Friday, August 10th, 2012
Matt Blesso discussed Bushwick’s burgeoning real estate future in Metro New York; an Architectural Record article about Via Verde (pictured left) included comments by Lance Jay Brown, a founding member of the development’s steering committee; Brown, and the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee he co-chairs, was also featured in an Architect article about rising sea levels; Anthony Flint wrote about digital public art in Atlantic Cities; the Washington Post reviewed Daniel Libeskind’s exhibit at the Goethe Institut in Washington, DC; Engineering News-Record gave an in depth account of the structural engineering of the forthcoming Barclays Center designed by Gregg Pasquarelli’s SHoP Architects; Linda Pollak’s transformation of Queens Plaza was featured in the Wall Street Journal; Metropolis profiled Robert Rogers’ firm; Michael Stepner spoke to the U-T San Diego about planning lessons learned from teaching in Madrid.
Tags: AIANY, Anthony Flint, Architect Magazine, Architectural Record, Atlantic Cities, Bushwick, daniel libeskind, Dattner Architects, Engineering News-Record, Goethe Institut, Gregg Pasquarelli, Grimshaw Architects, Lance Jay Brown, Linda Pollak, matt blesso, Metro New York, Metropolis Magazine, Michael Stepner, New York, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel Architects, SHoP Architects, U-T San Diego, Via Verde, wall street journal, washington dc, Washington Post
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Friday, July 20th, 2012
Next Monday, Gretchen Bank and Board Member Tami Hausman will advise about marketing, communications, and business development at the Center for Architecture; on both 7/23 and 7/27, Ernest Hutton talks “Active Design 101: An Introduction to NYC’s Active Design Guidelines,” also at the Center for Architecture; Rick Bell will moderate “Hyper-Public: Olympic City – Present Past Future” on 7/27; an exhibit about Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area at SFMOMA, featuring work by Board Member Thom Mayne, closes on 7/29; the Goethe Institut in Washington, DC is currently showing “Daniel Libeskind: Architecture for the Angel of History” (Libeskind’s Jewish Museum pictured above) through the end of August.
Tags: Buckminster Fuller, Center for Architecture, daniel libeskind, Ernest Hutton, Goethe Institut, Gretchen Bank, Rick Bell, San Francisco, sfmoma, tami hausman, Thom Mayne, washington dc
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Monday, July 9th, 2012
Wendy Feuer spoke to DNAinfo.com New York about NYC DOT’s public art projects (one pictured above); Board Member Tami Hausman wrote about the future of the AEC industry in Design Intelligence; a Hargreaves Associates team led by Mary Margaret Jones unveiled the final draft of its riverfront plan for Richmond, VA; Interior Design interviewed Daniel Libeskind about his foray into door design; Nina Rappaport spoke to Nate Berg of Atlantic Cities about her Vertical Urban Factory exhibit on now at MOCAD in Detroit.
Tags: Atlantic Cities, daniel libeskind, Design Intelligence, Detroit, DNAinfo.com, Hargreaves Associates, interior design, Mary Magaret Jones, MOCAD, Nate Berg, New York, Nina Rappaport, NYC DOT, Richmond, tami hausman, Vertical Urban Factory, Wendy Feuer
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
Last Friday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Achva Stein gave a tour of the new Moroccan Court, followed by cocktails on the roof; also on 6/15, Rick Bell’s Center for Architecture hosted the AIA New York Chapter’s 145th Annual Meeting, where Lance Jay Brown is the 2013 First Vice President/2014 President-Elect; last Saturday in Shanghai, Board Member Thom Mayne spoke at the XXL Supertall Buildings conference co-hosted by Tonji University and USC; while 6/16 in the South Bronx, Kaja Kuhl hosted a workshop about her phytoremediation project; Laurie Kerr was at the Center for Architecture on 6/18 for a talk about “NYC’s Net Zero School”; Architecture for Humanity is having an online auction, running from 6/19 through 6/29, featuring work by Patron Steven Holl, Daniel Libeskind, and Moshe Safdie; Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute is hosting the day-long Advanced Energy Performance: Real Estate’s New Energy Asset Management Paradigm conference (pictured above) on 6/21, where both he and Laurie Kerr will speak.
Tags: 145th Annual Meeting, Achva Stein, Advanced Energy Performance, AIA NY, Architecture for Humanity, Center for Architecture, daniel libeskind, Jack Nyman, Kaja Kuhl, Lance Jay Brown, Laurie Kerr, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moroccan Court, Morphosis, moshe safdie, NYC's Net Zero School, phytoremediation, Real Estate's New Energy Asset Management Paradigm, Rick Bell, Shanghai, South Bronx, Steven Holl, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Thom Mayne, Tonji University, USC, XXL Supertall Buildings, youarethecity
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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.
Tags: Abitare, AIA NY, Architectural League, Atlantic City, Blouin Art Info, Caples Jefferson, CityWide, Craig Dykers, daniel libeskind, David van der Leer, Dutch Kills Green, Fernando Ferrer, Guggenheim Museum, John Palmieri, Justin Allen, Ken Fisher, Linda Pollak, Meta Brunzema, Meta Brunzema Architects, Metropolis, New York City, Rick Bell, Sara Caples, Snohetta, Stillspotting, Studio Daniel Libeskind, Urban Omnibus, UT Austin School of Architecture, Washington Post
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Thursday, June 7th, 2012
David Briggs’ Loci Architecture was selected to design a new home for Brooklyn Prospect Charter School; an HOK team led by Kenneth Drucker won the competition to design a new medical school at the University at Buffalo; an art gallery by Patron Steven Holl’s firm recently opened outside of Seoul (pictured at left); Daniel Libeskind is delving into product design, and unveiled his collaboration with an Italian door manufacturer; the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation has selected Barbara Wilks to redevelop St. Patrick’s Island on the Bow River.
