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06.10.08
Now that summer has arrived, the weather is perfect for wandering around the city looking for new undiscovered buildings and neighborhoods. With this issue, the Downtown Alliance of New York launched a Doors of Downtown photo essay. If you can identify all of the doors in the photo essay, you may win a prize. For more information, go to the New Deadlines section.
- Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
THE CENTER: AIANY BLOG: The AIANY Chapter has launched a new blog. The Center features opinion pieces on architectural issues relevant to NY-based designers, firms, and projects, along with spotlight debates and discussions at the Center for Architecture and AIANY, and is an informal discussion board. Be sure to check it out regularly and contribute to the dialogue.
If you would like to become a regular contributor to The Center, please e-mail e-Oculus.
NOTE: In the last issue, the report “AIA Convention Advocates Civic Activism” featured a panel discussion at the AIA Convention, Civic Architecture: Design and Identity in a Changing Society. AIANY member Barbara Nadel, FAIA, moderated the discussion. We regret the omission.
Event: Designs for Living: Panel Discussion on Housing Policy
Location: Center for Architecture, 06.02.08
Speakers: Victor Bach — Senior Housing Policy Analyst, Community Service Society of New York; Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA — Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Project Director, Remodeling Futures Program, & Chief Economist, AIA National; Christopher Jones — Vice President for Research, Regional Plan Association & Former Special Assistant to the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Development in NYC; Ronald Shiffman, FAICP, Hon. AIA — Professor of Urban Planning, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, Pratt Institute & Former Director, Pratt Center for Community Development
Moderator: Wids DeLaCour, AIA — Co-Chair, AIANY Housing Committee
Organizer: AIANY Housing Committee
Sponsors:Champion: Studio Daniel Libeskind; Supporters: Gensler; HumanScale; James McCullar & Associates; Friends: Benjamin Moore & Co.; Costas Kondylis & Partners; Forest City Ratner Companies; Frank Williams & Associates; Hugo S. Subotovsky Architects; Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti; Mancini Duffy; Magnusson Architecture and Planning; Rawlings Architects; Ricci Greene Associates; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Syska & Hennessy; Trespa North America; Universal Contracting Group
For the last 60 years housing patterns have been driven by post-war development. Now, with upcoming local and national elections, the state of the economy, and poor living conditions for low-income households, it is time to re-examine policies, infrastructure, and land-use. So argued Christopher Jones, vice president for research at the Regional Plan Association (RPA) at a recent discussion about housing trends.
The way people live has changed drastically since 1940, said Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA, senior research fellow at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, and AIA’s chief economist, using data collected for the 1940 and 2005 Census surveys. Pre-WWII, homes cost an average of $41,000, and half of housing units had either no indoor plumbing or shared facilities. In 2005, homes cost an average of $159,000 — a fourfold increase — with one bathroom per bedroom. In 1940, less than 40% of the population owned homes compared with more than 68% in 2005, thanks in large part to an increase in sub-prime mortgages (”and now we are paying the price,” stated Baker). Today, fewer than one-third of Caucasians live in inner cities, yet 60% of minority renters live in city centers that lack access to good schools, common amenities, and better paying jobs. No place in the U.S. does the minimum wage equal the housing wage, the hourly wages
needed to afford a “decent” home. In some cities such as NYC, LA, and San Francisco, the housing wage is equal to five times the minimum
wage.
NYC is a case study to speculate about the affordability crisis and examine solutions, argued Victor Bach, senior housing policy analyst for the Community Service Society of New York. Only 20% of those who fit the federal definition of poverty live in subsidized housing, and figures are worsening. Rapid population growth will put a high demand on the housing market and low-income residents will have more difficulty competing for housing. The National Housing Trust Fund, National Housing Law Project for housing preservation, and Mayor Bloomberg’s affordable housing plans are steps in the right direction, Bach believes. But outside of the housing sector, the city can develop policies that will provide cash transfers and relief to those who need to pay for residual costs besides rent.
In NYC, Jones sees opportunity at federal, state, and local levels to improve the housing situation. Nationally, a new transportation plan must be developed to aid congestion and reduce carbon emissions, and the government should encourage and preserve rental housing. Locally, transit-oriented development (TOD) needs to be improved alongside “inclusionary zoning” so infrastructure and housing can develop symbiotically. Also, state housing trust funds should be dedicated to improve affordable housing. Baker is convinced that cleaning up current mortgage lending markets, promoting increased sustainability, and preserving and upgrading existing housing (rather than constructing new buildings) will abate the crisis.
