ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 399
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Mon Oct 6 05:44:16 PDT 2008
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BRICK AWARDS 2008
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The Durham County Regional Public Library in Durham,
North Carolina, takes advantage of brick for
environmental benefit.
Brick's thermal mass improves the energy efficiency of
the LEED Silver-certified facility, helping to keep
energy use 35 percent lower than that of comparable
conventionally designed buildings. The brick was
procured locally, and made from raw materials extracted
regionally.
Designed by The Freelon Group, the library received one
of the Brick in Architecture Awards for 2008.
The Brick Industry Association's annual program
recognizes outstanding creative and technical uses of
clay brick. "Best-in-class" honors went to six projects,
including the library, which was recognized in the
governmental category. Other recipients included
religious, educational, commercial, landscape, and
healthcare projects.
Green Library
The Durham County Library combines brick and glass to
create an energy-efficient structure with extensive
daylighting. Heavy masonry walls define a series of
layers that organize the one-story, 25,000-square-foot
(2,300-square-meter) building and extend it into the
landscape. Glazed walls at either end of the open
reading room transmit light and connect patrons with the
outdoors. A taller glass volume marks the main entrance.
Over 75 percent of occupied areas receive daylight, and
90 percent have views to perimeter windows.
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Wiki Design Studio - Part One
by Kevin Matthews and David Owen
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While the most common type of page in the Archiplanet
all-buildings wiki presents an individual building, the
huge flexibility of the wiki structure provides for
support for almost any kind of documentation -
especially if it involves groupwork - and this
particularly includes the architecture school design
studio.
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People and Places
by Nancy Novitski
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Perkins + Will in Maple Grove, Minnesota - Stanton
Williams in Berlin, Germany - HMS Architects in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana - Highland Associates in New York, New
York - John Ochsendorf in Chicago, Illinois - S333
Architecture + Urbanism in Plymouth, England, United
Kingdom - Race Cottam in London, England, United
Kingdom - Ofis Arhitekti in Nova Gorica, Slovenia -
Cope Linder Architects in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Douglas Fredrikson Architects in Indian Wells,
California - Ellerbe Becket in Providence, Rhode Island
- HOK and Studio JTA in New York, New York - Parallax
Associates in Chatsworth, California...
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