http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ArchitectureWeek Editorial System editor@architectureweek.com editor@architectureweek.com http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/news_1-1.html In January, the American Institute of Architects AIA announced the 2006 recipients of their national Honor Awards. The 30 chosen projects in architecture, interior architecture, and urban design will receive the AIA's recognition of excellence at the institute's annual convention in June. Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/news_2-1.html Eight projects by Virginia architects recently received kudos from the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects. The Awards for Excellence in Architecture went to a broad diversity of project types, from a futuristic transit station to a comforting mausoleum garden; from a woodland house to a fabricroofed convention center. Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/news_3-1.html The American Institute of Architects has announced three of its most prestigious annual national awards to an architect, a firm, and a timeless building. Antoine Predock, FAIA, will receive The 2006 AIA Gold Medal; Moore Ruble Yudell Architects Planners, the Architecture Firm Award; and Thorncrown Chapel is being honored with the AIA's Twentyfive Year Award. Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/design_1-1.html Nestled on the edge of a town in southwest Germany is the Fleischmann House. Its owner, a photographer, craved open, visually quiet surroundings to counteract the visual bombardment of his profession. Onethird studio, twothirds openplan dwelling, the house is a sustainable abode flavored by Japanese tradition. The building plan is rectangular. Maki Kuwayama, of unit a architects, describes both the exterior architecture and interior design as "simple and clean... not so much a style as a lifestyle choice." Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/design_2-1.html In 1930 Le Corbusier wrote: "the beauty of an airport is in the splendor of wide open spaces" and added that the most appropriate architecture would emphasize "sky, grass, and concrete runways." Barajas New Area Terminal NAT in Madrid, a joint venture between Richard Rogers Partnership London and Estudio Lamela Madrid, lives up to that height of inspiration. Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/design_3-1.html When a theological seminary commissioned a worship space that would be timeless, spiritually uplifting, and ecumenical, architect Joan Soranno returned to first principles, posing to herself the question: "what is each individual's relationship to God" In a striking play of form and material, her answer offers a fresh take on religious architecture. Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/building_1-1.html Until recently, the site of Osaka Japan's National Museum of Contemporary Art, one of three national contemporary art museums in Japan, was at the far edge of the city, on the former site of the 1970 World's Fair. The museum had planned to move from this distant suburb to a central urban location in the middle of Nakanoshima Island, part of a planned cultural arts district that has great potential to activate and energize an integral part of the city. Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/building_2-1.html Vancouver, BCbased architects Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen Forsythe MacAllen Design have been studying ways to create simple and beautiful objects designed from a single material. Their latest effort is "softwall", a flexible partition prefabricated from 250400 thin layers of soft, translucent paper or polyethylene nonwoven textile. Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/building_3-1.html Designers of the new Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario could have merely created a protective envelope for Canada's wartime artifacts. Instead they designed a monumental structure to inspire a nation by integrating artistic symbolism with pragmatic innovation. Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/tools_1-1.html As U.S. demographics shift with young people leaving rural areas in search of education and jobs and with retirees migrating away from urban centers in search of peace and quiet access to healthcare in remote areas is becoming a more serious and visible problem. Architects can help with the design of technologies that can improve healthcare access in the rural infrastructure. Editor Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/tools_2-1.html To support the rapid expansion of China Central Television CCTV, an international design competition was launched in 2002 for a centralized headquarters building in Beijing. Winning the commission was Rem Koolhaas Office for Metropolitan Architecture, OMA, teamed with engineering firm Arup and the East China Architecture and Design Institute as both architect and engineer of record. Koolhaas imagined a building whose three dimensional form brings CCTV's staff and functions into a "continuous tube." This is part of the story of the engineering challenge. Editor Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/environment_1-1.html With the growing awareness of the environmental harm of greenhouse gases, one major culprit in the construction industry is beginning to attract attention. The production of Portland cement, a key ingredient of concrete, releases substantial amounts of carbon dioxide C02 8 percent of greenhouse gases worldwide. The United States consumes 110 million tons 100 million metric tons of Portland cement annually and China now produces and places five times that amount. Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/environment_2-1.html As the concept of sustainable design moves into the mainstream of architectural practice, it will evolve in how it is perceived and understood. Already the idea has moved in from the fringes of practice and has shed most of its original, inappropriate reputation as a fad. In light of its growing acceptance, sustainable design is now worthwhile fodder for philosophical speculation. Editor Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/environment_3-1.html Seventeen teams of North American architecture and engineering students, joined by a team from Spain, have shown how their generation of design professionals is preparing for a responsible, lowenergy future. These students met in Washington DC in October 2005 to participate in the Solar Decathlon on the National Mall. There, the teams assembled solarpowered houses that they had designed, and they demonstrated various technologies to the visiting public. Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/culture_1-1.html Since before its completion in 2002, Stephen Holl's awardwinning MIT dormitory, Simmons Hall, has been garnering praise from the architectural community. But assessing a building as a professional critic is different from living in and interacting with it. I wondered how the students who lived there felt about it. Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0222/culture_1-1.html