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There Will Be Tacos, There Will Be Compost

Residents of the Bay Area have put a premium on good, healthy, sustainable food since Hippies began adhering to macrobiotic diets. This weekend, San Francisco will become the country’s undisputed capital of ‘slow food’—as in, the opposite of ‘fast food.’

Sebastian Howard

August 27, 2008

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This weekend, San Francisco will become the country’s undisputed capital of ‘slow food’—as in, the opposite of ‘fast food.’

News Highlights of the Week: August 16 ' August 22, 2008

Jenna M. McKnight

August 22, 2008

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On Thursday, The New Haven Advocate published a scathing critique of a new addition to Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture Building (1963) at Yale. The addition was designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, whose principal, Charles Gwathmey, FAIA, received his M.Arch from Yale in 1962. “Not since the house fell on the Wicked Witch of the East has a work of architecture proven so damaging as the new art history center at Yale,” writes columnist Stephen Vincent Kobasa. The 87,000-square-foot addition, which contains the university’s art history department, is officially called the Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of

Woo is First Architect to Win Ho-Am Prize

Elizabeth Zevallos

August 21, 2008

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Korean-American architect Kyu Sung Woo recently was named the winner of the 2008 Ho-Am Prize of the Arts. Often called the Korean Nobel, the Samsung-endowed prize is given each year to five ethnic Koreans, living at home or abroad, in the categories of science, engineering, medicine, community service, and the arts. Woo is the first architect to receive the award.

Despite Its Diminutive Stature, Singapore Booms

Robert Such

August 20, 2008

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Singapore might be the smallest country in Southeast Asia, but that isn’t stopping the 272-square-mile city-state from trying to become a big player in the global financial marketplace.

Foster Tries Again in Upper Manhattan

Tim McKeough

August 18, 2008

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Correction appended August 19, 2008 After sparking opposition and getting sent back to the drafting tables in January 2007, Foster + Partners has returned with a dramatically different design for an addition to a 58-year-old building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The revamped proposal has placated some, but not all, of the project’s critics. Images courtesy Foster + Partners Company Foster + Partners recently unveiled a new design (top) for an addition to a 58-year-old building in Upper Manhattan after the first proposal (below) was rejected. The firm originally proposed erecting a 30-story elliptical glass tower atop the Parke-Bernet Gallery,

Architecture Students Star in Reality TV Show

Liz Martin

August 18, 2008

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It was a longtime dream of producer/director Michael Selditch and screenwriter Stan Bertheaud to tie together the professions of film and architecture. Both men are trained as architects and met two decades ago in California while teaching studio at Woodbury University. After years of discussion, they finally are bringing their vision to the screen. Photos courtesy Tulane University This Wednesday, Aug. 20, the Sundance Channel will begin airing Architecture School, a six-part reality TV series about Tulane University students who design and build a low-income, single-family home in New Orleans. This Wednesday, Aug. 20, the Sundance Channel will begin airing

Newsmaker: Enrique Norten

William Hanley

August 16, 2008

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Many of Enrique Norten's projects pull off a balancing act between cool, rational Modernism and an acute responsiveness to landscapes and local building traditions.

Newsmaker: Jonathan L. Mallie

William Hanley

August 16, 2008

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Photo courtesy SHoP Architects “We’re basically focusing on digital integration services, but we could go as far as construction management advisory services,” says Jonathan Mallie of SHoP Construction, a newly founded spin-off of SHoP Architects. New York-based SHoP Architects made what might seem like a counterintuitive move early this month. The 12-year-old firm—best known for the meditative Hangil Book Hall (2004) in Seoul, South Korea, several high-profile New York residential projects, and still-shaking-out plans for Manhattan’s East River Waterfront and South Street Seaport—has decided to put itself at the forefront of the profession-wide push for greater design-build project integration, not

Newsmaker: Kyu Sung Woo

William Hanley Jerry Adler

August 16, 2008

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, architect Kyu Sung Woo, FAIA, has had an eventful summer.

Newsmaker: Robert A.M. Stern

William Hanley

August 16, 2008

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Photo © Robert A.M. Stern Architects “This is a classical skyscraper without the rhetoric of classical language,” says Robert Stern of his Comcast Center in Philadelphia. In its ten-year history, the Vincent Scully Prize has been awarded to few practicing architects. The award honors individuals who have made noteworthy contributions to architectural practice—in addition to scholarship and criticism—but the majority of winners have been academics, policymakers, or patrons. Preservationist and Robert Moses nemesis Jane Jacobs was an early winner. The Prince of Wales and the Aga Khan have also taken home the prize—as has its namesake, Yale art-history professor emeritus

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