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03.18.08
With the weather finally improving but with April showers looming in the near future, now is a great time to walk the city and see the sights you may have missed over the winter — such as Astroland, which re-opened last weekend for the last time (again).
- Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
Correction: In the last issue of e-Oculus, the In the News section ran a piece called, “Industrial Meets Green at Brooklyn Navy Yard,” about the Perry Avenue building on the Museum Resource Campus for SurroundArt. Stantec is the design architect and architect-of-record for the core and shell of the Perry Avenue building, and it is filing for LEED CS certification. Steven Kratchman Architect is retained by SurroundArt for design of tenant fit-out work for their leased space, including interiors at the Perry Avenue building. Also, the rendering was incorrectly credited and should have gone to Stantec. We apologize for the incorrect information.
Event: Made By China Symposium
Location: Center for Architecture, 03.01.08
Introductions: Wei Wei Shannon — Curator, Shi Jian — Co-Curator, Building China: Five Projects, Five Stories exhibition
Speakers: Building China Panel: Zang Lei — Owner, AZL Atelier Zanglei (Nanjing); Yan Meng — Partner, Urbanus Architecture & Design (Shenzhen); Wang Shu — Partner, Amateur Architecture Studio (Hangzhou)
Moderator: Clifford Pearson — Architectural Record
Co-Evolution Panel: Ambassador Richard Swett, FAIA — Managing Principal, Leo A Daly, Washington DC office, & former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark; Kent Martinussen — CEO, Danish Architecture Centre; Dan Stubbergaard — Principal, COBE (Copenhagen)
Moderator: Søren Sønderstrup — Communications Consultant, Danish Architecture Centre
Organizers: AIANY; The Center for Architecture Foundation; People’s Architecture; Danish Architecture Centre; UiD; AIANY International Committee
Sponsors: Patron: Digital Plus; Supporters: Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners; EDAW; Jerome & Kenneth Lipper Foundation; Friend: Bartco Lighting; Häfele; Ibex Construction; Let There Be Neon; Tsao & McKown Architects
The Dafen Cultural Center by Urbanus Architecture responds to its urban context.
Courtesy AIANY
Both exhibitions at the Center for Architecture — Building China: Five Projects, Five Stories, and Co-Evolution: Danish/Chinese Collaboration on Sustainable Urban Development in China, take up China’s building boom. The greatest challenge facing Chinese architects today is to “be local within a global context,” says Shi Jian, co-curator of the Building China exhibition. Conversely, the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC), seeing China’s growth as part of an international struggle to “co-evolve” toward a more sustainable world, is pressing China’s universities and municipalities to share development knowledge and experience with the rest of the world.
A new generation of Chinese architects, including AZL Atelier Zanglei, Urbanus Architecture & Design, and Amateur Architecture Studio, is responding to issues of globalization and urban growth by embracing both international modernity and the specifics of local context. For example, AZL Atelier Zhanglei used local brick and farmer/craftsmen labor in the Brick House to create modern surface patterns that are abstract yet grounded in local culture. In the Dafen Cultural Center, Urbanus Architecture employed multi-use programming to deal with its urban context. The integration of retail shops, classrooms, and exhibition spaces within the center, and reserving its exterior for murals by local artists, reflects the identity of the thriving artist community.
Wang Shu, partner of Amateur Architecture Studio, approaches context as a poetic, rather than a material or programmatic, challenge. Referring to the harmonious relation of man and nature in Chinese landscape paintings, Shu seeks an architecture that integrates “seamlessly into nature.” Incorporating materials and forms of Chinese villages, the firm’s campus design for the Chinese Academy of Arts is intended to evoke a “2,000-year-old village trapped in a bottle.”
To Kent Martinussen, DAC’s CEO, China’s urbanization highlights environmental problems worldwide, which he believes require international collaboration. Pairing several Danish architects with teams from Chinese universities, the Co-evolution project explores sustainable solutions for environmental remediation, infrastructure planning, and site development. In the Magic Mountain proposal, for instance, COBE combined transit-oriented garden city planning with clustered high-rise development. Pointing to China’s immense development capacity, Martinussen emphasized harnessing this power and discerning “how it might be done better, through new alliances and new understandings.”
Gregory Haley, AIA, AICP, LEED AP, is a project architect and urban designer at Studio V Architecture, and has taught architectural design studios at NYIT School of Architecture.
Event: Public Lecture Series: Design Directions for Banking and Finance
Location: Center for Architecture, 03.10.08
Speakers: Serge Appel, AIA, LEED AP — Associate Partner, Cook + Fox Architects; Lance Boge — Principal, Gensler; Randolph H. Gerner, AIA — Partner, Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel, Architects; Rafael Pelli, AIA, LEED AP — Partner, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects NY Office
Moderator: Fanny Gong, AIA — Co-Chair, AIANY Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions
Organizer: AIANY Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions
Sponsors: Champion: Studio Daniel Libeskind; Supporters: Gensler; Humanscale; James McCullar & Associates; Friends: Costas Kondylis & Partners; Forest City Ratner Companies; Frank Williams & Associates; Hugo S. Subotovsky A.I.A. Architects; Mancini Duffy; Magnusson Architecture and Planning; Rawlings Architects; RicciGreene Associates; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Syska Hennessy Group; Trespa North America; Universal Contracting Group
One Bryant Park will impact the NYC skyline creating an icon for Bank of America.
Jessica Sheridan
Whether they are small-scale, local retail branches or large international corporate headquarters, banks have a very simple agenda: evoke a sense of trust in people. Recruitment and retention is the goal for institutions, both for their customers and employees; it is up to the architects to suggest security, familiarity, wealth, and even happiness in their designs.
For retail banks, banks are for the consumer; hence, they must portray a strong, easily identifiable brand. Gensler has designed a series of LEED Silver PNC Banks, projecting an attitude that aims to attract consumers. The branches are designed using a panel system so each bank may be adjusted based on size or site requirements. Not only is the system flexible and standardized for fast production, it creates an overall aesthetic for the bank. Anyone driving by will recognize the bank by the architecture, not just the signage.
The United Overseas Bank in Singapore, designed by Kenzo Tange with interiors by Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel Architects, on the other hand, uses metaphor to invoke a sense of strength and prosperity. The building has a presence in the city because of its height and central location along the Singapore River. The interior takes advantage of this by incorporating 40-foot-high ceilings in the main hall. An interior stream takes water from the river to a central fountain symbolizing money flowing into the bank — seems an early failed scheme had water flowing the other way — and a large coin-like object made from gold and silver leaf creates an image of money falling from the sky.
