Friday, April 6th, 2012
The lead project in teNeues’ recent book, New York Rooftop Gardens, is by Matthew Berman’s Workshop/APD; James Dart’s work in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans is included in a new book about design’s role in disaster recovery; a team at SOM lead by Phil Enquist announced the firm’s The Great Lakes Century initiative (pictured at left); in preparation for the Regional Assembly on 4/27, Jeff Ferzoco and his colleagues at the RPA launched an interactive town hall to engage the public about the future of New York’s metropolitan region; along with NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Charles McKinney spoke at length to Landscape Urbanism magazine about New York’s High Performance Landscape Guidelines; Matthias Sauerbruch’s firm has been shortlisted to develop university apartments as part of an urban extension plan for the University of Cambridge.
Tags: adrian benepe, Charles McKinney, great lakes, High Performance Landscape Guidelines, Hurricane Katrina, interactive town hall, James Dart, Jeff Ferzoco, landscape urbanism, Landscape Urbanism magazine, matthew berman, Matthias Sauerbruch, New Orleans, New York metropolitan region, New York Rooftop Gardens, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, Phil Enquist, Regional Assembly, Regional Plan Association, Sauerbruch Hutton, SOM, teNeues, The Great Lakes Century, University of Cambridge, workshop/apd
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Bentonville’s 21c Museum Hotel, designed by Deborah Berke, broke ground last month; Urban Omnibus visited Matthew Berman’s BLDG 92 museum and visitors center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard; Andrew Bernheimer and his sister Kate, an award-winning fairy tale author, collaborated on a three-part series of posts at Places Journal that gives architectural form to famous fairy tale houses; Matt Blesso and Mark Gardner were both interviewed as part of openhousenewyork’s “I Am OHNY” series; NYC Media released a video extolling the virtues of Colin Cathcart’s Greenhouse Project at Manhattan’s P.S. 333; the first renderings of a curvaceous new Maggie’s Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland, designed by Craig Dykers, made a splash; Vince Ferrandino is leading the effort to build a solid transition team for Mount Vernon, New York’s mayor-elect Ernie Davis; Mary Margaret Jones led a public forum on Hargreaves Associates’ new plan for Richmond’s James Riverfront; John Portman has opened a new office in Hong Kong–his fourth in Asia, after Shanghai, Seoul, and Mumbai; and it’s not every day that you can see a Fellow’s work in a big-screen blockbuster, but the ASLA’s The Dirt recently pointed out that John Wong’s Burj Khalifa Park has something of a “starring role” in the new Mission Impossible movie!
Tags: 21c Museum Hotel, Aberdeen, Andrew Bernheimer, Architecture, ASLA, Bentonville, BLDG 92, brooklyn, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Burj Khalifa, Colin Cathcart, construction, Craig Dykers, Deborah Berke, Ernie Davis, fairy tales, Greenhouse Project, Hargreaves Associates, Hollywood, Hong Kong, James River, john portman, John Wong, Kate Bernheimer, landscape architecture, Maggie's Centre, manhattan, Mark Gardner, Mary Margaret Jones, matt blesso, matthew berman, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Mount Vernon, Mumbai, New York City, NYC Media, OHNY, Places Journal, politics, public forum, Richmond, seoul, Shanghai, SWA Group, Urban Omnibus, Vince Ferrandino, waterfront, workshop/apd
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Tom Angotti criticized Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC for not focusing enough on providing affordable housing in the Gotham Gazette; The Epoch Times interviewed Rick Bell about how the economic recovery will affect the architectural profession; Inhabitat interviewed Matt Berman about workshop/apd’s GreeNOLA project; land-use advocacy organization The Fayette Alliance has launched a campaign to bring Omar Blaik to Lexington to help develop a plan for enhancing the relationship between that city and its anchor institutions; the New York Times plugged IfUD Founder Ann Ferebee’s new book, A History of Design form the Victorian Era to the Present; Anthony Flint wrote for The Angle about how bike-sharing could improve traffic in Boston; John Hartmann spoke to Brian Lehrer about his map for WNYC’s “New Littles” feature (pictured at left), popped up in an Architect profile of the non-profit SUPERFRONT, and launched a new Kickstarter fundraising initiative for his +FARM project; a+t released a new book on mixed use hybrid buildings with a preface written by Patron Steven Holl; Gregg Pasquarelli talked to Architect about the launch of SHoP Construction, while Paul Goldberger reviewed the firm’s newly-opened East River Esplanade in the New Yorker; Christopher Hawthorne reviewed Rob Rogers’ firm Rogers Marvel’s winning proposal for the redesign of Washington DC’s Ellipse; and Moshe Safdie was announced as the architect for Bishan Central, a planned 540-unit residential skyscraper in Singapore.
