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, December 9th, 2011
Deadlines are fast approaching for two competitions involving Fellows: there are still two and a half weeks to enter the Waller Creek design competition in Austin, managed by Donald Stastny (Deadline: 12/16/11), and Michael Arad will head up the jury for a competition to design an AIDS Memorial Park in Manhattan (Deadline: 1/21/12). Gregory J. Haley and Andrew Whalley are on one of the six teams selected as finalists in the competition to revamp Los Angeles’ Union Station, while Thomas Balsley’s Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa (pictured at left) was named one of the best new urban parks in America by The Atlantic CITIES. Meanwhile, Moshe Safdie is in a competition of a different sort: his iconic Habitat 67 is currently in the lead in a public online poll to see which building will be the next reproduced in Lego’s architecture series. There’s still time to cast votes for your favorites…
Tags: AIDS Memorial Park, Andrew Whalley, Austin, design competition, Donald Stastny, Gregory J. Haley, Grimshaw Architects, Habitat 67, Hixon Waterfront Park, landscape architecture, Legos, Los Angeles, manhattan, michael arad, moshe safdie, New York City, Tampa, The Atlantic CITIES, Thomas Balsley, Union Station, Waller Creek, waterfront
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Friday, July 1st, 2011
Board Member Saskia Sassen will deliver the keynote address at Lift France 11 in Marseille on 7/7; Board Member Tami Hausman will participate in the Center for Architecture panel discussion The Pitch: A Hands-On Workshop on Attracting a Client in Two Minutes or Less on 7/11; Board Member Thom Mayne will participate in the Van Alen Institute’s Los Angeles panel [PDF] for their Life at the Speed of Rail program on 7/12; and you can see BOB, a public art installation (pictured at left) designed by a team led by Galia Solomonoff, at Columbia University in Manhattan through 7/25.
Tags: art installation, BOB, Center for Architecture, Columbia University, conference, France, Galia Solomonoff, high speed rail, keynote, Life at the Speed of Rail, Lift France, Los Angeles, manhattan, marketing, Marseille, panel discussion, Saskia Sassen, tami hausman, Thom Mayne, Van Alen Institute
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Board Member Thom Mayne was elected to SCI-Arc’s Board of Trustees last week; up in Canada, Larry Wayne Richards (pictured at left), who recently served as a juror for the biannual 20 + Change architectural design competition, was awarded Professor Emeritus status at the University of Toronto. Congratulations to both!
Tags: 20 + change, academia, board of trustees, competition, jury, larry wayne richards, Los Angeles, Morphosis, professor emeritus, sci-arc, Thom Mayne, Toronto, university of toronto
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
On 3/2, Patron Steven Holl will deliver the First Annual Raimund Abraham Memorial Lecture in Los Angeles; Board Member Winka Dubbeldam will celebrate the completion of her new book Archi-Tectonics (pictured at left) with a launch party in NYC on 3/4; that same day, Anthony Flint will speak at Connecticut College’s Smart Growth Conference; also on 3/4, Board Member Saskia Sassen will participate in Housing Conference 2011 in Istanbul; the exhibit Nordic Models + Common Ground, curated by Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta at New York’s Scandanavia House, will close on 3/9; Michael Manfredi will deliver the lecture Surface/Subsurface at URI Kingston on 3/10; Dykers will speak at San Francisco’s California College of the Arts on 3/14; Jack Nyman will host the conference Banking on the Future: A New Paradigm for Rebuilding Our Nation’s Infrastructure in New York on 3/14; and a new exhibit of work by Daniel Libeskind, Architecture as a Language, has just opened at the Wroclaw Museum of Architecture in Poland, and will be on view through 5/16.
Tags: Anthony Flint, Archi-Tectonics, book launch, conference, Connecticut, Craig Dykers, daniel libeskind, Housing, infrastructure, Istanbul, Jack Nyman, Kingston, lecture, Los Angeles, Michael Manfredi, Museum of Architecture, New York City, party, Raimind Abraham Memorial Lecture, San Francisco, Saskia Sassen, Scandanavia House, Smart Growth, Snohetta, Soho, Steven Holl, University of Rhode Island, Winka Dubbeldam, Wroclaw
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Monday, January 3rd, 2011
Cynthia Barton and Lance Jay Brown will participate on a panel in New York on 1/8 as part of the AIANY’s Haiti-Habitat competition; Joe Brown will speak at the 2011 VantageForum in Los Angeles on 1/11; Tom Angotti will speak at a special City Council meeting to discuss the potential impacts of allowing Wal-Mart to open stores in New York on 1/12; Claire Weisz will take part in a discussion about the 1999 Van Alen Institute competition TKTS2K on 1/12; and Manhattan’s PS/IS 276 (pictured at left), designed by Richard Dattner’s Dattner Architects, is featured in the AIANY’s Design for Decades exhibit, on view at the Center for Architecture now through 1/22.
Tags: AECOM, AIANY, Center for Architecture, City Council, Claire Weisz, Cynthia Barton, exhibit, Haiti-Habitat, Joseph Brown, Lance Jay Brown, Los Angeles, New York City, panel, Richard Dattner, times square, Tom Angotti, Van Alen Institute, Wal-Mart
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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).
Institute fellows gathered at the New York Center for Architecture for the April fellows’ Breakfast Club, chaired by 
