http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 27 Sep 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/2006/0927/news_1-1.html Traditional clay brick still plays an important, expressive role in modern architecture, and to highlight a few North American examples of its application, the Brick Industry Association BIA announced in July 2006 the results of its annual Brick in Architecture awards. In the words of BIA president Dick Jennison, "The winning projects demonstrate the versatility and enduring appeal of clay brick in today's construction. Brick is, and always has been, a superior cladding material with unlimited design potential." Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/news_2-1.html We bear witness this week both to an international tragedy and to the largest architectural disaster in U.S. history. Five years ago, two of our largest buildings were utterly and unexpectedly destroyed, killing thousands of people who were unable to escape them. On this anniversary, as people around the world can still feel the ground reverberating, let us pause in remembrance. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/news_3-1.html This summer the American Institute of Architects California Council AIACC announced the 2006 recipients of its annual design awards program. Five honor awards were given to California architects, for projects at home and as far flung as Pennsylvania and London. One of the local projects is a residence hall complex for the University of California, Berkeley, designed by Esherick, Homsey, Dodge, Davis EHDD Architecture. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/news_4-1.html As part of "Paris Calling," a season of contemporary French art exhibits around London, host venue Camden Arts Centre and Le Plateau Frac IledeFrance have collaborated to present "Archipeinture: Painters Build Architecture," an entire exhibition curated around artists' views of architecture. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/design_1-1.html Some architects pursue consistent themes that can be adjusted to any site or building type, while others take a fresh approach to every project, giving each a distinctive expression. FOBA, the firm that Katsu Umebayashi established on the outskirts of Kyoto in 1994, has a foot in both camps. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/design_2-1.html Sometimes an architect's most creative act is to persuade a client to change the program, to reconsider what they think they want. The result can be a fresh approach to the problem, an invitation to see it in a new light. That's what happened at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, a private boarding school that wanted to "tune up and amplify" its music program, which was housed in a rather modest space in the basement of a chapel. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/design_3-1.html The firms of BNIM Architects and Burt Hill have partnered to design a new facility at the Texas Medical Center. The sixstory Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building is now home for the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases IMM. The building's elegant design is, in several ways, a departure from that of conventional research facilities. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/design_4-1.html With the bulging prow of its aluminum and glass skeleton looming beside the fast lanes of Highway B14 in Stuttgart, Germany, the new MercedesBenz Museum lives up to the German automaker's refined engineering image. On entering the structure designed by the Dutch firm UN Studio, visitors ascend eight stories to the top, then wind down twin ramps through a collection of 160 vehicles displayed over 178,000 square feet 16,500 square meters of exhibition space. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/building_1-1.html "Perforated" is the designation given to a body of metal surfaces that have been pierced or cut with the purpose of removing portions of the body of the sheet. Perforated metal is available in a vast array of hole sizes, shapes, and grids. Patterns can be staggered, gridded, random, or custom. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/building_2-1.html Having provided the United Kingdom's educational system with new school building design concepts throughout the 1950s and 60s, Southwest London has once again become a proving ground for a new type of educational construction. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/tools_1-1.html In the past, various 3D formats such VRML, 3DS, 3DMF, and o2c have been touted as "the 3D PDF" portable document format. But their opportunity to become the de facto standard may have passed. In January 2006, Adobe unveiled its own 3D format software, called Adobe Acrobat 3D, which actually uses the latest PDF file format. As with those other formats, a free viewer is available. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/tools_2-1.html Rapid prototyping technologies such as 3D printers and stereolithography have achieved some popularity in producing architectural models. But these methods are limited in the size of the models they can produce, and they require expensive materials. So at School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, we have been working with computer numerical control CNC milling to produce architectural models. We have demonstrated the utility of CNC machining by producing a 1:33 scale model of a curvilinear, precastconcrete structure for the Ballingdon Bridge in Suffolk County, England. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/environment_1-1.html While architects in the Northern Hemisphere have been appropriately fixated on manipulating southern orientations of buildings in pursuit of climateresponsive architecture, those "Down Under" have been giving the same attention to northfacing facades. In the new Business School for Auckland University of Technology AUT in New Zealand, the architecture firm JASMAX has designed a northwest facade that puts on a visual show in response to the daily sun path. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/environment_2-1.html The histories of fine wine and of fine winery architecture have intertwined over the centuries. The design of the winery building can be central to the quality of the wine produced as well as to the winemaker's marketing image. In addition, as a new Canadian winery demonstrates, a good design can reduce energy consumption and waste during production. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/environment_3-1.html Perched like a fortress in the foothills of the Liguria maritime alps, the tiny Italian hamlet of Torri Superiore may seem an unlikely flagship in the search for sustainable solutions in architecture, landscape, and lifestyle. But a closer look into this labyrinth of stone dwellings reveals a community working hard to find workable solutions to what many see as a looming global energy famine. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/culture_1-1.html When the British occupied a "barren rock" following the First Opium War in 1841, Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston was "greatly mortified and disappointed" at the island's perceived worthlessness. Since then, however, Hong Kong has become one of the world's most important entrepreneurial, architectural, banking, and trading centers. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/culture_2-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, St. Werburgh was a 6thcentury princess turned abbess who is said to have abandoned the royal life to do good and to work to make others happy. Now her namesake church in Bristol, United Kingdom has found new life by evolving from its formal ecclesiastical function to serving Bristol's adventurous and ascending youth. The church's s soaring vertical nave has proved an unusual but effective space for a climbing center. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/culture_3-1.html Creating an edifice draws on an almost mystical process of imagining and materializing something from nothing, of developing original thought forms and manifesting them in the physical environment. Swissborn Mario Botta provides a unique perspective on this creative process. He is best known in the United States for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is considered one of the world's foremost architects for churches and museums. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0927/culture_3-1.html