http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 17 Dec 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/2008/1217/news_1-1.html Built in the 1950s, Woodway Residence north of Seattle was reimagined for a young family by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Their intervention adds transparency and light, and takes better advantage of the home's picturesque wooded site. It was recently recognized by AIA Seattle. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/news_3-1.html For a Chicago house they call Case Study 1875, the architects collaborated with engineers and fabricators to develop a skin thermally isolated from the structure, allowing an experience of indooroutdoor connection without great loss of heat during the cold Illinois winters. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/news_4-1.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, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/news_5-1.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, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/news_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/design_1-1.html In New Mexico, sandstone walls, granite boulders cracked by tree roots, and timeblurred ruins of past civilizations all rise against a cold cobalt sky 151; variegated results of sun, wind, culture, and geology. Architect Antoine Predock cites such elements of the U.S. Southwest as influences on his design of the University of New Mexico UNM School of Architecture and Planning in Albuquerque. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/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, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/design_3-1.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, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/building_1-1.html Expected to 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, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/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, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/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, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/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, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/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, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/culture_1-1.html Nestled in the hills northwest of Beijing, a lesserknown attraction vies for attention with a welltouristed section of China's Great Wall: eleven ultramodern villas, each designed by a top architect from China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, or Singapore. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/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 Dec 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1217/culture_2-1.html