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04.17.07
I hope everyone has recovered from an architecture-intensive Architecture Week. In case you missed anything, this issue is dedicated to last week’s events.
- Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
Note: In the report, “Architects Return to School,” published 02.23.07, e-OCULUS omitted mentioning the AIANY Committee on Architecture for Education organized the symposium, A New Architecture for a New Education. We apologize for the oversight.
In this issue:
·Mayor + Thousands Celebrate Architecture Week
·Low-Income Residents Contribute to NYC Greening
·Timeline, Design Awards Celebrate 150 Years — Past, Present, and Future
·Architects Encouraged to Aid Poor at Awards Lunch
·Meier’s Museums Bring Light to Communities
·Portfolios Set Six Young Firms Apart
Event: AIANY Chapter 150th Anniversary Commemoration
Location: 111 Broadway, 04.13.07
Speakers: Patricia Lancaster, FAIA — Commissioner, NYC Department of Buildings; R.K. Stewart, FAIA — President, AIA National; Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA, LEED AP — President, AIANY Chapter; Christine McEntee — Executive Vice President/CEO, AIA National; George Miller, FAIA — Partner, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects & Chair, AIA150 Committee; Richard Morris Hunt; Richard Upjohn
Organizers: AIANY
(Left) A plaque now resides at 111 Broadway commemorating the founding of the AIA.
(Right) Officials commemorate the AIA’s founding (l-r): Patricia Lancaster, FAIA; R.K. Stewart, FAIA; Christine McEntee; George Miller, FAIA.
Jessica Sheridan, Jeremy Edmunds
In observation of the AIA’s founding 150 years ago, members of AIA National, AIANY, and the NYC Department of Buildings unveiled a plaque at the site of the original meeting of the 13 founding architects in 1857. At 111 Broadway, NYC Department of Buildings Commissioner, Patricia Lancaster, FAIA, read a proclamation by Mayor Bloomberg commemorating the event. The text follows:
Whereas:
The historian Jacques Barzun called New York City’s skyline the ‘most stupendous unbelievable manmade spectacle since the hanging gardens of Babylon.’ Indeed, no city’s architecture is as synonymous with its identity as New York’s. Our residents owe a tremendous debt to the architects who have designed and constructed everything from the magnificent Beaux-Arts façade of Grand Central Terminal to the charming brownstones of Brooklyn and Harlem — and this week, we join all those celebrating the 150th anniversary of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), a national organization of certified professionals whose New York Chapter contributes so much to the safety, aesthetics, and social purpose of our city’s architecture.
Whereas:
As I demonstrate each year when I bestow the Art Commission Awards for Excellence in Design, our administration is deeply committed to these very same values. All New Yorkers are grateful for the AIA’s important work with our city’s planning and design agencies and public works community to improve the quality-of-life throughout the five boroughs.
Whereas:
Every day, the AIA demonstrates an incredible commitment to its mission. Throughout the year, this valuable institution sponsors programs exploring the role of architects in everything from urban design to historic preservation, and, to foster the development of the next generation of great builders, the AIA provides scholarship and educational opportunities for students and the general public through its charitable affiliate, the Center for Architecture Foundation.
Whereas:
At its best, architecture is an inspiring testament to humanity’s limitless capacity to imagine, create and achieve. No city exemplifies this vital profession’s spirit as does New York City — and, since 1857, no organization has contributed more to its continued progress than the AIA. We take this opportunity to congratulate the AIA on 150 great years, and look forward to building an even better future together.
Now therefore, I, Michael R. Bloomberg. Mayor of the City of New York, in recognition of this important anniversary, do hereby proclaim April 9th to the 16th in the City of New York: ‘Architecture Week.’
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the City of New York to be affixed.
Michael R. Bloomberg
Mayor
Event: Powerhouse: New Housing New York
Location: Center for Architecture, 04.09.07
Speakers: Winning Team Members: Richard Dattner, FAIA — Dattner Architects; Vincent Chang, AIA — Grimshaw; Honorable Mention Team Members: David Cook, RIBA — Behnisch Architekten; Markus Dochantschi — StudioMDA
Moderators: David Burney, AIA — Commissioner, NYC Department of Design & Construction (DDC); Commissioner Shaun Donovan — NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD)
Organizers: AIA NY Chapter; New Housing New York Steering Committee; NYC Department of Housing preservation and Development; additional support by AIANY Housing Committee
Sponsors: National Endowment for the Arts; Enterprise Community Partners
The New Housing New York winning and honorable mention entries: Phipps Rose Dattner Grimshaw (left), SEG + BEHNISCH + MDA (right).
Courtesy AIANY
Architecture should go beyond building and incorporate social theory. This is why architecture competitions must be based in reality, argues David Burney, AIA, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Design & Construction (DDC). The New Housing New York competition, NYC’s first juried design competition for affordable, sustainable housing in the Bronx, proves this theory. The winning entry, “Via Verde,” is a practical, economically viable yet innovative solution to the affordable housing issue. The honorable mention’s entry incorporates a new idea of standard living to social housing based on a common European model.
“You can’t sustain a city without affordable housing,” stated Vincent Chang, RIBA, AIA, principal of Grimshaw and member of the winning design team, Phipps Rose Dattner Grimshaw (Dattner Architects/Grimshaw). With Via Verde (or Green Way), his team is attempting to reconcile diversity and social equity by creating a connection to nature. With a central courtyard and a series of terraced green roofs, every resident will have access to green space, varying in program from a farmer’s market and playground at street level to a grassy area with benches for lounging above.
Via Verde is the first affordable housing project to combine building typologies. The green terraces are possible because the buildings graduate in scale from low- to mid- to high-rise units. With a narrow site, the thin floor plans allow for maximized cross-ventilation and daylight in every apartment. To ensure and encourage safety, there is one focal entrance intended to act as a social gathering place, and all of the grounds will be attended 24-hours-a-day. “It’s not architecture; it’s, in fact, a process,” said Richard Dattner, FAIA, of his team’s goal to freshen the affordable housing process at a governmental level. “Europe calls it social housing, not affordable housing.” NYC needs to change its perspective.
Environmental, social, and physical sustainability guided the honorable mention team’s entry. Because the proposal was the least dense of the entries, team SEG+BEHNISCH+MDA (Behnish Architekten/studioMDA) became the most fiercely debated entry among the jury, stated Shaun Donovan, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). The team ran a series tests to find a massing that would achieve the maximum amount of ventilation possibilities. With only five towers — the tallest is 13 stories — the project would not appear oppressive in the neighborhood, explained David Cook, RIBA, principal of Behnisch Architekten.
Simplicity was key to sustainability in the SEG+BEHNISCH+MDA design. By incorporating air-driven systems, taking advantage of thermal mass properties, and strategically locating porous elements in each elevation, the team limited the need for mechanical equipment. Giving tenants as much control over their apartments’ environments, and minimizing the number of apartments around each core, the team tried to create a sense of ownership.
NYC has a sense of urgency to produce sustainable and affordable housing, stated Chang, but how will the buildings perform once they are in use? Cook pointed out that architects enable an environment by building responsible structures, but it is up to the inhabitants to improve their own lives. If residents enjoy their living situation, countered Chang, they will take care of maintaining it. An audience-member reinforced this by describing a recycling program recently launched in her affordable housing complex. Taking part in a citywide scheme to improve the environment empowers residents. They want to give back to the city and feel that they are helping — not hindering — the city’s progress. Another similar competition scheduled for the end of this year promises progress.
