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10.16.07
I hope everyone has recovered from the 2007 AIANYS Convention and Heritage Ball/Party@theCenter! Because the convention only comes to town every 150 years or so, this issue features three articles about various issues discussed at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. It’s been a busy couple of weeks, and we have done our best to cover everything you may have missed.
- Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
This issue of e-OCULUS is sponsored by the NYC Department of Buildings.
NYC Department of Buildings
Event: 2007 AIANYS Convention: The Past As Prologue
Location: Grand Hyatt, NYC, 10.04-06.07
Speakers: Keynote Luncheon: Raymond Rhinehart, Ph.D., Hon. AIA — Senior Director, AIA
Organizers: AIA New York State
Keynote Sponsors: Design Insurance Agency; Victor O. Schinnerer & Company; Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.; Hohmann and Barnard, Inc.
Courtesy AIANYS
Ever since 13 architects decided to form the AIA in 1857, the role and perception of architects has fluctuated, from glorified genius to unnecessary niche artist. Now this year’s AIA New York State Convention theme, The Past As Prologue, inspired keynote luncheon speaker Raymond Rhinehart, Ph.D., Hon. AIA, senior director at AIA National, to title his speech, “Professional, City, World, or Mission Impossible?”
The world is in a state that requires architects to re-imagine and redefine their profession, Rhinehart argues. Referencing images of John Milton’s Paradise Lost’s earth hanging from heaven by a string and environmental activist David Suzuki’s earth as a basketball wrapped in Saran Wrap, Rhinehart calls architects “agents of life” in a time where social, environmental, and political climates are at a breaking point. To heal the world, architects must join together on a global scale. Architects need to design for human contact as well as to preserve the environment — seamlessly linking human life and nature. Sustainability has to go beyond “green.”
Event: 2007 AIANYS Convention: The Past As Prologue
Location: Grand Hyatt, NYC, 10.04-06.07
Speakers: Collaborative Design and Insurability: Frank Musica, Esq. & David Blue — Victor O. Schinnerer & Company; Design Professionals and Public Policy: Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA, LEED AP — 2007 AIANY President & Principal, Perkins + Will; Mark Strauss, FAIA, AICP — AIANY Immediate Past President & Principal, FXFowle Architects; Sherida Paulsen, FAIA — AIANY Vice President of Public Outreach & Principal, Pasanella+Klein Stolzman+Berg Architects
Organizers: AIA New York State
It seems that architects have started to lose control over their profession. Or perhaps the profession no longer belongs to just architects. Client demands and expectations have increased, building standards have risen, the field is more specialized, and new technologies make it permanent. General contractors, subcontractors, consultants, and various other specialists are completing an increasing amount of the design and management work, leaving architects more like subcontractors than leads.
What can architects do to regain the role they traditionally held? Collaborative Design and Insurability, a panel discussion led by Frank Musica, Esq., and David Blue of Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, spoke to both sides, covering architects’ increasing roles as collaborators professionally and with clients. New technology, such as B.I.M. (Building Information Modeling), may shift the practice away from traditional drawing methods, but it saves production time better spent preparing more thorough contracts. This matters because contracts need to be adjusted with the changing times — for instance, the sustainability movement.
As green design becomes less of a commodity and more of a standard, having a written statement understood by client and architect can help avoid potential lawsuits and reduce professional liability costs. Insurance companies adjust rates for firms practicing green design on a case-by-case basis, yet liability insurance costs will soon be adjusted profession-wide.
AIANY is taking steps to help architects reposition themselves legislatively. Design Professionals and Public Policy, led by Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA, LEED AP, 2007 AIANY president, Mark Strauss, FAIA, AICP, AIANY immediate past president, and Sherida Paulsen, FAIA, AIANY vice president of public outreach, discussed the Chapter’s policy committee. Intended for members to become more proactive in legislative issues, the committee deals with the ways architects practice and the liability involved in practicing. When it launches, the new AIANY website will also provide an interactive interface for architects to discuss policy issues, and the Public Information Exchange (PIE) will expand its capabilities to include a blog for such discussions.
As one of the attendees stated, we are “creative problem solvers” and must reach out to the public. Architects’ ideas are only relevant if they are shared.
Caroline O’Leary, Assoc. AIA, is a designer at Kutnicki Bernstein Architects.
Event: “But Do the Venerable Landmark Building and the rash New Addition REALLY Talk to Each Other?
Location: Grand Hyatt, 10.04.07
Speakers: Shelly S. Friedman, Esq. — Partner, Friedman & Gotbaum; Roger Philip Lang — Director, Community Programs and Services, New York Landmarks Conservancy; Richard M. Olcott, FAIA — Partner, Polshek Partnership Architects, and former commissioner, NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
Moderator: David Paul Helpern, FAIA, LEED AP — Founding Principal, Helpern Architects
Organizers: AIA New York State
Rendering of 1968 design by Marcel Breuer for office tower atop Grand Central Terminal.
Paul Spencer Byard. The Architecture of Additions Design and Regulations, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. Courtesy ASLA.
The late Herbert Muschamp called them “parabuildings.” Landmarks Conservancy spokesman Roger Lang refers to them as “buildovers.” Whatever one calls them, contemporary grafts on older buildings can be functional as well as profitable, but often visually jarring. And you can count on at least a few preservationists to protest them — even the ones, like Foster + Partners’ recent expansion atop Joseph Urban’s Hearst Building, that creates an intergenerational “dialogue” and realizes the original architect’s documented aim to add a tower.
Recalling a few approved proposals and many others that were rejected or withdrawn, Richard Olcott, FAIA, partner at Polshek Partnership Architects, recalled his father’s quip that “this city is going to be great when it’s finished.” Clearly it never will be, but its evolution, Olcott observed, includes a history of “rather mixed results” when developers try to expand landmarked buildings. Although most of the proposed such projects are shot down, incentives — monetizing air rights, or letting cultural institutions expand — make it worth trying. “The beauty of the landmarks law,” Olcott said, “is that it is intentionally so open-ended.”
