http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 30 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/2007/0530/news_1-1.html When ScottishAmerican philanthropist Andrew Carnegie opened his first public library in his hometown of Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1883, the motto he had inscribed over the door was "Let there be light." Although he was probably referring to the enlightenment of learning, his words resonate today in the importance modern architects place on daylighting in libraries. Wed, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/news_2-1.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, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/news_3-1.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, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/news_4-1.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, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/design_1-1.html Museum franchising seems to be a growing trend. The Guggenheim is a well established worldwide franchise, and The Louvre is on its way. The New Yorkbased Museum of Modern Art and Dia Art Foundation each have two sites, while the Londonbased Tate has four. Wed, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/design_2-1.html Pritzker Prize laureate Norman Foster is a master of levitating buildings of dubious design, treatment, or association to the pantheon of architectural icons. The Hearst Tower in Manhattan, which he designed in collaboration with architects Adamson Associates and Gensler, is the most recent example of this resuscitation. The 42story glass and metalskinned tower is characterized by a large diagonal grid, emphasized by vertically alternating recessed and projecting multistory corner triangles. Wed, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/design_3-1.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, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/design_4-1.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, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/building_1-1.html It is a historical fact that with economic transition comes environmental change. Perhaps there is no greater influence on the physical environment than the rapid industrial and economic development of towns and cities. This occurred in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, during the Industrial Revolution. Transportation innovations like the train and later the car encouraged a physical and psychological detachment between the home and workplace, leading to an expansion of residential and commercial districts into rural pastures. Wed, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/building_2-1.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, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/building_3-1.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, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/tools_1-1.html U.S. airports are being continually retrofitted to meet the latest demands of security and growing passenger volumes gathering climate crisis notwithstanding. One result of ad hoc remodels is an overcrowded, inconvenient, frustrating experience for travelers. To seek solutions to these problems in a new airport design paradigm, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture ACSA and U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS initiated a competition for a millionsquarefoot 93,000squaremeter, 24gate facility dubbed 38 N 82 W Regional Airport. The students who won the competition describe their process working with a variety of digital media for designing an airport that improves traveler experience while providing a distinctive, legible spatial structure and minimally invasive security. Editor Wed, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/tools_2-1.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, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/environment_1-1.html Depending on your generation, you may have been taught: "Waste not, want not." Thrift is certainly one incentive for deconstructing buildings for reuse. In addition, many of us are motivated by a desire to be environmentally sensitive, a fondness for antiques and other items from the past, a yearning to have more control over the quality of materials used in construction, or a recognition that many of the materials available for salvage are of higher quality than those produced today. Wed, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/environment_2-1.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, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/environment_3-1.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, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/culture_1-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, Traveling in southern Chile recently, I was delighted to discover a lovely hotel in Pucon. Situated on a steep wooded hill overlooking Lago Villarica, the Hotel Antumalal is more than a hotel; it is an architectural experience. With a backdrop of snowcapped mountains, the small intimate hotel is surrounded by acres of beautiful gardens. Wed, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/culture_2-1.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, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/culture_3-1.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, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/culture_3-1.html