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Top building products for November 2023
Top 15 building products for November 2023 Continue Reading Building Design+Construction editors bring you the top building products for the month of November. Collected across a variety of building sectors, these products heat homes, provide flexibility, and aesthetically please. From horizontal sliding windows to discreet indoor air infusers, here are 15 products being used in the industry today.
Top building products for October 2023
Top 15 building products for October 2023 Continue Reading Building Design+Construction editors bring you the top building products for the month of October. Collected across a variety of building sectors, these products easily insulate, touch up panel damage, and provide design flexibility. From structural round timber (SRT) to user-friendly air handling units, here are 15 products being used in the industry today. October 2023 Top 15 Building Products â Sto GPS Board by Sto Corp.
Top building products for September 2023
Top 15 building products for September 2023 Continue Reading Building Design+Construction editors bring you the top building products for the month of September. Collected across a variety of building sectors, these products provide smart tech functionality, offer modern aesthetics, and ensure longevity. From sunshade fins to safety glass, here are 15 products being used in the industry today.
Toronto’s B-Line Condominiums completed using prefabricated panels
The site was so small only a precast solution would get the job done. The stunning B-Line condominium development, just west of downtown Toronto in the Etobicoke neighborhood, was completed by Sto Panel Technology affiliate SkyRise Prefab Building Solutions.
Affordable Multifamily Housing Projects Adapt to Covid-19
In the Bronx, New York, the congregation of Wakefield Grace United Methodist Church is replacing their longtime house of worship, a 1927 stone Gothic-revival structure. But instead of just building a new church, the congregants decided to construct a 72-unit affordable-housing complex for seniors on top of a new ground-level sanctuary.
David Adjaye Wins 2021 RIBA Gold Medal
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye winner of the 2021 Royal Gold Medal—the organization’s highest honor for architecture. “It’s incredibly humbling and a great honor to have my peers recognize the work I have developed with my team and its contribution to the field over the past 25 years,” said Adjaye, who was knighted in 2017 in recognition of his service to the architecture profession.
Mecanoo Respectfully Revises Mies van der Rohe’s MLK Library
Reopening last week after a three-and-a-half-year renovation, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library once again has a dignity befitting the Washington, D.C. library system’s centerpiece building. The thoughtful reconfigurations and recalibrations, by Dutch firm Mecanoo and local practice OTJ Architects, hew to Modernist principles of the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe original, while gently layering in a softer, more humanistic touch.
David Adjaye Unveils Design for Princeton University Art Museum
Home » David Adjaye Unveils Design for Princeton University Art Museum Architecture News The new museum complex as seen from the southwest corner, with Dod Hall to the left; the outdoor terraces here will accommodate up to 2,000 people. Image © Adjaye Associates A walk along the north-south “art walk” provides views into the "Grand Hall," as well as encounters with works of art embedded in the floors and glimpses into the galleries above.
Architectural Billings Remain Sluggish in August 2020
The AIA released new data today showing that the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) remained at 40 in August, unchanged from June and July. (A score below 50 indicates decreasing billings). New design inquiries fared slightly better for the first time since February, increasing from 49.1 to 51.6, and the value of new design contracts moved from 41.7 to 46.
IG House by Andrés Escobar Arquitectos
Location: Colinas de San Javier, Mexico Project size: 12,600 square feet Program: The clients wanted a five-bedroom house with pool on a five-acre site, near Guadalajara. Solution: Because of the uneven topography of the site, along with a mandate to keep the 65- foot- tall Araucaria tree in the front yard, the architects partially submerged the two -level house in the property. Also to make the structure less visible from the street, they enclosed the the arrival area with concrete walls.
LACMA Defends Its New Building by Peter Zumthor
Though the long-planned building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), designed by Pritzker Prize–laureate Peter Zumthor, received the unanimous approval of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors last year, it has been an ongoing target of withering criticism, from ad hoc groups and the Los Angeles Times art critic, Christopher Knight, who received a Pulitzer Prize this year for his dissection of the museum’s plans.
Snapshot: 335 Madison by SHoP Architects
SHoP Architects designed 335 Madison, a coworking tech campus in Midtown Manhattan, to feel decidedly “not techy,” says SHoP founding partner Corie Sharples. To achieve this, the New York–based firm has completed several phases of a seven-story interior renovation of the building. In 1913, this was the site of the Biltmore Hotel but was replaced by a bank headquarters.
Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial Opens in Washington, D.C.
Monumentsbreed contention, over who is honored—Confederate generals, say, or slaveholding founding fathers—and how they are designed. The Vietnam Memorial (1982), which changed forever what a military monument could look like, was so controversial it almost didn’t get built. But then came the Eisenhower Memorial, devoted to the undisputed hero of World War II, with a design by America’s most renowned architect. What could possibly go wrong?
Compelling Exhibition of Indian Master Doshi Opens in Chicago
As the first Pritzker Prize laureate from the south Asian subcontinent, with a seven-decade career, Balkrishna Doshi is easily viewed as a Modernist standard-bearer for Indian architecture.
La Manufacture Celine Factory by MetroOffice Architetti
Like other French luxury brands, Celine has moved the manufacture of its leather goods to the Italian countryside. Skilled craftsmanship still thrives amid the hillside towns and vast vineyards of Tuscany, for example. There—a cradle of couture companies both French and Italian—a number of new production facilities have been built in recent years, including the latest for Celine.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Announces Opening Date of New Steven Holl-Designed Building
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has announced the opening date for its newest space, as well as the inaugural exhibition lineup. Kinder Building east facade, photo by Peter Molick Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building will open to the public on November 21, 2020. Dedicated to displaying works from the museum's international collection of modern and contemporary art, the building is the third gallery space on the Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim Campus.
HVAC Products for Summer 2020
From a ventilation grille to boiler technology, these products help create effective comfort zones. Read about new items from Cea Design, Lochinvar, Modern Metal, LG, and Big Ass Fans. Ariachiara The safety of indoor air purification via ion and ozone technologies is still disputed, but if you’re seeking these, this five-speed ceiling fan checks all the boxes in a sleek design. It features ionization and ozonation plus an integrated Bluetooth-controlled light and audio speaker within the mount.
Workplace Products from NeoCon 2020
These standouts from a virtual NeoCon will enhance the post-pandemic workplace. Read about new products from HBF, Stylex, CARVART, Studio TK, Ultra Fabrics, Vitra, Humanscale, BuzziSpace, Maars Living Walls with Gensler, and FENIX. Jueki The clean lines and organic curves of the Jueki stool evoke the idea of sap oozing down a tree. Carved from solid ash, the sculptural seat is available in 18", 24", or 30" heights and an array of clear and opaque finishes, including black, denim, and nutmeg.
An Australian Retreat by Matthew Woodward
Both client and site were ideal. The client is an environmentally minded young builder who bought 25 acres of bushland in New South Wales, a three-hour drive north of Sydney. A forested bluff on the southern tip of Lake Wallis, the site is flanked by two national parks and is only three miles from the Pacific Ocean. While the land has a 45-degree slope, a former owner had cut into the shale rock face of the escarpment to create a platform for a house he never built.
Peabody Essex Museum Garden by Nelson Byrd Woltz
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, has history as rich as the artifacts it houses. Over the centuries, the institution has occupied a number of buildings on the site, notably a 2003 extension by Moshe Safdie. In the most recent chapter of the museum’s story, a new expansion includes not only additional gallery space by Ennead Architects, but also an adjoining 3,700-square-foot formal garden by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects.
The Edge by Dub Architects
In a commercial market, you don’t usually think a developer of a spec office building will value design quality over the most expedient solution. But it can happen. In the case of a 10-story high-rise in Edmonton, Alberta, Gene Dub, principal of Dub Architects, owns the development company—Five Oaks—that constructed it in accord with his firm’s design.
Amazon Headquarters by NBBJ
While Amazon was dominating the news with its search for a city to host a second headquarters a few years ago, the tech giant’s first purpose-built campus was taking shape in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood (also known as the Denny Regrade for the leveling of its eponymous hill more than 100 years ago).
Review of 'Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe'
Mario Alejandro Ariza’s Disposable City is an extremely well-researched book on the future of Miami and South Florida in the face of the climate crisis and rising seas—scanning his footnotes alone is daunting. For those of us who live here, it’s also distressing reading—each year over the coming decades will result not only in diminished coastal territory but inland inundations as well. Decades away might sound distant, but American real-estate finance is based on 30-year mortgages.