The panel presented the Landmarks Preservation Commission revision-approval process through a gamelike approach: a hypothetical expansion of the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank Building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue (now a Chase branch), a five-story Modernist milestone by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, completed in 1954 and landmarked in 1997. Moderator David Helpern, FAIA, LEED AP, walked the audience through the steps they would take in response to three different proposed plans, from a near-cloning of SOM’s box through an explosion of oblique angles. The panelists explored the question: is it possible to put a new tower into the space above the building without degrading other important values, including aesthetics, history, the local context, and the interests of neighbors?
Attorney Shelly Friedman, Esq., drawing on experience with the tactics and “diagnostics” involved in land-use law, offered recommendations for architects and developers seeking such approval. Forming a team of knowledgeable professionals is the top priority; owners should be flexible about adapting plans. Knowing the specific reasons why a building is landmarked allows for appropriate adjustments. Project viability and financial returns are not the only criteria in these decisions, Friedman observed, and a realistic chance of success often means a willingness to cut losses.
Precedents are commonly cited in these negotiations, Lang noted, though they do not have a formal role. Each site or proposal is unique — as Foster + Partners’ experience at 980 Madison Avenue shows, an idea that works in Midtown’s business district doesn’t automatically work on the residential Upper East Side. In practice, however, both proponents and opponents frame their arguments in reference to prior examples.
The discussion distinguished between preservation as a practical activity, where particular people negotiate real-world decisions, and preservationism as an ideology. No final verdict on the three plans was forthcoming, but the debate rendered closure unnecessary.
Bill Millard is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in OCULUS, Icon, Content, and other publications.
Event: Is New York Losing Its Soul?
Location: Donnell Library Center, 10.03.07
Speakers: Alison Tocci — President & Group Publisher, Time Out New York; Darren Walker — Vice President, Rockefeller Foundation; Tama Janowitz — novelist; Rocco Landesman — President, Jujamcyn Theaters
Moderator: Clyde Haberman — columnist, The New York Times
Organizers: The Municipal Art Society
The Municipal Art Society asks if Jane Jacobs would think NYC is losing its soul.
Jessica Sheridan
NYC’s ever-increasing crop of chain stores and banks is changing more than just the landscape. The city’s “soul” surfaces in many ways: artists and independent retailers; immigration and ethnic diversity; “organic messiness” and “sexiness.” The underlying theme overall, however, is uniqueness.
With the “Disneyification” of Times Square and the Atlantic Yards project as hot-button topics, panelists wondered: What would Jane Jacobs do? Her advocacy of short, tree-lined blocks, population density, and retail variety could be the answer; or maybe her 1950s approach to urban planning is irrelevant now. Panelists emphasized the importance of maintaining vital immigrant and working-class communities, and noted that the city’s African-American and young residents are on the verge of being priced out.
The onus falls on the city government to create sufficient interventions where growing economic inequality threatens the city’s uniqueness, such as through rent control or tax-break programs. According to Darren Walker, vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, NYC has had the most aggressive subsidized housing program in the U.S. since Mayor Koch, and it is still insufficient. With significantly more demand than supply, and a million new residents projected in the next 10 years, creative solutions are needed at the leadership level.
Founded by a Dutch trading company, NYC has been shaped by money as much as it has by its penchant for evolution and reinvention. The question is how it will reinvent itself in this era of the market-based economy, when developers and “big money” seem to hold the cards. More questions than answers were raised, and there may not be a definitive solution. Jane Jacobs would turn the question to the community, and seek action at the neighborhood level.
Kate Soto is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor.
Event: Keeping Up with the Times: The Architecture and Interior Design of the New Eco-smart New York Times Building
Location: Architects & Designers Building, 10.02.07
Speakers: Rocco Giannetti, AIA — Principal & Interior Project Manager, Gensler; Daniel Kaplan, AIA, LEED AP — Senior Principal, FXFowle Architects; David A. Thurm — Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, New York Times
Moderator: Susan S. Szenasy — Editor-in-Chief, Metropolis
Organizers: Metropolis
A conveyor belt in Germany inspired the glazed ceramic rods of the New York Times Building.
Jessica Sheridan
There’s a lot to celebrate about the New York Times Building — the city’s first skyscraper to be announced after 9/11, recalled Susan Szenasy, editor-in-chief of Metropolis, a welcome sign of impending recovery. As the newspaper-of-record’s headquarters and as a leading testbed for green technologies, it carries an inescapably high profile. Some grousing can be expected — this is a workplace of high-profile journalists, after all, moving from dingy digs into a building that literalizes organizational transparency — but the pluses outweigh the minuses decisively.
“We set a challenge for ourselves,” said Times spokesperson David Thurm: “On time [and] on budget wasn’t good enough… we really had to stretch; this building had to fundamentally change the way we do our business.” Times officials were extremely hands-on clients, according to Thurm.
Prototyping and testing phases included the construction of a mockup building at the paper’s printing plant in College Point, Queens, to study lighting and thermal variables and test various systems. The choice of material for the screen of glazed ceramic rods resulted from observations of a heat-tolerant conveyor belt in Leipzig. Innovations like these, Thurm says, occurred in part because “as autodidacts, we didn’t know better.” The pervasive brightness, vast floor plates, prominent perimeter staircases, individually-controlled underfloor ventilation, and 40% energy cogeneration fosters workers’ comfort and collaboration while conserving institutional and planetary resources.
Discussing relevant precedents in floorplate design, Daniel Kaplan, AIA, LEED AP, senior principal at FXFowle Architects, pointed out that large-plate, center-core American offices favor organizational goals at the expense of human priorities, while the European approach exemplified by Foster + Partners’ Deutsche Bank building favors personal comfort over departmental communications. The optimal marriage of the two traditions, FXFowle Architects and Renzo Piano Building Workshop found, was the local NYC loft, and the Times building strives for loftlike openness within the high-rise shell. Rocco Giannetti, AIA, principal and interior project manager at Gensler, described how the interior architecture “dematerializes,” bringing light deep into the workspaces and creating vertical and horizontal grading effects.