For corporate and trading offices, banks compete for the most qualified employees. Attracting and retaining those individuals becomes the focus of their designs. At 731 Lexington Avenue, where Bloomberg is headquartered, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects created a social atmosphere by minimizing individual workspaces and maximizing collective areas. Conference rooms, cafeterias, and public areas are centered around an exterior courtyard, or “urban room.” Because the building is mixed-use, the courtyard acts as an oasis from the bustling retail-oriented avenues, and provides a space for business functions. The courtyard is lined with stainless steel tubes that create both transparency and privacy, and act as a framework for events that enhance office culture — from canvas canopies to the annual Christmas tree.
When completed, it is hoped that One Bryant Park, designed by Cook + Fox Architects, will attract employees for Bank of America through sustainable design. 100% of the building incorporates under-floor air systems and individual temperature controls providing the maximum amount of comfort and a healthier interior environment. The air will be cleaner inside than outside, said Serge Appel, AIA, LEED AP, associate partner at Cook + Fox Architects. With floor-to-ceiling glass on the exterior and interior glass partitions, daylight will penetrate to the core and provide views of the skyline and Bryant Park. With the many green features, Cook + Fox Architects hopes to increase productivity by 1%, or five minutes a day per person. This is equal to one fewer sick day per year per person, and a savings of approximately $7.5million for the bank.
To attract clients, retail banks need to focus on brand identity and marketing to the public, while their corporate office counterparts compete to provide the best work environment for the highest quality employees. In these four examples, the architects tried to create iconic architecture that provides a brand identity through systems, symbols, layout, and sustainability.
Event: Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn
Location: Celeste Bartos Forum, 03.07.08
Speakers: Fritz Haeg — Principal, Fritz Haeg Studio & Project Creator, “Edible Estates”; Peter Sellars — Theater Director; Dolores Hayden — Author & Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studies, Yale University; Frederick Kaufman — Author, “A Short History of the American Stomach”; Shamim Momin — Associate Curator, Whitney Museum, Branch Director and Curator, Whitney Museum at Altria, & Curator, 2008 Whitney Biennial
Organizer: The New York Public Library; Metropolis Books
After witnessing the political polarization of the 2004 Presidential election, designer Fritz Haeg sought to unify people through that well-known common space — their front lawns. Since a majority of suburban-dwelling Americans have front lawns, which Haeg sees as vast spaces that isolate people from their communities, he began transforming them into edible, organic gardens. Now, he hopes that the Edible Estates project will replenish links connecting neighbors, resources, and food.
The predecessors to Edible Estates are the Victory Gardens of WWI and WWII; but where the wartime harvests were meant to relieve the pressure on the national food supply and inspire patriotism, Edible Estates adopts an agenda of “edible activism.” Responding to current environmental crises, Haeg’s gardens not only make landscapes more sustainable, but also make visible the labor behind food production — a process from which typical Americans have largely been removed.
Placing garden ecology in the boundary between house and street exposes homeowners to the actions of those around them. However, Haeg believes the project will also encourage civility and respect among neighbors. It is a way to re-imagine what it means to share resources and ideas, making public gestures in private spaces. The barren American front lawn, he hopes, will be replaced with lush gardens that echo sustainability and civic spirit (and a good meal).
Rachel Schauer is concentrating her studies on architecture and sociology at New York University Gallatin School. She also is e-OCULUS’ graphic designer.
Event: Research and Design: Best Sustainable Practices Abroad: A Presentation by Woods Bagot
Location: Center for Architecture, 03.06.08
Speaker: Nik Karalis — Director, Woods Bagot
Organizer: AIANY International Committee
A roving team of “nomadic warriors” drives Australian-based design and planning firm Woods Bagot’s international practice. Largely staffing their projects from sites in four regions — Australia, Asia, Middle East, and Europe — the firm encourages employees to follow the “journey of the idea,” using local bases to move projects from start to finish. Teams are encouraged to study a place and immerse themselves in analysis of the locale before even picking up a pen to design. “We’re not seagull architects,” said Nik Karalis, director at Woods Bagot, referring to other designers who swoop in and out of different project locations, “we live and breathe the culture.”
This approach to work process results in projects that both respect the culture and improve the environment. In its master plan for the College of the North Atlantic in Dubai, regional Bedouin rugs inspired Woods Bagot when planning the many interior courtyards. Complex patterns of Islamic writing were used to design deep sun shading devices around the buildings’ perimeters.
The firm is moving from the concept of applied sustainability (applying points and pre-packaged solutions) towards site-based environmental considerations that influence design. For the Qatar Science and Technology Park, the firm designed an intricate exterior canopy that provided a sun-shaded veil over the buildings inspired by the site’s rolling topography. If done right, Karalis said, “globalization can signify a move away from monoculture.”
Carolyn Sponza, AIA, LEED AP, is an architect with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners, and the AIANY Chapter Vice President of Professional Development.
Event: Preserving New York — Then and Now Symposium
Location: Museum of the City of New York, 02.23.08
Speakers: Susan Henshaw Jones — President & Director, Museum of the City of New York; Lisa Ackerman — Executive Vice President & COO, World Monuments Fund; Anthony M. Tung — Urbanist & Author; Anthony C. Wood — Author; Tony Hiss — Visiting Scholar, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
Panel 1: Where Did the ‘History’ Go in Historic Preservation?: Jane McNamara — Senior Program Officer, New York Council for the Humanities; Andrew Dolkart — James Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation, Columbia University; Ned Kaufman — Visiting Associate Professor, NYC Program, Cornell University; Michael Miscione — Manhattan Borough Historian
Panel 2: The Media and Preservation: New Media, Old Roles?: Francis Morrone — Art & Architecture Critic, Columnist, The New York Sun; Alan G. Brake — Associate Editor, The Architect’s Newspaper; Jonathan Butler — Founder and Editor, Brownstoner.com; Suzanne Stephens — Deputy Editor, Architectural Record
Panel 3: Preservation and Progress: Mary Schmidt Campbell — Chair, NY State Council on the Arts (NYSCA); Anne van Ingen — Director, Architecture, Planning & Design, NYSCA; Kenneth T. Jackson — Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University; Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA — Principal, Robert A. M. Stern Architects; Amy Freitag — Deputy Commissioner for Capital Projects, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation; Melissa Baldock — Director of Preservation & Research, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation; Randall Mason — Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania
Panel 4: The Preservation Civic Sector in Times of Change: Eric Allison — Co-Founder & Coordinator, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Pratt Institute; Andrew Berman — Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation; Frances Kunreuther — Director, Building Movement Project; Kevin Wolfe — Vice President, Douglaston Little Neck Historical Society
Organizers: The Museum of the City of New York; New York Preservation Archive Project
The Levine Apartment at the Tenement Museum.
Courtesy Tenement Museum
Author Anthony Wood opened this Preserving NY Symposium by quoting William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun: “The past is never dead. It is not even the past.” Conservation possesses complexity, ranging from protecting Modernism (spearheaded by the formation of the Landmarks Preservation Commission) to using blogs (such as brownstoner.com) to build coalitions to save at-risk buildings and neighborhoods.
