ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 359

Fri Nov 30 11:42:45 PST 2007

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MILWAUKEE'S URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER
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	The Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee simply radiates
	with a special kind of wholistic beauty.  It's a charming, 
	efficient, respectful, and delightful structure, and more.  
	It's a community building whose building has helped build 
	a community.

	Designed by Kubala Washatko Architects in relatively
	close collaboration with client and constructors, the
	four-story metal-sided timber frame building, bedecked
	with generous overhangs, wrap-around porches, and a
	large rooftop photovoltaic array, sits at the
	intersection of a dense city neighborhood with several
	acres of once-decrepit Frederick Law Olmstead-designed
	park land, which the Urban Ecology Center is helping to
	rehabilitate.

	Inside the building, the sense given by large open
	floors around a central brick-chimneyed atrium, exposed
	structure, high ceilings, and frank natural materials -
	including atrium balusters with bark intact - coalesces
	around the impression of a classic park lodge, daylit,
	comfortable, and rustically elegant.

	In fact the center functions in part as a kind of park
	lodge in the city.  Specifically serving the residents
	in a two-mile radius around their east-side Milwaukee,
	Wisconsin location, the 20,000-square-foot 
	(1,900-square-meter) Urban Ecology Center building 
	supports a multifaceted outdoor recreation program for 
	urban youth as well as science education, accredited 
	research, citizen science, environmental appreciation, 
	and green building. 
        ... full story continues online (20 images, four free):
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GreenBuild 2007 Conference
    by Brian Libby
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1128/news_1-1.html

	More than two hours before the 9 a.m. opening session
	for Greenbuild was set to begin in Chicago's McCormick
	Place conference center, that largest of U.S. convention
	centers (in square footage) was already bursting at the
	seams. If you were looking to register for the
	conference, the line might be negotiated by lunchtime.
	If coffee tempted, the line at the in-house Starbucks
	snaked all the way into a sky bridge around the corner
	from the store.
        ... full story continues online (10 images, two free):
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People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
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	YRM in Bucharest, Romania - SB Architects in San Francisco,
	California - KTGY Group, Inc. in Los Angeles, California -
	Mouriz Salazar & Associates in Fort Lauderdale, Florida -
	Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Shenzhen, China -
	Arrowstreet in Somerville, Massachusetts - A69 Architects in
	Prague, Czech Republic - VTBS Architects in Denver, Colorado
	- Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel, Architects, PC in New York,
	New York - Leonardo Academy in Little Rock, Arkansas -
	Richard Snibbe, FAIA in San Francisco, California...
        ... short stories continue online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/1128/news_2-1.html

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     Angle-shingled roof with dormers (CR-028)
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	What is a "jack" rafter, what is a "roof tree," and what 
	would you call the shortest distance between two opposite 
	common rafter seats?
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	Of standard, modular, and Norman brick, which has the
	greatest volume?
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