Month: July 2010

Winners of the IIDA NY Lester Dundees Interior Design Competition include Bancolombia by IA Interior Architects, Commercial Over 50,000 SF; Fortune Global 500 Investment Center by Mancini Duffy, Commercial Under 50,000 SF; LIM College by Marner Architecture, Educational/Institutional; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center by Perkins Eastman, Healthcare; Morgans Hotel Group by Rockwell Group, Hospitality; Private Residence, Marina Towers, Beirut, Lebanon by Joe Serrins Studio, Residential; and Confidential Media Client by HLW International, Judge’s Award…

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has selected the recipients of its 2010 honors, including Achva Stein, FASLA, Professor and Director, CCNY Graduate Landscape Architecture program, who won the Community Service Award…

The 2010 Brooklyn Building Awards winners include: Atlantic Terminal by di Domenico + Partners, Civic and Institutional; IAVI Design & Development Laboratory by Perkins Eastman, Economic Development; Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion by hanrahanMeyers architects with Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, Educational; 274 Garfield PLacy by James R. Gainfort, AIA, Consulting Architect, Historic Preservation; Remains Lighting by Just Architecture, Industrial; Toren by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, National Grid Award for Energy Efficiency; Brooklyn Bowl by NY Design Architects with Tristan Steinberg Design, Retail; Schermerhorn House by Polshek Partnership Architects, now Ennead Architects, Residential: Affordable Housing; and 80 Metropolitan Avenue by Greenberg Farrow, Residential: Multi-Family…

Coburn Architecture won the Pearl Street Triangle Competition, an ideas competition for a new community plaza design in DUMBO…The Peninsula Shanghai, designed by BBG-BBGM, won the 2010 Development of the Year Award at the China Hotel Development and Financing Conference…

Twenty-three finalists have been selected for the Build A Better Burb open ideas competition, including several NYC entrants: LIRR Long Island Radically Rezoned by Tobias Holler; Levittown: Increasing Density and Opportunity through the Accessory Dwelling Structure by Meri Tepper; Reclaiming Community by Courtney Embrey; Upcycling 2.0 by Ryan Lovett; SUBHUB Transit System by Michael Piper; Open Source Suburbs by Siobhan Watson; REpark: Adapting Long Island’s Commercial Infrastructure to an Emerging Network by Scalar Architecture; AgISLAND by Amy Ford-Wagner; Long Division by Kazys Varnelis; and Building C-Burbia by Denise Hoffman Brandt…

The Switzer Group celebrates its 35th anniversary this month… Jake LaChapelle, AIA, has been promoted to principal of Nelligan White Architects… HLW International announced the expansion of the firm’s Discovery practice with the addition of Scott Francisco, who joins HLW’s New York office as Director of Discovery… H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture announced that founding partner Hugh Hardy, FAIA, has extended the partnership to five new firm leaders, including Ariel Fausto, AIA, LEED AP; John Fontillas, AIA, LEED AP; Geoff Lynch, AIA, LEED AP; Jack Martin, LEED AP; and Daria Pizetta, AIA…

David Sokol, a writer and OCULUS contributor based in New York and in Washington, DC, recently joined GSA Design Excellence as head of publications.

06.26-07.03.2010: AIANY and Classic Harbor Lines have circumnavigated Manhattan three Saturdays, on their “Around Manhattan Official NYC Architectural Tour,” with more cruises planned for July and August. See this issue’s Rhetorically Speaking “Ahoy AIA” for more on these exciting new boat tours.

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Boat cruise organizer Abby Suckle, FAIA, and Deborah Young, AIA, a volunteer docent.

Florence Schmitt

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Michael Sillerman, Jessica Harris, and Rick Bell, FAIA, on the deck.

Natalya Nikolaeva.

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Captain Jim Chambers and Rick Bell, FAIA, discussing the route.

Natalya Nikolaeva.

06.10-13.10: AIA Convention in Miami, FL.

