Category: In The News

2016 Oculus Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2016 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

Winter: The Practice Issue / Beyond Practice
Focus or diversify; specialized partnerships; diversity; global practice: international work growing or shrinking; value (or not) of competitions; etc.
Deadline for story ideas: 08.19.16 Continue reading “New Deadlines”

07.20.16: Susan Szenasy, Hon. AIANY, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of Metropolis, toasted the magazine’s 35th anniversary at Seaport Studios. Continue reading “Sighted”

Trending Buildings: AIANY 2016 President Carol Loewenson, FAIA, LEED AP, discussed some of Manhattan’s most trendsetting structures for City & State.

21st-Century Best: AIANY and Center for Architecture Executive Director Benjamin Prosky nominated a project for Metropolis Magazine’s 35th anniversary architecture round-up.

“Terra cotta makes a comeback:” Loewenson also commented on the use of old materials in contemporary architecture for The Wall Street Journal.

Spotlight on Chile: Laura Raskin reviewed the Center for Architecture latest exhibition “EXTRA-ORDINARY: New Practices in Chilean Architecture” in Wallpaper*.

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In this issue:
– Shhhhh. It’s Still a Library
– Bijoux Box Pavilion
– Safe Space for Social Services
– A Salute to Vets
– Urban Desert Designs
– The Hills (and the Battery and the WTC) are Alive Continue reading “In the News”

2016 Oculus Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2016 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

Winter: The Practice Issue / Beyond Practice

Focus or diversify; specialized partnerships; diversity; global practice: international work growing or shrinking; value (or not) of competitions; etc.
Deadline for story ideas: 08.19.16 Continue reading “New Deadlines”

07.12.16: The Center for Architecture kicked off the New York City inauguration of “House Housing: An Untimely History of Architecture and Real Estate” with a conversation between Patrice Derrington, Marc Holliday Professor and Director of Real Estate Development Program, Columbia GSAPP; Reinhold Martin, Director, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia GSAPP; and Lissa So, AIA, Founding Partner, Marvel Architects. Continue reading “Sighted”

With curious anticipation, the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale opened to the public on 05.28.16 with 66 national participants and hundreds of individual installations. More properly titled the “15th Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia,” it is held in alternating years from the Art Biennale. However, unlike the Art Biennale, where an artist’s final output is up for scrutiny, the Architecture Biennale has become more about the underlying motivations behind our architecture. Continue reading “More than a Building: The 15th Venice Architecture Biennale”

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In this issue:
– Photo Finish
– ODA New York Designs Brooklyn and Queens
– Up on the Roof
– Gansevoort’s Greenlight
– ICEBERGS Right Ahead!
– Philly’s New Front Porch
– Light Reading Continue reading “In the News”