Friday, July 13th, 2012
Richard Dattner’s firm won an Innovative Architecture and Design Award for its tennis center at Princeton University (pictured at left); the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat awarded its lifetime achievement honor to Helmut Jahn; “The Passage: A Moving Memorial” by Mary Miss won a Design Excellence Award from the City of New York; Ted Shelton was honored with an AIA National Small Projects award for his restoration and creation of the Ghost Houses in Knoxville, TN; Peter Walker won the 2012 ASLA Design Medal; Walker’s firm was also shortlisted to design the grounds for one of the world’s largest research facilities, to be built in Sweden.
Tags: AIA, ASLA, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Dattner Architects, Helmut Jahn, Innovative Architecture and Design Awards, Knoxville, mary miss, New York, Peter Walker, Princton University, Richard Dattner, Sweden, Ted Shelton
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
The firms of Deborah Berke, John di Domenico, Lyn Rice and Ronnette Riley all received awards from the Society of American Registered Architects’ New York Council; the AIA Chicago will present this year’s lifetime achievement award to Helmut Jahn (pictured below in Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago).
Tags: AIA Chicago, Deborah Berke, Helmut Jahn, John di Domenico, Lyn Rice, Mansueto Library, Murphy Jahn, Rice + Lipka, Ronnette Riley, Society of American Registered Architects, University of Chicago
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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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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
The AIA’s New York chapter, led by Rick Bell, has just put out the call for entries for the 2012 AIANY Design Awards (deadline: 2/3/12); Francis Cauffman, led by James Crispino, has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing A/E/C industry firms on ZweigWhite’s annual Hot Firms List; Patron Steven Holl was named as the winner of the prestigious 2012 AIA Gold Medal; SOM’s Chicago Office, where Philip Enquist is the Partner in Charge of Urban Design and Planning, received AIA Chicago’s Firm of the Year award; Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin included the opening of Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago (pictured at left) in his round-up of the best architecture of 2011; Board Member Enrique Norten will serve as a juror for this year’s Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, which will focus on Cape Town, South Africa (deadline: 2/24/12); AmericasMart founder John Portman will receive a special honor, the “Legend for Life” award, in recognition of his five decades of entrepreneurship and service to the home decor industry; Board Member Saskia Sassen made Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for her “passionate advocacy of an urban-based society”; and the undergraduate program at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture, led by Frederick Steiner, was ranked second in the nation by DesignIntelligence.
Tags: A/E/C, advocacy, AIA Design Awards, AIA Gold Medal, AIANY, AmericasMart, Architecture, Austin, awards, Blair Kamin, Cape Town, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, DesignIntelligence, Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, Enrique Norten, Firm of the Year, Foreign Policy, Francis Cauffman, Frederick Steiner, Helmut Jahn, Hot Firms List, James Crispino, john portman, Legend for Life, Manuseto Library, Philip Enquist, rankings, Rick Bell, Saskia Sassen, SOM Chicago, Steven Holl, Top 100 Global Thinkers, University of Chicago, University of Texas at Austin, Urban Design, UT School of Architecture, ZweigWhite
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
The annual Open House New York will take place this weekend (10/15-16), with a kick-off party tonight in Midtown. Buildings by many Fellows (Sara Caples, Linda Pollak, Claire Weisz, et al) will be open to visitors. Meanwhile, the Chicago Architecture Foundation will launch its own annual Open House series this weekend as well, featuring tours of buildings by Phil Enquist, Helmut Jahn, and many others.
Tags: Chicago, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Claire Weisz, Helmut Jahn, Linda Pollak, New York City, Open House, Philip Enquist, Sara Caples
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Monday, September 26th, 2011
PMc Mag called Matt Blesso “New York’s Host with the Most”; Susan Chin was announced [PDF] as the new Executive Director of the Design Trust for Public Space; the launch of an effort to find an architect for the re-vamp of Chicago’s iconic Navy Pier (pictured at left) led to rumblings that both Phil Enquist and Helmut Jahn are considering throwing their respective hats in the ring; Bruce Fowle served on the jury for the AIA’s National Healthcare Design Awards; Architectural Record profiled Alex Gorlin’s contemporary take on the rowhouse in East Brooklyn; CCGSAPP’s new blog features an interview with Alfredo Brillembourg and Denise Hoffman Brandt on their new co-edited issue of SLUM Lab, which debuted during Urban Design Week; Daniel Libeskind was announced as the architect for a new wing at his iconic Jewish Museum in Berlin; FastCo Design has a great story on the collaboration, in Villahermosa, Mexico, between Board Member Enrique Norten and Barbara Wilks on a new museum and park; Moshe Safdie’s Kauffman Center just opened in Kansas City; Jonathan Schrag was appointed to serve as Deputy Commissioner for Energy in the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection; and Board President Michael Sorkin’s new book, All Over the Map, has been receiving rave reviews from the likes of the Guardian and the Telegraph.
Tags: AIA, Alexander Gorlin, Alfredo Brillembourg, All Over the Map, Architectural Record, Barbara Wilks, Berlin, book launch, brooklyn, Bruce Fowle, Chicago, Columbia University, Connecticut, daniel libeskind, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, design competition, Design Trust for Public Space, Enrique Norten, Fast Company, Germany, GSAPP, Healthcare Design Awards, Helmut Jahn, jewish museum, jonathan schrag, jury, Kansas City, Kauffman Center, landscape architecture, Matthew Blesso, Mexico, Michael Sorkin, moshe safdie, museums, Navy Pier, New York City, Philip Enquist, rowhouse, SLUM Lab, Susan Chin, Urban Design Week, Villahermosa
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
In a discussing his office space (pictured at left) with Chicago Tribune critic Blair Kamin, Helmut Jahn contrasted it with other firms: “You don’t see drawings anymore. You don’t see any models. That’s the problem. Sometimes I go to other people’s offices, I think I would die.” Board Member Thom Mayne expressed his own concerns about the effects of technology on the profession during a keynote address at last month’s International Architectural Education Summit in Spain, noting that “in the age of globalization, student portfolios are becoming more and more similar.”
