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 27th, 2012
The National Academy Museum and School (above) elected Patron Steven Holl and Gregg Pasquarelli as Academicians; ASLA elevated Henry White to its Council of Fellows; the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, founded by Beverly Willis and currently led by Wanda Bubriski, received an NEA Art Works grant to support their “Making A Place for Women in 20th-Century American Architecture” project.
Tags: ASLA, Beverly Willis, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Gregg Pasquarelli, Henry White, National Academy Museum and School, NEA, Steven Holl, wanda bubriski
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
In Sandy Springs, GA, David Dixon’s firm, Goody Clancy, will develop a downtown master plan focused on improving commuting conditions; last week, a team from SOM lead by Phil Enquist presented new details about their Lakeside development project of a former US Steel plant on the South Side of Chicago; Eric Galipo was on the team from H3 whose campus master plan was recently approved by the Board of Trustees at Adelphi University; John Palmieri’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority has released a new master plan for Atlantic City designed by Jon Jerde’s Jerde Partnership; Mary Margaret Jones and her firm, Hargreaves Associates, presented their design concepts for Destination Bayfront to a 250-person audience in Corpus Christi, TX; Emerson College broke ground on their new L.A. campus building designed by Board Member Thom Mayne; last Thursday, Gregg Pasquarelli presented SHoP’s vision for Pier 17 in Lower Manhattan’s South Street Seaport to Community Board 1 (pictured at left).
Tags: Adelphi University, Atlantic City, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, Chicago, Community Board 1, Corpus Christi, David Dixon, Destination Bayfront, Emerson College, Eric Galipo, Georgia, Goody Clancy, Gregg Pasquarelli, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, Hargreaves Associates, Jerde Partnership, John Palmieri, Jon Jerde, Lakeside, Los Angeles, Lower Manhattan, Mary Margaret Jones, Morphosis, New Jersey, Phil Enquist, Pier 17, Sandy Springs, SHoP, SOM, South Side, South Street Seaport, Texas, Thom Mayne, US Steel
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Friday, March 16th, 2012
On 3/6, Board Member Winka Dubbeldam celebrated the German launch of her recent book, Archi-Tectonics, with a party at the Berlin branch of Soho House; last Wednesday, 3/7, Board Member Enrique Norten gave a lecture at the Center for Architecture in New York entitled “This Will Kill That,” asking ‘What has happened to physical space in the age of mass media?’; today, Robert A.M. Stern participated in the commemoration ceremony for the Edward Durell Stone House on New York’s Upper East Side; Board Member Toni Griffin will speak on a panel about architecture, gender and space at the Brooklyn Museum (3/17); on 3/19 at UPenn, Michael Manfredi will present the evolution of the Diana Center at Barnard (pictured at left); a documentary about John Portman, entitled John Portman: A Life of Building, will screen at the Atlanta Film Festival on 3/26; Gregg Pasquarelli will deliver the Graduate Architecture Open House Lecture at the Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis (3/30).
Tags: Archi-Tectonics, Atlanta Film Festival, Barnard College, Berlin, Brooklyn Museum, Center for Architecture, Diana Center, Edward Durell Stone House, Enrique Norten, Gregg Pasquarelli, john portman, Michael Manfredi, Robert AM Stern, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, SHoP Architects, Soho House, St. Louis, This Will Kill That, Toni Griffin, UPenn, Upper East Side, Washington University, Winka Dubbeldam
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Friday, February 24th, 2012
The jury for Manhattan’s AIDS Memorial Park design competition, led by Michael Arad, announced its winner; Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta and Gregg Pasquarelli’s SHoP Architects are both finalists in a competition to design a major light rail transfer hub in downtown Houston; Paul Schmidt, who recently retired from his post as Executive Director of Sacramento’s Capitol Area Development Authority after 36 years of service to the State of California and the Capitol Area Plan, was elected to the board of the California Housing Partnership Corporation; and Rob Rogers‘ firm Rogers Marvel is one of nine finalists in the competition, managed by Donald Stastny, to redesign Austin’s Waller Creek area.
