Mini-parks built atop parking spaces are cropping up throughout San Francisco. The trend is spreading to other cities, as well. Photo ' Søren Schaumberg Jensen/REBAR Rebar, a San Francisco firm, designed a parklet outside of Tony’s Pizza Napoletana in the North Beach neighborhood. Related Links: NYC: They Unpaved Paradise and Took Out a Parking Lot It’s the ultimate revenge on the modern city: one less parking space, one more park. A century and a half after San Francisco city planner Jasper O’Farrell was driven out of town by a lynch mob for taking farmers’ land to widen Market Street, parklets
Rem's addition to Cornell's architecture school keeps a low profile on the university's famed Arts Quad but speaks louder on the other side. Photo ' Clifford Pearson The new 47,000-square-foot Milstein Hall cantilevers nearly 50 feet over an adjacent road. Rem Koolhaas led a tour of the building in late October. Related Links: At Cornell University, Groundbreaking Could Mark the End of 12-Year Saga Third Time’s A Charm for Koolhaas at Cornell Holl’s Cornell Scheme Will Not Be Built Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) partner Shohei Shigematsu showed off Milstein Hall, their 47,000-square-foot addition to Cornell's
Photo courtesy Holcim Foundation Lateral Office / InfraNet Lab won the $100,000 gold prize. NORTH AMERICAN WINNERS Gold Prize Arctic Food Network By Lateral Office / InfraNet Lab Silver Prize NZE K-12 High Performance School Prototype By Swift Lee Office Bronze Prize Border control station in Van Buren, Maine By Julie Snow Architects Acknowledgements Studio 804 (Dan Rockhill) Anderson Anderson Architecture US Army Corps of Engineers Studio Gang Architects (Jeanne Gang) “Next Generation” Prizes Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Team Rhode Island School of Design Team University of Toronto Team Related Links: 2009 Global Holcim Awards Honor Sustainable Construction On October 20
Moshe Safdie was nibbling crab cakes in the recently completed, 150,000-square-foot glass-and-concrete headquarters he designed for the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.
Gehry Technologies is forming a new strategic alliance of prominent architects to serve as an advisory board that will promote new technologies in design and construction. Frank Gehry, who founded the Los Angeles-based company in 2002, said in a statement on Oct. 18 "I am dedicated to giving architects better control of the process so they can deliver the fruits of their imagination, which is what our clients expect." Photo courtesy of Gehry Technologies Frank Gehry forms an advisory board of distinguished architects to advance the use of BIM and similar technologies in design and construction. Gehry emphasized the shared
AIA President Clark Manus describes the initiative as “Match.com for projects.” Photo courtesy AIA Following in the well-trod path of Match.com and other online dating services, the American Institute of Architects thinks it has found a way to attract investors to the thousands of industry projects put on hold—send the potential suitors to cyberspace for a database of the good-lookers. That is, the AIA is compiling a list of stalled projects nationwide that “make sense” to move forward but for lack of financing, and a list of the types of projects that financial entities specialize in. Related Links: Special Coverage: