Oklahoma City is experiencing a second wind. Having transformed its river from a trickling Army Corps of Engineers drainage ditch into a series of connected lakes that are scullers’ paradises, the Midwestern capital is enjoying an urban renaissance.
Project Specs This Way Brooklyn, New York Linnaea Tillett and Karin Tehve << Return to article the People Client The City of New York, Percent for Art Program 31 Chambers Street 2nd floor New York, NY 10007 ph: 212.513.9300 http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/panyc.shtml DUMBO Business Improvement District 111 Front Street Suite 258 Brooklyn, NY 11201 ph: 718.237.8700 http://dumbonyc.org Artists Linnaea Tillett Tillett Lighting Design 172 North 11th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 ph: 718.218.6578 www.tillettlighting.com Project team: Stephen Horner, Kate Gardner, Seth Ely and Jennifer Bickford Karin Tehve K3TD, LLC 176 Grand Street 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 ph: 917.692.6042 www.kt3d.com Lead design
Project Specs Underground Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Elliott + Associates Architects << Return to article the People Architect Elliott + Associates Architects 35 Harrison Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73104 ph: 405.232.9554 fx: 405.232.9997 www.e-a-a.com Principal in charge: Rand Elliott, FAIA Project architect: Michael Hoffner, AIA Project team member: Joseph Williams, Assoc. AIA Structural engineer Wallace Engineering Structural Consultants 120 E. Sheridan, Suite 104 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 ph: 405.236.5858 fx: 405.236.2058 www.wallacesc.com MEP engineer PSA Consulting Engineers 3031 NW 64th, Suite 101 Oklahoma City, OK 73116 ph: 405.840.1901 fx: 405-840-1916 www.psaokc.com Audiovisual consultant Audio Video Design ph: 405.799.7555 Historian Pendleton Woods
Architecture tourists may think of Milwaukee as a destination thanks to the Quadracci Pavilion, the 2001 expansion to the Milwaukee Art Museum by Santiago Calatrava featuring a dynamic, wing-like sunscreen.
The fourth time was the charm for a young Vesa Honkonen. Only eight percent of applicants are accepted into Finland’s three university-level architecture schools, Honkonen says, but “I decided I would try for as long as it took, I felt it was my way.”
Project Specs Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Milwaukee, Wisconsin Focus Lighting << Return to article the People Client Marcus Center for the Performing Arts President: Paul Matthews Director of facilities: Dick Hecht Technical director: Eric Zaun Lighting designer Focus Lighting 255 West 101st Street New York, NY 10025 ph: 212.865.1565 fx: 212.865.4217 www.focuslighting.com Principal designer: Paul Gregory Lighting designers: JR Krauza, Josh Spitzig Project manager: Dan Nichols Electrical Contractor Uihlein Electric 12660 West Townsend Street Brookfield, WI 53005 262.781.1260 www.uihleinelectric.com the Products LEDs Color Kinetics (now Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions) www.colorkinetics.com www.philips.com Lighting controls ETC www.etcconnect.com
For architects Winfried Brenne and Franz Jaschke, restoring the 80-year-old ADGB Trade Union School, in Germany, was a case of subtraction. “The building was not in worse condition than others we had worked with,” Brenne says, “but it was more hidden under changes made over time.”
The five experts who make up the jury of the National Building Museum’s Vincent Scully Prize can spend hours debating the merits of as many as 40 nominees in order to determine a winner who represents “intellectual accomplishment in architecture and an instrumental role in dialogue,” says David M. Schwarz, FAIA, the jury’s chair since the program’s inception a decade ago. For the 2008 laureate, Schwarz says, the jurors made their selection “in just 20 minutes.” Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA, was the subject of this brief discussion. Stern, as well as the decade anniversary of the Vincent Scully Prize, will