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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

The architect splits open a neoclassical building—and the exhibitions inside—with a dramatic, v-shaped shard. Photo © Bitter Bredt Libeskind’s five-story addition slices through the 1873 arsenal that houses the museum. Studio Daniel Libeskind’s new home for the Museum of Military History in Dresden, Germany, opened to the public on Saturday. Set in the middle of a sprawling decommissioned military complex north of the city’s historic center, the museum is housed in a former arsenal building, which Libeskind has renovated and expanded with a v-shaped shard that rises 100 feet above grade. The glass, concrete, and steel triangle cants up and

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

Weeks before its grand opening, Safdie gives a behind-the-scenes tour of Alice Walton’s museum of American art.

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:

Architects who worked with the digital pioneer fondly recall his vision: exacting yet inspiring.

Photo ' Ezra Stoller / Esto Ford Foundation Headquarters, New York. He is frequently overshadowed by his former employer, Modernist giant Eero Saarinen, but at the Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan, a new exhibition attempts to make a case that Kevin Roche is, in the words of chief curator Sarah Henry, “the quintessential architect of the post-industrial age.” With several dozen giant photographs, suspended from cables in a ground-floor gallery, and six architectural models, Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment shows the Pritzker-winning architect wrestling with America’s transition from a manufacturing to an information-based economy and culture