Some editors have objected to the building, claiming that the glass-walled offices reduce privacy. The emphasis on transparency, Thurm allowed, overrules such considerations. Other complaints have more to do with general journalistic-office evolution: to old-school writers who find typewriter clatter a soothing bed of white noise, a digitized environment will never seem like home. The most serious challenge was about how thoroughly the Times embraces sustainable practices. As valuable as the individual features are, the question of integration elicited only partial answers. Interestingly and sadly, too, the underfloor air system won’t appear on the upper stories that the Times is leasing out. Above the 28th floor, developer Forest City Ratner apparently doesn’t see a need to maintain the green standard upheld by its partner.
Bill Millard is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in OCULUS, Icon, Content, and other publications.
Event: Inter Operate: Experiments in Digital Fabrication
Location: Center for Architecture, 10.09.07
Speakers: Bradley Samuels & Basar Girit — Situ Studio
Organizers: AIANY Technology Committee
Sponsors: ABC Imaging
This year’s pavilion for 2007 CitySol. Benches and counter surfaces are made with bamboo plywood that adapt to the same structural system, and eco-friendly cornstarch plastic panels provide shade.
Keith Sirchio, courtesy Situ Studio
Founded in 2005 while the partners were studying architecture at The Cooper Union, Situ Studio has established a reputation for its expertise in the field of digital fabrication and has explored these technologies across a range of disciplines in collaboration with geologists, artists, biologists, engineers, and architects.
Partners Bradley Samuels and Basar Girit discussed the role that CNC (computer numerical control) and rapid prototyping technologies play throughout their projects — from models and prototypes to full-scale building components and installations. Situ Studio works between architects and fabricators (clients include Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Eisenman Architects, and Diller Scofidio + Renfro), and Samuels explained that their training in architecture helps in this role. Using Rhino as a tool for basic modeling and more complex scientific software for precise calculations, Situ Studio is able to create intricate, organic forms.
One example of how design, research, and fabrication results in a built project is this summer’s pavilion for the CitySol 2007 green arts and energy festival at Stuyvesant Cove Park, the second consecutive summer Situ Studio has contributed an installation. The pavilion structure was built of lightweight CNC cut plywood pieces and was designed to be collapsible in segments and easily deployed again in any shape and size. A flexible connection system allows any two pieces of plywood to be notched together at any point, held in place with a flexible tie-strap connection. Plastic cornstarch sheeting was donated by Alco (developed by Cereplast), and Situ Studio incorporated the material by attaching scale-like squares of it to portions of the interior structure, providing shelter for occupants.
Murrye Bernard, Assoc. AIA, is a designer with TEK Architects and Director of Forward, a publication of AIA’s National Associates Committee.
163 Charles St; Buy Us Voting Machine at Lyn Rice Studio; Parsons the New School for Design student model at Lyn Rice Studio.
Bill Millard
Highlights from the AIANY Emerging NY Architects (ENYA) Competitions tour of South Street Seaport, in conjunction with the launch of the third biennial competition, Re-envisioning the Urban Edge.
Jessica Sheridan
Paul Rudolph Foundation/Modulightor Building.
Bill Millard
Around Roosevelt Island: Roosevelt Island Historical Society Kiosk; Renwick Smallpox Hospital Ruin at Southpoint (tour by ENYA Competitions); Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility (tour by architectural historian William Menking).
Jessica Sheridan
Art installation, The Encampment, by Thom Sokoloski; tent dedicated to Mae West at The Encampment; Renwick Smallpox Hospital at night.
Photo credit goes here.
I have volunteered at openhousenewyork (OHNY) since it began five years ago, and what continues to amaze me is the number of architectural enthusiasts who come out of the woodwork to participate. Many are not in the field; many fly in for the weekend from Europe; many are just curious New Yorkers who always wanted to know what goes on inside buildings that are not normally open to the public. This year I organized one of the tours as a member of the AIANY Emerging NY Architects (ENYA) Committee. After a full day of tours, I wonder why AIANY doesn’t offer similar architectural walking tours throughout the year.
Even though those of us who gave the tour (Carolyn Sponza, AIA, Darris James, Assoc. AIA, and myself) are not architectural historians, I felt that we were very qualified to discuss the past, present, and future of Southpoint Park having helped put together the 2006 Southpoint: from Ruin to Rejuvenation competition, which involved more than a year of research and interaction with Roosevelt Island residents, specifically the Roosevelt Island Visual Arts Association, Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility, and Roosevelt Island Historical Society.
We spoke of the architectural and planning history of the island and the Renwick Smallpox Hospital. We introduced our competition, which sought to bring ideas to local residents about what they could do with one of the few remaining undeveloped sites in NYC. And we discussed the reception we received on the island from the residents when we exhibited jury-selected entries. Most importantly, we talked about how our competition was able to have (even a small amount of) an impact on the park’s future because one of the entrants went on to work with the weisz + yoes architecture team currently planning the site with Wallace Roberts & Todd landscape architects. The team let us display their most recent material showing their plans for the park’s future (Thank you!).
We gave tours every hour on the hour throughout Sunday, 10.07, and crowds ranged from 10 people to over 45 at a time. Many Roosevelt Island and Long Island City residents were interested in learning more about “their back yard.” We met Columbia University students researching the site for a studio project. A local electrician had stories about sneaking behind the gate to explore the Renwick Smallpox Hospital Ruins. A nurse shared stories about a shipwreck that occurred off the island where those swimming to shore refused help from the smallpox patients.
The enthusiasm on both sides was invigorating, even though the fervor almost became overwhelming when we were unable to take a group on the last tour of the day (luckily, we were still able to give our presentation with the visual material we had). OHNY oddly feels like a release to pent-up frustration people have as more buildings close their doors “for security reasons” and costs for tourist attractions skyrocket. I think OHNY volunteers do a great job organizing an event with such broad and diverse locations (literally and metaphorically) — and I think they should stick to making that one weekend the best it can be. However, AIANY members have the expertise to create similar events on a more regular basis. When the city closes doors on the public, architects and planners should be opening them. I believe everyone would benefit from it.
