Murrye Bernard, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP – Contributing Editor – Page 11 – News – What’s New at AIANY and the Center for Architecture.

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.

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

Florence Schmitt

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

Natalya Nikolaeva.

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

Natalya Nikolaeva.

06.10-13.10: AIA Convention in Miami, FL.

(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

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

Kristen Richards

(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

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

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

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.

(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.

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

Katie Michael

Omni Architects’ structurally innovative structure.

Jessica Sheridan

Team Gensler erects their structure.

Katie Michael

The completed winning design.

Jessica Sheridan

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

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

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

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

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

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

Four Honor Award-Winning Projects Sculpt the City

Event: 2010 Design Awards Panel: Urban Design
Location: Center for Architecture, 06.17.10
Speakers: Annie Barrett — Project Manager, Architecture Research Office; Marc Kristal — Freelance Writer & Documentarian, “Five Principles of Greenwich South”; Guido Hartray — Associate, Rogers Marvel Architects; Rebecca Hill — Associate, dlandstudio
Moderator: Linda G. Miller — Freelance Writer & Publicist, Contributing Editor, Oculus & e-Oculus
Organizer: AIANY
Sponsors: Chair’s Circle: Foster+Partners New York; Benefactor: Studios Architecture; Patrons: Mancini Duffy; Peter Marino Architect, PLLC; Studio Daniel Libeskind; Trespa; Lead Sponsors: A. E. Greyson + Company; Dagher Engineering; F.J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc.; Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson; FXFOWLE Architects; Gensler; Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti; Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; MechoShade Systems, Inc.; New York University; Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; Rudin Management Company, Inc.; Structure Tone, Inc.; Syska Hennessy Group; Toshiko Mori Architect, PLLC; VJ Associates

For the first time, the 2010 AIA New York Design Awards included a category for Urban Design. Each of the four honor award-winning projects — the High Line Park by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro; the MTA Flood Mitigation Streetscape Design by Rogers Marvel Architects and di Domenico + Partners; The “Five Principles for Greenwich South” project by Architecture Research Office (with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, OPEN, and Marc Kristal); and the BQE Trench: Reconnection Strategies for Brooklyn by dlandstudio — innovatively and collaboratively addresses complex infrastructure. While the High Line is the most well known, all of these projects will no doubt impact future development — a feat in NYC.

Flooded streets too often lead to flooded subway stations. Guido Hartray, an associate with Rogers Marvel, explained that the best option is to install permeable paving surfaces and green roofs, the MTA only has control of the area directly above their ventilation grates.

The team chose to raise the height of the grates. Using the street cross-section as inspiration, they designed a raised grate with a wavy profile. New York magazine ranked the grates as “Highbrow/Brilliant” on its approval matrix.

Architecture Research Office, working with 10 interdisciplinary teams, took an unconventional approach to the neighborhood that lies just south of the World Trade Center site. Rather than create a comprehensive master plan, they were “more interested in the design of the planning process than the design itself,” and aimed to create a guide for growth for the long-term, explained Barrett. The project is now in the hands of the Downtown Alliance, who has already converted some spaces to shared offices and temporary galleries.

Another area that suffers from an east-west divide is Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill in Brooklyn, thanks to Robert Moses’ Brooklyn/Queens Expressway. Completed in the 1950s, the BQE was originally proposed to be flanked by parks, but is instead a bleak, elevated steel hulk that bisects two distinct areas: the brownstone-lined streets of Carroll Gardens on one side, and treeless streets punctuated by empty storefronts in Carroll Gardens West, Red Hook, Columbia Waterfront District on the other.

The designers proposed that Hicks Street should be made into a “productive spine,” according to Rebecca Hill, an associate with dlandstudio. Their suggestions spanned three phases, beginning with a green wall along a trenched BQE to improve air quality and reduce noise, followed by the addition of street trees and bike lanes and a pedestrian street. In the third phase, parks would lid the highway to create a physical east-west connection and turn a “scar into an amenity,” explained Hill.

Murrye Bernard, LEED AP, is a freelance architectural writer and a contributing editor to e-Oculus.