Elevated Chicago Dwelling by Filoramo Talsma Architecture
Location: Chicago Project size: 9,500 square feet Program: A mixed use building, including a single-family home, was built on a previously undeveloped lot in historic downtown Chicago. A corner grocery, along with residential parking, occupies the bulk of the ground floor, so the architect (who is also the client) placed the remainder of the residential spaces on the upper three floors.
Aluminaire House Finds Permanent Home at Palm Springs Art Museum
The Aluminaire House has found a permanent home on the West Coast. The Aluminaire House Foundation, established by New York architects Michael Schwarting and Frances Campani, announced this week that it has donated the groundbreaking Modernist structure to the Palm Springs Art Museum in California, where it will become part of the museum’s permanent collection. A.
The New St. Pete Pier by Rogers Partners
Once a haven for retirees and resort-goers, St. Petersburg, Florida— “St. Pete” to locals—has undergone a cultural and demographic renaissance in recent years. Today, bars, restaurants, and museums pepper the downtown shoreline, attracting younger residents and visitors of all ages. And now a new St. Pete Pier extends this lively scene farther into Tampa Bay.
McDonald’s Flagship by Ross Barney Architects
Fast-food restaurants are not a building type that this magazine publishes often. But supersize chain McDonald’s has been making occasional forays beyond formulaic familiarity and the double mansard vocabulary for some years now and, most recently, has created a stir with an outlet designed by Chicago-based Ross Barney Architects and located in—of all places—Disney World.
September 2020 Editorial: Now Comes the Hard Part - Dismantling Racism
I once had the honor of meeting John Lewis, the late Georgia Congressman and civil rights leader, at the time he published his memoir of the movement, Walking with the Wind (1998). He was neither a tall nor fiery figure, but he was unforgettable, with a quiet focus and an aura that was almost holy—yet without a shred of the self-regard not uncommon in both heroes and politicians.
Paving the Way: Moody Nolan
When Curtis (Curt) J. Moody, FAIA, opened his own office in his hometown, Columbus, Ohio, in 1982, he was fulfilling a long-held dream of establishing a minority-owned architecture firm. The following year, he teamed up with another Black-owned business, the engineering firm Howard E. Nolan & Associates, to create Moody Nolan. Today, Moody Nolan is the largest Black-owned architecture firm in the U.S., with 230 employees in 11 offices around the country.
Mover and Shaker: Steven Lewis
R. Steven Lewis gets around. Since earning a B.Arch. at Syracuse University in 1979, the peripatetic 63-year-old architect has bounced from New York to Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to Detroit and back to L.A., working in both the public and private sectors. He is now a principal leading the urban-design practice for the Los Angeles office of ZGF, where his projects include a $1 billion State of California office complex in Sacramento.
Rise to the Top: Dina Griffin
Architect Dina Griffin’s career is a rich tapestry of defining moments. There was the moment as a teenager growing up on Chicago’s South Side when she elected to take an architectural drafting class instead of home economics. There was the moment during college at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign when a caring professor encouraged her not to drop out of the architecture program.
Flexible Sole Practitioner: Nina Cooke John
Whether she is working on the renovation of a Manhattan apartment or a proposal for a multifamily housing prototype in Newark, architect Nina Cooke John’s design approach is anthropological in nature. At the crux of her eponymous practice, which she established in 2018, is a fascination with how people appropriate and modify the spaces around them in an ad hoc manner. This is apparent in her earliest work: her thesis project at Cornell University, where she received a B.Arch.
Motor City Design Engine: Rainy Hamilton
Rainy Hamilton Jr., president of Hamilton Anderson Associates (HAA), discovered that he was destined for a career in architecture “early in life,” as one of his friends likes to brag. By elementary school in his hometown of Detroit, Hamilton’s passion was drawing. He pursued this interest at Cass Technical High School and then at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture.
Does the Long Road to Licensure Impede Diversity in the Profession?
As Americans have taken action to try to end racism and institutionalized biases, the spotlight inevitably turned to architecture, which has had a poor record of advancing women and people of color.