In this issue:
·Art Deco Decadence Returns to New Yorker
·NYU Makes Statement on Color
·From Brownfield to Town Square
·Green(e) Roof Preserves Views
·Seneca Nation Gambles on Buffalo
Art Deco Decadence Returns to New Yorker
New Yorker Hotel.
Stonehill & Taylor
Stonehill & Taylor is in the process of revitalizing the art deco New Yorker Hotel. The 43-story hotel opened in 1930 and for many years it was NYC’s largest hotel featuring 2,500 guestrooms, 10 private dining “salons,” five restaurants, and a barbershop. The redesign for 910 guestrooms aims to recall the elegance of 1930s NY and Hollywood with a high contrast color scheme of chocolate brown, gold, and silver; zebra wood furniture; skyscraper-style desks; monumental headboards outfitted with button tufted iridescent upholstered headboards; brown mohair chairs (scaled-down interpretations of a 1910 Josef Hoffmann original); shimmering curtains; and geometric carpeting. The original marble lobby floor will be restored, adding lounge seating, reconfigured crystal chandeliers, a gold-coffered ceiling, new registration and concierge desks, and re-imagined signage throughout.
NYU Makes Statement on Color
The prismatic effects in the stairwell at 3-5 Washington Place, NYU Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts & Science.
Image ©Andy Ryan, courtesy Steven Holl Architects
Steven Holl Architects has completed the interior renovation of a circa 1890 building at 3-5 Washington Place for the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts & Science at New York University. The facility includes faculty and graduate student offices, seminar rooms, a periodicals library and lounge, and a ground-floor 120-seat cork auditorium. A new porous stair, changing its direction at each floor, vertically connects the six-level building through shifting light and shadow and is designed to encourage social interaction. Light is activated by the presence of people and by a prismatic film. The upper level floors, containing the faculty offices and seminar rooms, have been designed in different shades and textures of black and white, inspired by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s book Remarks on Color. In addition, the firm designed furniture, coat hooks, light fixtures, and door handles.
From Brownfield to Town Square
SteelStax.
Kostow Greenwood Architects
NYC-based Kostow Greenwood Architects has been selected to design SteelStax, billed as Bethlehem, PA’s “21st century town square where culture, history, and the arts intersect with technology, education, and celebration.” The project, situated on the west side of a 126-acre brownfield site adjacent to the old Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces, is the result of three years of planning, research, cultural development, and visioning by the not-for-profit cultural organizations partnering in the development. The cultural complex will contain a new 46,000-square-foot structure, which will house the new broadcast center for a PBS affiliate; a 90,000-square-foot performing arts center, which will incorporate iconic elements from the existing Electric Furnace Building; and the renovation and adaptation of the existing 22,000-square-foot Turn & Grind Shop, which will serve as the events center.
Named one of the 11 most endangered historic sites in the country by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, this brownfield redevelopment may serve as a model for similar broad-based community-wide restoration and adaptive-re-use efforts elsewhere. The project is scheduled to break ground January 2009.
Green(e) Roof Preserves Views
Green(e) Roof.
super-interesting
Designing a roof garden with private and public decks for a circa 1895 four-story, 16-unit co-op in a landmarked district in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, proved more difficult than anticipated for Brooklyn-based super-interesting. Located on Greene Avenue, Green(e) Roof recreational deck and planted roof is made of FSC-certified wood with mill-finished aluminum grating for non-combustible areas, set off by a modular green roof with various native sedums. The plan originally called for a solar panel canopy and pergola-like structure, but since they would be visible from the street, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) rendered it in violation of the law. The architects are now working to design a grid-tied photovoltaic shade structure that they hope will be approved. Other planned “greene” features will include a renovated glazed stair bulkhead with operable vents to enable “stack effect” passive cooling through the building.
Seneca Nation Gambles on Buffalo
Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino.
SOSH Architects
The Seneca Nation announced plans for a $333 million, nine-acre destination resort in downtown Buffalo, designed by NYC-based SOSH Architects. The complex will consist of a 22-story hotel containing 208 suites, a 90,000-square-foot casino, four restaurants, retail stores, spa, and outdoor/indoor garden. The design of the complex called for luxury setting that also showed a reverence for nature. The casino, which is adjacent to the hotel, is sheathed in zinc, glass, and stone, and has a marquis façade that sparkles with moving lights at night. The main interior space of the casino is a two-story atrium, at the core of which hangs a large, mobile sculpture decorated with designs inspired by Native American history. Retail stores, restaurants, 2,000 slot machines, and 45 table games ring the periphery of the atrium. The complex is slated to open in 2010.
In this issue:
·AIA Issues RFQ for HQ Renovation
·Passing: Herbert Muschamp
AIA Issues RFQ for HQ Renovation
AIA headquarters is in need of renovation. Opened in 1973 and designed by The Architect’s Collaborative (founded by Walter Gropius), the 180,000-square-foot building should become a demonstration project, illustrating for architects and the general public how to:
› Renovate an occupied building while maintaining the productivity of its occupants
› Utilize a geo-thermal system
› Utilize photovoltaic panels
› Use water heated by the sun to reduce fossil fuel usage
› Improve the thermal performance of the building’s envelope
› Harvest 100% of the rainwater
› Maximize flexibility and adaptability in space planning and space allocation
› Incorporate workplace technology to facilitate mobility, increase interaction, and expand accessibility
› Provide all work spaces with natural daylight and views
› Respect the defining characteristics of the existing structure, thereby ensuring its eligibility for future Landmark status.
For more information, go to the AIA website. To request the RFQ, e-mail aiafq. For specific questions, e-mail aiahqrenewal by 10.19 (answers will be posted 10.25). The deadline is 11.06.07.
Passing: Herbert Muschamp
Architecture critic Herbert Muschamp passed away October 2. To honor his life as a critic, here are some of the many links to articles celebrating his life:
Herbert Muschamp, 59, Architecture Critic, Dies, by Nicolai Ouroussoff, New York Times.
