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Victorian Architecture Medal Awarded to Woods Bagot and NHArchitecture
Joint Venture Architects Woods Bagot and NHArchitecture's Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) has been honoured with 4 accolades at the Australian Institute of Architects Victoria Architecture Awards, in addition to receiving the Victorian Architecture Medal as a "unique project which reveals a number of design ideas that make it a leading project in contemporary world architecture."
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/29 5:04pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/29 5:04pm
Va. Tech wins international solar house competition
BLACKSBURG – Virginia Tech’s entry in Solar Decathlon Europe has won the 10-day competition in Madrid, Spain. After being inspected in different categories each day, the solar house — designed and originally constructed on the Blacksburg campus — was declared the most efficient structure in the decathlon.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/29 5:03pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/29 5:03pm
Near-Empty Tower Still Holds Hope
And as part of a slow but steady rise in aesthetic standards, it at least feeds the fantasy that someday high-quality architecture will trickle down to the city’s shrinking middle classes. The reverse — that as the city continues to wallow in its current financial malaise, it will retreat to the aesthetic conservatism of old — is too depressing to contemplate.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/29 4:51pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/29 4:51pmArchitecture's Long Fade
Architecture just might be this season’s Biggest Loser. The Architecture Billings Index, a gauge the American Institute of Architects uses to show the industry’s strength (or weakness), indicates that business has now been in decline for a record 28 months in a row.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/28 5:55am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/28 5:55am
NY exhibit imagines utopian, green cities in 2030
In New York City, a two-mile stretch of the FDR Drive parkway is torn down to open lower Manhattan for parks and plazas. In Jakarta, Indonesia, bike taxis are re-engineered to be lighter and easier to steer. These cities and eight others are featured in an exhibit on environmentally friendly transportation opening Thursday in New York.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/24 4:35pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/24 4:35pm
RIBA Stirling Prize to move to BBC TWO's The Culture Show
BBC TWO's flagship arts programme, The Culture Show, is to broadcast The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize for the first time.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/22 7:16pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/22 7:16pm
Critic's Notebook: Who will follow Eli Broad as L.A.'s architectural patron?
Wallis Annenberg, Casey Wasserman, Michael Govan and Eric Garcetti are among the contenders.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/22 7:15pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/22 7:15pm
Criminal courts win architectural prize
The Criminal Courts of Justice has won the Public Choice Award of the Irish Architecture Awards. Peter McGovern from Henry J Lyons Architect produced the winning design of the building.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/21 5:22pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/21 5:22pm
Cooper-Hewitt awards go to designers of High Line, birding center
“The context in which designers and design thinkers operate is expanding all the time, as evidenced by the work of these award winners. These design pioneers are committed to shaping how we live through design, and their work truly responds to the pressing issues of the day,” Moggridge said.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/18 6:09pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/18 6:09pm
Turning a flying aluminum can into a Malibu mansion
A decades-old junked jetliner will soon be the dream home of California woman. Francie Rehwald wanted something curvy, "feminine," and eco-friendly for her remote 55-acre hillside property in Malibu. So Architect David Hertz, founder of Studio of Environmental Architecture, came up with the idea of using an old airplane.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/18 6:07pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/18 6:07pm
Columbia College building receives first LEED silver certification in Columbia
Missouri Hall originally was a girls dormitory and now houses the admissions office. Missouri Hall is also the first building in Columbia to receive a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) silver certification as a green, sustainable building.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/18 6:05pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/18 6:05pm
Upcoming Architecture & Design Events
In case you haven't yet heard, Archinect is co-hosting an exciting event next week at NYC's Center for Architecture. The panel discussion Shifting Paradigms: Design in Transition will be following the premier of (Re)centering the Square (click here for trailer), a film about the Morphosis-designed Cooper Union building 41 Cooper Square
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/18 12:18am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/18 12:18am
Housing co-op trumps condos for architectural award
Swank condos took up most of the spots on the list of residential architecture nominees at the Pug Awards this year, but it was Toronto’s first housing co-operative in 20 years that emerged on top.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/17 4:29pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/17 4:29pm
William J. Mitchell, Architect and Urban Visionary, Dies at 65
William J. Mitchell, an architect and urban theorist who envisioned the modern city as an electronically interconnected network of systems and who, while serving as dean of the school of architecture and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, enlisted top architects to carry out an ambitious expansion of the M.I.T. campus, died Friday in Boston. He was 65.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/17 4:28pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/17 4:28pm
The Bilbao Effect: Architecture of Pattern Interruption?
In sum, I heartily welcome the "green and clean" vision of future architecture. But might we also preserve the invaluable culture of pattern-interruption architecture that, upon encounter, wipes the mind's slate of preconceived notions clean? Economically-responsible clean-up of the environment best begins with mind-detox.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/16 7:06pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/16 7:06pm