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PNC is fine-tuning the features of its almost-complete, ultra-green tower in Pittsburgh with a full-scale mock-up. The Tower at PNC Plaza, designed by Gensler, is nearing completion in Pittsburgh. The 33-story building is expected to rely on natural ventilation for more than 40 percent of working hours and use only half of the energy of a standard office building. A squat 1,200-square foot outdoor mock-up erected in a Pittsburgh industrial park is helping PNC Financial Services Group refine The Tower at PNC Plaza, which the company claims will be the world’s greenest skyscraper. Scheduled to open this fall in downtown

Photo by Sean Hemmerle, via Graham Foundation As preparations to demolish part of Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center continued, lawyer Michael Sussman awaited his day in court. Last week, Sussman filed suit in against Orange County and two officials—county executive Steven Neuhaus and county legislator Leigh Benton—to stop the county from proceeding with a plan to tear down part of Rudolph's building and significantly alter the rest, as proposed by the engineering and architecture firm Clark Patterson Lee (CPL). Sussman described architect Gene Kaufman’s competing plan—to convert the building into artist studios, and build a new government center—as “the

152 Elizabeth Street, to be completed next November, will exemplify Ando's rigorous, serene architecture.  Tadao Ando's 152 Elizabeth Street will measure 32,000 square feet over seven stories. New York City first got a taste of Tadao Ando when the Japanese architect designed Masaharu Morimoto’s eponymous restaurant nine years ago. The Pritzker Prize laureate is poised to more completely sate local architectural appetite with 152 Elizabeth Street, a condominium rising in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood, Ando’s first freestanding building in New York. Unlike Morimoto, which was praised for its dynamic layout and dramatic combinations of materials, the forthcoming building will exemplify

At Pratt, you can now get a master's degree in Urban Placemaking and Management. Image courtesy Snøhetta Urban Placemaking and Management program coordinator, David Burney, led The Times Square Reconstruction project. Next autumn, Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute will inaugurate a unique Master of Science degree, one with a broad mandate to reimagine how designers look at public space. Called “Urban Placemaking and Management” (UPM), the four-semester, first-of-its-kind degree will fall within Pratt’s Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development (PSPD), an umbrella group that includes City and Regional Planning, Historic Preservation, and other established degrees. Photo © Alex Weber David Burney is

It was a good news/bad news day in Sarasota, Florida. A couple of dozen protesters stood outside the former Sarasota High School, where part of a concrete canopy designed by Paul Rudolph in 1960 was scheduled to be demolished. But just a few blocks away, officials had gathered to christen the new Center for Architecture Sarasota, one of a growing number of such institutions around the country, and one of the most propitious. Sarasota has a rich architectural history; in the '50s and '60s it was one of the hotbeds (along with Palm Springs, California, and New Canaan, Connecticut) of

Makkah Royal Clock Tower, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, SL Rasch.  Twentieth-century New York  showed the world that skyscrapers can be more than just tall buildings. Now Manhattan’s dazzling crowns are inspiring a "worldwide surge of signature tops,” says Carol Willis, the director of Manhattan’s Skyscraper Museum and an expert on buildings of 100 stories or more. Indeed, with more than a dozen such “supertalls” rising in Asia and the Middle East, the sky is getting quite a few new baubles. Will any of them be as exciting as the pinnacles of the Chrysler and Empire State Building? The intriguing exhibition

How do you guarantee a view when you are in a valley in Switzerland? Thom Mayne of Morphosis decided to build as high as the mountains.