http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ArchitectureWeek Editorial System editor@architectureweek.com editor@architectureweek.com http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/news_2-1.html In creating the Horno3: Museo Del Acero in Monterrey, Mexico, Grimshaw Architects converted an abandoned 1960s steel blast furnace facility into a museum of industrial history. The architects balanced historic preservation with reinvention and expansion to establish a dramatic new landmark. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/news_3-1.html The 2008 Build Boston convention and trade show seemed, on the surface, to be its usual hustling, bustling, active marketplace of hundreds of educational workshops, dozens of receptions and affiliated conferences, and a convention floor full of product booths centered around the design and construction industry. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/news_4-1.html In locations from the far reaches of the Northern Territory to suburban New South Wales, Australian architect Glenn Murcutt has created modernist houses remarkable for their supreme sensitivity to climate, surroundings, and environment. A true sole practitioner, Murcutt chooses mostly to design singlefamily dwellings, and only in Australia. The resulting structures attest to the depth of attention he affords each project. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/design_1-1.html Since Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects was founded, the Seattle firm has sought to integrate contemporary architectural forms into the natural settings of the Pacific Northwest, employing a combination of sensitivity and efficiency that can be recognized as sustainable design. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/design_2-1.html The new Swatch flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district immediately stands out from the surrounding highend fashion boutiques on this densely packed street. There is no doorway, no visible sign, and no glass storefront. Instead, a towering fourstory void in the streetscape seems to signify a civicscale entry. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/design_3-1.html The Yale Art and Architecture building in New Haven, Connecticut, designed by legendary architect Paul Rudolph and completed in 1963, is now close to how its architect intended it to be, after a 45year journey through celebration, fire, indifference, and abuse. One of the most iconic architecture school buildings in the world, the object of a lovehate relationship with those who have known it, has found new repose amid a complex mixture of adoration, restoration, and exhilaration. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/design_4-1.html Durability through transformation. That was the architects' vision for the DOK Library Concept Center in Delft, the Netherlands. The multimedia library occupies part of the overhauled Hoogovenpand, a 1970s mixeduse building facing a public square. Architects Liesbeth van der Pol of Dok architects no relation and Aat Vos of Aequo BV revitalized the gloomy building, creating the library space among existing commercial and residential functions. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/building_1-1.html Owners and developers are increasingly opting, for many reasons, to convert existing buildings for new uses. If no drawings are available for an older building, a structural engineer will often turn to industry resources to try and determine the nature and capacity of the existing structural system. Available information is then used to confirm that the facility meets the current building code requirements or to determine what strengthening or remediation must occur to accommodate the new use intended by the architect or owner. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/building_2-1.html The EDAR, a fourwheeled combination cart and sleeping unit created for use by people experiencing homelessness, is beginning to make its presence known in the greater Los Angeles area. Designed by Eric Lindeman and Jason Zasa while still in school at Pasadena Art Center College of Design, this modified shopping cart was their solution to a problem posed by local philanthropist Peter Samuelson: improve upon the cardboard box by designing a mobile, singleperson shelter. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/building_3-1.html The new medical clinic and community center in the Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia recalls a longhouse, the traditional winter lodge of the Mi'kmaq. Sustainably harvested spruce poles, six to eight inches 15 to 20 centimeters in diameter, are bent and lashed together at the tops. Like a giant wooden model of a whale's ribcage, clad with rows of oversized spruce shingles, the peaked frame is an adaptation of traditional Native bentwood construction. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/tools_1-1.html In his keynote speech for Autodesk University 2008, Tom Kelley noted that the more time you spend in an industry, the more expertise you develop; but at the same time, you begin to screen out information. He suggested that in these times of economic downturn, companies should take a more anthropological view and look beyond what they already know. Kelley quoted Marcel Proust: "The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes." Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/environment_1-1.html Attendees of the 2008 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo had good reason to be excited. Since the conference's debut in 2002 in Austin, Texas, when just over 4,000 people gathered to discuss the importance of sustainable design, Greenbuild has expanded dramatically. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/environment_2-1.html There are numerous benefits to fusing sustainable development and urban development concepts. Moreover, pedestrianoriented, urbanistproject approaches have been vigorously embraced by many environmental groups. It is not, however, intuitively obvious to everyone why highdensity, extensively hardscaped projects would be good for the environment. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/culture_1-1.html Many wayfinding designers are baby boomers whose political and environmental consciousness was informed by the futile Vietnam conflict and subsequent social ferment of the 1970s. Motivated by a sense of public communal mission and zeal for creative experimentation, they gradually moved the wayfinding field into the 21st century, building upon the foundation of experience established by earlier design pioneers over the course of the previous century. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/culture_2-1.html About 15 years ago, I met an uncommon and fascinating man. His solid reputation as a scientist and researcher preceded him, a living encyclopedia on plants worldwide 8212; growing in severe and difficult conditions, deprived of light in the shadows of tall trees where, in contrast to the old saying, there is always something growing, or deprived of nutrients among rocks... Here was a man who was familiar with strolling the Amazon forests and riding under the canopy on a raft. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/culture_2-1.html