http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 23 Apr 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/2008/0423/news_1-1.html Over the course of his 38year career, Richard Johnson, designer of many major cultural buildings in Sydney, has worked on scales ranging from exhibit design to urban design. His projects have included world expo pavilions, museums, embassies, schools, office buildings, hotels, master plans, and landscape design, many with his current firm, Johnson Pilton Walker of Sydney. The Australian architect has been awarded the 2008 Gold Medal for Architecture by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects RAIA. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/news_3-1.html In a world where so much contemporary construction is so repetitively mundane, in the majority, and so dissociatively egotistical, in the contrasting minority, it is a deepening pleasure to celebrate poetically bold, eloquently sensitive, contextually beautiful work. And that's just the celebration we find in the 2008 Pritzker Prize award to Jean Nouvel of France. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/news_4-1.html The Fonville Press, a cafe and bookstore in the Florida panhandle, combines a 600squarefoot 56squaremeter shop with two exterior courts. The serenely stylish facility earned Khoury Vogt Architects one of ten Palladio Awards for 2008. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/news_5-1.html Urban Infill 02 is a prototype for affordable singlefamily housing designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects for a small urban lot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two interlocking modular forms compose the house: a twostory woodclad cube and a barshaped, singlestory concrete block. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/news_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/design_1-1.html Ask most architects to name the most elemental ingredients of great architecture, and chances are they will say "space and light." But these are not necessarily the first two words that come to mind when thinking about skyscrapers, especially tall buildings in New York City. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/design_2-1.html There is something inherently abstract about the government archive. Storage of old records can too easily be seen as a utility function free of aesthetic aspiration. Compared to a classic library program, an archive might be seen as exaggerating the stacks while minimizing the interacting human element. In some archives this tendency leads to the place where the technical function of storage obliterates the impulse for architecture. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/design_3-1.html The Torre Agbar, a new tall building from Ateliers Jean Nouvel, in collaboration with b720 Arquitectura, GarciaVentosa Arquitectura, and Leopoldo Rodes Arquitecto, thrusts into Barcelona's skyline from the Placa de las Glories, a gritty district that Barcelona's planners have designated "the next big thing," a new center of commercial activity. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/building_1-1.html Like its competitors, BMW knows that cool sells. And there is no doubt that BMW Welt the German motor company's new sales, exhibition, and event center in Munich is cool. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/building_2-1.html When New Urbanism was starting to develop in the 1980's, much of the Charlotte, North Carolina, area was not yet conceived; uptown was dying, and building mixeduse areas was "illegal." The suburban model of growth reigned supreme. But times change. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/building_3-1.html The glassandsteel R128 House is located on a steeply sloped site with panoramic views of Stuttgart, Germany. Although this house seems sterile and completely transparent, it is a home where comfort and privacy issues for the inhabitants have been met. It is a completely recyclable, emissionfree, energy selfsufficient building. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/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, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/environment_1-1.html Just about a year ago, Al Gore rocked the national AIA Convention in San Antonio with a climactic final keynote address, and received a prolonged standing ovation from thousands of architects who had lined up for hours to get in. Gore expressed the compelling case on global climate change, anchoring the powerful presentation with this silver spur to action for design professionals: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/environment_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, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/culture_1-1.html International practice sounds glamorous and fun, but is it something that your firm should consider Overseas work can be expensive, disruptive, and a serious distraction. Some firms have even destroyed their domestic practice by diverting too much energy and too many resources to foreign work. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/culture_2-1.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, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/culture_2-1.html