David Wright House Even casual fans of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture are familiar with the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral ramp, which wraps around a six-story atrium. Wright designed the Guggenheim in 1943, though it didn’t open until 1959, shortly after the architect’s death. But the New York museum’s famous spiral inspired a little-known house that Wright designed for his son David in the Arcadia neighborhood of Phoenix. Preservationists say the house could be torn down if a new buyer isn’t found soon. Related links Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House a Tough Sell Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibition Opens at the Guggenheim Frank
Curtis Fentress with a model of his 2001 design for the Incheon International Airport in Seoul. Curtis Fentress had just three weeks to come up with a design for Denver International Airport. Completed in 1995, the airport—with its distinctive peaked white-fabric roof—helped put Fentress and his Denver-based firm in the architectural spotlight. Since then, the 64-year-old North Carolina native has built a reputation as a forward-thinking designer of airports and other civic buildings. His airports, including South Korea’s Incheon International, are consistently top-rated in passenger surveys. Currently under construction is a $1.4 billion expansion of Los Angeles International Airport, the
Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, founders of the eminent Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, announced on Monday that they have passed the baton to president and principal Daniel K. McCoubrey and principal Nancy Rogo Trainer. Under McCoubrey's and Trainer's leadership, the firm is now known as VSBA. Scott Brown spoke with Architectural Record about the long-planned transition, her continued writing and research, and Venturi's retirement. Daniel McCoubrey and his team at VSBA completed the renovations and additions to Pennsylvania's Allentown Art Museum in 2012. Even logical transitions often come as a surprise. Take the news that the
Nearly 400 people took our survey on the new health-care law and its implications for architects. Respondents had mixed feelings about the law, although most anticipate changes in health-care design. Fifty-five percent of respondents support the Supreme Court’s ruling; in comparison, a recent CNN poll found that 50 percent of Americans agreed with the decision.
Image courtesy Miller Hull Partnership Robert Hull was a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1970s. Now, he’s returning to the country to build a health clinic for a nonprofit organization. Seattle architect Robert Hull remembers Afghanistan in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a poor but peaceful country, with people who were kind and tolerant of foreigners—a far cry from the war-torn nation of today. Image courtesy Miller Hull Partnership Hull’s design for the 20,000-square-foot clinic is based on a traditional caravanserai, a kind of walled roadside inn for weary travelers. Related links Special Report:
We recently checked in with Michael Strogoff, FAIA, a California-based management consultant and former chair of the advisory group for the AIA Practice Management Knowledge Community, about how the new health-care law will impact firms, individual architects, and health-care architecture. Strogoff anticipates critical shifts for the market in the coming years, as demand grows for outpatient facilities and lags for multi-billion dollar hospital complexes. Image courtesy Michael Strogoff Related links Building Types Study: Health Care Architects, Industry Experts React to Supreme Court’s Ruling on Affordable Care Act SURVEY RESULTS: Architects and Design Professionals Weigh in on New Health-Care Law LM:
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.
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