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Editor-in-Chief, Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
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Editors: Linda G. Miller • Carolyn Sponza, AIA
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CONTENTS
- Architecture Inside/Out Preview
- The Public & Profession Carve PIE
- Pedestrians & Parks Pave Way for Urban Planning
- A Mythic Quest
- Cullman Completes MoMA's Campus
- Architechnology
- Urban Planning Aids Health, Money, & Education
- Homes Mirror Lifestyles
EDITOR'S SOAPBOX: LA Emits. Will NY Conserve?
IN THE NEWS
Out of Africa | Big Red Schoolhouse Lights the Way | Flight 587 Memorial | A Museum With a River View | Yeshiva University Builds New Study Center | SHCA Designs Mixed-Use for Moscow
AROUND THE AIA + THE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE New AIA Covenant Adopted
NEW DEADLINES
Oculus 2007 Editorial Calendar | 2007 AIANY Chapter Design Awards | Architecture for Humanity Logo Competition | The Webbys | Sustainable Buildings Publication | Transbay Transit Center RFQ | AIA/CITE Top 10 Green Projects | Lumen Awards
At the Center for Architecture
Going Public 2: City Snapshot(s) and Case Studies of the Mayor's Design and Construction Excellence Initiative | Project Showcase: The New York Times Building | 5 Years Later... | arch schools-public view(ing)
About Town
Oblivion | Office Semaphore | "Abandoned" & "Panama Canal" Series | A City on Paper: Saul Steinberg's New York | Shrinking Cities | National Design Triennial: Design Life Now | The Second Coming
eCALENDAR
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12.06.06
Editor's Note: With 2007 around the corner, e-Oculus would like to welcome the 2007 Chapter Board of Directors to their offices. Highlights from the inaugural celebration are included in this issue.
REPORTS FROM THE FIELD
Architecture Inside/Out Preview
By Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA
The changing of the guard: Mark Strauss, FAIA, AICP, 2006 AIANY Chapter President (right) presents Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA, 2007 AIANY Chapter President (left) with her customized "Architecture Inside/Out" cap at the inaugural celebration.
Kristen Richards
Event: AIA New York Chapter 2007 Inaugural —
Beyond the Marketplace: Towards an Equitable Housing Program
Speakers: Keynote Speaker Mark Robbins — Dean, Syracuse University School of Architecture; Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA — incoming 2007 AIA NY Chapter President
Organizers: AIA NY Chapter
Sponsors: Champion: Jack L. Gordon Architects; Supporters: InterfaceFLOR; Knoll; Manicini Duffy; Perkins & Will; Steelcase; STUDIOS Architecture; Contributors: Bentley Prince Street; Cooper Carry; FXFOWLE Architects; Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum; Herman Miller; Ruth Hirsch Associates; Stephan Jaklitsch Design; Stephen B. Jacobs Group; J.J. Pan and Partners, Architects and Planners; Meadows Office Furniture Company; Millikin & Company; Peter Pennoyer Architects; Barry Rice Architects; SLCE Architects; Hugo S. Subotovsky AIA Architects; Tsao & McKown Architects; Zumtobel
Location: Center for Architecture, 12.05.06
As an interior designer focusing on the workplace, for many years I did not participate in the programs and initiatives at the AIA, or in any discussions about how architects can help improve the public realm. As for many others, 9/11 changed that, bringing us into a public dialog transcending notions of practice or specialties, and uniting us in our belief in the power of design to improve communities and cities. It is this activist notion that has motivated my peers and myself at the Center for Architecture to challenge the boundaries of our passion and commitment.
As an architect who became an interior designer, I would like to channel that activism to address some of the issues and problems specifically relating to its practice. Interior architecture has evolved into a complex and nuanced profession, particularly in the area of workplace design. It is a profession much like urban planning in that it confronts the field, rather than the object, requiring the consensus of many stakeholders. Circulation patterns, use and adjacencies, sociologies of hierarchy and networks, and sustainability are thrown into the mix required for design excellence. And yet, for a large portion of our members, there is still a misconception of the field as "decoration."
This attitude translates into a lack of concern for interior design excellence at all levels. Every year close to 40 million square feet of interior office space is built in our city, compared to an average of a million or two of core and shell. Why are there no programs for interior design excellence? Why did our own 2006 Design Awards program award only one out of four Honor Awards to interiors, and almost none to workplace interiors? Why are many of the architects who practice interior design divorced from the activities and initiatives at the Center and within the Chapter?
Working with the 2007 Chapter Board of Directors and with the Center for Architecture Foundation over the next year, I hope to answer some of these questions, while firmly supporting the Chapter's mission of design excellence, advocacy, and professional practice.
To read the full script of Mark Strauss's speech at the inaugural, please click here.
Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA, is the 2007 AIA NY Chapter President.
