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06.12.07
Have you heard of the new opportunity for AIA members? All events with CES credits are now open to members free of charge. Go to Around the AIA + Center for Architecture for more details, and I’ll be seeing you at the Center!
- Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
In this issue:
·Architects Provide Life Support
·New Global Planning Initiative for Big Cities
·Burj Battles Wind High Above Dubai
·Award-Winning Interiors Detail Threads of Integration
·New Acropolis Doesn’t Lose Marbles Over Old
·Cass Gilbert: A Copycat for All Seasons
·Young Firms Take Risks for Architecture
·We Are the Enemy: 2008 WMF 100 Most Endangered Sites
Event: Social Housing and the Social Contract
Location: Center for Architecture, 05.30.07
Speakers: Bruce Becker, AIA — Becker+Becker; Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani — The Graduate Center, CUNY & UC Berkeley; Dr. Barbara Lane — Growth and Structure of Cities, Bryn Mawr College; Dr. Susan Saegert — The Graduate Center, CUNY and Director, Center for Human Environments
Moderator: Susan Szenasy — Metropolis
Introduction: Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA, LEED AP, AIANY President
Sponsors: Center for Human Environments, The Graduate Center, CUNY; in partnership with AIANY Housing Committee
Speakers call to revive and revise the social contract for architects.
Courtesy Google Earth
As the backdrop to our daily lives, housing design in particular plays a significant role in affecting how people live and develop. But architecture is not the only driving force behind the success of a society’s affordable housing; it falls within a systemic framework that is at once complex and dynamic. For this reason, taking part in the social contract for architects can mean an extra challenge that goes above and beyond their typical call of duty.
Frequently, especially in affordable housing design, attention to details is sacrificed for the sake of the bigger picture. Light, air, safety, and communal space are just a few key elements in housing that can enrich the inhabitants’ quality of life regardless of income, but are often neglected for financial reasons. Yet, architectural refinement and quality play a vital role in the social contract because they give many occupants a sense of pride in where they live and allow them to create their own sense of home.
While it may be important, design is only part of a larger equation for success; financial and managerial problems can make or break any well-designed affordable housing project. Actively taking part in the social contract, however, may provide the key for architects to make their role practically indispensable. By learning how to balance funding, design, and management issues, architects can help to create truly sustainable projects in which the initial investment may be more costly, but the long-term savings pay off economically, socially, and environmentally.
Nevertheless, after all is said and done, can architects really do anything if they lack control over a project’s parameters, which are typically controlled by the client? Though the suggestions, such as proposing additional funding strategies to clients, collaborating to encourage a more well-rounded mission, and not allowing the client to fully dictate the program, seem somewhat vague, the overall message is clear: architects need to take more social responsibility. The social contract is nothing new, but in a time when public life and concepts of a collective “us” seem to be slipping away, it desperately needs to be revived and revised. Architects, as creative visionaries, may just be the people to resuscitate.
Rachel Schauer is concentrating her studies on architecture and communications at New York University Gallatin School. She also is e-OCULUS’ graphic designer.
Event: Towards an Urban Age: Presentation and Reception
Location: Hearst Tower, 05.03.07
Speakers: Richard Burdett — Director, Urban Age & Centennial Professor in Architecture and Urbanism, London School of Economics and Political Science; Bruce Katz — Vice President & Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Organizer: Urban Age; Cities Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science; Alfred Herrhausen Society; International Forum of the Deutsche Bank
Courtesy Urban Age
In addition to the growth of cities relative to rural areas worldwide, the sharp ascendancy of cities in developing Asian, African, and South American countries will redefine human geography over the coming decades. “What is interesting about this pace of change is that we’ve been though it before,” said Richard Burdett, Director of Urban Age. But must the 21st century growth of Mumbai, Shanghai, Sao Paolo, and dozens of other burgeoning cities wreak as much social and environmental havoc as the earlier explosions of London and New York? Urban Age hopes not. Founded in 2005, the organization has held six international conferences to spark discussion among urban leaders about sustainable approaches to metropolitan government, finance, and design.
A presentation of two years’ worth of research included striking demographic information as well as familiar platitudes. Burdett, who directed the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale, “Cities, Architecture and Society,” praised the mayors of New York and London for launching bold planning initiatives such as Bloomberg’s recent PlaNYC 2030. He also gave credit to those cities’ preservation of pedestrian neighborhoods and industrial-era building stock for facilitating mixed-use redevelopment. Addressing a purely national agenda, Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution proposed a “Blueprint for National Prosperity” based on stronger federal incentives for urban economies. His emphatic call to rebuild the middle class and his thumbs-up hand gestures lent a Clintonian tone to his policy discussion.
Exclusive in its posh location at the Hearst Tower’s theater and 44th (executive) floor aerie, the event was inclusive in its interdisciplinary guest and speaker list. The CEO of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann, introduced the first Urban Age Award, an annual prize of $100,000. This year’s recipient will be announced at the Urban Age India conference this fall in Mumbai. Suketu Mehta, an acclaimed author and award jury member who grew up in Mumbai and New York, said the Indian metropolis is experiencing “an economic boom and a civic emergency simultaneously.” The award jury also includes the architect Enrique Norten, Hon. FAIA, and Anthony Williams, a former Mayor of Washington, D.C. Appearing vigorous if a little vague in its mission, Urban Age exemplifies an aspiration to harness the power of planners, financiers, policymakers, architects, and academics toward holistic urban improvement.
Gideon Fink Shapiro is a writer and researcher at Gabellini Sheppard Associates, and contributes to several design publications.
Event: “Supertallest: Designing Structure.” World’s Tallest Building: Burj Dubai Lecture Series
Location: New York Academy of Sciences, 05.23.2007
Speakers: William F. Baker, PE, CE, SE, FASCE — partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago, and chief structural engineer, Burj Dubai
Introduction: Carol Willis — Director, Skyscraper Museum
Organizers: Skyscraper Museum; New York Academy of Sciences
Burj Dubai, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
©Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
The tallest skyscrapers of the 21st century are likely to face obstacles beyond what we can now imagine. Principally residential, concrete-framed, and Middle Eastern or Asian — as opposed to commercial, steel-framed, and North American like their 20th-century predecessors — Carol Willis observed one challenge that’s certain to remain in effect is wind. The higher a tower extends, the stronger the wind, and the more unpredictable. How do you strengthen a structure against wind forces in a place where no one has ever ventured up to measure them?
