Friday, July 13th, 2012
Richard Dattner’s firm won an Innovative Architecture and Design Award for its tennis center at Princeton University (pictured at left); the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat awarded its lifetime achievement honor to Helmut Jahn; “The Passage: A Moving Memorial” by Mary Miss won a Design Excellence Award from the City of New York; Ted Shelton was honored with an AIA National Small Projects award for his restoration and creation of the Ghost Houses in Knoxville, TN; Peter Walker won the 2012 ASLA Design Medal; Walker’s firm was also shortlisted to design the grounds for one of the world’s largest research facilities, to be built in Sweden.
Tags: AIA, ASLA, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Dattner Architects, Helmut Jahn, Innovative Architecture and Design Awards, Knoxville, mary miss, New York, Peter Walker, Princton University, Richard Dattner, Sweden, Ted Shelton
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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.
Tags: Abu Dhabi, Alberta, Barbara Wilks, Bow River, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Calgary, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, Cornell University, David Manfredi, Delaware, Don Stastny, Elkus Manfredi, Francis Cauffman, James Crispino, Justin Davidson, Michael Manfredi, Morphosis, National Mall, New York magazine, New York Times, Peter Walker, Peter Walker Landscape Architecture, Peter Walker Partners, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Roosevelt Island, The Galleria at Sowwah Square, Thom Mayne, Trust for the National Mall, Visitor Center, W Architecture, washington dc, Weiss Manfredi, Wilmington, Young Conaway Stargatt Taylor
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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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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Finalists in the competition to redesign three sites on the National Mall in Washington, DC were announced last week. Among those selected are the firms of Craig Dykers, Michael Manfredi, Robert Rogers, and Peter Walker (a design for Constitution Gardens by Rogers Marvel Architects & Peter Walker and Partners is pictured above). The competition was overseen by the Trust for the National Mall and Don Stastny.
Tags: Craig Dykers, Don Stastny, Michael Manfredi, National Mall, Peter Walker, Peter Walker Partners, PWP Landscape Architecture, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Snohetta, Trust for the National Mall, washington dc, Weiss/Manfredi
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Monday, March 19th, 2012
The AIA New York Design Awards 2012 were announced last week, and we’re pleased to report that five of our fellows are among the winners: Michael Arad and Peter Walker received the Architecture Honor Award for the National September 11 Memorial; Andrew Bernheimer was awarded an Un-Built Work Merit prize; Mary Miss won an Urban Design Honor Award for work in Santa Fe; and Bill Ryall’s firm received an Interior Merit Award for a Greenwich Village townhouse redesign. In other awards news, the firms of Patron Steven Holl and Craig Dykers both won ArchDaily’s Building of the Year Awards 2011 for their respective Museum of Ocean and Surf, and Tverrfjellhytta projects (pictured at left); and David Grahame Shane’s recent book, Urban Design Since 1945: A Global Perspective, was shortlisted for a Publishers Award by the UK-based Urban Design Group.
Tags: AIA New York Design Awards 2012, AIA NY, Andrew Bernheimer, ArchDaily, Bill Ryall, Building of the Year Awards 2011, Craig Dykers, David Graham Shane, Greenwich Village, mary miss, michael arad, Museum of Ocean and Surt, National September 11 Memorial, New Mexico, Peter Walker, Santa Fe, Snohetta, Steven Holl, Tverrfjellhytta, Urban Design Group, Urban Design Since 1945
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
At the first annual Real Estate Weekly Women’s Forum, Patricia Lancaster spoke on a panel about infrastructure and public policy. She warned that, “In order for the U.S. to stay competitive, we have to deal with our infrastructure. It has to get sexier because it needs to get funded.” In an interview about multiculturalism and community with The Guardian’s Andrew Anthony, Richard Sennett (pictured at left) argued that “Workplace communities are getting weaker and weaker. Modern capitalism doesn’t encourage much interaction because it’s highly stratifying.” Speaking about the massive ‘Barangaroo’ park in Sydney, Peter Walker said ”We tried to make the landscape itself a playground.”
