The social impacts of urban redesign was a key theme of the 2013 Bruner Loeb Forum in Detroit. Photo courtesy J. Max Bond Center From left to right: Sally Young, Loeb Fellowship; Nicholas Hamilton, The American Assembly; Esther Yang, J. Max Bond Center; Anne-Marie Lubenau, Bruner Foundation; Jim Stockard, Loeb Fellowship; Toni Griffin, J. Max Bond Center; Simeon Bruner, Bruner Foundation; Dan Pitera and Krista Wilson, Detroit Collaborative Design Center; and David Mortimer, The American Assembly The fine art of reimagining what post-industrial cities can become through better design took the spotlight last week at the 2013 Bruner Loeb Forum,
The Port Sudan Pediatric Center is another project by TAMassociati and Emergency. Together, TAM and Emergency have built five hospitals in Africa that have treated more than 700,000 patients. As Super Typhoon Haiyan was bearing down on the Philippines last week, across the Pacific in San Francisco, the Curry Stone Foundation announced the winners of this year's Curry Stone Design Prize. Now in its sixth year, the award honors architects and designers who devise innovative, often low-tech responses to help strengthen communities faced with natural disaster, political upheaval, or a poverty of resources. At an awards ceremony at the Contemporary
The 375,000-square-foot University Center at The New School, designed by SOM, is clad in overlapping brass panels. The New School, a university that includes the Parsons School of Design, has long operated out of a motley collection of spaces in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. Hoping to create a campus center, the school proposed building a 350-foot-tall tower on a site has owned since the 1960s, at Fifth Avenue and 14th Street. A tall, tapered building would have enhanced that crossroads. But facing neighborhood opposition, the school scaled back its plans, ending up with a structure that, at 16 stories and 178
Grimshaw transforms a one-time World's Fair pavilion into a series of light-filled exhibition spaces. The west facade of the renovated Queens Museum features glass panels illuminated with programmable LED lighting. Built to house the New York City Pavilion for the 1939 World’s Fair, whose theme was “World of Tomorrow,” the now nearly 75-year-old Queens Museum of Art building has certainly seen its share of yesterdays. It was a recreation center, a home to the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations from 1946 to 1950, a pavilion once again for the 1964 World’s Fair, and for much of the
This story originally appeared in ENR New York. Two trade groups and the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) are scheduled to give oral arguments on December 17 before a state judge in a case involving the prefabricated building units of Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards' B2 Bklyn tower, designed by SHoP. A factory at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is making the 350 units for developer Forest City Ratner Companies' $117-million, 22-story modular high-rise, the first residential tower at the Atlantic Yards site. But the trade groups—Mechanical Contractors Association of New York (MCANY) and the Plumbing Foundation City of New York
Bittertang's "Walls of Wax" is this year's BOFFO Building Fashion installation, located at Pier 57 (11th Avenue and 15th Street) in Manhattan. It features menswear designer Michael Bastian’s fall/winter 2013 collection. Ever since launching their design firm Bittertang six years ago, Michael Loverich and Antonio Torres have cultivated a reputation for their use of peculiar materials. For a 2010 sukkah exhibition in Manhattan’s Union Square, the duo created an inflatable vinyl blob filled with moss and eucalyptus leaves. For a 2011 pavilion on Governors Island, they crafted walls out of nylon stockings stuffed with bark and constructed a roof out
The new tool aims to help architects with whole-building LCA calculations for LEED v4, right along with their BIM process. This story originally appeared on BuildingGreen.com. Image courtesy KieranTimberlake Tally is a new software application that allows designers to measure the environmental impact of building materials directly in a Revit model. With demand for whole-building life-cycle assessment (LCA) increasing, a partnership of architects, LCA experts, and software developers has worked to release Tally—a new tool that allows designers to track environmental impacts in real time while creating models in the popular building information modeling (BIM) software Revit. Created by KieranTimberlake,
A kingdom notorious for limiting the role of women in the public sphere builds the largest women-only university in the world. A view of the central pedestrian mall on the Academic Campus overlooking the main north gateway. If square footage is any indication of power, Saudi Arabia's female students are gaining ground. The new Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University (PNU) in Riyadh, which opened its doors in 2011 and completed its final phase earlier this year, is the largest women-only university in the world. With 32 million square feet and capacity for 60,000 students, the school absorbed three existing campuses
Architect Kulapat Yantrasast curates a process-focused exhibition at New York’s R 20th Century gallery. Installation view of What’s the Matter?, curated by Kulapat Yantrasast, at R 20th Century gallery in New York, through November 2. Kulapat Yantrasast has designed his share of exhibition spaces—from Perry Rubenstein’s Los Angeles gallery to an under-construction expansion of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville—but a show at New York’s R 20th Century gallery marks his first turn as a curator. To navigate this new territory, he approached the project through the lens of a more familiar discipline: not architecture, but cooking. “Sometimes I think
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