Friday, July 13th, 2012
Richard Dattner’s firm won an Innovative Architecture and Design Award for its tennis center at Princeton University (pictured at left); the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat awarded its lifetime achievement honor to Helmut Jahn; “The Passage: A Moving Memorial” by Mary Miss won a Design Excellence Award from the City of New York; Ted Shelton was honored with an AIA National Small Projects award for his restoration and creation of the Ghost Houses in Knoxville, TN; Peter Walker won the 2012 ASLA Design Medal; Walker’s firm was also shortlisted to design the grounds for one of the world’s largest research facilities, to be built in Sweden.
Tags: AIA, ASLA, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Dattner Architects, Helmut Jahn, Innovative Architecture and Design Awards, Knoxville, mary miss, New York, Peter Walker, Princton University, Richard Dattner, Sweden, Ted Shelton
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Monday, June 11th, 2012
At the AIA National Convention, Susan Chin was elected to the national AIA Vice Presidency, Patron Steven Holl won the AIA Gold Medal, and the firms of Board Member Thom Mayne and Robert Rogers won Honor Awards; the New York chapter of ASLA announced their Design Awards, with Thomas Balsley’s firm taking home four awards, and the firms of Michael Manfredi, Barbara Wilks, and Henry White each receiving one; the Graham Foundation announced their 2012 Grants to Individuals, with Nina Rappaport and June Williamson both receiving awards to support their respective publications about photographer Ezra Stoller and designing suburban futures; Phil Enquist will be honored with Openlands’ 2012 Conservation Leadership Award at a luncheon in October; Matthew Berman’s workshop/apd won a Building Brooklyn award for their BLDG 92 at the Navy Yard (pictured at left); the Society for Marketing Professional Services awarded Board Member Claire Weisz’s studio with an Industry Award for their Battery SeaGlass Carousel.
Tags: AIA, AIA National Convention, ASLA NY, ASLA NY Design Awards, Barbara Wilks, Battery SeaGlass Carousel, BLDG at the Navy Yard, City College of New York, Claire Weisz, Ezra Stoller, Henry White, HM White, June Williamson, matthew berman, Michael Manfredi, Morphosis, Nina Rappaport, Openlands, Phil Enquist, Robert Rogers, Society for Marketing Professional Services, SOM, Steven Holl, Steven Holl Architects, Susan Chin, the Graham Foundation, Thom Mayne, Thomas Balsley, Thomas Balsley Associates, W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Weiss/Manfredi, WXY
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2012
Tonight in Los Angeles, Board Member Thom Mayne will be at the Hammer Museum to discuss Culture Now, a new research organization designed to connect academic work to real-world practice; in New York, Mary Miss urges everyone to attend a Hunter College panel discussion with art critics about her Broadway: 1000 Steps project (pictured at left); in Bern, Matthias Sauerbruch will give a lecture at the Architektur Forum; on Wednesday, OHNY hosts their 10th Annual Benefit at Claremont Stables, with Stephan Jaklitsch serving as event co-chair; Susan Chin will discuss women in leadership at the Center for Architecture on 6/8; Meta Brunzema will serve as featured guide as the AIA NY “Around Manhattan” architectural boat tour series continues on 6/10; the Fine Arts Federation of New York, for which Olympia Kazi serves on the Board, holds their Annual Meeting at Van Alen on 6/12 with Carol Coletta as a featured speaker; on 6/13, the AIA NY will hold their 145th Annual Meeting, where Lance Jay Brown is slated as 2013 First Vice President/2014 President-Elect.
Tags: AIA, AIA NY, Architektur Forum, Around Manhattan, Bern, Broadway 1000 Steps, Carol Coletta, Claremont Stables, Culture Now, Design Trust for Public Space, Fine Arts Federation of New York, Hammer Museum, Hunter College, Jaklitsch Gardner, Lance Jay Brown, Lost Angeles, mary miss, Matthias Sauerbruch, Meta Brunzema, Morphosis, New York City, OHNY, Olympia Kazi, Sauerbruch Hutton, Stephan Jaklitsch, Susan Chin, Switzerland, Thom Mayne, Van Alen Institute
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Society of Marketing Professional Services honored Richard Dattner’s firm and Andrew Whalley’s Grimshaw Architects for their green, affordable Via Verde; Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta won an Honor Award from the Toledo chapter of the AIA for the Wolfe Center for the Arts at Bowling Green State University (pictured at left); tomorrow (5/3), Beverly Willis will be named a Leader for the 21st Century at the Women’s eNews gala in New York.
