Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation’s Executive Director Wanda Bubriski and founder Beverly Willis invite you to “A View from the Future,”a morning symposium hosted at the CUNY Graduate Center on 6/5 about future trends and innovation in the architecture/engineering/construction industry. The event will feature a keynote by Futurist Edie Weiner, followed by a panel discussion of experts debating new opportunities in the AEC field. Board Members Claire Weisz and Tami Hausman serve on the BWAF Board and Advisory Council respectively.
Panelists include: Jane Chmielinski (AECOM), Michael De Chiara (Zetlin & De Chiara LLP), MaryAnne Gilmartin (Forest City Ratner Companies), Jurij Paraszczak (IBM Research), and Ana Bertuna (Related Companies).
Get your tickets here.
Tags: A View from the Future, A/E/C, Architecture, Beverly Willis, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Claire Weisz, construction, CUNY Graduate Center, Edie Weiner, engineering, tami hausman, wanda bubriski
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The Wall Street Journal spoke to Tom Angotti about the Bloomberg-era evolution of zoning in New York City, and published a wonderful profile of Michael Arad; Architect talked to Board Member Tami Hausman about how architecture firms can (and should) use social media strategically; Luca Farinelli’s “53 Questions, 265 Answers” in Log 23 features interviews with Patron Steven Holl and Board Member Thom Mayne; the WSJ features Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner’s renovation of Marc Jacobs’ private Soho showroom; Patricia Lancaster expressed surprise at Related’s decision to hire a California contractor for the massive Hudson Yards project in Manhattan; Gregg Pasquarelli’s Pier 15 opened along Manhattan’s East River Waterfront Esplanade; Linda Pollak’s new Elmhurst Branch of the Queens Library, which is wrapping up construction, was featured on NY1; and Rosemary Wakeman was quoted in a Corpus Christi Caller-Times article about the relationship between streetscapes and civic pride.
Tags: Architect Magazine, civic pride, construction, contractor, Corpus Christi, East River Waterfront Esplanade, Elmhurst, Gregg Pasquarelli, Hudson Yards, interview, Linda Pollak, Log, Luca Farinelli, manhattan, Marc Jacobs, Mark Gardner, Marpillero Pollak, michael arad, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, NY1, Patricia Lancaster, Pier 15, Queens, Queens Library, Related, Rosemary Wakeman, social media, Soho, Stephan Jaklitsch, Steven Holl, streetscape, tami hausman, Texas, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, wall street journal, waterfront, zoning
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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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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Bentonville’s 21c Museum Hotel, designed by Deborah Berke, broke ground last month; Urban Omnibus visited Matthew Berman’s BLDG 92 museum and visitors center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard; Andrew Bernheimer and his sister Kate, an award-winning fairy tale author, collaborated on a three-part series of posts at Places Journal that gives architectural form to famous fairy tale houses; Matt Blesso and Mark Gardner were both interviewed as part of openhousenewyork’s “I Am OHNY” series; NYC Media released a video extolling the virtues of Colin Cathcart’s Greenhouse Project at Manhattan’s P.S. 333; the first renderings of a curvaceous new Maggie’s Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland, designed by Craig Dykers, made a splash; Vince Ferrandino is leading the effort to build a solid transition team for Mount Vernon, New York’s mayor-elect Ernie Davis; Mary Margaret Jones led a public forum on Hargreaves Associates’ new plan for Richmond’s James Riverfront; John Portman has opened a new office in Hong Kong–his fourth in Asia, after Shanghai, Seoul, and Mumbai; and it’s not every day that you can see a Fellow’s work in a big-screen blockbuster, but the ASLA’s The Dirt recently pointed out that John Wong’s Burj Khalifa Park has something of a “starring role” in the new Mission Impossible movie!