The portfolio of engineer William Baker, PE, CE, SE, FASCE, already includes one building temporarily considered the world’s tallest, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Burj Dubai recently passed Petronas, reaching the 128th floor, and in September it will pass Taipei 101 assuming world leadership in height, at least among freestanding land-based structures (offshore oil rigs excluded). Going where no architect or engineer has gone before, Baker recognizes, means confronting unprecedented torsion stresses, wind vortices, stack effects, and other demands. Aeroelastic studies with models and wind tunnels allowed for extrapolation to actual conditions and ultimately to “tuning” of the building, like a musical instrument. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s design for the Burj uses spiraling sequenced setbacks, turbulence-enhancing textured cladding, an orientation that reduces the site’s most problematic airflow, and numerous other
strategies to “confuse the wind,” manage the periodic rhythms of oscillating vortices, and maintain stability amid the forces encountered above 2,000
feet.
The Burj does not compete with bulky buildings like the Sears Tower in area, measuring roughly 3 million square feet (the Sears has 4.4 million), since its largely residential program calls for a smaller leafspan than a predominantly commercial building requires. (The extremely wealthy tenants who will occupy the Burj’s boutique office spaces also tend to have relatively small staffs.) Express and local elevators are stacked to minimize the proportion of floor space devoted to shafts. The Y-shaped triangular floorplates create greater torsional stability than a square or rectangular design would allow; a buttressed hexagonal core with webs of interior concrete walls throughout the three wings functions as a concrete axle. “Every piece of vertical concrete,” Baker explained, “is part of this giant beam” enlisting gravity for stability. “Gravity is amazingly reliable. If you’re resisting a load with rebar, that’s pretty
reliable, but resisting with gravity is about as good as you’re gonna
get.”
The exact height of the Burj remains a carefully guarded secret; all published figures Baker has seen are wrong. He pointed out that measuring building height is far from an exact science, citing debate within the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat over four types of measurement (a new standard may emerge from the International Height Meeting in Chicago, under way at this writing). Regardless of whether spires, antennas, occupied floors, or other factors determine official height, the Burj will stand well beyond its projected competitors for years, at least 2,300 feet — nearly halfway to matching Frank Lloyd Wright’s hypothetical, once-fanciful Mile-High Tower.
The unusually close focus afforded by a three-lecture series on a single building promises to reveal many fascinating aspects of the Burj. If the controversies it has already generated in the socioeconomic realm inspire analyses anywhere near as sophisticated as Baker’s technical presentation, look for some spectacular debates as the discussion moves from how it’s being built to why, and for whom.
Bill Millard is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in Oculus, Icon, Content, and other publications.
Event: AIA New York Chapter 2007 Design Awards Winners Symposium: Interiors
Location: Center for Architecture, 05.21.07
Speakers: Kathryn Dean — Dean/Wolf Architects; Andrew Bernheimer, AIA — Della Valle Bernheimer; Martin Finio, AIA — Christoff:Finio Architecture; Nazila Shabestari, AIA — Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Jennifer Sage, AIA — Sage and Coombe Architects
Moderator: Debra Lehman-Smith, Assoc. AIA — AIANY 2007 Design Awards jury member
Organizer: AIANY Design Awards Committee
Courtesy AIANY
From schematics through detailing, consistency and thoroughness were awarded in this year’s AIANY 2007 Design Awards interiors projects, claims Debra Lehman-Smith, Assoc. AIA, one of the jury members. With a wide range of professional backgrounds, the jury had to justify all of the design merits of every entry. With inspiration from Modern icons to light and architecture, the interiors projects spotlighted in this year’s awards examine a wide range of ideas.
Both Dean/Wolf Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) interiors explore the boundary between interior and exterior. The Honor Award-winning Operable Boundary Townhouse Garden in Brooklyn, designed by Dean/Wolf, is a home for two psychoanalysts who love to entertain. Inside and outside integrate vis-à-vis a giant, pivoting steel-framed glass wall and a continuous 30-foot-long table piercing the wall. When they have company, the glass wall can be pushed aside allowing the back garden to become an extension of the interior living room.
Design efficiency and complete integration were possible for the United States Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland, because the architecture and interior design teams were both lead by SOM. Success lies in the fact that not only did the interiors win the inaugural “Interior Architecture of Interest to the Public Realm” award, but the architecture won a Merit Award as well (see last issue’s, “Architecture Awards Look Outward” by Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP). The project is an example of how to employ sustainable methods at a very large scale in order to minimize its impact on the site. The interior explores design strategies making departmental areas more recognizable through a skillfully deployed color palate.
Light was a key factor for Public Realm winner Sage and Coombe Architects and Merit Award-winning Christoff:Finio Architecture. For the Heckscher Foundation for Children in Manhattan, Christoff:Finio completely restructured an existing townhouse designed by Samuel Beck Parkman Trowbridge (designer of the St. Regis Hotel, and Hayden Planetarium, among others), to spatially integrate all of the different aspects of the philanthropic foundation. Light penetrates the entire building making connections among floors through an uninterrupted vertical slice.
Sage and Coombe Architects worked with a very tight budget at The Children’s Room in the Fort Washington Branch of the New York Public Library, the other project to win the “Interior Architecture of Interest to the Public Realm” award. A collection of small “reading gardens” provides light to the once-gloomy Carnegie branch library. Giant yet discrete white lamps with graphic interiors define activities. The overall effect is a collection of small-scale, illuminated zones within the larger space of the library.
Honor Award-winning 23 Beekman Place, by Della Valle Bernheimer, had completely different challenges from the other interiors projects. This Paul Rudolph-designed-and-inhabited NYC penthouse was inherited as an incomplete renovation. Faced with the difficulty of working on a Modern icon that also served as a testing ground for Rudolph’s ideas while he lived there, the architects employed 3-D digital modeling to focus on and highlight the building’s spatial characteristics. Although the kitchen and bathrooms have been completely rebuilt, Della Valle Bernheimer was able to maintain and restore the original feel of the apartment by stripping it down to its original elements staying true to Rudolph’s ideas.
Although every award-winning project shows comprehensive thoroughness, each is unique in its attention to detail. Unfortunately, representatives from STUDIOS Architecture (Bloomberg LP Expansion Floors 17-20) and Asymptote (Alessi Flagship Store New York) were not on hand to discuss their Merit Award-winning projects. To read more about the 2007 Design Awards, click the link.
J. Arthur Liu is a designer with FXFOWLE Architects.
Event: Bernard Tschumi and Leo Argiris: Conceptual and Technical Issues — the New Acropolis Museum
Location: Center for Architecture 06.07.07
Organizers: The Hellenic-American Technical Society; AIANY Cultural Affairs Committee
Speakers: Bernard Tschumi, AIA, Director, and Joel Rutten, Project Director — Bernard Tschumi Architects; Leo Argiris, PE — ARUP
Introduction: George Leventis, PE — board member, Hellenic American Technical Society
Sponsors: Arup; Hunter Roberts; Langan Engineering & Environmental Services; Thornton Tomasetti; Koutsomitis, Architects; M.A. Angeliades
The New Acropolis Museum is situated at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
Bernard Tschumi Architects
Designing a museum for the Parthenon Marbles frieze at the foot of the Acropolis is no small feat, as Bernard Tschumi Architects with engineers from Arup discovered — especially when the proposed site is already filled with 2,000-year-old artifacts. Furthermore, to get the New Acropolis Museum built, navigating the politics — ever-changing building codes, archaeologists, and local politicians — added a new realm of complication.