Design by Pentagram; composition from New York City land use data
The Public and Profession Carve PIE
By Bill Millard
Event: Visualizing the City Conference
Speakers: James Sanders #8212; founder, Center for Urban Experience; Robert Greenhood #8212; Friends of the High Line; Menaka Mohan — Sustainable South Bronx; Steven Romalewski — OASIS NY; Petra Todorovich — Regional Plan Association; Jake Barton — Local Projects; Michael Kwartler, FAIA — Environmental Simulation Center; Matthew Bannister — dbox; Jesse Shapins — Yellow Arrow/Counts Media; Meejin Yoon — HY Studio; Lisa Strausfeld — Pentagram; Ronald Shiffman, FAICP, Hon. AIA — Pratt Center for Community Development; Margarita Gutman — The New School For General Studies and Universidad de Buenos Aires; Rosten Woo — Center for Urban Pedagogy; Shane Berger — Grimshaw Architects; Ellen Ryan — NYC Department of City Planning; Susan Szenasy — Metropolis
Organizers: AIA New York Chapter; Center for Urban Experience; support from CUNY Gotham Center for NYC History's NY2050: futureWise project
Sponsors: New York City Council; National Endowment for the Arts; Carnegie Corporation; The Graham Foundation; New York Community Trust; Center for Architecture Foundation
Location: Center for Architecture, 10.28.06
James Sanders set the stage for this half-day conference with an overview of how advances in visual representation have mediated the relations between architects and the public — from Hugh Ferriss's drawings of the 1916 Zoning Law's setback forms for the Times to the "Sims" avatars, VRML spaces, and interactive animations of the digital-imaging era. The serial unfoldings of Gordon Cullen's Townscapes, for example, allowed viewers to experience urban structures as contexts for life and movement, not dislocated abstractions; later cinematic renderings and animated walkthroughs added both a temporal dimension and an authoritative directorial viewpoint to physical models. Now that high-resolution digital renderings let users control perspective and are widely accessible via broadband, civic scrutiny of major projects can occur on unprecedented scales.
The Center for Architecture's new Public Information Exchange (PIE), which will incorporate methods and values discussed here, is appearing in what Susan Szenasy called "the age of the facilitator," making it imperative for the design/planning community to interpret the new forms of information and ensure that they serve public values, not just developers' and politicians' interests. PIE will consist of an interactive technological installation at the Center for Architecture that is linked to a centralized, remotely accessible Web-based database. The prototype is set to launch in April 2007.
Electronic communication is now the indispensable catalyst for community-organizing work, says Robert Greenhood, who doubted the High Line project would have succeeded if his group had used pre-Internet methods. Conversely, changing public standards for visualization can crystallize opposition to some projects, as Petra Todorovich pointed out in reference to the backlash against the initial WTC plans, disseminated as boxy volumetric renderings. The design community now needs to tailor visual communication for a public that has raised its expectations. Advances in visual technology make it both harder and more urgent to clarify the border between substantive and superficial forms of public input.
Projects on parade here — the impressively detailed zoom functions of interpretive maps by Matthew Bannister's firm dbox, the mobile-phone-based narrative systems of Yellow Arrow's "Massively Authored Art Projects" in multiple cities, and the Blade Runner-like data-theater of 3-D installations by Pentagram — evoked both "wow" responses and edgy caveats. The technology of visual communication within and about urban space can be many things: an imaginative realm, a marketing fantasy, a tool for surveillance and propaganda, and a mechanism for education.
Bill Millard is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in Oculus, Icon, Content, and other publications.
Pedestrians and Parks Pave Way for Urban Planning
By Craig Morton, Assoc. AIA
Providing space for pedestrians and parkland is a human rights issue, according to Peñalosa.
Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
Event: 2006 L'Enfant Lecture on City Planning and Design
Speakers: Enrique Peñalosa — former Mayor of Bogotá, Columbia
Organizers: American Planning Association (APA); National Building Museum; in cooperation with New York Building Congress; AP's New York Metro Chapter; The Cooper Union Office of Continuing Education and Public Programs
Location: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 11.16.06
With a little foresight and the right priorities, planners in the developing world can vastly improve upon the first-world models of urbanism that are often blindly emulated by developing nations. To Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá, 2006 L'Enfant Lecturer on City Planning and Design at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, the "magic wand" of planning is time.
Like the great cathedrals that took hundreds of years to complete, great cities can develop with long-term foresight, even with modest budgets. One example of such thinking is to preserve open spaces for parks at a city's periphery, anticipating that future growth will one day reach those areas. While necessities like sewage treatment plants can be built any time, there is only one chance to stake claim on valuable public spaces before the private real estate market develops them.
"A city should be planned from its pedestrian spaces outwards," Peñalosa stated. Take the automobile; the developing world is often asked to build roads and highways in order to encourage automobile use. However, cities like London and New York actively discourage and restrict automobile use. Therefore, Peñalosa argues, why not simply start with fewer cars? His projects for Bogotá include proposals to develop public space instead of highways (El Porvenir Promenade and the Juan Amarillo Greenway, for example). He even instituted an annual Car-Free Day throughout the city. Treating transportation as a human rights issue, Peñalosa believes "those without a motor vehicle also have a right to mobility without the risk of being killed."
Craig Morton, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, is a freelance writer and an architectural designer with FXFOWLE Architects.
A Mythic Quest
By Scott Jardine
The Shrine to the Thin Places at Doonamoe in County Mayo, Ireland was designed and built by Travis Price, AIA, with his students at Catholic University.
Courtesy Travis L. Price III, AIA
Event: "The Archeology of Tomorrow: Architecture and the Spirit of Place"
Speakers: Travis L. Price III, AIA — architect, author, teacher, philosopher, Principal, Travis Price Architects
Organizer: The Explorers Club
Location: The Explorers Club, 10.30.06
Having been involved with green design for most of his career — his projects include the world's largest solar building for the Tennessee Valley Authority at one million square feet — Travis L. Price III, AIA, is just beginning to hit his stride in the quest for the "Mythic Modern." He attempts to synthesize sustainability with a poetic, sacred sense of site.
The driving force behind his projects is what he calls his "Three Lenses": temples (stillness), highways (movement), and sunshine (nature). For the last 14 years, Price has led students from The Catholic University of America on working expeditions called "Spirit of Place/Spirit of Design." These 10-day educational outreaches immerse students in remote, sometimes mythic, foreign cultures with real clients to complete built projects. Each project has a defined program and must stay within budget, schedule, and use local materials. Students have built a gateway monument at Doonamoe in Ireland, where waves shoot up through a natural blowhole 100 feet high; they have also built a shrine in Nepal, and a floating house in the Amazon.
