http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 12 Mar 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/2008/0312/news_1-1.html The inaugural Livable Buildings Awards spotlight buildings that excel not only in design and resource efficiency, but also in user satisfaction. Initiated in 2007 by the Center for the Built Environment CBE at the University of California, Berkeley, the awards program recognizes buildings that have been evaluated using CBE's Occupant Indoor Environmental Quality IEQ Survey and received one of the topmost scores. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/news_3-1.html The recently announced recipients of the American Institute of Architects 2008 AIA Honor Awards, divided into the categories of architecture, interior architecture, and urban design, range from small singlefamily homes to museums to regional plans. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/news_4-1.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, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/design_1-1.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, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/design_2-1.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, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/design_3-1.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, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/building_1-1.html Installing a fullscale intertie photovoltaic PV system on a home is the king of solar investments. To allow good time for decisionmaking, expect the entire process to take 90 days or more. With a really serious focus on conserving and altering energy consumption patterns, expect the process to take six months. Here's a list of the things that need to be done: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/building_2-1.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, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/tools_1-1.html The Education City Convention Center on the outskirts of Doha, Qatar, designed by Arata Isozaki, includes a giant structure resembling two intertwined trees to support the building's exterior canopy. Used in lieu of vertical columns, the 250meter 820foot long, doubly curved steel tree structure forms the signature entrance to the convention center, currently under construction. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/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, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/environment_1-1.html Coney Island's Stillwell Avenue Terminal is the largest aboveground station in New York City's subway system. After years of deferred maintenance, the 90yearold station was redesigned by New York City Transit's inhouse design staff. The resulting station, completed in 2006, is about 50 percent new construction, including a new train shed that covers the station's four platforms and eight tracks. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/environment_2-1.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, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/culture_1-1.html Construction frenzy may have taken hold of Shanghai and Beijing, not to mention China's hundreds of other towns and cities. But for the past ten years, Hong Kong has floated behind serenely, like a successful, rather conservative older cousin. Still, there are signs that the city is developing something that other Chinese cities lack: public discourse. Its first architecture biennale, running through March 15, 2008, headlines a growing public interest in the built environment. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/culture_2-1.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, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0312/culture_2-1.html