Fellows in the News

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

 

e-Oculus recapped the Center for Architecture event “Practice in the Middle East,” whose participants included Rick Bell, Sudhir Jambhekar, and Board Member Byron Stigge; John di Domenico, John Hartmann, and Blake Middleton are on the jury for Moleskine’s Grand Central Terminal Sketchbook competition; David Dixon presented Good Clancy’s plans for Central Square in Cambridge to city officials; Craig Dykers created and served as jury chair for the Sam Fox School’s 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design; Dykers’ Snøhetta is also on the cover of the latest issue of The Architect’s Newspaper for their renovation of Times Square (pictured above); Galia Solomonoff has an essay featured in the new Princeton Architecture Press book Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering; Solomonoff also has a house featured in New York Magazine’s new Design Hunting issue; MAS’ MASterworks award winners were announced, with Suzanne Stephens and Board Member Claire Weisz on the jury.

Fellow Galia Solomonoff in ‘Design Hunting’

Thursday, June 14th, 2012

Fellow Galia Solomonoff just had a house published in New York Magazine’s launch issue of their standalone design magazine, Design Hunting. You can read the article and get inspired by the wonderful pictures here.

Fellows’ New Projects

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

James Crispino’s firm, Francis Cauffman, has completed extensive renovations on the new Wilmington offices of Delaware law firm Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor; David Manfredi’s firm, Elkus Manfredi, will design The Galleria at Sowwah Square, a new luxury retail destination in Abu Dhabi; Michael Manfredi’s new Visitor Center opens this week at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (pictured above); along with Robert Rogers and Peter Walker, Weiss/Manfredi was also selected to redesign sites along the National Mall in Washington, DC (in a competition overseen by Don Stastny); Board Member Thom Mayne will design the first academic building for Cornell’s engineering campus on Roosevelt Island, as covered in the New York Times and New York; the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation named Barbara Wilks to draw up redevelopment plans for an island on the Bow River.

Fellows’ New Projects

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

In an interview with New York, Craig Dykers outlined Snøhetta’s proposal for a revamped Times Square; Princeton University submitted plans for their new Arts and Transit project, with work by Patron Steven Holl, to the Regional Planning Board of Princeton; the Boston Redevelopment Authority approved the development of a residential complex designed by David Manfredi (pictured above), one that will include micro-apartments, or so-called ‘innovation units’; Robert A.M. Stern will design a residential tower next to Hudson Yards.

Fellows in the News: Balsley, Berke, Blaik, Cooper, Dubbeldam, Dykers, Fisher, Gans, Pasquarelli, Schrag, Schmidt, Solomonoff, & Wilks

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Cleveland’s ParkWorks cut the ribbon on Perk Park, a new green space designed by Thomas Balsley; in a post reflecting on what Jeanne Gang’s recent MacArthur win means for women in architecture, Flavorpill noted the accomplishments of  Deborah Berke, Board Member Winka Dubbeldam, and Galia Solomonoff in this historically-male-dominated field; Omar Blaik has been hired by the University of Kentucky to help better integrate several universities into downtown Lexington; the New York Times interviewed David Cooper as he celebrated his 30th year with WSP Flack + Kurtz; Craig Dykers had a big November: the Wolfe Center for the Arts at Bowling Green State University became Snøhetta’s first building completed in the US, while the firm also unveiled new, detailed renderings of the SFMOMA expansion and won a competition to design the subway entrances for the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastián (pictured at left); Kenneth K. Fisher interviewed former NYC Public Advocate Mark Green for this month’s episode of Citywide; Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman’s latest column, on re-thinking housing for contemporary New York, included a nod to Deborah Gans‘ work for the Architectural League’s recent Making Room symposium; Gregg Pasquarelli’s SHoP (which was recently profiled in New York Magazine) released much-anticipated renderings of the modular residential towers planned for Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards site; the Hartford Business Journal talked to Jonathan Schrag about the effectiveness of Cap & Trade programs; Paul Schmidt reaffirmed CADA’s committment to the organization’s R Street warehouse project in the Sacramento Bee; and Barbara Wilks‘ new The Edge Park along the Williamsburg’s rapidly-changing waterfront was a featured project on Landezine.

Fellow Designs NYC’s Best Picnic Spot

Friday, March 18th, 2011

New York magazine’s annual Best of New York issue hit the stands last week, and the West Harlem Piers Park, designed by our own Barbara Wilks, was named as the city’s Best Picnic Spot. The weather has been improving lately in the city, and if you’re looking for a good way to kick back and relax with friends this weekend, there’s now official proof that you can’t beat Wilks’ Hudson Riverfront greensward. Check it out!

Fellows in the News: Dattner, Dubbeldam, Enquist, Ferrandino, Libeskind, Manfredi, Pasquarelli, Safdie, Stern, & Weisz

Friday, January 21st, 2011

The Wall Street Journal spoke to Richard Dattner about his design for a new salt shed in Manhattan’s Hudson Square neighborhood (pictured at left); Board Member Winka Dubbeldam has been quite popular at New York magazine lately — the publication  featured a slideshow of her design for singer John Legend’s new Bowery apartment, as well as a fascinating debate between Winka, Fellows Gregg Pasquarelli and Robert A.M. Stern, and several other NYC luminaries on the city’s greatest building; the New York Times looked at Phil Enquist’s master plan for the redevelopment of a massive former US Steel complex on Chicago’s South Shore; Vince Ferrandino was interviewed by WestfairOnline as part of a special report on civic leadership; Architectural Record announced that Daniel Libeskind will design a mixed-use complex on the mainland side of a bridge connecting Sicily to the Italian peninsula; David Manfredi presented his firm’s plans for Kendall Square at a community meeting in Cambridge; Architect took a look at Moshe Safdie’s Marina Bay Sands complex; and Curbed featured a sizable set of images of Claire Weisz’s recently-unveiled plans for Manhattan’s Astor Place/Cooper Square area.