Tags: AIA, Andrew Whalley, Beverly Willis, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Bowling Green State University, Craig Dykers, Dattner Architects, Grimshaw Architects, Honor Award, Leader for the 21st Century, Richard Dattner, Snohetta, Society of Marketing Professional Services, Toledo, Via Verde, Wolfe Center for the Arts, Women's eNews
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
In his latest Gotham Gazette column, Tom Angotti looks into NYC’s plans for its new bikeshare program; Matt Berman and his partner Andrew Kotchen launched SpruceBox, a new web platform to help homeowners visualize renovation projects; Phil Enquist won two competitions to develop master plans for a 2-kilometer stretch of the Yangtze Riverfront in downtown Nanjing and a new urban center at Duqm City in Oman; William Fain’s firm recently completed master plans for the Chinese cities of Chengdu and XiCheng; Anthony Flint argued for concentrating early development of a high-speed rail system in the US in megaregions like the Northeast Corridor; Board Member Toni Griffin joined in on the New York Times‘ most recent Room For Debate feature on the demolition of foreclosed housing; construction work has begun on Patron Steven Holl’s athletic complex for Columbia at the northern tip of Manhattan (pictured at left); Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art, designed by Rodolfo Machado’s firm, has just opened; the National Mall Design Competition, led by Don Stastny, announced its jury, which will include Board Member Thom Mayne; Linda Pollak will serve as the Lead Juror for AIA Pittsburgh’s Design Pittsburgh awards; and Rosemary Wakeman spoke to the Baltimore Sun about gentrification in that city’s Union Square neighborhood.
Tags: AIA, Anthony Flint, awards, Baltimore, bike sharing, Chazen Museum of Art, Chengdu, China, Columbia University, demolition, Design Pittsburgh, Donald Stastny, Duqm City, Foreclosed, gentrification, gotham gazette, high speed rail, jury, Linda Pollak, Machado Silvetti, Madison, manhattan, master plan, matthew berman, Nanjing, National Mall Design Competition, New York City, New York Times, Northeast Corridor, Oman, Philip Enquist, Pittsburgh, Rodolfo Machado, Room for Debate, Rosemary Wakeman, SpruceBox, Steven Holl, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, Toni Griffin, transportation, urban planning, washington dc, waterfront, William Fain, Wisconsin, XiCheng, Yangtze River
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Monday, September 26th, 2011
PMc Mag called Matt Blesso “New York’s Host with the Most”; Susan Chin was announced [PDF] as the new Executive Director of the Design Trust for Public Space; the launch of an effort to find an architect for the re-vamp of Chicago’s iconic Navy Pier (pictured at left) led to rumblings that both Phil Enquist and Helmut Jahn are considering throwing their respective hats in the ring; Bruce Fowle served on the jury for the AIA’s National Healthcare Design Awards; Architectural Record profiled Alex Gorlin’s contemporary take on the rowhouse in East Brooklyn; CCGSAPP’s new blog features an interview with Alfredo Brillembourg and Denise Hoffman Brandt on their new co-edited issue of SLUM Lab, which debuted during Urban Design Week; Daniel Libeskind was announced as the architect for a new wing at his iconic Jewish Museum in Berlin; FastCo Design has a great story on the collaboration, in Villahermosa, Mexico, between Board Member Enrique Norten and Barbara Wilks on a new museum and park; Moshe Safdie’s Kauffman Center just opened in Kansas City; Jonathan Schrag was appointed to serve as Deputy Commissioner for Energy in the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection; and Board President Michael Sorkin’s new book, All Over the Map, has been receiving rave reviews from the likes of the Guardian and the Telegraph.
