http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 24 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/2008/0924/news_2-1.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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/news_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/design_1-1.html The first step in designing a fabric structure is to create a form with sufficient prestress, or tension, to prevent it from fluttering like a flag or sail. Lightweight structures with minimal surfaces optimally should have double curvature 8212; a surface that possesses a highpoint positive curvature along one principal axis and a lowpoint negative curvature along the other principal axis. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/design_2-1.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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/design_3-1.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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/design_4-1.html Think of the architecture of Tadao Ando, and images of sleek, smooth concrete are sure to fill the mind's eye. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/building_1-1.html Customarily, architects, builders, and contractors have designed, specified, and built curbs at shower entrances that require users to pick up their feet and step over and into the shower pan. In some cases, the floor of the shower pan is lower than the floor of the bathroom. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/building_2-1.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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/building_3-1.html Part One of this twopart series on Beijing National Stadium looked at the project from an architecture perspective. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/building_4-1.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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/building_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/tools_1-1.html "Smart geometry" technology has been coming to life in the field of digital architectural design and fabrication. Even those unfamiliar with the parametric modeling approach have seen its effects in innovative building forms over the past few years. Among those collaborating to advance education and research in the area of advanced 3D CAD applications is a small group of scientists, architects, and inventors the Smart Geometry Group. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/tools_2-1.html We live in a wonderful age in which architects can be educated in almost any subject you can imagine, via the Internet. Over the course of this last year, I have gone "back to school" online for lessons in such diverse subjects as book publishing, SketchUp photo modeling, calibrating bitmaps in DataCAD, doing ZiPCAD punch lists, and solving a Rubik's Cube. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/environment_1-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, Please take a minute to look at this great short animation from Leo Murray. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/culture_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/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, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/culture_4-1.html