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(l-r): Charles Thanhauser, AIA, Principal, TEK Architects; Lisa Chapman, Ibex Construction; James McCullar, FAIA, James McCullar & Associates, 2008 AIANY President; and Margaret Castillo, AIA, LEED AP, Partner, Helpern Architects, AIANY President-Elect at the “Sand in Your Shoes” AIA Miami Host Chapter Party.

Kristen Richards

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AIA Miami’s sandcastle competition results: 1st Place: “The Vitruvian Homer Simpson” by Florida International University Department of Landscape Architecture.

Kristen Richards

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(l-r): Mike Mense, FAIA, mmenseArchitects, presented The Architect’s Newspaper Publisher Diana Darling, and Editor-in-Chief William Menking with an AIA Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement for supporting the profession of architecture and architects over the years.

Kristen Richards

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At the Faith & Form/IFRAA International Awards for Religious Art and Architecture program, NYC-based Lichten Craig Architects received a Merit Award for the restoration of the Christ Church Tower in Poughkeepsie, NY; (l-r): Editor-in-Chief Michael J. Crosbie, FAIA, with Senior Architect Barry Donaldson, RA, LEED AP, and Principal Kevin Lichten, AIA.

Kristen Richards

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Robert Ivy, FAIA, editor-in-chief of Architectural Record and Ned Cramer, editor-in-chief of Architect magazine, enjoy the 2010 AIA Convention in Miami (without the slightest hint of any grudges).

Joan Capelin, Hon. AIA

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Newark Airport heading to Miami.

Kristen Richards

06.17.10: desigNYC introduced its 12 pilot projects with an exhibition at Pratt Gallery, on view through July 31. The program connects projects submitted by nonprofits, community groups, and city agencies with designers who work pro bono to see the projects through. Collaborations include the Broadway Mall Association with Joel Sanders Architect, Balmori Associates (landscape/urban design), and Domingo Gonzalez Associates (lighting design); the Lower East Side Ecology Center with Andrew Berman Architect; and three projects for Enterprise Community Partners with Robin Key Landscape Architecture, Sohbr Studio, and Andre Kikoski Architect.

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(l-r): Brian Lewis of Andre Kikoski Architect, desigNYC advisor Sara Bengur, and Joan Montbach representing the client, Palladia.

Kristen Richards

06.17.10: The Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction hosted The Iron Designer Challenge. A fundraising event for the school (raising a total of $20,000), 10 architecture and engineering firms competed for the title. Jurors included David Burney, FAIA, commissioner of the NYC Department of Design and Construction; Gregg Pasquarelli, AIA, principal of SHoP Architects; Caroline Payson, director of education at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; and Joel Towers, dean of Parsons The New School for Design. Diana Williams, anchor for WABC-TV Eyewitness News hosted the event.

In the end, Gensler reigned supreme and was named Iron Designer. Also, Omni Architects won a Structural Innovation prize; Robert Silman and Associates won Best Use of the Secret Material (3 Form resin tiles, and glass tiles by Galaxy); and Gensler won the People’s Choice Award.

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The roof terrace of the Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction set the stage for the event.

Katie Michael

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Omni Architects’ structurally innovative structure.

Jessica Sheridan

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Team Gensler erects their structure.

Katie Michael

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The completed winning design.

Jessica Sheridan

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The winning Gensler team.

Katie Michael

2010 Oculus Editorial Calendar
If you are an architect by training or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, OCULUS editors want to hear from you! Projects/topics may be anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards: Kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.

THE 2010 THEMES:
Spring: Architect as Leader: (CLOSED).

Summer: AIANY Design Awards 2010: (CLOSED).

Fall: Thinking Back / Thinking Forward and Understanding the Shift: (CLOSED).

