ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 346

Fri Aug 24 12:33:15 PDT 2007

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ELECTRIC SHED
    by ArchitectureWeek
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    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0822/environment_1-1.html

	Coney Island's Stillwell Avenue Terminal is the largest
	above-ground station in New York City's subway system.
	After years of deferred maintenance, the 90-year-old
	station was redesigned by New York City Transit's
	in-house design staff. The resulting station, completed
	in 2006, is about 50 percent new construction, including
	a new train shed that covers the station's four platforms
	and eight tracks.

	Kiss + Cathcart, Architects of Brooklyn designed this
	shed roof, which employs modular photovoltaic panels as
	its primary finish material. The train shed project was a
	winner of the 2006 EPA/New York City Green Building
	Competition, and was chosen the 2007 Renewable Energy
	Project of the Year by the New York Chapter of the
	Association of Energy Engineers. It also received an
	Honorable Mention in the AIA Committee on the Environment
	Top Ten Green Project Awards for 2007.

	The redesigned train station celebrates Coney Island's
	character and history and has catalyzed a regeneration of
	the area. It provides passengers with a grand sense of
	arrival, and the articulation of the roof structure
	recalls the neo-Victorian vernacular of Coney Island's
	amusement areas, while the high-tech photovoltaic system
	looks to the future needs of the terminal. Old structures
	such as the Wonder Wheel stand across the street from the
	terminal, framed in view by the train shed structure.
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Santiago Solitaire
    by Michael J. Crosbie
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0822/design_1-1.html

	A jewelry shop designed as a jewel box is certainly not a
	new idea, but the designers of the Joyeria SH2K shop in
	Santiago, Chile, have taken it to a new level. Architects
	Paola Kaiser and Cristobal Gross have created a ribbon of
	concrete and glass, crystal and chrome, as a cool,
	elegant setting for the display of jewels.
	... full story continues online (10 images, two free):
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People and Places
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	Chicago, Illinois - RBF Consulting in Palm Desert,
	California - NADC in Troy, New York - Thom Mayne,
	Morphosis & Gruzen Samton LLP in New York, New York - BC
	Architects AIA, Inc. in West Palm Beach, Florida - Groupe
	Cardinal Hardy in Montreal, Canada - DeStefano +
	Partners, Ltd. & Gonzalez Partners in Chicago, Illinois
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This Week's Quiz -	
	In 1915, the Otis Elevator Company developed an automatic
	leveling system for its elevators in response to which of
	the following?
	A. A personal injury lawsuit brought by the mayor of New
	York City, whose wife stumbled and cracked her skull
	while exiting an elevator that was 2 inches lower than
	floor level.
	B. The U.S. Navy's need to roll wheeled munitions carts
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	"Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at
	solving long-term social and ecological problems. This is
	impossible in a world where short-term profit for the
	'haves' is seen as a goal. At the expense of developing
	more efficient technology for the 'have-nots.'"
	* What influential Pritzker Prize-winning British
	architect, noted for high-tech designs, made this
	statement over 25 years ago?
	* Hint: This architect partnered with another noted
	designer from 1971 to 1977. Together they created an
	important museum in Paris, named for a famous French
	leader.
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