http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 19 Nov 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/2008/1119/news_1-1.html The new creative arts building at Brisbane Girls Grammar School in Brisbane, Queensland, combines two contrasting halves into a dynamic whole. Public spaces and circulation are housed in the eastern wing of the Cherrell Hirst Creative Learning Centre, with its columns radiating in a distinctive K shape. The horizontally layered western wing contains flexible teaching spaces for art, music, drama, and technology. The two wings meet at a central atrium intended to foster social interaction and informal learning. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/news_3-1.html Recent scientific research 151; published since the deadline for the latest assessment report from the IPCC 151; reveals that global warming is accelerating far beyond the 2007 IPCC forecasts. This brief collects some of the key findings, including particular impacts of climate change in Europe. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/news_4-1.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, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/news_5-1.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, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/news_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/design_1-1.html The soaring Cathedral of Christ the Light designed by Skidmore, Owings amp; Merrill has transformed an old retail and commercial district in Oakland, California, into a vital sacred and civic gathering place. The allnew 224,000squarefoot 20,800squaremeter complex for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland brims with amenities, including a public plaza and garden, health clinic, conference center, gift shop, and cafe, as well as clergy living quarters. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/design_2-1.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, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/design_3-1.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, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/design_4-1.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, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/building_1-1.html Expected be the first LEED Platinum skyscraper, the 945foot 288meter tall Bank of America Tower is located at 42nd Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan, opposite Bryant Park. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/building_2-1.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, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/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, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/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, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/environment_1-1.html Renzo Piano demonstrates a mastery of light throughout his work. At the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, he exhibits the same care lighting a museum of the natural world as he has in lighting some of the world's finest art collections. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/environment_2-1.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, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/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, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1119/culture_1-1.html