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.
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
The Vanishing City, a new film on the gentrification of Manhattan, featuring interviews with Tom Angotti and Board Member Saskia Sassen, opened the Staten Island Film Festival; Angotti also spoke to the NY Daily News about his new research project at Hunter College trying to repurpose vacant residential units to shrink rates of homelessness; Mimi Zeiger profiled Thomas Balsley in the latest Landscape Architecture Magazine [PDF]; Jim Dart wrote briefly about progress on the Great Falls Arts + Revitalization Initiative at the Great Falls National Park in Paterson, NJ, a project that also involves Darius Sollohub and Claire Weisz; in nearby Nutley, NJ, Ken Drucker is designing a new pedestrian bridge at the Hoffman La Roche corporate campus; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston announced a shortlist of three firms for its planned expansion: Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta, Patron Steven Holl’s eponymous firm, and Board Member Thom Mayne’s Morphosis; hot off an interview with the Montreal Gazette, Ken Greenberg penned a requiem for a pedestrian bridge proposed in Toronto; Matthias Sauerbruch’s design for an office building on London’s Old Bailey (pictured at left) has been approved; and the Drawing Center has just launched a capital plan for their Claire Weisz-designed expansion.
Tags: Bronx, Claire Weisz, Craig Dykers, Darius Sollohub, Drawing Center, film screening, Great Falls, homelessness, Houston, Hunter College, James Dart, Ken Greenberg, landscape architecture, london, manhattan, Matthias Sauerbruch, Mimi Zeiger, Montreal, Morphosis, museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, New Jersey, New York City, Nutley, office building, Old Bailey, Paterson, pedestrian bridge, Saskia Sassen, Snohetta, Staten Island, Steven Holl, Texas, Thom Mayne, Thomas Balsley, Tom Angotti, Toronto, vacant space, Vanishing City
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Developer Douglas Durst revealed the hotly-anticipated renderings of his W57 development (pictured at left), which is being designed by Danish rising star Bjarke Ingels; Nicolai Ouroussoff wrote a rave review in the Times for Patron Steven Holl’s design for a new Long Island City library; Chicago Tribune critic Blair Kamin spoke with Helmut Jahn about the unique pleasures and perils of airport terminal design; the University of Pennsylvania recently broke ground on the Michael Manfredi-designed Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology; Kate Orff’s “oyster-tecture” project has been popping up everywhere recently: in Grist, the Guardian, Metropolis, the PSFK blog, and on TED.com; Gregg Pasquarelli’s SHoP Architects was named as the architect of the first residential tower at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards megadevelopment; Board Member Saskia Sassen made a splash with the cheekily-titled (and highly-enjoyable) article “Talking back to your intelligent city”; and the Architect’s Newspaper took a virtual walk through Claire Weisz’s plans for the revamp of NYC’s Cooper Square/Astor Place, while the Times announced Weisz as the architect for an expansion of Soho’s Drawing Center.
Tags: airport, Astor Place, atlantic yards, Bjarke Ingels, Blair Kamin, brooklyn, Chicago, Claire Weisz, Cooper Square, Douglas Durst, Drawing Center, Gregg Pasquarelli, Helmut Jahn, intelligent city, Kate Orff, library, Long Island City, manhattan, museum, nanotechnology, New York City, Nicolai Ouroussoff, oyster-tecture, plaza program, Saskia Sassen, security, SHoP Architects, Soho, Steven Holl, TED.com, University of Pennsylvania, W57, WXY Architecture
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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.
