Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
In an interview with New York, Craig Dykers outlined Snøhetta’s proposal for a revamped Times Square; Princeton University submitted plans for their new Arts and Transit project, with work by Patron Steven Holl, to the Regional Planning Board of Princeton; the Boston Redevelopment Authority approved the development of a residential complex designed by David Manfredi (pictured above), one that will include micro-apartments, or so-called ‘innovation units’; Robert A.M. Stern will design a residential tower next to Hudson Yards.
Tags: Arts and Transit project, Boston, Boston Redevelopment Authority, BRA, Craig Dykers, David Manfredi, Elkus Manfredi, Hudson Yards, innovation units, Justin Davidson, micro-apartments, New Jersey, New York, New York magazine, Princeton University, Regional Planning Board of Princeton, Robert AM Stern, Snohetta, Steven Holl, times square
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Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Cosentini Associates has just appointed Gretchen Bank as their Director of Business Development and Marketing; Andrew Bernheimer has been announced as the new director for Parsons’ Master in Architecture program; Ken Fisher interviewed Camille Rivera, a leader In the Working Families Party in New York, for his CityWide talk show on 2/15; as part of their AEC Knowledge series, the AIANY released “Sustainable High Density Affordable Housing,” a new digital course presented by Mark Ginsberg; Chris Hardwicke’s Ravine City concept is featured in the new book Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture (pictured at left); Patron Steven Holl and Board Member Thom Mayne are finalists to design the first academic building on Cornell’s new Roosevelt Island campus (Holl’s Zaituny Bay project was also recently profiled in the New York Times); David Manfredi recently presented Elkus Manfredi’s proposed “Ink Block” mixed-use development to a public forum in Boston; The Architect’s Newspaper profiled the Queens Plaza revamp designed by Linda Pollak’s firm; the March issue of Dwell features the ‘Ghost Houses’ project by Ted Shelton; Ethel Sheffer has been selected to join the AICP College of Fellows and will be inducted at the National Planning Conference in April; finally, congratulations to Beverly Willis, whose Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation celebrated its tenth anniversary on 2/21.
Tags: AEC Knowledge, AIA NY, Andrew Bernheimer, Beverly Willis, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Boston, Camille Rivera, Carrot City, CCNY, Chris Hardwicke, CityWide, Cornell, Cosentini Associates, David Manfredi, Dwell, Elkus Manfredi, Ethel Sheffer, FAICP, Ghost Houses, Gretchen Bank, Ink Block, Ken Fisher, Linda Pollack, Mark Ginsberg, Master in Architecture, mixed-use, National Planning Conference, New York Times, Parsons, Queens Plaza, Ravine City, Roosevelt Island, Steven Holl, Sustainable High Density Affordable Housing, Ted Shelton, The Architect's Newspaper, The New School, Thom Mayne, Working Families Party, Zaituny Bay
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
Since it opened this past September, more than one million visitors have passed through Michael Arad and Peter Walker’s 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero; a Wall Street Journal article on regional minimalism noted Deborah Berke’s influential residential work in New England; on the latest episode of Citywide, Ken Fisher interviews Manhattan Media CEO and first-in-the-ring NYC mayoral candidate Tom Allon; Anthony Flint appeared on the Callie Crosby Show to discuss the redevelopment of the former Filene’s Basement site in Boston; Beth Greenberg, who leads the Dattner Architects team working on Manhattan’s 7-train extension, spoke to ENR New York [PDF] about the project (which, Inhabitat reports, is ahead of schedule and under budget); Gothamist got a peek inside the construction site for the new Fulton Street Transit Center, which is managed by Gregory Haley; Next American City Editor-in-Chief Diana Lind cited Olympia Kazi’s success in establishing the Van Alen Bookstore as a social anchor for New York’s urban design community as a chief inspiration for NAC‘s new Storefront for Urban Innovation in Philadelphia; Hugh Pearman raved about Daniel Libeskind’s expansion of the Military History Museum in Dresden (pictured at left) in Architectural Record; John Palmieri’s CRDA launched the website Revitalize Atlantic City to encourage public participation in the Tourism District Master Plan process; Artforum reviewed the V&A’s Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, which features the work of Robert A.M. Stern and Patrons Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown; and new renderings were released of the 8 Washington development on the San Francisco waterfront, featuring landscapes by Peter Walker.
