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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Friday, May 18th, 2012
On Sunday, “Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City” opened at Socrates Sculpture Park with work by Mary Miss; this Friday, 5/18, Nina Rappaport’s “Vertical Urban Factory” exhibit both closes at NYU and opens at MOCAD in Detroit; Ronnette Riley and Richard Rogers will participate in the “Guess-a-Sketch” competition and benefit at the Center for Architecture on 5/22; also on 5/22, Tom Angotti will be at the AIA San Francisco to discuss his new book, Service Learning in Design and Planning; Linda Pollak speaks about Marpillero Pollak’s new Dutch Kills Green park at a “Public Space Potluck” in Long Island City on 5/23 (pictured above); Craig Dykers will be in Prague on 5/26 to give a keynote at the reSITE Festival; Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute hosts a day-long symposium entitled “Battery Park City: Coming of Age” on 5/31; that evening, June Williamson will be at Van Alen Books to discuss the design and culture of parking; an exhibit of Patron Steven Holl’s work at the Meulensteen Gallery closes on 6/2.
Tags: AIA New York, AIA San Francisco, AIANY, Baruch College, Battery Park City, Battery Park City Coming of Age, Center for Architecture, Civic Action A Vision for Long Island City, Craig Dykers, Detroit, Dutch Kills Green, Forking Time, Guess-a-Sketch, Jack Nyman, June Williamson, Linda Pollak, Long Island City, Marpillero Pollak, mary miss, Meulensteen Gallery, MOCAD, Nina Rappaport, Noguchi Museum, NYU, Prague, Public Space Potluck, reSITE Festival, Richard Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Ronnette Riley, Service-Learning in Design and Planning, Snohetta, Socrates Sculpture Park, Steven Holl, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Tom Angotti, Van Alen Books, Vertical Urban Factory
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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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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
A study by Tom Angotti and Picture the Homeless revealed that New York City is home to enough vacant lots and buildings to house its entire homeless population–with room to spare; Deborah Berke’s Yale architecture students are designing an urban bourbon distillery in downtown Louisville; Rick Bell was profiled by the Epoch Times; the latest episode of CUNY-TV’s Citywide program features Ken Fisher interviewing Working Families Party leader Camille Rivera; Chadwick Floyd is designing the expansion of Waterford, Connecticut’s Eugene O’Neill Theater Center; MLive.com interviewed Board Member Toni Griffin about the long-term strategic planning initiative she’s leading for the Detroit Works Program; Patron Steven Holl was selected to design the expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Dallas Morning News walked through Board Member Thom Mayne’s almost-complete Perot Museum of Nature & Science with the architect; Board Member Enrique Norten gave a presentation on how sustainable architecture can catalyze community development at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos; Gregg Pasquarelli’s firm has just released its first monograph, SHoP: Out of Practice; Matthias Sauerbruch’s Low2No complex in Helsinki’s former docklands (pictured at left) is cited as an exemplary mixed use project in a Telegraph piece on the greening of residential architecture; and Achva Benzinberg Stein’s dazzling new Moroccan Courtyard at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is featured in this month’s Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Tags: Achva Benzinberg Stein, Architecture, books, bourbon, Camille Rivera, Chadwick Floyd, CityWide, Connecticut, CUNY-TV, Dallas, Davos, Deborah Berke, Design, Detroit, Detroit Works, education, Enrique Norten, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, green buildings, Gregg Pasquarelli, Helsinki, homelessness, Housing, Houston, Kenneth K. Fisher, Landscape Architecture Magazine, long-term planning, Louisville, Low2No, Matthias Sauerbruch, Metropolitan Museum of Art, mixed-use, monograph, Moroccan Courtyard, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, museums, New York City, Perot Museum of Nature & Science, Picture the Homeless, profile, redevelopment, residential, Rick Bell, Sauerbruch Hutton, SHoP Architects, SHoP Out of Practice, Steven Holl, strategic planning, Telegraph, Texas, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, Toni Griffin, vacant space, Waterford, Working Families Party, World Economic Forum, Yale SoA, Yale University