Tags: AIDS Memorial Park, Austin, California, California Housing Partnership Corporation, Capitol Area Development Authority, Craig Dykers, design competition, Donald Stastny, Gregg Pasquarelli, Housing, Houston, jury, light rail, manhattan, michael arad, New York City, Paul Schmidt, Rob Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Sacramento, SHoP Architects, Snohetta, transportation, Waller Creek
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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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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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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
The Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at St. Louis’ Washington University announced its spring lecture series, with Craig Dykers set to speak tonight (2/1), and visits from Gregg Pasquarelli and Richard Sennett scheduled for later this semester; Rob Rogers will speak about Rogers Marvel’s recent work (including President’s Park South, pictured at left) at the National Building Museum in Washington on 2/2; Denise Hoffman Brandt and Board Member Toni Griffin have organized a panel, Defining Cultural Landscapes, at CCNY on 2/3 (with opening remarks by Olympia Kazi); the Center for Architecture will host the panel Freedom of Assembly: Public Space Today Redux on 2/4, with Thomas Balsley, Rick Bell, Lance Jay Brown, and Susan Chin all participating (Brown will be back at the Center, with David Dixon, for a discussion about Climate Change on 2/17); Bruce Fowle will speak at the Center’s Active Design 201 on 2/7; Board Member Claire Weisz will speak in New York, also on 2/7, at the Studio-X panel Trash Tubes of the Future; Board Member Enrique Norten will give a talk at the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach on 2/9; that same day, in New York, Ernie Hutton will moderate a discussion on the Miami21 zoning initiative; and a new exhibit at the National Academy, featuring work by Robert A.M. Stern, has just opened and will remain on view in New York through 4/29.
Tags: active design, Bruce Fowle, CCNY, Center for Architecture, Claire Weisz, climate change, Craig Dykers, David Dixon, Defining Cultural Landscapes, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Enrique Norten, Ernest Hutton, Florida, form-based code, Freedom of Assembly, Gregg Pasquarelli, historic preservation, Lance Jay Brown, manhattan, Miami, Miami21, National Academy Museum, national building museum, New York City, occupation, Olympia Kazi, pneumatic tubes, Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, President's Park South, public space, Richard Sennett, Rick Bell, Rob Rogers, robert a.m. stern, Rogers Marvel, Saint Louis, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Studio-X, Susan Chin, Thomas Balsley, Toni Griffin, washington dc, Washington University, zoning
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
On 1/17, the Storefront for Art and Architecture will host an opening reception for artist Allard van Hoorn’s 007 Urban Songline, which will transform the iconic facade designed by Patron Steven Holl and Vito Acconci (pictured at left) into a musical instrument; also on 1/17, Rick Bell’s Center for Architecture will hold a “Breakthrough” party to mark the connection of the existing and new gallery spaces; Ken Greenberg will open a conference on the future of Montreal’s Griffintown neighborhood on 1/20; Rosemary Wakeman’s Urban Studies Program at Forham will host the panel Urban Dialogues II: Making Cities Work on 1/23; and that same day, Gregg Pasquarelli and Board Member Thom Mayne will participate in the Columbia GSAPP’s symposium Where is More Manhattan?
Tags: 007 Urban Songline, Allard van Hoorn, Breakthrough, Center for Architecture, Columbia GSAPP, Fordham University, Gregg Pasquarelli, Griffintown, installation, Ken Greenberg, manhattan, Montreal, reception, Rick Bell, Rosemary Wakeman, Steven Holl, Storefront for Art & Architecture, Thom Mayne, Urban Dialogues II: Making Cities Work, urban studies, Vito Acconci
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
Dwell sat down with Craig Dykers to talk about Snøhetta’s design process for the expansion of SFMOMA. On the relationship of the new wing to the museum’s iconic Mario Botta-designed home, he explained that “I think the best way to say it is that we’re working with a dancing partner, and you have to be sure not to step on your partner’s feet.” And back in New York, Patricia Lancaster spoke to the Observer about the recently-announced plans for modular towers (pictured at left, and designed by Gregg Pasquarelli) to rise at Atlantic Yards, stating that “I think prefab is the wave of the future, and I think it will come to New York. The only question is when, and how much power the unions have to do something about it.”
Tags: Architecture, atlantic yards, brooklyn, Craig Dykers, Dwell, Gregg Pasquarelli, mario botta, modular, museums, New York City, New York Observer, Patricia Lancaster, prefab, quotes, San Francisco, sfmoma, SHoP Architects, Snohetta
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