Tags: Andrew Anthony, Barangaroo, capitalism, infrastructure, multiculturalism, Patricia Lancaster, Peter Walker, public policy, Real Estate Weekly, Real Estate Weekly Women's Forum, Richard Sennett, Sydney, The Guardian
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
Since it opened this past September, more than one million visitors have passed through Michael Arad and Peter Walker’s 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero; a Wall Street Journal article on regional minimalism noted Deborah Berke’s influential residential work in New England; on the latest episode of Citywide, Ken Fisher interviews Manhattan Media CEO and first-in-the-ring NYC mayoral candidate Tom Allon; Anthony Flint appeared on the Callie Crosby Show to discuss the redevelopment of the former Filene’s Basement site in Boston; Beth Greenberg, who leads the Dattner Architects team working on Manhattan’s 7-train extension, spoke to ENR New York [PDF] about the project (which, Inhabitat reports, is ahead of schedule and under budget); Gothamist got a peek inside the construction site for the new Fulton Street Transit Center, which is managed by Gregory Haley; Next American City Editor-in-Chief Diana Lind cited Olympia Kazi’s success in establishing the Van Alen Bookstore as a social anchor for New York’s urban design community as a chief inspiration for NAC‘s new Storefront for Urban Innovation in Philadelphia; Hugh Pearman raved about Daniel Libeskind’s expansion of the Military History Museum in Dresden (pictured at left) in Architectural Record; John Palmieri’s CRDA launched the website Revitalize Atlantic City to encourage public participation in the Tourism District Master Plan process; Artforum reviewed the V&A’s Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, which features the work of Robert A.M. Stern and Patrons Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown; and new renderings were released of the 8 Washington development on the San Francisco waterfront, featuring landscapes by Peter Walker.
Tags: 7-line extension, 8 Washington, 9/11 Memorial, Anthony Flint, Architectural Record, Architecture, Artforum, Atlantic City, Beth Greenberg, Boston, Callie Crosby Show, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, CityWide, construction, daniel libeskind, Dattner Architects, Deborah Berke, Denise Scott Brown, Diana Lind, Dresden, Filene's Basement site, Fulton Street Transit Center, Gothamist, Gregory J. Haley, Hugh Pearman, John Palmieri, Kenneth K. Fisher, landscape architecture, Manahttan, Manhattan Media, mass transit, michael arad, Military History Museum, minimalism, MTA, New England, New York City, next american city, NYC mayoral race, Olympia Kazi, Peter Walker, Philadelphia, Postmodernism, public engagement, recession, redevelopment, reflecting absence, residential, Revitalize Atlantic City, robert a.m. stern, Robert Venturi, San Francisco, Storefront for Urban Innovation, subway, Tom Allon, Tourism District Master Plan, Urban Design, Van Alen Books, Van Alen Institute, victoria and albert museum, wall street journal, waterfront
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Lance Jay Brown will serve as a juror for the AIANY State 2012 Honors Awards, to be presented this coming April; the teams proceeding to the third and final round of the National Mall Design Competition, managed by Donald Stastny, were announced, with Craig Dykers, Michael Manfredi, Rob Rogers, and Peter Walker all still in the mix; Dykers was also just announced as the chair of the jury for the 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition; Ron Harwick’s Columbia Parc neighborhood in New Orleans (pictured at left) had a banner year, taking home multiple honors–click here to download a full list of awards and more information on the project; Patron Steven Holl’s Cité de l’Océan et du Surf in Biarritz, France, won the sole award in the Play category in Architect magazine’s 2011 Annual Design Review; critic Lee Bey cited the opening of Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library on his list of the best Chicago architecture of the past year (echoing Blair Kamin’s list from earlier in the month); the Parks for the People competition, organized by Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute and with Steven Handel sitting on the jury, just announced the selection of nine teams to move on to the second round–one of which is led by CCNY’s Denise Hoffman Brandt and Board Member Toni Griffin; Daniel Libeskind’s Crystals at CityCenter project in Las Vegas won Gold and Sustainable Design Awards in the ICSC’s annual US Design & Development Awards; Urban Omnibus announced an essay competition to complement the Architectural League’s exhibit The Unfinished Grid, with our own Board President Michael Sorkin on the jury (deadline: 2/1/12); and Rosemary Wakeman has received a EURIAS Senior Fellowship to spend the next year at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies completing her book on the New Town Movement.
