BusinessWeek and Architectural Record magazines have announced the winners of their 11th annual "Good Design is Good Business" international competition. This awards program honors innovative architecture that demonstrates exemplary design, while helping clients achieve their business goals. Six projects from around the globe received the 2008 award.
Photo courtesy Predock_Frane Architects “It’s like zoning gone wild,” says Hadrian Predock of California’s Inland Empire region. Design runs in Hadrian Predock’s family. The Santa Monica, California, architect is the son of celebrated New Mexico architect Antoine Predock, FAIA. Not only did the younger Predock inherit an interest in the profession from his father; his family also passed down an approach to practice that combines traditional design work with other art forms. Antoine Predock trained as a painter before going into architecture, and Hadrian’s mother is a dancer. “When I was growing up in Albuquerque, they would collaborate on pieces
RECORD has asked contributors to the 2008 Venice Biennale, which runs through November 23rd, and members of our staff to recommend places to go—beautiful squares, forgotten buildings, beloved eateries—while in town for the exhibition. Nigel Coates Designer and Professor of Architecture, Royal College of Art, London Image courtesy Nigel Coates Nigel Coates For a genuine “slice of Venetian life,” Nigel Coates suggests visiting the Via Garibaldi, once a canal but now one of the few places in Venice not “overrun with the trappings and mentality of tourism.” He has two suggestions for spots to dine on the street: The Trattoria
Space Group Reinvents a Major Transit Hub in Oslo The young firm Space Group recently won an invited competition to redesign the Oslo Central Station in Bjørvika, a quickly redeveloping waterfront district in Norway’s capital city. Image courtesy Space Group Developer ROM Eiendom’s June announcement of the competition results comes on the heels of the April opening of Snøhetta’s New Oslo Opera House, located nearby. The station redesign is expected to advance the progress of new transportation infrastructure in the district and definitively establish the centrality of the station in the city plan. Intended to be one the most modern
Grimshaw Designs 'Airport City' for St. Petersburg The government of St. Petersburg, Russia is raising $1.5 billion for a Nicholas Grimshaw–designed expansion to the city’s Pulkovo Airport, as part of a plan to double capacity there by 2025. While the city views expansion as vital for its future, Grimshaw’s master plan makes reference to the past. Images courtesy Grimshaw Architects Grimshaw Architects is transforming a 39-acre commercial site into an “airport city” for St. Petersburg. The scheme calls for offices, shops, and a hotel, along with a 1.6-million-square-foot terminal for international travel. UK-based Grimshaw Architects was one of four firms
Today New York developers Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias unveiled the design of 56 Leonard Street, a 57-story condominium tower that is now under construction in Manhattan’s Tribeca Historic District. It will be the first skyscraper realized by Switzerland–based Herzog & de Meuron.
The five finalists for the inaugural Curry Stone Design Prize will be officially announced tomorrow at the Venice Biennale’s 11th annual Architecture Exhibition. Founded by architect Clifford Curry and his wife, H. Delight Stone, and administered by the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Design, the prize will be given each year to an individual or group for “exceptional emerging design innovations that contribute positively to living circumstances for broad sections of global humanity.” Modeling itself on the MacArthur Fellowship, the Curry Stone Prize invites an anonymous pool of 75 to 100 leading designers and global thinkers to nominate between
A federal commission is accepting entries for a competition to design a Washington, D.C. monument honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower, the United States' 34th president. For a four-acre site just south of the Mall divided by Maryland Avenue S.W., and near many Cabinet agencies that Eisenhower had a hand in creating, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission seeks proposals that emphasize open spaces with little in the way of actual buildings or statuary. Indeed, one of the only requirements is a canopy to protect against rain, plus 2,500 square feet of enclosed space for a bookshop, bathrooms, and ranger station, though
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