http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 29 Nov 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/2006/1129/news_1-1.html Architect and urban designer Peter Calthorpe has received the 2006 J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development from the Urban Land Institute. This award salutes his 30year career of creating neighborhoods and communities that are livable, walkable, and diverse. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/news_2-1.html Chicago is justly proud of its architectural heritage, marked by the great American architects Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and, more recently, Skidmore, Owings Merrill and Helmut Jahn. As contemporary architects follow in these illustrious footsteps, modern Chicagoans work hard to preserve their built history. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/news_3-1.html Staking its reputation around an ethical debate, Venice, Italy's 10th Biennale Architecture Show presents the successes and challenges of 16 of the world's cities and asks: "can architects make a difference" The "Cities, Architecture, and Society" exhibit curated by David Burdett, architect and professor at the London School of Economics, stops short of providing solutions, but states, "how we shape cities will determine the future of our planet." Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/design_1-1.html "When you build one million square meters, you really don't know if what you envisioned will be good or bad," says Massimilliano Fuksas, the Romebased architect for the New Milan Trade Fair. The 10.8millionsquarefoot convention complex, which opened in April 2006, has a milelong canopy that wows visitors with its whimsical flair, transforming a glass and steel structure into a fabric that billows and then touches down like tornados to the floor. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/design_2-1.html Once upon a time the parking garage was created as a dark place filled with sinister shadows and exhaust fumes. But it doesn't have to be that way. Over the past few years some of the best parking garages have been designed and constructed to be more like parking palaces, as architects focus their design creativity on making the innercity garage an aesthetic contributor to our urban experience. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/design_3-1.html The new Berlin Hauptbahnhof designed by von Gerkan, Marg and Partners gmp is Europe's largest and newest train station a large "cathedral" of glass and steel. Linking major lines from all directions, the Berlin Central Station has been on the boards for 11 years, but with typical German efficiency, was completed within two weeks of the 2006 World Cup games. Yet one could say that the station had been in the planning stages for nearly a century. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/design_4-1.html Continuing a tradition of innovative structures at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in West London is the new Davies Alpine House by Wilkinson Eyre Architects. It is the first glasshouse to be constructed at the World Heritage Site for over 20 years and is a showcase of design and engineering, specially conditioned to support an alpine ecology. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/building_1-1.html An article in the New York Times late in 2005 reported on the escalating demise of brutalist buildings designed and constructed during the postwar years the hardedged, unforgiving, sterile, and oftenhumorless creations of modernism's aging gurus and, especially, their uninspired copyists. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/building_2-1.html RapidSet Eisenwall, a premium cement for exterior plaster developed by CTS Cement Manufacturing Corp., is a quicksetting alternative to traditional Portland cement that can turn stucco work from a tenday to a threeday project, speeding up work and cutting labor costs. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/building_3-1.html A few lucky students in Europe have experienced the "microcompact home" mch, an aluminum cube that offers the basics of modern living in less than 665 cubic feet 19 cubic meters. They are appreciating that living in small quarters doesn't have to cramp their style. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/tools_1-1.html This year the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture ACADIA marked its first quarter century of involvement in promoting the use of computers to enhance design creativity in architecture, planning, and building science. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/tools_2-1.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, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/environment_1-1.html Engineering students today face a different future from that of their predecessors. As design professionals develop new approaches to sustainability in architecture, old ideas about technology and mechanical controls as the ultimate solution are flying out the window. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/environment_2-1.html Architects Busby PerkinsWill and KEEN Engineering, which is now part of Stantec, combined multiple green strategies within a single project to achieve Canada's first LEED Gold certification for new construction for the City of White Rock Operations Building in British Columbia. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/environment_3-1.html In the spring of 2000, The Architectural League of New York launched an exhibition, "Ten Shades of Green," with Peter Buchanan as curator. Its purpose was to showcase examples of sustainable buildings that demonstrate some or all of ten aspects of green design including low energy high performance, renewable sources, recycling, embodied energy, long life, connection to urban context, and occupant health and happiness. Editor Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/culture_1-1.html Located in the British town of BexhillonSea, the De La Warr Pavilion is a striking example of international modernism. It was built in 1935 by celebrated architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff and has recently reopened following a renovation that rescued it from decades of neglect and damage. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/culture_2-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, On December 10, 2006, the Yale University Art Gallery, designed by Louis Kahn, will reopen after a 44 million restoration renovation. Completed in 1953, the building is considered Kahn's first major work of architecture. Just across the street, to the south, it faces his last building, the Yale British Art Center, which he did not live to see completed. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/culture_3-1.html Since gaining World Heritage Site status in 2003, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on the outskirts of West London, has seen several additions to its building stock. This work is part of a 30year master plan for the garden to guide the historic site's future development. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1129/culture_3-1.html