Friday, May 18th, 2012
On Sunday, “Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City” opened at Socrates Sculpture Park with work by Mary Miss; this Friday, 5/18, Nina Rappaport’s “Vertical Urban Factory” exhibit both closes at NYU and opens at MOCAD in Detroit; Ronnette Riley and Richard Rogers will participate in the “Guess-a-Sketch” competition and benefit at the Center for Architecture on 5/22; also on 5/22, Tom Angotti will be at the AIA San Francisco to discuss his new book, Service Learning in Design and Planning; Linda Pollak speaks about Marpillero Pollak’s new Dutch Kills Green park at a “Public Space Potluck” in Long Island City on 5/23 (pictured above); Craig Dykers will be in Prague on 5/26 to give a keynote at the reSITE Festival; Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute hosts a day-long symposium entitled “Battery Park City: Coming of Age” on 5/31; that evening, June Williamson will be at Van Alen Books to discuss the design and culture of parking; an exhibit of Patron Steven Holl’s work at the Meulensteen Gallery closes on 6/2.
Tags: AIA New York, AIA San Francisco, AIANY, Baruch College, Battery Park City, Battery Park City Coming of Age, Center for Architecture, Civic Action A Vision for Long Island City, Craig Dykers, Detroit, Dutch Kills Green, Forking Time, Guess-a-Sketch, Jack Nyman, June Williamson, Linda Pollak, Long Island City, Marpillero Pollak, mary miss, Meulensteen Gallery, MOCAD, Nina Rappaport, Noguchi Museum, NYU, Prague, Public Space Potluck, reSITE Festival, Richard Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Ronnette Riley, Service-Learning in Design and Planning, Snohetta, Socrates Sculpture Park, Steven Holl, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Tom Angotti, Van Alen Books, Vertical Urban Factory
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Last week, it was announced that Deborah Berke will expand the Rockefeller Arts Center at SUNY Fredonia and design a new 21c Museum Hotel in Lexington, KY; Matt Blesso opened a luxury, eco-conscious hotel in Panama City; a new lab and office building designed by David Manfredi’s firm in Kendall Square celebrated its topping off; Linda Pollak’s firm designed the new Dutch Kills Green park at Queens Plaza (pictured at left), officially opened by Mayor Bloomberg on 4/4; a new Robert A.M. Stern building for Webster University opened in St. Louis; Peter Walker will develop the landscape for UT Dallas‘ Campus Enhancement Plan; a student center at Duke University will be designed by Andrew Whalley’s Grimshaw Architects; Barbara Wilks has been selected to renovate the Troy Riverfront Park on the Hudson in Troy, NY.
Tags: 21c Museum Hotel, Andrew Whalley, Barabara Wilks, Blesso Properties, Cambridge, Campus Enhancement Plan, Dallas, David Manfredi, Deborah Berke, Deborah Berke & Partners Architects, Duke University, Dutch Kills Green, Elkus Manfredi, Grimshaw Architects, Hudson River, Kendall Sqaure, Kentucky, Lexington, Linda Pollak, Marpillero Pollak, Massachusetts, matt blesso, Missouri, New York, Panama City, Peter Walker, Peter Walker and Partners, PWP Landscape Architecture, Queens Plaza, robert a.m. stern, Rockefeller Arts Center, St. Louis, SUNY Fredonia, Texas, Troy, Troy Riverfront Park, UT Dallas, W Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Webster 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.
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