The votes are in: The American Institute of Architects has selected the recipients the 2014 Institute Honor Awards. The 26 winning projects range from the swanky renovation of the Marc Jacobs Showroom in New York City to KieranTimberlake’s tranquil transformation of the Quaker Meeting House at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. Click through the slide show to view the full list of winners. For Architecture: Centre for International Governance Innovation CampusKPMB Architects Ontario, Canada
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced today that in its next phase of expansion, it will tear down the 2001 American Folk Art Museum building designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.
An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara highlights today's expanded definition of architectural practice. Ball-Nogues Studio's paper-mached toilet paper lamps at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara in California. Gone are the days when emerging architects were confined to building houses. Opening this Sunday at the recently re-branded Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB), Almost Anything Goes: Architecture and Inclusivity highlights the many ways a studio can practice in the new century. "We wanted to show a broad sample of all these disparate types of practices," says visiting curator Brigitte Kouo, a designer with a
The fifth edition of the show takes on urban questions against the backdrop of China’s rapidly changing cities. At the entrance to the Value Factory site in Shenzhen, Noreen Heng Liu of Node Architecture designed a restaurant standing on columns above an existing concrete structure.
This article first appeared on GreenSource. Renderings of KPF's Sequis Centre Tower Indonesia’s burgeoning economy has turned Jakarta into a hotbed of construction activity. Crews broke ground last week on the Sequis Centre Tower in the city’s central business district. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) to be Indonesia’s first LEED Platinum building, the mixed-use tower includes office space, executive zones, trading floors, boutique retail, restaurants, conference centers, heath facilities, and concealed parking. In response to the diverse program and in contrast to Jakarta’s conventional all-glass rectilinear office buildings, Sequis Centre Tower’s massing “recomposes an extruded tower into four
In typical Robert Moses fashion, when a 1961 urban renewal project added an ice skating rink to a blighted section of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, it came along with an imposing facility and a 250-car parking lot. The change took a chip out of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s diamond-shaped masterpiece, cutting off a lake at the southern end of the park from the broad pathway that winds around its perimeter.
This article first appeared on GreenSource. Before: Front Exterior Make It Right, the foundation started by actor Brad Pitt and architect William McDonough to rebuild homes in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, has partnered with BNIM Architects to transform a former school in Kansas City, Missouri, into LEED Platinum-certified affordable housing. The Bancroft School Apartments, which opened last month, are a showcase for high-quality sustainable development and community-driven urban renewal. Located in the long-distressed Manheim Park neighborhood, the complex provides fifty rental units and a host of other services that include job training facilities, a medical center, an auditorium and
In one of his final press appearances as mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg sealed the deal Thursday on one of his most ambitious urban endeavors: Cornell NYC Tech, a $2-billion science and technology campus designed by a cast of architectural heavyweights including Morphosis Architects and Weiss/Manfredi, to put New York City at the forefront of the tech industry. Surrounded by officials in City Hall’s Blue Room, Bloomberg and Cornell president David Skorton signed a 99-year lease agreement for a 12-acre swath of prime real estate on Roosevelt Island, a two-mile-long islet in the East River.“Our goal has been
While museums often opt for big-name architects when designing a new building or expanding, the U.S. market has only a handful of large projects. Since January 2012, just 60 museums valued at $5 million or more have broken ground. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
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