Tags: 7-line extension, 8 Washington, 9/11 Memorial, Anthony Flint, Architectural Record, Architecture, Artforum, Atlantic City, Beth Greenberg, Boston, Callie Crosby Show, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, CityWide, construction, daniel libeskind, Dattner Architects, Deborah Berke, Denise Scott Brown, Diana Lind, Dresden, Filene's Basement site, Fulton Street Transit Center, Gothamist, Gregory J. Haley, Hugh Pearman, John Palmieri, Kenneth K. Fisher, landscape architecture, Manahttan, Manhattan Media, mass transit, michael arad, Military History Museum, minimalism, MTA, New England, New York City, next american city, NYC mayoral race, Olympia Kazi, Peter Walker, Philadelphia, Postmodernism, public engagement, recession, redevelopment, reflecting absence, residential, Revitalize Atlantic City, robert a.m. stern, Robert Venturi, San Francisco, Storefront for Urban Innovation, subway, Tom Allon, Tourism District Master Plan, Urban Design, Van Alen Books, Van Alen Institute, victoria and albert museum, wall street journal, waterfront
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Tom Angotti criticized Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC for not focusing enough on providing affordable housing in the Gotham Gazette; The Epoch Times interviewed Rick Bell about how the economic recovery will affect the architectural profession; Inhabitat interviewed Matt Berman about workshop/apd’s GreeNOLA project; land-use advocacy organization The Fayette Alliance has launched a campaign to bring Omar Blaik to Lexington to help develop a plan for enhancing the relationship between that city and its anchor institutions; the New York Times plugged IfUD Founder Ann Ferebee’s new book, A History of Design form the Victorian Era to the Present; Anthony Flint wrote for The Angle about how bike-sharing could improve traffic in Boston; John Hartmann spoke to Brian Lehrer about his map for WNYC’s “New Littles” feature (pictured at left), popped up in an Architect profile of the non-profit SUPERFRONT, and launched a new Kickstarter fundraising initiative for his +FARM project; a+t released a new book on mixed use hybrid buildings with a preface written by Patron Steven Holl; Gregg Pasquarelli talked to Architect about the launch of SHoP Construction, while Paul Goldberger reviewed the firm’s newly-opened East River Esplanade in the New Yorker; Christopher Hawthorne reviewed Rob Rogers’ firm Rogers Marvel’s winning proposal for the redesign of Washington DC’s Ellipse; and Moshe Safdie was announced as the architect for Bishan Central, a planned 540-unit residential skyscraper in Singapore.