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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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Monday, May 16th, 2011
SOM Chicago principal Philip Enquist will speak about ‘The Endless City’ at Penn Design’s 2011 commencement ceremony on 5/16; Rick Bell and Laurie Kerr will both participate in Fit City 6 at the Center for Architecture on 5/17; Lance Jay Brown will participate in the Better City/Better Life: North-South Initiative symposium at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan on 5/18; a reception for the exhibit Downtown Brooklyn Commons [PDF], featuring design proposals from the Rus en Urbe studio led by CCNY’s Denise Hoffman Brandt, Elisabetta Terragni, and Barbara Wilks, with a model created in charette with Michael Sorkin’s graduate urban design studio, will take place at Brooklyn Borough Hall on 5/19; Deborah Berke will speak at the Miller House Symposium in Columbus, Indiana on 5/20 (the titular modernist residence is pictured at left); Peter D. Cavaluzzi will join a panel on Firm Identity in an Age of Mergers & Acquisitions at the CfA on 5/23; Enquist will join David Dixon and other noted urbanists for a series of discussions at the Detroit Public Library’s Detroit By Design event on 5/24; and Toronto’s Urbanspace Gallery will host a book launch party for Ken Greenberg’s aforementioned Walking Home on 5/25.
Tags: acquisitions, Barbara Wilks, Better City Better Life, book launch, Center for Architecture, City College of New York, Columbus, commencement, David Dixon, Debora Berke, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Detroit, Detroit by Design, Downtown Brooklyn, Elisabetta Terragni, endless city, exhibit, Fit City 6, Indiana, Ken Greenberg, Lance Jay Brown, Laurie Kerr, manhattan, mergers, Michael Sorkin, modernist, museum, New York City, penn design, Peter David Cavaluzzi, Philadelphia, Philip Enquist, reception, Rick Bell, Rus en Urbe, symposium, Toronto, united nations, urban design studio, Urbanspace Gallery, Walking Home
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
Olympia Kazi will participate in a panel discussion at the 2011 D-Crit Conference on 5/4; Ethel Sheffer will participate in the panel Riverside Center: Did the Public Process Work? at the Center for Architecture on 5/9; then, on 5/12, you can return to the Center to see Deborah Gans moderate the panel Housing Innovation New York; Winka Dubbeldam will join a panel on design at WANTED: Design in New York on 5/14; and Art & Architecture, an exhibit of the work of architect-developer John Portman (a la Detroit’s Renaissance Center, pictured at left), is on view at Beijing’s Capital Museum from now through June 12th.
Tags: art, Beijing, Capital Museum, Center for Architecture, d-crit, Deborah Gans, Detroit, Development, Ethel Sheffer, Housing, New York City, Olympia Kazi, panel discussion, public process, Riverside Center, Winka Dubbeldam
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
Wanda Bubriski jumped into the public debate surrounding Architect Barbie at BWAF’s new blog; a recent CNN feature on urban agriculture included two projects by Colin Cathcart; Anthony Flint (whose Wrestling With Moses has been garnering fresh attention lately) wrote an article for Boston.com on Ben and Jane Thompson’s storied Design Research store in Cambridge, calling Jane’s new book on DR’s history “wonderful”; a developer announced plans for a floating marina complex (pictured at left), designed by Carlo Frugiuele, on the Jersey City waterfront; Ken Greenberg is working on a plan for the pedestrianization of part of Toronto’s famed Yonge Street; Board Member Toni Griffin and Fellow June Williamson both contributed to a Times Room for Debate feature on “the Incredible Shrinking City”; John Hoal is leading a six-team visioning process for St. Louis’ Ackert Walkway; Stephen Holl talked to the Scotland Herald about his Glasgow School of Art project, which was unanimously approved by the city; Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute has been busy, announcing the mid-April opening of its design bookstore in Manhattan and launching the Life at the Speed of Rail design competition, the jury for which will include IfUD Board Member Thom Mayne; Treehugger talked to Laurie Kerr about NYC’s pioneering Local Law 84; the Architect’s Newspaper posted video of Gregg Pasquarelli discussing SHoP’s design for the Botswana Innovation Hub; Rob Rogers’ firm Rogers Marvel will handle restoration work on Manhattan’s Pier A, which will become a retail and event space; and Metropolis visited Andrew Whalley at Grimshaw Industrial Design’s new Chelsea office.