Powerhouse: New Housing New York is on view at the Center for Architecture through 06.16.07. See On View: At the Center for Architecture for more information.
Event: NY 150+: A Timeline - Ideas - Civic Institutions - Futures
Location: Center for Architecture, 04.12.07
Organizers: AIA New York Chapter; The Center for Architecture Foundation
Exhibition Underwriters:
 IBEX Construction; Patrons: NRI; TRESPA
Supported in part by an Arnold W. Brunner grant
Additional Support: Peter Schubert, AIA; FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS
Beverages: SKYY90 & Barefoot Cellars
Event: 2007 AIA New York Chapter Design Awards
Location: Center for Architecture, 04.12.07
Organizers: AIA NY; AIA NY Design Awards Committee
Benefactor: DIRTT; Oldcastle Glass
Patron: HOK, F. J. Sciame Construction Co.; Laticrete International; Microsol Resources; TRESPA
Lead Sponsor: Arup; Columbia University; Cooper Robertson & Partners; KI; Langan Engineering and Environmental Services; Mancini Duffy; Richter + Ratner; Syska & Hennessy, Inc.; Turner Construction
Sponsors: Atkinson Koven Feinberg; Bauerschmidt & Sons, Inc.; Bentley Prince Street; Beyer Blinder Belle: Architects and Planners; Certified of New York, Inc.; Cosentini Associates; Costas Kondylis & Partners; Forest City Ratner Companies; FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS; Gensler; Gilsanz Murray Steficek; Haworth; Hopkins Foodservice Specialists, Inc.; The I. Grace Company, Inc.; Ingram, Yuzek, Gainen, Caroll & Bertolotti; Lutron; Mechoshade Systems; NYU SCPS: The Real Estate Institute; Perkins + Will; Peter Marino Architect; Severud Associates Consulting Engineers; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Steelcase, Inc.; Structure Tone, Inc.; Studio Daniel Libeskind; Swanke Hayden Connell Architects; Thornton-Tomasetti Group
Reception Underwriter:
 IBEX Construction
Beverages by: SKYY90 & Barefoot Cellars
Courtesy AIANY
Two exhibitions that recognize how New York architects (and their projects) have influenced the profession opened with a joint celebration at the Center for Architecture. NY 150+: A Timeline - Ideas - Civic Institutions - Futures coincides with the sesquicentennial anniversary of the AIA, lending a historical birds-eye view to the evolution of the profession. Timeline curator Diane Lewis, AIA, FAAR, calls the exhibition, “a series of giant pages to a forthcoming book celebrating the founding of the New York AIA.” Instead of using a linear, chronological format, Lewis tracked the evolution of specific projects alongside larger social and cultural developments occurring in the city. Projects are represented from germ to synthesis into the city. “When one looks at the postcard of Mies van der Rohe’s 1921 glass skyscraper, it is apparent that New York is the lexicon by which concrete can become imaginary and the imaginary can become concrete,” said Lewis.
The lower level galleries display the winning projects from this year’s AIA New York Chapter Design Awards. In many ways these contemporary projects provide a perfect counterpoint for the historical examples in the timeline. “It is not a coincidence that we have both of these openings happening today,” said Illya Azaroff, Assoc. AIA, AIANY Vice President for Design Excellence at the opening. Azaroff pointed out that while the Timeline exhibition charts the highs of the past 150 years, it provides prologue for today’s architects. The award-winning projects (located internationally, not only in New York) work toward establishing a professional legacy. While each winning project is detailed on its own oversize display, adjacent binders lend a glimpse into the process behind each finished product.
NY 150+: A Timeline is on view through 06.23.07, and 2007 AIA New York Chapter Design Awards is on view through 07.07.07. See On View: At the Center for Architecture for more information.
Carolyn Sponza, AIA, is an architect with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners and is the AIANY Chapter Vice President of Professional Development.
Event: 2007 AIA New York Chapter Design Awards Luncheon
Location: Gotham Hall, 04.11.07
Organizers: AIANY
(Left) (l-r): R.K. Stewart, FAIA, Ronnette Riley, FAIA, and Elisabeth Martin, AIA at the Design Awards Luncheon.
(Right) Ken Drucker, AIA, Design Awards Lunchen Chair with James McCullar, FAIA, AIANY First Vice President/President Elect.
Kristen Richards
As the 2007 AIANY Design Awards Luncheon Chair, Ken Drucker, AIA, welcomed more than 700 attendees to the second annual event held this year in the jewel-like setting of Gotham Hall. AIANY Chapter President Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA, then introduced the celebrated graphic designer Milton Glaser, the keynote speaker who was both witty and profound.
Years ago, Glaser made a list of the hierarchy in the field of visual arts: “First painter, then architect, although I think this relationship may be reversed at this moment, with the architects at the very top.” Then, in descending order, city planner, industrial designer, graphic designer, book designer, editorial designer, art director, advertising designer, craftsman, and commercial artist. “It is unusual for you all to have invited me to speak at this occasion since; in general, speakers from the top of the list are conventionally selected to speak to those below.” The common thread he found is that “all of us engaged in the ‘applied arts’ play the game of reconciling utility and beauty.”
Glaser then explored, in words and with beautiful illustrations, how serious practitioners attempt to balance left brain/right brain, art/work, material/spiritual. “I’m often surprised how passively architects and designers react to the political situations that affect their lives,” he lamented. He speculated that it could be due in part to “a latent response to McCarthyism, a dark moment in our political history,” and that “our political timidity might be that our affluent clients are either uninterested or hostile to our social opinions.” He offered one small way to change the world that “is both transformative and risk-free”: Kiva, a microfinance organization that that matches micro-loans (as small as $25) with impoverished people working their way out of poverty.”We all can help create a benign revolution that will shape our collective future,” he concluded.
Kristen Richards is editor-in-chief of OCULUS and ArchNewsNow.com.
Event: Inaugural Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture for Excellence in Museum Design featuring Richard Meier, FAIA: On Museums
Location: National Academy Museum, 04.12.07
Speaker: Richard Meier, FAIA — Richard Meier & Partners, Architects
Additional Comments: Annette Blaugrund, Ph.D. — Director, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts; ; Gerald Gurland, FAIA; Nicholas Koutsomitis, AIA — principal, Koutsomitis, Architects; Stan Ries — photographer
Organizer: AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee
Sponsors: Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates; National Academy Museum; The Cantera Stone Source; Fisher Dachs Associates and Fisher Marantz Stone; RKK&G; AltieriSeborWieber Consulting Engineers; Devrouax + Purnell; Koutsomitis, Architects; Springboard; Edison Price Lighting; Pilkington; Charles J. Rose; Thornton Tomasetti; Paul Rosenblatt, AIA; The Luis A. Ferre Foundation; Mr. and Mrs. Luis A. Ferre; The Slovin Foundation; Pentagram
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles — Richard Meier’s masterpiece.
Andrew Yip
“Every museum is different, and the life of every museum is different,” said Richard Meier, FAIA, whose Pritzker Prize-winning career designing international iconic museums began, ironically, with a project he did not win. Meier presented the inaugural presentation in a new annual lecture series honoring the late Arthur Rosenblatt, FAIA, founding chair of the AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee and man who interviewed with Meier for the failed project. Rosenblatt served under Metropolitan Museum of Art director Thomas Hoving as vice president for facilities during the heyday of the Museum’s modern expansion era.
