ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 350

Fri Sep 21 00:57:47 PDT 2007

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PLATINUM B-SIDE
    by ArchitectureWeek
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	Natural daylight, cooling and ventilating efficiencies,
	and low-impact material selections helped add up to a
	USGBC LEED Platinum certification for Building B of the
	new Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University
	(ASU). The first LEED Platinum building in Arizona joined
	the elite green ranks of fewer than 60 LEED
	Platinum-certified buildings worldwide.

	Together with its slightly earlier LEED Gold certified
	neighbor, Building A, this award-winning biological
	research laboratory building designed by a team of Gould
	Evans and Lord, Aeck & Sargent, provides a bright new
	doublet of style and efficiency for the Pac-10 university
	campus.

	And the resulting composition of transparencies and
	deflections, sheer glass expanses tempered, animated,
	warmed, and humanized by wood-clad, independently
	rotating louvers, is as beautiful as it is
	environmentally effective.
	... full story continues online (10 images, two free):
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New Architects of China
    by Jo Baker
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	As China's share of the global limelight grows brighter,
	it's little surprise that architecture has become one of
	the country's greatest public relations tools. Signature
	buildings thrust up all over the place, brash new
	developments blanket the countryside, and developers'
	appetites for innovation are hitting extremes. China has
	always been very much about "face," and with both the
	Beijing 2008 Olympics and the Shanghai 2010 World Expo on
	the way, that face is getting a lot of attention.
	... full story continues online (12 images, two free):
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0919/design_1-1.html

People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
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	Studio Daniel Libeskind in Dublin, Ireland -- Foster +
	Partners in New Haven, Connecticut -- Anshen + Allen in
	Burlingame, California -- I.M. Pei and Pei Partnership
	Architects in New York, New York -- Gluckman Mayner
	Architects in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Bjarke Ingels
	Group in Helsingor, Denmark -- Francis Cauffman Architects
	in New York, New York -- Tate Snyder Kimsey Architects in
	Las Vegas, Nevada -- Ratcliff in El Cerrito, California --
	Cambridge Seven Associates and Alexandra Champalimaud &
	Associates in Boston, Massachusetts...
	... short stories online:
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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
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This Week's Quiz -	
	House sizes around the world have been increasing even as
	family sizes have been shrinking. As of the mid-1990s,
	the average family size in the United States was four,
	according to a report from the United Nations, while the
	average size of a new U.S. home was 1,600 square feet
	(150 square meters). At that time, only one of the
	following had a larger average new house size. Was it
	Japan, Kuwait, Israel, or Great Britain?
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Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	The first exterior glass elevator built in the United
	States was for the El Cortez Hotel in San Diego,
	California. Dubbed the Starlight Express, the elevator
	carried passengers to the twelfth-floor Starlight Room
	Restaurant. Was this elevator constructed in 1938, 1956,
	or 1967?
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