Tags: +FARM, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, a+t, Affordable Housing, AIANY, anchor institutions, Ann Ferebee, Anthony Flint, Architect, Architecture, bike sharing, Bishan Central, books, Boston, Brian Lehrer, construction, demographics, design competition, Ellipse, Freecell, gotham gazette, GreeNOLA, Gregg Pasquarelli, hybrid buildings, Inhabitat, interview, John Hartmann, Kentucky, Kickstarter, land use, Lexington, map, master plan, matthew berman, Mayor Bloomberg, mixed-use, moshe safdie, New Littles, New Orleans, New York City, New York Times, Omar Blaik, Paul Goldberger, PlaNYC, Rick Bell, Rob Rogers, Rogers Marvel, SHoP Architects, singapore, skyscraper, Steven Holl, SUPERFRONT, The Fayette Alliance, Tom Angotti, traffic, washington dc, workshop/apd
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Over at Fast Co.Design, Karen Alschuler wrote an article comparing buildings to sandwiches, asking: “What makes them tasty?”; Design Intelligence featured the full text of Phil Enquist’s PennDesign commencement address; Deborah Gans reports on her work in New Orleans’ Plum Orchard neighborhood in Places: Design Observer; Ken Greenberg (whom Dow Marmur recently called a Canadian national treasure) is leading the planning process for the redevelopment of Boston’s waterfront; Patron Steven Holl‘s Vanke Center in Shenzhen received high praise from Nicolai Ouroussoff, who calls the building “a triumph of sustainable design” in a new piece out this week; Daniel Libeskind released renderings of the design for a new synagogue in Munich; Villahermosa, Mexico, recently celebrated the opening of a new public building by Board Member Enrique Norten set in a new public park by Barbara Wilks; Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute Director Jack S. Nyman commented on his organization’s collaboration with CUNY’s Building Performance Lab in creating the just-launched Building Performance Toolkit; the National Capital Planning Commission released design renderings for DC’s Ellipse by the five firms competing for the job, including Rob Rogers’ firm Rogers Marvel (whose SandRidge Energy complex in Oklahoma City was also recently approved by the city); the New Yorker wrote about Moshe Safdie’s soon-to-open Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas; Rowan Moore reviewed Living in the Endless City, a new book featuring essays by Richard Sennett and Board Member Saskia Sassen; and Don Stastny is leading the visioning process for the redevelopment of Saint Louis’ historic Grand Center entertainment district (pictured at left).
Tags: Arkansas, Barbara Wilks, Boston, Building Performance Lab, Building Performance Toolkit, Canada, China, commencement, Crystal Bridges, CUNY, daniel libeskind, Deborah Gans, Design, design competition, Design Observer, Don Stastny, Ellipse, Enrique Norten, Fast Company, food, Germany, Grand Center, Jack S. Nyman, Karen Alschuler, Ken Greenberg, Living in the Endless City, master plan, Mexico, moshe safdie, Munich, museum, National Capital Planning Commission, New Orleans, New York City, Nicolai Ouroussoff, Oklahoma City, parks, PennDesign, Philip Enquist, Places, Plum Orchard, public realm, recovery, Richard Sennett, Rob Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Saint Louis, SandRidge Energy, Saskia Sassen, Shenzhen, Steven Holl, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, sustainability, synagogue, tasty, Urban Design, Urbanism, Vanke Center, Villahermosa, washington dc, waterfront
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
The New York Times went shopping for coffee tables with Deborah Berke; AECOM Chief Innovation Officer Joseph Brown commented on his firm’s new partnership with IBM’s Smarter Planet Initiative; the Shanghai flagship of retailer Ports 1961, designed by Board Member Winka Dubbeldam, has just opened; Toronto’s Ryerson University revealed renderings of an eye-catching new building by Craig Dykers‘ Snøhetta (pictured at left); William Fain served on the jury of this year’s AIA Pennsylvania Design Excellence Awards, which were presented this past week; Patron Steven Holl’s athletic center for Columbia in Inwood was recently approved by the city; Apartment Therapy Boston featured Deborah Grossberg Katz’s “A Cabin in a Loft” project; the Lynn University Performing Arts Center, designed by Herbert Newman, is featured in the March 2011 issue of American School & University Magazine [PDF]; Linda Pollak reviewed NYC’s new High Performance Landscape Guidelines in Topos 74 [PDF]; construction has begun on John Portman’s newest hotel in Shenzhen; Richard Sennett was announced as one of the jurors for the Watermill Center’s International Residency Program; and John Wong’s SWA Group will be designing a new park around an historic schoolhouse in Milpitas, CA.