Preservation has existed in NYC since the end of the 19th century. While the definition has changed throughout the years, the newest chapter of the “movement” takes in of a wider range of projects than ever before considering both history and architectural value, according to Andrew Dolkart, professor of historic preservation at Columbia University. The Tenement Museum, for example, would not have been considered worthy of preservation according to the original Commission’s parameters, as it tended to exclude the immigration story. Now, preservationists have a more collective perspective of history, inclusive of foreigners and their struggles.
Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA, illustrated how preservation can be used as a tool to alleviate blight. SoHo was a devastated area, for example, but now it is thriving because it has preserved the old brownstones and historic buildings while allowing new construction.
Kenneth T. Jackson, professor of history at Columbia University, was the symposium’s anti-preservationist, proclaiming that preservation is for “loser cities” and NYC is not a losing city. He believes it should continue to build leaving history for the books.
Overall, the common tone was fervor. Time and time again, the passion of a community or an individual has proven the value of a building or neighborhood in an ever-changing city.
B.A. Cook is a NYC-based architectural designer and freelance writer.
Event: New Paradigms in Architecture?
Location: Columbia University, 02.11.08
Speakers: Jeffrey Kipnis — Professor, Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University; Reinhold Martin — Associate Professor, Mark Wigley — Dean, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP)
Host: Karl Chu — Adjunct Associate Professor, GSAPP
Organizers: Columbia GSAPP
Courtesy Columbia University GSAPP
Sociologist Bruno Latour once told an interviewer, “Postmodern theorists are useful, like salt added to the academy… but a whole meal of salt?” The New Paradigms discussion was fast-paced and exceptionally salty (in Latour’s sense and others). Occasioned by Karl Chu’s invitation to two Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) colleagues and one visitor to consider a brief manifesto about a new architectural paradigm based on computation, self-replicating structures, and engagement with biotechnology and artificial intelligence, the conversation spurred four thinkers to speculate about how the profession is evolving.
Jeffrey Kipnis, professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University, ultimately agreed that Chu’s vision of “genetic architecture” as a quantitative, scientific discipline has the weight of history on its side. “I know for a fact… that architecture will become a science,” Kipnis said with more dismay than celebration, as other fields historically have done (e.g., alchemy becoming chemistry, or astrology yielding to astronomy). He finds architecture’s scientific ambitions unrealized as of yet, since a true science has formal mechanisms for recognizing when an experiment has failed. He compares current architectural discourse to poetry and emotions rather than quantitative analyses, quipping that architects still live “in a world of doxologies [an expression of praise, usually to a god], not demonstrations.” Loyal to architectural ideas arising from feelings, Kipnis is in no hurry to see this condition pass.
Mark Wigley, dean of Columbia GSAPP, noted an unbridgeable gap between users of buildings and architects, whose knowledge of professional and aesthetic codes places them outside users’ ordinary experience. Replacing routines with contemplation and uncertainty, he said, was a legitimate, even necessary activity for an architect; but to inhabitants, the paradigms may be as transparent as water to a fish.
Bill Millard is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in OCULUS, Icon, Content, The Architect’s Newspaper, and other publications.
Event: An Evening with Santiago Calatrava, New York Preview of the Chicago Spire
Location: The Harold Pratt House, 03.12.08
Speakers: Santiago Calatrava, FAIA — Principal, Santiago Calatrava; Garrett Kelleher — Executive Chairman, Shelbourne Development Group
Organizers: Shelbourne Development Group
“Inspired by nature” is a theme for the Chicago Spire, designed by Santiago Calatrava, FAIA. Located on what Garret Kelleher, Executive Chairman of Shelbourne Development Group, refers to as “the best piece of dirt in Chicago,” the Spire will straddle the urban grid, Chicago River, and Lake Michigan. To Calatrava, this unique location provides an opportunity to explore the relation of the urban and the natural, and fulfill the motto of Chicago: “Urbs in Horto,” or “City in a Garden.”
Considering natural forms such as flowers and snails, Calatrava strives to recreate the balance and harmony found in nature. Soaring upward in a tapered and continually twisting form, each apartment will have a unique view of the Chicago skyline. Calatrava aims “to build for people a message of hope that conveys a certain sense of progress and better living.” The “very simple diagram” of the Spire, he says, will allow him to create “a harmony between the people in the city and nature.”
Gregory Haley, AIA, AICP, LEED AP, is a project architect and urban designer at Studio V Architecture, and has taught at the Boston Architectural Center and the School of Architecture at NYIT.
Event: Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, and Sir John Soane
Location: The Union Club, 03.03.08
Speakers: Tod Williams, FAIA, & Billie Tsien, AIA — Partners, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Organizers: Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation; Architectural Record
The American Folk Art Museum exhibition wall with surface-mounted weathervanes.
Photo by Michael Moran, 2002, courtesy American Folk Art Museum.
Like architect Sir John Soane, Tod Williams, FAIA, and Billie Tsien, AIA, partners of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, prefer buildings’ interiors to their exteriors, since “the enclosed environment,” as Williams put it, is where people spend most of their time. They use “complex plans” and “shifting sections” as methods to strengthen their designs. For example, the American Folk Art Museum is only 30,000 square feet with a 40-foot by 106-foot floor plate. The stair and piano nobile generated the architecture. By manipulating the section, Williams and Tsien opened the plan to wash the galleries in natural light. By shifting planes, the building becomes an experience and journey of discovery, and the space unfolds as visitors move through the museum.
13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, a home designed and inhabited by Soane, may be cluttered, but the intricate plan and shifting sections enhance the interiors. “The complexity makes the experience at every level of the interior memorable,” said Williams, who spoke recently with Tsien about the influence of Soane on their work.
The most recent challenge for Williams and Tsien is designing a new home for the Barnes Foundation museum in downtown Philadelphia (a still-controversial move from Merion, PA), dedicated to fine arts education advocate Albert C. Barnes. This project has strict design parameters, including Barnes’ meticulously cluttered arrangement of art and his mandate to not change anything. The interior is the most important element of the architecture, but the rules prevent the architects from conceptualizing the building from scratch. Perhaps once the design is complete, they will take cue from Soane by invigorating the building through the in-between spaces and voids as they have done before.
Lucas Correa-Sevilla is an architectural designer and freelance writer.
After spending the weekend glued to the television watching coverage of the tragic crane collapse in Midtown, I feel unsettled about the media. I accept that during the day of the accident, reporters may be uninformed about construction procedures and government-enforced inspections. And NY1 did a fantastic job at broadcasting updates, personal stories, and press conferences throughout the day on Saturday. However, by Sunday, reports in all media outlets began a witch-hunt to find the entity most guilty of the accident.