To avoid destroying the ancient street grid and remaining walls (and to placate the archaeologists), the building is constructed as a column grid with two parallel structural cores. The curtain wall of the top floor and the floor slabs are supported by and cantilever from these structural members. The large, cast-in-place concrete columns accommodate the structure and potential seismic loads. As they reach the ground, they also straddle ancient walls by separating into a tripod of smaller columns. The beams spanning over the remains are infilled with glass so visitors can view the artifacts as they walk above them on the first level.
The circulation of the building is a three-dimensional loop providing a temporal experience. After crossing lower-level ruins, viewers enter a double-height trapezoidal gallery for art from the Archaic period to the Roman Empire, and end their visit at a glass-enclosed gallery. With facilities located in the interior cores, the open grid of the trapezoidal gallery allows a maximum amount of flexibility for exhibitions.
The New Acropolis Museum constantly references the ancient Acropolis. Both the east-west orientation and the column spacing mimic that of the Parthenon. The glass-enclosed gallery housing the Parthenon Marbles, with a suspended curtain wall, is just above the Athens roofline allowing uninterrupted views of the Acropolis. Because of its nature, visitors can view the frieze, which was once attached to the Parthenon, with a maximum amount of natural light. Gradated, fritted glass helps protect the art and shelter visitors from the heat.
Much of the museum aligns with other Bernard Tschumi, AIA, projects and theories. He superimposes the existing city grid around the perimeter of the site, the ancient street grid of the ruins, and the east-west axis of the Parthenon. He emphasizes movement through the building, sequence of space and time. According to the Project Director, Joel Rutten, the New Acropolis Museum could be the ultimate Tschumi of Tschumi projects. And considering its location and subject matter, designing a source at the source is very appropriate.
Event: Downtown Third Thursday Lecture: Cass Gilbert and History: The Past as Present
Location: New York County Lawyers’ Association, 05.17.07
Speaker: Barbara S. Christen — author, historian, Cass Gilbert scholar
Organizer: Downtown Alliance
The neo-gothic style of the Woolworth Building is just one of many of Cass Gilbert’s appropriated modes.
Jessica Sheridan
Architect Cass Gilbert was a style chameleon, varying his design aesthetic based on location and client. According to author and historian Barbara Christen, Gilbert’s ideas were mined from both his European travels and from his extensive library. “On one level he wasn’t that imaginative,” said Christen, showing a photo of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus next to the similar crown of the U.S. Courthouse at Foley Square, one of many Gilbert appropriations.
New Yorkers might associate Gilbert’s style with the Foley Courthouse, or with the sugary, neo-gothic ornamentation he employed on the Woolworth Building and 90 West Street. But residents of Waterbury, CT, would have a completely different impression of Gilbert’s work, as evidenced by the colonial-inspired brick-and-stone civic and commercial buildings he designed for the town. Oberlin College students might have yet another view of the architect’s work, with several Florentine-influenced building springing from Gilbert’s master plan for the campus. Perhaps it is in the buildings that belong to Gilbert’s partially realized master plans (like those for Waterbury and Oberlin) that his mass style realignments become most evident.
In addition to these wholesale shifts in his design approach, Gilbert managed to interpose seemingly unrelated architectural elements, like a Scandinavian dormer he transposed almost directly from his travel notebooks onto a shingle-style sanatorium building in Connecticut. “He comfortably grafted styles,” said Christen. Proving that perhaps Gilbert’s true talent was for graceful assimilation, a lesson architects today can certainly appreciate.
Carolyn Sponza, AIA, is an architect with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners and is the AIANY Chapter Vice President of Professional Development.
Event: Young Architects Forum: Proof
Location: The Urban Center, 05.31.07
Speakers: Benjamin Aranda & Chris Lasch — Aranda/Lasch, NYC; Chaewon Kim & Beat Schenk, — uni, Cambridge, MA
Introduction: David Benjamin — Young Architects Committee
Organizers: The Architectural League of New York
(left): uni’s XS, S, M, and L prototype houses; (right): Brooklyn Pigeon Project by Aranda/Lasch.
uni; Aranda/Lasch
“Risk is the territory of proof,” according to David Benjamin of the Young Architects Committee. Aranda/Lasch takes risks on a conceptual level through an engagement with open-ended explorations of pattern, while design/build firm uni engages risk on a pragmatic level balancing design with construction and development.
From explorations of “forbidden symmetries” found in molecular structure, woven baskets, and infrastructural proposals, Aranda/Lasch argues for an architecture situated within the patterns of natural and urban phenomena — to “get into the dynamic” is their goal, stated Benjamin Aranda. In the Brooklyn Pigeon Project, for example, the patterns of flocking pigeons are recorded through tracking devices and cameras to reframe our understanding of the city. In the Baskets Project, a collaboration with Native American basket weaver Terrol Dew Johnson, systems of pattern making (cultural and mathematical) are again taken as a starting point in an exploration of form. The study of pattern in their work is primarily about “looking at the world around us and breaking it down into phenomena,” claimed Chris Lasch, thus revealing new relationships, and perhaps new means of practicing architecture.
The risks taken by uni, on the other hand, deal with the realization of architecture as building. Taking command of their own destiny, Chaewon Kim and Beat Schenk did not simply open an office; they bought and renovated property until they completed the equivalent of a showroom of residential architecture. Four houses — categorized by size as XS, S, M, and L — function as a laboratory for exploration of domestic functions and materials. Through their design/build efforts they have made a compelling argument for the compatibility of design, real estate development, and straightforward construction.
Gregory Haley, AIA, AICP, LEED AP, is a senior architect and urban planner at Studio V Architecture, and teaches at NYIT School of Architecture.
Event: World Monuments Watch: 2008 List of 100 Most Endangered Sites
Organizer: World Monuments Fund
The neglected New York State Pavilion is endangered according to the WMF.
Courtesy World Monuments Fund
This year’s official announcement of the 2008 World Monuments Fund’s (WMF) Watch List begins with cartoonist/environmentalist Walt Kelly’s well-worn quotation — “We have met the enemy and he is us,” underscoring the list’s heightened focus on recognizing man-made threats to the natural and built environment.
The list is the WMF’s call to attention and action for the survival of cultural heritage sites across the globe and is assembled by an international panel of experts in the fields of architecture, archaeology, art history, and preservation, culled from nominations from governments, conservators, site caretakers, NGOs, and individuals. Sites run the gamut and are listed by country and category — global climate change, conflict, economic and development pressures, historic cities, modern architecture, geographical regions of note.
