http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 02 Dec 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/2009/1202/news_2-1.html A utility plant stands in glass at the edge of the University of Chicago campus, the geometric tangle of its technical systems revealed inside the radiused crystalline form. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/news_3-1.html The rectangular volume of Kroon Hall by Michael Hopkins wears one great roof, pitched up to a broadly curving ridgeline. This new home for Yale University's School of Forestry Environmental Studies in New Haven, Connecticut, achieves both a welcoming form and a high level of sustainable design. Designed by Hopkins Architects of London, with Centerbrook Architects and Planners as executive architect, Kroon Hall is expected to earn a Platinum LEED certification. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/news_4-1.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. Numerous landslides destroyed wide swaths of mountain habitat, caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, and downed an estimated 140,000 truckloads of timber 151; much of it on land owned by the Weyerhaeuser Company, the state's largest private timberland owner. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/news_5-1.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, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/news_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/design_1-1.html Walking or driving past the new Step Up on Fifth project in downtown Santa Monica, California, one could mistake the colorful building 8212; with its front facade of yellow, white, and purple metal panels 8212; for a contemporary art center or a fashionable condominium. The mixeduse residential building in the heart of this affluent, picturesque city was actually built to serve people suffering from mental illness and homelessness. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/design_2-1.html Zaha Hadid was asked to design the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany 2005, described as the "nerve center of the whole factory complex," subsequent to an April 2002 competition she won, when the layout of adjacent manufacturing buildings had already been decided. Suppliers chosen for the rest of the factory provided many prefabricated elements, in harmony with the "industrial approach to office spaces" decided by BMW. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/design_3-1.html The Connecticut Science Center is a new architectural showpiece in the city of Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. The design expresses themes that have been part of Cesar Pelli's oeuvre for many years: the importance of public space and its role in the city. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/design_4-1.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, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/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 fifth in a series about antiquated structural systems that can be adapted or reanalyzed for safe reuse. 8212;Editor Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/tools_1-1.html Projects recognized by Bentley Systems in their 2009 Be Inspired Awards include a bridge in Vietnam, a light rail system in Arizona, roofs in Worcester and Wimbledon, and the modernization of Chicago's O'Hare Airport. In this annual program, Bentley highlights outstanding examples of its software in use on infrastructure projects of all kinds around the world. This year's program includes awards in 17 categories, from buildings and roads to team coordination. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/tools_2-1.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, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/environment_1-1.html In midOctober 2009, twenty teams of engineering and architecture students erected houses on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the biennial Solar Decathlon green building contest. After spending two years designing and building cuttingedge solar houses, the teams 8212; mostly from North America 8212; sought the designation of "most attractive, effective, and energyefficient" for their structures. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/environment_2-1.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, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/environment_3-1.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, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/culture_1-1.html As we face up to the needs of climate protection over the next few years, we'll see that the decadeslong trend of steadily increasing automobile vehicle miles traveled VMT in the U.S. will be reversed for decades to come.Contemplating a nation, and ultimately a world, with declining total VMT, it's increasingly clear that henceforth, most construction of new auto infrastructure 151; almost any new lanemiles of highway, for instance 151; represents soonstranded investment, at best.The parking garage may be an outstanding exception. As U.S. communities transition toward the more mixeduse, closerin, denser development patterns that will support our restless lifestyles with less driving, "structured parking" can help finesse the fact that most of us will still be using cars for many years to come. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/culture_2-1.html Since 2000, Zaha Hadid has become one of the most successful, recognized and prolific architects working today. In 2004, she won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered by many to be the discipline's highest honor. Her face has become familiar to millions on the pages of fashion magazines as well as on those of the more specialized publications on architecture. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1202/culture_2-1.html