United States Artists, the national grant-making and advocacy organization, awarded unrestricted grants of $50,000 to 50 artists this year. Jujuy Redux, an apartment building in Rosario, Argentina (2012), designed by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich of the Los Angeles firm P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S. United States Artists (USA), the national grant-making and advocacy organization, announced today the 50 recipients of unrestricted grants of $50,000 each. In the Architecture and Design category, the award recipients are: Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich founded their architecture firm, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, in Los Angeles in 1999. They recently completed a ten-story apartment building in Rosario, Argentina, and a mix-use
Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), developer of the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, New York, has officially announced today that the mixed-use complex’s first residential building—a 22-story, 350-unit, metal-and-glass-clad tower designed by SHoP Architects—will be built with modular methods. The developer has estimated that the modular structure, which will have a series of setbacks and cantilevers, will cost about 20 percent less than a nearly identical conventionally constructed tower. FCRC will partner with construction and development group, Skanska USA, to create FC + Skanska Modular. The new company will rely on union labor to assemble the components in
A new monograph from Yale University Press pays tribute to the master photographer who raised the profile of modern architecture. Click the image below to view a selection of photographs from the book. Hirshhorn MuseumSkidmore Owings & MerrillWashington, DC1974
Image courtey HDR and Corgan Associates Construction is under way on Parkland Hospital, a 2.1 million-square-foot project in Dallas by HDR and Corgan Associates. It has been hailed for increasing coverage, streamlining the delivery of care, and lowering costs. But the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, the federal health insurance law that has generated controversy since its 2010 passage, has also led to the layoffs of dozens of architects at two firms, HDR and Jain Malkin, according to staff. This past summer and fall, HDR, an Omaha-based global architecture and engineering practice with a large healthcare portfolio,
Yale University Press recently released the first monograph dedicated to Maynard Parker. It shows the photographer constructing a sunny ideal of postwar domesticity with images that captured Modern Americans at home. Click the image below to view a selection of photographs from the book. The living room in the in Flintridge, California, home that architect George Turner designed for himself, c. 1947
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, New Yorkers watched in horror as residents climbed onto rooftops, stranded, or fled to shelters that provided precious little shelter.
Exposed towns, cities and even nations, such as The Netherlands, have slowly and quietly been building up storm surge defenses to protect themselves for decades, averting millions of dollars in damages as a result. This story originally appeared on ENR.com. The Thames Barrier protects London. Designed by Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, the barrier consists of nine concrete piers and gates stretching 1,700 feet across the river. The piers house hydraulic machinery that can raise 60-foot-tall gates in 30 minutes to block the surge tide coming up the Thames Estuary. When not in use, the gates rest in concrete sills flush
Pritzker-prize winner Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA has selected a young architect from China to assist her with a yearlong design project for victims of the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
A panel convened Thursday night by the New York Chapter of the AIA tackled difficult planning questions raised in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Photo courtesy Center for Architecture The panel (from left), included moderator Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic of the New York Times; Stephen Cassell, principal at New York-based Architecture Research Office; Howard Slatkin, director of sustainability with the New York City Department of City Planning; Cynthia Barton, housing recovery plan manager at the Office of Emergency Management; Dr. Klaus Jacob, professor of disaster risk management at Columbia University; Donna Walcavage, a landscape architect with AECOM; and Rob Rogers,
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