In celebration of the publication that highlights Price's architectural, educational, and philosophical work, Archeology of Tomorrow: Architecture and the Spirit of Place aims to counteract the trend toward global homogenization that he calls "sprawl, mall, and tall."
Cullman Completes MoMA's Campus
By Bill Millard
The new Cullman Building at MoMA references the sculpture garden while supporting scholars' needs. Kristen Richards
Event: Opening of Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
Building Information: Yoshio Taniguchi, Hon. FAIA — architect, Taniguchi and Associates; Kohn Pederson Fox (executive architect); Samuel Anderson Architects (library and archives architect)
Organizers: Glenn Lowry — Director, Museum of Modern Art;
Sponsors: Museum of Modern Art
Location: Museum of Modern Art, 11.28.06
Whatever one's response to MoMA's 2004 renovation of the galleries and public halls may be — delighted with its understated grace or under-whelmed by its circumspection (your correspondent leans toward the former) — the criteria for successful research and teaching spaces are different. Emphasizing scholars' convenience, the new eight-story, 63,000-square-foot Cullman Building improves dramatically on MoMA's ability to support research and staff functions while recognizing that in this component of the complex, drama is a secondary consideration.
Three curatorial study centers (Architecture and Design, Painting and Sculpture, and Film and Media) have moved into the Cullman, along with the library and museum archives. Facilities include the 121-seat Celeste Bartos Theater, two screening rooms, and three classrooms with workshop space. The specialized collection is publicly accessible; any scholar or journalist interested in the museum holdings can use the collections by appointment.
MoMA Director Glenn Lowry, leading a press tour several weeks before the opening, emphasized the gifts possessed by Yoshio Taniguchi, Hon. FAIA, at blending functionality with visual vigor. The multipurpose atrium extends below grade, bringing natural light deep into the building ensuring that even the classrooms tucked under the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden never feel oppressive. The atrium sports a teardrop-shaped Ferrari Formula One race car hung vertically on one wall (sans heavy drive train) and Elizabeth Murray's Painters Progress Spring (1981) on another; the main staircase to the second floor passes a wall of Andy Warhol Cow wallpaper, electric pink on yellow. Taking courses or doing scholarly work here is unlikely ever to seem like drudgery.
Amenities for staff and visiting researchers include full-building Wi-Fi coverage, e-mail-capable photocopiers, and bright, open study areas with views of St. Thomas Episcopal Church next door. In negotiations for the building permit, MoMA agreed to remove a notch from the north face to accommodate the church's 54th Street visibility — a compromise in the original design that Lowry finds advantageous, since the truncated volume not only brings more light to the complex, but gives the Painting and Sculpture department its own terrace.
"What I love," comments Lowry, "is how this building constantly references the garden." The sixth-floor library includes a terrace overlooking the garden and mirroring the café in the main gallery building. Identical floorplates let uniform study centers face the garden, with open offices behind them and curatorial offices along the perimeter, since Tanaguchi wanted onlookers to be able to see researchers at work. The small library in the previous Philip Johnson-designed building "did not enable research," Lowry adds, "and this was something Yoshio really cared about: that the scholarship behind the institution needed spaces worthy of the quality of the research itself."
Bill Millard is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in Oculus, Icon, Content, and other publications.
Architechnology
By Murrye Bernard, Assoc. AIA
Event: New Practices New York: Six Young Firms Set Themselves Apart
Speakers: Gordon Kipping, AIA — principal, G TECTS
Associates; Willliam Armstrong — Willliam Armstrong Lighting Design
Organizers: IAIA New York Chapter, in association with The Architect's Newspaper and Häfele America
Sponsors: Häfele America
Location: Häfele New York Showroom, 11.09.06
Just as drafting and rendering technology is constantly evolving, Gordon Kipping, AIA, uses technology to engage users and perhaps inspire them to rethink their personal choices. The second presenter in the New Practices Showcase series, Kipping, principal of G TECTS, discussed the influence of electronic information technology on his designs. Originally from Toronto, he completed a degree in mechanical engineering before studying architecture at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). After working at several New York-based firms, he started G TECTS in 2000.
Kipping's background in mechanical engineering is evident in his analytical approach to design and integration of technology. For example, his master's thesis at SCI-Arc explored how daytime television affects people: "You are what you consume." The resultant design for a living space as a glass box transforms a traditionally private space into a very public one. This theme continues in a recent public housing project proposal that incorporates video screens attached in front of windows on the façade. Organic LED technology displays on the exterior what the occupants of the unit are watching on television inside, yet the plastic film between two layers of glass provides transparency for inhabitants to be able to see out of their windows. The intention behind this, Kipping explained, is to weaken our dependence on mass media sources — or perhaps at least become more self-conscious and rethink what we consume.
Other current G TECTS projects include Harlem Mediatech, a prototype for a library branch that incorporates touch screens for patrons to access library information; and a new building for Baruch College that places classrooms under surveillance and projects the feed on a big screen that passersby can view through lobby, thus restoring the notion of free education (the building is on the site of the city's first "free college"). As Kipping explained, the built work supports the firm's conceptual mission — to push the boundaries of technology and surveillance.
Murrye Bernard, Assoc. AIA, is a freelance writer and Editor of AssociateNews, the national monthly newsletter of the AIA National Associates Committee.
Urban Planning Aids Health, Money, and Education
By By Aileen Iverson, RA
The coordination between public policy and urban planning can make or break a project in NYC.
Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
Event: Conversation with Andrew Winters
Speakers: Andrew Winters — Director, Office of Capital Project Development, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding, NYC
Organizers: AIA NY Committee on Public Architecture
Location: Center for Architecture, 11.28.06
Public policy is a struggle to achieve societal goals in a process that relies on the caprice of government, according to Andrew Winters, Director of the NYC Office of Capital Project Development (OCPD). Mayor Bloomberg's goals feature healthcare, economic development, and education. Through urban planning objectives, such as opening the waterfront to public use, developing cultural districts, creating low-income housing, water and land remediation, and increasing infrastructure, these aims become manifest.
The OCPD's scope exists between project approval and project implementation only. Each OCPD project involves negotiations with agencies of overlapping jurisdictions often involving city, state, and federal government, as well as private interests. As part of a larger vision of the future of the city, public policy projects are implemented in stages.
The challenge is to keep the continuity in vision between administrations. One way of achieving this is by creating offices that facilitate and speed implementation (like the OCPD). Another is to rely on broad public support, but perhaps this is more difficult, considering the audience attending this event comprised mostly of denizens of the urban planning community
Aileen Iverson, RA, is an architect practicing in New York.
Homes Mirror Lifestyles
By Onur Ekmekci
Anja, Hoek van Holland, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2004 (building architect: J.J.P. Oud, 1926)
Courtesy Mark Robbins
Event: Households: Reconfigured Interiors of Iconic Modern Residences in Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Speakers: Mark Robbins — Dean, Syracuse University School of Architecture; Anthony Vidler — Dean & professor, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art School of Architecture
Organizers: Mark Robbins — Dean, Syracuse University School of Architecture; Anthony Vidler — Dean & professor, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art School of Architecture
Location: Center for Architecture, 11.16.06
Individuals care about how their homes represent themselves. Households, by Mark Robbins, is a collection of photographic collages that display cultural, political, and social forces that shape residential environments, mostly in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. All of the people included are real and diverse: a gay couple, an elderly couple, a graduate student, Robbins's own uncle and aunt.
It is evident that most people care about the interior look of their homes; the exterior is seen as a part of the public realm. As daily activities occur mainly in living rooms, they receive more attention than bedrooms. Gender roles and marital status are important factors as well. For example, Robbins's uncle's room is filled with pictures of baseball stars and vintage sports items, whereas his aunt's space is less crowded with objects emphasizing color and light.
In all of the collages, inhabitants expose details about their personal image as well as their house. There is a correlation between body image and home decoration, revealing a tension between "space and actor." One person poses nude with his dog in his garden, revealing the details of his body but not much about the interior of his house. A gay couple is photographed naked in their very organized living room revealing both their bodies and their home.
From poverty to crime, housing in Holland faces many problems. The government, rather than private developers, is responsible for helping provide housing for everyone. Maybe civic officials could benefit from Households as they make decisions on the future of housing.
Note: Mark Robbins was the keynote speaker at the AIA New York Chapter 2007 Inaugural 12.05.06.
Onur Ekmekci is an architecture student at City College of New York.
EDITOR'S SOAPBOX: LA Emits. Will NY Conserve?
With Steiner Studios at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Silvercup Studios to be developed in Long Island City, New York City is set to become the East Coast center of the Film and Television Industry (FTI). Los Angeles has been home to the industry for a while, and it has developed detrimental habits to the environment, as evidenced in the UCLA Institute of the Environment 2006 Southern California Environmental Report Card. The FTI needs to improve its environmental awareness. NYC has an opportunity to implement cutting-edge systems that promote sustainability in the designs for these new studios. The city's largest green roof is one initiative planned for Silvercup Studios, designed by Diana Balmori, ASLA (See e-Oculus 10.17.05). I hope other opportunities are not overlooked.
Some sustainability best practices have been established in the entertainment industry; however, these are exceptions not the baseline. The Day After Tomorrow paid to offset carbon dioxide emissions by planting $200,000 worth of trees with Future Forests. Syriana and An Inconvenient Truth worked with NativeEnergy to become carbon neutral as well. The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions worked with The ReUse People to recycle 97.5% of all set material, equaling to over 11,000 tons of material (or 10% of the total annual solid waste stream for Alameda, the town in which the movies were filmed). Thirty-seven truckloads of lumber were reused for low-income housing in Mexico.According to the study, a major challenge is that work is controlled by short-lived production companies rather than by long-lived firms in stable supply chains. By developing large studios in NYC, the initiative should be taken to coordinate relations among the many organizations that facilitate sustainable practices. Storage of materials can be designed into the program for these large studios. Relationships with local companies that reuse, recycle, and donate materials can be established during the design phase. One does not need to look as far as Mexico to find construction needs for low-income housing (or any other type of construction for that matter). If the FTI is not taking the initiative, we as design professionals can have a significant impact in the field.
IN THE NEWS
Out of Africa
The Kalahari
Courtesy L&M
With a façade resembling the texture and vibrancy of Kinte cloth, the Kalahari, a mixed-use residential building on 115th-116th Street in Central Harlem offers luxury living in an affordable and sustainable environment. A project of Full Spectrum NY, in partnership with L&M, the Kalahari has been designed to meet LEED high performance standards. Wind-generated energy and on-site solar panels supply more than 25% of the building's energy; a fresh-filtered air delivery system will purify air quality at a constant rate; and Energy Star appliances and other features are expected to reduce energy consumption by 30% below the New York State Department of State Building Energy Code. Design architect Frederic Schwartz, FAIA, cultural design consultant Jack Travis, FAIA, and executive architect David Gross, AIA, of GF55 Partners compose the architecture and design team. The complex will be ready for occupancy in 2007.
Big Red Schoolhouse Lights the Way for New Students
A new charter school enlightens the Bronx.
