Robert B. Tierney, Hon. AIA, Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, is one of 10 recipients of 2014 AIA Honorary Membership…The Municipal Art Society will present The New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman with the 2014 Brendan Gill Prize at the organization’s Annual Meeting on 03.25.14…The New York School of Interior Design will honor interior designer Mariette Himes Gomez with the Albert Hadley Lifetime Achievement Award, and landscape architect and co-founder of Maggie’s Centres Charles Jencks with the Thomas N. Armstrong III Award in Landscape Design.. Continue reading “Names in the News”
Author: Camila Schaulsohn - Editor
New Deadlines
2014 OCULUS Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2014 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, Oculus wants 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, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.
Fall 2014
Culture
Submit story ideas by April 30, 2014
Winter 2014
Emerging Skyline / Evolving Street
Submit story ideas by July 14, 2014 Continue reading “New Deadlines”
Sighted
03.10.14: AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA (far left) and AIANY 2014 President Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, celebrated the 11 newly-inducted AIA New York Chapter members who were inducted into the AIA College of Fellows at the 2014 Fellows Reception. Continue reading “Sighted”
Editor’s Note
Congratulations to the winners of the AIANY 2014 Design Awards, and thank you to everyone who attended Monday night’s event! We hope you will join us at this year’s Honors and Awards Luncheon on 04.23.14 at Cipriani Wall Street.
Without a doubt, many of the locally-based 2014 AIANY Design Awards winners will be featured in Archtober 2014’s Building of the Day series. You can also participate in our month-long festival of architecture in New York City as the architect of a Building of the Day! Please submit one photo (with credit) and a brief description (225 words) of your built project to archtober@aiany.org. The building can be located in any of the five boroughs, and need not be recently completed. The deadline for the first round of submissions is 04.30.14.
Finally, the eOculus team would like to remind our readers to send us news about their firms for publication. We would love to hear about upcoming projects, latest events, and most recent promotions/new hires. Feel free to contact me at cschaulsohn@aiany.org and contributing editor Linda Miller at linda.c.g.miller@gmail.com.
AIANY 2014 Design Awards
On 03.03.14, four juries comprised of 12 renowned architects, educators, critics, and planners convened at the Center for Architecture to select the winners of the AIANY 2014 Design Awards. After hours of deliberation, 35 winners were selected – 13 in the Architecture category, 8 in Interiors, 10 in Projects, and 4 in Urban Design – which represent the diversity and strength of New York’s architectural design community. At Monday evening’s “AIANY Design Awards 2014 Juror Symposium and Winners Announcement,” moderated by Metropolis magazine Editor-in-Chief Susan Szenasy, Hon. AIA, this year’s recipient of the Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award, jurors discussed the celebrated projects and spoke of the state of architecture in New York City and architectural competitions in general. Continue reading “AIANY 2014 Design Awards”
Guastavino State of Mind
“What do Carnegie Hall, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Grand Central Station, Grant’s Tomb and the Bronx Zoo’s Elephant House have in common?” At first, this question, asked by WNYC’s Leonard Lopate at The Greene Space’s conversation “Guastavino in New York” may stump even the most inveterate New Yorker. The answer, however – the presence of tile vaulting by Spanish architect Rafael Guastavino – is, according to Jill Lerner, principal at KPF and immediate past-president of AIANY, something that New Yorkers are always “subconsciously aware of.” Continue reading “Guastavino State of Mind”
Names in the News
The winners of the 2014 AIANY Design Awards are: Architecture Honors: Donald Judd Home and Studio by Architecture Research Office/ARO; the Danish Maritime Museum by BIG Bjarke Ingels Group; 4 World Trade Center by Maki and Associates; Johnson Museum of Art Addition and Alteration by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners; Columbia University Campbell Sports Center by Steven Holl Architects. Architecture Merits: Stapleton Library by Andrew Berman Architect; Pier A Restoration and Adaptive Reuse by H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture; East 34th Street Ferry by Kennedy & Violich Architecture; 250 Bowery by Morris Adjmi Architects; Sanggye 341-5 by N.E.E.D. Architecture; Fire Island House by Richard Meier & Partners; Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility by Selldorf Architects; House in Ghent by Toshiko Mori Architect. Interiors Honors: The Barbarian Group by Clive Wilkinson Architects; Calvin Klein Collection, Forum 66 by SPaN Architecture. Interiors Merits: Runner & Stone by Latent Productions; West Side Townhouse by o’neill rose architects; Hudson Pier Residence by Shelton, Mindel & Associates; Red Bull Studios New York by SLAB Architecture; Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse at JFK by Slade Architecture; Wieden + Kennedy by WORKac. Project Honors: New Hampshire Retreat by NADAAA; the Triangle School by NAMELESS Architecture; (No) Stop Marconi by N H D M / Nahyun Hwang + David Eugin Moon; The Edgeless School by Sage and Coombe Architects. Project Merits: MI’RAJ – Prishtina Central Mosque Competition by APTUM; Starlight by Cooper Joseph Studio; New Law Library of Harlem by *MULTIPLICITIES; Sanhe Kindergarten by OBRA Architects; Harvest Dome 2.0 by SLO Architecture; Sinthian Cultural Center and Artists’ Residence by Toshiko Mori Architect. Urban Design Honors: Zaryadye Park by Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Transforming Boston’s Midtown Cultural District by Handel Architects. Urban Design Merits: Ga Mashie by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; St. Patrick’s Island by W Architecture and Landscape Architecture/Civitas… Continue reading “Names in the News”
New Deadlines
2014 OCULUS Editorial Calendar!
The Oculus 2014 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, Oculus wants 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, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.
Fall 2014
Culture
Submit story ideas by April 30, 2014
Winter 2014
Emerging Skyline / Evolving Street
Submit story ideas by July 14, 2014 Continue reading “New Deadlines”
Sighted
02.20.14: Architect magazine celebrated its 61st Annual P/A Awards at The Modern. (l-r) Jesse Reiser, AIA, RUR Architecture (a P/A winner); John Morris Dixon, FAIA, former Editor-in-Chief of Progressive Architecture; Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, 2014 AIANY President; and designer Debora K. Reiser (Jesse Reiser’s mother) were in attendance. Continue reading “Sighted”
Editor’s Note
Congratulations to the newest members of College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. The 2014 Jury of Fellows elevated 139 AIA members, including 11 AIA New York Chapter members. Please join us on 03.10.14 at 6:00 PM for the 2014 New Fellows Reception.
In addition, don’t forget to submit story ideas for the 2014 Fall and Winter issues of Oculus magazine. Projects and topics related to the Fall 2014 theme, Culture, are due on 04.30.14, and the deadline for ideas for the Winter 2014 theme, Emerging Skyline / Evolving Street is 07.14.14. Please contact Oculus editor-in-chief Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA with ideas at kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.