http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 13 Aug 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/2008/0813/news_1-1.html In creating the Lurie Garden in downtown Chicago, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd transformed a parking garage rooftop into a public botanical garden. Located on three acres 1.2 hectares in Millennium Park, a part of Grant Park, the garden combines engineered elements with native perennials of the Midwestern prairie. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/news_3-1.html Where a failed urban housing project once stood, enclosed and separated from its surrounding neighborhood in San Francisco's Mission District, the mixeduse Valencia Gardens development now supports an integrated neighborhood designed to promote safety through activity. Architect Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP, with associate architect Martinez Architects, Inc., lined the sidewalk with building entries and reintroduced vehicular streets into the site, connecting it with the urban fabric. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/news_4-1.html For its third annual steel housing competition, Living Steel challenged architects to design affordable, energyefficient housing prototypes for Cherepovets, Russia, where temperatures can climb to 34 degrees Celsius 93 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer and dive as low as 49 degrees Celsius 56 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/news_5-1.html On the campus of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, the new Heimbold Visual Arts Center by Polshek Partnership Architects provides a dynamic space for diverse studio art programs. The Heimbold Center is recognized as an exemplar in the 2008 Building Type Awards given by the AIA New York chapter, cosponsored by the Boston Society of Architects. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/news_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/design_1-1.html Think of the architecture of Tadao Ando, and images of sleek, smooth concrete are sure to fill the mind's eye. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/design_2-1.html The Chinese have long been good at big gestures, and one of Beijing's latest courtesy of London's Foster Partners is lifting spirits in the capital at a rate of thousands per day. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/design_3-1.html The redesigned Young Vic Theatre by London architects Haworth Tompkins is more than just the extension and renovation of a local theater in Lambeth, South London. It is a radical, minimally designed new facility that celebrates the history of the place and highlights the ambitions of the local arts community. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/design_4-1.html Sometimes a building is so well suited to its use, to the client, and to the site that it is hard to imagine it designed any other way. The Atlas Building at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, designed by New York Citybased Rafael Violy Architects, is such a building once you get to know it. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/building_1-1.html Public School 42 in Arverne, Queens, a fivestory prewar brick edifice, had a small library in a converted fourthfloor classroom. Physically and visually isolated from the core of the elementary school's activities, the library was relocated to the ground floor, where it replaced one of two gymnasiums. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/building_2-1.html With Beijing hosting the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the Chinese government has sought, like a typical Olympic host, to make a statement about the country's progress. In China's case, this has included some ambitious and highprofile architecture projects, such as Herzog de Meuron's spectacular bird'snestlike National Stadium. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/tools_1-1.html To support the rapid expansion of China Central Television CCTV, an international design competition was launched in 2002 for a centralized headquarters building in Beijing. Winning the commission was Rem Koolhaas Office for Metropolitan Architecture, OMA, teamed with engineering firm Arup and the East China Architecture and Design Institute as both architect and engineer of record. Koolhaas imagined a building whose three dimensional form brings CCTV's staff and functions into a "continuous tube." This is part of the story of the engineering challenge. Editor Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/tools_2-1.html The Beijing National Aquatics Center, often referred to as the "Water Cube," was built for the 2008 Olympic Games. The winning entry in an international design competition was submitted by the China State Construction and Engineering Corporation CSCEC with Arup and PTW Architects. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/environment_1-1.html Another building type shattered the dualglazed, lowe glass ceiling in April 2008 when the U.S. Green Building Council first awarded LEED Platinum certification to a museum complex. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/environment_2-1.html Green project requirements can be found just about anywhere in the contract documents. This is also true for green building product requirements that are an important part of any green building project. Just like green project requirements, green building product requirements can be included in the contract documents either explicitly or implicitly. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/culture_1-1.html On a December day of 1955, fresh over from Paris, I walked into the small Eero Saarinen office in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, with a beatup box of eightbytens of my BeauxArts graduation work. "Can I see Mr. Saarinen I'm looking for a job." He did see me, and having reviewed my prints, asked whether I could start that very afternoon for 2.75 an hour pay. I did. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/culture_2-1.html The activity of buying and selling food has shaped our cities and towns for centuries, since an urban population by nature depends on others for agricultural production. At the heart of this activity stands the public market the buildings and spaces in which vegetables, meat, and other commodities intended for human consumption are sold by diverse persons from numerous spaces or stalls, all under a common authority. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/culture_3-1.html Museums today aspire to be open, transparent, and welcoming. However admirable these qualities appear from our 21stcentury viewpoint, it is instructive to remember that at the height of the Gilded Age, when the American museum was ascendant, the opposite was true. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0813/culture_3-1.html