Courtesy Gran Associates
Gran Associates has designed the gut renovation and full build-out of an
existing 15,000-square-foot, two-story former parking garage, and the addition
of 28,000 square feet of new space for the new Bronx Lighthouse Charter
School in the Longwood section of the Bronx. The $15 million project for
Civic Builders, an organization that provides turnkey real estate solutions
for charter schools, features a play space on the roof of the former garage
that is accessed from a multipurpose room that serves as dining and assembly
space. The irregular site is unified by a diagonal "Main Street," which
ties together the existing and new buildings. Ultimately, 520 students in
grades K-12 will attend the school.
Flight 587 Memorial
The new Flight 587 Memorial provides windows to view the ocean and leave flowers for loved ones.
Courtesy Situ Studio
Etched in vermillion-colored granite are the names of 265 people who perished
on Flight 587 that crashed in Queens on November 12, 2001. Adjacent to each
name are "windows" of different shapes and sizes cut out of 190 irregularly
shaped stone blocks that look out to the Atlantic Ocean and provide space for
flowers. The memorial, designed by artist Freddy Rodriguez, with Situ Studio
serving as consultant, was a multi-agency collaboration that included the
Office of the Mayor, the Art Commission of the City of New York, the Department
of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program, the NYC Department of Design and
Construction, and the NYC Department of Transportation — in addition to private
architects and landscape architects. The project includes the reconstruction
of two comfort stations, new construction of an ADA comfort station, and
upgrading an existing lifeguard station and associated infrastructure, as
well as tree and flower plantings adorning the memorial. Sited on beachfront
property at the end of 116th Street in Rockaway Park, the memorial is a short
walk to Tribute Park, a memorial to residents of Rockaway who died on 9/11,
on the bayside of the street.
A Museum With a River View
The "Gateway" to the Hudson River Museum
Courtesy Archimuse
The Hudson River Museum in Yonkers recently celebrated the dedication of
its new entrance plaza with a signature "Gateway" and a 2,000-square-foot
glass-walled lobby, designed by Benjamin Kracauer, AIA, of Archimuse. The
event marked the completion of phase one of a four-stage modernization and
expansion master plan. The museum, which contains an extensive collection of
works from the Hudson River School, overlooks the river and the Palisades. The
new entrance provides a threshold between Glenview, a National Register of
Historic Places Victorian mansion built in 1876, and a Neo-Brutalist wing
designed by Richard Kaeyer, FAIA, in 1969. The renovation also includes a
redesigned front plaza and steps, an access ramp that meets ADA guidelines,
new accessible restrooms, a coatroom, a new museum, and additional gallery space.
The next phase, scheduled to begin in the summer of 2007, includes connecting
Glenview, which will house the museum's permanent collection galleries,
directly to the new lobby making its galleries accessible by elevator. By
the end of the decade the museum's expanded facilities will be interconnected
and fully accessible for all for the first time.
Yeshiva University Builds New Study Center
A mix of program and materials will make up the new Glueck Center.
Courtesy Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum
Ground was broken on the Jacob & Driezel Glueck Center for Jewish Study
at Yeshiva University in upper Manhattan. Aligning with the existing street
wall, the 59,000-square-foot, six-story study center, designed by the
New York office of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) will include classrooms,
offices, study rooms, and conference facilities. A combination of
materials will be used including textured stone, pre-cast concrete,
brick, and metal. The curtainwall on the ground and second floor will be
translucent and fritted for privacy. In addition, a new 700-square-foot
entrance to the existing Gottesman Library will use the same curtainwall
system as the Glueck Center to create a continuous design flow. Completion
is scheduled for fall of 2008.
SHCA Designs Mixed-Use for Moscow
SLAVA is one of two projects designed by the recently-created Moscow office of Swanke Hayden Connell Architects.
Courtesy Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (SHCA) has opened an office in Moscow
and is designing two projects for the city — a 70-story mixed-use tower
in central Moscow near the Kremlin, and a 480,000-square-meter mixed-use
complex in downtown Moscow called SLAVA. Located on a major artery linking
Red Square to the outskirts of the city, SLAVA is being built on a three-city
block site and will contain six A+ class office buildings varying in height
from nine to 22 stories with 167,000 square meters of office space, 76,000
square meters of retail space, and a 4,000-car four-level underground parking
facility. The tallest building of the complex, with its four-story media
wall, an enclosed Winter Garden with an ice skating rink, and penthouse
Sky Lounge restaurant, is expected to be the signature piece of the complex.
AROUND THE AIA + THE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE
New AIA Covenant Adopted
The AIA has released a new document describing the goals of the organization
and how architects can participate in their realization. Click the link to
read
A Covenant Between The American Institute of Architects and Its Members.
THE MEASURE
Submit your response for the latest poll:
The debate between Columbia University and West Harlem has been recently rekindled
with Columbia-hired inspectors working to determine if the area should be
considered blighted and therefore worthy of university development. The new
campus would be built over 25 years on a strip of land from 125th Street to
133rd Street.
What do you think of the potential Columbia University expansion plan?
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OF INTEREST
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- Water-efficient showerhead with H2Okinetic technology from Delta
- Weather TRAK smart irrigation controls from HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc.
- Coolerado Cooler advanced, indirect evaporative air conditioner from Coolerado, LLC
- Renewable Energy Credits from Community Energy, Inc.
NAMES IN THE NEWS
The AIA New York Scholarship Committee announced the recipients of this year's Arnold W. Brunner Grant, awarded for advanced study in any area of architectural investigation that will contribute to knowledge, teaching, or practice of the art and science of architecture: Samuel D. Gruber, from Syracuse, NY, for the project Arnold W. Brunner: Architect and Planner; and Diane Lewis, from NYC, for the project, NY 150+: A Time Line, Ideas — Civic Institutions — Futures...
