Thursday, February 9th, 2012
There are two new titles out from Tom Angotti, including Service-Learning in Design and Planning, co-edited with Cheryl Doble and Paula Horrigan, and Accidental Warriors and Battlefield Myths, Angotti’s first collection of short stories; Richard Sennett’s Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Collaboration was excerpted in Salon, reviewed by the New Scientist, and called “a whirlwind of big ideas” by the Washington Post; Frederick Steiner’s latest, Urban Ecological Design, is now available at a bookstore near you; and Barbara Wilks‘ West Harlem Piers Park is featured in John Hill’s new Guide to Contemporary New York Architecture (Update: Hill’s guide also includes several recent works by Thomas Balsley!)
Tags: Accidental Warriors and Battlefield Myths, Architecture, Barbara Wilks, books, Cheryl Doble, Frederick Steiner, Guide to Contemporary New York Architecture, John Hill, manhattan, New Scientist, New York City, Paula Horrigan, Richard Sennett, Salon, Service-Learning in Design and Planning, short stories, sociology, Thomas Balsley, Together: The Rituals Pleasures and Politics of Collaboration, Tom Angotti, Urban Ecological Design, urban planning, West Harlem Piers Park
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Monday, December 19th, 2011
Curbed included Board Member Winka Dubbeldam’s 597 Greenwich Street on their list of Innovative Residences You Need to Know Right Now; Mayor Dave Bing announced the re-launch of the Detroit Works program, with Board Member Toni Griffin heading up the development of a long-range development plan for the troubled Rust Belt city; Mary Margaret Jones (whose Olympic Park in London, pictured at left, was just completed) has been selected to design a new public entertainment waterfront attraction in Corpus Christi, Texas; Bill Kelley is leading the charge to add more sidewalk cafe space to Greenwich Village’s West 8th Street; good news came for two skyscrapers designed by Daniel Libeskind: the developers of his Zlota 44 building in Warsaw secured financing to complete construction, while his Eden Center in Jerusalem received official approval to move forward; Anne Locke spoke to WestfairOnline about the recent boom in medical facilities construction; “The Mobius,” Michael Manfredi’s entry to the Portal to the Point ideas competition in Pittsburgh, was featured on ArchDaily; Moshe Safdie released renderings for a massive $3.1 billion, six-tower, 10 million-square-foot mixed-use complex planned for Chongqing, China; a course designed by NJIT’s Darius Sollohub in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity was featured in a round-up of innovative and unconventional college courses around New Jersey; and Robert A.M. Stern was interviewed about his skyscraping One Horizon Center project in Gurgaon, India.
Tags: 597 Greenwich Street, Anne Locke, ArchDaily, China, Chongqing, construction, Corpus Christi, Curbed, daniel libeskind, Darius Sollohub, Detroit, Detroit Works, Eden Center, Greenwich Village, Gurgaon, Habitat for Humanity, India, Jerusalem, landscape urbanism, london, Mary Margaret Jones, Mayor Bing, medical facilities, megaprojects, Michael Manfredi, mixed-use, moshe safdie, NJIT, Olympic Park, One Horizon Center, Pittsburgh, Point State Park, Portal to the Point, residential, retail, robert a.m. stern, rust belt, shrinking cities, skyscraper, streetscape, Texas, The Mobius, Toni Griffin, urban planning, Warsaw, waterfront, Weiss/Manfredi, West 8th Street, William Kelley, Winka Dubbeldam, Zlota 44
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Speaking to the New York Observer about the AIA’s growing role in New York City politics, Rick Bell noted that “It used to be we were more reactive, waiting for the forum to air our views, and by then it was usually too late. Now we want to be there for the start of the discussion, or even initiating the discussion ourselves.” Chris Hardwicke explained the 220-page report that he just completed on downtown Saskatoon as an innovative effort to gather hard data on day-to-day use of the city by its citizens: “It’s an atlas of public life. It’s unique to study people spending time in space…I think most people assume planning is for people, but because you don’t measure it, you can’t actually plan for it.” At the Zoning the City symposium earlier this month, Robert A.M. Stern responded to Mary Ann Tighe’s lament about Asia’s nascent preeminence in the great skyscraper race (and the related falling-behind of New York’s “romantic” skyline) with a cutting quip: “Let’s be real. There’s a lot of crap out there. I’m happy to come home.” (Video of all of the panels from that event, by the way, are now available online).
