What do an Occupy Wall Street veteran, a kindergarten teacher, a high school student, an architect, and a business consultant have in common? If you can’t think of a witty reply, fret not. All of these individuals, and many others, participated in a panel discussion and workshop on waterfront development, one of the many events that attempted to cull information on what matters to New Yorkers during “Talking Transition.” Continue reading “Talking Transition Together”
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Names in the News
The NYC Economic Development Corporation’s Hire + Expand in Lower Manhattan: Take the H.E.L.M. competition awarded a grant of $50,000 to Hollwich Kushner/Architizer …The five finalists of MoMA P.S.1’s 2014 Young Architects Program include: Collective-LOK (Jon Lott of PARA-Project, William O’Brien Jr. of WOJR, and Michael Kubo of over,under); Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau); and The Living (David Benjamin)…Magnusson Architecture and Planning (MAP) received citations for 22 Tarrytown Road workforce housing and Spring Valley Senior Housing and Family Apartments at the 2013 AIA Westchester + Hudson Valley Awards. Continue reading “Names in the News”
New Deadlines
12.10.13: Call for Submissions: IE University’s Houses for Change: Architecture for Social Responsibility
12.10.13: Call for Entries: IE School of Architecture and Design’s Houses for Change – Architecture for Social Responsibility student and recent graduate competition (no fee)
12.11.13: Call for Submissions: AIA Diversity Recognition Program seeks exemplary efforts to diversity the architecture profession
12.16.13: Call for Entries: AIA Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) Building Information Modeling (BIM) Awards
12.17.13: Call for Speakers and Case Studies: The Canadian Centre for Architecture”s “Unsitely! Leveraging Design to Improve Urban Construction Sites” colloquium
12.19.13: Call for Registration: Fentress Global Challenge 2013: Upcycled Architecture International Student Competition Continue reading “New Deadlines”
Sighted
11.28.13: Cheng-Hsun Wu (2nd from the left) and Chien Chung (Didi) Pei, AIA, (3nd from the left) of Pei Partnership Architects joined Taiwan President Ma Ying Jeou (center) and others at the Presidential Palace in Taipei, where they were invited to present at the 2013 World Association of Chinese Architects Annual Meeting & Academic Forum. Continue reading “Sighted”
Beirut Now: Gazing Into the Void of Nostalgia
As the title suggests, “BEIRUT NOW | A Panel On Urban Landscape’s Conflicting Desires” was an evening of binary oppositions. Steeped in nostalgia, it contrasted the inclusive Beirut of the past with the exclusive Beirut of the present, and pitted neo-liberal interests against the desires of those who long for a Beirut attached to its local culture and historical heritage. In fact, nostalgia is, as Nishan Kazazian, AIA, founder of Nishan Kazazian Architecture, stated, a conflicting concept itself, invoking a “paradoxical combination of hope and hopelessness, space and place.”
Setting the tone for the evening, Kazazian took the audience through a haptic journey of the Beirut of his childhood, tracking the route that he took from his home to the center of the city. The urban morphology of 1950s Beirut, he posited, created opportunities for people of different socioeconomic backgrounds to interact and intermix. This “undivided city” not only impacted the formation of his ideas, but also offered a “model of coexistence that may have been emulated at a global level.” Continue reading “Beirut Now: Gazing Into the Void of Nostalgia”
Names in the News
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum was awarded the 2013 Ladislav Sutnar Prize for its contribution to the world of design…Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi of SLO Architecture are the winners of the inaugural Dwell Vision Award…
The Concrete Industry Board’s 52nd Annual Roger H. Corbetta Awards for Quality Concrete honored the World Trade Center Transportation Hub by Downtown Design Partnership, Tower 4 World Trade Center by Maki and Associates and Adamson Associates Architects , David Zwirner Gallery by Selldorf Architects, Holiday Inn (99 Washington St.) by Gene Kaufman Architect, 4545 Center Boulevard by Arquitectonica and SLCE Architects, the New York Botanical Garden Garage and Intermodal Facility by Desman Associates, a Long Island residence by Eliot Lee of Steven Harris Architects, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Addition and Alteration by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners… Continue reading “Names in the News”
New Deadlines
11.22.13: Call for Entries: The Architect’s Newspaper First Annual Best of the Year Design Awards
11.22.13: Call for Submissions: Future Magazine SC2013 International Ideas Competition: How do we imagine new urban regeneration in Harbin, China, and Vigo, Spain?
11.22.13: Call for Entries: AIA HUD Secretary’s Award
11.25.13: Call for Entries: designNYC’s Pro Bono Designer Projects that will boost resiliency in New York
12.02.13: Call for Applications: Storefront for Art and Architecture’s OfficeUS seeks five fellows for the 2014 Venice Biennale Continue reading “New Deadlines”
Sighted
11.07.13: The Center for Architecture’s latest Breakthrough Space exhibition, “Dorothy Heller Paintings from the 1950s and 1960s,” features the abstract expressionist’s works, many of which represent themes of urban and untamed nature. Continue reading “Sighted”
Heritage Ball 2013
We spent the entire month of Archtober celebrating architecture and design, but there is one special night of the year when architecture truly takes center stage: AIANY’s Heritage Ball. On 10.24.13, more than 1,200 professionals from the architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate industries gathered at Chelsea Piers’ Pier Sixty for an unforgettable evening. Continue reading “Heritage Ball 2013”
Names in the News
The following architects have been inducted into the National Academy for 2013: David Adjaye, Hon. FAIA, Adjaye Associates; Paul Broches, FAIA, Mitchell/Giurgola Architects; Kate Orff, ASLA, SCAPE, and William Pedersen, FAIA, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates.
Richard Meier, FAIA, will receive the Gabarron International Award for Visual Arts on 11.08.13. Continue reading “Names in the News”