James Carpenter, James Carpenter Design Associates; Brad Cloepfil, AIA, Allied Works Architecture; James Cutler, FAIA, Anderson Cutler Architects; Ralph Johnson, FAIA, Perkins+Will; Signe Nielsen, FASLA, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects; and Mary Miss have been inducted as National Academicians at the National Academy Museum & School. Continue reading “Names in the News”
Author: Camila Schaulsohn - Editor
New Deadlines
2016 Oculus Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2015 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect in practice or by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, Oculus wants to hear from you! You may submit projects/topics from anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas/projects by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.
Spring: Institutional Urban Campuses / New York – Science + Research City
How educational, health-care and other institutions fit into the city’s urban fabric; how they are evolving; what are the challenges they face. How can architecture make these large campuses good neighbors? What amenities can they share?
Deadline for story ideas: 10.30.15
Summer: 2016 AIANY Design Awards
Fall: Tech in the City
Why cutting-edge industry loves older buildings. How technology businesses transform neighborhoods and the city at large. Adaptive Reuse & Interiors.
Deadline for story ideas: 05.16.16
Winter: Preservation & Reinvention / Rethinking Preservation / Preservation & Urbanism / Preservation Today
Projects with a unique take on history and how to reconcile it with contemporary needs. Focus on daylight and natural ventilation as city becomes more dense; historic preservation as zoning tool; quality vs. scale. Is city preserving too much in historic districts?
Deadline for story ideas: 08.19.16 Continue reading “New Deadlines”
On View
At the Center for Architecture
“Archtober Lounge”
Through 10.31.15
“Un/Fair Use”
Through 01.02.15
“Designing Affordability: Quicker, Smarter, More Efficient Housing Now”
Through 01.16.15
At the Center for Architecture at the Seaport
“Sea Level: Five Boroughs at Water’s Edge” at Center for Architecture at the Seaport Cultural District
Through 12.31.15 Continue reading “On View”
Editor’s Note
We’re halfway through Archtober 2015 but, with 15 Building of the Day tours to go and countless activities, there’s still plenty to do! Check out the calendar of events at www.archtober.org -and mark your calendars!
In addition, the Oculus 2016 editorial calendar is now out! See our New Deadlines department for details and story deadlines. Please note that the deadline looms to submit projects/topics for the Spring ’16, themed ‘Institutional Urban Campuses,” is 10.30.15.
Names in the News
Santiago Calatrava, FAIA, will receive the 2015 European Prize for Architecture from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Center for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies at a ceremony at the World Trade Center on 11.17.15… The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has been awarded the 2015 Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in the Construction Industry…The winner of the Van Alen Institute and the National Park Service’s National Parks Now competition is Team Parterson, led by graphic designer Manuel Miranda of MMP and the Yale School of Art, and includes communications consultant Frances Medina, urban historian Mariana Mogilevich, social impact design consultant Valeria Mogilevich, CUNY Spitzer School of Architecture Professor June Williamson, and designer and creative director Willy Wong. Continue reading “Names in the News”
New Deadlines
2016 Oculus Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2015 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect in practice or by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, Oculus wants to hear from you! You may submit projects/topics from anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas/projects by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.
Spring: Institutional Urban Campuses / New York – Science + Research City
How educational, health-care and other institutions fit into the city’s urban fabric; how they are evolving; what are the challenges they face. How can architecture make these large campuses good neighbors? What amenities can they share?
Deadline for story ideas: 10.30.15
Summer: 2016 AIANY Design Awards
Fall: Tech in the City
Why cutting-edge industry loves older buildings. How technology businesses transform neighborhoods and the city at large. Adaptive Reuse & Interiors.
Deadline for story ideas: 05.16.16
Winter: Preservation & Reinvention / Rethinking Preservation / Preservation & Urbanism / Preservation Today
Projects with a unique take on history and how to reconcile it with contemporary needs. Focus on daylight and natural ventilation as city becomes more dense; historic preservation as zoning tool; quality vs. scale. Is city preserving too much in historic districts?
Deadline for story ideas: 08.19.16
Continue reading “New Deadlines”
On View
At the Center for Architecture
“Archtober Lounge”
Through 10.31.15
“Un/Fair Use”
Through 01.02.15
“Designing Affordability: Quicker, Smarter, More Efficient Housing Now”
Through 01.16.15
At the Center for Architecture at the Seaport
“Sea Level: Five Boroughs at Water’s Edge” at Center for Architecture at the Seaport Cultural District
Through 12.31.15 Continue reading “On View”
Sighted
09.30.15: A crowd gathered at Carl Hansen & Son Showroom to celebrate the beginning of Archtober 2015. Richard Meier, FAIA (center) was joined by Kyle Bergman, AIA, founder of the Architecture and Design Film Festival (left), and Cynthia Kracauer, AIA, Archtober festival director (right). Continue reading “Sighted”
“Designing Affordability” Opens Tomorrow!
Happy Archtober! The Center for Architecture will be kicking off the month-long celebration of architecture and design with the opening of “Designing Affordability: Quicker, Smarter, More Efficient Housing Now” tomorrow, 10.01.15 at 6:00 pm. Please join us for the opening reception of the exhibition, which features local and global strategies to reduce the cost of housing.
New York is in a housing crisis. Market rate housing exceed the budgets of many New Yorkers and affordable housing production cannot meet demand. As the city’s vibrant culture and economy continue to attract more residents, the housing deficit has become an ever-growing issue. In Housing New York: A Five-Borough, Ten-Year Plan, the de Blasio administration has pledged to address this situation by building and preserving 200,000 affordable apartments. In order to achieve this, the city must work with a variety of stakeholders, including architects.
Although affordable housing typically refers to policy initiatives to ensure that residents at a certain income can qualify for housing, affordability is a broader concept. Designing Affordability examines how architects, planners, engineers, policy makers, tenants, and homeowners are crafting innovative ways to reduce the cost of housing without compromising quality.
Adding to the discussion about affordability, the Fall issue of Oculus also tackles the subject with the theme “Home Game: Innovations in Housing.” Click here to read the digital edition.
Names in the News
Fast Company’s Innovation Design Awards honor Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for All Aboard Florida (City Solutions); Local Projects for Sciplay Noticing Tools (Data Visuatization) and their work for Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (Experience), and Pentagram for MIT Media Lab’s identity (Graphic Design). Continue reading “Names in the News”