Winter: Practice without Borders: The world is growing smaller. New York is an international city, and it is easier than ever for overseas firms to work here and for New York City firms to work abroad. We will look into reciprocity, licensure, removal of boundaries to practice, and international competitions as ways to build renown.
Submit story ideas by 08.13.10

07.11.10 Call for Nominations: AIANYS Officers and Regional Director

07.12.10 Call for Proposals: Thanatopolis Exhibition at I-Park in East Haddam, CT

07.19.10 Call for Entries: Urban Canvas Design Competition

08.04.10 Call for Entries: AIA West Jersey Annual Photography Competition

08.04.10 Request for Qualifications: City of Seattle: Central Waterfront Project

08.09.10 Call for Nominations: AIANYS 2010 Honor Awards

11.01.10 Call for Entries: The Future of Competitions: Tell Them What They Need

Through 07.31.10
desigNYC

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desigNYC.

Alexandra Corazza

DesigNYC, a collective committed to improving life in NYC through good design, celebrates its first 12 projects with an exhibit dedicated to the impact of collaborations. Collaborations include The Broadway Mall Association with Balmori Associates, Joel Sanders, and Domingo Gonzalez Associates; Enterprise Community Partners with Robin Key Landscape Architecture, Sohbr Studio, and Andre Kikoski Architect; and Outstanding Renewal Enterprise: the Lower East Side Ecology Center with Andrew Berman Architect.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd floor, NYC

Through 08.01.10
Cars, Culture and the City

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L Motors, 175th Street and Broadway, 1948

Photograph by Gottscho-Schleisner, courtesy Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Like many major cities, NYC has a low per-capita ownership of automobiles. But surprisingly, it has played an essential role in creating today’s car culture; the car has helped, in turn, to shape modern NYC. Visionary drawings and models, historic photographs, films, and advertisements, and a wealth of car memorabilia tell this untold story.

Museum of the City of New York
1220 5th Avenue, NYC

Through 08.14.10
Land Use Survey

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Aerial #62, 2002 by Sarah McKenzie

Courtesy Jen Bekman Gallery

This exhibition, with photographs, paintings, and works on paper by 27 artists, functions as a critical appraisal of land use across the country, as a document of the changing landscape vernacular, and as a celebration of the artists who take diverse approaches to capturing this genre.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street, NYC


Through 08.28.10
ECOAESTHETIC: The Tragedy of Beauty

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Beizhuanzi II, Siming District, Xiamen, 2004

Sze Tsung Leong

This is an annual summer experience of environmental issues affecting our visual world and spiritual selves. The Tragedy of Beauty focuses on photography of land where the tragedy of the image becomes the aesthetic of the environment.

Exit Art
475 10th Avenue, NYC


Through 09.09.10
Before They Were Parks

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Henry I. Stetler Warehouse and Comfort Station (now Bleecker Street Playground),1959.

New York City Parks Photo Archive

More than 100 vintage and contemporary photographs from the NYC Parks Photo Archive and other collections are on view. They may be lush and green now, but at some point in their past, parks may have been warehouses, tenements, estates, reservoirs, landfills, cemeteries, or jails.

The Arsenal Gallery
64th Street and 5th Avenue in Central Park, 3rd Floor, NYC

Interviews: John Hill and Kristen Richards

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Panelists Julie V. Iovine, Executive Editor, Architects Newspaper, Robert Ivy, Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Record, Michael Sorkin, Principal, Michael Sorkin Studio, writer/editor/design critic John Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture, and moderator Kristen Richards, editor, Oculus and www.ArchNewsNow.com at the 04.26.10 event “The Changing State of the Design Press: Now what?”

Emily Nemens

Synopsis:
As a follow up to the 04.26.10 Design Press panel, Marketing and PR Committee Member Tami Hausman caught up with panelists. She interviews John Hill, the force behind “A Daily Dose of Architecture,” and Kristen Richards, Hon. ASLA, who edits www.ArchNewsNow.com and Oculus magazine.
Interview: John Hill
AIA podcast episode0014 by Center for Architecture

Interview: Kristen Richards
AIA podcast episode0015 by Center for Architecture

Related Link:
“Pressing Questions: What’s next for Design Media,” by Murrye Bernard, LEED AP, e-Oculus, 05.04.10.