Higher-education construction is largely dependent on endowments and the health of the stock market. However, the sector’s peaks and valleys lag behind those of Wall Street, due to the time required for project planning. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
The New York City firm transforms a former parking lot into an urban garden and teaching space for an elementary school. A public elementary school in New York City is an odd place to come across an abundance of fine, farm-fresh dining options—until now. At P.S. 216, a pre-K to 5th grade school in working class Gravesend, Brooklyn, a team of architects has transformed a parking lot into a verdant garden, greenhouse, and interactive culinary classroom where students learn to grow and cook their own fruit, vegetables, and herbs. Earlier this week, the architects at WORKac, a firm based in
Fumihiko Maki's 4 World Trade Center tower is complete. Larry Silverstein, the octogenarian developer, has emerged as a hero of Ground Zero reconstruction. His 7 World Trade Center, designed by David Childs, with assists from the glass-master James Carpenter and the artist Jenny Holzer, is a crystalline gem, far more satisfying than 1 World Trade Center, the 1,776-foot tower that is meant to be the centerpiece of the rebuilt 16 acres in lower Manhattan. (Silverstein hasn’t been involved in that building, also designed by Childs, since 2006.) Now Silverstein has completed 4 World Trade Center, by the Tokyo-based architect Fumihko
The new national stadium of Japan, by Zaha Hadid Architects, will be built for the 2020 summer Olympics in Tokyo. In September, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the host city for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in 2020. A town with a good track record, Tokyo beat out Istanbul and Madrid and took the prize for the third time. The city was first selected for the 1940 summer games, which were canceled due to World War II. Tokyo’s second win was for the 1964 summer Olympics. Symbolizing the end of Japan’s post–World War II reconstruction, new athletic facilities
The social impacts of urban redesign was a key theme of the 2013 Bruner Loeb Forum in Detroit. Photo courtesy J. Max Bond Center From left to right: Sally Young, Loeb Fellowship; Nicholas Hamilton, The American Assembly; Esther Yang, J. Max Bond Center; Anne-Marie Lubenau, Bruner Foundation; Jim Stockard, Loeb Fellowship; Toni Griffin, J. Max Bond Center; Simeon Bruner, Bruner Foundation; Dan Pitera and Krista Wilson, Detroit Collaborative Design Center; and David Mortimer, The American Assembly The fine art of reimagining what post-industrial cities can become through better design took the spotlight last week at the 2013 Bruner Loeb Forum,
The Port Sudan Pediatric Center is another project by TAMassociati and Emergency. Together, TAM and Emergency have built five hospitals in Africa that have treated more than 700,000 patients. As Super Typhoon Haiyan was bearing down on the Philippines last week, across the Pacific in San Francisco, the Curry Stone Foundation announced the winners of this year's Curry Stone Design Prize. Now in its sixth year, the award honors architects and designers who devise innovative, often low-tech responses to help strengthen communities faced with natural disaster, political upheaval, or a poverty of resources. At an awards ceremony at the Contemporary
The 375,000-square-foot University Center at The New School, designed by SOM, is clad in overlapping brass panels. The New School, a university that includes the Parsons School of Design, has long operated out of a motley collection of spaces in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. Hoping to create a campus center, the school proposed building a 350-foot-tall tower on a site has owned since the 1960s, at Fifth Avenue and 14th Street. A tall, tapered building would have enhanced that crossroads. But facing neighborhood opposition, the school scaled back its plans, ending up with a structure that, at 16 stories and 178
Grimshaw transforms a one-time World's Fair pavilion into a series of light-filled exhibition spaces. The west facade of the renovated Queens Museum features glass panels illuminated with programmable LED lighting. Built to house the New York City Pavilion for the 1939 World’s Fair, whose theme was “World of Tomorrow,” the now nearly 75-year-old Queens Museum of Art building has certainly seen its share of yesterdays. It was a recreation center, a home to the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations from 1946 to 1950, a pavilion once again for the 1964 World’s Fair, and for much of the
This story originally appeared in ENR New York. Two trade groups and the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) are scheduled to give oral arguments on December 17 before a state judge in a case involving the prefabricated building units of Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards' B2 Bklyn tower, designed by SHoP. A factory at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is making the 350 units for developer Forest City Ratner Companies' $117-million, 22-story modular high-rise, the first residential tower at the Atlantic Yards site. But the trade groups—Mechanical Contractors Association of New York (MCANY) and the Plumbing Foundation City of New York
Bittertang's "Walls of Wax" is this year's BOFFO Building Fashion installation, located at Pier 57 (11th Avenue and 15th Street) in Manhattan. It features menswear designer Michael Bastian’s fall/winter 2013 collection. Ever since launching their design firm Bittertang six years ago, Michael Loverich and Antonio Torres have cultivated a reputation for their use of peculiar materials. For a 2010 sukkah exhibition in Manhattan’s Union Square, the duo created an inflatable vinyl blob filled with moss and eucalyptus leaves. For a 2011 pavilion on Governors Island, they crafted walls out of nylon stockings stuffed with bark and constructed a roof out
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