ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 333

Thu May 10 12:22:23 PDT 2007

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AIA/UK DESIGN AWARDS 2007
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	The United Kingdom chapter of the American Institute of
	Architects has announced the recipients of its annual
	awards for design excellence. This awards program honors
	exemplary buildings by UK architects anywhere in the
	world and by architects of any nationality working within
	the United Kingdom.

	One of the three projects to receive top honors is The
	Collection in the medieval English town of Lincoln. The
	museum by Panter Hudspith Architects was lauded as a
	"beautiful sculptural piece, different and really
	beautifully detailed... almost baronial."

	The form of the 48,000-square-foot (4,500-square-meter)
	museum is a response to the character and scale of its
	surroundings. It forms a new public square that opens out
	onto Temple Gardens. The architects conceived it as a
	series of inhabited stone blocks, making a direct link to
	the rampart walls of the Bishop's Palace. A route through
	the heart of the museum site leads into the courtyard and
	establishes links within its neighborhood.
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New York Academy of Sciences
    by Michael J. Crosbie
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	When you hear the words "academy of sciences" what do you
	think of? Musty rooms with dark wood paneling and
	overstuffed furniture? Curio cabinets filled with
	microscopes and specimens in formaldehyde? This isn't the
	image that the New York Academy of Sciences wanted its
	headquarters, located in the new World Trade Center 7
	building, to project.
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New Sacred Space
    by Debra Moffitt
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	Chartres Cathedral in France is the "thought of the
	middle ages made visible," according to art historian,
	Emile Male. Through sculpture, stained glass windows, and
	high arches, it is understood as encapsulating an essence
	of the Christian spiritual mind of the time. Today, in an
	increasingly secularized world confronted with diversity,
	confusion, and a continued decline in church attendance,
	is there still a need for sacred architecture? If so,
	what is its contemporary expression?
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