Tags: Ackert Walkway, Andrew Whalley, Anthony Flint, Architect Barbie, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Botswana Innovation Hub, Carlo Frugiuele, Chelsea, climate change, CNN, Colin Cathcart, Design Research, Detroit, Flatiron District, Glasgow School of Art, Gregg Pasquarelli, Grimshaw Architects, high speed rail, historic preservation, industrial design, Jane Thompson, Jersey City, John Hoal, June Williamson, Ken Greenberg, Laurie Kerr, Local Law 84, manhattan, Metropolis, Missouri, New York City, New York Times, Olympia Kazi, pedestrianization, Pier A, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Saint Louis, SHoP Architects, shrinking cities, Stephen Holl, sustainability, Thom Mayne, Toni Griffin, Toronto, Treehugger, urban agriculture, Van Alen Institute, wanda bubriski, waterfront, women architects, Wrestling with Moses, Yonge Street
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Detroit is abuzz with talk about Omar Blaik’s revitalization plan for the historic Midtown neighborhood, which recently got extensive write-ups from the Detroit News and the Free-Press; the latest issue of Dwell features a two-page spread on Alexander Gorlin’s The Brook development in the Bronx; a torquing tower designed by Daniel Libeskind will soon join a new cluster of skyscrapers rising in Jerusalem; John Palmieri recently visited Belfast as a guest lecturer for the city’s State of the City Development Debate; the Architect’s Newspaper recently visited Moshe Safdie’s studio for a look at his current projects, while the Huffington Post featured a slideshow of the architect’s daring Golden Dream Bay Sky Garden Apartments in Qinhuangdao; Richard Sennett wrote an article in the Guardian on the recent funding scandal at the London School of Economics; New York magazine talked to Ethel Sheffer about the uniquely depressing quality of long-vacant storefronts in newer buildings; Michael Stepner spoke to the Voice of San Diego about the challenges presented by “invisible parks”; construction is just getting underway to transform a disused stretch of Sydney’s waterfront into the 15-acre Headlands Park, designed by Peter Walker; and HuffPo visited the serenely swooping gardens (pictured at left), designed by John Wong, at the base of the world’s tallest building, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa.
Tags: adaptive re-use, Alexander Gorlin, Architect's Newspaper, Architecture, Belfast, Bronx, Burj Khalifa, daniel libeskind, debate, Detroit, Dubai, Dwell, education, Ethel Sheffer, Golden Dream Bay Sky Garden Apartments, Headlands Park, Ireland, Israel, Jerusalem, John Palmieri, John Wong, landscape architecture, London School of Economics, manhattan, Michael Stepner, Midtown, moshe safdie, New York City, Omar Blaik, parks, Peter Walker, Qinhuangdao, retail, revitalization, Richard Sennett, safety, San Diego, skyscraper, SWA Group, Sydney, The Brook, Urban Design, waterfront
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
Atlanta-based Developer/Architect and Fellow John C. Portman, known for massive projects like his hometown’s Peachtree Center (pictured at left), Detroit’s Renaissance Center, and the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, was presented with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 Americas Lodging Investment Summit in San Diego.
Tags: Americas Lodging Investment Summit, Atlanta, Detroit, developer, hotel, john portman, Lifetime Achievement Award, Peachtree Center, San Diego, San Francisco
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