Tags: 21c Museum Hotel, Aberdeen, Andrew Bernheimer, Architecture, ASLA, Bentonville, BLDG 92, brooklyn, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Burj Khalifa, Colin Cathcart, construction, Craig Dykers, Deborah Berke, Ernie Davis, fairy tales, Greenhouse Project, Hargreaves Associates, Hollywood, Hong Kong, James River, john portman, John Wong, Kate Bernheimer, landscape architecture, Maggie's Centre, manhattan, Mark Gardner, Mary Margaret Jones, matt blesso, matthew berman, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Mount Vernon, Mumbai, New York City, NYC Media, OHNY, Places Journal, politics, public forum, Richmond, seoul, Shanghai, SWA Group, Urban Omnibus, Vince Ferrandino, waterfront, workshop/apd
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Monday, December 19th, 2011
Curbed included Board Member Winka Dubbeldam’s 597 Greenwich Street on their list of Innovative Residences You Need to Know Right Now; Mayor Dave Bing announced the re-launch of the Detroit Works program, with Board Member Toni Griffin heading up the development of a long-range development plan for the troubled Rust Belt city; Mary Margaret Jones (whose Olympic Park in London, pictured at left, was just completed) has been selected to design a new public entertainment waterfront attraction in Corpus Christi, Texas; Bill Kelley is leading the charge to add more sidewalk cafe space to Greenwich Village’s West 8th Street; good news came for two skyscrapers designed by Daniel Libeskind: the developers of his Zlota 44 building in Warsaw secured financing to complete construction, while his Eden Center in Jerusalem received official approval to move forward; Anne Locke spoke to WestfairOnline about the recent boom in medical facilities construction; “The Mobius,” Michael Manfredi’s entry to the Portal to the Point ideas competition in Pittsburgh, was featured on ArchDaily; Moshe Safdie released renderings for a massive $3.1 billion, six-tower, 10 million-square-foot mixed-use complex planned for Chongqing, China; a course designed by NJIT’s Darius Sollohub in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity was featured in a round-up of innovative and unconventional college courses around New Jersey; and Robert A.M. Stern was interviewed about his skyscraping One Horizon Center project in Gurgaon, India.
Tags: 597 Greenwich Street, Anne Locke, ArchDaily, China, Chongqing, construction, Corpus Christi, Curbed, daniel libeskind, Darius Sollohub, Detroit, Detroit Works, Eden Center, Greenwich Village, Gurgaon, Habitat for Humanity, India, Jerusalem, landscape urbanism, london, Mary Margaret Jones, Mayor Bing, medical facilities, megaprojects, Michael Manfredi, mixed-use, moshe safdie, NJIT, Olympic Park, One Horizon Center, Pittsburgh, Point State Park, Portal to the Point, residential, retail, robert a.m. stern, rust belt, shrinking cities, skyscraper, streetscape, Texas, The Mobius, Toni Griffin, urban planning, Warsaw, waterfront, Weiss/Manfredi, West 8th Street, William Kelley, Winka Dubbeldam, Zlota 44
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
The NY Times spoke to Rick Bell about the planned expansion of the Center for Architecture, designed by Rob Rogers; the jury for a competition to re-design the Capitol Mall in Sacramento (pictured at left) included EE&K’s Peter David Cavaluzzi; the new book Beyond Shelter, published by Metropolis Books, features work by Jim Dart and Deborah Gans; the Architect’s Newspaper visited the newly-opened TASHAN restaurant in Philadelphia, designed by Board Member Winka Dubbeldam; ArchDaily recently posted a great video interview with Patron Steven Holl; today marks the start of construction on Board Member Enrique Norten’s new Rutgers Business School Building in Livingston, New Jersey; construction work on a new half-billion-dollar mixed-use complex designed by John Portman at the former site of the Shanghai Expo is just beginning in China’s largest city; IBM’s SmartPlanet.com took an in-depth look at the intricate facade of Matthias Sauerbruch’s KfW Westarkade in Frankfurt; Robert AM Stern’s George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas recently had its topping-out ceremony; and Beverly Willis reviewed critic Paul Goldberger’s book Why Architecture Matters for the Associates of the Art Commission.