Tags: +FARM, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, a+t, Affordable Housing, AIANY, anchor institutions, Ann Ferebee, Anthony Flint, Architect, Architecture, bike sharing, Bishan Central, books, Boston, Brian Lehrer, construction, demographics, design competition, Ellipse, Freecell, gotham gazette, GreeNOLA, Gregg Pasquarelli, hybrid buildings, Inhabitat, interview, John Hartmann, Kentucky, Kickstarter, land use, Lexington, map, master plan, matthew berman, Mayor Bloomberg, mixed-use, moshe safdie, New Littles, New Orleans, New York City, New York Times, Omar Blaik, Paul Goldberger, PlaNYC, Rick Bell, Rob Rogers, Rogers Marvel, SHoP Architects, singapore, skyscraper, Steven Holl, SUPERFRONT, The Fayette Alliance, Tom Angotti, traffic, washington dc, workshop/apd
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture, led by Alan Balfour, recently completed the $9.5 million renovation of their new home, the Hinman Research Building, in Atlanta; Thomas Balsley and Shane Coen will both serve on the jury for ASLA’s 2011 Student Awards; Construction of the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s BNYC 92 facility, designed by Matthew Berman, is in full swing, and the building will open in November 2011; Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta has been shortlisted in the competition to design the Victoria & Albert’s Exhibition Road expansion; Newport’s lavish Bellevue Avenue has been enlivened by a series of Heritage Trail-esque markers by Ronald Lee Fleming’s Townscape Institute; Chad Floyd recently penned a paean to energy efficiency at Jetson Green; Anthony Flint joined the debate about a “new kind of Modernism” at ArchitectureBoston; The NY Observer interviewed Daniel Libeskind about his continued involvement in the reconstruction process at the World Trade Center; Jonathan Schrag spoke to Risk.net about the future of carbon trading in the US; and Henry M. White will design a new network of public spaces at a planned neighborhood in Chandigarh, India (pictured at left).
Tags: Alan Balfour, Anthony Flint, ASLA, Atlanta, Bellevue Avenue, BNYC 92, Boston, Brooklyn Navy Yard, carbon trading, Chadwick Floyd, Chandigarh, competition, Craig Dykers, daniel libeskind, Georgia Tech, green buildings, Henry M. White III, heritage trail, India, jonathan schrag, jury, landscape architecture, matthew berman, modernism, New York City, Newport, public space, Ronald Lee Fleming, Shane Coen, Snohetta, Thomas Balsley, Townscape Institute, victoria and albert museum, workshop/apd, world trade center
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
Winning proposals from the Sukkah City competition, which were selected by a panel of judges that included Michael Arad, Rick Bell, and Board Member Thom Mayne, go on view from September 19-20 in New York’s Union Square; Matt Berman’s (pictured at left) firm workshop/apd was recently named [PDF] a “Generation Next” firm in Departures Magazine’s September style issue; Wanda Bubriski has been invited to join the board of the Society of Architectural Historians; the most recent issue of Next American City magazine features an interview with Board Member Toni Griffin on her work in Detroit; Steven Handel has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecological Restoration, a quarterly published by the University of Wisconsin Press; and both Mattias Sauerbruch (who was recently awarded the commission for the M9 Museum in Venice) and Board Member Enrique Norten will serve as judges at this year’s World Architecture Festival in Barcelona.
Tags: barcelona, competition, Detroit, Ecological Restoraition, Enrique Norten, M9 Museum, matthew berman, Mattias Sauerbruch, michael arad, New York City, next american city, Rick Bell, Society of Architectural Historians, Steven Handel, sukkah city, Thom Mayne, Toni Griffin, union square, Venice, wanda bubriski, workshop/apd, World Architecture Festival
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
We’d like to introduce three new Fellows to the Institute: Michael Arad, of Handel Architects, whose “Reflecting Absence” was selected as the winning design in the World Trade Center Memorial competition, Matthew Berman, a partner at Workshop/APD, and Deborah Grossberg Katz, a designer at Interface Studio Architects and current lecturer at Penn Design. We’re very excited to have them on board!
Tags: deborah grossberg katz, handel architects, interface studio architects, matthew berman, michael arad, penn design, reflecting absence, workshop/apd, world trade center
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