Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
In an Abitare article, Justin Allen wrote about David van der Leer’s Stillspotting exhibit (pictured at left); Rick Bell talked to Metropolis about the building boom in the Middle East; Blouin ArtInfo profiled Meta Brunzema’s “Building Exhibition Hudson Valley/Erie Canal” project; Sara Caples served on the jury that determined the AIA 2012 Housing Awards; Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta endowed a scholarship for undergraduates at the UT Austin School of Architecture; for the latest installment of his CityWide talk show, Ken Fisher interviewed former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer; Daniel Libeskind discussed ‘healing’ architecture in Metropolis; John Palmieri contemplated the future of Atlantic City in the Washington Post; Urban Omnibus recapped their Public Space Potluck with Linda Pollak at Dutch Kills Green.
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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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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Eight Fellows and Board Members, including Carmi Bee and Winka Dubbeldam, participated in the Design for the Rising Tide charrette at New York’s Center for Architecture (3/23); tonight in New York, Sudhir Jambhekar will speak on a panel about ‘Building in the Middle East’; Patron Steven Holl will engage in “Discussions in Architecture” tomorrow at Harvard’s GSD; on 4/4, Tom Angotti will be a special guest for Studio-X’s design charrette about gentrification; also on Wednesday, Sara Caples will lecture about “Social Justice-Aesthetic Judgments” at the University of Maryland; Board Member Claire Weisz (pictured at left) will discuss “Urban Planning for Community Building” at the Noguchi Museum (4/8); the week after, she’ll be with Lyn Rice at the Center for Architecture to examine “The Civic Action Planning Model” (4/12); Board Member Toni Griffin invites you to celebrate the launch of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City on 5/1 at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture.
Tags: AIA New York, Building in the Middle East, Caples Jefferson, Carmi Bee, Center for Architecture, City College, Civic Action, Claire Weisz, Design for the Rising Tide, gentrification, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, J. Max Bond Center, Lyn Rice, Noguchi Museum, Rice + Lipka, Sara Caples, Spitzer School of Architecture, Steven Holl, Studio-X NYC, Sudhir Jambhekar, Tom Angotti, Toni Griffin, University of Maryland, Winka Dubbeldam
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
Brooklyn’s Weeksville Heritage Center, designed by Sara Caples and her partner Everardo Jefferson, was recently featured on the FastCo Design blog; the Architect’s Newspaper recently looked at several innovative proposals for the future of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, including a green canopy by Colin Cathcart; Snøhetta, the Oslo-based firm led by Craig Dykers, was announced [pdf] last week as the winner of a design competition for the new Museum of Environmental Sciences in Guadalajara; Anthony Flint explored the world of PILOT programs in a piece at Crosscut; the Columbia Daily Spectator’s blog The Eye recently took a long hard look at the University’s plans for a new campus in Manhattanville, and Board member Maxine Griffith had plenty to say on the matter; ConstructionWeek recently spoke with Sudhir Jambhekar about his design for the KAFD Mosque in Riyadh (pictured at left); Moshe Safdie was selected to design a rather astoundingly-shaped apartment complex in Quinhuangdao, China; in case you missed the announcement in the Times this past weekend, Board Member Byron Stigge recently married Catherine Gaul at a ceremony in Manhattan; and Claire Weisz spoke to the FastCo Design team about her firm’s re-design of the Times Square Visitor Center in Manhattan.
Tags: Anthony Flint, brooklyn, Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Byron Stigge, Caples Jefferson, Claire Weisz, Colin Cathcart, Columbia University, Craig Dykers, design competition, Guadalajara, KAFD Mosque, Manhattanville, Maxine Griffith, moshe safdie, museum, PILOTs, Quinhuangdao, Riyadh, Sara Caples, Snohetta, Sudhir Jambhekar, times square, urban renewal, Weeksville Heritage Center
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
The extension of the Queens Theatre-in-the-Park (pictured at left), designed by Sara Caples’ firm Caples Jefferson, was recently selected [pdf] as New York Construction‘s Cultural Project of the Year; Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture recently honored Fellow Susan Chin with a Distinguished Alumnus Award for her work as the Assistant Commissioner for Capital Projects at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; Shane Coen’s Warroad Border Station was chosen by the 2010 GSA Design Awards jury for a Citation in Landscape Architecture, Honor Awards for Architecture and Engineering, and another Citation for Interior Design; and Bruce Fowle was presented with a trophy acknowledging FXFOWLE’s 15 years of involvement in the Canstruction NYC contest.
Tags: Bruce Fowle, Canstruction, Caples Jefferson, Department of Cultural Affairs, FXFOWLE, GSA Design Awards, Knowlton School of Architecture, landscape architecture, New York City, New York Construction, Ohio State University, Queens, Queens Theater-in-the-Park, Sara Caples, Shane Coen, Susan Chin, Warroad Border Station
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In an Abitare article, Justin Allen wrote about David van der Leer’s Stillspotting exhibit (pictured at left); Rick Bell talked to Metropolis about the building boom in the Middle East; Blouin ArtInfo profiled Meta Brunzema’s “Building Exhibition Hudson Valley/Erie Canal” project; Sara Caples served on the jury that determined the AIA 2012 Housing Awards; Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta endowed a scholarship for undergraduates at the UT Austin School of Architecture; for the latest installment of his CityWide talk show, Ken Fisher interviewed former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer; Daniel Libeskind discussed ‘healing’ architecture in Metropolis; John Palmieri contemplated the future of Atlantic City in the Washington Post; Urban Omnibus recapped their Public Space Potluck with Linda Pollak at Dutch Kills Green.