Herbert Muschamp, 1947-2007, by Julie Iovine, The Architect’s Newspaper.
Critic Muschamp mixed reason desire, by Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times.
Herbert Muschamp: 1947-2007, by Richard Lacayo, Time.
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The International Union of Architects (UIA) launched a monthly e-newsletter to inform the international architecture community about competitions, member information, international programs, and exhibitions. To subscribe, fill out the online form.
AIA New England awarded a Merit Award as part of the 2007 Design Awards to Polshek Partnership Architects for the renovation of the Yale University Art Gallery, Louis I. Kahn Building… The AIA New Jersey chapter announced the winners of its 2007 Annual Design Conference. Dattner Architects won a Merit Award for the Klein Campus Center @ The Dwight Englewood School…
Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences… The Preservation League of New York State awarded its most prestigious award, The Pillar of New York, to David Beer, FAIA, and his firm BBG-BBGM; and Phyllis Lambert, Hon. FAIA, and the film Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture, documenting her life as an architect, preservationist, and advocate…
Crain’s list of 100 Most Influential Women in NYC business includes Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Katherine Farley of Tishman Speyer; Suri Kasirer of Kasirer Consulting; MaryAnne Gilmartin of Forest City Ratner; Judith Rodin of The Rockefeller Foundation; Veronica Hackett of The Clarett Group; Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA, of Skidmore Owings & Merrill; and Kathryn Wylde of Partnership for New York City…
Perkins + Will recently announced their acquisition of Guenther 5 Architects… David Haskell has stepped down as Executive Director of the Forum For Urban Design to accept the position of Deputy Culture Editor at New York magazine…The National Endowment for the Arts announced that Maurice Cox has been appointed the NEA’s Director of Design…
This year’s sold-out Heritage Ball 2007 recognized Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; George H. Miller, FAIA; Joan K. Davidson, Hon. AIA; and Architecture for Humanity. The party took place October 11 at Chelsea Piers, followed by the Party@theCenter at the Center for Architecture.
Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA, LEED AP, 2007 AIANY president, with past Chapter presidents Mark Ginsberg, FAIA, and George Miller, FAIA, AIA vice president.
Kristen Richards
(l-r):Jim Sawyer, AIA; Abby Suckle, FAIA; Frank Sanchez; Beth Greenberg, AIA.
Kristen Richards
The fifth annual openhousenewyork took place October 6-7. The AIANY Emerging NY Architects Committee hosted two site tours to celebrate the launch of the third biennial international ideas competition, South Street Seaport: Re-envisioning the Urban Edge. One tour was of the current site at South Street, and the other was of Southpoint on Roosevelt Island, site of the 2006 competition Southpoint: from Ruin to Rejuvenation.
Joel Melton (center) points toward Pier 17, site of possible luxury high-rise condos in the future and adjacent to the site of the current ENYA competition.
Jessica Sheridan
Sean Rasmussen (left) indicates that the site of the old Fulton Fish Market, which may be incorporated into proposals for the competition.
Jessica Sheridan
Carolyn Sponza, AIA, (white shirt, brown skirt) in front of the Renwick Smallpox Hospital. She presented competition boards as well as plans by Wallace Roberts & Todd with weisz + yoes architecture for Southpoint’s future.
Jessica Sheridan
Interior architects and architects celebrate together at the opening of Architecture Inside/Out at the Center for Architecture, September 19.
(l-r): David Kohn, David Aarons, and Richard Aarons of AFD Contract Furniture; Rick Bell, FAIA, AIANY Executive Director.
Sam Lahoz
11.05.07 Submission: 1000x Architecture of the Americas
Fushion publishing is calling for architecture projects to be included in an international book, 1000x Architecture of the Americas, featuring 1,000 projects by 1,000 architects from Alaska to Chile including the Caribbean. Submitting a project is free, but architects may only enter one project. Both the architect and project must be located in America. Projects should not be older than three years, and all building categories are welcome, including future projects and competitions or experimental architecture
11.07.07 Call for Presentations: Greenprints”>Green Prints 2008
Showcasing the latest sustainable design and construction strategies from practitioners in commercial and residential building and land use planning, Greenprints seeks presentations for its conference in Atlanta March 13-14, 2008. Complimentary conference registration, including meals and receptions, is included, but speakers must donate their time and provide their own transportation and accommodations.
11.23.07 Registration: What if New York City
The NYC Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is sponsoring a design competition to provisionally house residents after a major coastal storm. Judging criteria includes capacity, rapid installation capabilities, site and unit flexibility, reusability, livability, accessibility, security, sustainability, and cost efficiency. Ten winners will be awarded $10,000 each to revise their projects and prepare presentation materials. Submissions are due 12.14.07.
1.15.08 Call for Entries: ICFF Studios Bernhardt Design
The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) will be held May 17-20, 2008 at the Javits Convention Center. Conceived as a way to help young and promising designers with prototypes connect with the ICFF’s manufacturer attendees and the media, ICFF Studio with George Little Management, producer and manager of the ICFF, and Bernhardt Design invite submissions from designers working on any of the product categories exhibited: furniture, seating, carpet and flooring, lighting, outdoor furniture, materials, wall coverings, accessories, textiles, and kitchen and bath. Selected designers win a spot to display their prototypes at ICFF Studio, a group area with individual booths on the exhibition floor.
2.05.08 Call for Entries: 2008 NCARB Prize
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) is accepting entries for the 2008 NCARB Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy, which supports combined practice and education initiatives at the university level. Six cash awards, totaling more than $60,000, with a grand prize of $25,000, will be presented.
2.29.08 Submission: JELD-WEN Student Door Design Contest
Students are asked to find and express their inspiration for an entrance door from their choice of architectural styles. Two grand-prize winners will each receive a $3,000 scholarship. Scholarship winners will be selected based on suitability of the design for contemporary architecture, usability as a door, creativity, uniqueness, and attention to detail. Designs can include wood, glass, decorative hardware, metal accents, or other materials.
