The Design Trust for Public Space announced three Fellows for its Making Manhattan project–including two IfUD Fellows, Andy Bernheimer and Colin Cathcart; the Society for Ecological Restoration International announced Steven N. Handel as the winner of the 2011 Theodore Sperry Award; Sudhir Jambhekar and Hank White won an International Architecture Award for the King Abdullah Financial District Mosque in Riyadh (pictured at left), while Board Member Thom Mayne won for the Giant Interactive Group Corporate Headquarters in Shanghai; John Portman has been announced as a candidate for election to the American Furniture Hall of Fame; and Don Stastny was inducted into the College of Fellows of the Canadian Institute of Planners, following earlier elevations to Fellowship in both the American Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Fellows Awards & Honors: Bernheimer, Cathcart, Handel, Jambhekar, Mayne, Portman, Stastny, & White
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011Fellows’ Awards & Honors: Dattner, Hutton, Portman, & Whalley
Friday, June 10th, 2011
The City of New York’s Public Design Commission will present Richard Dattner with an Award for Excellence for the design of the Spring Street Salt Shed (pictured at left) at a ceremony on June 20th; at last month’s AIA convention in New Orleans, Ernie Hutton was honored with an Associate Award in recognition of his service to the AIANY chapter; the Atlanta City Council voted to rename downtown’s Harris Street in honor of John Portman; and Andrew Whalley was named as the new Deputy Chairman of Grimshaw Architects.
Fellows In the News: Berke, Brown, Dubbeldam, Dykers, Fain, Holl, Katz, Pollak, Portman, Sennett, & Wong
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
The New York Times went shopping for coffee tables with Deborah Berke; AECOM Chief Innovation Officer Joseph Brown commented on his firm’s new partnership with IBM’s Smarter Planet Initiative; the Shanghai flagship of retailer Ports 1961, designed by Board Member Winka Dubbeldam, has just opened; Toronto’s Ryerson University revealed renderings of an eye-catching new building by Craig Dykers‘ Snøhetta (pictured at left); William Fain served on the jury of this year’s AIA Pennsylvania Design Excellence Awards, which were presented this past week; Patron Steven Holl’s athletic center for Columbia in Inwood was recently approved by the city; Apartment Therapy Boston featured Deborah Grossberg Katz’s “A Cabin in a Loft” project; the Lynn University Performing Arts Center, designed by Herbert Newman, is featured in the March 2011 issue of American School & University Magazine [PDF]; Linda Pollak reviewed NYC’s new High Performance Landscape Guidelines in Topos 74 [PDF]; construction has begun on John Portman’s newest hotel in Shenzhen; Richard Sennett was announced as one of the jurors for the Watermill Center’s International Residency Program; and John Wong’s SWA Group will be designing a new park around an historic schoolhouse in Milpitas, CA.
Portman Honored at ALIS Awards
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.
Fellows in the News: Baldwin, Bee, Berke, Drucker, Hand, Ho, Jahn, Libeskind, Portman, & Rice
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Metropolis recently interviewed Gregory Baldwin about ZGF’s design for a piazza in downtown Portland, OR; the Wall Street Journal spoke with Carmi Bee about his Berry Street residential project in Brooklyn; Deborah Berke, who recently wrapped up work on the master plan for the ECLA in Berlin, was named one of Elle Decor‘s Five Women in Design; Kenneth Drucker spoke to the Huffington Post about China’s plan to build 50 cities of one million people in the next two decades; Jamie Hand has accepted a new position as a Design Specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC; Board Member Cathy Lang Ho’s full review of the Venice Architecture Biennale is up at Architect; Helmut Jahn’s ambitious proposal for the revamp of Navy Pier (pictured at left) has been stirring up debate in the Windy City; Daniel Libeskind has been selected to design Finland’s second-largest arena; John Portman will design a new 250- to 500-room hotel as part of the $700MM expansion of the San Diego Convention Center; and Lyn Rice’s work on the New School’s Manhattan campus was featured in gb&d Magazine‘s November issue (see p. 48).
Fellows in the News: Angotti, Brown, Holl, Mayne, Portman, Safdie, Sassen, Weisz
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Tom Angotti recently took a peek behind the curtain at NYC’s powerful Economic Development Corp. in the Gotham Gazette; Hillary Brown explored the future of post-industrial public infrastructure projects in a recent Design Observer piece; green megablog Inhabitat interviewed Patron Steven Holl about sustainable architecture; Board Member Thom Mayne’s 41 Cooper Square (pictured at left) was recently awarded LEED Platinum certification; John Portman’s firm was announced by the Georgia DOT as one of five finalists competing to develop a new transit hub in downtown Atlanta; Tablet Magazine profiled Moshe Safdie, dubbing the architect a Master Builder; Board Member Saskia Sassen responded to the Foreign Policy’s 2010 Global Cities Index with some hard-hitting questions; and Claire Weisz’s firm WXY Architecture was profiled [pdf] in the Architect’s Newspaper.
Fellows’ Work on View: Dattner, Dykers, Greenberg, Libeskind, Portman, Terragni, Thompson, Wakeman
Monday, September 20th, 2010
Jane Thompson will give a lecture at D-Crit in New York, entitled Rediscovering Design Research, on 9/22; Rosemary Wakeman will discuss her book, The Heroic City: Paris 1945-58, at NYU’s La Maison Française, also on 9/22; Richard Dattner will join a panel about the Lindsay administration’s adventure playgrounds at the Museum of the City of New York on 9/27; Craig Dykers will participate on the panel Universities as City Builders, to be moderated by Ken Greenberg, in Toronto on 9/29; the exhibition Interior Urbanism/Portman Space, featuring the work of John Portman, will be on view at the University of Technology Sydney through 10/1; a pavilion designed by Daniel Libeskind will serve as one of the centerpieces of the Seoul Design Fair 2010, which will run through 10/7; and Elisabetta Terragni’s adaptive reuse of the Trento Tunnels will be on view at the Venice Biennale, which runs through 11/21.
Portman and Sorkin at the Venice Biennale
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Fellow John Portman and IfUD Board Chair Michael Sorkin will both participate in the High Museum of Art’s exhibition for the Venice Biennale this fall, entitled Workshopping: An American Model of Architectural Practice, which will explore the role of trans-disciplinary collaborations in architecture, spotlighting seven projects with a focus on research and social engagement. The Biennale opens on August 29th and runs through November 21st of this year.
