Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
A study by Tom Angotti and Picture the Homeless revealed that New York City is home to enough vacant lots and buildings to house its entire homeless population–with room to spare; Deborah Berke’s Yale architecture students are designing an urban bourbon distillery in downtown Louisville; Rick Bell was profiled by the Epoch Times; the latest episode of CUNY-TV’s Citywide program features Ken Fisher interviewing Working Families Party leader Camille Rivera; Chadwick Floyd is designing the expansion of Waterford, Connecticut’s Eugene O’Neill Theater Center; MLive.com interviewed Board Member Toni Griffin about the long-term strategic planning initiative she’s leading for the Detroit Works Program; Patron Steven Holl was selected to design the expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Dallas Morning News walked through Board Member Thom Mayne’s almost-complete Perot Museum of Nature & Science with the architect; Board Member Enrique Norten gave a presentation on how sustainable architecture can catalyze community development at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos; Gregg Pasquarelli’s firm has just released its first monograph, SHoP: Out of Practice; Matthias Sauerbruch’s Low2No complex in Helsinki’s former docklands (pictured at left) is cited as an exemplary mixed use project in a Telegraph piece on the greening of residential architecture; and Achva Benzinberg Stein’s dazzling new Moroccan Courtyard at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is featured in this month’s Landscape Architecture Magazine.
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
The City College of New York honored Achva Benzinberg Stein (pictured at left), whose Moroccan Courtyard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is nearing completion, with the Outstanding Teaching Award for 2011-12; and Bevery Willis has been chosen by the National Association of Professional Women in Construction to receive their Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
In a recent profile, Moshe Safdie (whose design for a waterfront tower in Toronto made a big splash last week) explained the genesis of his career thusly: “I proposed a habitat – a sort of a fairy tale – and it got approved and built. That was the beginning of my professional practice”; in a Times article on the Met’s new Moroccan coutryard, architect Achva Benzinberg Stein explained that “This is like the culmination of a life’s work for me. To me it means the possibility of so many things, of peace”; and in the Architect’s Newspaper’s profile of WXY Architecture, Claire Weisz described the firm’s dynamic style in no uncertain terms: “We do believe in a certain amount of excess…Sometimes ‘too much’ is good.”
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