Photo courtesy University of Massachusetts at Amherst David Dillon A leading architecture critic and RECORD contributor, David Dillon died June 3 of a heart attack at his Massachusetts home. He was 68. Dillon, who held degrees from Boston College and Harvard University, joined The Dallas Morning News in 1981, where he continued to work for 25 years. Respected both nationally and regionally, Dillon authored several books, including The Architecture of O’Neil Ford (1999), and taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The school plans to establish a lecture series in honor of Dillon and host a remembrance event this
Construction finally has begun on Via Verde, a sustainable, mixed-income housing project in the South Bronx designed by Grimshaw Architects and Dattner Architects.
Shaun Donovan, the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a Harvard-trained architect, recently attended the ground-breaking ceremony for Via Verde, a mixed-income apartment community in the South Bronx that he says exemplifies the Obama administration’s “fundamentally different” approach to housing—a move away from the Corbusian, tabula rasa model to one that supports local visions of site design.
BR: How has your training as an architect informed your career in policy? SD: What I appreciated so much about my training is the interdisciplinary way that architects approach problems. The process of being trained in design ideally is about being able to integrate, to bring together different kinds of constituencies. One of the reasons I became so fascinated with affordable housing, and more broadly community development, is because they connect to so many other things. When a family chooses a home, they're choosing much more than that. They're choosing access to jobs; they're choosing public safety. Our work at
Home to an expanding light-rail system, a thriving bike culture, a citywide recycling program, and a large number of LEED-certified buildings, Portland, Oregon, has long been known for its green sensibility. So it seems fitting that a government building there may soon be sheathed in a 200-foot-high living wall that would be visible from miles away. Rendering courtesy of Scott Baumberger, Baumberger Studio Related Links: Healthcare Awards: Portland Prevails Providence Portland Medical Center Portland Aerial Tram Portland Art Museum Portland International Airport The vegetated facade is part of a roughly $135 million overhaul planned for the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal
Images courtesy Reiser + Umemoto Construction is expected to begin in 2012 on Taipei Pop Music Center, a $110-million entertainment complex. If all goes as planned, Taiwanese pop will get an expansive home where musical culture meets high design. Construction is expected to begin in 2012 on Taipei Pop Music Center, a $110-million entertainment complex envisioned by Reiser + Umemoto RUR Architecture, with engineers from Arup Associates. The team’s competition-winning design for a difficult 823,000-square-foot site in Taipei places three main structures on two separate pieces of land, which will be connected by a broad new walkway built over an
Photo courtesy Ennead Architects The Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, in New York City, is one of the firm's recent projects. NAME CHANGES The firm has been renamed several times since its founding in 1963. James Stewart Polshek Architect (1963-70) James Stewart Polshek and Associates (1970-80) James Stewart Polshek and Partners (1980-94) Polshek and Partners (1994-98) Polshek Partnership (1998-2010) Related Links: New York Hall of Science Holland Performing Arts Center Univ. of Michigan Research Facility NYC Museum Undergoes $97 Million Makeover Polshek's News Museum Opens in D.C. Polshek Fuses Media and Architecture Polshek Partnership, which has been named for
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