Architecture Firms Begin to Grapple with Discrimination
There are pivotal moments in history that we look back on in terms of “before and after.” The tragic police killing of George Floyd feels like a turning point of that magnitude—though we don’t know yet how profoundly transformative its impact will be. For our nation’s architectural community—with African Americans comprising only 2 percent of its registered professionals—the broader response has underscored the pressing need to confront inherent racism in our own industry.
Top 300 U.S. Architecture Firms of 2020
For the ninth consecutive year, Gensler has ranked first on Architectural Record’s roster of the Top 300 Firms. The annual list, compiled by record’s sister publication, Engineering News-Record (ENR), compares companies’ architectural revenue from the prior year, as reported to ENR by firms that choose to participate. These figures, from 2019, do not reflect the economic fallout from the pandemic. Historic Fourth Ward Park Atlanta | HDR Photo © Steve Carrell, courtesy HDR, click to enlarge.
The POOL Aoyama by The Archetype
People/Products Like a splash of cold water, POOL Aoyama is a refreshing surprise. Previously an indoor swimming center, this flexible interior is equally suited for retail or gallery use by day but turns into party central by night. While its design is the product of Nobuo Araki, a Tokyo architect whose firm, The Archetype, has a penchant for renovation, the event-space concept was developed in connection with the music mogul cum design guru Hiroshi Fujiwara and the apparel company JUN Group.
Controversy Surrounds AIA Chicago’s Dismissal of Executive VP Zurich Esposito
A rebellion is brewing in Chicago’s architecture community. On August 13, AIA Chicago, the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects, announced that 55-year-old Zurich Esposito, its accomplished and charismatic executive vice president for the last 14 years, was out.
Designers Quantify Racial Injustice in Data-Driven Installation on National Mall
Editor's Note: This installation has been extended through September 12, 2020. On August 28, 2020, an estimated 50,000 people will join together for a March on Washington on the 57th anniversary of the famous march that culminated in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered from the Lincoln Memorial. Photo by Alan Karchmer Photography, courtesy SmithGroup.
Upper West Side Brownstone by Studio Arthur Casas
Location: Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City Project size: 6,196 square feet Program: A narrow, six-story single family residence on New York’s Upper West Side neighborhood includes ample space for living and entertaining. In the basement, there is an indoor pool, sauna, wine cellar, and employee sleeping quarters. The ground floor features an office, kitchen, family room, and an outdoor garden.
Obituary: Gerald D. Hines, 1925-2020
Gerald D. Hines, founder and chairman of the global real estate firm Hines, died August 23, at age 95. Hines was widely acknowledged as a visionary developer with a strong focus on quality architecture. He built up his firm, which he started in Houston in 1957, into an international organization that was known for its high-quality developments across five continents. With more than 4,800 employees, Hines today is active in 225 cities in 25 nations.
New York Park Honors LGBTQ Activist Marsha P. Johnson
Home » New York Park Honors LGBTQ Activist Marsha P. Johnson Architecture News Rendering of Marsha P. Johnson State Park, image courtesy New York State Parks Rendering of the new park house and education center, planned for Marsha P. Johnson State Park, image courtesy New York State Parks Rendering of the redesigned Gantry Plaza, planned for Marsha P. Johnson State Park, image courtesy New York State Parks Rendering of the redesigned festival plaza, planned for Marsha P.
New York City Museums Reopen for First Time Since COVID-19
After five months of pandemic-induced closures, the museums of New York City are finally allowed to reopen today, August 24. While some cultural institutions—elsewhere in the country and internationally—have been open for months already, those in New York are among the last to welcome guests once again. Along with schools, workplaces, restaurants, and performance venues, policies for visiting museums have been overhauled as a result of COVID-19, and new State guidelines enacted.
Photos: Melania Trump's White House Rose Garden Unveiled
On an overcast morning this past weekend, the White House Rose Garden reopened. Heralded in a release as an infusion of First Lady Melania Trump’s aesthetic, the most notable change is that a once inward-facing, contemplative space now opens to broader vistas beyond. Gone are the flowering “Katherine” crab apple and holly bushes that once lined the colonnade connecting the residence to the West Wing. A new limestone pathway rings the central lawn, leading to a terrace opposite the Kennedy steps.
AIA Condemns GSA Request for Classical-Style Federal Courthouse in South Florida
The AIA has issued a statement in response to an August 10 Request for Qualifications (RFQ) from the General Services Administration for the lead design architect of a new federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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