The procurement of three pieces by Colombian architect Giancarlo Mazzanti signals a new direction for the Museum of Modern Art. Parque Biblioteca Espa'a, Medell'n, Colombia. Presentation model in white cardboard of Parque Biblioteca Espa'a. Related Links: "Small Scale, Big Change" Exhibition Opens at MoMA Parque Biblioteca Espa'a Steven Holl Architects Unveils Design for Bogot' Building Coliseums for the South American Games The Department of Architecture and Design at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has acquired three architectural models of recent projects by Colombian architect, Giancarlo Mazzanti. The selection represents two firsts: These are the first Colombian buildings

Photo courtesy Holcim Foundation Lateral Office / InfraNet Lab won the $100,000 gold prize. NORTH AMERICAN WINNERS Gold Prize Arctic Food Network By Lateral Office / InfraNet Lab Silver Prize NZE K-12 High Performance School Prototype By Swift Lee Office Bronze Prize Border control station in Van Buren, Maine By Julie Snow Architects Acknowledgements Studio 804 (Dan Rockhill) Anderson Anderson Architecture US Army Corps of Engineers Studio Gang Architects (Jeanne Gang) “Next Generation” Prizes Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Team Rhode Island School of Design Team University of Toronto Team Related Links: 2009 Global Holcim Awards Honor Sustainable Construction On October 20

In the late 1960s, Dr. Michael DeBakey performed some of the country’s first heart transplants at the Methodist Hospital in Houston.

Steven Holl made his first sketches for the Knut Hamsun Center, in the municipality of Hamarøy, Norway, in 1994.

Julie Snow Architects saves a seemingly hopeless building while making a home for KNOCK, a young creative enterprise.

'The test of a great building is in the marketplace. The Marketplace recognizes the value of quality architecture and endorses it in the sales price it is able to achieve.' ' Jon Pickard, Principal, Pickard Chilton Building high in the Windy City is not a charge to be taken lightly. New Haven–based Pickard Chilton has risen to the challenge with this 1.3 million-square-foot, 60-story tower on the north bank of the Chicago River that emphatically states its presence. In devising the scheme, the architects worked closely with Chicago developer Hines and anticipated anchor tenant, the international law firm of Kirkland

Image courtesy Steven Holl Architects Steven Holl has designed an academic building for the National University of Colombia. Steven Holl Architects has just unveiled its preliminary concept design for a new Doctorate’s Building for the Schools of Law and Economic Sciences at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá. Holl and his partner, Chris McVoy (with whom he is collaborating on the project), say the 70,000-square-foot, two-story building is intended to re-energize the original campus master plan and encourage social connections. Related Links: Holl Prevails in Global Competitions Holl Designs Library for Hunters Point Linked Hybrid by Steven Holl Designed

Colab Studio Photo © Bill Timmerman Maria and Matthew Salenger have no fear of suburbia. When the couple, who are both architects, returned to the Phoenix area in 1999 following graduate studies in London, they embraced their surroundings by purchasing a non descript 1,100-square-foot, three-bedroom 1954 ranch house in the middle-class suburb of Tempe. Related Links: Cien House Admiral Live-Work But that’s where their “going native” stopped. Removing most of the interior walls, the couple created an open living space and built two basic steel-and-fiberglass sleeping pods in the backyard. With the birth of their son in 2008, however, this