KPMB and Transsolar Klima-Engineering's Manitoba Hydro building shows what an integrated design process can yield: ona of the most energy efficient buildings in North America.
Imagine the thrill—and the intimidating weight of responsibility—if you were charged to develop a 1,500-acre city from scratch. That was the challenge facing James von Klemperer, FAIA, the design principal at KPF charged with articulating a “masterplan-to-mullion” vision for New Songdo City, near Incheon, South Korea, which in its completed state will offer 130 million square feet of built space.
William Baker, P.E., the structural engineering partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, worked on three of the five tallest buildings that topped out in 2009. But his (to-date) career-defining accomplishment is his contribution of the “buttressed core” structural system used at what is now—and for the foreseeable future will remain—the tallest structure ever built by man, the 828-meter Burj Khalifa.
For inspiration for a 1,228-meter-tall, 2-million-square-meter super structure, two Spanish architects look to nature--and a radically different approach to design and construction from the convention column-and-beam method.
On Thursday night I went to the opening reception for The Drawing Center’s new exhibit at The Cooper Union, “Paul Rudolph: Lower Manhattan Expressway.” I was lured by memories of the hours I spent in the library last fall writing my first graduate school paper about Rudolph’s design for a highway
This week several news reports have indicating that that solar radiation is being concentrated by the curved shape of the Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas, and overheating unsuspecting users of its swimming pool deck. I must thank them for giving me another reason to stay out of City Center.
Pritzker Prize winner Richard Meier revealed today a new collection of household objects that he designed for When Objects Work, a Belgian design firm. Included in the product line—cocktail glasses which, with their prominent white grids, echo his built work.
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