sale came out in paperback; Andy Bernheimer and Board Member Claire Weisz both had projects included in Michael Crosbie’s New York Dozen; Jim Dart and Deborah Gans‘ work in New Orleans was featured in Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity; Founder Ann Ferebee released a new edition of A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, updated to include recent years; critic Justin Davidson included Alexander Gorlin’s Tomorrow’s Houses on his round-up of the most Notable Design Books of 2011; Ken Greenberg’s Walking Home was published to great acclaim; Jamie Hand, Olympia Kazi, and Kate Orff co-edited Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park, which features work by Barbara Wilks; Horizontal Skyscraper, Patron Steven Holl’s latest publication, is just hitting bookstore shelves now; Board Member Thom Mayne rolled out a new manifesto called Combinatory Urbanism: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form; Board President Michael Sorkin’s most recent collection of essays, All Over the Map, has been building buzz; and Frederick Steiner released Design for a Vulnerable Planet this past spring.
Tags: A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, Alexander Gorlin, All Over the Map, Andrew Bernheimer, Ann Ferebee, Barbara Wilks, Beyond Shelter, books, Claire Weisz, Combinatory Urbanism, Deborah Gans, Design for a Vulnerable Planet, Designers & Books, Frederick Steiner, Gateway Visions for an Urban National Park, horizontal skyscraper, James Dart, Jamie Hand, Justin Davidson, Kate Orff, Ken Greenberg, Michael Crosbie, Michael Sorkin, New Orleans, New York Dozen, New York For Sale, Olympia Kazi, Steven Holl, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, Tomorrow's Houses, Walking Home
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Today (12/15), Ken Greenberg will be in Edmonton (pictured at left) to speak about urban design at the Downtown X-posed symposium; Lance Jay Brown will introduce, and Rick Bell & Board President Michael Sorkin will speak at, the Center for Architecture’s Freedom of Assembly panel on 12/17; Michael Arad will go gastronomical to serve as a juror for Edible Brooklyn’s 3rd Annual Latke Festival on 12/19; and the work of Robert A.M. Stern and Patrons Steven Holl and Denise Scott Brown is on view at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture through 2/18/12.
Tags: Architecture, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, brooklyn, Center for Architecture, China, Denise Scott Brown, Downtown X-posed, Edible Brooklyn, Edmonton, Freedom of Assembly, Hong Kong, Ken Greenberg, Lance Jay Brown, Latke Festival, michael arad, Michael Sorkin, New York City, Rick Bell, robert a.m. stern, Shenzhen, Steven Holl, symposium, Urbanism
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Speaking to the New York Observer about the AIA’s growing role in New York City politics, Rick Bell noted that “It used to be we were more reactive, waiting for the forum to air our views, and by then it was usually too late. Now we want to be there for the start of the discussion, or even initiating the discussion ourselves.” Chris Hardwicke explained the 220-page report that he just completed on downtown Saskatoon as an innovative effort to gather hard data on day-to-day use of the city by its citizens: “It’s an atlas of public life. It’s unique to study people spending time in space…I think most people assume planning is for people, but because you don’t measure it, you can’t actually plan for it.” At the Zoning the City symposium earlier this month, Robert A.M. Stern responded to Mary Ann Tighe’s lament about Asia’s nascent preeminence in the great skyscraper race (and the related falling-behind of New York’s “romantic” skyline) with a cutting quip: “Let’s be real. There’s a lot of crap out there. I’m happy to come home.” (Video of all of the panels from that event, by the way, are now available online).
Tags: AIANY, Architecture, Asia, atlas, Chris Hardwicke, crap, data, downtown, manhattan, Mary Ann Tighe, New York City, New York Observer, politics, public space, quotes, Rick Bell, robert a.m. stern, romantic, Saskatoon, skyline, skyscraper, urban planning, video, Zoning the City
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
Deadlines are fast approaching for two competitions involving Fellows: there are still two and a half weeks to enter the Waller Creek design competition in Austin, managed by Donald Stastny (Deadline: 12/16/11), and Michael Arad will head up the jury for a competition to design an AIDS Memorial Park in Manhattan (Deadline: 1/21/12). Gregory J. Haley and Andrew Whalley are on one of the six teams selected as finalists in the competition to revamp Los Angeles’ Union Station, while Thomas Balsley’s Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa (pictured at left) was named one of the best new urban parks in America by The Atlantic CITIES. Meanwhile, Moshe Safdie is in a competition of a different sort: his iconic Habitat 67 is currently in the lead in a public online poll to see which building will be the next reproduced in Lego’s architecture series. There’s still time to cast votes for your favorites…
Tags: AIDS Memorial Park, Andrew Whalley, Austin, design competition, Donald Stastny, Gregory J. Haley, Grimshaw Architects, Habitat 67, Hixon Waterfront Park, landscape architecture, Legos, Los Angeles, manhattan, michael arad, moshe safdie, New York City, Tampa, The Atlantic CITIES, Thomas Balsley, Union Station, Waller Creek, waterfront
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
It’s the holiday season, and we’ve got the perfect gift for students, employees, friends, family–anyone in your life who’s interested in urban design: By the City / For the City: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York. The Institute’s most recent publication made Planetizen’s yearly list of the Top 10 books on urban planning, design, and development (along with Ken Greenberg’s Walking Home and Board President Michael Sorkin’s All Over the Map). Copies can be purchased online right here
Tags: All Over the Map, atlas of possibility for the future of new york, By the City For the City, holidays, Ken Greenberg, Michael Sorkin, Planetizen, Top 10, Walking Home
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