From accusing the crane company for not complying with standards, to criticizing the Department of Buildings’ (DOB) neglect to find any problems during inspections the day before, to calling for Patricia Lancaster, FAIA, to step down from her position as DOB commissioner, the most outrageous claim to me was the focus on the 13 violations that the construction site has received over the last two years. Granted, many reporters added a footnote about how the violations had nothing to do with the crane, but this is the story on which the public and the media seem fixated.
I understand an urgency to find answers to what caused the crane to collapse, but it is uninformed and irresponsible of the media to concentrate on issues that do not have anything to do with the accident itself (as far as we know). Calling for resignations and government overhauls is counterproductive to getting to the root cause of the event. The media would be wise to spend more time researching and understanding construction sites and DOB procedures and codes instead of fixating on misguided finger pointing.
In this issue:
· Residence Hovers Along High Line
· The Team Grows in Brooklyn Arts Tower
· First Indoor Public Pool Makes a Splash in Queens
· Towers Live on the Edge — of the L Train
· Norfolk Street Turns On to Art
· A Fishy Ferry Experience from Staten Island
· Artist’s Work Cantilevers Over Denver
· Natural Elements Inspire New Residences in Anguilla
Residence Hovers Along High Line
Artist’s rendering of HL23.
Neil M. Denari Architects
LA-based Neil M. Denari Architects will make its mark in NYC on a 40-foot-wide site along the High Line. Construction has begun on HL23, a 14-story concrete-and-steel-framed building with diagonal perimeter bracing that will increase in size as it cantilevers over the raised railbed. HL23 is to have façade window panels that are over 11-feet-high by six-feet-wide. The building will include 11 residences, nine full-floor homes, a duplex penthouse with terraces, and a two-floor maisonette with a private garden at the building’s base. NY-based The Spector Group is the consulting architect for construction administration, and NY-based Thomas Juul-Hansen is designing the interiors. HL23 will be a subject in the upcoming exhibition Fast Forward: Neil Denari Builds On The Highline, opening in June 2008 at the Museum of the City of New York.
The Team Grows in Brooklyn Arts Tower
The Brooklyn Arts Tower.
Arup
Arup will lead the programming and planning process for the fit-out of the Ashland Center at the Brooklyn Arts Tower in the BAM Cultural District. With Snøhetta as the interior architect, Arup will provide theater consulting and acoustic design services for the new center that will contain a main flexible performance space with facilities for dance and movement, large studios for rehearsals, workshops, and production development. The center is part of a commercial development designed by Studio MDA in collaboration with Behnisch Architects, providing street-level retail space with a high-rise residential tower.
First Indoor Public Pool Makes a Splash in Queens
FMCP Aquatic Center.
Daniel Avila / NYC Parks & Recreation
An Olympic-size swimming pool housed in the new Flushing Meadows Corona Park Natatorium and Ice Rink building is to be the first indoor public pool built by the city in 40 years. And when the NHL-regulation ice rink opens later this year, the public will enjoy what will reportedly be the largest recreation complex ever built in a city park. Designed by Handel Architects in association with Hom & Goldman Architects, the pool features 10 lanes. Movable bulkheads can configure the pool into three 25-meter swimming areas, allowing for different programming to take place at one time. One-third of the pool has a movable floor that can adjust the depth from just a few inches to over seven feet deep. A mezzanine bleacher section seats some 414 spectators, with additional seating on an adjacent outdoor terrace.
Inspired by 1939 and 1964 World’s Fair pavilions, the project was designed as part of the City’s 2012 Olympic bid, and features a three-story atrium lobby that separates the pool and ice arena under a cable-supported canopy roof.
Towers Live on the Edge — of the L Train
The Edge.
The Stephen B. Jacobs Group
Phase One of The Edge, a new residential development on a 7.5-acre site in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is underway. Designed by The Stephen B. Jacobs Group with interiors by Andi Pepper Interior Design, construction on the first two condo towers — one 30 stories with 370 residences and the other 15 stories with 205 units — is expected to be ready for occupancy by summer, 2009. A third tower is also planned to include more than 60,000 square feet of retail space, below grade parking for 700 cars, and approximately 1.75 acres of open space for a waterfront public park with a water taxi landing. Also proposed for the neighborhood is 54 acres of parkland, complete with an aquatic center, esplanade, and piers.
Norfolk Street Turns On to Art
The Switch Building.
nARCHITECTS
In addition to four full-floor apartments, and a duplex penthouse, the Switch Building, designed by nARCHITECTS, contains a 14,500-square-foot nonprofit art gallery, appropriately titled the Switch Gallery. The art space expands its boundaries via a black hot-rolled steel and glass storefront that opens to the sidewalk. At the rear of the gallery, visitors descend into a double-height volume illuminated by a large skylight. The gallery’s plan maximizes wall space in a fluid spatial continuity while working around the obstacles of the residential core and lobby with which it shares its footprint. The “switching” concept can be seen in the bay windows that angle from the front façade, switching to maximize light and views.
A Fishy Ferry Experience from Staten Island
New fish tanks at the St. George Ferry Terminal.
Skanska USA
Commuters at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island may now pass waiting time viewing saltwater fish from the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean regions inhabiting two tanks built by Skanska USA. Each eight-foot-tall tank weighs 10 tons when filled with water. Three-inch thick acrylic walls contain 200 fish and 2,200 gallons of water. A back-up system for the tanks is situated downstairs in the life support room, which houses filters, heaters, sterilizers, control systems and 14 pumps to keep the fish healthy.
Natural Elements Inspire New Residences in Anguilla
Kamique in Anguilla.
Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership
The first of four residential projects on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, designed by Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership, is complete. Kamique, a luxury rental property, has villas ranging from four to six bedrooms focusing on experiencing water, sand, sky, and wind. The three projects still in the works include villas and condos, or a combination of the two. The design for Shoal Bay was inspired by cultures of the indigenous Arawak Indians and African traditions blended with natural elements; Willow Run is said to re-interpret a traditional open-air Caribbean structure composed of two adjoining parcels each with a residential building with three connected pavilions.
In this issue:
· Domino Sugar Factory: Back to Scratch
· Buildings Department Cracks Down on Elevator Violations
· AIANY Policy Update: Congestion Pricing
· IALD Position Statement: Banning the Incandescent Bulb
· Overseas Building Operations to Benefit from Local Architect
· Passing: Margaret J. DeLaCour
Domino Sugar Factory: Back to Scratch
The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) reviewed the design for the redevelopment of the Domino Sugar Factory on the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, waterfront, and sent architects Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners back to the drawing board. The design consists of a 5-story, rectangular glass addition, which the LPC felt was not appropriate for the factory, citing that it was “too tall.” Many of the commissioners felt that it needed to be more industrial and “visionary.”