Architects/ Designers/ Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), an organization that links design with issues of peace and social justice, has announced the winners of their 2006 Lewis Mumford Awards: Common Ground Collective, Global Green USA, and September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows...
Steven Holl Architects has been recognized with a European Hotel Design Award for the Loisium Wine and Spa Resort in Langenlois, Austria. Steven Holl, AIA, has also received an honorary degree at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design in Budapest, Hungary...
SIGHTED
AIA150 Champion Mark Ginsberg, FAIA, and 2007 Alternate Director for Public Outreach, Ernest Hutton, Assoc. AIA, AICP.
Sam Lahoz
AIA NY Chapter Treasurer Anthony Schirripa, AIA, and 2006 AIA NY Chapter Secretary Beth Greenberg, AIA.
Sam Lahoz
Highlands' Garden Village Corner Park — one of the locations highlighted at the GreenBuild 2006 for its pedestrian-friendly, green focus.
Jeremy Edmunds, P.E., Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
Highlands' Garden Village tour guide and Perry Rose partner, Charles Perry, speaking of the eco-friendly stormwater treatment system.
Jeremy Edmunds, P.E., Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
Stapleton, a multifamily housing on the former Denver airfield. Jeremy Edmunds, P.E., Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
The Denver Art Museum Frederic C. Hamilton Building, designed by Daniel Libeskind.
Jeremy Edmunds, P.E., Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
The entrance to the Denver Art Museum Frederic C. Hamilton Building.
Jeremy Edmunds, P.E., Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
NEW DEADLINES
Oculus 2007 Editorial Calendar
Don't be shy... if you have ideas, projects, opinions — or perhaps a burning
desire to write about a topic below — we'd like to hear from you! Your input
is most welcome and appreciated; deadlines for submitting suggestions are
indicated (projects/topics may be anywhere, but architects must be New York-based).
Please send suggestions to:
Kristen Richards
Spring 2007: Architecture Inside/Out
The interiors of buildings, the design of the spaces that people work, live,
and play in have profound influences on our relationships, productivity,
well-being, health, and spirit. This issue will focus on the design of spaces
where we spend the majority of our lives. This is AIANY Chapter's 2007 theme issue,
and will be distributed at the 2007 AIA National Convention in May.
Submit ideas by 12.20.06
Summer 2007: AIANY 2007 Design Awards
The year's outstanding buildings by New York's design community, as judged by a
panel of top jurors. Contact
Amanda Jones
for details.
Registration deadline: 01.26.07; submissions due 02.09.07
Fall 2007: Collaboration
Successful architecture is the outcome of solid teamwork. The issue will
spotlight collaborations of architects with a wide range of engineering
consultants, designer professionals in other fields, technical experts,
artists, IT gurus, contractors, and include in depth pointers on how to make
collaborations work and avoid missteps.
Submit ideas by 06.01.07
Winter 2007-08: Power & Patronage
Eventually, it's the patrons through their patronage of public and private
work who determine the shape, amenities, and environmental merit of what is
built in New York, through their funding, taste, and choice of architects.
Features will include case studies of successful patronage.
Submit ideas by 09.07.07
2007 AIA New York Chapter Design Awards
The AIA New York Chapter Design Awards program seeks to recognize and promote design excellence in three categories: Interiors, Architecture, and Projects.
Contact Amanda Jones for more information.
Please note the new submission dates for 2007:
01.26.07 Entry Forms and Fees Due
02.09.07 Submissions Due
02.12.07 Symposium: Juror’s Announcement of Award Recipients
04.11.07 Design Awards Luncheon for Award Recipients and their clients
04.12.07 Design Awards Exhibition Opening at the Center for Architecture
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October 6–December 30, 2006 Going Public 2: City Snapshot(s) and Case Studies of the Mayor's Design and Construction Excellence InitiativeGalleries: Judith and Walter Hunt Gallery, Mezzanine Gallery, Edgar A. Tafel Hall Two-part exhibition celebrating public projects in New York City. City Snapshot(s) is the second installation of the Center for Architecture's inaugural exhibition showcasing recent and newly proposed public architecture, art, engineering and landscape projects submitted by open call. Highlighting the efforts of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to enhance the city's built environment, Case Studies of the Mayor's Design and Construction Excellence Initiative will focus on seven projects and look at how the NYC Department of Design and Construction is redefining what public architecture can be in the twenty-first century. Together, the two installations document the scope, quality, and diversity of public work in New York City. Curator: Thomas Mellins Organized by: AIA New York Chapter Sponsors: Supporters: Friends Special thanks to: |
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September 26–February 17, 2007 Project Showcase: The New York Times BuildingGalleries: Street Gallery, Public Resource Center The Center for Architecture presents a preview of the new 52-story New York Times Building currently being constructed on Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets. Models, drawings, and material samples describe the innovation and design process, with photography by Annie Leibovitz documenting the urban context of this spectacular new skyscraper. Special emphasis is placed on the sustainable features and technique in creating this remarkable new tower for Times Square. Find out why architect Renzo Piano calls the design—a collaboration with FXFOWLE Architects—"An Expression of Love" for New York City. Organized by: AIA New York Chapter in partnership
with Renzo Piano Building Workshop and FXFOWLE Architects Underwriter: Sponsors: Supporters: Special thanks to: The New York Times Company; Forest City Ratner Companies; Annie Leibovitz |