The U.S. is one of few countries that have not ratified a human rights agreement calling for a right to housing, pointed out Ronald Shiffman, FAICP, Hon. AIA, professor of urban planning at the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, Pratt Institute. With current elections at hand, architects and planners have the opportunity to influence future policies and make a difference. The AIA can push Congress to act to make housing a priority. As architects and planners, we should also be taking our personal standards beyond the government’s. We should adopt smart housing location criteria, set up guidelines for all new houses to be carbon neutral by 2010, encourage high densities (but not so high that they overwhelm infrastructure), and make sure we do not contribute to the discrimination of people’s right to housing.
Event: Design Awards Winners’ Symposium
Location: Center for Architecture, 05.19.08
Speakers: Farnaz Manusuri, Assoc. AIA — Lead Designer, De-Spec; Stephen Cassell, AIA — Principal, Architecture Research Office; Joel Sanders, AIA — Principal, Joel Sanders Architect; Sam Dufaux — Worker, Work architecture company; Peter Bentel, AIA — Partner, Bentel & Bentel Architects and Planners AIA; Stephan Jaklitsch, AIA — Principal, Stephan Jaklitsch Architects; John Lee, AIA — Principal, Workshop for Architecture; Taryn Christoff — Principal, Christoff:Finio Architecture; Lee Mindel, FAIA — Principal, Shelton, Mindel & Associates
Moderator: Paul Zajfen, FAIA, RIBA — Juror, Design Principal, CO Architects
Organizer: AIANY Design Awards Committee
Sponsors: Benefactors: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Syska Hennessy Group; Patrons: F.J. Sciame Construction Co.; HDR; HOK; Langan Engineering & Environmental Services; O’Connor Capital Partners; Richter + Ratner; Thornton Tomasetti; Lead Sponsors: Arup; Consulting for Architects; Gensler; KI; Lutron Electronics; Mancini Duffy; RMJM Hillier; Robert A.M. Stern Architects; STUDIOS architecture; Turner Construction Company; Sponsors: Armstrong World Industries; Atkinson Koven Feinberg; Building Contractors Association; Cosentini Associates; Costas Kondylis and Partners; Flack+Kurtz; Forest City Ratner Companies; FXFOWLE Architects; Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti; James G. Kennedy & Co.; Jaros, Baum & Bolles; JCJ Architecture; John Gallin & Son; MechoShade Systems; Microsol Resources; New York University; Pei Cobb Freed & Partners; Perkins+Will; Peter Marino Architect; Polshek Partnership
Architects; Ricci Greene Associates; Rogers Marvel Architects; Swanke Hayden Connell Architects; Toshiko Mori Architect; Weidlinger
Associates
2008 AIANY Design Honor Awards in Interiors (l-r): Yale University Art Gallery Media Lounge by Joel Sanders Architect; Banchet Flower Bar by De-Spec; Friedman Study Center at Brown University by Architecture Research Office.
Courtesy AIANY
There were over 140 entries in the AIANY Design Awards Interiors category this year. “It was a daunting thing looking for a reason to get rid of a project,” said jury member Paul Zajfen, FAIA, RIBA, design principal at LA-based CO Architects. “Projects were submitted that were really good, and with another set of jurors someone else might have won.” Proving this point, John Lee, AIA, principal at Workshop for Architecture, admitted his 2008 merit award-winning project, the Maritime Intelligence Group Offices, was twice previously submitted. The difference between an honor and a merit, according to Zajfen, was unanimity and, to that end, the jury selected four honors and seven merit awards.
Honor Award Winners
The Banchet Flower Bar is a shop in the meat packing district designed by De-Spec. The two-phased project transformed a warehouse space into a flower design studio at a time when the district was still a mix of meat-packing and trendy stores and restaurants. The design team spread out flowers along the shop turning it into a performance space for passers-by, according to lead designer Farnaz Mansuri, Assoc. AIA. Once open, Mansuri was pleased to hear photographers wanted to use the space for shoots and people wanted to rent it for weddings.
Brown University’s mission of interdisciplinary education was integral to the programming, and thus the architecture, of the Friedman Study Center, stated Architecture Research Office (ARO) principal Stephen Cassell, AIA. With a large floor plate, they could design several micro-environments, each furnished differently. The interiors accommodate quiet, individual study zones, interactive areas, as well as collaborative activities.