Tags: AIANY, Architecture, Asia, atlas, Chris Hardwicke, crap, data, downtown, manhattan, Mary Ann Tighe, New York City, New York Observer, politics, public space, quotes, Rick Bell, robert a.m. stern, romantic, Saskatoon, skyline, skyscraper, urban planning, video, Zoning the City
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
In his latest Gotham Gazette column, Tom Angotti looks into NYC’s plans for its new bikeshare program; Matt Berman and his partner Andrew Kotchen launched SpruceBox, a new web platform to help homeowners visualize renovation projects; Phil Enquist won two competitions to develop master plans for a 2-kilometer stretch of the Yangtze Riverfront in downtown Nanjing and a new urban center at Duqm City in Oman; William Fain’s firm recently completed master plans for the Chinese cities of Chengdu and XiCheng; Anthony Flint argued for concentrating early development of a high-speed rail system in the US in megaregions like the Northeast Corridor; Board Member Toni Griffin joined in on the New York Times‘ most recent Room For Debate feature on the demolition of foreclosed housing; construction work has begun on Patron Steven Holl’s athletic complex for Columbia at the northern tip of Manhattan (pictured at left); Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art, designed by Rodolfo Machado’s firm, has just opened; the National Mall Design Competition, led by Don Stastny, announced its jury, which will include Board Member Thom Mayne; Linda Pollak will serve as the Lead Juror for AIA Pittsburgh’s Design Pittsburgh awards; and Rosemary Wakeman spoke to the Baltimore Sun about gentrification in that city’s Union Square neighborhood.
Tags: AIA, Anthony Flint, awards, Baltimore, bike sharing, Chazen Museum of Art, Chengdu, China, Columbia University, demolition, Design Pittsburgh, Donald Stastny, Duqm City, Foreclosed, gentrification, gotham gazette, high speed rail, jury, Linda Pollak, Machado Silvetti, Madison, manhattan, master plan, matthew berman, Nanjing, National Mall Design Competition, New York City, New York Times, Northeast Corridor, Oman, Philip Enquist, Pittsburgh, Rodolfo Machado, Room for Debate, Rosemary Wakeman, SpruceBox, Steven Holl, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, Toni Griffin, transportation, urban planning, washington dc, waterfront, William Fain, Wisconsin, XiCheng, Yangtze River
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
The World Architecture Festival, for which Board President Michael Sorkin chaired the Grand Jury, kicks off tomorrow (11/2) in Barcelona; Steven Handel will deliver the Benjamin C. Howland Jr. Memorial Lecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture on 11/4; that same day, Board Member Thom Mayne will speak at Architectural Record‘s 2011 Innovation Conference; also on 11/4, Board Member Enrique Norten will speak at Yale’s Catastrophe and Consequence symposium; on 11/5, Colin Cathcart will participate in the Center for Architecture symposium Buildings = Energy; on 11/7, Deborah Gans, Matt Blesso, Mark Ginsberg, and Mark Strauss will all participate in the Architectural League’s Making Room symposium; Craig Dykers will speak at La Ciudad de las Ideas in Puebla, Mexico, on 11/11; Board Member Saskia Sassen is co-chair of the Committee on Global Thought’s Ecogram IV: China event on 11/11; Stuart Pertz will join a discussion on Planning the Future of Coney Island’s Amusement District, also on 11/11; the Reconsidering Postmodernism conference, to be held in New York from 11/11-12, will feature Robert A.M. Stern, as well as a session focusing on the work of Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown; Board Member Tami Hausman is a co-organizer of the 11/14 CfA panel What’s Your Story?; and on 11/15, Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute will host the Zoning the City conference in New York, featuring Rick Bell, Stern, and Board Members Mayne and Toni Griffin.
Tags: Architectural League, Architectural Record, Architecture, barcelona, Buildings = Energy, Catastrophe and Consequence, Center for Architecture, China, Colin Cathcart, Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought, Coney Island, Craig Dykers, Deborah Gans, Denise Scott Brown, Ecogram IV, Enrique Norten, Events, festival, Grand Jury, innovation, Innovation Conference, Jack S. Nyman, La Ciudad de las Ideas, lecture, Making Room, Mark Ginsberg, Mark Strauss, marketing, Matthew Blesso, Mexico, Michael Sorkin, New York City, Puebla, Reconsidering Postmodernism, Rick Bell, robert a.m. stern, Robert Venturi, Saskia Sassen, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Steven N. Handel, stuart pertz, tami hausman, Thom Mayne, Toni Griffin, University of Virgnia, urban planning, World Architecture Festival, Yale University, zoning, Zoning the City
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Board Member Saskia Sassen will participate in the Columbia GSAPP’s Injured Cities Conference on 10/14-15; Barbara Wilks will give a talk at the New York Botanical Garden’s Midtown Education Center on 10/24; Board Member Enrique Norten will speak at the Pratt Institute on 10/24 in conjunction with the new exhibit Breaking Borders: New Latin American Architecture; Richard Sennett will join the Institute for Public Knowledge’s discussion of the new publication Living in the Endless City in New York on 10/25; Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute will host the symposium The Waterfront: A Brooklyn Model for Preservation and Change on 10/26; Deborah Berke will talk about Development, Design and Financing Strategies for Urban Revitalization Using Hospitality and the Arts at the ULI Fall Conference on 10/26; Board Member Toni Griffin will visit Notre Dame University on 10/26 to deliver the lecture Can Planning Save the City: Facing the Challenges of Urban America; Olympia Kazi will host Board Member Thom Mayne at Van Alen Books on 10/28 for a presentation on his new book, Combinatory Urbanism; Board Member Winka Dubbeldam is on the Host Committee for the Storefront for Art & Architecture’s Critical Halloween party on 10/29; and Tom Angotti will participate in the panel Where is New York? Apparitions at Willets Point at the Columbia GSAPP on 10/31.