Buildings Department Cracks Down on Elevator Violations
Beginning 03.05.08, 10 residential buildings with chronically defective elevators were publicly listed on the Department of Building’s website as part of a shame campaign to force building owners to return their elevators to service. The 10 worst offenders will be pursued under the department’s Elevator Enforcement Program, an aggressive enforcement agenda to ensure safe and reliable elevator service. The program also includes legislation with significant daily penalties for elevator violations. New Yorkers are encouraged to call 311 to report non-compliant conditions or 911 to report emergencies at construction sites.
AIANY Policy Update: Congestion Pricing
By Laura Manville, AIANY Policy Coordinator
With the resignation of Governor Spitzer and political change in the air, there is a need to make AIANY’s voice heard in Albany on policies that matter to architects, including congestion pricing. The AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has worked hard to investigate all of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC transportation initiatives, and now offers a report that addresses the effects of congestion pricing on planning and design issues in the city. The Chapter has adopted their expert opinion as official policy.
If you feel strongly about the need for a congestion mitigation strategy in NYC, do act, as your voice as a design professional and AIA member can make a difference.
To read the Committee’s report and congestion pricing position statements, click the link or e-mail Laura Manville, AIA NY Policy Coordinator.
To e-mail Christine Quinn, Speaker of the NY City Council, click here.
To e-mail Sheldon Silver, Speaker of the NY State Assembly, click here.
To e-mail new Governor David Paterson, click here.
To e-mail State Senator Malcolm Smith, click here.
Sample text:
As a practicing architect (/urban planner/designer) and member of the American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter, I want to express my strong support for congestion pricing. Our Chapter has stated that “The elegance of the concept of congestion pricing is that it simultaneously discourages inefficient use of the road and bridge network, encourages more efficient modes of transportation, reduces energy use and air pollution from vehicular use, and provides a reliable mechanism to fund improvements to the mass transit system…. this concept is the key to providing a comprehensive transportation strategy, which addresses current limitations as well as growth for the City.”
Please support this sound example of forward thinking transportation planning that will simultaneously sustain our city’s growth and the quality of urban spaces for its residents.
IALD Position Statement: Banning the Incandescent Bulb
Enlightened folks from Australia to California and across Europe want to ban the incandescent lamp. The recently enacted U.S. energy legislation will phase out certain types of incandescent bulbs. While the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) strongly supports the technologies and appropriate regulation to minimize the energy use of lighting systems, the organization believes that “incandescent bans” must be carefully conceived or they won’t work. There are several points connected to the phasing out of incandescent lamps that should be addressed. Click here to read the full position statement.
Overseas Building Operations to Benefit from Local Architect
Barbara Nadel, FAIA, was recently named the AIA Representative to the U.S. Department of State’s Overseas Building Operations Industry Advisory Panel. The Advisory Panel provides the Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations with the latest methods, concepts, best practices and ideas to ensure that safe, secure, and functional facilities are provided for U.S. diplomatic missions worldwide. Nadel is principal of Barbara Nadel Architect in NYC, and is the author of Building Security: Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design, for which she received the 2005 Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement. She was 2001 AIA National Vice President and served twice as AIA New York Regional Director. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Soloso, AIA’s eKnowledge website.
Passing: Margaret J. DeLaCour
Margaret J. DeLaCour, 63, of Brooklyn Heights and Glen Cove, NY, passed away on 02.18.08. In her long career, she served in a number of senior level positions in NYC government, at the Department of Environmental Protection, the NYC Water Board, and the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office. Additionally, she served on a number of nonprofit boards, including The Junior League of Brooklyn, Colony South Brooklyn, Grace Church School, and the Planting Field Arboretum of Oyster Bay. She and her husband, architect Wids DeLaCour, AIA, also supported numerous organizations dedicated to providing educational and outdoor opportunities for NYC children. The family prefers in lieu of flowers that contributions be made to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225, or to the Planting Field Arboretum, Planting Field Foundation, PO Box 660, Oyster Bay, NY 11771.
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The Pop-Up Storefront in Los Angeles.
Courtesy Storefront for Art and Architecture
The Storefront for Art and Architecture is moving beyond the confines of New York. “Pop-Ups” will avoid the conventional gallery format by temporarily taking over unoccupied spaces in unexpected neighborhoods around the world to exhibit and discuss pressing topics in art and architecture, and to create a global network of dialogue centered on Storefront New York.
On April 11, the first Pop-Up Storefront will open in a partially unused Los Angeles print works shop on Sunset Boulevard, with the exhibition CCCP (Cosmis Communist Constructions Photographed), which was exhibited last April in Storefront New York. Then, Pop-Ups plan to make appearances in Milan during the 2008 Salone del Mobile furniture fair, April 16-21, and England for the London Festival of Architecture, June 20-July 20.
2008 AIA Housing Award winners included NY-based firms in the category of One/Two Family Custom Housing: Voorsanger Architects (Wildcat Ridge Residence); and Leroy Street Studio Architecture (Modern Barn); and in the category of Multifamily Housing: Cook+Fox Architects (Front Street, Block 97); and BKSK Architects (25 Bond Street)…
BusinessWeek and Architectural Record announced “Good Design is Good Business” China Award Winners, including NY-based firms in the categories of Best Public Projects: Suzhou Museum in Suzhou by I.M. Pei Architect with Pei Partnership Architects and Suzhou Institute of Architectural Design; and Best Planning Project: Beijing Finance Street in Beijing by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill…
Amanda Burden, Hon. AIANY, will receive Special Recognition for Public Service at the New York Building Congress 87th Anniversary Leadership Awards Luncheon …
STUDIOS architecture announced several promotions in its NY office: Brian Tolman, AIA, Principal; Greg Keffer, Principal; David Burns, AIA, Associate Principal; and Mark Palermo, Chief Operating Officer… George Drallios, AIA, has joined The Athena Group as Vice President of Design… HLB’s NY Office announced its newest Principal, Hayden N. McKay, AIA, FIALD, FIES, LEED AP, and has promoted Lee E. Brandt, LC, LEED AP, to Associate Principal…
RMJM Hillier announces four additions to the firm’s NY Office: Chris Jones, RIBA, the managing principal of the Urban Studio; Roger Klein, AIA, design principal; Winslow Kosior, AIA, a curtain wall technology expert; and John Plappert, AIA, ACHA, a healthcare designer; and Mark Lippi, AIA, was promoted to Principal…
Perkins Eastman has created a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE) in Shanghai to better serve clients in Eastern Asia… Jonathan S. Drescher, AIA, was appointed as Director of Major Projects for The Durst Organization… Michael Giaramita has joined the NYC office of Stantec…
Russell Fortmeyer leaves Architectural Record and GreenSource for sustainable design consulting with Arup’s Sydney, Australia office… Edward A. Feiner, FAIA, has left Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to become senior vice president and chief architect for the Las Vegas Sands Corporation…
Glass House Openings is a film project that captures the responses from guests of the 2007 Glass House Inaugural Gala Picnic, directed by Rafael Esquer of Alfalfa Studio. Three films reveal reflections and impressions from guests who attended the occasions — from NPR host Kurt Anderson, architectural critic Paul Goldberger, Hon. AIA, former Merce Cunningham Dance Company dancer Valda Setterfield, to architectural photographer Julius Shulman. The project can be viewed on The Philip Johnson Glass House website.