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September 11–December 16, 2006 5 Years Later…Gallery: Gerald D. Hines Gallery Five years have passed since the destruction of the World Trade Center changed New York City and the perception that our iconic buildings are permanent. To mark this anniversary, the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter and New York New Visions present a photographic and multi-media installation that explores the complexity of remembrance and reconstruction. Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz taken right after the dust had cleared depict Ground Zero with power and poignancy. Current footage from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's live webcam show the site as it is now, and the construction activity relating to projects underway. Also on display is an enlarged photograph of the slurry wall, the last remaining piece of the original World Trade Center structure. Accompanying these photographs is a random mosaic of news clippings documenting the rebuilding process. Collectively, the published accounts represent the broad range of opinions and reflect the depth of emotion about the reconstruction process. Exhibition organized by: AIA New York Chapter and
New York New Visions Special thanks to: Joel Meyerowitz, Guy Nordenson, Erica Goetz, Margaret Helfand, Duggal |
Related EventsSeptember 15 September 20, 5:00–7:00pm October 12–13, 9:00pm–2:00am |
September 5–December 16, 2006 arch schools-public view(ing)Galleries: Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, HLW Gallery, South Gallery After the tremendous success of the inaugural
architecture schools exhibition, the AIA New York Chapter is proud
to continue the tradition of showcasing emerging talents from the
metropolitan area architecture schools. Thirteen schools are
participating in the exhibition: Exhibition organized by AIA New York Chapter Exhibition Design: Gia Mainiero/Edwin Rodriguez Lead Sponsors: Additional sponsorship provided by: Special thanks to: |
About Town: Exhibition Announcements
Photography by David Maisel, courtesy Von Lintel Gallery
Through 01.06.07
Oblivion
The newest chapter of the Black Maps series from photographer David Maisel, this
exhibition uses aerial photography to record the environmentally impacted areas
around Los Angeles using negative prints of black-and-white film.
Von Lintel Gallery; 555 W. 25th Street
Nina Katchadourian, courtesy Public Art Fund
Through 01.14.07
Office Semaphore
An urban adaptation of traditional marine flag signaling, artist Nina Katchadourian
has installed a system in which an office worker relays messages to people outside
on street level. A different message is visible for decoding everyday, through a
telescope installed on the northeastern corner of One Chase Manhattan Plaza.
One Chase Manhattan Plaza; Pine, Liberty, Nassau and William Streets
Bronx Borough Courthouse (Oscar J. Bluemmer/Michael J. Garvin, 1914)Elliott Kaufman
Through 02.15.07
"Abandoned" and "Panama Canal" Series
Large archival pigment prints by architectural photographer Elliott Kaufman
chronicle derelict buildings and interiors in and around New York seldom seen by
outsiders, and aspects of the Panama Canal from sweeping aerial views to details
of the original 18-foot culverts.
B. Thayer Associates; 19 W. 44 St., 18th floor
A City on Paper: Saul Steinberg's New York; "Utopia," 1974
Collection of the Saul Steinberg Foundation; ©The Saul Steinberg Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image courtesy The Museum of the City of New York.
Through 03.25.07
A City on Paper: Saul Steinberg's New York
More than 40 drawings by artist Saul Steinberg are on display, showing the
range and originality of his vision of New York City. Trained in architecture
and a satirist by nature, the work on displays shows the city — its skyline,
its people, its monuments and myths — in an original light.
The Museum of the City of New York; 1220 Fifth Avenue
Image courtesy Van Alen Institute
12.08.06 - 01.21.07 and 02.17.07
Shrinking Cities
A two-part exhibition, Shrinking Cities, culminates a four-year project
investigating the worldwide phenomenon of urban "shrinkage." Van Alen Institute
is hosting part one of the exhibition, Shrinking Cities: International Research,
which examines the phenomenon of urban decline in four focus cities. Pratt Manhattan
Gallery is hosting part two, Shrinking Cities: Interventions, which presents
strategies for action.
Van Alen Institute; 30 W. 22nd St., 6th floor
Pratt Manhattan Gallery; 144 W. 14th Street, 2nd floor
The Newspaper Café, Jindong New District Architecture Park, Jinhua City, China, 2004-06. Designer: Toshiko Mori Architect
Courtesy Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
12.08.06 - 07.29.07
National Design Triennial: Design Life Now
Highlighting the work of 87 designers and firms, this exhibition presents the
most innovative American designs from the prior three years in a variety of
fields including architecture, product design, and fashion.
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; 2 East 91st St.
"First Christmas, 2006" by Peter Caine
Courtesy Exit Art
12.16.06 - 01.27.07
The Second Coming
Transforming found objects into quirky and kinetic sculptures, Peter Caine
has produced this animatronic work, displayed as a window installation full
of subversive sociopolitical underpinnings. Caine's "winter wonderland" is on
view 24 hours a day.
Exit Art; 10th Avenue and 36th Street windows
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is looking to expand their New York office,
currently involved as Architect of Record in the redevelopment and reconstruction of the World Trade Center Site,
working in association with "World Class" architects Foster and Partners, Richard Rogers Partership, and
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We are looking for motivated and experienced individuals, from interns to project architects, who have excellent communication, computer, and problem solving skills as well as appreciation and sensitivity to architectural design intent. Candidates will need to posses strengths in the area of detailing, contract documents, and coordination of complex building program requirements. Proficiency in the latest AutoCAD software is required and experience with Revit is a big bonus.
Salary will be commesurate with experience.
Resumes can be sent by e-mail to nzigomanis@adamson-associates.com
The NYC Region of the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation seeks a well rounded NYS licensed architect or professional engineer. Contract management, field inspections, design and NYS building code experience desired. Provisional appointment to Civil Service position (must pass exam when offered). Starting salary $62,019.
