http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ArchitectureWeek Editorial System editor@architectureweek.com editor@architectureweek.com http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/news_1-1.html The AIA Committee on the Environment COTE has announced its annual selection of "Top Ten Green Projects" exemplars of sustainable architecture in the United States. Since the program's inception in 1997, these awards are becoming increasingly competitive. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/news_2-1.html The United Kingdom chapter of the American Institute of Architects has announced the recipients of its annual awards for design excellence. This awards program honors exemplary buildings by UK architects anywhere in the world and by architects of any nationality working within the United Kingdom. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/news_3-1.html The Royal Australian Institute of Architects RAIA has awarded its Gold Medal for Architecture to Italianborn architect Enrico Taglietti. For 50 years, he has lived in Australia and influenced the course of regional architecture in the Australian Capital Territory ACT, most notably in the capital city of Canberra. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/design_1-1.html When you hear the words "academy of sciences" what do you think of Musty rooms with dark wood paneling and overstuffed furniture Curio cabinets filled with microscopes and specimens in formaldehyde This isn't the image that the New York Academy of Sciences wanted its headquarters to project. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/design_2-1.html Creating dramatic architecture can be challenging in an icy climate where people prioritize function over flamboyance and where the natural environment can satisfy their desire for beauty. The state of Alaska has breathtaking vistas of mountains, snow flats, and the dancing aurora borealis, but its urban landscapes have tended to remain resilient and simple. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/design_3-1.html Eight vibrantly colored steel and glass towers dance around a landscaped courtyard, exposing most of the living rooms to the outdoors, with a wall of bedrooms wrapped around three sides of the block. Each of the 27 apartments has a unique character, the block is selfsufficient in energy, and many functions from heating to door locks can be individually controlled by personal computer. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/design_4-1.html The abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell once said, "Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it." Those words convey the inspiration behind much of the work of Christopher Harty and Chris Botterill. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/building_1-1.html The Rice Residence, on a hillside above Los Angeles, expresses an idyllic Southern California lifestyle with daylight saturating every room, a floor plan that encourages casual indooroutdoor living, and spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean in the distance. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/building_2-1.html Words such as "city," "suburb," and "countryside" no longer capture the reality of real estate development in the United States. Most Americans inhabit complex metropolitan landscapes layered with tracts, strips, malls, office parks, and highways. Widespread dissatisfaction with speculative building has provoked many critiques, but precise terms to define the physical elements of sprawl are often missing. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/building_3-1.html Imagine rushing through an underground subway station and suddenly looking up into the sky to realize that the earth has turned a few degrees and the weather has changed. This is the reaction that architect and artist James Carpenter wants to create with his daylightbending projects. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/tools_1-1.html Bell Travers Willson, a Londonbased architecture and design studio, has launched a method that harnesses digital design technology and lowvolume custom production methods to build a sustainable alternative to traditional housing. Through FACIT, the housemanufacturing company they founded, the architects produce the "Digital House" using a detailed 3D computer model. This information is transferred to a computer numerically controlled CNC router, which rapidly cuts components from sheets of plywood in a controlled factory setting. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/tools_2-1.html At the GreenBuild Conference in late 2006, Phil Bernstein, Autodesk vice president of Building Industry Strategy and Relations, announced that the software company would begin working with the U.S. Green Building Council to help architects and engineers more readily adapt their digital design processes to incorporate sustainability issues. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/environment_1-1.html For over a decade, strawbale construction has been growing in popularity among "alternative" house builders. The durable, lowcost, nontoxic, highly insulating, pestresistant, and potentially structural material is especially practical in hot arid climates. It was used extensively in the treeless grasslands of the U.S. Midwest early in the 20th century. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/environment_2-1.html Because of unusually strict technical, mechanical, and air quality requirements, hospitals are one of the most difficult building types to design sustainably. Yet the Providence Newberg Medical Center by Mahlum Architects has achieved a LEED Gold rating the first hospital in the United States to do so. It is also the first U.S. hospital to acquire enough renewable electric power to meet all its needs. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/environment_3-1.html Like many other buildings that receive the coveted Platinumlevel LEED certification, the Sweetwater Creek State Park Visitors Center, near Lithia Springs, Georgia, features numerous energy conservation measures and has a roof full of photovoltaic cells to generate electricity. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/culture_1-1.html Chartres Cathedral in France is the "thought of the middle ages made visible," according to art historian, Emile Male. Through sculpture, stained glass windows, and high arches, it is understood as encapsulating an essence of the Christian spiritual mind of the time. Today, in an increasingly secularized world confronted with diversity, confusion, and a continued decline in church attendance, is there still a need for sacred architecture If so, what is its contemporary expression Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/culture_2-1.html Cities are often symbolized by their prominent buildings. For example, it is hard to contemplate Sydney without thinking of the Opera House by Jrn Utzon or Barcelona without recalling the works by Antoni Gaud. Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/culture_2-1.html