Monday, April 9th, 2012
The Dempsey (pictured at left), a sustainable, affordable housing complex in Harlem designed by Richard Dattner’s firm, celebrated its opening; the University of Massachusetts has announced that David Manfredi’s Elkus Manfredi will design a new bioprocessing center for their Dartmouth campus; India saw the opening of its first Park Hyatt hotel, located in Hyderabad and developed by John Portman & Associates; Board Member Claire Weisz and her WXY Architecture + Urban Design have been chosen as lead designers for the East River Blueway, a community-based waterfront planning initiative in Manhattan.
Tags: Affordable Housing, bioprocessing center, Claire Weisz, Dartmouth, Dattner Architects, David Manfredi, East River Blueway, Elkus Manfredi, Harlem, Hyderabad, India, john portman, John Portman & Associates, Massachusetts, New York City, Park Hyatt, Richard Dattner, sustainable, The Dempsey, University of Massachusetts, WXY Architecture
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Developer Douglas Durst revealed the hotly-anticipated renderings of his W57 development (pictured at left), which is being designed by Danish rising star Bjarke Ingels; Nicolai Ouroussoff wrote a rave review in the Times for Patron Steven Holl’s design for a new Long Island City library; Chicago Tribune critic Blair Kamin spoke with Helmut Jahn about the unique pleasures and perils of airport terminal design; the University of Pennsylvania recently broke ground on the Michael Manfredi-designed Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology; Kate Orff’s “oyster-tecture” project has been popping up everywhere recently: in Grist, the Guardian, Metropolis, the PSFK blog, and on TED.com; Gregg Pasquarelli’s SHoP Architects was named as the architect of the first residential tower at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards megadevelopment; Board Member Saskia Sassen made a splash with the cheekily-titled (and highly-enjoyable) article “Talking back to your intelligent city”; and the Architect’s Newspaper took a virtual walk through Claire Weisz’s plans for the revamp of NYC’s Cooper Square/Astor Place, while the Times announced Weisz as the architect for an expansion of Soho’s Drawing Center.
Tags: airport, Astor Place, atlantic yards, Bjarke Ingels, Blair Kamin, brooklyn, Chicago, Claire Weisz, Cooper Square, Douglas Durst, Drawing Center, Gregg Pasquarelli, Helmut Jahn, intelligent city, Kate Orff, library, Long Island City, manhattan, museum, nanotechnology, New York City, Nicolai Ouroussoff, oyster-tecture, plaza program, Saskia Sassen, security, SHoP Architects, Soho, Steven Holl, TED.com, University of Pennsylvania, W57, WXY Architecture
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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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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Our next Breakfast Club will take place a week from today at the Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place) in New York from 8:30-10:00 AM on Wednesday, October 6th. Some of the most interesting new public spaces in New York are being carved out of city streets by the Department of Transportation to calm traffic. They raise a number of really interesting urban design questions, and we’ll be discussing those and the idea of shared spaces in an urban environment. DOT Assistant Commissioner for Planning and Sustainability Andy Wiley-Schwartz and New York-based artist Mary Miss will join Fellows Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture and William Kelley of the Union Square Partnership to help kick off the conversation. Breakfast Clubs are limited to Fellows and their guests. Please email to RSVP.
Tags: Andy Wiley-Schwartz, Breakfast Club, Center for Architecture, Claire Weisz, Department of Transportation, mary miss, New York City, public space, traffic calming, Union Square Partnership, William Kelley, WXY Architecture
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Fellows in the News: Fellow Meta Brunzema’s La Marqueta Mile project in Harlem has been generating a lot of great buzz lately; work has started and a construction webcam has gone live at the site of the new Bushwick Inlet Park in Brooklyn, designed by Fellow Colin Cathcart’s firm Kiss + Cathcart; Patron Steven Holl was recently selected to design the new Long Island City branch of the Queens Library; Fellow Jon Jerde’s groundbreaking Horton Plaza shopping center in San Diego (pictured at left) just hit the quarter-century mark, an anniversary the mall’s owners are celebrating with architectural tours; and finally, Fellow Claire Wiesz has been very busy — work on her revamp of Transmitter Park, just a few blocks upriver form the aforementioned Bushwick Inlet Park, has just started, and this week saw the unveiling of WXY Architecture’s plans for the overhaul of Fordham Plaza in the Bronx.
Tags: Bronx, brooklyn, Bushwick Inlet Park, Claire Weisz, Colin Cathcart, Fordham Plaza, Harlem, Horton Plaza, Jon Jerde, Kiss + Cathcart, La Marqueta Mile, Long Island City, Meta Brunzema, New York City, Queens Library, San Diego, Steven Holl, Transmitter Park, WXY Architecture
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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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The Dempsey (pictured at left), a sustainable, affordable housing complex in Harlem designed by Richard Dattner’s firm, celebrated its opening; the University of Massachusetts has announced that David Manfredi’s Elkus Manfredi will design a new bioprocessing center for their Dartmouth campus; India saw the opening of its first Park Hyatt hotel, located in Hyderabad and developed by John Portman & Associates; Board Member Claire Weisz and her WXY Architecture + Urban Design have been chosen as lead designers for the East River Blueway, a community-based waterfront planning initiative in Manhattan.
