ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 319
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Thu Jan 25 14:38:00 PST 2007
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STAL TRE HUS
by Lisa Ashmore
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An American caricature of a ski chalet has an A-frame
roof, enough timber to build a dozen houses, and a trophy
elk head over a stone fireplace. Defying this stereotype
is the "Stal Tre Hus" by architect Joel Sherman,
principal of JLS Design. With a name meaning "steel tree
house" in Norwegian, this house features a flat roof, a
steel structure, and neither elk head nor traditional
fireplace.
In response to a steep, narrow site near Lake Tahoe,
Nevada (elevation 6,300 feet, or 1920 meters) and the
hefty structural load from the annual snowfall of 30 to
40 feet (9 to 12 meters), Sherman has crafted a sturdy,
amply glazed house that rests on pillars straddling the
relatively undisturbed ground below.
With its abundance of double-glazed glass corners, the
house seems to float in a canopy of fir trees.
Contributing to its open feel are vertical
plaster-finished towers on which the two main floors
rest. The pillars not only support the house but also
pierce the interior, topping out at roof level.
Some trees nearly brush the house, thanks to a structure
that perches above the terrain instead of having
bulldozed it during construction. Too often, the
old-growth trees that inspire building in this area are
sacrificed in order to get a "dream home" built on a
flattened site.
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AIA Honors Leers Weinzapfel and Vietnam Memorial
by ArchitectureWeek
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The American Institute of Architects has announced the
recipients of two of its highest honors. The 2007 AIA
Architecture Firm Award has gone to the Boston-based
Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects (LWA) in
recognition of their history of design excellence. And
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., by
designer Maya Lin, was selected to receive the 2007 AIA
Twenty-five Year Award.
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ANDORRAN NATIONAL ARCHIVE COMPETITION
The Government of the Principality of Andorra is organizing an
international architectural competition for the new seat of the
Andorran National Archives and Cultural Center located in La
Massana, Andorra. The closing date for the preliminary competition
among architects wishing to present projects/proposals mainly on the
basis of their credentials is January 31, 2007, 8:00am US ET.
Telephone 1-212-750-8064
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Open Book
by Susan Smith
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The new home of the Bridge Academy, a secondary school in
a low-income area of Hackney, London, will be a complex
seven-story, terraced building, fitted into a relatively
small site. With a focus on mathematics and music, the
school is one of many specialist academies being built by
the British government. It is sponsored by UBS, a global
financial services firm.
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Postcard from Croatia and Montenegro
by Norma Comrada
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Dear ArchitectureWeek,
Only a few steps inside the old Croatian coastal city of
Trogir is a medieval maze of narrow streets that once
helped to thwart enemy attacks. People living here now
somehow accommodate their lives and front porches to a
newer sort of invasion ó hordes of tourists tromping
through, every day of every long summer.
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