http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 06 Jun 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/2007/0606/news_1-1.html The American Society of Landscape Architects ASLA has announced the recipients of its 2007 Professional Awards. As in past years, the selected projects reflect the breadth of a profession that concerns itself with residential gardens, municipal parks, and regional master plans. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/news_2-1.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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/news_3-1.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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/design_1-1.html Sometimes designing a firehouse isn't just about fire trucks, bells, and red doors. In designing the 18th Firemen's Brigade in Santiago, Chile, architect Gonzalo Mardones Viviani found that he had to give careful consideration to the firehouse's role in the surrounding neighborhood of Viracura and to its function as a real "house," a home to the fire fighters who live there together with their families. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/design_2-1.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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/design_3-1.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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/design_4-1.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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/culture_1-1.html While most glass artists treat their medium with care, one of them deliberately shatters it. Cyprusborn, Londonbased Yorgos Papadopoulos has developed an edgy art form that is attracting international attention. His work exploits the crystalline forms of broken glass and mixes in bold combinations of color to create provocative art panels. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/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, 06 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/culture_2-1.html