Yale University Art Gallery Media Lounge, designed by Joel Sanders Architect, was an exercise in working with many different parties — the director and curators of the museum, bookstore employees, and students. The space serves reading, film screenings, and even banquets. Custom-designed, flexible furniture is demountable quickly and easily. Since it is located in the first floor of the Louis Kahn-designed gallery, the firm incorporated four-foot floating modular display panels to divide and create.
Merit Award Winners
Anthropologie, a retailer that sells items ranging from door knobs to clothing, called upon Work architecture company to design a new store in southern California. This involved revamping the brand and creating a template for future stores. Workshop For Architecture’s design for the Maritime Intelligence Group Offices is stylistically estranged from its neighbors despite its site in a typical 1980s brick office building. The suspended ceilings are painted black and are backlit, window walls are screened with parachute fabric, and floors are concrete.
Bentel & Bentel Architects and Planners AIA’s design for Craftsteak in an old building near Chelsea Market echoed the chef/owner’s idea that cooking is a craft, not an art. Thus, the restaurant has a refined, simple palette, to echo the process of simple food preparation. The Marc Jacobs Collection in the Palais Royal in Paris occupies seven bays in the 1739 arcade, rather than one. Stephan Jaklitsch Architects gutted the space and worked with the Ministry of Culture to develop a model for future stores in the Palais.
STUDIOS Architecture mimicked Gehry Partners’ undulating exterior skin within the IAC Headquarters to create distinct areas for the company’s Internet properties. Christoff:Finio Architecture’s “untech” scheme won the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s competition for its interiors. Ten small tables rearrange into one large one, and six mesh curtains are on ceiling tracks for maximum flexibility in the space. Shelton, Mindel & Associates’ pool house on Long Island is a simple cube with a wall opened up to the outdoors. Furniture acts as indoor “pool toys” to neighborhood children’s delight.
Event: New Practices Jury Symposium
Location: Center for Architecture, 06.04.08
Speakers: Jury Members: Amale Andraos — Work AC; Jennifer Carpenter — TRUCK; Peter Eisenman, FAIA — Eisenman Architects; William Menking — Editor-in-Chief, The Architect’s Newspaper; Mark Strauss, FAIA, AICP — Principal, FXFOWLE Architects; Charles Renfro, AIA — Principal, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (not present)
Moderator: Illya Azaroff, AIA — Design Collective Studio
Organizer: AIANY New Practices Committee
Sponsors: Underwriter: Häfele; Lead Sponsors: MG & Company, Poliform USA, Thornton Tomasetti; Supporters: Fountainhead Construction, FXFOWLE Architects; Beverage Sponsor: Saaga Vodka; Media Sponsor: The Architect’s Newspaper
Courtesy AIANY
Jurors claimed there were many good firms that entered this year’s New Practices New York (NPNY) competition, but the tone of the symposium was predominantly critical. Six winning firms were announced: Urban A&O won the honor award, and five finalists include Baumann Architecture, Common Room, David Wallance Architect, Matter Architecture Practice, and Openshop | Studio. Jurors agreed that 12 out of 52 portfolio entries were “interesting,” but only one “had what we were looking for,” explained Amale Andraos. Urban A&O unanimously won top billing for graphic representation, project focus, and design abilities.
NPNY, the second juried portfolio competition and exhibition in a new biennial tradition, serves as a platform to recognize and promote innovative and emerging architecture firms in NYC. The competition emphasizes both a firm’s projects and practices. Participating firms were asked to submit a “Mini Portfolio” along with a “Practice Narrative” explaining their methods of collaboration and integrated practice, influences on critical thinking about design, and the variety of their project experience, as well as the location and nature of their practices.
Jurors reported that Charles Renfro, AIA, who was not in attendance, was frustrated that the portfolios contained “nothing you had never seen before,” noting a trend towards anti-specialization among the applicants. “I didn’t see any star tendencies — and that is a very positive thing,” said Peter Eisenman, FAIA, with a touch of irony. However, he was disappointed that there was “no real stance on green architecture,” or any other over-arching concepts. Jennifer Carpenter said she was “surprised by the range of built work,” as she had expected to see more technology-based explorations.
