http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ArchitectureWeek Editorial System editor@architectureweek.com editor@architectureweek.com http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/news_2-1.html The Richmond Center for Visual Arts in Kalamazoo is striking, with building forms tied to its arts hub functions. Copper cladding, curving in two dimensions, wraps the lobby and front exhibit areas, setting off a large glazed facade section that allows natural light deep into the space. The lightness of the glass and copper, and of zinc that wraps the lecture areas, contrasts with the visual weight of the precast concrete panels cladding the rest of the building. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/news_3-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, As I walked through west Chelsea, near the Hudson River shoreline of Manhattan, a palpable sense of change was afoot 8212; especially striking considering the impact of the recession on new construction across the nation. Among an aging urban fabric of midrise warehouse and residential buildings, many in various stages of renovation and repair, several new projects stood out. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/design_1-1.html The first thing that strikes a visitor to the new Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas, is that the building doesn't look like a theater at all. It's a basic box elongated upward. The typical theater configuration, with an auditorium surrounded by a public lobby and backofhouse support spaces, has been completely reshuffled by architects REX and OMA into a vertical stack. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/design_2-1.html The remote Stone Creek Camp compound near Bigfork, Montana, is entered gradually by descending a narrow gravel road through the deep vegetation of a northern primordial forest. About a mile into the pilgrimage, the forest opens to a dramatic expanse of land, sky, and water. Flathead Lake reaches into the distance. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/design_3-1.html Situated on a vineyard in the flatlands of the Napa Valley, in St. Helena, California, the Lodi Bunkhouse's narrow parcel parallels the Napa River and abandoned Southern Pacific rail line. The bunkhouse's planning, fenestration, and assembly reverberate with the site's inherent orders of directionality and scale. Functioning as an artist's retreat, the program includes open studios, communal domestic zones, and individual bunkrooms. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/design_4-1.html In this glimpse at the Tokyo architecture firm Atelier BowWow, Terunobu Fujimori describes the studio's special approach to space, and the architects themselves outline three of their amazing houses. 8212;Editor Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/design_5-1.html The client for this house on Cape Cod's Crystal Lake sought a modest and sweet country abode to replace a simple old summer cottage that sat between beautiful gardens and a sweeping lawn leading to narrow frontage on the freshwater lake. The pastoral site and picturesque gardens suggested English countryside cottages to the architects, Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders, and this was an image that captured the client's imagination. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/design_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/building_1-1.html 10 Hills Place was just another nondescript retail and office compound on the narrow offshoots of Oxford Street in Central London. Wrapped in a sleek, sculptural, and amazing new skin, the complex new transformation by Amanda Levete Architects ALA has created a larger, more comfortable, and betterperforming building, from the actual built fabric of that preexisting jumble. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/building_2-1.html It's not often that an architect gets to add to a building that he or she worked on years before, especially after a span of 50 years. But that's the case for the new expansion of Yale's David S. Ingalls Rink, originally designed by Eero Saarinen in the early 1950s. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/building_3-1.html It may seem counterintuitive, but an ornate floor that runs all the way to the walls of a room can often look less impressive than one surrounded by a simple border. When you walk into a room with an ornate floor like this, no hierarchy exists to tell the eye where to look and the floor can start to seem almost ordinary. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/tools_1-1.html With so much emphasis placed on Building Information Modeling BIM lately, the capitalized Information sometimes threatens to overshadow building aesthetics. But in the latest release of Revit, Autodesk is starting to restore the balance. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/environment_1-1.html News flash: The distance between a residential development location and the metropolitan center is one of the strongest factors influencing how much residents will drive. The density of a neighborhood, in and of itself, turns out to be the weakest of the commonly considered "D" variables, key dimensions of the built environment that influence how 151; and how much 151; people move around. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/culture_1-1.html Coney Island, New York, an area once known for its vibrant and exciting rides, restaurants, and games, is today marred by blocks of blighted buildings. Although some important revitalization has created the new Luna Park and the Brooklyn Cyclones MCU Park and saved landmarks such as the Parachute Jump and Child's Restaurant on the boardwalk, the landscape is still dotted with fast food joints and convenience stores that are a far cry from what Coney Island once was. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/culture_2-1.html There are countless marketing and public relationsrelated books, web sites, and articles online and in print that can help the individual interiordesign business owner approach marketing, from something as simple as Public Relations for Dummies to more designoriented sources. Likewise, there are hundreds of ways 8212; some free, some reasonably inexpensive, and some extremely expensive 8212; to promote a brand or business. Finally, there are many independent consultants to assist in the PR process. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/culture_3-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, It was a hot day and a long bus ride from Midtown Manhattan to Ewing Township, New Jersey, to get a sneak peek of the restoration in progress of Louis Kahn's Bath House, forever geographically misplaced near Trenton. Two dozen or so intrepid architecture and design journalists, including yours truly, munched on box lunches and watched My Architect on the bus's overhead TV monitors as we rumbled down the Jersey Turnpike toward one of Kahn's pivotal projects from the early 1950s. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/culture_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/culture_4-1.html In May 1895, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, best known for Central Park in New York, wrote in Engineering Magazine about city parks, or "pleasuregrounds." In How to Create a Park, Olmsted offered suggestions on park siting and organization. Here, he continues with more detailed discussion of park design. 8212;nbsp;Editor Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0915/culture_4-1.html