The NY Times spoke to Rick Bell about the planned expansion of the Center for Architecture, designed by Rob Rogers; the jury for a competition to re-design the Capitol Mall in Sacramento (pictured at left) included EE&K’s Peter David Cavaluzzi; the new book Beyond Shelter, published by Metropolis Books, features work by Jim Dart and Deborah Gans; the Architect’s Newspaper visited the newly-opened TASHAN restaurant in Philadelphia, designed by Board Member Winka Dubbeldam; ArchDaily recently posted a great video interview with Patron Steven Holl; today marks the start of construction on Board Member Enrique Norten’s new Rutgers Business School Building in Livingston, New Jersey; construction work on a new half-billion-dollar mixed-use complex designed by John Portman at the former site of the Shanghai Expo is just beginning in China’s largest city; IBM’s SmartPlanet.com took an in-depth look at the intricate facade of Matthias Sauerbruch’s KfW Westarkade in Frankfurt; Robert AM Stern’s George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas recently had its topping-out ceremony; and Beverly Willis reviewed critic Paul Goldberger’s book Why Architecture Matters for the Associates of the Art Commission.
Fellows in the News: Bell, Cavaluzzi, Dart, Dubbeldam, Gans, Holl, Norten, Rogers, Sauerbruch, Stern, & Willis
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Quoth the Fellows: Angotti, Dykers, & Sauerbruch
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
In criticizing the methodology behind the Bloomberg administration’s PlaNYC sustainability plan, Tom Angotti explained his chief concern thusly: “It’s an accountants’ approach to the city, not a planners’ approach.” At the public debut of Snøhetta’s re-design of Times Square (pictured at left), Craig Dykers stated that his much-anticipated plan was “not taking its cues from some pretty little things in Europe or something. Our design has a film noir feel to it; it’s more muscular.” Speaking to the Globe and Mail in advance of his keynote address at IIDEX/NeoCon event in Toronto last week, ‘crusader for color’ Matthias Sauerbruch noted that color “is slowly, slowly coming back, as a way of tuning buildings, almost like you would tune an instrument–slightly shifting their appearance, their identity, their atmospheric quality.”
Fellows’ Awards & Honors: Jahn, Sauerbruch, & Sorkin.
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.
Fellows in the News: Angotti, Balsley, Dart, Drucker, Dykers, Greenberg, Holl, Mayne, Sassen, Sauerbruch, Sollohub, & Weisz
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
The Vanishing City, a new film on the gentrification of Manhattan, featuring interviews with Tom Angotti and Board Member Saskia Sassen, opened the Staten Island Film Festival; Angotti also spoke to the NY Daily News about his new research project at Hunter College trying to repurpose vacant residential units to shrink rates of homelessness; Mimi Zeiger profiled Thomas Balsley in the latest Landscape Architecture Magazine [PDF]; Jim Dart wrote briefly about progress on the Great Falls Arts + Revitalization Initiative at the Great Falls National Park in Paterson, NJ, a project that also involves Darius Sollohub and Claire Weisz; in nearby Nutley, NJ, Ken Drucker is designing a new pedestrian bridge at the Hoffman La Roche corporate campus; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston announced a shortlist of three firms for its planned expansion: Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta, Patron Steven Holl’s eponymous firm, and Board Member Thom Mayne’s Morphosis; hot off an interview with the Montreal Gazette, Ken Greenberg penned a requiem for a pedestrian bridge proposed in Toronto; Matthias Sauerbruch’s design for an office building on London’s Old Bailey (pictured at left) has been approved; and the Drawing Center has just launched a capital plan for their Claire Weisz-designed expansion.
Fellows’ Events & Exhibitions: April 1-14, 2011
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Board Member Byron Stigge will speak at the Out of Water conference in Toronto, from 4/1-2; Denise Hoffman Brandt will speak at the Next Eco-City symposium in Seattle on 4/7-8; Board Member Winka Dubbeldam will speak at the Progressive Architecture Symposium in Mexico City, also on 4/7-8; Deborah Gans will discuss her work on the new stained glass window at Manhattan’s Eldridge Street Synagogue on 4/8; Mark Strauss will participate in a panel on the 3 Rs of the New Economy at the APA National Conference in Boston on 4/10; Richard Sennett (pictured at left) will deliver the 7th Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism at CCNY on 4/11; the AIA Design Awards Luncheon, which will honor IfUD Patron Steven Holl, Fellows Bruce Fowle and Claire Weisz, and Board Member Thom Mayne, will take place at Cipriani Wall Street on 4/12; and the new exhibit Façade: Through a Glass Darkly, featuring two buildings by Matthias Sauerbruch, will be on view at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, UK, now through 7/10.
Fellows in the News: Gelb, Greenberg, Mayne, Newman, Norten, Sauerbruch, & Ryall
Friday, March 4th, 2011
DNAinfo.com spoke with Stephanie Gelb about a recent tussle over the use of recreational space in Battery Park City; eOculus recapped a recent panel discussion, featuring Beth Greenberg, on the extension of NYC’s #7 subway line; Kenneth Greenberg compared his plans for client Ryerson University’s bid to establish a face on Toronto’s famed Younge Street to NYU’s presence on Washington Square Park; Inhabitat explored Board Member Thom Mayne’s new campus for Giant Interactive in Shanghai (pictured at left); Herbert Newman’s firm was announced as the winner of a design competition for the Slover Memorial Library in Norfolk, VA; Architectural Record reviewed Board Member Enrique Norten’s renovation of the Chopo Museum in Mexico City; Land Securities released new designs by Matthias Sauerbruch’s for an office complex on London’s Old Bailey, and the Guardian profiled the architect’s recently-completed renovation of the Turkentor Gallery in Munich; and William Ryall’s Harlem loft is featured in the February issue of Dwell.
Sauerbruch Hutton’s Chair Named “Best of the Best”
Monday, February 28th, 2011
The Milan Lounge Chair, designed by Fellow Matthias Sauerbruch and his partner Louisa Hutton, was recently named the “Best of the Best” in the German Design Council’s 2011 Interior Innovation Awards. We’ve been thinking about remodeling the IfUD HQ…perhaps we’ve found a good excuse!
Sauerbruch Hutton Snags Sustainable Construction Prize
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Fellow Matthias Sauerbruch’s firm Sauerbruch Hutton has been selected as the winner of the International Honour Award of the Castilla y Leon Sustainable Construction Awards for 2010 for its outstanding work in promoting sustainable construction methods.
Fellows’ Work on View: David, Dykers, Safdie, & Sauerbruch
Friday, September 10th, 2010
Theo David will be featured in the film Encounters as part of Cyprus’ participation in the 2010 Venice Biennale, which runs through 11/21/10; concept designs and models for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new Exhibition Road building from eight firms, including Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta, are on display at the London museum now through 9/19/10; the National Gallery of Canada’s exhibition Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie will be on view in Ottawa from 10/6/10 through 1/9/11; and an exhibit on Matthias Sauerbruch’s design for the Brandhorst Museum is on view at the Royal Academy of Arts in London now through 11/7/10.
Sauerbruch Hutton Wins First Prize in International Competition
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Institute fellow Matthias Sauerbruch’s firm Sauerbruch Hutton won first prize in the international competition to design a new home for Hamburg’s Office for Urban Development and Environment. [via Bustler.net]