The museum is more than a repository of art; it is a social center that integrates indoor and outdoor space, according to Meier. The Applied Art Museum in Frankfurt, for example, has become a hub for expectant mothers (although they tend to ignore the artworks). For Barcelona’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Meier picked the “worst place in the city,” and transformed the space. Echoing Paris’s Centre Pompidou, the adjacent plaza is now used by the whole community — from skateboarders to the elderly who watch them.
Natural light has always been very important to Meier, but it is something that must be negotiated to preserve artwork. One way is by separating exhibition and circulation spaces. He created a sense of propulsion in Atlanta’s High Museum of Art with a circular ramp around the atrium influenced by the Guggenheim Museum. The naturally lit core is separated from the art by the circulation ramp. The Beverly Hills Gagosian Gallery features rotating exhibitions; natural light is incorporated throughout, as the art is not exposed to sunlight for extended time periods.
Perhaps the apex of Meier’s outlook on natural light, social space, and circulation is the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The project had a controversial beginning because neighbors did not want to “see, smell, or hear it.” Meier’s solution was to build atop a hill, affording views of the ocean and the desert. With a “decompression zone” at the entrance, there is heavy emphasis on plaza space. Taking advantage of the California climate, the museum consists of clustered courtyards and buildings. The boundary between interior and exterior space blurs. The use of stone achieves a sense of permanence and solidity. Though initially dubious about travertine, Meier learned through trial and error how to achieve the desired texture. Of the Getty, Meier said, “There will never be another one like it.”
Museums have the potential to be both public and private spaces. Meier’s success lies in engaging the challenge to create both intimate viewing experiences and social spaces.
Kate Soto is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor.
Event: New Practices New York: 06 Views/06 Positions
Location: Center for Architecture, 04.04.07
Speakers: Matthew Bremer, AIA — Architecture In Formation; Mark Foster Gage — Gage/Clemenceau Architects; Gordon Kipping, AIA — G Tects; Tobias Armborst — Interboro Partners; Amale Andraos — WORK AC; Marianne Hyde — Zakrzewski Hyde Architects
Moderator: William Menking — Founder & Editor, The Architect’s Newspaper & New Practices Showcase Jury Chair
Organizer: AIA NY New Practices Roundtable 2007; The Architect’s Newspaper
Sponsors: Häfele America; MG & Company; Fountainhead Construction; Microsol Resources
Courtesy Center for Architecture
Much of winning the New Practices New York Showcase competition depended on how successful the submitted portfolio appeared to the judges. “It’s more important how it looks on the page,” explained jury chair William Menking, founder and editor of The Architect’s Newspaper. Some of the portfolios reviewed were “really bad.” So what do jurors look for in a good portfolio?
Firms could submit up to 10 projects, but most submitted fewer. Portfolios had to be in an 8 1/2″ x 11″ format, leaving limited space “to make someone fall in love with you,” said Mark Foster Gage of Gage/Clemenceau. Matthew Bremer, AIA, of Architecture In Formation approached the portfolio design process as a way to “say the most with the least.” Amale Andraos of Work AC looked for outside assistance — she and partner, Dan Wood, AIA, hired a graphic designer to “read” the firm and establish guidelines for their portfolio.
Emerging architects are often confronted with the issue of how to present their work, often choosing to collaborate with others or with a more established firm. Interboro Partners didn’t show any built work. They followed a strategy that “started out with a thesis and then tried to support it,” according to firm principal Tobias Armborst. Marianne Hyde of Zakrzewski Hyde Architects explained that she and her partner/husband, Stas Zwkrzewski, used a timeline at the beginning of their portfolio to clarify their professional careers.
The New Practices New York competition provides a forum and resource for recently established architecture firms. An exhibition was held at the Center for Architecture in March 2006, and each firm creates an installation at the Hafele Showroom. The next installation in May will be constructed by Work AC, and a discussion with the firm’s partners will occur at the Häfele Showroom May 10. Click the link for more information.
Murrye Bernard, Assoc. AIA, is a designer with TEK Architects in New York City and Director of AssociateNews, the national quarterly publication of AIA’s National Associates Committee.
The AIANY Chapter has finally taken the next step toward becoming a “Center for Architecture” with this week’s launch of the Public Information Exchange (PIE). Designed to create an archive of NYC projects, proposals, programs, and exhibitions, it aims to foster discussion among those in and outside of design professions. Many times I have longed for a resource that presents the latest building projects in the city, and PIE shows great potential — on the condition that architects, planners, and developers become actively involved in its maintenance, as described below.
PIE allows design professionals to post their projects. Each project page is interactive, complete with photographs, historic images, drawings, and plans. There are links to published articles, external resources, government documents, alternate submissions if the project was part of a competition, and sometimes fly-through animations. Google Maps show the location of each project, so anyone can compile a private walking tour of current projects throughout the city (something I can’t wait to do as the site grows). Most important is space for public comment. With an RSS feed, you can keep updated on the latest developments, responses, and upcoming events. This October, an information booth, designed by Grimshaw and housed at the Center for Architecture, will serve as a physical manifestation of PIE.
Dialogues will continue as the website expands and more information is added. Currently, the featured projects are Governors Island Redevelopment (Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation), the winning entry of New Housing New York competition (Phipps Rose Dattner Grimshaw), and the New York Times Building (Renzo Piano/FX FOWLE Architects). These major projects are important, but I hope projects that are lesser known will soon be added. The only way the website will succeed is if design professionals take ownership of the site and become proactive in updating the site with their latest projects.
As the website expands, I anticipate additional features. At the moment, the only public interaction is through the comments. I hope that the site will soon allow anyone to upload images (I have some nice photographs of the New York Times Building that I would like to post), or link to articles (I could post a link to this issue’s article on the New Housing New York discussion). As much as the site depends on public contributions, it also must evolve to spur the level of participation. PIE could become as useful for the design profession as Flickr is for photography or the Lonely Planet is for tourists.
AIANY and Local Projects (of StoryCorps fame) developed PIE, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Carnegie Corporation, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, The City Council of New York, and the Center for Architecture Foundation.
In this issue:
·Historic Ellis Island Ferry Building Reopens
·Long Island: Tech Hub of the Future?
·From Horses to Humans: Historic Stables To Become Apartments
·Turn Courthouse Into Two Schools
·Casino Brings High Class Play to Atlantic City
·Stern About Town
·Sliver of Luxury on 48th and Eighth
Historic Ellis Island Ferry Building Reopens
The restored Ellis Island Ferry Building.
Photo by NPS/Kevin Daley
After 50 years of deterioration, and a $6.4 million restoration, the Ellis Island Ferry Building greeted its first visitors during a celebration earlier this month. The Art Deco-style building served as the departure point for immigrants traveling to new homes in New Jersey and lower Manhattan. The 5,500-square-foot terminal was built in 1934 to replace an earlier dilapidated wood structure. The exterior work involved extensive masonry repairs, a new roof, and the restoration of the steel windows and ornate lead-coated copper cupola. Interior work included detailed restoration of historic finishes and fixtures, such as the decorative plaster cornice, terracotta wainscot, terrazzo flooring, and a large bronze chandelier. In addition, new electrical, HVAC, and fire protection systems were installed.
The restoration is a project of the Albany office of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott for Save Ellis Island, Inc. and the National Park Service, and was executed to meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Preservation.
Long Island: Tech Hub of the Future?
The Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology at Stony Brook University.