Tags: AECOM, AIA Pennsylvania, Archi-Tectonics, artists, awards, Boston, Cabin in a Loft, California, Columbia University, Craig Dykers, Deborah Berke, deborah grossberg katz, Design Excellence, Development, furniture, Herbert Newman, High Performance Landscape Guidelines, IBM, innovation, interior design, Inwood, john portman, John Wong, Joseph Brown, jury, Katz Chiao, landscape architecture, Linda Pollak, Lynn University, manhattan, Milpitas, New York City, New York Times, Newman Architects, Ports 1961, retail, Richard Sennett, Ryerson University, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Smarter Planet Initiative, Snohetta, Steven Holl, SWA Group, Toronto, university, Watermill Center, William Fain, Winka Dubbeldam
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Board Member Byron Stigge will speak at the Out of Water conference in Toronto, from 4/1-2; Denise Hoffman Brandt will speak at the Next Eco-City symposium in Seattle on 4/7-8; Board Member Winka Dubbeldam will speak at the Progressive Architecture Symposium in Mexico City, also on 4/7-8; Deborah Gans will discuss her work on the new stained glass window at Manhattan’s Eldridge Street Synagogue on 4/8; Mark Strauss will participate in a panel on the 3 Rs of the New Economy at the APA National Conference in Boston on 4/10; Richard Sennett (pictured at left) will deliver the 7th Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism at CCNY on 4/11; the AIA Design Awards Luncheon, which will honor IfUD Patron Steven Holl, Fellows Bruce Fowle and Claire Weisz, and Board Member Thom Mayne, will take place at Cipriani Wall Street on 4/12; and the new exhibit Façade: Through a Glass Darkly, featuring two buildings by Matthias Sauerbruch, will be on view at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, UK, now through 7/10.
Tags: AIA Design Awards, American Planning Association, Architecture, Boston, Bruce Fowle, Byron Stigge, CCNY, Center for Architecture, Cipriani Wall Street, Claire Weisz, Deborah Gans, Denise Hoffman Brandt, eco-cities, economy, Eldridge Street Synagogue, facade, FXFOWLE, glass, Lewis Mumford Lecture, manhattan, Mark Strauss, Matthias Sauerbruch, Mexico City, Morphosis, New York City, progressive, Richard Sennett, Seattle, Steven Holl, Sunderland, Thom Mayne, Toronto, UK, water, Winka Dubbeldam
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Our community of Fellows continues to grow. This month, we’ve added Gabriel Charles, the Manager of Planning for the Central District in Oakville, Ontario, and John Palmieri, Director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, who rejoined the Institute after a two-year absence. Welcome to both!
Tags: Boston, Boston Redevelopment Authority, Gabriel Charles, John Palmieri, new fellows, Oakville, Ontario
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
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).
Tags: Alan Balfour, Anthony Flint, ASLA, Atlanta, Bellevue Avenue, BNYC 92, Boston, Brooklyn Navy Yard, carbon trading, Chadwick Floyd, Chandigarh, competition, Craig Dykers, daniel libeskind, Georgia Tech, green buildings, Henry M. White III, heritage trail, India, jonathan schrag, jury, landscape architecture, matthew berman, modernism, New York City, Newport, public space, Ronald Lee Fleming, Shane Coen, Snohetta, Thomas Balsley, Townscape Institute, victoria and albert museum, workshop/apd, world trade center
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
A group of innovative multifamily infill housing developments produced by Carmi Bee’s firm RKT&B was covered recently (photo at left); Omar Blaik’s firm U3 Ventures produced a report of their own on an exciting strategy for recovery in Detroit’s Midtown district (subscription required); David Dixon led a team that produced a 25-page report challenging the current plans for the massive Charity Hospital reconstruction project in New Orleans; Douglas Durst was recently profiled for his leadership of the Durst Organization; Craig Dykers’ firm Snøhetta was just profiled in the Wall Street Journal; and don’t miss Boston.com’s look back on the storied careers of Jane Thompson and her husband Ben, who founded Design Research in 1953.
Tags: Boston, Carmi Bee, Charity Hospital, Craig Dykers, David Dixon, Design Research, Detroit, Douglas Durst, Durst Organization, Goody Clancy, Jane Thompson, New Orleans, New York City, Omar Blaik, RKT&B, Snohetta, U3 Ventures
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