Send resume to Charles Place, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, 163 West 125th Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10027 (fax: 212 866 3186) by November 30, 2006.
design manager
Experienced design managers needed. Responsibilities include: Managing architectural design process, ensuring compliance with codes and securing permits and building approvals. Will also monitor design modifications and monitor production of construction documents. Requirements: Architecture or Interior Design degree, five years experience with a specialty retailer as an in-house designer or experience working for architectural/design firm designing retail/restaurant spaces. Experience managing outside architectural, MEP and other desired.
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job captain
Experienced job captains needed. Responsibilities include: Solving design questions and issues, coordinating project planning and reviewing/analyzes site surveys, developing preliminary drawings, tracking project timelines and producing architectural drawings. Requirements: Architecture of Interior Design degree, three plus years producing construction documents using a CAD software and must be proficient in communicating, both orally and in writing, and have demonstrated team work.
Please send cover letter and resume sstaffing@starbucks.comEEO/AA
ARCHITECT - Eastern Long Island, New York firm with a flourishing practice in residential architecture seeks architect with minimum 5 years experience as project architect for high-end projects.
Flexible work location and schedule. www.stelleco.com, mailto:info@stelleco.com.
Brooklyn College wants to hire an architect as an independent consultant to be the liaison between the academic staff and the design architects for a science facility and a performing arts center. The ideal candidate would have a minimum of 10 yrs experience and have worked with educational or governmental agencies. It is anticipated that the weekly work load will be around 20 to 25 hours weekly. Fax resumes to 718-951-4642 or email to sakrong@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Marketing Professional
Bermello Ajamil & Partners seeks dynamic Sr. Marketing Pro for our SOHO office. Includes strategic plannign, brand management, rfp / proposal preparation, market research, PR and maintenance, up-keep of the regional office CRM. Architectural/Engineering experience required.
Email: careers@bermelloajamil.com www.bermelloajamil.com
Designers-Project Managers
Designers-Project Managers NBBJ is a multi-national design firm and is among the world's most prominent architecture firms. There are tremendous growth opportunities for individuals looking to join a highly collaborative team environment. Our New York Studio is seeking SR Designers, Project Architects and JR Designers to contribute to award winning project work both domestically and internationally. For more information please visit our website: http://www.nbbi.com or submit resumes to humanresources@nbbi.com< /p>
Architect
Small firm seeks motivated hardworking, selfstarter individual with a strong knoweledge in Zoning, Building Code, M.D.L., City Agencies filling processes, etc. for part/full time position. Midtown great office work environment.
Fax resume and salary requirements (212) 725-1419
Project Architect
(NY,NY) hanrahanMeyers architects ( http://www.hanrahanmeyers.com ) is seeking a full-time Project Architect to work on variously scaled projects, freestanding and interior. Good benefits. Pay commensurate with applicant's abilities.
Please submit resume (hardcopy preferred) to :
Ms. Victoria Meyers and Mr. Thomas Hanrahan
hanrahanMeyers architects
135 West 20th Street
Suite 300
New York, NY 10011
please include :
- samples of student work, professional renderings and contract document working drawings
- names and telephone numbers for three references, preferably at least one prior employer
or you may email to:
mailto:katie@hanrahanmeyers.com
Rapidly expanding, award winning NYC firm spec- ializing in boutique hotels and large-scale residential projects throughout North America has openings at all levels of experience.
ARCHITECTURAL & INTERIOR DESIGNERS
We are looking for exceptional, talented indivi- duals at all levels of experience with strong de- lineation skills and knowledge of software inclu- ding Form Z and 3D Studio Viz.
PROJECT MANAGERS & JOB CAPTAINS
Intermediate and Senior Project Managers/Job Captains for large and medium scale projects. Autocad proficiency, experience with client contact, consultant coordination a must.
ARCHITECTS
Architects of all levels with strong Autocad skills, detailing and shop drawing experience for both residential and hotel building types.
Excellent benefits, salary commensurate with experience. Email resume to H. Weber: contactus@SBJgroup.com
ARCHITECTURAL INTERNS
We employ the very best, do you qualify?
Architectural intern, minimum 4 years experience. National and international firm. Autodesk ADT 2007, Revit 9.1 a plus. DeWolff Partnership, Fochester, NY.
Michael Holvey at 585-454-5860. holvey@dewolff.com
LICENSED ARCHITECTS
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Openings for several licensed Architects, minimum 10 years experience in Health Care & Cancer Hosipitals, Justice/Prisons, Recreation/Community Centers, DeWolff Partnership, Rochester, NY a National and international firm.
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Intermediate Architect
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP New York is seeking intermediate level architects for involvement in both large and small scale projects. Applicants should have interest in a full range of project responsibilities.
Applicants must hold a 5 year professional degree or Master's degree in Architecture and have 3 to 8 years of professional experience. Knowledge of AutoCAD, Photoshop and 3d Studio Max and/or Rhino is required.
Please send a cover letter, resume and 1-2 work samples to:
Human Resources
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14 Wall Street, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10005
ATTN: 061215 Intermediate Posting
Or you may email all files to hrdesign@som.com. (PDF or JPEG only please)
No phone calls please. Work samples will not be returned.
Junior Architect
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP New York is seeking intermediate level architects for involvement in both large and small scale projects. Applicants should have interest in a full range of project responsibilities.
Applicants must hold a 5 year professional degree or Master's degree in Architecture. Knowledge of AutoCAD, Photoshop and 3d Studio Max and/or Rhino is required.
Please send a cover letter, resume and 1-2 work samples to:
Human Resources
SOM
14 Wall Street, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10005
ATTN: 061215 Junior Posting
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No phone calls please. Work samples will not be returned.
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