Tags: Architecture, Barbara Wilks, Baruch College, Breaking Borders, brooklyn, Columbia University, Combinatory Urbanism, conference, Critical Halloween, Development, Enrique Norten, GSAPP, Injured Cities, Institute for Public Knowledge, Jack Nyman, Living in the Endless City, manhattan, Midtown, New York Botanical Garden, New York City, Notre Dame, NYU, Olympia Kazi, panel discussion, party, Pratt Institute Latin America, preservation, Queens, Richard Sennett, Saskia Sassen, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Storefront for Art & Architecture, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, Toni Griffin, urban planning, Urbanism, Van Alen Books, waterfront, Willets Point, Winka Dubbeldam
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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.”
Tags: Architecture, color, Craig Dykers, Europe, Globe and Mail, IIDEX/NeoCon, manhattan, Matthias Sauerbruch, methodology, New York City, noir, PlaNYC, public space, quotes, Snohetta, streetscape, times square, Tom Angotti, urban planning
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Looking ahead and preparing your summer reading list? Ken Greenberg’s new book Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder was just released last week, and you can visit the Random House website to purchase a copy; Board Member Thom Mayne has just self-published the book Combinatory Urbanism: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form; meanwhile, the latest issue of Texas Monthly features an excerpt from the introduction to Fred Steiner’s Design for a Vulnerable Planet, which was published last month. If that’s not enough to keep you busy, check out Designers and Books, a website that features the reading lists of many great architects, planners, and urbanists—including Patrons Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Holl, Fellow Daniel Libeskind, and Board President Michael Sorkin.
Tags: books, Combinatory Urbanism, daniel libeskind, Denise Scott Brown, Design for a Vulnerable Planet, Designers and Books, Fred Steiner, Ken Greenberg, Michael Sorkin, Random House, Robert Venturi, Steven Holl, Texas Monthly, Thom Mayne, urban planning, Urbanism, Walking Home
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Said Bruce Fowle, president-elect of the National Academy Museum and School, on the recovery and re-opening of that once-threatened institution: “The doors are reopening on a whole other world there;” in a recent article on the many ways in which New York City is attempting to become a cleaner and greener place, AM New York spoke with Laurie Kerr (pictured at left), who noted that “Buildings have an enormous impact on the environment; building codes should reflect that;” and speaking of her involvement in the aforementioned Riverside Center project in The Villager, Ethel Sheffer noted that it was getting involved with her Community Board that led her to become a professional planner: “You have to become citizen experts.”
Tags: AM New York, Bruce Fowle, community board, emissions, environment, Ethel Sheffer, green buildings, Laurie Kerr, museum, National Academy Museum, New York City, PlaNYC, Riverside Center, sustainability, urban planning
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
San Mateo’s Station Park Green development (pictured at left), designed by Karen Alschuler, received an enthusiastic thumbs-up from that city’s Council; Tom Angotti’s column in the Gotham Gazette looks at NYC’s new comprehensive waterfront plan, Vision 2020; the Epoch Times profiled a Thomas Balsley-designed rooftop forest in Lower Manhattan; Metropolis visited the Manhattan office of Craig Dykers’ firm Snøhetta; San Antonio’s KSAT-12 spoke with William Fain about the redesign of HemisFair Park; Kenneth K. Fisher interviewed Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer for CUNY-TV; Kate Orff’s work on “oyster-tecture” was featured in Harvard Design Magazine; in the lead-up to Gregg Pasquarelli’s Architectural League-organized lecture last Wednesday, the League published an extensive interview with the architect; Michael Stepner co-authored a call for planners to articulate a long-term vision for downtown San Diego; and NorthJersey.com talked to June Williamson about how suburbs can be retrofitted to create walkable, urban communities.
Tags: Architectural League, California, comprehensive plan, Craig Dykers, CUNY, downtown, green roof, Gregg Pasquarelli, Harvard Design Magazine, Hemisfair Park, June Williamson, Karen Alschuler, Kate Orff, Kenneth K. Fisher, landscape architecture, manhattan, Metropolis, Michael Stepner, New Jersey, New York City, oyster-tecture, Perkins + Will, San Antonio, San Diego, San Mateo, scott stringer, SHoP Architects, Snohetta, Station park Green, suburbs, Texas, Thomas Balsley, Tom Angotti, urban planning, Vision 2020, walkability, waterfront, William Fain
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There are two new titles out from Tom Angotti, including Service-Learning in Design and Planning, co-edited with Cheryl Doble and Paula Horrigan, and Accidental Warriors and Battlefield Myths, Angotti’s first collection of short stories; Richard Sennett’s Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Collaboration was excerpted in Salon, reviewed by the New Scientist, and called “a whirlwind of big ideas” by the Washington Post; Frederick Steiner’s latest, Urban Ecological Design, is now available at a bookstore near you; and Barbara Wilks‘ West Harlem Piers Park is featured in John Hill’s new Guide to Contemporary New York Architecture (Update: Hill’s guide also includes several recent works by Thomas Balsley!)