Tags: AIA, Alexander Gorlin, Alfredo Brillembourg, All Over the Map, Architectural Record, Barbara Wilks, Berlin, book launch, brooklyn, Bruce Fowle, Chicago, Columbia University, Connecticut, daniel libeskind, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, design competition, Design Trust for Public Space, Enrique Norten, Fast Company, Germany, GSAPP, Healthcare Design Awards, Helmut Jahn, jewish museum, jonathan schrag, jury, Kansas City, Kauffman Center, landscape architecture, Matthew Blesso, Mexico, Michael Sorkin, moshe safdie, museums, Navy Pier, New York City, Philip Enquist, rowhouse, SLUM Lab, Susan Chin, Urban Design Week, Villahermosa
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Friday, September 9th, 2011
The AIA Council of Architectural Component Executives named Rick Bell, director of the AIANY chapter and the Center for Architecture, as its Executive of the Year; Sara Caples’ Queens Theater-in-the-Park received two recent awards: one for Best Restoration from the Municipal Art Society’s MASterworks (for which Deborah Berke served on the jury), and another for Best Use of Color from Architectural Lighting magazine; the New York Observer included Ken Fisher (pictured at left) on their list of the Top Lawyers in NYC Commercial Real Estate Right Now; and Barbara Wilks (whose waterfront redevelopment in Troy is just getting underway) was named one of the Best Landscape Architects in New York by H&G Ideas.
Tags: AIA, AIANY, awards, Barbara Wilks, Center for Architecture, color, Commercial Real Estate, competition, Deborah Berke, historic preservation, jury, Kenneth K. Fisher, landscape architecture, lawyers, lighting, MASterworks, Municipal Art Society, New York City, New York Observer, Queens, Queens Theater-in-the-Park, restoration, Rick Bell, Sara Caples, Troy, waterfront
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Friday, June 10th, 2011
The City of New York’s Public Design Commission will present Richard Dattner with an Award for Excellence for the design of the Spring Street Salt Shed (pictured at left) at a ceremony on June 20th; at last month’s AIA convention in New Orleans, Ernie Hutton was honored with an Associate Award in recognition of his service to the AIANY chapter; the Atlanta City Council voted to rename downtown’s Harris Street in honor of John Portman; and Andrew Whalley was named as the new Deputy Chairman of Grimshaw Architects.
Tags: AIA, AIANY, Andrew Whalley, Atlanta, Dattner Architects, Ernest Hutton, Grimshaw Architects, Harris Street, john portman, New York City, Public Design Commission, Richard Dattner, Spring Street Salt Shed
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
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!
Tags: AIA, AIA Institute Honor Award, Architecture, Barnard College, Beijing, Diana Center, horizontal skyscraper, master plan, Michael Manfredi, New York City, Philip Enquist, Steven Holl, Urban Design
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
On March 22nd, APA NY Metro Chapter and AIA NY will host a panel discussion called Planning for a Sustainable Future: Can We Achieve Integration at the Regional Level? The discussion will take place at 6:30pm at the Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place, NYC). RSVP here.
Institute fellow Bissera Antikarov will serve as moderator along with Tom Jost, co-chairs of the APA NY Economic Development Committee.
1.5 AICP CM Credits pending, CES LUs 1.5; HSW 1.5; SD 1.5
Tags: AIA, APA, Bissera Antikarov, Economic Development Committee, integration, Planning, regional, sustainability, Tom Jost
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Richard Dattner’s firm won an Innovative Architecture and Design Award for its tennis center at Princeton University (pictured at left); the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat awarded its lifetime achievement honor to Helmut Jahn; “The Passage: A Moving Memorial” by Mary Miss won a Design Excellence Award from the City of New York; Ted Shelton was honored with an AIA National Small Projects award for his restoration and creation of the Ghost Houses in Knoxville, TN; Peter Walker won the 2012 ASLA Design Medal; Walker’s firm was also shortlisted to design the grounds for one of the world’s largest research facilities, to be built in Sweden.