Tags: AIANY, Architect's Newspaper, Associates of the Art Commission, Beverly Willis, Beyond Shelter, California, Capitol Mall, Center for Architecture, China, construction, Dallas, Deborah Gans, design competition, Enrique Norten, Frankfurt, George W. Bush Presidential Center, Germany, Housing, IBM, interview, Jim Dart, john portman, jury, KfW Westarkade, landscape architecture, Livingston, manhattan, Matthias Sauerbruch, mixed-use, New Jersey, New Orleans, New York City, New York Times, Paul Goldberger, Peter David Cavaluzzi, Philadelphia, redevelopment, review, Rick Bell, Rob Rogers, Robert AM Stern, Rogers Marvel, Rutgers University, Sacramento, Shanghai, Steven Holl, TASHAN, TEN Arquitectos, Texas, Why Architecture Matters, Winka Dubbeldam, World Expo
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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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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Steve Rosenbaum spoke with Michael Arad about the 9/11 Memorial and his role in the reconstruction of Ground Zero (of which the Daily Mail released some fantastic construction photos); Susan Chin appears in a video from a recent University of Chicago panel on the role of architecture in building cultural vitality; Richard Dattner’s PlayCubes (pictured at left) were revisited by the Playscapes blog; David Dixon is developing a comprehensive 20-year master plan for tornado-ravaged Birmingham, Alabama; Architectural Record looks at how Bruce Fowle turned his firm’s office into a veritable art gallery; Ken Greenberg released a study with recommendations for the future of a busy stretch of Toronto’s Yonge Street; Lebbeus Woods wrote an enthusiastic piece on Patron Steven Holl’s Vanke Center in Shenzhen; Chicago Magazine‘s Whet Moser called Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library a “[serious] reading room for the digital age”; Elle named Kate Orff as one of their Inspirational Women of 2011; and Domus featured archi-horoscopes by Dan Graham, including one on Cancerian IfUD Patron Robert Venturi.
Tags: 9/11 Memorial, adventure playground, Alabama, Architectural Record, Architecture, art, Birmingham, Bruce Fowle, Chicago, China, construction, criticism, culture, Dan Graham, David Dixon, Domus, FXFOWLE, Ground Zero, Helmut Jahn, horoscope, Kate Orff, Ken Greeberg, Lebbeus Woods, library, manhattan, Mansueto Library, master plan, michael arad, New York City, pedestrianization, playcubes, Richard Dattner, Robert Venturi, Shenzhen, Steven Holl, Steven Rosenbaum, Susan Chin, Toronto, University of Chicago, Vanke Center, Whet Moser, women architects, Yonge Street
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
In a chat with the Wall Street Journal about the Van Alen Institute’s new bookstore on 22nd Street, Olympia Kazi said of architects: “They’re books junkies, no matter how many Nooks and iPads. They still love their print, the hard copy.” In an article in the latest Americas Quarterly, Board Member Saskia Sassen detailed the ways that networked cities and citizens are changing the way business is done, stating in no uncertain terms that “There is no such entity as the global economy.” Moshe Safdie, meanwhile, reflected on the international atmosphere at the construction site for his Marina Bay Sands project in Singapore (pictured at left) at a press conference, noting that “One tower was built by Chinese workers, and another tower was built by a Bangladeshi team. It looked like the Tower of Babel.”
Tags: Americas Quarterly, Bangladesh, books, bookstore, China, construction, global economy, manhattan, marina bay sands, moshe safdie, networks, New York City, Olympia Kazi, Saskia Sassen, singapore, skyscraper, Tower of Babel, Van Alen Institute
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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Renderings of Ocean Dreams (pictured at left), a mixed-use complex of high-rises on the Coney Island Boardwalk designed by Richard Dattner’s firm, was unveiled; the April issue of Interior Design magazine features an eight-page spread on Board Member Winka Dubbeldam’s new Ports 1961 flagship in Shanghai; Executive Director Anne Guiney was interviewed about how changes in zoning and policy in New York are impacting the East Village; Alison Arieff called John Hartmann’s Bright Dawn Farm project “a glimmer of hope” for the future of suburbia in a New York Times Opinionator article on Droog’s recent Open House event in Levittown; the latest Architect magazine features a survey of national architecture policies by Board Member Cathy Lang Ho; construction is wrapping up on not one, but two new museums designed by Patron Steven Holl, in France and China; Board Member Enrique Norten’s zig-zagging Mercedes House tower opened in Manhattan; the New York Public Library kicked off construction on Lyn Rice’s Hamilton Grange Branch Teen Center; and Rob Rogers’ firm was named as one of five finalists in the competition to re-design DC’s Ellipse, in front of the White House.
Tags: Anne Guiney, Boardwalk, Bright Dawn Farm, brooklyn, Cathy Lang Ho, China, competition, Coney Island, construction, Dattner Architects, East Village, Ellipse, Enrique Norten, France, Freecell, Hamilton Grange, interior design, John Hartmann, Levittown, Lyn Rice, manhattan, Mercedes House, Midtown, mixed-use, museum, New York City, New York Public Library, New York Times, Ocean Dreams, Ports 1961, public policy, Richard Dattner, Rob Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Shanghai, skyscraper, Steven Holl, urban agriculture, washington dc, White House, Winka Dubbeldam, zoning
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