Center for Architecture Gallery Hours
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
New York NOW
October 11 - December, 2008
Galleries: Edgar A. Tafel Hall
New York NOW celebrates the diversity of the AIA New York Chapter and Center for Architecture membership by displaying non-juried submissions of member projects. The exhibition will include works of all scales: small, large, commercial, residential, public, private, interiors, historic preservation, engineering, landscape, and urban design.
The exhibition presents the depth and breadth of professional activity and the variety of its impact. The resulting dialogue between different practitioners encourages a deeper understanding of what is happening in the New York architecture and design world now.
Exhibition Design: Illya Azaroff + the design collective studio
Underwriter:
Exhibition organized by the AIA New York Chapter
Architecture Inside/Out
September 19 — December 8, 2007
Galleries: Gerald D Hines Gallery, Street Gallery, Public Resource Center
Architecture Inside/Out demonstrates the unfolding of space by exposing architectural interiors through a range of typologies with an inward focus, including libraries, hotels, retail and work spaces. This exhibition challenges conventional categories and explores alternative typologies. The design of interiors has evolved into a complex and nuanced problem and addresses circulation patterns, use and adjacencies, sociologies of hierarchy and networks, and sustainability. The fully integrated interior considers light, color and materiality, but also new ways of programming space, the latest technological advances, innovative methods of construction and green practices.
Traditional representations such as section, plan and elevation, in addition to models and details will provide a lens to reveal inherent characteristics of featured interiors, exposing materials, structure and spatial relationships. Architecture Inside/Out takes the familiar architectural conventions and places them parallel to alternative ways of seeing and revealing. When these alternative methods of understanding space are applied to typologies, they provide views of the interior that shed new light on familiar places.
Curator:
Lois Weinthal, Director of Interior Design, Parsons
Exhibition Design: Freecell
Graphic Design: Language Arts
The exhibition and related programming are organized by the AIA New York Chapter in collaboration with the AIA New York Chapter’s Interiors Committee and the Center for Architecture Foundation.
Underwriter: AFD Contract Furniture
Patron: Certified of New York
Lead Sponsor: Zumtobel Lighting
Sponsor:: BBG-BBGM; Spartech Corporation; STUDIOS Architecture
Supporter:
Jack L. Gorden Architects; Perkins + Will
Supporters:
InterfaceFLOR
Knoll
Mancini Duffy
Perkins + Will
Steelcase
STUDIOS Architecture
Related Events
Saturday, October 20, 2007, 1:00 — 4:00pm
FamilyDay@theCenter:Architecture - Inside and Out!
August 23 — October 27, 2007
New Practices London
Galleries: Judith and Walter Hunt Gallery, Mezzanine Gallery
The Future of the Architecture Profession in London. The exhibition features young firms whose work shows invention and promise. New Practices London is organized by the AIA New York Chapter’s Center for Architecture in collaboration with The Architecture Foundation in London.
6a Architects
AOC
Carmody Groarke
drdharchitects
Ullmayer Sylvester Architects
Witherford Watson Mann Architects
Exhibition Design:
Gage/Clemenceau Architects
Organized by:
AIA New York Chapter in collaboration with The Architecture Foundation in London.
Related Programming Organized by:
Center for Architecture in collaboration with the AIA New York Chapter’s New Practices Committee and the AIA New York Chapter’s International Committee and the Center for Architecture Foundation
Media Partners: The Architect’s Newspaper
Related Events
Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 6:00 — 9:00pm
New Practices London Symposium
Super-Model Lecture Series
AIA New York Chapter’s New Practices Roundtable presents an exploration of innovative models of architectural and design practice.
Tuesday November 6, 2007, 6:00 — 8:00pm
MINI_1-20, small firms means & methods
Thursday, December 6, 2007, 6:00 — 8:00pm
Exfoliation- RE-GENERATION
Exhibition Underwriter:
*Opening presented as part of the SKYY90 Diamond Design Series
Sponsors:
OS Fabrication & Design, The Conran Shop
Supporters:
Arup
bartcoLighting
Fountainhead Construction
FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS
MG & Company
Microsol Resources
Structural Enterprises
Friends:
Barefoot Wines
Cosentini Associates
DEGW
Delta Faucet Company
Perkins Eastman & Partners
July 19 – October 19, 2007
arch schools: r(each)ing out
Galleries: Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, HLW Gallery, South Gallery
Last September, leading New York area architecture schools participated in an exhibition that set out to foster a closer connection between the schools, students, and the profession.
This summer will feature our third annual architecture schools exhibition, arch schools: r[each]ing out, devoted exclusively to the work of students. The AIA New York Chapter’s annual architecture schools exhibition demonstrates exemplary student work representing the 9 New York area architecture schools, whose deans sit on the Board of the AIA New York Chapter, and 8 invited schools, including the four interiors design programs in New York City. The schools are asked to submit work related to the 2007 New York Chapter’s presidential theme “Architecture Inside/Out”.
Participating Schools:
The City College of New York (CUNY)
Columbia University
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Cornell University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New York Institute of Technology
New York School of Interior Design
Parsons the New School for Design
Pratt Institute
PrincetonUniversity
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
School of Visual Arts
Syracuse University
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Exhibition and related programming organized by the AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation
Sponsors:
Supporters:
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Friends:
Beyer Binder Belle: Architects & Planners
Butler Rogers Baskett Architects
Francois de Menil Architect
Gabellini Sheppard Associates
Mancini Duffy
Terrence O’Neal Architect
NACRE.
Courtesy ISE Cultural Foundation
10.26.07 through 11.23.07
NACRE: Synthesized Space: Part II
Luca Bertini and Marco Antonini’s NACRE is an ongoing project in which data inconsistencies retrieved from the Internet bloom into a mutating, sprawling 3-D structure. Based on the structure of nacre, or “mother-of-pearl”, this chaotic structure is built from hexagonal platelets designed from information collected by a spider (an automatic computer program which crawls the Internet in search of data).
