09.13.13 Call for Entries: EXPO REAL John Jacob Astor Competition for commercial projects
09.13.13: Call for Qualifications: NYC Department of Design + Construction’s Built/NYC Program
09.15.13 Call for Entries: Spark>Spaces Competition for Architecture, Interiors, Urban Design and Landscape
09.16.13 Call for Speakers: LIGHTFAIR® International 2014 Conference Continue reading “New Deadlines”
09.04.13: The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) unveiled a new BAM Bike Park and BAMart: Outdoors installation, designed by Fiedler Marciano Architecture. The lot features a mural by Brooklyn-based artist KAWS and a bike rack by David Byrne (who designed the “doggie” bikerack outside the Center for Architecture).
In a street market in Bangkok, the lives of two men – Ae, a former business manager turned earring salesman, and Niyom, a sugar cane vendor from the north – intersect as they attempt to make a living as street vendors. “I know it’s not constant, it’s not secure, my life,” says Ae, a savvy well-dressed man from a middle-class background. But to Niyom, the money he makes selling the sweet beverage means that he and his family can survive. In another part of the city, a woman and her community, evicted from their settlement, successfully lead a resettlement process that allows them to decide where and how they want to rebuild their homes. Farther away, in Accra, a group of head porters are striving to improve their lives with the help of informal savings banks.
Stories like these are the driving force behind the Informal City Dialogue, a collaborative project between the non-profit media organization Next City and the Rockefeller Foundation, an institution whose weighty influence on urbanism dates back to the 1950s, when it made a grant to a then-obscure writer named Jane Jacobs. Homing in on six cities – Accra, Bangkok, Chennai, Lima, Manila, and Nairobi – this year-long project is fostering conversations about the informal urban realm, allowing stakeholders to create narratives for their urban future and inspire positive change in their communities. Continue reading “How the Informal City Got Its Voice Back”
The New York-based architecture and urban design practice Rogers Marvel Architects has split into two independent practices to be known as Marvel Architects and Rogers Partners…
AIA National selected 10 recipients of the 2013 Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholarship, including AIANY member Michael Archer, Assoc. AIA…
The Rice Design Alliance’s fifth annual Spotlight Award recipient is Georgeen Theodore, AIA, of NYC-based Interboro Partners… Continue reading “Names in the News”
2013 OCULUS Editorial Calendar!
The Oculus 2013 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.
Winter 2013
Hospitality & Tourism
Submit story ideas by August 23, 2013
Read the latest issue of Oculus, Summer 2013 Design Awards Issue, now available online.
08.16.13 Call for Entries: Center for Architecture’s 2013 Subway Show: New York New World
08.23.13 Call for Entries: AIA’s 2014 Institute Honor Awards: Celebrating the Best in Contemporary American Architecture Continue reading “New Deadlines”
07.24.13: The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation’s 10th anniversary fete was hosted by Buro Happold on its rooftop terrace. Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA, LEED ID+C, BWAF Vice-Chair; Beverly Willis, FAIA, BWAF Founder and Chair; and Cathleen McGuigan, Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Record, attended the event. Continue reading “Sighted”
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On Thursday, 07.11.13, just nine days shy of Colombian Independence Day, visitors to the Center for Architecture were treated to a preview of the celebrations during the opening of the Center’s most recent exhibition, “Colombia Transformed / Architecture = Politics.” There could not have been a better way to commemorate the country’s 203rd year of independence than by spending an evening lauding the success of Colombia’s ambitious plan to improve the quality of life in its cities through social architecture and urbanism, while listening to the energetic sounds of Colombian pop-rock sensation, Jontre.
El jueves 11 de Julio del 2013, a solo nueve días del Día de Independencia de Colombia, los visitantes al Centro de Arquitectura tuvieron la oportunidad de celebrar las fiestas patrias con anticipación durante el estreno de la exhibición “Colombia Transformada / Arquitectura = Política.” No me imagino que haya una manera más adecuada para conmemorar 203 años de independencia que pasando una noche alabando el éxito del país en mejorar la cualidad de la vida a través de proyectos de arquitectura y urbanismo, y escuchando la música de la sensación del pop-rock colombiano, Jontre. Continue reading “The Dream of Architectural Utopias, Reborn in South America/El Sueño de la Utopía Arquitectónica, Resucitado en América Latina”
The National Academy announced its newly-elected members, including architects Renzo Piano, Hon. FAIA; Moshe Safdie, FAIA; and David Adjaye, Hon. FAIA…
Via Verde – The Green Way by Dattner Architects and Grimshaw Architects was shortlisted for the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Lubetkin Prize for the best international building, along with Galaxy Soho by Zaha Hadid Architects and Cooled Conservatories by Wilkinson Eyre… Continue reading “Names in the News”
The Oculus 2013 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. Read the latest issue of Oculus, Summer 2013 Design Awards Issue, now available online.
08.16.13 Call for Entries: Center for Architecture’s 2013 Subway Show: New York New World
08.23.13 Call for Story Ideas: Oculus Winter 2013 – Hospitality & Tourism Continue reading “New Deadlines”
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07.11.13: AIANY held its 2013 Heritage Ball kick-off reception at The Caledonia, a residential building developed by the Related Companies. Related Chairman and Founder Stephen M. Ross is being honored at this year’s Heritage Ball. The other honorees are Patricia E. Harris, First Deputy Mayor, City of New York; Tod Williams, FAIA, and Billie Tsien, AIA, Co-Founders, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects; and Richard Kahan, Founder and CEO, The Urban Assembly. Continue reading “Sighted”