Seven U.S. sites are on the list: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern University in Lakeland, FL, due to deterioration and the lack of funds to make repairs; Philip Johnson’s iconic New York State Pavilion built for the 1964 World’s Fair, now a modern ruin; Route 66, the fabled two-lane highway and its deteriorating roadside architecture; Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA, because new construction threatens to ruin the expansive view of the Pacific from the central courtyard; the Tutuveni Petroglyph Site on the Hopi Tribal Land in Arizona, described as the “Rosetta Stone” of Hopi civilization, which has been vandalized; New Orleans, while it struggles to recover its historic sites, faces continued and possibly more severe natural forces; and finally, Main Street, USA, and its body of post-war civic buildings designed in the modern style, now perceived as out-of-date and at risk of being demolished.
On this list, says WMF president Bonnie Burnham, “man is indeed the real enemy, but, just as we caused the damage in the first place, we have the power to repair it.”
Every picture tells a story — and for all of us armchair tourists, there are 100 stories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, of endangered sites to learn about on the WMF website.
Arts & Letters Attendees
John Morris Dixon, FAIA, may be correct in noting that architects are underrepresented in the membership of The American Academy of Arts and Letters (See Architect Numbers Dwindle at American Academy Honors, 05.30.07), and further concerned that fewer attend Academy events, but he missed one — John M. Johansen, FAIA, who was there that evening.
- Christen Johansen, AIA
Postopolis! (l-r): Joseph Grima, Director of Storefront for Art and Architecture; Jill Fehrenbacher from Inhabitat; Dan Hill from City of Sound; and Bryan Finoki of Subtopia.
Kristen Richards
Postopolis! — an international exposition about architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design in the blogosphere — was held at the Storefront for Art and Architecture at the end of May. For five days straight this ad hoc convention featured architects, critics, and educators discussing current design-oriented issues relevant to technology and the Internet. The backbone of the event, however, spotlighted the numerous blogs that “expand the bounds of architectural discussion.” While I am an avid reader of design blogs, coming face to face with the web personalities I have encountered over recent years was bittersweet.
Orchestrated by four blogs — Inhabitat (New York), BLDGBLOG (Los Angeles), Subtopia (San Francisco), and City of Sound (London) — many other bloggers were either in attendance or asked to speak throughout the week as well. What surprised me was that most of the individuals behind the blogs are either recent graduates from architecture schools or writers whose backgrounds have nothing to do with architecture. To some extent this makes sense as blogging is a relatively young medium, and I do not believe that critics need to be professionals in the fields they critique. Also, blogging is an outlet for emerging architects whose ideas are not always considered in the firms for which they work.
The description of Postopolis! on Storefront’s website states that blogging’s “influence now spreads far beyond the Internet to affect museums, institutions, and even higher education.” While this statement doesn’t go as far to say blogs are changing the built world, there is an implication.
I think blogging has the potential to affect architecture and urbanism on a larger scale, but this can only occur with more participation from practitioners actively involved in the profession. Maybe there are more professionals who blog out there but were not included in the convention. I did notice a lack of presence from NY-based institutions (no one from AIANY was asked to speak), and there were a couple of professionals who presented their blogs (Tropolism is one, for example). Maybe the word “blog” has a bad reputation for professionals as there can be an assumption that they are snarky and sarcastic without substance.
Blogging is new enough that this reputation can change. If professionals led an ongoing commentary about their experiences designing, constructing, and developing architecture, landscape, and urbanism, the design field, as well as the public, would be more informed. There is certainly room enough online for a more diverse array of opinions.
If you want to read more about what you missed, City of Sound and BLDGBLOG have extensive coverage of Postopolis! Many of the events are also available on You Tube. Finally, Architect magazine is conducting a survey about what blogs/websites you read. If you want to enter, click here, and don’t forget to vote for e-Oculus!
In this issue:
·New Residences Pay Homage to SoHo’s Past
·NYPD Blue’s Station House is in the Pink
·Richard Meier Designs Second Museum in Germany
·NYC Real Estate Brokers Raise $1 Million for Habitat
New Residences Pay Homage to SoHo’s Past
Gwathmey Siegel’s meticulously detailed façade and floor-to-ceiling windows pay tribute to Soho’s historic cast iron architecture, capturing and reflecting light and shadow as the day progresses.
Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects
Construction has begun on SoHo Mews, two independent residential buildings designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects linked by a private garden designed by landscape architect Peter Walker, FASLA. Upon completion, the 175,000-square-foot development will contain 68 luxury units — lofts, townhouses, and four penthouses — 4,500 square feet of ground floor commercial space on West Broadway, and underground parking spanning the entire site. With a nod to the neighborhood’s cast iron heritage, the buildings will have a stone base and a curtain wall of metal panels. Recessed, clear, frosted, and fritted glass with horizontal and vertical channels will express the floor slabs and columns. The Art Production Fund (APF), which will occupy a ground floor office and gallery space gratis of developer United American Land, will commission custom works for the public spaces.
NYPD Blue’s Station House is in the Pink
The NYPD’s 9th Precinct Station House.
Courtesy STV Inc.
The NYPD’s 9th Precinct station house on the Lower East Side, which was used as the backdrop for the television show “NYPD Blue,” has been completely modernized by STV Inc. for the Department of Design and Construction (DDC). The cast stone façade of the 1912 building was disassembled and refurbished, block-by-block. The first floor was given new openings and graphics sympathetic with the original design, and a new contemporary interior with two setback floors were added on the top of the building. The interior of the 8 1/2-story, 39,000-square-foot building now has a double height lobby and reception area with aluminum paneling, stainless steel air vents, barrel vaulted ceiling and curved surfaces, and a maple wood wall behind the reception desk. From behind a shoulder height reception desk, officers can view two large CCTV flat screens, which show changing views of the holding cells, elevators, and other areas for prisoners. Large glass panels
fill the upper sections of the lobby walls on two sides offering visitors a glimpse of the staff walking along the second floor
corridor.
Richard Meier Designs Second Museum in Germany
The Arp Museum.
Courtesy Arp Museum
The new Arp Museum, designed by Richard Meier Architects and scheduled to open on September 28, will house a collection of sculpture, drawings, paintings, and textiles by renowned Dada artists and their contemporaries. Situated on a heavily wooded escarpment above the Rhine River and the former Rolandseck railroad station, which now houses the Kumstler-Banhof for the Arts, the complex consists of the Arp Museum proper, a pavilion for temporary exhibitions, a subterranean corridor, and elevator tower connecting the two. Upon arrival, visitors ascend a monumental stair to the special exhibition level. The subterranean corridor leads to the 130-foot-high elevator tower leading to a two-story permanent collection. The main body of the building, clad in enameled metal panels, comprises a set of layered planes facing east, punctuated by glazed and louvered openings with a number of cantilevered balconies affording panoramic views over the Rhine.
