http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 17 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/2008/0917/news_1-1.html At the CHA Women amp; Children's Hospital near Seoul, a softness of natural light, organic elements, and curving form tempers a sleek building of glass, aluminum, and stainless steel. KMD Architects designed the facility, with associate architect yo2 Architects, to provide uncluttered respite from the surrounding neighborhood's visual noise. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/news_3-1.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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/news_4-1.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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/news_5-1.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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/news_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/design_1-1.html The Newseum building by Polshek Partnership Architects adds vitality and a sense of time and place to Pennsylvania Avenue, a street that, like so many important streets in Washington, D.C., had been devoid of movement and threedimensionality in 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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/building_1-1.html The 70,000squarefoot 6,500squaremeter building for the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C., is set on a narrow peninsula at the confluence of Rock Creek and the Potomac River. Surrounded by water on three sides, the peninsula faces south and commands spectacular views up and down the Potomac. The prominent site called for an emblematic building through which the essence of Swedish culture, technology, design sensibility, and governance would be expressed. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/building_2-1.html Part One of this twopart series on Beijing National Stadium looked at the project from an architecture perspective. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/building_3-1.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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/building_4-1.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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/building_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/tools_1-1.html Traffic measurement on the World Wide Web is far from an exact science, and much of the potential data remains behind proprietary walls. But with two million monthly visitors, the family of design and building web sites led by ArchitectureWeek is arguably one of or the biggest online. We'd like to share with you some of our thoughts on how it's put together and how your participation is supported, invited, and intrinsic. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/tools_2-1.html We are blown away by the amount of GIS data that is now available online. GIS, or Geographic Information System, data refers to a mapping database. Most people are now familiar with free mapping services such as Mapquest, Windows Live, or Google Earth, but GIS data goes well beyond that level of information. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/environment_1-1.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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/environment_2-1.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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/culture_1-1.html The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, reopened its doors in spring 2008 after an expansion designed by Ann Beha Architects. This was both a sympathetic and a very modern expansion, and the results provide quite an elegant increase in the museum's scope. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/culture_2-1.html Underlying the almost infinite variety of Victorian houses were a few basic structural forms, repeated millions of times over by builders following well established principles. The Masonry House Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/culture_3-1.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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/culture_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/culture_4-1.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, 17 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0917/culture_4-1.html