Mitchell/Giurgola Architects
Construction is underway on the Mitchell/Giurgola Architects-designed Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) at Stony Brook University. The 100,000-square-foot facility will operate as a cutting-edge research center for both wireless and wired technology. Services will be available to companies seeking wireless or IT research and development, from industries such as healthcare, transportation and logistics, mobile commerce, financial services, and manufacturing. Construction of the CEWIT is part of a statewide economic strategy to make NY, and specifically the Long Island area, a global hub of the high-tech industry. CEWIT is intended to anchor a new research district where private/public partnerships can develop to aid the design and production of new concepts and products.
From Horses to Humans: Historic Stables To Become Apartments
The renovated American Express Stables will incorporate a two-story addition with a 4,500-square-foot duplex penthouse.
Kevin Kennon Architect
Kevin Kennon Architect has received approval from the NYC Department of City Planning to renovate, enlarge, and convert the historic former American Express Stables built in 1866 into a luxury residential building. The existing three-story building will be transformed into a five-story, 75,000-square-foot, multi-family complex. As part of the renovation process, wooden joists dating back to 1898 will be restored and recycled into the flooring of new lofts, and found objects such as historic signs, stonework, and piping will be incorporated into the building’s design and artwork. Located in the North Tribeca Historic District, the project received approval from the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2005.
Turn Courthouse Into Two Schools
283 Adams Street in downtown Brooklyn will be converted into two schools.
Gran Kriegel Associates
Construction is under way to convert a 1951 former courthouse in downtown Brooklyn into two new 550-seat high schools, designed by Gran Kriegel Associates on behalf of the NYC Department of Education School Construction Authority. The specialized schools, one for law and justice (complete with wood-paneled courtroom), the other for math and science for young women, are for The Urban Assembly, a non-profit that creates small, public, college-prep high schools. The interior of the 140,000-square-foot building will be completely reconfigured. The deteriorating limestone exterior will be over-clad with a thin-stone façade system. A steel-framed, long-span joist rooftop addition, separated from the existing roof allowing for M/E/P distribution and noise isolation, will provide a multi-purpose room for sports and assembly. Construction on the $56 million project will be completed by the 2008-09 school year.
Casino Brings High Class Play to Atlantic City
Atlantic City’s latest casino design.
Stantec
An entire block of the Atlantic City Boardwalk has been given to the New York office of Stantec (formerly Vollmer Associates) to design a casino contracted by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA). The design is intended to create a balance between fun and playfulness, elegance and sophistication, and takes cues from Eastern Seaboard pier architecture, Art Moderne, and the Mediterranean.
Stern About Town
The Brompton on the Upper East Side.
Courtesy Related Companies
On the heels of 15 Central Park West for Zeckendorf Development, Robert A.M. Stern Architects is designing the 22-story Brompton for Related Companies on the Upper East Side. Noted for its gothic-inspired red brick and limestone façade and dramatic arched entranceway with cherry wood paneling and marble floors that traverse two landscaped courtyards, the residences will range from studios to five bedrooms. Occupancy is to begin in fall of 2008.
Sliver of Luxury on 48th and Eighth
785 Eighth Avenue.
Ismael Leyva Architects
An angular 43-story residential building, designed by Ismael Leyva Architects for 785 Partners with Esplanade Capital, will be rising on a thin slice of real estate on Eighth Avenue and 48th Street. The building will contain 122 condominium units, some with terraces, others with balconies. Outdoor rooftop terraces with hot tubs will adjoin the 43rd floor penthouse and 42nd floor apartments.
In this issue:
· New Mexico Ends Censorship of Interior Designers
· NYC Building Code Changes
· NCARB Surveys Architects for IDP and ARE
· Calling Associates! Post Picture, Win iPod Shuffle
· Students’ Structural Reality — in Marshmallow
New Mexico Ends Censorship of Interior Designers
New Mexico eliminated an unconstitutional restriction on the free speech of interior designers by amending legislation that prohibited designers from truthfully advertising their services. Senate Bill 535, signed by Governor Richardson on April 3, responded to a federal lawsuit brought on by the Institute for Justice in September 2006. Two NM-based interior designers were forbidden from accurately advertising their services because they did not hold a “free speech license” from the NM Interior Design Board.
The challenged law allowed anyone to work as an interior designer, but made it a crime for people not licensed by the board to use the terms “interior design,” and “interior designer.” The new legislation permits anyone who practices interior design to use the terms, and creates a new category called “licensed interior designer” for those who meet the credentials.
According to the Institute for Justice:
‘Title’ laws like New Mexico’s, which prevent people who lawfully perform interior design work from using that term to describe what they do, are the result of relentless lobbying campaigns by a small faction within the interior design community, as the Institute for Justice demonstrated in its study prepared by Director of Strategic Research Dick Carpenter, ‘Designing Cartels: How Industry Insiders Cut Out Competition.’ This small faction of industry insiders, unwilling to compete on a level playing field in a free market, pursues government overregulation in a naked attempt to demote their competitors to mere ‘decorators’ or ‘consultants’ by preventing them from using the term ‘interior designer’ without a license.
NYC Building Code Changes
The NYC Model Code Program is an effort undertaken by the NYC Department of Buildings to streamline and modernize the city’s building and electrical codes. Under the program, national model codes promulgated by leading technical organizations are reviewed. Working with local industry, labor, and real estate representatives, the model codes most appropriate for NYC are amended for use in the city and adopted as Local Law by the city council. After adoption, the Model Code Program and its Technical Committees review the codes every three years to ensure they remain up-to-date. The new code, drafted with the help of more than 400 industry figures — including architects, real estate developers, engineers, government officials, and union representatives — will be presented to the City Council later this month.
A recent article in the NY Sun (”Building Code Changes Could Increase Costs,” by Grace Rauh, 04.04.07) claims that these changes could end up increasing NYC’s already soaring construction costs.
NCARB Surveys Architects for IDP and ARE
Beginning April 9, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) certificate holders and American Institute of Architects (AIA) members may receive an e-mail invitation to participate in the 2007 Practice Analysis Survey. NCARB plans to collect data describing knowledge and skills necessary to practice architecture independently while safeguarding public health, safety, and welfare. The last study published in 2001 spurred the ongoing evolution of the Architect Registration Examination (ARE). Participation in this year’s survey will provide information for reviewing and updating the Intern Development Program (IDP) as well as the ARE.
Prometric, NCARB’s test development and psychometric consultant, will administer the survey. The results are anticipated to be distributed in early 2008. Those who do not receive the survey but would like to participate should contact Malia Stroble. Only registered architects may complete the survey and will need to provide proof of valid licensure in order to participate. The survey takes about 40 minutes to complete, according to one Chapter member who has done it.
Calling Associates! Post Picture, Win iPod Shuffle
New Associate members of the AIA out-number new AIA members five to one. To celebrate the future of the profession, the National Associates Committee (NAC) will display images of Associate members for the exhibition, AIA175, at the 2007 AIA National Convention in San Antonio.
Associates should post their images on the Flickr site and answer the following question: Who/What/Where will you be in 25 years when the AIA celebrates 175 years? The NAC will give away an iPod Shuffle to a randomly selected member on April 23. To post a picture, create a Flickr account and join the group, AIA175. Upload a 300-dpi image, enter name with all appropriate titles, and include a response to the question.
Students’ Structural Reality — in Marshmallow
By Tim Hayduk, School Program Manager, Center for Architecture Foundation
Results from the skyscraper design challenge.