NYC Real Estate Brokers Raise $1 Million for Habitat
Brokers Build is raising money to fund Habitat for Humanity homes in Brooklyn.
Dattner Architects
Brokers Build, an organization consisting of New York’s top real estate brokers, has raised money to build 11 homes in Brooklyn. Designed by Dattner Architects, these homes are part of a three-building development, with 41 units ranging from one- to three-bedroom condos. The project will include energy efficient and environmental design. As per the Habitat for Humanity program, families are required to supply “sweat equity” by participating in the building of their home. Brokers Build is encouraging every broker in the city to donate at least $25.
In this issue:
·CES Events Free for Members
·AIANY Welcomes New Director of Programs
·AIAS Finalists Rest Their Chairs in D.C.
·Builders Scrap Construction Carbon
·Standard 189 Now Open for Public Comment
·Website Launches for Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
CES Events Free for Members
The AIANY Membership Services Committee is pleased to announce that AIA Members may now attend CES programs FREE! Beginning June 1, for a 6-month trial basis, AIANY is offering CES programs free to members while the non-member rate will be raised to $20. Visit the AIANY calendar to see what the organization has been planning to help you fulfill your Continuing Education needs.
AIANY Welcomes New Director of Programs
AIANY welcomes Beth Stryker as its new Director of Programs at the Center for Architecture. In addition to her work as Director of Programs, Beth will oversee the development of the Public Information Exchange (PIE), a permanent, interactive, multimedia installation on planning and architectural projects and urban issues across the five boroughs.
Beth received her MArch from Princeton University, and is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her work has been exhibited at the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Walker Art Center, among others. She is a past NYFA fellow, and was previously a principal in Utensil Art + Design studio.
AIAS Finalists Rest Their Chairs in D.C.
Andrew Rudolph and Travis Withers — University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Third Place ($1,000).
Courtesy AIAS
Six finalists in the 2007 Chair Affair, sponsored by the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF) and managed by the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), will be displayed at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., July 18-23. The finalists were selected from a record 176 entries, submitted by teams or individuals representing 56 universities and colleges.
The Chair Affair competition challenges architecture students to design chairs using corrugated board and glue. The winning chair, designed by a group of Cornell University students, provides public seating and could easily be visualized in an airport setting. The other five finalists cover a wide range of designs that demonstrate corrugated versatility. The winners can be viewed on the competition website.
Builders Scrap Construction Carbon
Architecture and design firm Mithun, along with landscape architects at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas, is making it easier for developers, builders, architects, and land planners to measure the carbon output of construction projects. In April, the two groups launched BuildCarbonNeutral.com, an online carbon calculator that tallies the amount of carbon dioxide released when transporting building materials to the construction site, and the amount of carbon released due to ecosystem degradation at the site. The carbon emissions associated with the construction process of a new building represents 13-18% of a building’s total embodied carbon, according to the United Environmental Programme. For landscape projects, the construction process accounts for 100% of the project’s embodied carbon.
Constructing new buildings and sites with the least possible environmental impact involves three important steps: reduce, renew, and offset. Offsetting means calculating the project’s carbon footprint so it can be balanced by funding resources or activities like renewable energy and land protection — resources that benefit and protect the planet. By using the calculator, designers can see how they might reduce their carbon footprint throughout site selection and design development, and the amount of carbon offsets their clients would need to purchase in order to negate the construction process.
Standard 189 Now Open for Public Comment
Standard 189, a proposed new standard that will provide minimum guidelines for green building practices, is nearly complete and has been released for public review and comment. Comments will be accepted through July 9, 2007 online. The standard is being developed by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) in conjunction with the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) and USGBC, and will be the first of its kind in the United States.
Website Launches for Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
San Francisco-based architect Richard Gage, AIA, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, announced the official launch of the group’s website. Gage, along with dozens of other architecture and engineering professionals, have signed a petition that questions official reports about the destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) Twin Towers and Building 7 on 9/11 and calls for a new investigation. Gage, who suspects that the towers may have been destroyed with explosives rather than plane impact and fire, says he expects the website to also serve as a vehicle for ongoing research into the causes of the destruction of all 3 WTC high-rise buildings that day.
Gage’s presentation includes several different lines of evidence for his case, from analyses of the collapse to over 100 reports by first responders and the media of explosions at the scene. Gage also extensively covers the findings of chemical and physical evidence from Utah-based physicist Dr. Steven Jones, a physics professor formerly from Brigham Young University whose demolition hypothesis led to his appearance on MSNBC and many news articles. Jones’s continuing chemical and physical analysis of the WTC steel and dust has revealed what he claims is the signature of thermate, a high-performance incendiary cutter charge. Gage describes a key piece of evidence in support of Dr. Jones’s theory — the reports by a number of individuals, including the structural engineer of the WTC and the FDNY, of molten metal “flowing like lava” in the rubble pile during the weeks following 9/11.
The new website features a full presentation by Gage, both as a PowerPoint and a video, along with a discussion forum, the recently leaked WTC North Tower blueprints, ongoing publication of technical articles, and a broad range of multi-media offerings.
AIANY is offering all CES credited events to all AIA members for free on a trial basis. How will this affect your attendance at the Center for Architecture?
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Brooklyn-based band Cheeseburger gets down on the ground to save the Domino Sugar Refinery.
Jonny Leather; Jessica Sheridan
On June 3, community leaders and local rock bands gathered on the Williamsburg waterfront in a benefit “friendraiser” concert to save the historic Domino Sugar Refinery from demolition. Don’t Demo Domino was organized by Act Local in partnership with the Waterfront Preservation Alliance. The complex is about to be rezoned for residential use, and while the organization supports development, it is fighting for a comprehensive preservation program to save the not-yet-landmarked building. The Historic District Council supports saving the complex, calling it “one of the most significant intact industrial sites on the New York waterfront, representing over 150 years of Brooklyn’s industrial past and growth.”
There is still time to sign the petition even if you missed the event. Click here to voice your support.