The Intern Development Program Advisory Committee (IDPAC) selected three architecture firms as recipients of the Intern Development Program (IDP) 2010-2013 Outstanding Firm Awards, including Gensler… The AIA’s Young Architects Forum (YAF) and Committee on Design (COD) selected the recipients of the first annual YAF/COD Ideas Competition, including FREE by Gene Kaufman Architect, and Woven Shelter by Jiyoun Kim, which tied for first place…

The 2010 Center for Architecture Scholarship Recipients include Women’s Auxiliary Eleanor Allwork Scholarship Merit Award winners Juan David Cano Bedoya, City College of New York; Yang Hua, Columbia University; Jeffrey Johnson, Pratt Institute; Lyndon Julien-Sehl, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and Katelyn Mulry, NY Institute of Technology… The Center for Architecture Foundation Design Scholarship Merit Award winner is Kimberly Tate, Parsons the New School for Design; and the Fontainebleau Prize winner for Full Program Tuition is Helen Levin, City College of New York…

The SARA NY 2010 Design Award winners include the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy by Michael Van Valkenburg Associates, Medallion of Honor, Nouvel Chelsea by Ateliers Jean Nouvel with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, 2010 Project of the Year; HL23 by Neil M. Denari Architects, Visionary Architecture Award; and One Jackson Square by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Urban Contextual Award; The New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion by UNStudio (Design Architect) with Handel Architects (Executive Architect)…

2010 RIBA International Award winners include Stephen Holl Architects for the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, and Rafael Viñoly Architects for the Carrasco International Airport…

Specsimple.com’s Save A Sample! 2010 Top “Boxers” are Nicole Moudis of Ted Moudis Associates; Jana Van Singel, AIA, and Courtney Sempliner of STUDIOS Architecture; Mallory Ortman of daSILVA Architects; Eileen Ragsdale of TPG Architects; Lauren Haber of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Kaleena Brzozowski of HOK…

A shortlist of architect and design teams competing for the V&A at Dundee project has been announced, including NYC-based REX and Steven Holl Architects…

Anne Fletcher, AIA, LEED AP, Principal of Zyscovich Architects’ NYC office, has been elected to the board of Women in Housing and Finance (WHF) New York… Illya Azaroff, AIA, has been selected to present research on emerging technologies, rapid prototyping, social and cultural challenges of the 21st century at the fifth annual Design and Practice conference in Rome, Italy, in 2011, as well as the 2011 ACSA Conference in Montreal, 2010 International Design Diversity Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and the 2010 Interior Worlds conference in Milan, Italy…

BBG-BBGM announced the promotion of Stephen Luk, AIA, and Tony Machado to Senior Associate…

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

Summer: AIANY Design Awards 2010: (CLOSED).

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

06.28.10 Request for Proposals: Building Back Better Communities, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

07.01.10 Call for Presentations: AIA 2011 National Convention (pdf)

07.01.10 Call for Entries: ArtBridge 2010 (pdf)

07.09.10 Call for Entries: 2010 Annual Design Review

Iron Designer!

You’ve seen the chef’s version, but now it’s architects’ turn to answer the challenge. On 06.17.10, the Iron Designer Challenge will feature five teams of NYC professionals partnered with students of The Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction (SDC) facing off in an ultimate design/build competition. Teams will have three hours to construct life-size emergency shelters made from everyday materials in front of a live audience and judges. The event will be hosted by television personality Diana Williams from WABC-TV and include live music by The Roof Walkers, an open bar, food, and city views from an outdoor roof deck. The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) is sponsoring the event.

For more information and to purchase tickets, click here. Tickets are $40 is purchased before 06.11, and $50 at the door.

The AIA New York Chapter 2010 Honors and Awards will be presented at the 143rd Annual Meeting on 06.16.10 to the following: Medal of Honor: David M. Childs, FAIA; Award of Merit: Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund; Honorary Members: Barry Bergdoll and Richard T. Anderson; George S. Lewis Award: Susan Henshaw Jones; Andrew J. Thomas (Housing) Award: GF55; Harry B. Rutkins (Chapter Service) Award: Bruce Fowle, FAIA, LEED AP; Public Architect Award: Peter Magnani, AIA; Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award: Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP; and Citations: Landmarks Preservation Foundation, DOH Active Design Guidelines, Tribeca Film Festival, and V’Soske…

INVISTA, maker of Antron carpet fiber, presented the Antron Carpet Fiber Designed to Perform Award grand prize to Butler Rogers Baskett for its design of Major League Baseball’s headquarters…

Wendy W Fok (New York/Vienna/Hong Kong) and Joana Sobral (London), representing team “4-Scales”, has been awarded an Honorable Mention for the “Paris Project: At The Crossroads,” part of the European Forum for Architectural Policies Converging Territories for the EU…

Eric D. Sweet, CCCA, LEED AP, has been named an associate principal of Cannon Design… Francis Cauffman has promoted Gloria Cascarino, Haley Driscoll, IIDA, Dana Eddowes, James Hammond, and Erin Kelly, AIA, NCARB, to senior associate…

04.17.10: NYU Entrepreneurs Roundtable featured Terrence O’Neal Architect Managing Principal Terrence E. O’Neal, AIA, and Lenore Janis, president of Professional Women in Construction (PWC) National.

Students flank NYU Faculty Member Richard Raymond and Roundtable speakers Terrence E. O’Neal, AIA, and Lenore Janis.

Courtesy Terrence O’Neal Architect