http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 29 Oct 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/2008/1029/news_1-1.html Three projects received top honors for built architecture in the annual design awards of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects AIA: the Water Life Museums and Campus in Hemet, California, by Lehrer Gangi Design Build; the Art Center College of Design's South Campus in Pasadena, by Daly Genik; and the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland, by Morphosis. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/news_3-1.html Pairing sensitively designed housing with generous open space, the architects of Accordia created an enduring residential development in Cambridge, United Kingdom, that embodies the inherent sustainability of livable communities. Their careful efforts have earned Accordia the Stirling Prize for 2008. Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios designed the project with Maccreanor Lavington and Alison Brooks Architects. This is the first residential project to receive the prestigious prize, now in its 13th year. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/news_4-1.html The Durham County Regional Public Library in Durham, North Carolina, takes advantage of brick for environmental benefit. Brick's thermal mass improves the energy efficiency of the LEED Silvercertified facility, helping to keep energy use 35 percent lower than that of comparable conventionally designed buildings. The brick was procured locally, and made from raw materials extracted regionally. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/design_1-1.html One of the principal tactics that underlies the work of Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis is the inverting of the value of constraints, by recasting the limitations of a project as the trigger for design invention. By maneuvering imaginatively within operational boundaries, the latent potentials of the project can be teased out of the very restrictions that would seem to weigh it down. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/design_2-1.html The new Oslo Opera House is a monumental architectural statement for Norway, providing a glamorous new home for the National Opera and Ballet and a striking public plaza overlooking the Oslofjord. Instantly shedding opera's snooty, highart image, the new building by Norwegian architecture firm Snoslash;hetta slopes down from the roof to the water's edge. The gleamingwhite marble threshold between land and water welcomes hundreds of people on a sunny day. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/design_3-1.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, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/design_4-1.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, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/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, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/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, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/tools_1-1.html In the first episode of Design Studio Wiki, we went step by step through creating a functional design studio home page in the Archiplanet wiki. In this article, we'll step through how to build from the design studio home page itself to a full set of design studio course and projects support pages. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/tools_2-1.html While the most common type of page in the Archiplanet allbuildings wiki presents an individual building, the huge flexibility of the wiki structure provides for support for almost any kind of documentation 151; especially if it involves groupwork 151; and this particularly includes the architecture school design studio. Simple Concept Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/environment_1-1.html Although the last two decades have seen Vancouver, Canada, grab more attention for its elegant forest of tall, slender, glassy condominium towers, the city's smaller neighbor, Victoria, is making some waves of its own. The comparatively sleepy British Columbia capital, with a population of just under 80,000, is home to one of the most ambitious sustainable development projects undertaken in Canada. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/culture_1-1.html It's a spacious, imposing Los Angeles residence that has a central courtyard with lush vegetation and a cooling fountain. But don't look for palm trees or swimming pools or movie stars 8212; this is no stereotypical Southern California abode. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/culture_2-1.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, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/culture_3-1.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, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/culture_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/culture_4-1.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, 29 Oct 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1029/culture_4-1.html