http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ArchitectureWeek Editorial System editor@architectureweek.com editor@architectureweek.com http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/news_2-1.html The partners of KieranTimberlake Associates LLP approach design as a holistic process that benefits from the collective intelligence of architect, client, and others. The American Institute of Architects has selected KieranTimberlake to receive the 2008 AIA Architecture Firm Award, recognizing the firm's approach to complex challenges, its elegant buildings, its commitment to sustainable design, and its extensive research. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/news_3-1.html Renzo Piano first captured the attention of the architecture world as codesigner of the Centre Pompidou in Paris with Richard Rogers, an epochal building that dramatically established the stillreigning hightech modern style of architecture. Piano's subsequent projects, including several gorgeous museums and other beautiful buildings around the world, have steadily reinforced his reputation as a profound designer, sensitive practitioner, and master craftsman of building. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/news_4-1.html Projects recognized in the Royal Australian Institute of Architects national architecture awards for 2007 range from a small house to a grand state library and a mixeduse tower over 80 stories. Most of the twodozen buildings stand in the populous eastern states, with a few fartherflung exceptions. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/design_1-1.html Whether crossing an atrium, street, canal, canyon, or sound, whether ancient, historic, modern, or hightech, made of stone, concrete, steel, or glass, the bridge is a special kind of connecting structure. Topologically, whereas most buildings exist largely to enclose space, bridges tend to puncture it to varying degrees. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/design_2-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, In July 2003, the Hungerford footbridges, which have brought about a major improvement to the London pedestrian's journey across the River Thames, were renamed the Golden Jubilee Bridges to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/design_3-1.html Londons Millennium Bridge reopened six years ago on February 22, 2002, with its designer, Lord Foster, in attendance, but without its original, notorious wobble. Described by Foster as a "blade of light," the Millennium Bridge was closed just two days after it first opened in June, 2000, because it shimmied and shook uncomfortably. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/design_4-1.html O'Donnell Tuomey Architects spent ten years working on one block in Temple Bar, the cultural quarter of Dublin, Ireland. We started on conversion of the former Quaker Meeting House into the Irish Film Centre in 1986. Meeting House Square, with the National Photographic Archive and the Gallery of Photography, was opened to the public in 1996. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/design_5-1.html Some Westerners, when faced with Oriental creativity, have a tendency to get a little carried away. Instead of a balanced, rational approach, a tendency emerges to ascribe the aesthetic effect of what they see to some mysterious, spiritual force that is absent from their own culture, whether it be called Zen, Tao, wabisabi, or yin and yang. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/design_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/design_6-1.html The Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla and Len MUSAC by Spanish architects Mansilla Tun, located in Len, Spain, reflects van der Rohe's philosophy in its minimalist architectural language and the museum won the 2007 Mies van der Rohe Award, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. At the same time, its design works to redefine both the role of a museum with respect to its cultural context and the way people experience museums. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/design_6-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/building_1-1.html Since the ancient Romans built the first span across the River Tyne between the towns of Gateshead and Newcastle in northeastern England, bridges have loomed large in the local landscape. Newcastle's river skyline has become a veritable cacophony of bridges, forming vital transportation links supporting the local heavy industries of shipbuilding, coal mining, and iron and steel works. Now the newest piece in the illustrious collection, the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, is once again making history. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/building_2-1.html A new pedestrian bridge, "Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir," now undulates across the Seine in Paris. It is the creation of Feichtinger Architectes with consulting engineers RFR, where I work, and Sepia. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/building_3-1.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, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/building_4-1.html Weaving is most often associated with textiles, but it is also relevant to architecture. It is a construct and a craft that can purposefully and aesthetically order building systems. Just as a thread can be pulled from a woven fabric and a new one inserted in its place, so too can building and urban systems be removed, replaced, or added when the whole is conceived as an exposed woven tapestry. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/building_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/building_5-1.html To visit the RiverEast Center in Portland, Oregon, is to stand at a major crossroads. The newly renovated former warehouse building sits along the Willamette River, just across from downtown, at the base of the Hawthorne Bridge. This location affords unobstructed views of boats and cars streaming by in the foreground with the classic downtown Portland skyline behind. The RiverEast Center also sits beside a massive freeway bridge and overpass to the west and a railroad track busy with freight and occasional passenger trains to the east. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/building_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/tools_1-1.html Rapid prototyping technologies such as 3D printers and stereolithography have achieved some popularity in producing architectural models. But these methods are limited in the size of the models they can produce, and they require expensive materials. So at School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, we have been working with computer numerical control CNC milling to produce architectural models. We have demonstrated the utility of CNC machining by producing a 1:33 scale model of a curvilinear, precastconcrete structure for the Ballingdon Bridge in Suffolk County, England. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/tools_2-1.html In his mainstage presentation at Autodesk University 2007, Autodesk CEO Carl Bass cited several key trends in the world of architecture, engineering, and construction AEC: increased digitization, increased globalization, a boom in global building and infrastructure, the rising cost of energy, and climate change. He made the case that technology is required for more efficient and more sustainable design, building, and maintenance of that new infrastructure worldwide. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/environment_1-1.html Just north of London, off the M25 highway, a single large wind turbine reaches into the air and turns steadily above the bucolic English countryside. The turbine serves to generate power, and also as an emblem of the headquarters of the wind energy company Renewable Energy Systems RES, set among the hedge rows and rolling hills of Hertfordshire. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/culture_1-1.html When a beloved and highly symbolic historic bridge was destroyed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina of the early 1990s, the whole world grieved. The singlearched Stari Most "Old Bridge" in Mostar was erected in 1566 by architect Mimar Hajruddin at the height of the Ottoman Empire. It not only connected the city physically but, by the 20th century, had come to symbolize the coming together of many nationalities and ethnicities. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/culture_2-1.html The growing city of Brasilia needed a third bridge over a lake that separated half its inhabitants from their places of work. In response to a competition, architect Alexandre Chan and structural engineer Mario Vila Verde, both from Rio de Janeiro, produced the winning concept: a daring, dancing variation on an ancient structural form. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/culture_3-1.html Somewhere between the nostalgic musings of I. M. Pei and the flickering of an independentminded slideshow, noted Marcel Breuer expert Barry Bergdoll expressed perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Breuer's architecture: "by the end of his career, even heavy things seem to float in air." Bergdoll illustrated his point with a series of striking images in which massive concrete structures balance as if on tiptoe. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/culture_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/culture_4-1.html Public urban open space. In the course of one L.A. day, those four little words inspired comparisons to a dining room table, descriptions of a "third revolution," arguments for spatial justice, historical tales of the search for an R1 residential paradise, and an examination of what being "green" means in a desert. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/culture_4-1.html