http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 21 Oct 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/2009/1021/news_1-1.html On a difficult corner site along a busy street, Maggie's Centre in London provides an uplifting sanctuary in which cancer patients and their families and friends can receive support and information. The building's bold orange masonry wall beckons visitors into daylit spaces shielded from the street beneath a floating roof canopy. This humane health support facility designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners has received the Stirling Prize for 2009. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/news_2-1.html Late in 2007, stormdriven rains in southwestern Washington sent floodwater, mud, and tons of logging debris crashing into homes and farmland downstream of the Chehalis River. The floods caused massive erosion of mountain habitat and hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, and downed an estimated 140,000 truckloads of timber much of it on land owned by the Weyerhaeuser Company, the state's largest private timberland owner. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/news_3-1.html More than 30 years ago, as an art student in Baltimore, George Holback would occasionally convince his brother, a police officer, to help him gain entry to the city's vacant American Brewery then called the Wiessner Brewery. Once inside the unusual 1887 industrial structure, with its three dramatic pagodalike towers, Holback would draw or take pictures; he cites it as inspiration for becoming an architect. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/news_4-1.html On a former farm outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Indian Community School aims to connect Native American students with their cultural heritage through both curriculum and setting. Antoine Predock Architect PC designed a building to both foster and exemplify that cultural and environmental awareness. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/news_5-1.html When Providence Health amp; Services hired Mahlum to design a new clinic on the north side of Portland, Oregon, the architects saw a familiar formula, and looked beyond it. "All the rest of their clinics have red brick," recalls Anne Schopf, a principal at Mahlum. "We really wanted to create a new face for them, a new attitude." Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/news_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/design_1-1.html The Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in Nagasaki, Japan, is one of Kengo Kuma's most successful designs in an urban setting. In this project, a small canal with flanking pedestrian promenades runs between two interconnected sections of the complex, bringing a part of the nearby sea, the port area, and the public realm of the city into the domain of the museum. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/design_2-1.html From the outside, Oslash;restad College in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a simple fivestory cuboid. But the conventional exterior form conceals a radical openplan interior. Designed by Danish architects 3XN, the experimental secondary school seems to embody all kinds of things that a school typically isn't. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/design_3-1.html Though surely not as great a source of significant contemporary architecture as cultural institutions, places of worship 8212; in one form or another 8212; continue to generate invention and cuttingedge design. The reuse of places of religion for other purposes sometimes poses the problem of deconsecration, with the reticence some users may have when asked to dine or party in a former church. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/design_4-1.html The city of Lecce, located in the southern heel of the Italian peninsula, is associated with highly ornate baroque palaces and churches, their facades overlaid with elaborate decorative carvings in the local limestone. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/building_1-1.html Focusing on structural engineering issues involved in the repair, restoration, or adaptive reuse of older buildings for which drawings no longer exist, this article is the fourth in a series about antiquated structural systems that can be adapted or reanalyzed for safe reuse. 8212;Editor Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/building_2-1.html For decades, the lower level of the Redpath Library Building at McGill University languished as a drab, dimly lit, compartmentalized box within which books and students were stowed. That changed when the Montreal school revamped some of that standard institutional library space into the Cyberthegrave;que 8212; an open, stylish, technologycentered learning space that has become one of the university's most popular study areas. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/building_3-1.html Two houses in east Australia exhibit powerful simplicity in form, space, and circulation, while each effectively addresses the specifics of its contrasting site, seaside or subdivision. Designed by two different Brisbane firms, each lead by young principals, both of these houses show environmentally conscious responses to the subtropical climate of the southeastern Queensland area, with warm, humid summers and mild winters. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/tools_1-1.html Google SketchUp and AutoCAD can be used synergistically to generate detailed site models. The programs are highly compatible; AutoCAD lines can be transformed into SketchUp geometry. Utilizing 2D AutoCAD plans as a starting point for SketchUp geometry is arguably the fastest way to generate a detailed site plan model. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/environment_1-1.html At a Clean Energy Economy Forum at the White House on October 7, 2009, J. Wayne Leonard, the chairman and CEO of Entergy Corporation, a Fortune 500 energy company based in New Orleans, spoke about the urgency of addressing climate change. 8212;Editor Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/environment_2-1.html When Portola Valley, California sought an updated, seismically safer civic complex, the existing mid20thcentury woodandconcreteblock campus was deconstructed and its parts repurposed, along with other salvaged components, to create a sustainable new facility on another portion of the site. The resulting Portola Valley Town Center is targeted for LEED Platinum certification and was named one of the Top Ten Green Projects for 2009 by the AIA Committee on the Environment COTE. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/environment_3-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, Seeing them as pure object form in the landscape, a poignant aesthetic of contrasts entwines these manmade elements with their landscape 151; muscular diversion canal snaking improbably high along the canyon walls, diminished river following below 151; huge steel penstock tubes dropping hundreds of feet from some apparently random spot on the hillside 151; the two round generators themselves, framed by their own dedicated traveling crane, bridging over the outwash beneath, loud rushing to rejoin the native waters. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/environment_4-1.html In the American South, a region that tends to laud its heritage, modern can be a hard sell. A residential client often hears neighborhood fears that a new modern dwelling will look "chilly" and won't fit in. RainShine House by architect Robert M. Cain answers those concerns. Built near downtown Decatur, Georgia, part of metro Atlanta, the LEED Platinumcertified home is bright, welcoming, treads lightly on its site, and respects its neighbors. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/environment_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/culture_1-1.html The overwhelming cultural and architectural diversity of the African continent is united by the shared experience of wholesale exploitation and colonization by outside forces. Though many world regions grapple with the complications of postcolonialism, this problem is especially acute in subSaharan Africa, where this legacy pervades all contemporary experiences, including heritage conservation. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/culture_2-1.html In April, about two weeks before his 66th birthday, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor was named the 2009 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Zumthor is not a household name, as many other Pritzker winners have been 8212; architects such as Gehry, Meier, and Pei. Even many architects haven't heard of him. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/culture_2-1.html