Van Alen Institute announced the recipients of the 2007-2008 New York Prize Fellowship, including the New York Prize Senior Fellowship winner, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, and the 2007-2008 New York Prize Fellows: Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin, NYC; Jennifer Toy and Chelina Odbert, Cambridge, MA; Joerg Stollman and Dirk Hebel, Zurich, Switzerland; Ellen Grimes, Chicago; and John Stuart, Miami Beach…
Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) honored its 2007 Lewis Mumford award winners in three categories — Peace: People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond; Environment: Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana; and Development: Neighborhood Partnership Network…
Recipients of the 2007 Society for College and University Planning/AIA-Committee on Architecture for Education (SCUP/AIA-CAE) Excellence in Planning, Excellence in Landscape Architecture, and Excellence in Architecture Awards include Dirtworks Landscape Architecture, Honor Award for Excellence in Landscape Architecture; and Gluckman Mayner Architects, Honor Award for Excellence in Architecture for Renovation or Adaptive Reuse…
First prize winners for “Envisioning Gateway: A Public Design Competition for Gateway National Park” are Brooklyn-based Ashley Scott Kelly and Rikako Wakabayashi. NY-based honorable mention winners include Archipelago Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Christopher Marcinkoski and Andrew Moddrell of loop|8; and Frank Gesualdi and Hayley Eber…
The Board of Directors of Perkins Eastman announced that architecture and design students from Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University have been selected as the recipients of the firm’s first Shanghai Scholarship Program…
Madelyn Wils has joined New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) as an Executive Vice President, leading its Development and Planning division… The Historic Districts Council elected Queens preservationist Paul Graziano as the organization’s sixth president…Cosentini Associates announced the appointment of K. Brett Malak as Director of Cosentini Lighting Design… Edith Robles has joined BBG-BBGM as Public Relations Director…
2007 AIA Fellows Reception (05.29.07): white roses for all
Clockwise: Mustafa Abadan, FAIA, and Henry K. Stolzman, FAIA; Paul Katz, FAIA, and Adam Yarinsky, FAIA; D.B. Blake Middleton, FAIA, and Roger F. Duffy, Jr., FAIA; Margaret Sobieski Rietveld, FAIA, and Frank James Greene, FAIA. Absent: Calvin Tsao, FAIA.
Kristen Richards
(l-r): Michael Arad, AIA, Andy Frankl, Ibex, and James McCullar, FAIA.
Kristen Richards
Richard Tomasetti, Hon. AIA, and John Morris Dixon, FAIA.
Kristen Richards
Richard Tomasetti, Hon. AIA, and Barbara Nadel, FAIA.
Kristen Richards
Oculus 2007 Editorial Calendar
If you have ideas, projects, opinions — or perhaps a burning desire to write about a topic below — we’d like to hear from you! Deadlines for submitting suggestions are indicated; projects/topics may be anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Send suggestions to Kristen Richards.
09.07.07 Winter 2007-08: Power & Patronage
06.15.07 Tour Proposals: 2008 AIA Convention Tours
The 2008 AIA Convention will be held in Boston, MA, May 15-17, 2008, and Community Design Resource Center of Boston (CDRC-Boston) is working with host chapter, Boston Society of Architects/AIA (BSA), among other planners and organizations, to develop tours that will engage design professionals and community members. To submit tour ideas click the link.
07.01.07 Session Proposals: 2008 AIA Convention Continuing Education Sessions
CDRC-Boston and BSA are also developing events and sessions for continuing education credits for the 2008 AIA Convention. If you would like to develop an event or session proposal with CDRC-Boston as a co-sponsor, e-mail Brandy or call 617-585-0198.
07.31.07 Submission: LEAF Awards
Now in their fourth year, the LEAF Awards 2007 honors architects who are designing buildings and solutions that set benchmarks for the international architectural community. This year the LEAF Awards will recognize the strategic importance, impact, innovation, and practical developments in 11 award categories that both challenge and change the way we consider and evaluate buildings. Projects both new and yet to be completed are eligible, and all companies, individuals, and technologies may enter.
02.29.08 Submission: Holcim Foundation Awards
The Holcim Foundation has launched its second awards competition for sustainable construction projects. The $2 million competition celebrates innovative, future-oriented, and tangible sustainable construction projects internationally. Construction projects must be in an advanced stage of design by the competition deadline; construction may not have started before June 1, 2007. A commemorative book on the first Holcim Awards competition and a booklet on the target issues for sustainable construction are available. More details about the competition will be announced later in the year, and sent directly to you as a subscriber to the Holcim Foundation e-mail newsletter.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
May 31-August 25, 2007
The Park at the Center of the World: Five Visions for Governors Island
Galleries: Edgar A. Tafel Hall
The exhibition features five landscape architecture and architecture teams selected to present their design visions for the future open spaces on Governors Island, the 172 acre Island off the tip of Manhattan. Governors Island’s open space will include the two mile Great Promenade that provides outstanding views of Lower Manhattan and New York Harbor, a new park, and restoration of the landscape in the Island’s National Historic District. Showcasing conceptual and illustrative designs by the five teams for the open space of Governors Island, the exhibition provides a platform for public feedback before the jury will take place in late June 2007. A design team will be selected by mid summer.
Exhibition related programming organized by American Institute of Architects Planning & Urban Design Committee , American Society of Landscape Architects New York Chapter, Center for Architecture Foundation and Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (GIPEC)
Exhibition Designer: Freecell
Exhibition Graphics: WSDIA | WeShouldDoItAll
For a list of the teams click here.
June 2nd – September 2nd on Governors Island
Governors Island is open for visitors every Saturday and Sunday. (For ferry schedule and other information log onto www.govisland.com)
Sponsored by: Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (GIPEC)
Related Events
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Public Forum
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Fashion Institute of Technology
Reeves Great Hall
27 th Street at 7 th Avenue
Thursday, June 21, 2007 and
Wednesday June 27, 2007, 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Park Design Tours organized by the Governors Island Alliance
For more information click here
Panel discussion with winning team date tba
Saturday, August 11, 2007, 9:45 - 11:30 AM
FamilyDay@theCenter
Governors Island Walking Tour & Scavenger Hunt
To Register: 212.358.6133
April 9-July 7, 2007
2007 AIA New York Chapter Design Awards
Galleries: Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, HLW Gallery, South Gallery, Edgar A. Tafel Hall
A showcase of the 2007 award-winning projects in three categories-Architecture, Interiors, and Projects. Selected from hundreds of international, national and local submissions, these projects spotlight the extraordinary achievements in architectural design excellence happening in New York City and around the world.
Exhibition and Graphic Design: Graham Hanson Design
Organized by: AIA New York Chapter and the AIA New York Chapter Design Awards Committee
Benefactor: DIRTT,
Oldcastle Glass
Patron:
HOK,
Microsol Resources,
F.J. Sciame Construction,
Laticrete International,
Trespa
Lead Sponsor: Certified of New York, Inc., Columbia, KI, Langan, Mancini Duffy, Richter + Ratner, Syska & Hennessy
Sponsors:
Atkinson Koven Feinberg; Bauerschmidt & Sons, Inc.; Bentley Prince Street; Beyer Blinder Belle: Architects and Planners; Cosentini Associates; Costas Kondylis & Partners; Forest City Ratner Companies; FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS; Gensler; Gilsanz Murray Steficek; Haworth; Hopkins Foodservice Specialists, Inc.; The I. Grace Company, Inc.; Ingram, Yuzek, Gainen, Caroll & Bertolotti; Lutron; Mechoshade Systems; New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies: The Real Estate Institute; Perkins + Will; Peter Marino Architect; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Steelcase, Inc.; Studio Daniel Libeskind; Swanke Hayden Connell Architects; Thornton-Tomasetti Group; Turner Construction
April 12–June 23, 2007
NY 150+: A Timeline
Ideas, Civic Institutions, and Futures
Galleries: Gerald D. Hines Gallery
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the American Institute of Architects in New York City, the AIA New York Chapter will feature an exhibition charting the transformation of the city and the profession from 1857 through the present and into the future. Genetic lines tracing the founding of the institute will intersect with various democratic and social movements and the architecture of New York’s civic structures.
