http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 11 Oct 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/2006/1011/news_1-1.html In late September 2006, the Japan Art Association announced the five recipients of the 18th annual multidisciplinary Praemium Imperiale prize. The architecture prize for lifetime achievement went to German architect and engineer Frei Otto, best known for his research and design of lightweight, highperformance tent structures. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/news_2-1.html "Colors are like words," Italian architect Ettore Sottsass once said. "With colors you can tell stories... Architecture is made of color. Even those who don't want to use color must use it in the end. It's fundamental." Acknowledging the colorful work of Sottsass and others in architecture and interior design, the paint company Benjamin Moore Co. presented its second annual "HUE Awards" in late September 2006. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/news_3-1.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, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/news_4-1.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, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/design_1-1.html One of the wonderful things about a big city is how you can turn a corner in an old neighborhood to find a fresh idea has moved in. That's the impression you get from a new store in the gallery haven of SoHo, in lower Manhattan, New York City. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/design_2-1.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, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/design_3-1.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, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/building_1-1.html A new pedestrian bridge, "Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir," now undulates across the Seine in Paris. It is the creation of Feichtinger Architectes with consulting engineers RFR, where I work, and Sepia. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/building_2-1.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, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/building_3-1.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, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/tools_1-1.html As we leave the 20th century behind, we must discover, refine, and implement new tools, new roles, and new practices to unify the fragmented AEC industry and efficiently cope with the complexities of today's intricate business and legal climate. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/tools_2-1.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, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/environment_1-1.html In August 2006, Global Green USA announced the winner of the Sustainable Design Competition for New Orleans. The project, by Andrew Kotchen, Matthew Berman, and their New York office workshopapd will be built in the Holy Cross Neighborhood to set an example both for supportive community housing in the beleaguered city and for sustainability in residential design in general. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/environment_2-1.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, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/culture_1-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, The city of Nara, Japan, brims with landmark buildings from the Nara period 710784 A.D., when it was the capital. A particularly striking one is T333;daiji, the Great East Temple, founded in the mideighth century to house Daibutsu, the Great Buddha statue. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/culture_2-1.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, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/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, 11 Oct 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1011/culture_3-1.html