OCULUS 2008 Editorial Calendar
If you are an architect by training or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, note that OCULUS editors are looking for writers for the Fall and Winter issues. The themes:
Fall OCULUS: Practice. Focus of this year’s Practice issue is on the architectural office — the culture and decision-making structure of NY-based practices, how the office’s design reflects the culture, along with the views key players in the firm.
Winter OCULUS: Competing for Space. Explore the growing competition between expansionist institutions on limited sites and the interests of adjacent communities, many in residential areas with moderate-income families.
If you’re interested, please contact OCULUS editor-in-chief Kristen Richards. with a brief outline and full contact information.
Spring 2008: closed
Summer 2008: closed
06.01.08 Fall 2008: Practice
08.01.08 Winter 2008-09: Competing for Space
03.31.08 Call for Nominations: Sustainable Cities Award
Financial Times and the Urban Land Institute (FT ULI) will acknowledge exceptional examples of sustainable land use models that exhibit significant new ideas and perspectives for future practice. Nominations should demonstrate financial viability and be replicable with a capacity to inspire others. The Awards will recognize real estate programs in corporate strategic programs, public agency initiatives, non-governmental organization programs, and private development company initiatives. Up to seven winners will be the closing highlight of the first-ever Sustainable Cities conference in London on 06.16.08.
04.04.08 Call for Entries: SMPS National Marketing Communications Awards
The Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) awards program recognizes excellence in marketing communications by professional services firms in the design and building industry. The competition, composed of 18 marketing communications categories, and is open to both SMPS members and nonmembers. Award winners will be announced and honored at a multimedia, black-tie Awards Gala in August, during Build Business: Innovate to Elevate, the 2008 SMPS/PSMA National Conference in Denver, CO.
04.04.08 Call for Entries: Metropolis Smart Environments Awards
The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and Metropolis magazine request entries for awards to recognize interiors that integrate excellence in design, human well-being, and sustainability. Interior projects completed after 01.01.05 are eligible. Winners will be announced at the NeoCon World’s Trade Fair 2008 in Chicago and will be considered for publication in Metropolis.
04.07.08 Call for Entries: Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition
The Bombay Sapphire Foundation invites emerging US designers to design a martini cocktail glass inspired by Bombay Sapphire Gin. The first prize is $3,000 in gift certificates. The competition is running in other countries as well, and each national winner will be invited to the London Design Festival in September 2008 to compete in the global final. The overall winner will receive £10,000 in prize money.
04.16.08 Call for Entries: 2008 AIA/UK Chapter Excellence in Design Awards Programme
This awards program honors excellence in design by architects anywhere in the world for projects in the UK as well as UK-based architects for projects anywhere in the world.
04.20.08 Call for Ideas: White House Redux
What if the White House were to be designed today? On occasion of the election of the 44th President of the U.S., the Storefront for Art and Architecture, in association with Control Group, challenges designers to design a new residence for the “world’s most powerful individual.” The best ideas, designs, descriptions, images, and videos will be featured in a month-long exhibition at Storefront in July 2008. Three winners will be flown to NYC to collect their prizes at the opening party.
04.25.08 Call for Applications: 2008 Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship
The Fellowship creates partnerships between emerging architects and community-based organizations to direct the skills and passions of the architects in the service of low and moderate-income communities. It is designed to promote the value of quality design and green building in affordable housing, and encourages architects to become lifelong leaders in public service and community development. Applications are now available for four new Rose Fellowship opportunities in diverse communities from San Francisco to East Biloxi, Mississippi, and Downtown Minneapolis to rural Minnesota.
04.28.08 Call for Expressions of Interest: Living Steel Extreme Housing Competition
The third international architecture competition presents architects with the task of creating energy efficient, single-family, detached housing that minimizes climate change emissions and can withstand temperature extremes, yet is affordable to build and buy. Entrants must be teams of two architects. Total prizes and honoraria are €100,000, with the winning design awarded €50,000. The winning architects will also construct their design in Cherepovets, Russian Federation.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
February 26 — May 31, 2008
Building China
Five Projects, Five Stories
Galleries: Judith and Walter Hunt Gallery, Mezzanine Gallery
The People’s Republic of China is undergoing a phenomenal transformation. Since 1978, with the adoption of an open-door policy, the country has developed a thriving market economy, out of which existing and new cities are experiencing rapid and aggressive growth. A new generation of architects is active in the vanguard of this construction, developing their own architectural identity.
Building China: Five Projects, Five Stories features five unique architectural case studies that were conceived, designed, and recently completed by Chinese architects. Located throughout China, many of these buildings, being exhibited in the U.S. for the first time, offer the public insight into China’s ever changing landscape. Through the stories of these five projects, themes emerge: Production of Contemporary Culture, Reinventing Urban Fabric, Making the Private Public, Reinterpreting Traditional Design Philosophy, and Hybrid Development Models. These case studies of contemporary architecture introduce critical voices from the People’s Republic of China, challenging the West’s stereotypical interpretation of China as a homogeneous society.
Organized by: The AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation in collaboration with People’s Architecture and the AIA New York Chapter International Committee
Curator: Wei Wei Shannon, People’s Architecture
Co-Curator: Shi Jian
Exhibition Design: Popular Architecture
Graphic Design: Omnivore
Photography: Iwan Baan
Patron: Digital Plus
Supporters:
Beyer Blinder Belle: Architects & Planners
EDAW
Jerome and Kenneth Lipper Foundation
Friend: Häfele, Calvin Tsao
Related Events
Thursday, March 20, 6:00 — 8:00pm
New York/China Dialogues
Friday, May 9, 2008, 6:30 — 8:30
Asian CineVision presents Films from Contemporary China
Friday, May 30, 2008, 6:30 — 8:30pm
Film from the Da Zha Lan project, Sponsored by
the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and NYU’s China House
To register or for more information: www.aiany.org/calendar
CES credits available
February 15 — April 12, 2008
Co-Evolution:
Danish/Chinese Collaboration on Sustainable Urban Development in China
Galleries: Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, HLW Gallery
The exhibition confronts the environmental challenges related to rapid and extensive urbanization in China and illustrates the value of international and interdisciplinary collaboration. CO- EVOLUTION displays four visionary projects – the results of collaborations between Danish architects and professors and students from leading Chinese universities.
