On September 19 and 20, an encampment of 12 temporary shelters erected for the Jewish harvest festival Sukkot will be on view in Manhattan’s Union Square. Image courtesy Sukkah City “Sukkah City” Winners Volkan Alkanoglu Henry Grosman and Babak Bryan Matthias Karch Matter Practice Kyle May and Scott Abrahams Ronald Rael,Virginia San Fratello Peter Sagar SO-IL Dale Suttle, So Sugita, Ginna Nguyen tinder, tinker THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes with Jared Laucks The structures are the result of a juried design competition, organized by Reboot and Union Square Partnership, that sought contemporary interpretations of the sukkah—a hut that evokes the provisional
This year’s Showtime House is located in the Enrique Norten-designed Cassa Hotel and Residences in Midtown Manhattan. Click on the slide show icon to see images. Showtime Networks has unveiled its third annual show house in Manhattan, just in time for the launch of the fall television season. This year’s house, located in the top three floors of a new Enrique Norten-designed tower, features the work of 15 design studios. Each team was charged with creating a room that takes its cue from a Showtime program, including the comedy-dramas Dexter (about a good-guy serial killer) and Weeds (about a drug-dealing
Weeks after announcing plans to purchase ECO:LOGIC Engineering and Anshen + Allen, the Canadian mega-firm Stantec reported today that it has signed of letter of intent to buy Pennsylvania-based Burt Hill Architects. The acquisitions would mark the seventh, eighth, and ninth for Stantec this year. “We have the largest architecture firm in Canada, and we wanted to build something similar in the U.S.,” says Jay Averill, company spokesman. Burt Hill has more than 600 employees in 13 offices, including three offices overseas. As of now, all of Burt Hill’s locations will remain open, says Averill. With $88 million in revenue,
Up to 600 U.K.-based staffers of engineering consultant Arup Group Ltd., London, face possible layoff as construction shows signs of slowing down. The design firm, with a nearly 10,000 -person global workforce, began 90 days of “consultation” with employees over the planned job cuts. Current market weakness and public sector spending cuts in the U.K. are prompting Arup’s retrenchment, says a spokeswoman. “Projects in the public sector [are being] cut or put on hold,” she adds. Arup cut 330 jobs last year. The planned job losses come as this month’s survey of construction-sector purchasing managers reveals a continuing drop in
Nine years after the September 11 attacks, the long-delayed redevelopment of Ground Zero finally has gained momentum. Redevelopment of Lower Manhattan’s World Trade Center site has been beset with problems: design changes, funding problems, and political squabbling. And, there wasn’t even much to see at the site for nearly a decade, save for the tops of cranes and a few rumbling trucks, as a tall fence wrapped the perimeter. But nine years after the September 11 attacks, there finally are tangible signs of progress. A memorial and a tree-filled plaza will be completed next year, in time for the 10th
Autodesk announced on August 31 that it has released AutoCAD 2011 for Macintosh, along with AutoCAD WS, a mobile app that will allow users to share their AutoCAD designs in the field using iPhones, iPads, and iTouches. Image courtesy Autodesk “What this does,” says Autodesk spokesman Noah Cole, “is give anyone with an iOS device or a modern Web browser the ability to view, edit, and collaborate on an AutoCAD DWG file. We imagine that people on the construction site can carry around an iPad as opposed to carrying around a roll of blueprints.” AutoCAD WS joins two other Autodesk
Photo courtesy rmjm.com David Pringle One of the world's largest architectural firms, the Scotland-based RMJM, is losing three key executives, in addition to losing two others within the past 10 months. Most significantly, David Pringle, the company’s CEO, Asia and Middle East, will leave at the end of this year. Gordon Affleck, design director for the firm’s Middle East office, and Colin Moses, international principal based in Europe, will also leave at that time. Hugh Mullan, managing director in the Middle East, left in May. It is unknown what they plan to do next. Moreover, Adrian Boot, another international principal
Photo courtesy Anshen + Allen Roger Swanson, CEO of Anshen + Allen Stantec, Canada’s largest architectural firm, announced on Aug. 26 that it has signed a letter of intent to purchase Anshen + Allen, a firm of roughly 200 employees with offices in San Francisco, Columbus, Boston, and London. Weeks earlier, Stantec announced it plans to acquire California-based ECO:LOGIC Engineering. If both sales go through, they will be Stantec’s seventh and eighth acquisitions in 2010, adding to the 70-plus companies it has purchased since 1997. The recent bids verify that Stantec is homing in on its goal, announced in 1998,
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