Monday, April 30th, 2012
Please join us tomorrow, May 1, 2012, 6-8pm at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York to celebrate the launch of the new J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City.
There will be a brief program at 6:30pm including remarks from Chancellor of CCNY Matthew Goldstein, President of CCNY Lisa S. Coico, and Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture George Ranalli. Meet the Director of the new J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, Professor and Institute Board Member Toni L. Griffin and find out about the Center’s mission and programs.
This event is free and open to the public.
141 Convent Avenue @ 135th Street New York NY 10031
Tags: Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, City College of New York, George Ranalli, J. Max Bond Center, Lisa S. Coico, Matthew Goldstein, Spitzer School of Architecture, Toni Griffin
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
In an Observer article about New York City’s Economic Development Corporation, Tom Angotti commented, “They pass for being a government agency, and in fact they have more power than many of the line agencies under the mayor.” In speaking about his Seaside, FL development (pictured at left), Robert Davis speculated that the future “push for new urbanism will be in cities on urban renewal land and in the suburbs where former shopping centers will be redeveloped.” Ken Greenberg wrote about the need for new urban manners in Planetizen, asserting “the real measures of successful urbanity may be in the demonstrations of mutual respect while living at close quarters, the degree to which we are comfortable with each other…and the accumulation of small acts of kindness.” On the importance of aesthetics in architecture, Michael Stepner said “I use a quote from Garrison Keillor. He said the response to, ‘Why should we build something so nice?’ is, ‘It’s to lift our hearts and to inspire us.’”
Tags: aesthetics, EDC, Florida, Garrison Keillor, Ken Greenberg, Michael Stepner, new urbanism, New York Observer, NYC Economic Development Corporation, Planetizen, Robert Davis, Seaside, Tom Angotti, urban manners
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Last week, it was announced that Deborah Berke will expand the Rockefeller Arts Center at SUNY Fredonia and design a new 21c Museum Hotel in Lexington, KY; Matt Blesso opened a luxury, eco-conscious hotel in Panama City; a new lab and office building designed by David Manfredi’s firm in Kendall Square celebrated its topping off; Linda Pollak’s firm designed the new Dutch Kills Green park at Queens Plaza (pictured at left), officially opened by Mayor Bloomberg on 4/4; a new Robert A.M. Stern building for Webster University opened in St. Louis; Peter Walker will develop the landscape for UT Dallas‘ Campus Enhancement Plan; a student center at Duke University will be designed by Andrew Whalley’s Grimshaw Architects; Barbara Wilks has been selected to renovate the Troy Riverfront Park on the Hudson in Troy, NY.
Tags: 21c Museum Hotel, Andrew Whalley, Barabara Wilks, Blesso Properties, Cambridge, Campus Enhancement Plan, Dallas, David Manfredi, Deborah Berke, Deborah Berke & Partners Architects, Duke University, Dutch Kills Green, Elkus Manfredi, Grimshaw Architects, Hudson River, Kendall Sqaure, Kentucky, Lexington, Linda Pollak, Marpillero Pollak, Massachusetts, matt blesso, Missouri, New York, Panama City, Peter Walker, Peter Walker and Partners, PWP Landscape Architecture, Queens Plaza, robert a.m. stern, Rockefeller Arts Center, St. Louis, SUNY Fredonia, Texas, Troy, Troy Riverfront Park, UT Dallas, W Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Webster University
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Finalists in the competition to redesign three sites on the National Mall in Washington, DC were announced last week. Among those selected are the firms of Craig Dykers, Michael Manfredi, Robert Rogers, and Peter Walker (a design for Constitution Gardens by Rogers Marvel Architects & Peter Walker and Partners is pictured above). The competition was overseen by the Trust for the National Mall and Don Stastny.
Tags: Craig Dykers, Don Stastny, Michael Manfredi, National Mall, Peter Walker, Peter Walker Partners, PWP Landscape Architecture, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Snohetta, Trust for the National Mall, washington dc, Weiss/Manfredi
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
The latest issue of Architect magazine includes a feature on Sara Caples’ modernization of the Queens Theatre in Flushing, NY (pictured at left); New York’s “Taxi of Tomorrow” was unveiled two weeks ago, a project on which Susan Chin’s Design Trust for Public Space collaborated extensively over the past seven years; Ken Fisher interviewed New York State Assemblyman Keith Wright of Harlem for the latest installment of his CityWide talk show; as Fenway Park turns 100, Anthony Flint writes about historic preservation in The Atlantic Cities; in an op-ed in the Toronto Star, Ken Greenberg contemplates the future of the city’s waterfront; work by Mary Miss is included in the new book, The New Earthwork: Art, Action, Agency; the Observer profiles Board Member Claire Weisz‘s renovation of the Drawing Center; Andrew Whalley’s Grimshaw Architects have been chosen as finalists to design a new medical school at SUNY Buffalo.