Maggie Jacobstein
Students from the United Nations International School (UNIS) visited the Center for Architecture on April 5 to learn about skyscrapers and try their hand at building their own gravity-defying structures. The six-to-eight-year-old students have firsthand experience with skyscrapers — they live in them, visit their folks who work in them, and trek to observation decks. Visiting and appreciating tall buildings is one thing, but trying to build a structure that withstands the forces exerted by Center for Architecture Foundation’s Director Erin McCluskey is a tall order. McCluskey ran a strength test on a few of the models to see how well they stood up.
The skyscraper design challenge asked students to imagine a structure and bring their ideas into a 3-dimensional reality. Using straws, toothpicks, dowels, glue, tape, and even marshmallows as connectors, students experimented with a variety of shapes. Stacked frames tended to fall over until the students discovered the idea of cross bracing. Triangulated structural systems emerged to become tall buildings, castles, and other structures. Although McCluskey was careful not to push the designs to failure, the real test was whether the projects would sustain the bus ride back to school in one piece.
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The MFA Design Department at School of Visual Arts has launched a new podcast series. The “Designer as Author” features lectures by SVA faculty members like Milton Glaser and Paola Antonelli, along with guest speakers from the international design community, emerging designers, thesis projects, and student coursework. Topics range from book jackets to furniture trends. Click the link for more information, or subscribe to the RSS feed or iTunes.
Thirty-two design firms were pre-qualified in the second round of the Mayor’s Design + Construction Excellence Program (D+CEP). In the $10 million and under requirement contracts category, firms are: Andrew Berman Architect; Atelier Pagnamente Torriani; Caples Jefferson Architects; Charles Rose Architects; Christoff:Finio Architecture; CR Studio Architects; Garrison Architects; LARC Studio; Locascio Architect; Lyn Rice Architects; Marble Fairbanks; Marpillero Pollak Architects; Michielli + Wyetzner Architects; Narchitects; OBRA Architects; Pasanella + Klein Stolzman + Berg; Sage & Coombe Architects; Slade Architecture; Steven Harris Architects; Steven Yablon Architects; Toshiko Mori Architects; W Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Weisz + Yoes Architecture; and WORK Architecture Company…
In the $10-$25 million category, firms are: 1100: Architect; Deborah Berke & Partners Architects; Grimshaw; Polshek Partnership Architects; Smith-Miller & Hawkinson Architects; Snøhetta; Steven Holl Architects; and Urbahn Architects…
The AIA announced nine recipients of the 2007 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards including NY firms Gluckman Mayner Architects (Robin Hood Foundation Library for P.S. 192, NYC); and Polshek Partnership Architects (William J. Clinton Presidential Center for the William J. Clinton Foundation, Little Rock, AR)… The Science & Art Center designed by architects Peter Gisolfi Associates for the Agnes Irwin School has received a recognition of excellence from the National School Boards Association (NSBA)…
2007 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards were given to several NY-based firms, including Peter Marino Architect (105 W. 57th Street), “Tall Buildings” category and “Overall Winner”; Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (122 Greenwich Avenue), “Residential” category; Grimshaw (Eco-Rainforest), commended for sustainability in the “Innovation” category; and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Chongming Island and Bahrain Bay), highly commended and commended respectively, in the “Regeneration and Masterplanning” category…
This past year’s New York City Canstruction Competition donated over 251,000 lbs. of canned food to City Harvest — the largest donation from a single event in City Harvest’s 25-year history… The eighth annual SpecSimple.com Box-A-Thon delivered over 200 boxes and raised over $10,000 for NY and NJ design schools. The winners are: Heather Kane, Perkins Eastman; Victoria Danesco, Ted Moudis Associates; Peter Carey, Butlers Rogers Baskett Architects; Maria Ortiz, GRAD Associates; and Eileen Ragsdale, TPG Architecture…
Roland Lewis, executive director of Habitat for Humanity New York City since 1997, has been named president and CEO of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance…
Celebrating Architecture Week, two exhibitions opened at the Center for Architecture on April 12: NY 150+: A Timeline - Ideas - Civic Institutions - Futures, and 2007 AIA New York Chapter Design Awards.
The design team for the NY 150: Timeline - Ideas - Civic Institutions - Futures exhibition at the Center for Architecture celebrates at the opening. (l-r): Diane Lewis, AIA, FAAR (curator), Daniel Meridor, and Emma Fuller.
Jessica Sheridan
Rick Bell, FAIA, AIANY Executive Director with Andy Frankl, President of Ibex Construction, underwriter of the opening reception.
Kristen Richards
AIANY, ASLANY, and the Center for Architecture Foundation, along with Friends of LaGuardia Park, celebrated Architecture Week/Landscape Architecture Month with a reception at the Center exhibiting proposals by Columbia University Landscape Design students for a children’s garden in LaGuardia Park across the street from the Center (the winning design includes a dragon!).
(l-r): Adrian Smith, ASLA, President Elect, ASLANY, congratulates winning designer Anna Mather, a candidate for a Masters of Science in Landscape Design from Columbia, and her daughter, Wynn Maloney.
Kristen Richards
Winning entry for LaGuardia Park, designed by Anna Mather.
Kristen Richards
Architects go all-out to celebrate the AIA’s founding. Richard Morris Hunt and Richard Upjohn came back from the dead to tour modern interiors.
Michael Lischer, AIA
Michael Lischer, AIA, 2007 AIA International Director, with Jeremy Edmunds, PE, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, AIANY Director of Programs and Strategic Planning celebrate Architecture Week at the Bohemian Beer Garden in Astoria.
Oculus 2007 Editorial Calendar
If you have ideas, projects, opinions — or perhaps a burning desire to write about a topic below — we’d like to hear from you! Deadlines for submitting suggestions are indicated; projects/topics may be anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Send suggestions to Kristen Richards.
06.01.07 Fall 2007: Collaboration
09.07.07 Winter 2007-08: Power & Patronage
04.19.07 Call for Recommendations: AIANY College of Fellows
The AIA New York Chapter Fellows Committee is now accepting recommendations for those who will be nominated to fellowship from our chapter. Advancement to the AIA College of Fellows is granted for significant achievement in design, preservation, education, literature and service. Architects who have been members for 10 or more years are eligible for consideration.
05.01.07 Call for Submissions: Reinventing and Galvanizing Downtown
The Alliance for Downtown New York and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council invite artists to creatively look at downtown construction sites. Projects should re-invent and transform community eyesores into places of attraction, curiosity, and anticipation. Proposals in all visual media — paint, collage, light, sculpture, architectural interventions — are encouraged. Projects will be evaluated in terms of effectiveness in ameliorating daily life in a construction zone and monetary feasibility.
05.04.07 Submission: Land Development Breakthroughs Visionary Award
This award recognizes projects with creativity, vision, and implementation of best practices in land development. Criteria for the award include effective leadership, team building, public relations successes, sustainable principles, community contributions, innovative solutions, and financial success, along with uniqueness and beauty. Finalists will be showcased at the upcoming Land Development Breakthroughs — Best Practices Conference, June 7-8 in New Orleans, LA. The winning project will be showcased in the Conference Review edition of Land Development Today magazine.
05.31.07 Submission: Urban Landscape Award 2007
This award sponsored by Eurohypo AG with Topos and Architektur&Wohnen seeks to raise the profile of projects that enhance inner-city open spaces, including residential blocks, mixed-use developments, and redesigned neighborhoods. Innovative sustainable development and economic and social integration will be expected. Public and private organizations, planners, and architects are invited to submit. Projects must have been completed between the years 2000 and 2006. The first-prize winner will receive EUR50,000 (appr. $67,000).