ISE Cultural Foundation
555 Broadway, New York
10.22.07 through 12.01.07
Steven Heller Master Series Award and Exhibition
The School of Visual Arts will honor Steven Heller with the Masters Series Award and retrospective exhibition. He is the author, co-author, and editor of over 100 books on graphic design, illustration, and political art, was an art director at the New York Times for 33 years, and is a columnist for the New York Times Book Review. Heller is also the co-founder and co-chair of the MFA Design Department and co-founder of the MFA Design Criticism Department at SVA.
Over 100 covers of the New York Times Book Review that Heller art directed, and a visual anthology of his major publications, with select volumes available to peruse will be on view. An adjacent video installation will feature interviews with co-authors Mirko Ilic, Lita Talarico, Seymour Chwast, Marshall Arisman, and Gail Anderson about their collaborative process. The centerpiece of the multimedia display will be a larger-than-life photo montage of Heller’s library with recorded commentary about his collection of design ephemera and its role in his research and writing. In a series of video podcasts specially commissioned for the exhibition, Heller will discuss design in the context of popular culture, politics and history.
School of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street, New York City
“The Proposed Chrystie-Forsyth Parkway,” The Regional Plan of New York and its Environs. 1931.
Courtesy The Skyscraper Museum
10.24.07 through 03.08
Future City 20 | 21
A cycle of three exhibitions at The Skyscraper Museum’s Battery Park City gallery will explore connections between the American visions of the skyscraper city of the future in the early 20th century and Chinese cities today, principally Hong Kong and Shanghai. The first installation, New York Modern, highlights the city’s skyscraper visionaries — including Raymond Hood, Harvey Wiley Corbett, Hugh Ferriss — who imagined a metropolis of monumental setback skyscrapers, elevated highways and multi-level transit, and densely populated apartment precincts. On display are photographs, drawings, models, prints, rare books and periodicals, photographs, and film clips. Additional science fiction imagery, futuristic cartoons, and popular films bespeak both the anxieties and exhilaration of the dreams of a high-tech city of tomorrow.
The Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Place, New York
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Writers Needed for e-OCULUS
Are you an architecture enthusiast? e-Oculus, the AIA NY Chapter’s bi-monthly e-zine, is looking for writers to attend architecture-related events around the city and contribute articles to the publication.
You will be able to get into events with press passes and all articles will be bylined. With a mailing list of over 10,300 subscribers, and an audience including all NY-based architects and design devotees, this is a great opportunity to gain exposure, network, and get your word out.
Contact Jessica Sheridan at eoculus@aiany.org for more information.
TRANSEPT RECRUITERS specializes in architectural design job placement. Work with recruiters with actual design experience. Clients include top firms in the greater NYC area and nationwide. Please contact at transeptr@gmail.com for more information or call Terry at 908.580.0198. NO FEES!
PM/Leader for significant design firm with a new office in New York City
One of the nation’s most respected design firms quietly opened a New York City office at the end of last year. Now with seven people, the office has multiple opportunities for new work… primarily with very prominent clients with complex programs. They are seeking an individual who can bring at least 10 years of predominantly New York experience to the mix in the office and potentially lead the practice within the next couple of years.
If you are a registered architect who is ready to display leadership within the context of one of the nation’s best design firms, this could be an excellent career move for you. Warning: this firm is understandably careful in selecting its team members. You should have worked for a firm with outstanding credentials… particularly in the institutional community (e.g. colleges and universities, museums, labs, healthcare) and your own background must be able to demonstrate an ability to organize complex projects and assume a leadership role quickly. If you would like to learn more, please send your resume in confidence to maryboltz@breuerconsutling.com.
The New York City office of one of the largest US-based planning/landscape practices seeks leader for the landscape portion of their practice. The practice of eight professionals is embedded within a larger design firm offering many other services. But the Planning/landscape practice is one of the most successful: it has several high profile clients and projects around the New York metro area and other parts of the world.
The practice is varied, as a designer, the ability to work at a variety of scales for a variety of client from developers, to large corporations, to municipalities, colleges and universities. You should demonstrate leadership ability, since half of the New York practice is comprised of landscape architects who are in search of a mentor. Your leadership abilities should extend beyond small team management, to include a project and business development focus as well, though not a large portion of your responsibilities.
Joining this team, you’d be part of a unified collection of experienced, enthusiastic individuals who are entrepreneurial. If you have a Masters in Landscape Architecture and would like to obtain more information, please send your resume in confidence to mary@breuerconsulting.com.
Senior Interior Designer
Award winning New York City based Workplace Architectural/Interior Design Firm, seeks a knowledgeable and energetic Senior Interior Designer. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 10 years of experience with 5 years in Corporate Interiors. This individual will be charged with a variety of tasks such as programming, space planning, furniture selection and specifications, color and materials selections and installation follow-up. This position represents an exceptional opportunity, with a clear path to the Design Director position, for the experienced individual that shares our vision for quality and excellence. Established in 1975, we have an award-winning roster of Fortune 500 clients and a 80%+ client retention rate. Qualified individuals are encouraged to visit our web site at ‘www.theswitzergroup.com‘ and e-mail a resume, including salary requirements to rschortemeier@theswitzergroup.com. Hard copy resumes can be mailed to The Switzer Group, Inc. 535 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017 or faxed to (212)
542-8966.
Architectural Project Designer NYC, NY: Prep, devlp, & rvw arch plans, drwngs, or lyts to prov svc & cost ests to Chinese clients; prep, rvw, and/or edit firm prpsls or svc contracts; coord & facilitate arch projs; confer w/Chinese clients on dsgn issues & bldg code reqs; solve & consult on dsgn probs & coord drwngs w/consultants; draft & rvw docs using 3D modeling/rendering by AutoCAD, 3D max, Photoshop, Rhino. Req: M.Arch or B.Arch w/5 yrs exp. Familiar w/lg-scale multi-functional complexes, comm & res. high-rises projs. & curtain wall design & specs; prof. in metric & imperial sys. Email CV & work samples to KPF: dnmt@kpf.com. Ref job code PAEO. EOE.
Award winning design-oriented, high profile firm seeks talented Architect with 3-5 years office experience. A professional degree, strong technical skills, AutoCAD & Form Z or 3-D Studio proficiency and experience with CD’s required. Send resume w/samples of work to info@helfandarch.com.
