ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 330

Thu Apr 19 16:27:18 PDT 2007

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IN MEMORIAM
    by Kevin Matthews
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	On behalf of everyone at ArchitectureWeek, and the entire
	extended design and building community, I want to express
	our deepest sympathies to all the victims of Monday's
	tragedy in the Blue Ridge Mountains, at the Virginia
	Polytechnic Institute and State University, shattered by
	the twisted violence of a broken soul: stricken
	survivors, families, friends, witnesses, associates.
	Saturated, overflowing, or washed distantly with grief,
	all who know of this tragedy are touched through with its
	sadness.
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AIA Housing Awards 2007
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	The American Institute of Architects has announced 19
	recipients in its 2007 Housing Awards Program. Within
	this diverse collection of multifamily projects and
	single-family houses are common themes of economy,
	sustainability, and sensitivity to urban and
	environmental context. Collectively, these buildings
	represent the variety of ways in which Americans, rich
	and poor, are being newly housed.

	New this year is the award category "Special Housing,"
	recognizing excellence in the design of housing types
	such as single-room occupancy residences, independent
	living for the disabled, residential rehabilitation
	programs, and domestic violence shelters.

	One of these is a 40,000-square-foot (3700-square-meter)
	Regional Homeless Center designed by Jeffrey M. Kalban &
	Associates Architecture, Inc. for the organization People
	Assisting the Homeless (PATH), in Los Angeles. The
	architects renovated an abandoned three-story 1960s
	office building and transformed it into a colorful,
	cheerful, noninstitutional-seeming facility.

	The building was designed with sensitivity to the
	occupants' personal situations, avoiding any structural
	elements that could contribute to aggression, insecurity,
	or isolation, instead promoting dignity, new social
	relationships, and hope. "This is an amazing
	transformation of a fairly brutal building which enhances
	its environment and makes it a welcome addition to the
	neighborhood," jury members said.
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Working Light
    by Debra Moffitt
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	Imagine rushing through an underground subway station and
	suddenly looking up into the sky to realize that the
	earth has turned a few degrees and the weather has
	changed. This is the reaction that architect and artist
	James Carpenter wants to create with his daylight-bending
	projects.
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Sweetwater Creek
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	Like many other buildings that receive the coveted
	Platinum-level LEED certification, the Sweetwater Creek
	State Park Visitors Center, near Lithia Springs, Georgia,
	features numerous energy conservation measures and has a
	roof full of photovoltaic cells to generate electricity.
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	were posted on a sign over the home of which famous
	architect: Frank Lloyd Wright, Andrea Palladio, Thomas
	Jefferson, or Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe?
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