06.01.07 Submission: Schedium
The AIA NY Chapter’s Emerging New York Architects (ENYA) invites drawing portfolio submissions as part of its new program, Schedium, intended to celebrate the drawing abilities of emerging architects. Artists selected from the portfolio competition may be asked to participate in a live drawing series. International practitioners are welcome. Eligibility is limited to those with an architecture degree or international equivalent, and have received an architecture degree no later than 01.01.91 or received their architectural license no later than 01.01.97, whichever is less restrictive. Four winners will receive a $1,000 stipend plus additional benefits.
06.01.07 Submission: Challenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast-Track Review Grants
This grant category offers support primarily to small- and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations — those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. Grants are available, in the amount of $10,000 each, for professional arts programming and for projects that emphasize the potential of the arts in community development. While not required, applicants are encouraged to consider partnerships among organizations, both in and outside of the arts, as appropriate to their project.
06.01.07 Competition: Walla Walla Market Station Design Competition
The Downtown Walla Walla Foundation and Valley Transit announce a competition to design a distinctive downtown transit station integrating various community needs. Walla Walla is an Eastern Washington city renowned for wine production and its picturesque and historic downtown. Three semi-finalists will win $5,000 each, and compete for a final $3,000 prize.
06.17.07 Submission: ShelterMe
ShelterMe calls for designs of temporary emergency shelters for deployment in a natural disaster. In the past two years, widespread catastrophic events have called forth large-scale international relief efforts throughout both urban and rural areas. Designers are challenged to present a cost-effective, short-term shelter that is affordable, lightweight, strong, and easily deployed. The competition is open to all registered members of the DESIGN 21: Social Design Network, who are at least 18 years old.
08.01.07 Competition: Connecting Market East: Student Design Competition
The Ed Bacon Foundation, a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization, launched its second annual national student design competition, open to architecture, planning, and design students across North America. Entrants must create design solutions for improving Market East in Center City Philadelphia focusing on re-connecting Market East and its destinations to the street, transit, and the city at-large.
12.31.07 Submission: Just Jerusalem
Just Jerusalem calls for innovative visions for Jerusalem and what it might be if justice and urban livability — rather than competing nationalist projects — were the principle points of departure. Sponsored by MIT’s Center for International Studies (CIS) and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), the project’s goal is to allow for the envisioning of Jerusalem, real and symbolic, as a just, peaceful, and sustainable urban locale by the year 2050. Entries are open to architects, urbanists, artists, historians, poets, political scientists, philosophers, economists, engineers, and all others who have ideas for the future of the city. Multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
April 9-July 7, 2007
2007 AIA New York Chapter Design Awards
Galleries: Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, HLW Gallery, South Gallery, Edgar A. Tafel Hall
Related Events
Monday, February 12, 2007, 6:00–8:00pm
Symposium
Monday, April 9, 2007, 7:00–10:00pm
Opening
Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 11:30am–2:30pm
Luncheon
A showcase of the 2007 award-winning projects in three categories-Architecture, Interiors, and Projects. Selected from hundreds of international, national and local submissions, these projects spotlight the extraordinary achievements in architectural design excellence happening in New York City and around the world.
Exhibition and Graphic Design: Graham Hanson Design
Organized by: AIA New York Chapter and the AIA New York Chapter Design Awards Committee
Benefactor: DIRTT,
Oldcastle Glass
Patron:
HOK,
Microsol Resources,
F.J. Sciame Construction,
Laticrete International,
Trespa
Lead Sponsor: Certified of New York, Inc., Columbia, KI, Langan, Mancini Duffy, Richter + Ratner, Syska & Hennessy
Sponsors:
Atkinson Koven Feinberg; Bauerschmidt & Sons, Inc.; Bentley Prince Street; Beyer Blinder Belle: Architects and Planners; Cosentini Associates; Costas Kondylis & Partners; Forest City Ratner Companies; FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS; Gensler; Gilsanz Murray Steficek; Haworth; Hopkins Foodservice Specialists, Inc.; The I. Grace Company, Inc.; Ingram, Yuzek, Gainen, Caroll & Bertolotti; Lutron; Mechoshade Systems; New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies: The Real Estate Institute; Perkins + Will; Peter Marino Architect; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Steelcase, Inc.; Studio Daniel Libeskind; Swanke Hayden Connell Architects; Thornton-Tomasetti Group; Turner Construction
April 12–June 23, 2007
NY 150+: A Timeline
Ideas, Civic Institutions, and Futures
Galleries: Gerald D. Hines Gallery
Related Events
Thursday, April 12, 2007, 7:00–10:00pm
Opening
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the American Institute of Architects in New York City, the AIA New York Chapter will feature an exhibition charting the transformation of the city and the profession from 1857 through the present and into the future. Genetic lines tracing the founding of the institute will intersect with various democratic and social movements and the architecture of New York’s civic structures.
Curator: Diane Lewis
Organized by: Organized by the AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation
Exhibition Underwriters:
*opening presented by Ibex
The exhibition is supported in part by an Arnold W. Brunner grant from the AIA New York Chapter
Additional support is provided by: Peter Schubert, AIA; FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS
March 22 to June 16, 2007
POWERHOUSE
New Housing New York
Galleries: Street Gallery, Public Resource Center, Judith and Walter Hunt Gallery, Mezzanine Gallery
Winning proposal
Phipps Rose Dattner Grimshaw
Related Events
Monday, April 9, 2007, 6:00 – 8:00pm,
CES 1.5, HSW
Panel Discussion with Winning Team
and Honorable Mention Team
Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 5:30 – 7:30pm
384 East 149th St., Bronx, NY, 3rd Floor
BX Community Board 1 Presentation
Saturday, April 14, 2007, 1:00 – 4:00pm
FamilyDay@theCenter: House + Home
Saturday, April 14, 2007, 12:00 – 2:00pm
1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St., Bronx, NY
FamilyDay@the Bronx Museum of the Arts
www.bronxmuseum.org
Monday, April 16, 2007, 6:00 – 8:00pm, CES 1.5, HSW
Panel Discussion with Three Finalists
Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 6:00 – 8:00pm, CES 1.5, HSW
NHNY: Best Practices for Affordable Sustainable Housing -
What worked, what didn’t?
Making Green Design More Accessible
TBD, CES 1.5, HSW
Power House illuminates the people, projects, and public policies that fuel the affordable housing landscape in New York City.
As New York City’s first juried design competition for affordable, sustainable housing, the New Housing New York Legacy Project (NHNY) is generating creative, replicable approaches to urban development. The exhibition focuses on the NHNY competition and sets it within the context of the city’s efforts to preserve and development sustainable, financially viable residences for low- and middle-income New Yorkers. The show’s emphasis is on the future of housing in the city, as represented by the competition winner, Phipps Rose Dattner Grimshaw (Phipps Houses / Jonathan Rose Companies / Dattner Architects / Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners), the four finalists, and the development mechanisms put in place by Mayor Bloomberg’s 10-year New Housing Marketplace initiative and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
Building on the 2004 New Housing New York Ideas Competition, the 2006 two-stage contest will result in construction of the winning design on a 40,000 square-foot Bronx site, which is valued at $4.3 million and was donated by The City of New York.