Tags: Barbara Wilks, Bow River, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, Buffalo, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, Daeyang Gallery, daniel libeskind, David Briggs, HOK, Kenneth Drucker, Loci Architecture, New York City, seoul, St. Patrick's Island, Steven Holl, Steven Holl Architects, University at Buffalo
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
During the month of April, Larry Wayne Richards was a Visiting Professor at the National Cheng Kung University Department of Architecture in Tainan (Taiwan), where he also presented a lecture, “Is Everything the Same Now?”; Patron Denise Scott Brown will be at the Center for Architecture on Friday (5/4) for a conversation about the National Mosque of Baghdad competition; the final tours of David van der Leer’s stillspotting nyc exhibit will take place on 5/5 and 5/6 in Jackson Heights, Queens; Board Member Saskia Sassen will be at the Frieze Art Fair on 5/6 for a panel about land occupation; on 5/8, Rick Bell will introduce a moderated discussion about “Practice in the Middle East” at his Center for Architecture; the next day in D.C., Lance Jay Brown will be at the National Building Museum to present on public space in the nation’s capital; Sassen will also be at the Megaprojects symposium hosted by Columbia’s GSAPP and CURE on 5/11, and will then participate in the New Cities Summit in Paris (5/14-16), along with Daniel Libeskind; an exhibit of Patron Steven Holl’s work is now on view at the Meulensteen Gallery through 6/2; also on now through 7/29 is an exhibit about Buckminster Fuller at SFMoMA (image from exhibit pictured at right) that includes work by Board Member Thom Mayne.
Tags: AIA New York, Buckminster Fuller, Center for Architecture, Columbia University, CURE, daniel libeskind, David van der Leer, Denise Scott Brown, Frieze Art Fair, GSAPP, Jackson Heights, Lance Jay Brown, land occupation, larry wayne richards, megaprojects, Meulensteen Gallery, Morphosis, national building museum, National Cheng Kung University, National Mosque of Baghdad, New Cities Summit, Paris, Practice in the Middle East, public space, Queens, Rick Bell, Saskia Sassen, sfmoma, Steven Holl, stillspotting nyc, Tainan, Taiwan, Thom Mayne, washington dc
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
SOM’s team lead—by Phil Enquist—was selected to develop the master plan for Beijing Bohai Innovation City (pictured at left); Reflections at Keppel Bayon, Daniel Libeskind’s first residential project in Asia, will open in Singapore on 3/22; Michael Manfredi’s firm has been selected to develop the master plan for the National Geographic Headquarters in D.C.; Lyn Rice’s firm Rice + Lipka will redesign the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in conjunction with James Corner Field Operations.
Tags: Beijing, Beijing Bohai Innovation City, daniel libeskind, Detroit, James Corner Field Operations, Lyn Rice, Michael Manfredi, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, National Geographic Headquarters, Phil Enquist, Reflections at Keppel Bayon, Rice + Lipka, singapore, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, SOM, washington dc
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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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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Lance Jay Brown will serve as a juror for the AIANY State 2012 Honors Awards, to be presented this coming April; the teams proceeding to the third and final round of the National Mall Design Competition, managed by Donald Stastny, were announced, with Craig Dykers, Michael Manfredi, Rob Rogers, and Peter Walker all still in the mix; Dykers was also just announced as the chair of the jury for the 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition; Ron Harwick’s Columbia Parc neighborhood in New Orleans (pictured at left) had a banner year, taking home multiple honors–click here to download a full list of awards and more information on the project; Patron Steven Holl’s Cité de l’Océan et du Surf in Biarritz, France, won the sole award in the Play category in Architect magazine’s 2011 Annual Design Review; critic Lee Bey cited the opening of Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library on his list of the best Chicago architecture of the past year (echoing Blair Kamin’s list from earlier in the month); the Parks for the People competition, organized by Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute and with Steven Handel sitting on the jury, just announced the selection of nine teams to move on to the second round–one of which is led by CCNY’s Denise Hoffman Brandt and Board Member Toni Griffin; Daniel Libeskind’s Crystals at CityCenter project in Las Vegas won Gold and Sustainable Design Awards in the ICSC’s annual US Design & Development Awards; Urban Omnibus announced an essay competition to complement the Architectural League’s exhibit The Unfinished Grid, with our own Board President Michael Sorkin on the jury (deadline: 2/1/12); and Rosemary Wakeman has received a EURIAS Senior Fellowship to spend the next year at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies completing her book on the New Town Movement.
Tags: AIANY, Architect Magazine, Architectural League, Biarritz, book, CCNY, Chicago, Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf, Columbia Parc, Craig Dykers, Crystals at CityCenter, daniel libeskind, Denise Hoffman Brandt, design competition, Design Review, Donald Stastny, EURIAS Fellowship, Helmut Jahn, ICSC Design & Development Awards, International Council of Shopping Centers, jury, Lance Jay Brown, Las Vegas, Lee Bey, Mansueto Library, Michael Manfredi, Michael Sorkin, National Mall Design Competition, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, New Orleans, New Town Movement, Olympia Kazi, Parks for the People, Peter Walker, play, Robert Rogers, Ron Harwick, Rosemary Wakeman, Steedman Fellowship, Steven Handel, Steven Holl, The Unfinished Grid, Toni Griffin, Urban Omnibus, Van Alen Institute, washington dc
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