Curator: Diane Lewis
Organized by: Organized by the AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation
Exhibition Underwriters:
*opening presented by Ibex
The exhibition is supported in part by an Arnold W. Brunner grant from the AIA New York Chapter
Additional support is provided by: Peter Schubert, AIA; FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS
March 22 to June 16, 2007
POWERHOUSE
New Housing New York
Galleries: Street Gallery, Public Resource Center, Judith and Walter Hunt Gallery, Mezzanine Gallery
Winning proposal
Phipps Rose Dattner Grimshaw
Related Events
Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 6:00 – 8:00pm, CES 1.5, HSW
NHNY: Best Practices for Affordable Sustainable Housing -
What worked, what didn’t?
Making Green Design More Accessible
TBD, CES 1.5, HSW
Power House illuminates the people, projects, and public policies that fuel the affordable housing landscape in New York City.
As New York City’s first juried design competition for affordable, sustainable housing, the New Housing New York Legacy Project (NHNY) is generating creative, replicable approaches to urban development. The exhibition focuses on the NHNY competition and sets it within the context of the city’s efforts to preserve and development sustainable, financially viable residences for low- and middle-income New Yorkers. The show’s emphasis is on the future of housing in the city, as represented by the competition winner, Phipps Rose Dattner Grimshaw (Phipps Houses / Jonathan Rose Companies / Dattner Architects / Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners), the four finalists, and the development mechanisms put in place by Mayor Bloomberg’s 10-year New Housing Marketplace initiative and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
Building on the 2004 New Housing New York Ideas Competition, the 2006 two-stage contest will result in construction of the winning design on a 40,000 square-foot Bronx site, which is valued at $4.3 million and was donated by The City of New York.
For the full list of finalists click here
Curator: Abby Bussel
Exhibition and Graphic Design: Casey Maher
Organized by: AIA New York Chapter,
New Housing New York Steering Committee and the
City of New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development with the additional support of the Center for Architecture Foundation and the AIA New York Chapter Housing Committee
Exhibition Underwriters:
Exhibition Patron:
For more information on the New Housing New York Legacy Project click
href="http://www.aiany.org/NHNY/Legacy_About.html">here
NHNY is a partnership between the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, the City of New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Additional support is provided by the Center for Architecture Foundation, and City University of New York.
The NHNY Legacy Project is sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the National Endowment for the Arts, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., an AIA National Blueprint Grant, JP Morgan Chase, and Citibank.
Reoderant.
Courtesy ISE
Through 06.22.07
Reoderant
“Reodorant” is a multi-sensory installation created by Hisako Inoue (artist), Erik Carver (architectural designer), Howard Huang (sound artist), Takashi Sato (perfumer), and Yuka Yokoyama (curator). The team investigates what lies between culture, perception, and memory in an attempt to rewrite subjectivity through sensory stimulation: a memory-reactive-device simultaneously channeling smell, sound, light, and architecture. Wandering through soft forests of smell and sound, one’s memories are gradually called up and put into motion. You are meant to lose sense of yourself. You have been “Reodorized.”
ISE Cultural Foundation, NY gallery
555 Broadway, New York, NY
Through 06.22.07
Preservation as Provocation
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) presents the winners of its 2007 international student competition. The aim was to rethink architectural pedagogy in light of the increased importance of historic preservation in today’s professional practice. The winners demonstrate how knowledge of historic preservation can elevate design by encouraging thoughtful responses to the critical aesthetic, technical, cultural, political, economic, and climactic challenges of our times.
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Avery Hall, 400 Level
Untitled 4 (Ceramic and Steel, 36″x17″x29″).
Michael Hibbard
06.26.07 through 07.17.07
Artworks by Architect Michael Hibbard
Buffalo-based architectural designer Michael Hibbard creates intriguing sculpture with an emphasis on the juxtaposition of disparate materials. Hibbard has a keen eye for texture and color in his work combined with strong angular qualities. Each piece is unique, incorporating elements that allow for unusual positioning and display.
Agora Gallery
530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York 10001
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Architect
RARE OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN GLOBAL DESIGN FIRM IN
NEW NYC HEADQUARTERS
CALLISON SEEKING ENERGETIC AND TALENTED INDIVIDUALS WITH
A DESIRE TO GROW AND BECOME THE FUTURE OF THE FIRM
SENIOR DESIGNERS (7-15 YRS EXP)
PROJECT ARCHITECTS (5-8 YRS EXP)
INTERMEDIATE ARCHITECTS (3-5 YRS EXP)
INTERIOR DESIGNERS — FF&E (3-5 YRS EXP)
WE DESIGN MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT, RETAIL, CORPORATE WORKPLACE AND MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT (BROADCAST & MISSION CRITICAL FACILITIES)
YOU WILL WORK IN A BEAUTIFUL OFFICE & EXCELLENT LOCATION.
Experience in Design and Construction Detailing. Software skills to include: Microstation or Autocad, Sketchup, Photoshop, Excel, Powerpoint
Send Resumes to resume@wpa-works.com and indicate position sought in Cover Letter.
Architect — Green Building. Innovative company needs a presenter to educate and inspire building professionals to use new architectural daylighting technologies. www.advancedglazings.com/careers
Callison: A World of Design Opportunity
Callison is an international architecture firm focused on excellence, in design and client service. The New York office, which services the Retail, Corporate Workplace and Mixed Use markets, is growing 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.
Commercial Loft sublet:
New construction, prime Soho location. Private office and workstations available for sublet within architect’s office. Sun-filled office loft, access to all amenities including conference rooms, roof terraces. 24/7 building access. Contact Elaine Suben 212-524-8512 elaine.suben@subendougherty.com for further information.
Rapidly expanding, award winning NYC firm specializing in boutique hotels and large-scale residential projects throughout North America has openings at all levels of experience.
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.
