http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 12 Aug 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/2009/0812/news_1-1.html When Nanette and Jerry Stump bought a wooded property in Evansville, Indiana, to build an accessible retirement home, they turned to a young architect fresh out of school: their son. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/news_3-1.html For its new northeastern branch, the Ann Arbor District Library asked inFORM studio to design a sustainable building that would promote observation of and respect for its natural surroundings. The resulting Traverwood Branch Library traces a narrow L shape on the corner of a triangular lot, treading lightly on its wooded site while also engaging the street edge. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/news_4-1.html It's important to "get things right" when a new building is constructed. More so than perhaps anything else we create, new buildings will be with us for a very long time. The greenhouse gas capandtrade section of the WaxmanMarkey climate and energy bill gets most of the attention, as it should, but the bill has many other provisions, some of which are directly important to the building industry. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/news_5-1.html Buffalo Bayou flows through downtown Houston, Texas, under a tangle of freeways and bridges on its way to Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Landscape architects SWA Group reenvisioned a neglected 1.2mile 1.9kilometer length of bayou front, transforming it into pedestrianfriendly parkland with improved floodwater conveyance. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/news_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/design_1-1.html Renzo Piano is known for his finely tuned designs, especially for a refined talent in dovetailing elegant new architecture with an existing context, playing on contextual strengths without duplicating the neighbors. He has achieved this feat once again at the Art Institute of Chicago, where a lightstudded new museum wing by Piano opened in May 2009. The Art Institute's new addition is laudable in its intelligent siting, sensitive scale, urban presence, and manipulation of light. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/design_2-1.html At the edge of the Pike Street and Pine Street corridor in downtown Seattle is a public transitoriented neighborhood populated by mixeduse developments. The 40by80foot 12.2by24.4meter site for the 1310 E. Union Lofts was an infill midblock plot, smaller than a typical singlefamily residential lot in Seattle. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/design_3-1.html A giant blue cuboid has sprung up in Copenhagen, Denmark. This striking scaffolding box wrapped in translucent blue fabric is the new Copenhagen Concert Hall. During the day, the building's blue skin largely conceals the faceted forms within, with peeledback areas on the sides of the steelframed box showing that the outside wrapping is more than just an imposing blue billboard. From the right angle, visitors can see vague outlines of the building forms beneath the translucent textile. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/building_1-1.html "I have decided to make the complete turn." Euphoric over seeing his still underconstruction house rotate its planned 180 degrees for the first time, the Italian civil engineer Angelo Invernizzi quickly wrote a colleague that the final version had to go all the way around. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/building_2-1.html Innovative architecture often requires equally innovative engineering and technologies for successful realization. An outstanding example of design and engineering interdependence can be seen in the Dallas City Hall, a landmark building completed in 1977, designed with daring vision by one of the world's leading architectural teams, I.M. Pei amp; Partners. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/tools_1-1.html Dr. Don McLean, founder and CEO of Integrated Environmental Solutions IES, believes every architect should have the ability to understand the environmental impact of his or her building design. To realize this vision, McLean is prepared to give architects free access to some of the most basic features of his company's Virtual Environment software suite. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/environment_1-1.html When the Forest Stewardship Council rolled out the world's first "green" wood certification label in 1993, the organization quickly rallied bigbox retailers like Home Depot to the cause. The largest doityourself home improvement chain in the United States became a founding member of the FSC and publicly announced that it would soon ensure all of its products came from certified sources. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/environment_2-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, Inside and outside, this building comes across initially as nice, but seemingly a bit buttoned down, handsome yet perhaps a bit conventional in affect. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/environment_3-1.html The days of making the business case for sustainable design, or even explaining what LEED means and why it is important, have passed. Today's green building challenges have moved to more complicated areas of policy 8212; permitting and politics 8212; and the motivating sense of competition to be "the greenest." Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/culture_1-1.html The recent threat of demolition to Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon, one of the city's most visible architectural landmarks, galvanized local architects and historic preservation advocates. But the city's record on historic preservation, in terms of both involvement and actually preserving buildings, is spotty. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/culture_2-1.html The perimeter of Memorial Coliseum bounds the equivalent area of four city blocks in Portland, Oregon, yet the entire envelope of the building, designed by Skidmore, Owings amp; Merrill, stands on just four columns. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/culture_3-1.html Visiting Fuller's house today requires a 14 ticket. In a landscape packed with planes, trains, and vehicles of all kinds, the sparkling body of the Dymaxion House makes a striking appearance. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/culture_3-1.html