This exhibition at the Center for Architecture is financed by the Danish Ministry of Culture
Related Programs organized by the AIA New York Chapter, the Center for Architecture Foundation, the Danish Architecture Centre, People’s Architecture, and the AIA New York Chapter International Committee
Curator: Henrik Valeur and UiD
Sponsored by:
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Related Events
Thursday, March 20, 6:00 — 8:00pm
New York/China Dialogues
Friday, May 9, 2008, 6:30 — 8:30
Asian CineVision presents Films from Contemporary China
Friday, May 30, 2008, 6:30 — 8:30pm
Film from the Da Zha Lan project, Sponsored by
the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and NYU’s China House
To register or for more information: www.aiany.org/calendar
CES credits available
January 28 — May 3, 2008
Project Showcase: The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park
Galleries: Margaret Helfand Gallery, Gerald D Hines Gallery, Public Resource Center
Under the growing pressure of the climate crisis, how we design, as well as what we design has become a critical issue. The new office tower at Bryant Park, designed by Cook+Fox Architects and developed by the Durst Organization and Bank of America, is an example of how the design of tall buildings can be fundamentally rethought, serving the client and the planet with equal efficiency and respect. This exhibition explores One Bryant Park as a living ecosystem composed of the elements Light, Air, Water, Fire and Earth. These primary forces, when thoughtfully addressed as integrated and sustainable systems, contribute to a substantial reduction in the environmental impact of tall buildings, as well as to worker health and productivity. Anticipating a LEED platinum rating (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), the highest level of sustainable design recognized by the USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council), the crystalline faceted 54-story tower is at once both an iconic corporate presence and an emblem for the green design movement. Project Showcase: The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park asks design professionals to look more deeply at how architecture can engage natural systems and infrastructure, how sustainable measures can be more user-friendly, and how we can raise awareness for the urgent need of comprehensive green building solutions.
Exhibition and related programs organized by the AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation in collaboration with the Illuminating Engineering Society of New York (IESNY)
Curator: Margaret Maile Petty
Exhibition Design: Morris | Sato Studio
Graphic Design: WSDIA | WeShouldDoItAll
Lead Sponsor: A. Esteban & Company
Sponsors: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design, Illuminating Engineering Society of New York (IESNY), Severud Associates, Tishman Construction Corporation
Supporter: Jones Lang LaSalle
Off the Wall.
Courtesy Jewish Museum of New York
Through 03.27.08
Off the Wall: Artists at Work
A two-week open studio project featuring 11 artists working and performing in the galleries, the new generation of Jewish social networks is on view. Artists create a work-in-progress and exhibit other work in various media including fashion, music, performance art, video, and new technologies. Events include concerts, salons, a runway show, and a Purim party. Exhibition design is by Studio ST Architects and Z-A.
The Jewish Museum of New York
1109 5th Avenue
Tropon est L’Aliment le Plus Concentre, lithograph on wove paper.
Henry van de Velde (Belgian, 1863-1957), Germany, 1898. Photo provided by Christie’s, courtesy Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Through 03.27.08
Rococo: The Continuing Curve
This is the first museum survey of Rococo and its ongoing resurgence. Lalique jewelry, glass, and rare design drawings will illustrate the evolution of the Rococo style as it entered the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It will trace the movement’s birth, rebirth, and transformation across centuries and continents. Lalique’s objects will illustrate the chronological modifications to the Rococo style that occurred when elements were incorporated into the Art Nouveau style popular during the late 1800s and the Art Deco style of the 1920s.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
Francesco Salviati, Head and Shoulders of a Bearded Man (1540s), black chalk.
Courtesy Friedman Benda Gallery
Through 03.31.08
In Their Own Words
This exhibition features photography, sculpture, furniture, and architecture captioned by the artists’ own words. Each work has been selected for the way it questions accepted notions of politics, mass culture, or production. By exhibiting art and what is traditionally thought of as “design” together, the exhibition aims to dissolve the division between the fields and provoke the debate on the cultural significance and authority currently assigned to each.
Friedman Benda Gallery
515 West 26th Street
Demisch Danant
524 West 22nd Street
Exterior Rendering of The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. View from Montauk Highway.
© Herzog & de Meuron, 2007, courtesy The Architectural League of New York
Through 05.02.08
Studio as Muse: Herzog & de Meuron’s Design for the New Parrish Art Museum
Curated and installed by Pritzker Prize-winning Herzog & de Meuron, the exhibition displays 130 study models, material samples, and short videos detailing the firm’s design process for the new Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. It is part of an ongoing series of exhibitions that investigate the design process of a single significant building. In revealing the different steps that architects take to arrive at a completed design, the exhibitions demystify for the public the way buildings are designed while serving as important learning tools for design professionals and students.
The Architectural League of New York
457 Madison Avenue
Model of “Flower House,” Suiza, Switzerland.
Courtesy SANAA
03.28.08 through 06.15.08
SANAA: Works 1998 - 2008
Commissions and projects from the last decade by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, designers of the new home of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, will be on display. Works include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art. The exhibition will also provide an opportunity to understand the New Museum in the context of the firm’s work. The installation takes the form of an environment, rather than a traditional exhibition, exploiting and further exploring SANAA’s vision of the museum lobby as, in their words, “a kind of constantly animated public-private living room where visitors can look, eat, read, shop, discover, and reflect among new art and new ideas.”
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
235 Bowery
Habitable Sculpture, 2000, by Philip Johnson.
Courtesy of Antonio Nino Vendome, and the Kreeger Museum
Through 07.31.08
Phillip Johnson: Architecture as Art
This exhibition showcases the relationship between art and architecture as seen by Philip Johnson (1906-2005) in his late works (notably, Johnson designed The Kreeger Museum). From structured, twisting forms to softer, curving expressions produced in chain-link, fiberglass, or concrete, Johnson’s work of the 1990s and 2000s was often not only sculptured architecture, but can be considered sculpture itself. Curated by Hilary Lewis, a longtime interpreter of Johnson’s life and work, and designed by Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture, the exhibition will present visitors with the final chapter of Johnson’s long career.
