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,
Like most nonresidential construction, college and university starts peaked in 2008 and have not yet made a substantial comeback. Source: McGraw-Hill Dodge Analytics Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
An exhibition illustrates a full-range of design invention. George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher runs until February 2, 2013 at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery. At first glance, there’s nothing too surprising about George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher, the exhibition on view until February 2, 2013 at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery in New Haven, Conn. We recognize the architect’s iconic modern designs from the 1940s and 1950s – the Ball Clock, the Coconut Chair, the Marshmallow Sofa and the Bubble lamps – but upon closer scrutiny there’s a lot more to this first comprehensive retrospective devoted
Image courtesy Visualhouse/KPF Kohn Pedersen Fox’s master plan for the Hudson Yards development sprawls along the Hudson between Tenth and Twelfth Avenues, and West 30th and West 33rd Streets. After years of debate and delays, Hudson Yards—an ambitious plan to create a new mixed-use neighborhood from scratch over railroad tracks on Manhattan’s west side—is finally breaking ground. Excavations for the first office tower on the site, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), which also created the master plan, will begin by the first week of December, according to a source at the Related Companies, its co-developer with Oxford Properties
The Chicago Architecture Foundation and the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects go on with a show of schemes from the design community, despite the university's recalcitrance.
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