On Thursday, October 3, in New York City, the editors of Architectural Record will present its 11th annual Innovation Conference, a daylong event featuring presentations from architects, urban planners and other leaders in design.
This article first appeared on GreenSource. Ecococon - Straw Panels The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute has announced 10 finalists in their first annual Product Innovation Challenge. This debut competition, sponsored by the Schmidt Family Foundation and the Dutch Postcode Lottery, asked entrants to create a new building product that can be safely returned to nature or industry after its use (a defining concept of Cradle to Cradle certification). This year’s partnership in the challenge was with Make It Right; founded by Brad Pitt in 2007, this organization builds homes, buildings, and communities for people in need. Since the
Le Corbusier (second from left) may have had a romance with Josephine Baker. On Sunday, September 22, Le Corbusier will be "live" on stage at New York City's Bowery Poetry Club in a one-man show, "Le Corbusier's Women." The "architect of the century" and "Picasso of architecture," Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is played by Charles Knevitt, former architecture critic of The Times (London). He also wrote the show. "Le Corbusier’s Women" tells the story of the most prominent women in the architect’s life: his mother, his wife, his mistress of 30 years, and a score of other lovers including, allegedly, Josephine
Photo courtesy Architecture Forum Aedes An exhibition this summer at Berlin's Aedes showcased the research and planning scenarios that grew out of MyIdealCity.com. The start of the school year marks Winka Dubbeldam’s first fall semester as chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. But the principal of New York firm Archi-tectonics has hardly been on summer vacation. She has been traveling the globe to discuss MyIdealCity.com, a crowd-sourced, bottom-up urban planning project for downtown Bogotá, Colombia, that she and her office helped develop. (“I love working there. I might be a closet Latin
A rendering of the QueensWay, a 3.5-mile segment of track in Queens, New York, to be transformed into a landscaped greenway and cultural hub. The High Line, Manhattan’s elevated rail line-turned-catwalk, gets all the attention, but rails-to-trails projects have been cropping up across the country for decades, and New York City could welcome another soon in Queens. After two years of grassroots organizing, a new phase for a forgotten branch of the Long Island Railroad may lie around the bend. In August, the Trust for Public Land (TPL) and Friends of the QueensWay announced that WXY Architecture + Urban Design
Freecell’s proposal for a new public space and pavilion will be a playful contrast to Tadao Ando’s neighboring Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Brooklyn-based Freecell Architecture has snagged first place in an invited design-build competition to reimagine a disused lot across from the Tadao Ando–designed home of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis. The Pulitzer Foundation and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, cosponsors of the competition, aim to reinvigorate the downtown Grand Center cultural district with a place for public programming. The firm’s winning proposal for the site
The sluggish economy has stalled investment in new air, rail, and bus terminals. However, projects like California’s planned high-speed rail network could provide a much-needed boost to this sector. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
Image courtesy Storefront for Art and Architecture The curators of the United States's Pavilion at the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice call their project OfficeUS. The curators of the United States Pavilion at the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice have very ambitious plans: to transform an exhibition space into an architectural office. Announced last week, the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs selected the team of Ashley Schafer, Ana Miljački, and Eva Franch i Gilabert and their proposal to reinterpret the last 100 years of American building outside our borders in a project called OfficeUS. "We want to
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