Tags: AIANY, Architect Magazine, Architectural League, Biarritz, book, CCNY, Chicago, Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf, Columbia Parc, Craig Dykers, Crystals at CityCenter, daniel libeskind, Denise Hoffman Brandt, design competition, Design Review, Donald Stastny, EURIAS Fellowship, Helmut Jahn, ICSC Design & Development Awards, International Council of Shopping Centers, jury, Lance Jay Brown, Las Vegas, Lee Bey, Mansueto Library, Michael Manfredi, Michael Sorkin, National Mall Design Competition, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, New Orleans, New Town Movement, Olympia Kazi, Parks for the People, Peter Walker, play, Robert Rogers, Ron Harwick, Rosemary Wakeman, Steedman Fellowship, Steven Handel, Steven Holl, The Unfinished Grid, Toni Griffin, Urban Omnibus, Van Alen Institute, washington dc
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
Finalists for the National Mall design competition in Washington, DC, were announced recently, and the IfUD is well-represented: Michael Arad, Craig Dykers, Rob Rogers, Peter Walker, Barbara Wilks, and Board Member Enrique Norten will all move forward. Donald Stastny is managing the high-profile competition, while Board Member Thom Mayne is one of the jurors. And speaking of juries, Arad and Joseph Brown both spent some time on that side of the competition process recently–the former for this year’s NYC iteration of CANstruction, and the latter for the Urban Land Institute’s Global Awards for Excellence. Coming up: June Williamson will judge entries for the CNU Charter Awards (entries due by January 25th!)
Tags: Barbara Wilks, Canstruction, CNU Charter Awards, Congress for New Urbanism, Craig Dykers, design competition, Donald Stastny, Enrique Norten, Global Awards for Excellence, Joseph Brown, June Williamson, jury, michael arad, National Mall, New York City, Peter Walker, Rob Rogers, Thom Mayne, Urban Land Institute, washington dc
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
The New York Times and WNYC both featured write-ups of last week’s Making Room symposium, which featured panelists Matt Blesso, Mark Ginsberg, and Mark Strauss, as well as the presentation of new work by Deborah Gans; Theo. David’s proposal for the redesign of the Old GSP Area in Nicosia (pictured at left) was featured on ArchDaily; John di Domenico’s firm has just opened a new DC office; work on Board Member Winka Dubbeldam’s Ports1961 flagship in Paris is just wrapping up; as the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities approaches, Anthony Flint reflects on the book’s legacy; John Hoal presented a draft plan for the reinvention of University City’s Parkview Gardens neighborhood, while construction on Chouteau Park, also designed by Hoal, got underway in nearby St. Louis; Patricia Lancaster joined NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate as a clinical professor; Charles McKinney spoke with DNAinfo.com about the NYC Parks Department’s selection of lanscape architect David Kamp for the design of a new city park, Sutton Place South; Norman Weinstein called Board President Michael Sorkin’s All Over the Map “a triumph of enlightened nay-saying and affirmation” in a review at ArchNewsNow; Michael Stepner published a letter in support of the San Diego Symphony’s plan to revamp their entrance and re-engage the street; KERA interviewed Peter Walker about “what makes a landscape a beautiful, pleasing, and functional space”; and work by Hank White is featured in the new book Shore Décor: Design at the Water’s Edge.
Tags: Anthony Flint, ArchDaily, ArchNewsNow, books, Charles McKinney, Chouteau Park, criticism, Cyprus, David Kamp, Death and Life of Great American Cities, Deborah Gans, Hank White, Housing, interview, Jane Jacobs, John di Domenico, John Hoal, landscape architecture, Making Room, Mark Ginsberg, Mark Strauss, master plan, matt blesso, Michael Sorkin, Michael Stepner, New York Times, Nicosia, Norman Weinstein, nyu schack institute of real estate, Old GSP Area, Paris, Parkview Gardens, Patricia Lancaster, Peter Walker, Ports1961, public space, retail, review, Saint Louis, San Diego, Shore Décor, streetscape, Sutton Place South, Theo David, University City, washington dc, waterfront, Winka Dubbeldam, WNYC
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Richard Dattner’s firm won an Innovative Architecture and Design Award for its tennis center at Princeton University (pictured at left); the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat awarded its lifetime achievement honor to Helmut Jahn; “The Passage: A Moving Memorial” by Mary Miss won a Design Excellence Award from the City of New York; Ted Shelton was honored with an AIA National Small Projects award for his restoration and creation of the Ghost Houses in Knoxville, TN; Peter Walker won the 2012 ASLA Design Medal; Walker’s firm was also shortlisted to design the grounds for one of the world’s largest research facilities, to be built in Sweden.