For the full list of finalists click here
Curator: Abby Bussel
Exhibition and Graphic Design: Casey Maher
Organized by: AIA New York Chapter,
New Housing New York Steering Committee and the
City of New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development with the additional support of the Center for Architecture Foundation and the AIA New York Chapter Housing Committee
Exhibition Underwriters:
Exhibition Patron:
For more information on the New Housing New York Legacy Project click
href="http://www.aiany.org/NHNY/Legacy_About.html">here
NHNY is a partnership between the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, the City of New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Additional support is provided by the Center for Architecture Foundation, and City University of New York.
The NHNY Legacy Project is sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the National Endowment for the Arts, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., an AIA National Blueprint Grant, JP Morgan Chase, and Citibank.
March 22 — June 2, 2007
Making Housing Home
Photographs with residents of New York City housing developments
Galleries: Library
Norma’s House
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Related Events
Saturday, April 14, 2007, 1:00 - 4:00pm
FamilyDay@theCenter: House + Home
This photographic exhibition explores how people inhabit housing to create homes in two of New York City’s affordable housing developments, each of which were developed to provide good homes for all. Because units of housing are in essence homes for families, this project takes an interior look at what architecture can allow and support, to afford the crucial process of making space for oneself within designed spaces and housing markets. If social housing reflects the social covenant of our society, what is it to which every citizen is entitled? What does it take for a life to flourish and can a building help or hinder this process? What becomes of designed spaces once they are inhabited?
An Installation by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Exhibition underwriters: Related Apartment Preservation, 42nd Street Development Corporation, Barbara Stanton
Organized with: Center for Human Environments, Housing Environments Research Group, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Burlesque House, 1942.
Courtesy Times Square Alliance
Through 04.30.07
Times Square Through the Lens
This free exhibition includes more than 40 Times Square photographs culled from The New York Times archives, including teenagers screaming at the arrival of the Beatles; the USO serving doughnuts and coffee to WWII soldiers; crowds and cameras at the opening of the film, “The Sound of Music.”
Times Square Information Center
7th Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets
Courtesy Architectural League of New York
Through 05.05.07
New New York: Fast Forward
The Architectural League of NY presents the fifth in ongoing series of exhibitions highlighting new architecture in NY. A snapshot of the changing city, this exhibition serves as an opportunity to evaluate and inform the current wave of redevelopment, and hopes to encourage more informed discussion. The centerpiece is a gallery-sized map, an aerial photograph of the five boroughs, featuring more than 500 projects, ranging from single buildings to neighborhood rezoning, now under construction or being planned. In addition, the exhibition looks at three areas that are undergoing particularly significant change: High Line District, Bronx River Greenway, and Spring Creek Housing. Included is a series of videotaped interviews with a cross-section of NY architects, ranging from emerging designers to internationally-recognized figures.
Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue
Courtesy The Chelsea Art Museum
04.19.07 through 05.12.07
The Sims: In the Hands of Artists
Using the world of the popular video game, “The Sims,” as inspiration, Parsons The New School for Design presents an exhibition of work by students in its Design and Technology, Communication Design, and Illustration programs. Works combine the art forms of “machinima” (using a game engine to produce animations or films), physical computing, interactive media, 3-dimensional printing, and traditional media.
The Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd Street at 11th Avenue
“Druzhba” holiday camp (Yalta, Ukraine, 1985 — Architect Igor Vasilevsky).
Courtesy Storefront for Art and Architecture
04.24.07 through 05.26.07
CCCP — Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
During the course of his travels in the former Soviet Union over the past five years, French photographer Frederic Chaubin has documented architectural artifacts born during the last 20 years of the Cold War. Some architects in the peripheral regions of the Eastern Bloc countries, working on governmental commissions during the 1970s and 1980s, enjoyed a degree of creative freedom, drawing inspiration from expressionism, science fiction, early European modernism, and the Russian Suprematist legacy. As well as presenting the architecture itself, the exhibition traces the intellectual and political undercurrents.
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street, NYC
C&G Partners
Through 07.13.07
AIA America’s Favorite Architecture Green Exhibition
NY-based C&G Partners has designed a “green” exhibition system created for “America’s Favorite Architecture,” a traveling exhibition presented by the AIA. The lightweight, compact system incorporates sustainable materials and recyclable components. An interactive web site, also designed by C&G Partners, accessible at kiosks within the exhibition, allows visitors to vote for their own favorite architecture at each location.
AIA Washington DC Headquarters
1735 New York Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.
and at AIA’s National Convention
San Antonio, TX, from May 3-5, 2007.
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Intermediate Architect
AAI Architects, P.C., an affiliate of Adamson Associates, is looking to expand their New York office.
AAI is currently involved in the redevelopment and reconstruction of the World Trade Center Site in association with design architects Foster and Partners, Richard Rogers Partnership, and Maki and Associates.
As the architect of record, AAI is required to support and assist the efforts of multiple design architects, consultants and stakeholders from concept phase through to project completion.
We are looking for motivated, intermediate level architects with a minimum of 5 years of experience, who have excellent communication and problem solving skills as well as an appreciation and sensitivity to architectural design issues. Candidates will need to possess strengths in the area of architectural detailing, contract documents, and the coordination of complex building disciplines and systems. Proficiency with AutoCAD is required and experience with Revit is a bonus.
Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Resumes can be sent by e-mail to nzigomanis@adamson-associates.com
Position: Director of Sustainability
NYC-based dynamic Real Estate firm with diverse portfolio of existing buildings and projects under development seeks candidate for position of Director of Sustainability. Candidate must have background in Architecture/Engineering w/prior experience in implementing sustainability and green design strategies in existing and new buildings. Must be able to communicate, educate, and work with in house staff and joint venture partners on the benefits and implementation of green design practices.
Contact: Jacob Buksbaum, Director of Design and Construction
E mail: jbuksbaum@timeequities.com
Web site: www.timeequities.com
Real Estate Development
NY/NJ area developer seeks an intermediate architect interested in moving from architectural practice into real estate development. The position reports directly to our SVP of Development. We will consider candidates with the following qualifications.
· B. Arch or BA/BS plus M.Arch.
· 8-10 years experience
· Demonstrable project management/design/technical skills.
· Excellent verbal/written communication
· High level proficiency in MS Word, Excel, MS Project/Suretrack
Please send a resume and cover letter to david@streetwood.com.
ARCHITECT LEVEL 2
MTA New York City Transit
Responsibilities: Under direction, incumbents may supervise a capital construction project of great technical complexity and/or one that will have a significant impact on TA operations/infrastructure; Relative to design, incumbents may serve as architectural team leaders on a project of similar complexity or potential impact. Additionally, you may become a contributor for one of NYC Transit’s planned System Expansion Projects.
Requirements: A valid New York State registration as an Architect and five years of full-time experience in Architecture including experience as a major contributor or a project leader.
Desired Skills: Candidates should possess an in depth knowledge of the capital construction process in design and construction, and possess an overall ability to function effectively within that process by applying the standards of project management while utilizing effective oral and written communication skills.
Ms. Valerie Tookes
HR Departmental Operations
2 Broadway Room D21.13
New York, NY 10004
or e-mail cpmre@nyct.com
(Include the 003953 NYAIA as the ‘Subject’)
Fax: 646-252-2256
Interior Designers and Interior Architects
Little, nationally recognized as a “Best Firm to Work For” and one of the nation’s most progressive design firms, is seeking Interior Designers and Interior Architects for our nationally growing Workplace Studio in our Charlotte, NC, Office.
