The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize, and it includes the London Olympic Stadium by Populous as well as two projects by OMA. Given annually to a recently completed project in the U.K., the top award in British architecture comes with a £20,000 ($30,000) prize. The winner will be selected by a panel of design luminaries chaired by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and announced on October 13. In the meantime, click the image below to view a slide show featuring each of the nominees. The Populous-designed Olympic Stadium in London is one of
This story first appeared in Engineering News-Record. Members of the buildings sector are applauding the U.S. Green Building Council's decision to delay the release of the next version of its popular green-building rating system, called LEED. In the meantime, debate rages on over the content of the draft revision. Consequently, USGBC is holding an unprecedented fifth public comment period on the latest draft, from Oct. 2 to Dec. 10. Related links LEED 2012 Postponed to 2013, Renamed LEED v4 The delay follows a torrent of comments, some 22,000 so far, that greeted the fourth draft. "The percentage of changes since
New York City’s first large-scale monument to those affected by AIDS took one step closer to reality tonight, when Manhattan’s Community Board No. 2 approved the latest design for a $2-million, 1,600-square-foot memorial in Greenwich Village.
The American pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale will document design for public spaces. Leasing an empty site from the city, San Francisco firm Envelope a+d's Proxy redeveloped two large lots to become a kind of urban living room, with food stands, a temporary art gallery, a beer garden, and an area for food trucks. With a little more than a month before the opening of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, firms around the world are finalizing contributions to the massive show, a grab bag of architecture and architecture-related exhibitions that will run from August 27 though November 25. As
Multifamily construction has grown 46% since hitting bottom in 2009. This year, the sector is expected to continue to advance, increasing by 23%. Source: McGraw-Hill Dodge Analytics Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
William E. Blurock, FAIA, a Newport Beach, California architect whose work from the 1950s through 1970s was considered visionary in the burgeoning field of modern educational design, died on June 12 at the age of 90.The Blurock Partnership—now tBP/Architecture—is recognized for a spectrum of award-winning commercial, institutional and civic projects, and primarily for school buildings worldwide (Europe, South America, Asia, Australia and the Middle East). Over his career, Blurock guided the planning and design of buildings on 32 California college campuses and scores of other educational facilities throughout the state. He pioneered the one-building model for schools: an open plan
This new, off-the-shelf product will provide a platform for design collaboration in the cloud. The promise of the cloud has always been twofold—web-enabled storage and computing on demand. Later this summer, Gehry Technologies (GT) plans to release an interactive, web-based collaboration platform called GTeam. It will be the company’s first off-the-shelf product incorporating both storage and computing, and it marks a shift in GT’s strategy from developing stand-alone software to offering cloud-based services. Related links Gehry Forms Alliance of Architects To Promote Technological Integration Frank Gehry Takes His Technological Expertise to the Masses Designed for architecture, engineering, and construction professionals
The New York architects recently won the bid to design a condo-hotel building on the Brooklyn waterfront. Image courtesy Rogers Marvel Rogers Marvel has designed a 550,000-square-foot building that steps back from the Michael Van Valkenburgh-designed Brooklyn Bridge Park. Twenty years ago, when Jonathan Marvel and Rob Rogers founded Rogers Marvel Architects, they decided to forego the route taken by many young Manhattan firms—designing residential and commercial interiors—preferring, Marvel says, “to cut our teeth on New York City’s’ bricks and mortar.” They negotiated a city contract to oversee repairs to schools, libraries, and armories, which were jobs that left little
William “Bill” Louis Larson, FAIA, cofounder of DLR Group, died on June 29 at his summer residence in Pinetop, Arizona. He was 88. He maintained a home in Scottsdale, Arizona, and was a native of Nebraska and longtime resident of Omaha. William Larson, cofounder of DLR Group. Related links Marysville Getchell High School Campus by DLR Group DLR Group Goes Back to School By Putting a Classroom in its Office Joplin High School by Corner Greer & Associates, DLR Group Larson was born February 25, 1924, in Blair, Nebraska. After graduating high school, he assumed the responsibility of the Greatest
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