Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
Jack Nyman will moderate the panel Cities as Accelerators of Sustainable Development at Baruch College on 1/19; Olympia Kazi will moderate the panel Plywood, Concrete, Paint 2! at New York’s Center for Architecture on 1/20; Jim Venturi, son of Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, will screen his new documentary Bob and Denise at the Las Vegas Market on 1/25; Gregg Pasquarelli will present SHoP’s recent work (pictured at left) at an Architectural League lecture on 1/26; Peter Walker will present conceptual landscape plans for the Point Wells development in Snohomish, WA, on 1/27; and Craig Dykers and Claire Weisz will take part in the discussion Reimagining Times Square Through Design on 1/27.
Tags: Architectural League, Baruch College, Bob and Denise, Center for Architecture, Claire Weisz, Craig Dykers, Denise Scott Brown, film screening, Gregg Pasquarelli, Jack Nyman, Jim Venturi, landscape architecture, Las Vegas, New York City, Olympia Kazi, Peter Walker, Robert Venturi, SHoP Architects, Snohetta, Snohomish, Sustainable Design, times square, WXY Architecture
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Tom Angotti recently took a peek behind the curtain at NYC’s powerful Economic Development Corp. in the Gotham Gazette; Hillary Brown explored the future of post-industrial public infrastructure projects in a recent Design Observer piece; green megablog Inhabitat interviewed Patron Steven Holl about sustainable architecture; Board Member Thom Mayne’s 41 Cooper Square (pictured at left) was recently awarded LEED Platinum certification; John Portman’s firm was announced by the Georgia DOT as one of five finalists competing to develop a new transit hub in downtown Atlanta; Tablet Magazine profiled Moshe Safdie, dubbing the architect a Master Builder; Board Member Saskia Sassen responded to the Foreign Policy’s 2010 Global Cities Index with some hard-hitting questions; and Claire Weisz’s firm WXY Architecture was profiled [pdf] in the Architect’s Newspaper.
Tags: Atlanta, Claire Weisz, Cooper Union, Economic Development Corp, Global Cities, Hillary Brown, infrastructure, john portman, LEED, moshe safdie, New York City, Saskia Sassen, Steven Holl, Sustainable Design, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, transit, WXY Architecture
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