Our culture is energetic, collaborative and open. We value people who are fun to work with and who have a positive impact on everyone around them.
The individuals selected for these great opportunities will be responsible for engaging in strong client relationships, coordinating and motivating internal and external consultants and team members, developing and documenting design, providing construction administration and project management services on a wide variety of architectural and interior design projects and project types.
Great communication, organizational and project management skills are essential, as is a team-oriented, flexible attitude and a passion for high quality designed work projects.
Successful candidates will possess a bachelor’s degree in Interior Design or Architecture from an accredited school and 3+ years of experience (focused primarily on corporate work environments). Registration/licensure (or on the registration track) is required, as is proficiency in AutoCAD and/or Revit.
This is a great opportunity for you if you have exceptional communication skills, both graphically and verbally, including the ability to listen intently and respond with tangible and thought-provoking solutions, and you naturally establish great client relationships. You should also enjoy collaborating with others and rolling up your sleeves to support a collaborative approach to creative problem solving.
Little is dedicated to enhancing client performance by orchestrating the right mix of expertise, creativity and innovation to design new dimensions of success. Over 250 employees across the nation specialize in a variety of market types, including Community (Civic, College & University, Schools), Retail (Store Design, Supermarkets, Shopping Centers, Corporate Rollout, Build to Suit) and Workplace (Financial, Interior Architecture, Office), and deliver results beyond architecture through a complete array of diversified architectural consulting services such as: Architecture, Engineering, Interior Architecture, Land Development Services, Graphic Design, FM Strategies (Facilities Planning and Space Management Consulting), Building Technology Applications and Skyscraper Digital services (Computer Animation and Internet Application services). Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Little has locations in Dallas, TX; Detroit, MI; Irvine, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Orlando, FL; Durham, NC; and Washington D.C.
We are proud to offer outstanding benefits, compensation, and growth opportunities. To learn more about Little, please visit us at www.littleonline.com.
Little is an Equal Opportunity Employer by choice.
CIO for prestigious design firm
Join a firm that relies on technology to keep its leadership position
Technology is one of the reasons one of the largest US-based design firms has been as successful as it is. With one of the industry’s leading technology strategists at the helm of the IT group, this firm has benefited in all aspects of its practice — from the group’s good advice, deep expertise and the ability to sell ideas internally. The CIO has been asked to assume a larger role within the firm and he seeks a technology ally to assume many of his responsibilities as he moves into a new leadership position.
Joining this firm at this time will be a fast ride for the right person. It is probable that you are trained in architecture, but took the technology fork in the road earlier in your career. At the very least, you’d have to have an intimate understanding of how design firms work. You’d need to have familiarity with a wide range applications from financial and HR systems to 3-D modeling and animation. But this position requires a leader who can bring much more than technical capability to the firm. Two other attributes are critical:
· An appetite for innovation in design, project delivery, and practice processes
· The soft skills of a diplomat…always aware of the needs and expectations of your “customer” but on a mission to do the right thing
If are a senior player who is intelligent, articulate and passionate about architectural technology applications and you believe you have the leadership capability to make a contribution at the highest level in the design industry, send your resume in confidence to mary@breuerconsulting.com to initiate a dialog.
Designer/planners: A rare opportunity to create special environments
Work globally from a New York City base
The term “planner” has come to mean many things…from those who understand the need for regulatory control to visionaries for entire cities. For this remarkable firm, the term planner is very specific. Their clients have very high expectations when they embark upon projects, and it is the big idea that moves them from concept to implementation. These clients expect a lot: creativity beyond what they have seen before; knowledge of the dynamics of the market sectors in which they are involved; the ability to engage at a variety of levels with those who will make the project come to life. But most of all, this firm…and their clients…require people who can visually represent good ideas.
In using the term “remarkable” to describe this firm, we have selected from terms like “surprising”, “wildly successful”, and “quality-driven” — all of which also apply. The firm is remarkable for several reasons:
· Success without fanfare: This 250-person, six-office, international firm is a top-of-the line designer in its chosen market sectors. Yet it is not a household name: they don’t have to be, if they are well-known among their client base. As a result, they are one of the most successful design enterprises in the country.
· Intuitive blending of planning, landscape architecture and architecture: All of this firm’s projects are the result of the respectful integration of what these three design disciplines can bring to an idea… always starting with the intrinsic qualities of a site
· Client portfolio: Working with some of the most exclusive developers, governments and families globally, this firm has created some of the world’s most stunning environments…centered largely, but not solely, on destination resorts
This firm relies on its planners to help clients envision what they want. They seek individuals who can extract critical programmatic elements about a project and produce concepts that evoke confidence from their clients through sheer imagination. Then, working with the firm’s landscape architects and architectural designers, advise on project execution that is faithful to the original idea.
If your career has evolved to focus on the front end of projects and your role has been to communicate design ideas on a large scale to those who need to feel confident that their investment is realistic and marketable, consider looking at this opportunity. You could be trained as a architect, landscape architect or planner: it is the experience that counts for this firm. They are seeking individuals who can bring 8-15 years of relevant background to the mix of very talented individuals already on staff. If you’d like to learn more, send your resume in complete confidence to mary@breuerconsulting.com.
Project Executive for New York office of a sophisticated design firm
Work directly with CEO to ensure project quality
Our client is a 100 person office of an unusual architectural firm that practices globally. This is an extremely high-quality firm, but somewhat under-the-radar. It offers clients architecture, landscape architecture, and planning in a highly integrated delivery format. You will be surprised to learn about this firm and its wide-ranging practice in the new community, destination resort, and primary/secondary residence sectors. Rapid growth has taxed the system to the point where the New York CEO requires a right hand person to focus on projects.
In this position, you would proactively oversee New York projects of varying densities and scales. Your job would be to work with project managers to ensure that all projects are profitable, meet contractual requirements and are delivered on time. You would guide the staff through project completion, instilling a team-oriented culture. You could also assume management of selected projects personally.
As the CEO’s right hand, you would communicate project status on an on-going basis, troubleshoot projects with a view toward resolution at the earliest possible date, request additional or reallocated resources when appropriate, notify the CEO of all potential problems as early as possible and communicate project manager performance problems and successes.
This position requires a mature professional who has a knack for digging into projects in the most respectful manner, and offering suggestions and solutions. Obviously, the successful individual must be highly organized, detail-driven, conscientious, and proactive…yet congenial…with the ability to stimulate performance from others At least 12 years of experience managing projects personally is required. Global experience is important.
Individuals who love an intense, demanding environment but who don’t get frazzled as a result would find this environment stimulating. This is a firm that has grown quickly in the past five years and it has ambitious plans. You would be a part of the leadership of the New York office, with a hand in helping the office to evolve. If this sounds like a potential next career step for you, please send your resume in confidence to mary@breuerconsulting.com to initiate a dialog.
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Growing Southampton firm with commercial, municipal, institutional and residential projects seeks experienced architect. Must be able to coordinate and detail complete CD’; CAD savvy; ArchiCAD and/or VectorWorks a plus. Visit www.flynnstott.com. Email resume to ric@flynnstott.com.
Chelsea West Architects, cwany.com, a growing NYC design firm, seeks Junior/Intermediate Architects with up to 4 years experience for large domestic and international projects. AutoCAD and 3DStudio required. Current projects include 152-acre site encompassing 55 residential towers outside New Delhi. mail@cwany.com
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