Kreeger Museum
2401 Foxhall Road, NW in Washington, D.C.
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Architectural Designer in NYC/NY: Under dir. of lic. arch., rsrch., plan & admin. bldg props. for lge comm. res. & mixed-used projs. Engage in concept/schematic dsgn, dsgn dvlpmt, & constr. docs. Plan & prep. scopes for ext. & int. dsgns. Coord w/eng. consultants to integrate eng & tech aspects into dsgn. Consult w/clients to det rqmts of struc. Draft scale drawings & rep clients in obtaining bids & contracts. Cond on-site obs of work to monitor compliance w/arch plans. Req. M. Arch-min 2 yrs exp. Knowl. in AutoCAD, 3d Max, Photoshop, Rhino, urban scale dsgn approach & dsgn initiatives. Email CV & work samp to KPF: dnmt@kpf.com. Ref job code KPF4
Senior Architect:
25 person, design-focused architecture firm based in New York City. We are looking for an individual with 20+ years of experience with the ability and experience to design and manage complex institutional projects. Please email jmurphy@mbbarch.com
ARCHITECT — Newark, NJ
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is a bi-state public agency operating some of the busiest and most important transportation links in the NY/NJ region. We are seeking to fill a position of Architect in the Engineering Department’s Engineering/Architecture Design Division.
Working under the supervision of a Principal Architect, and part of a project team, you will be responsible for performing duties related to planning (Pre-Stage I), preliminary design (Stage I), design development (Stage II), contract documents (Stage III), shop drawing review and post award design changes (Stage IV), building code review and cost estimating. Assignments will include supervision and production of design tasks related to architectural deliverables, coordination with supervisors and other team members, coordination with other engineering disciplines, and interface with consultants as required.
The Port Authority offers a competitive salary, outstanding benefits package. Please visit www.JoinThePortAuthority.com for more information and to apply directly on-line.
Only applicants under consideration will be contacted.
Equal Opportunity Employer
NYC Department of Buildings
Job Fairs
280 Broadway, 6th Floor
NOW Hiring: Architects and Engineers
March 4th and 18th
12pm to 3pm
Resumes Required
For more information, visit www.nyc.gov/buildings
Or
e-mail your resume to recruit@buildings.nyc.gov
NYC Department of Buildings is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Architect Auditor
The NYC Department of Buildings is seeking an architect to audit work applications for completeness, accuracy and conformance to the New York City Zoning Resolution and Building Code. The selected candidate will prepare objections describing noncompliance and meet with the applicant to resolve objections and provide guidance regarding Department requirements and procedures. Applicants must have extensive experience with the New York City Zoning Resolution and Building Code and New York State Registration as an Architect. Benefits include health, NYC pension, paid holidays and more. E-mail a cover letter and resume with JVN # 810-08-177 in the subject line to recruit@buildings.nyc.gov. EOE.
Architect L-1
New York City Department of Buildings
SALARY: $52,818 - $76,495
JOB DESCRIPTION: Under general supervision, perform responsible supervisory and detail oriented work, in the engineering or architectural analysis of structures and building equipment systems, and the examination of plans for the construction, alteration or repair of buildings and equipment systems under the jurisdiction of the Department of Buildings.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: A valid New York State Registration as an Architect. Current New York State registration as an Architect must be maintained for the duration of your employment.
For a complete job description please visit our web site at: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/html/career_opportunities/career.shtml
TO APPLY FOR CONSIDERATION, PLEASE SUBMIT A COVER LETTER AND RESUME WHICH INCLUDES THE JOB VACANCY # 810-08-193C TO:
Recruitment Officer
280 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, New York 10007
E-MAIL: Recruit@buildings.nyc.gov
The City is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Special accommodations will be provided for disabled applicants.
Project Architect
Architect who can participate in the collaborative design process. Must be motivated, self-directed and demonstrate his or her ability to interact, contribute, and direct the project team.
Minimum academic and practical experience requirements include a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture and at least seven years professional work experience.
Responsibilities will include implementation of the design, including coordination of work and planning efforts of the International Design Team consisting of the Architect, Local Architect and International Engineer and Consultants and to control the design process and assist in the production of presentation and contract documents.
CAD proficiency, in particular proficiency in 2008 Autodesk products is mandatory.
Necessary technical skills will include understanding and application of regulatory compliance, building energy systems, building life safety systems commonly used in high rise buildings, both office and residential high rise and multi-use projects.
Compensation and benefits commensurate with ability and experience.
Please send your resume and portfolio to sstrickert@murphyjahn.com
Beautiful green office space available in Chelsea (Close to Penn Station)
The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education is renting multiple workstations to other green businesses. Be surrounded by healthy and renewed materials, a bio-sculpture, low-voltage lighting and plenty of natural light. 5 large workstations and one beautiful office available. Built from recycled wood and glass. Can be rented in any configuration. All include large workspace, conference room access, internet, water, and building services.
Tel: 212.645.9930 ext. *826
admin@sustainabilityed.org
NOSANCHUK, a high-end custom design and architectural firm, seeks architect to produce 2D and 3D drawings for furniture, millwork and interiors. Candidate must be proficient in AutoCAD, verbally communicative, intelligent, and hard working. Salary based on experience.
www.nosanchuk.com
Email: david@nosanchuk.com
Architecture — Intermediate Project Manager
For almost 80 years, Karlsberger has been an innovator in designing for the healthcare environment. Our exciting projects include the first Platinum LEED Certified Hospital in the US. We’re seeking a project manager to join our New York-based health/science practice. 7-12 years experience required. Must be a graduate with a Masters or Bachelors Degree in Architecture. Experience in healthcare, research design required. Good communications skills, proficiency with computer design software required. E-mail resume to: nyhr@karlsberger.com
Architect / Urban Designer
HOK Sport Venue Event
www.hoksport.com
New York, NY
HOK Sport Studio is a newly established international architecture studio based in New York City. The studio focuses on the design of public assembly buildings and sport venues.
We are seeking highly talented and enthusiastic architects to join our growing studio to work on new projects ranging from a soccer stadium in Mexico to an exhibition center in New Delhi.
Applicants must have exceptional design and technical abilities with 2-5 years of professional experience. Production experience on complex, very high quality projects is required. New York state registration preferred.
Positions require proficiency in Autocad or Microstation. 3D Studio Max and/or Rhino is desirable.
Please submit resume and examples of your project work
HOK Sport Studio
Attention Mark Uhl
40 Wooster Street 5th Floor
New York, New York 10013
mark.uhl@hoksve.com
Callison: A World of Design Opportunity
Callison is an international architecture firm focused on excellence, in design and client service. Callison encourages career growth through our in-house university, visiting lecture series, IDP, Licensure & LEED certification support programs. The New York office, which services the Retail, Corporate Workplace and Mixed Use markets, is growing with the addition of 6 new Principals and seeks talented:
Project Managers
Project Architects
Designers
Interior Designers
We offer competitive salary, full medical and dental / vision, 401(k) / profit sharing, transit subsidies, and a great location! See how you can join us on our journey by visiting us at www.callison.com Email resume to employment@callison.com
We are an Affirmative Action/EEO Employer who values workplace diversity.
NBBJ, a growing international design firm, has opportunities for a Design Leader, Project Manager, and Corporate Interior Designer to join teams working on innovative healthcare projects and exciting international commercial projects. To learn more or apply, please visit http://www.nbbj.com/#join/openings
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