http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 03 Sep 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/2008/0903/news_2-1.html Housing for art lovers, homeless people, floodzone dwellers, and hobbits. Chandeliers, bus stops, and a synagogue entrance. An expandable bathroom. These are not massive landmarks, but rather the AIA's annual exemplars of design executed with limited financial and programmatic means: the American Institute of Architects 2008 Small Project Awards recipients. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/news_3-1.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, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/news_4-1.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, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/news_5-1.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, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/news_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/design_1-1.html The Newseum building by James Polshek adds vitality and a sense of time and place to a street that, like so many important streets in the nation's capital, had been devoid of movement and threedimensional massing. A museum about news, the aptly named Newseum moved from across the Potomac River, in Arlington, Virginia, where it had outgrown its space. Its parent organization, the Freedom Forum, sought a location more heavily frequented by tourists. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/design_2-1.html As you make your way east on Prince Street from Sixth Avenue in lower Manhattan, a pile of shimmering cubes rises at the end of Prince as it deadends at the Bowery. What is it There are no windows in sight. A puffy white cloud slowly passes behind it and the silvery tower seems to disappear inside the cumulus skycraft. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/design_3-1.html Think of the architecture of Tadao Ando, and images of sleek, smooth concrete are sure to fill the mind's eye. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/design_4-1.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, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/building_1-1.html Part One of this twopart series on Beijing National Stadium looked at the project from an architecture perspective. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/building_2-1.html This is the first part of a twopart series about Beijing National Stadium. Part one looks at the stadium from the architects' perspective, part two from the engineers'. In the weeks and months leading up to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, the Chinese government faced a range of complications, from polluted skies to Tibet protests. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/building_3-1.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, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/building_4-1.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, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/building_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/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, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/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, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/culture_1-1.html Kengo Kuma strikes a chord when he talks about the inspirations for one of his most successful projects: the new Suntory Museum of Art, built in 2007 into the side of the new Tokyo Midtown development. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/culture_2-1.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, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/culture_3-1.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, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/culture_3-1.html