Despite declining attendance and revenue, many cities are expanding convention centers or building new ones. Photo courtesy Events DC The Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. Click to view more images. Related Links: See Us at the 2012 AIA Convention Record Reveals: Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Convention Center by TVSA After decades of being dissed, New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is finally getting some respect: A $463 million renovation, designed by the Manhattan firm FXFOWLE, will play to the building’s strengths (preserving its once-revolutionary space frame) while bringing massive aesthetic, organizational, and environmental improvements. And with a
Image courtesy Richard Meier & Partners New Headquarters of Vinci Partners, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Click to view more images. Related Links: Richard Meier Tapped for Two W Hotels in Mexico Interview: Richard Meier Continuing a recent push into Latin America, Richard Meier has brought his taut and planar aesthetic to Brazil, where the New York architect has been hired to design a seven-story office in Rio de Janeiro. The boxy, 50,000-square-foot building, which is to be located one block from the beach in the trendy Leblon neighborhood, will become the new headquarters of Vinci Partners, a global investment firm.
Photo courtesy Generator Studio Generator Studio’s Sun Pavilion at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. The curators of Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939 spent years tracking down the 200 objects now on view at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. But as the April opening approached, one key piece of the world’s fair story was missing—pavilion design. Though the objects would be housed in Steven Holl’s 2007 addition to the museum, curator Catherine Futter wanted to capture the feeling of world’s fair architecture with a temporary structure on the museum’s lawn. In January,
May 17'19 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy McGraw-Hill Construction McGraw-Hill Construction booth (#2603) on the expo floor. * Stop by the McGraw-Hill Construction booth (#2603) on the expo floor to learn about our various offerings, including the Sweets Building Product Database, Dodge Project Center News Database, and our award-winning print and digital publications. Check out our second annual “Meet the Expert” series, where Architectural Record editors interview luminaries such as Thom Mayne and Tom Kundig. For a full schedule, see our website; also, keep abreast of our activities on Twitter at #AIAMHC or
We recently launched the first-ever mobile app to allow design and construction professionals to earn CEU credits on the go. Architectural Record, part of McGraw-Hill Construction and the leading provider of continuing education for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) community, is celebrating a number of digital “wins” this week, as it counts its 320,000th Twitter follower and launches the first-of-its-kind continuing education mobile app, McGraw-Hill Construction’s 8th app to appear online and in the iTunes App Store. As it catapults toward an increasingly digital, intelligence-driven business model, McGraw-Hill Construction remains tethered to an age-old approach—a solid focus on its
Now in its fifteenth year, the Architectural Record Good Design is Good Business Awards celebrate architecture as a vehicle to enhance a company’s bottom line.
This is the Year of the Museum for Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. While the firm’s new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is preparing for a late May opening, and its Asia Society Hong Kong Center opened in February, the New York firm was just selected by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, to undertake a major expansion and renovation of its 1985 structure.
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