Tags: Andrew Whalley, Anthony Flint, Architect Magazine, Assemblyman Keith Wright, Caples Jefferson, CityWide, Claire Weisz, Design Trust for Public Space, Drawing Center, Fenway Park, Grimshaw Architects, Ken Fisher, Ken Greenberg, mary miss, Queens Theatre, Sara Caples, SUNY Buffalo, Susan Chin, Taxi of Tomorrow, The Atlantic CITIES, The New Earthwork, The New York Observer, Toronto, Toronto Star
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
On Wednesday, Richard Sennett will speak at the Sam Fox School in St. Louis; the next day, on 4/19, Trevor Boddy will be at the Museum of Vancouver to discuss recent development projects in the city, while Elisabetta Terragni will be at Van Alen Books to talk about her contribution to Re-Cycle: Strategies for Architecture, City, and Planet; on 4/22, the “Civic Action” exhibit (pictured at left) featuring work by Mary Miss closes at the Noguchi Museum; on 4/27, Rosemary Wakeman hosts a lunch at Lincoln Center to discuss the state of the East River; the same day, the RPA will hold their Regional Assembly, a project for which Jeff Ferzoco has been hard at work; on 4/28, Craig Dykers gives the keynote address at the Banff Session 2012; an exhibit of the 23 best buildings in Germany at the DAM Frankfurt includes work by Matthias Sauerbruch’s firm and closes on 4/29; finally, please mark your calendars for the evening of 5/1, as Board Member Toni Griffin launches the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City at the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College.
Tags: and Planet, Banff Session, city, City College of New York, Civic Action, Craig Dykers, DAM Frankfurt, East River, Elisabetta Terragni, J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, Jeff Ferzoco, Lincoln Center, mary miss, Matthias Sauerbruch, Museum of Vancouver, Noguchi Museum, Re-Cycle: Strategies for Architecture, Regional Assembly, Richard Sennett, Rosemary Wakeman, RPA, Sam Fox School, Sauerbruch Hutton, Snohetta, Spitzer School of Architecture, St. Louis, Toni Griffin, Trevor Boddy, Van Alen Books
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
Revisiting Death and Life (pictured at left) in last week’s City Builder
Book Club, David Dixon discussed how today’s approach to urban poverty “offer[s] a sort of post-Jane Jacobs “laissez faire” approach to unslumming.” In an Atlantic Cities article, Anthony Flint declared that “my confidence in mankind’s ability to plan for growth was restored” by MCNY’s “The Greatest Grid” exhibit. In conversation with Architectural Record, Deborah Gans spoke of the architectural profession as “still split between form-givers and the social pundits–a false dialectic.” She explained, “After overreaching our limits as modernist social planners, architects now struggled to renegotiate our discipline as one of both form and participation.”
Tags: Anthony Flint, Architectural Record, Atlantic Cities, City Builder Book Club, David Dixon, Death and Life of Great American Cities, Deborah Gans, Goody Clancy, Jane Jacobs, MCNY, The Greatest Grid, unslumming
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
This week, the Open Space Alliance of Northern Brooklyn’s OSA Presents announces winning proposals for the construction of a temporary concert venue and recreation area, decided by a jury that includes Winka Dubbeldam; Enrique Norten headed a panel that determined the winners of the Global Holcim Awards last week (Gold award winner pictured at left – secondary school in Burkina Faso); Michael Sorkin will be one of the judges for the new Design Writing and Commentary category of the Core77 Design Awards.
Tags: Burkina Faso, Core77, Core77 Design Awards, Design Writing and Commentary, Enrique Norten, Global Holcim Awards, Michael Sorkin, Open Space Alliance of Northern Brooklyn, OSA Presents, Winka Dubbeldam
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
The past few weeks have seen four new Fellows join our ranks: Naseem Alizadeh, founder of the Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism; Casey Jones (pictured at left), who serves as Director of Design Excellence at both the U.S. General Services Administration and the US Department of State’s Overseas Buildings Operations; Dennis Pieprz, a principal at Sasaki Associates who leads their international studio; and David van der Leer, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Guggenheim, and co-curator of our own “Spontaneous Interventions” pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Tags: BMW Guggenheim Lab, Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism, Casey Jones, David van der Leer, Dennis Pieprz, Director of Design Excellence, Guggenheim, Naseem Alizadeh, Sasaki Associates, Spontaneous Interventions, US General Services Administration, venice biennale
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
The Dempsey (pictured at left), a sustainable, affordable housing complex in Harlem designed by Richard Dattner’s firm, celebrated its opening; the University of Massachusetts has announced that David Manfredi’s Elkus Manfredi will design a new bioprocessing center for their Dartmouth campus; India saw the opening of its first Park Hyatt hotel, located in Hyderabad and developed by John Portman & Associates; Board Member Claire Weisz and her WXY Architecture + Urban Design have been chosen as lead designers for the East River Blueway, a community-based waterfront planning initiative in Manhattan.
Tags: Affordable Housing, bioprocessing center, Claire Weisz, Dartmouth, Dattner Architects, David Manfredi, East River Blueway, Elkus Manfredi, Harlem, Hyderabad, India, john portman, John Portman & Associates, Massachusetts, New York City, Park Hyatt, Richard Dattner, sustainable, The Dempsey, University of Massachusetts, WXY Architecture
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Board Members-as-Jurors
Thursday, April 12th, 2012Tags: Burkina Faso, Core77, Core77 Design Awards, Design Writing and Commentary, Enrique Norten, Global Holcim Awards, Michael Sorkin, Open Space Alliance of Northern Brooklyn, OSA Presents, Winka Dubbeldam
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