Code officials could see a new universal regulatory framework to guide the design and construction of green commercial buildings by the end of next year. On June 29, the American Institute of Architects, along with the International Code Council (ICC) and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), announced their intent to create an International Green Construction Code (IGCC). The new code aims to cover all aspects of sustainability in the built environment, from roofing to ventilation strategies, drawing from existing codes and standards to create one universal code. The code will apply to new construction and renovations. “We
Photo @ Nick Milkovich Architects Arthur Erickson Canada’s most influential architect, Arthur Erickson, died on May 20 at the age of 84. Erickson is the only Canadian ever to be awarded the AIA’s Gold Medal (1986). He built to acclaim in Japan, Kuwait, England, and up and down the U.S. West Coast, from the San Diego Convention Centre (1981) to the Tacoma Museum of Glass (1996). His legacy, however, is most evident in the city of both his birth and death, Vancouver. One has to go all the way back to Daniel Burnham’s shaping of Chicago to find another North
F&S Partners, a Dallas-based firm that specializes in the design of educational, recreational, and religious projects, announced today that it is merging with SmithGroup, one of the nation’s top architecture and engineering firms. Founded in 1962 as Fisher and Spillman Architects, the F&S Partners office will now carry the name “SmithGroup/F&S.” It will provide architecture, interior design, MEP, and planning services to clients throughout the Southwest. No jobs will be eliminated at the 40-person F&S Partners. According to a prepared statement, all of its employees will remain on staff, and its five principals will continue to hold their management positions.
After decades of false starts, one of architect Louis Kahn’s final works, a 4.5-acre park in New York City to honor President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is scheduled to break ground in mid-August on the synergistically named Roosevelt Island, in the East River. Image courtesy Vladislav Yeliseyev Today, the nine-member board of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation voted 7 to 1 in favor of the proposal. Related Links: Is Kahn's FDR Memorial Back on Track? Today, the nine-member board of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC), which is the public authority that runs the island, voted 7 to 1 in favor
Visitors to an Automobile Museum planned for Nanjing will drive their cars into the building and up an undulating, uneven ramp to the roof. As designed by 3Gatti.com Architecture Studio, which has offices in Shanghai and Rome, the 15,000-square-meter museum will offer a drive-through experience, as well as exhibitions, restaurants, shops, a special events space, an automobile sales office, a design center, and laboratories to be visited on foot. Image courtesy 3Gatti.com Architecture Studio 3Gatti.com Architecture Studio has designed an automobile museum planned for Nanjing, China. “We designed a building geared to the automobile, where the car is the point
On May 8 the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction announced the winners of its second Global Holcim Awards competition. Selected from nearly 5,000 submissions from 121 countries, the four winning entries include a river remediation scheme in Morocco, a greenfield university campus in Vietnam, a rural planning strategy in China, and a shelter for day laborers in the United States. In total, $2 million in prize money was awarded.
The University of Arkansas recently opened to the public its archive of work by Fay Jones, the noted Arkansas architect who combined the architectural traditions of the Southeastern United States with a Wrightian sensibility, producing such masterpieces as Thorncrown Chapel (1980). The collection spans Jones’ professional and academic career, between the founding of his studio in 1954 and his retirement in 1998.
Photo courtesy Holabird & Root John Holabird Jr. John Holabird Jr., FAIA, died on February 16 in Chicago after battling health problems, including intestinal cancer. He was 88 years old. His grandfather was architect William Holabird, founder of the firm that became Holabird and Roche. Established in 1880, just as Chicago was about to undergo the building boom that revolutionized the construction of tall buildings, the firm designed such Chicago School skyscrapers as the Marquette Building. After World War I, it was reestablished as Holabird & Root and shaped Art Deco landmarks like the Chicago Board of Trade Building. Still
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