Friday, August 10th, 2012
Matt Blesso discussed Bushwick’s burgeoning real estate future in Metro New York; an Architectural Record article about Via Verde (pictured left) included comments by Lance Jay Brown, a founding member of the development’s steering committee; Brown, and the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee he co-chairs, was also featured in an Architect article about rising sea levels; Anthony Flint wrote about digital public art in Atlantic Cities; the Washington Post reviewed Daniel Libeskind’s exhibit at the Goethe Institut in Washington, DC; Engineering News-Record gave an in depth account of the structural engineering of the forthcoming Barclays Center designed by Gregg Pasquarelli’s SHoP Architects; Linda Pollak’s transformation of Queens Plaza was featured in the Wall Street Journal; Metropolis profiled Robert Rogers’ firm; Michael Stepner spoke to the U-T San Diego about planning lessons learned from teaching in Madrid.
Tags: AIANY, Anthony Flint, Architect Magazine, Architectural Record, Atlantic Cities, Bushwick, daniel libeskind, Dattner Architects, Engineering News-Record, Goethe Institut, Gregg Pasquarelli, Grimshaw Architects, Lance Jay Brown, Linda Pollak, matt blesso, Metro New York, Metropolis Magazine, Michael Stepner, New York, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel Architects, SHoP Architects, U-T San Diego, Via Verde, wall street journal, washington dc, Washington Post
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Monday, July 23rd, 2012
Matt Blesso spoke to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times about blending city and country on his Manhattan rooftop; Richard Dattner’s 1960s playground designs feature prominently in a Cabinet magazine article; Phil Enquist spoke with Chicago radio station WBEZ about the future of the Chicago River, one he hopes includes fishing and swimming; Architectural Record investigated how Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss’ Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center uses earth and plants to amplify its design; also according to Architectural Record, Rob Rogers and Jonathan Marvel are ‘hitting their stride’ with the commission to design a hotel and condominium overlooking Brooklyn Bridge Park (above).
Tags: Architectural Record, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Cabinet Magazine, Chicago, Chicago River, manhattan, matt blesso, Michael Manfredi, New York Times, Phil Enquist, Richard Drattner, Rob Rogers, wall street journal, WBEZ
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The Wall Street Journal spoke to Tom Angotti about the Bloomberg-era evolution of zoning in New York City, and published a wonderful profile of Michael Arad; Architect talked to Board Member Tami Hausman about how architecture firms can (and should) use social media strategically; Luca Farinelli’s “53 Questions, 265 Answers” in Log 23 features interviews with Patron Steven Holl and Board Member Thom Mayne; the WSJ features Stephan Jaklitsch and Mark Gardner’s renovation of Marc Jacobs’ private Soho showroom; Patricia Lancaster expressed surprise at Related’s decision to hire a California contractor for the massive Hudson Yards project in Manhattan; Gregg Pasquarelli’s Pier 15 opened along Manhattan’s East River Waterfront Esplanade; Linda Pollak’s new Elmhurst Branch of the Queens Library, which is wrapping up construction, was featured on NY1; and Rosemary Wakeman was quoted in a Corpus Christi Caller-Times article about the relationship between streetscapes and civic pride.
Tags: Architect Magazine, civic pride, construction, contractor, Corpus Christi, East River Waterfront Esplanade, Elmhurst, Gregg Pasquarelli, Hudson Yards, interview, Linda Pollak, Log, Luca Farinelli, manhattan, Marc Jacobs, Mark Gardner, Marpillero Pollak, michael arad, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, NY1, Patricia Lancaster, Pier 15, Queens, Queens Library, Related, Rosemary Wakeman, social media, Soho, Stephan Jaklitsch, Steven Holl, streetscape, tami hausman, Texas, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, wall street journal, waterfront, zoning
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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, 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.
Tags: Architizer, books, Charleston, City Pier, CityWide, Claire Weisz, daniel libeskind, Deborah Berke, design competition, Don Stastny, eOculus, Ernest Hutton, flight, Florida, Hyatt Regency Hotel, interiors, john portman, John Wong, Kenneth K. Fisher, Kimball Art Center, manhattan, Matt Berman, Mayors Institute on City Design, Michael Manfredi, modernism, New York City, New York Times, Nina Libeskind, Park City, Peter Yarrow, Philadelphia, publication, Re-Definitions, renovation, residential, Saint Petersburg, San Francisco, Sea Cliff, Sherman Creek, Studio Retreat, TASHAN, Theo David, wall street journal, waterfront, Weiss Manfredi, Winka Dubbeldam
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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.
Tags: Architectural Record, Architecture, Astor Place, Bowery, bridge, Cambridge, Chicago, civic leadership, Claire Weisz, Connecticut, Cooper Union, Curbed, daniel libeskind, David Manfredi, great buildings, Gregg Pasquarelli, Hudson Square, infrastructure, interior design, Italy, John Legend, Kendall Square, manhattan, marina bay sands, master plan, moshe safdie, New York City, New York magazine, Phil Enquist, plaza program, Richard Dattner, robert a.m. stern, salt shed, Sicily, singapore, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Vince Ferrandino, wall street journal, Winka Dubbeldam
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Metropolis recently interviewed Gregory Baldwin about ZGF’s design for a piazza in downtown Portland, OR; the Wall Street Journal spoke with Carmi Bee about his Berry Street residential project in Brooklyn; Deborah Berke, who recently wrapped up work on the master plan for the ECLA in Berlin, was named one of Elle Decor‘s Five Women in Design; Kenneth Drucker spoke to the Huffington Post about China’s plan to build 50 cities of one million people in the next two decades; Jamie Hand has accepted a new position as a Design Specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC; Board Member Cathy Lang Ho’s full review of the Venice Architecture Biennale is up at Architect; Helmut Jahn’s ambitious proposal for the revamp of Navy Pier (pictured at left) has been stirring up debate in the Windy City; Daniel Libeskind has been selected to design Finland’s second-largest arena; John Portman will design a new 250- to 500-room hotel as part of the $700MM expansion of the San Diego Convention Center; and Lyn Rice’s work on the New School’s Manhattan campus was featured in gb&d Magazine‘s November issue (see p. 48).
Tags: Architect Magazine, Carmi Bee, Cathy Lang Ho, Chicago, China, daniel libeskind, Deborah Berke, Elle Decor, European College of Liberal Arts, Finland, gb&d Magazine, Gregory Baldwin, Helmut Jahn, hotel, Huffington Post, Jamie Hand, john portman, Kenneth Drucker, Lyn Rice, manhattan, Metropolis, National Endowment for the Arts, Navy Pier, New School, New York City, piazza, portland, public space, San Diego, Venice Architecture Biennial, wall street journal, washington dc, Williamsburg, women architects, Zimmer Gunsukl Frasca
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Board Member Matt Blesso (pictured at left) was recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal for his impressive roster of charity work; also, the New York City DOT announced its selection of the design team that will plan the permanent revamp of Times Square, and the winning group includes Fellows Craig Dykers of Snøhetta and Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture + Urban Design.
Tags: Board of Directors, charity, Claire Weisz, Craig Dykers, Department of Transportation, matt blesso, Snohetta, times square, wall street journal, WXY Architecture
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