Junior Architect for Immediate hire at Energy Conscious Architecture Firm
Seeking applicants with 2 to 6 years experience for immediate hire at a mid-sized firm recognized for work in energy-conscious architecture, sustainable design, and preservation. Work includes a wide variety of public, private, commercial, residential, institutional and historic renovation/preservation projects.
Intelligent and motivated; strong inter-personal skills a must. Previous work experience with all phases of design and construction administration a plus. Opportunity to be involved in all phases of projects, and in all aspects of the work.
Please e-mail resume to info@nelliganwhite.com. With resume, applicants must also include salary requirements (annual) and earliest date they are available to start work. No phone calls please.
ARCHITECTURE FT/PermPosition
Street-Works, an entrepreneurial, award-winning, and design-oriented development & development consulting firm, is seeking architects for an exciting range of large-scale retail-oriented mixed-use projects. Candidate must be geared toward working collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams. Architecture degree and 2-5 years of ACAD + 3D-modeling experience req. Hand drawing skills and interest in the “bigger picture” a plus.
Street-Works is located in White Plains, NY adjacent to the N. White Plains train station. Excellent growth opportunities, competitive salary and benefits.
Send CVs to info@street-works.com.
Atelier Ten New York is looking for a senior environmental designer/project manager who will provide environmental design consulting, building energy optimization, daylight and shading design, and LEED consulting.
Required: degree in architecture, engineering, and/or building technology; 3 years’ experience in environmental design; English fluency. Preferred: LEED Accreditation, experience with energy simulation tools.
We are an environmental design consulting firm with offices in London, New York, New Haven, and Baltimore. See www.atelierten.com for more information. Contact: usa.recruitment@atelierten.com.
Engineer or Architect
Over 1 billion customers every year depend on MTA New York City Transit (NYCT), the nation’s largest transit system, and we in turn, depend on a dedicated team of professionals to help us meet the needs of the organization.
New York City Transit’s Department of Buses is looking for experienced licensed Engineers or Architects to contribute to and/or lead a variety of facilities/construction projects. Specifically, we are looking for licensed Engineers in the following disciplines: Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Architectural.
Qualified candidates must have a valid New York State license as a Professional Engineer or Architect and at least four years of relevant full-time experience. One year of your experience must have been as a major contributor or project leader on a complex project.
Ms. Marie Erla Jabon
Personnel Coordinator
Human Resources, Departmental Operations
180 Livingston Street, Room 639C
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Or Fax to (347) 643-8489, or e-mail Resume@nyct.com
Please reference job code: EngArch-AIANY
EOE
ARCHITECTS
PROJECT MANAGERS & JOB CAPTAINS
Rapidly expanding, award winning NYC firm specializing in boutique hotels and large-scale residential projects throughout North America has multiple openings for 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
Polshek Partnership seeks Senior Project Architect in NYC. Responsible for technical solutions and coordinating disciplines on Healthcare and Science & Technology type projects. Licensed required with 10+ years experience. Strength in detailing and specifications, ability to supervise a team, knowledge of MicroStation preferred. Please send cover letter, resume and work samples to Polshek Partnership, 320 West 13th Street, NY, NY 10014 Attn: Penny Cheung or e-mail files to hr@polshek.com.
Small Firm, Big Opportunity: Junior & Intermediate Architect
Small award winning NYC Design firm, with focus on socially relevant architecture seeks person with Architectural degree and 2 -12 years experience to work directly with Principals. LEED Certification a Plus.
www.MHGArch.com
Architectural Outreach Manager
Looking for a diverse job? The Brick Industry Association is seeking a self-motivated individual to cover the New York City area. The candidate must have experience in presenting technical information to a variety of audiences in an engaging way. Responsibilities include preparing and presenting educational seminars on brick and conducting meetings with key decision makers involved in the selection of wall cladding materials. Interested individuals should contact Brian Trimble by email at btrimble@bia.org for more information.
Architect: Prepare and draw 3 to 6 different design options for client evaluation. Create, manage, update and archive AutoCAD drawings from concept, schematic to final construction drawings. Measure and record floor area tabulations. Confer and coordinate with building consultants and engineers during all phases of projects. Coordinate and integrate structural and mechanical elements into drawings. Must have a Master’s degree in Design Studies or Architecture plus one year experience as an Architect. Knowledge and experience in the following applications: AutoCAD computer drafting software; Photoshop; Powerpoint; Excel; Word; Adobe Acrobat PDF. Send resume by mail only to: Lola Conde, Thomas Phifer & Partners, 180 Varick Street, Ste. 1110, Floor 11, New York, NY 10014. Please reference order number 68CR.
Incorporated Architecture & Design is a young and extremely vital office. We are currently a studio of 12 people. The majority of our work consists of High-End Residential (Urban and Ex-urban) and Commercial Residential.
Incorporated is seeking a full-time, salaried an Project Architect/Manager with 3-6 years experience. Candidate must be a motivated self-starter with strong design and technical skills in cad.
Project Architects have the opportunity to be involved in all areas of the projects, from design through construction. We also look to candidates’ interests in business development projects, such as product design, marketing, publishing, and related software development.
We offer a relaxed work environment and competitive salary with comprehensive benefits.
Additional Requirements:
Ability to manage projects.
Ability to sensitively manage junior staff and interact with principals.
Excellent communication, management and organizational skills required.
Advanced in AutoCAD willingness to explore new technologies.
Benefits include:
· Employer paid-in-full: health/dental/vision insurance
· 10 Paid vacation with 5 additional flex vacation days, 5 sick, and all major holidays
· Professional dues, Registration exam reimbursements and membership dues.
Contact:
Jobs@IncorporatedNY.com
Please include a PDF resume and design work sample.
Project Architect/Project Manager
NBBJ, a growing international design firm, has opportunities for qualified professionals to join teams working on innovative healthcare projects and exciting international commercial projects. To learn more or apply, please visit http://www.nbbj.com/#join/openings.
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