Tags: Architecture, Blair Kamin, Chicago, drawing, globalization, Helmut Jahn, International Architectural Education Summit, models, portfolios, quotes, sketch, Spain, technology, Thom Mayne
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Steve Rosenbaum spoke with Michael Arad about the 9/11 Memorial and his role in the reconstruction of Ground Zero (of which the Daily Mail released some fantastic construction photos); Susan Chin appears in a video from a recent University of Chicago panel on the role of architecture in building cultural vitality; Richard Dattner’s PlayCubes (pictured at left) were revisited by the Playscapes blog; David Dixon is developing a comprehensive 20-year master plan for tornado-ravaged Birmingham, Alabama; Architectural Record looks at how Bruce Fowle turned his firm’s office into a veritable art gallery; Ken Greenberg released a study with recommendations for the future of a busy stretch of Toronto’s Yonge Street; Lebbeus Woods wrote an enthusiastic piece on Patron Steven Holl’s Vanke Center in Shenzhen; Chicago Magazine‘s Whet Moser called Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library a “[serious] reading room for the digital age”; Elle named Kate Orff as one of their Inspirational Women of 2011; and Domus featured archi-horoscopes by Dan Graham, including one on Cancerian IfUD Patron Robert Venturi.
Tags: 9/11 Memorial, adventure playground, Alabama, Architectural Record, Architecture, art, Birmingham, Bruce Fowle, Chicago, China, construction, criticism, culture, Dan Graham, David Dixon, Domus, FXFOWLE, Ground Zero, Helmut Jahn, horoscope, Kate Orff, Ken Greeberg, Lebbeus Woods, library, manhattan, Mansueto Library, master plan, michael arad, New York City, pedestrianization, playcubes, Richard Dattner, Robert Venturi, Shenzhen, Steven Holl, Steven Rosenbaum, Susan Chin, Toronto, University of Chicago, Vanke Center, Whet Moser, women architects, Yonge Street
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Monday, July 11th, 2011
The colorful KfW Westarkade tower in Frankfurt (pictured at left), designed by Matthias Sauerbruch, was named the Best Tall Building in Europe for 2011 by the CTBUH (Sauerbruch’s Oval Offices in Cologne were also featured in Architectural Record & Surface); the World Architecture Festival announced that they have named IfUD Board Chair Michael Sorkin the head of its ‘Super-Jury’ for 2011; the opening of Helmut Jahn’s Mansuetto Library was cited as one of the most important design events during the first half of 2011 by Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin.
Tags: Architecture, awards, Blair Kamin, Chicago, Cologne, color, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, CTBUH, Design, Europe, Frankfurt, Germany, Helmut Jahn, KfW Westarkade, Mansuetto Library, Matthias Sauerbruch, Michael Sorkin, Oval Offices, Sauerbruch Hutton, skyscraper, Super-Jury, World Architecture Festival
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
Civic watchdog Tom Angotti reviews the latest changes to the Bloomberg administration’s PlaNYC 2030 in the Gotham Gazette; Greg Baldwin sat on the jury for the Urban Land Institute’s 2011 Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award; DesignShuffle visited a “whimsical” Nantucket home designed by Matt Berman; you can watch Ken Fisher interview Junior Achievement of New York director Joseph Peri on the latest episode of CUNY-TV’s Citywide; Anthony Flint argued for a re-write of Massachusetts’ state zoning law on Boston.com; the initial reviews of Ken Greenberg’s book Walking Home could generally be described as “glowing,” with the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and Treehugger all sounding off; the Tribune’s Blair Kamin reviews Helmut Jahn’s just-opened Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago (pictured at left); NYC’s Village Alliance, led by Fellow William Kelley, is undertaking a detailed survey of local residents and merchants to revive West 8th Street; Daniel Libeskind just finished an addition to his first completed project, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Austria; and Michael Stepner spoke to the Voice of San Diego about the streamlining of that city’s charter.
Tags: Amanda Burden, Anthony Flint, Architecture, Austria, award, Blair Kamin, Chicago, CityWide, CUNYTV, daniel libeskind, Felix Nussbaum Haus, Greenwich Village, Gregory Baldwin, Helmut Jahn, Joseph Peri, Junior Achievement, jury, Ken Fisher, Ken Greenberg, manhattan, Mansueto Library, Massachusetts, matthew berman, Michael Stepner, Nantucket, New York City, Osnabrück, PlaNYC, San Diego, Tom Angotti, Toronto, University of Chicago, Urban Land Institute, Village Alliance, Walking Home, West 8th Street, William Kelley, zoning
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Richard Dattner’s firm won an Innovative Architecture and Design Award for its tennis center at Princeton University (pictured at left); the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat awarded its lifetime achievement honor to Helmut Jahn; “The Passage: A Moving Memorial” by Mary Miss won a Design Excellence Award from the City of New York; Ted Shelton was honored with an AIA National Small Projects award for his restoration and creation of the Ghost Houses in Knoxville, TN; Peter Walker won the 2012 ASLA Design Medal; Walker’s firm was also shortlisted to design the grounds for one of the world’s largest research facilities, to be built in Sweden.
