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.
Quoth the Fellows: Dykers & Lancaster
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
Dwell sat down with Craig Dykers to talk about Snøhetta’s design process for the expansion of SFMOMA. On the relationship of the new wing to the museum’s iconic Mario Botta-designed home, he explained that “I think the best way to say it is that we’re working with a dancing partner, and you have to be sure not to step on your partner’s feet.” And back in New York, Patricia Lancaster spoke to the Observer about the recently-announced plans for modular towers (pictured at left, and designed by Gregg Pasquarelli) to rise at Atlantic Yards, stating that “I think prefab is the wave of the future, and I think it will come to New York. The only question is when, and how much power the unions have to do something about it.”
Fellows in the News: Berke, Berman, David, Dubbeldam, Fisher, Hutton, Libeskind, Manfredi, Portman, Stastny, Weisz, & Wong
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Deborah Berke will serve on one of the resource teams at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design in Charleston in September; Architizer included Matt Berman’s “Studio Retreat” (pictured at left) in its round-up of modern interpretations of the cabin-in-the-woods; a preview of Re-Definitions, the publication featuring work from a design studio led by Theo. David, is available on Blurb.com; Philadelphia’s TASHAN restaurant, designed by Board Member Winka Dubbeldam, is getting ready to open to the public; on the latest episode of Citywide, Ken Fisher interviews singer and activist Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, & Mary fame; eOculus recapped a panel on NYC’s waterfront that was moderated by Ernie Hutton; Daniel Libeskind opined about his love of flight (and his “lucky charm” wife, Nina) in the NY Times; Michael Manfredi’s firm was one of six finalists chosen to compete to revamp St. Petersburg, FL’s City Pier; SFGate picked John Portman’s Hyatt Regency Hotel as one of the ten most impressive buildings in San Francisco; Park City, UT’s Kimball Art Center hired Don Stastny to manage a new design competition for its expansion; Board Member Clare Weisz presented the master plan for Manhattan’s Sherman Creek; and the Wall Street Journal spoke to John Wong about his “most personal project”–the renovation of his own home in San Francisco’s Sea Cliff neighborhood.
Quoth the Fellows: Dykers, Greenberg, & Sassen
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
In describing plans for the expansion of SFMOMA’s Mario Botta-designed building (pictured at left), Craig Dykers explained that Snøhetta’s new wing is intended to help people “to experience the city in a completely new way.” Speaking to the Calgary Herald about the future of urban and suburban development, Ken Greenberg asserted that “The status quo is not an option.” And during her introductory speech at the Audi Urban Future Summit, Saskia Sassen argued that “We must think of mobility as a sort of black box that has many more facets than those defined by current technologies.”
I Want My IfUD-TV!
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Executive Director Anne Guiney was recently interviewed by Brian Lehrer about By the City / For the City design competition–don’t miss the clip (pictured at left). Meanwhile, LandmarksWest talked to Richard Dattner about adventure playgrounds, Ken Fisher interviewed NYC Comptroller John Liu, and Board Member Thom Mayne took an Architectural Record camera crew on a tour of his San Francisco Federal Building.
Fellows Kick Off Major Projects
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Fellows have launched a number of exciting new projects recently: Craig Dykers released the much-anticipated initial renderings of Snøhetta’s addition to SFMOMA’s iconic Mario Botta-designed building last week. Board Member Enrique Norten debuted his own set of renderings of the planned renovation of the Amparo Museum in Puebla, Mexico (pictured at left), and Robert A.M. Stern was announced as the architect of a new Chapel for the Ages at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. Meanwhile, just down I-95 in Richmond, Patron Steven Holl was tapped to design a new home for the Institute for Contemporary Art within days of revealing the design for a new university building in Bogotá.
Fellows’ Events & Exhibitions: March 1-15, 2011
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.
Portman Honored at ALIS Awards
Friday, February 25th, 2011
Atlanta-based Developer/Architect and Fellow John C. Portman, known for massive projects like his hometown’s Peachtree Center (pictured at left), Detroit’s Renaissance Center, and the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, was presented with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 Americas Lodging Investment Summit in San Diego.
Fellows in the News: Dykers, Libeskind, and Pollak
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Fellow Craig Dykers‘ firm Snøhetta was recently announced as the winner in the competition to design an addition to Mario Botta’s iconic SFMOMA in San Francisco; Fellow Daniel Libeskind (pictured at left) has signed on to design an addition to his original building for the Jewish Museum in Berlin; and Fellow Linda Pollak recently wrote a thought-provoking article on urban topographies over at Urban Omnibus.
Urban Land Expo 2009: San Francisco
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Institute fellow Karen Alschuler will be coordinating the “Post-Industrial Waterfronts” discussion at this year’s Urban Land Expo in San Francisco. Drop by her booth (for Perkins + Will) if you are in town.
