Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
In a recent piece about the Barclays Center arena (pictured at left) in the NY Daily News, Gregg Pasquarelli explained that “We wanted it to be something very different from [Madison Square] Garden…[which is] a giant, impenetrable box.” Speaking of the Cooper Union, Board Chair Michael Sorkin enthused: “These are students who unreservedly pursue what I call the ‘Poetics of Architecture,’ which is a rare thing nowadays. The combination of beauty and weirdness that’s produced at Cooper is like no place else on earth.” And at a community meeting about the Waller Creek design competition in Austin, competition manager Don Stastny noted that “It’s rare that you have an opportunity to basically change the face of the city through one of these processes.”
Tags: Architecture, atlantic yards, Austin, Barclays Center, brooklyn, Cooper Union, design competition, design school, Don Stastny, Gregg Pasquarelli, Madison Square Garden, master plan, Michael Sorkin, New York City, Poetics of Architecture, Texas, Waller Creek
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Friday, January 21st, 2011
The Wall Street Journal spoke to Richard Dattner about his design for a new salt shed in Manhattan’s Hudson Square neighborhood (pictured at left); Board Member Winka Dubbeldam has been quite popular at New York magazine lately — the publication featured a slideshow of her design for singer John Legend’s new Bowery apartment, as well as a fascinating debate between Winka, Fellows Gregg Pasquarelli and Robert A.M. Stern, and several other NYC luminaries on the city’s greatest building; the New York Times looked at Phil Enquist’s master plan for the redevelopment of a massive former US Steel complex on Chicago’s South Shore; Vince Ferrandino was interviewed by WestfairOnline as part of a special report on civic leadership; Architectural Record announced that Daniel Libeskind will design a mixed-use complex on the mainland side of a bridge connecting Sicily to the Italian peninsula; David Manfredi presented his firm’s plans for Kendall Square at a community meeting in Cambridge; Architect took a look at Moshe Safdie’s Marina Bay Sands complex; and Curbed featured a sizable set of images of Claire Weisz’s recently-unveiled plans for Manhattan’s Astor Place/Cooper Square area.
Tags: Architectural Record, Architecture, Astor Place, Bowery, bridge, Cambridge, Chicago, civic leadership, Claire Weisz, Connecticut, Cooper Union, Curbed, daniel libeskind, David Manfredi, great buildings, Gregg Pasquarelli, Hudson Square, infrastructure, interior design, Italy, John Legend, Kendall Square, manhattan, marina bay sands, master plan, moshe safdie, New York City, New York magazine, Phil Enquist, plaza program, Richard Dattner, robert a.m. stern, salt shed, Sicily, singapore, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Vince Ferrandino, wall street journal, Winka Dubbeldam
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Tom Angotti recently took a peek behind the curtain at NYC’s powerful Economic Development Corp. in the Gotham Gazette; Hillary Brown explored the future of post-industrial public infrastructure projects in a recent Design Observer piece; green megablog Inhabitat interviewed Patron Steven Holl about sustainable architecture; Board Member Thom Mayne’s 41 Cooper Square (pictured at left) was recently awarded LEED Platinum certification; John Portman’s firm was announced by the Georgia DOT as one of five finalists competing to develop a new transit hub in downtown Atlanta; Tablet Magazine profiled Moshe Safdie, dubbing the architect a Master Builder; Board Member Saskia Sassen responded to the Foreign Policy’s 2010 Global Cities Index with some hard-hitting questions; and Claire Weisz’s firm WXY Architecture was profiled [pdf] in the Architect’s Newspaper.
Tags: Atlanta, Claire Weisz, Cooper Union, Economic Development Corp, Global Cities, Hillary Brown, infrastructure, john portman, LEED, moshe safdie, New York City, Saskia Sassen, Steven Holl, Sustainable Design, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, transit, WXY Architecture
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The Institute’s membership is well-represented in the list of recipients for the 2010 International Architecture Awards. Honorees include Patron Steven Holl for the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art and the Knut Hamsun Center; Board Member Thom Mayne for the Cooper Union’s 41 Cooper Square building; Fellow Michael Manfredi’s Weiss/Manfredi Architects for the Wandering Ecologies project in Toronto (pictured at left); Fellow Craig Dykers’ firm Snøhetta for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet; and Fellow Bruce Fowle’s firm FXFOWLE for the Nordhaven City Regeneration project and SAP North America complex. The awards are administered annually by the Chicago Athenaeum and the European Center for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies.
Tags: Bruce Fowle, chicago athenaeum, Cooper Union, Craig Dykers, european center for architecture, FXFOWLE, international architecture awards, Michael Manfredi, Snohetta, Steven Holl, Thom Mayne, Weiss/Manfredi
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
The third installment of the Architectural League’s Conversations on New York series will take place tomorrow, July 20, at 7:00 PM in the Cooper Union’s Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street. This session will bring together the heads of three of New York City’s most design-conscious departments: Adrian Benepe (Parks), Amanda Burden (Planning), and David Burney (Design and Construction). The discussion will be moderated by New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger. League members may reserve a ticket by e-mailing: rsvp@archleague.org; non-members can purchase tickets here for $15.
Tags: adrian benepe, Amanda Burden, Architectural League, Cooper Union, david burney, janette sadik-khan, New York City, Urban Design
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
If you were unable to make it to the Institute’s Rebuilding a Sustainable Haiti symposium at the Cooper Union last month, we encourage you to visit the newly-added video page, where you’ll be able to watch the event in its entirety. The four hours of footage have been broken out into a dozen videos to allow you to watch individual presentations, audience Q&A sessions, and panel discussions at your leisure. We’ve also included timestamps to show where in the videos different questions are asked, and issues addressed. We hope that you’ll take a look and join in the conversation!
Tags: Cooper Union, Haiti, reconstruction, video
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
IfUD board chair Michael Sorkin will join designer Alex Garvin and Architectural League of New York executive director Rosalie Genevro today, June 17, at 7:00 PM for the first of a series of conversations based on The City We Imagined, The City We Made exhibit. The discussion will take place in the Rose Auditorium at the Cooper Union. Tickets will cost $10 per person, and can be purchased here until 3:00 PM this afternoon.
Tags: alex garvin, Architectural League, Cooper Union, Development, Michael Sorkin, rosalie genevro
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
On June 4, 2010, the Institute convened architects, planners, public health specialists, representatives from NGOs, and government officials from both Haiti and the United States for the Rebuilding a Sustainable Haiti symposium at the Cooper Union’s Rose Auditorium to identify specific needs in the Haitian recovery effort, and develop an action plan to address them. Almost 200 people attended the symposium from around the US, and the world, with attendees coming from as far afield as Spain and Sri Lanka. A big thanks goes out to everyone who made it out for the event! Images are now available on the Institute’s Facebook page, so go take a look!
Tags: Cooper Union, Haiti, photo album, public health, recovery, symposium
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Institute fellows Thomas Balsley and Charles McKinney will take part in an Architectural League-sponsored panel discussion on Design Excellence at the Department of Design and Construction and the Department of Parks and Recreation. The event will take place on Monday, May 17th, at 7:00pm in the Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 East 7th Street).
Tags: Charles McKinney, Civic Design, Cooper Union, Department of Design and Construction, Department of Parks and Recreation, New York City, Thomas Balsley
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