Excellent benefits, salary commensurate with experience. Email resume to H. Weber: contactus@SBJgroup.com
Significant opportunities exist for resourceful, talented project architects and intermediate level architects to contribute to our firm’s award-winning projects in NY, China and India. Candidates must have a professional degree, a minimum of 5 - 10 years of experience with a full range of project responsibilities, ability to lead and motivate fellow team members, and proficiency with AutoCAD and other graphics programs.
The studio environment at Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects is recognized for its creative and pragmatic approach to design at a variety of scales. Our current work embraces commercial, residential, educational, public and transportation projects as well as historic structures.
Please email your cover letter and resume to mjames@lhparch.com. No phone calls please.
Interior Designer or Interior Architect
Little, nationally recognized as a “Best Firm to Work For” and one of the nation’s most progressive design firms, seeks Interior Designers and Interior Architects for the Workplace Studio in Charlotte NC.
Our open culture is energetic and collaborative. We value people who are fun and have a positive impact on everyone around them.
Responsibilities include: engaging in strong client relationships, coordinating and motivating internal, external consultants and team members, developing and documenting design, providing construction administration and project management services on a wide variety of architectural and interior design projects.
Great communication, organizational and project management skills are essential, team-oriented, flexible attitude and passion for high quality designed projects.
Requirements: bachelor’s degree - Interior Design or Architecture from an accredited school and 7 years of experience (focused on corporate environments). Registration/licensure (or on registration track). Proficiency in AutoCAD and/or Revit required.
We offer outstanding benefits, compensation, and growth opportunities - www.littleonline.com.
Workplace Strategy and Design Consultant
International strategic planning/design consultancy is accepting resumes for the North America team, based in New York and/or San Francisco.
Responsibilities: conducting space inventory and workplace performance assessments; creating innovative workplace strategies to support client business objectives and culture; developing space programs; creating documentation of strategic and programmatic solutions; delivering solutions to and negotiating sign-off with client groups, including travel to client sites (approximately 25%); supporting internal team to develop strategies that enhance clients’ strategic business goals.
Qualifications: BA/BS in related field with two to four years industry experience.
Skills: written/verbal communications, detail-oriented, team player. Proficiency in AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop required. Competitive salary with excellent benefits including medical/dental/vision, 401(k), life insurance, and others. EOE/AA.
Send resume/letter with salary requirements to csherman@degw.com.
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
MECHANICAL ENGINEER:
Manage HVAC, plumbing, and medical gas projects from program development through construction. Meet with end users and prepare concept sketches, presentations, cost estimates, and project schedules.
Requirements: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering; experience in construction management, preferably in a hospital environment; knowledge of Joint Commission and other typical hospital standards; excellent writing and interpersonal skills. Knowledge of Autocad preferred.
ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR:
Prepare design and construction contract document packages such as RFQs, RFPs, and bid documents, and maintain project documentation in design & construction unit.
Requirements: Experience in a design & construction office, preferably in the healthcare industry; strong writing and interpersonal skills, excellent organizational skills. Degree in architecture, engineering, or business preferred.
Both positions offer competitive salary and benefits and the opportunity for growth.
Forward cover letter and resume, indicating desired position, to:
SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER
EMPLOYMENT OFFICE
BOX 1194
450 Clarkson Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11203
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER
New Police Academy RFP notice:
The NYC Department of Design and Construction has issued a two-stage RFP for design of the City’s new Police Academy. The new campus will consolidate NYPD’s currently scattered training facilities on a 35 acre site in College Point, Queens. The building program includes 1.48 million s.f. of indoor space and 1.6 million s.f. of outdoor training space. The RFP is available on the DDC website (www.nyc.gov/ddc) under “Doing Business with DDC”.
Urbahn Architects is seeking an architect with 10+ years experience, with skills in design, technical production and construction administration for a range of projects, with particular expertise in transportation facilities. Must be organized, self-starter, with writing abilities and computer skills. AutoCAD knowledge required.
Urbahn specializes in several building types, including school and university, justice, healthcare, research and transportation. The firm is renowned for excellent design and service to large institutions. Competitive salary and benefits offered, with opportunity for growth and development.
EEO-A/A. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.
Please send resume to:
caffuzzia@urbahn.com
or
Urbahn Architects
49 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018
Att: Alix Caffuzzi
Fax: 212.563.5621
Urbahn Architects is seeking an architect with 10+ years experience, with skills in project management, design, technical production and construction administration for institutional projects, including additions, renovations and repairs. Must be organized, self-starter, with writing abilities and computer skills. AutoCAD knowledge required.
Urbahn specializes in several building types, including school and university, justice, healthcare, research and transportation facilities. The firm is renowned for excellent design and service to large institutions. Competitive salary and benefits offered, with opportunity for growth and development.
EEO - A/A. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.
Please send resume to:
caffuzzia@urbahn.com
or
Urbahn Architects
49 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018
Att: Alix Caffuzzi
Fax: 212.563.5621
Architectural Designers I & II
Bermello, Ajamil & Partners www.bermelloajamil.com seeks Designers I & II for our SOHO office.
Designer II will coordinate the development, technical design and analysis of project drawings. BArchitecture + 5-7 years exp w/ architectural projects, with large multi-use buildings experience required. Exp w/ architectural practices/principles/procedures/concepts & construction practices. AutoCAD/ proficiency required; Archicad desired. Registered Architect desired.
Designer I BArchitecture & 3-5 years experience as required above.
Send resume in confidence to careers@bermelloajamil.com.
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
SOM
14 Wall Street, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10005
ATTN: Intermediate Architect 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: Junior Architect 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.
Senior 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 a minimum of 5 years of professional experience. Knowledge of AutoCAD, Photoshop and 3d Studio Max and/or Rhino is required. Familiarity with Revit is preferred.
Please send a cover letter, resume and 2 - 5 work samples to:
Human Resources
SOM
14 Wall Street, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10005
ATTN: Senior Architect Posting
Or you may email all files to hrdesign@som.com. (PDF or JPEG only please) Please include Senior Architect Posting in the subject line.
No phone calls please. Work samples will not be returned.
The City University of New York City College
Professor of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture - FY - 13383
Compensation: $38,001 - $95,197. Commensurate with experience and credentials.
Web Site: www.ccny.cuny.edu
Closing Date: Open until filled with review of applications to begin immediately.
The School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture invites applications for a tenure-track position for the architecture program, starting in Fall 2007 or Spring 2008.
Qualifications
Candidate must hold a master’s degree in architecture plus a professional license in architecture, and, preferably offer evidence of published and/or notable built work. A candidate who holds a master’s degree in architecture plus a PhD degree in a related field and evidence of significant scholarly work will also be considered.
To Apply
Send an application for candidacy and three academic/professional references to: Professor Achva Benzinberg Stein, FASLA Chair, Search Committee-FY13383 Shepard Hall S109G 160 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031.
CUNY/CCNY is an EEO/AA/IRCA/ADA Employer
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