http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 17 Oct 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/2007/1017/news_2-1.html The Stirling Prize for 2007 has been awarded to the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar, Germany, designed by David Chipperfield Architects. With a spare colonnade around its boxy, minimalist form, the Museum Literaturmuseum der Moderne is something of a neoclassical Parthenon, helping the larger cluster of buildings which also includes the National Schiller Museum 1903 and the Archive for German Literature 1970s come together as a seeming Acropolis atop its ridge overlooking the River Neckar. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/news_3-1.html Even if global greenhouse gas emissions were to stop increasing today, the climate would continue to warm. That was the stark reality underlined in February 2007 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC.1 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/news_4-1.html A diverse group of projects from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe have been honored with the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture for 2007. This year, nine projects were recognized for architectural excellence in places where Muslims live. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/design_1-1.html It seems both fitting and fashionable to design a highend lingerie store with minimalism in mind. Just as less is more in the world of underwear, luxury retail design has long subscribed to a similar philosophy. For Lorenzo Apicella and John Rushworth at Pentagram, the fabled Londonbased multidisciplinary design firm, this was the natural starting point for the creation of Essenziale, a signature, unisex lingerie and beachwear boutique in London's gentrified Mayfair district. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/design_2-1.html "That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics." Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/design_3-1.html As China's share of the global limelight grows brighter, it's little surprise that architecture has become one of the country's greatest public relations tools. Signature buildings thrust up all over the place, brash new developments blanket the countryside, and developers' appetites for innovation are hitting extremes. China has always been very much about "face," and with both the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the Shanghai 2010 World Expo on the way, that face is getting a lot of attention. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/design_4-1.html The NelsonAtkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, recently underwent a complete overhaul and the glowing lenses of the new Bloch Building, designed by Steven Holl Architects, are just the tip of the iceberg. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/building_1-1.html The twelvestory, 362,987squarefoot 33,723squaremeter Seattle Public Library sits on a steep urban site with a 29foot 8.8meter height difference between its boundaries on Fourth and Fifth Avenues. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/building_2-1.html Does your project require special equipment to convey structural steel on site and into position Maybe big trucks with oversize loads, and special cranes. But have you ever commissioned a flatbed ship for placing steel Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/tools_1-1.html The "wiki" form of collaborative web site, emerging dramatically with the great Wikipedia as its lead example, has to be my favorite cultural technology development of recent years. Wikipedia is more just an amazing collectivelycreated web site. It also the headliner for a huge new phenomenon in collective creativity. More than 9000 wikis hve been launched using MediaWiki, the same free, opensource software that runs Wikipedia and that's just one of the options for wiki software. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/tools_2-1.html We are blown away by the amount of GIS data that is now available online. GIS, or Geographic Information System, data refers to a mapping database. Most people are now familiar with free mapping services such as Mapquest, Windows Live, or Google Earth, but GIS data goes well beyond that level of information. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/environment_1-1.html Natural daylight, cooling and ventilating efficiencies, and lowimpact material selections helped add up to a USGBC LEED Platinum certification for Building B of the new Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University ASU. The first LEED Platinum building in Arizona joined the elite green ranks of fewer than 60 LEED Platinumcertified buildings worldwide. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/culture_1-1.html Over fifty years ago, the "Harvard Five" architects, Marcel Breuer and his students Landis Gores, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, and Eliot Noyes, built houses for themselves and their clients in New Canaan, Connecticut. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/culture_2-1.html Curitiba, Brazil called "the world's greenest city" by the New York Times Magazine in May 2007 is increasingly well known for its longterm success in integrated land use, transportation, and environmental planning, including its exciting public bus system. Less well known is the extensive program of public architecture that helps animate the urban fabric of the city, weaving together parks and open space, tourism, urban identity, and industrial reclamation. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1017/culture_2-1.html