While jurors agreed it was exciting that new practices are able get large-scale projects (many portfolios included international built work as well as developer-led projects), they debated whether this is positive or negative in terms of critical thinking about design. Eisenman, quoting Aldo Rossi, Hon. FAIA, was looking for “theory that can lead to practice” among the portfolios, but found more work or practice without the theory behind it.
The six winners will present their work in a lecture series and showcase at Häfele’s New York showroom, and work will be on view at the Center for Architecture this fall, opening September 5.
Murrye Bernard, Assoc. AIA, is a designer with TEK Architects and has written for Architectural Record, Architecture Boston, and Architectural Lighting.
Event: Herzog & de Meuron
Location: Columbia University, 05.13.08
Speaker: Jacques Herzog, Hon. FAIA — Principal, Herzog & de Meuron (Basel)
Organizer: Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Hamburg’s density The Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg.
Courtesy elbphilharmonie.de
Whether grand urban visions, additions to historic structures, glass towers, museums, or sculpture pavilions, Herzog & de Meuron Architekten (HdeM) claim they never repeat themselves. “We don’t have a style… we always try to escape labels,” explains firm principal, Jacques Herzog, Hon. FAIA. As an architect, Herzog sees his role as an author who can make a difference; he “uses the discipline as a tool to understand the world.”
The recent conversation drifted among 10 projects at different phases of development, including some new projects, but the most socially aware is the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg. With no budget, no client, and no fundamental program, city administrators asked HdeM to “initiate the project” and “do something totally crazy.” Hamburg, a dense city, is difficult to expand. HdeM’s solution is to build on top of an existing industrial building located on the waterfront, allowing for a larger scale intervention. When authorities and citizens liked HdeM’s presentation, Herzog’s belief in work that is “not obvious” was refueled.
HdeM’s current work is about circulation and motion of the human body — beyond the vertical elevator, scissor stair, and straight corridor. A spiral public stair wraps along the interior perimeter of the curtain wall defining the building’s shape for the Roche Research and Development Center in Basel. In the Hong Kong Jockey Club, a vertical garden is integrated into a grid structure, and public programs in the shape of bubbles are suspended throughout. For the “Birds Nest” National Stadium for the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, the initial impetus of the design was a study of ancient Chinese pottery patterns. His work with artistic consultant Ai Weiwei on this project has led to other collaborative projects including a small concrete pavilion created from folding geometric patterns.
Herzog believes that the firm’s success is not due to so-called “signature” designs, but rather in how the buildings ultimately relate to the communities for which they are designed after their involvement is complete.
Harry Gaveras, AIA, is principal of Propylaea and co-chair of the AIANY Emerging NY Architects committee.
Event: 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale preview
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art, 05.13.08
Speakers: Paolo Baratta — President, Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia; Aaron Betsky — Director, 11th International Architecture Exhibition
Organizer: Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia
Courtesy labiennale.org
“Factors” rather than “resulting architectural formalism” are the fodder for this year’s upcoming International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, according to the event’s director Aaron Betsky. Betsky’s curatorial wit was honed over his six-year stint as director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam followed by his current job as director of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Titled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, “the challenge is to collect and encourage experimentation in architecture. Such experimentation can take the form of momentary constructions, visions of other worlds, or the building blocks of a better world. This Biennale… wants to see if architecture… can offer concrete forms or seductive images.” With this as Betsky’s goal, visitors will encounter around 24 site-specific installations. Padiglione Italia will feature a survey of experimental work by mainly young designers and five “Masters of the Experiment.” The Hall of Fragments by Jones | Kroloff with The Rockwell Group will ask the question: How we can be at home in the modern world? Communities beyond Place, Civic consciousness beyond Architecture, will exhibit “Everyville,” an international online competition
open to students of all disciplines.
William Menking, editor-in-chief of The Architect’s Newspaper, is the commissioner in charge of the U.S. Exhibition. Called Into The Open: Positioning Practice, he is collaborating with Teddy Cruz and Deborah Gans, AIA, with support from Aaron Levy and Andrew Sturm, to explore recent explosive migration and its impact on society and geo-political boundaries, as well as the repercussions on architecture, according to the press release. “The idea of the exhibition is to talk about practice in a new way where design evolves out of conflicts and relationships,” Menking said.
The 11th International Architecture Exhibition will also present 65 national participants with exhibitions inside the Pavilions at Giardini and the historic center in Venice. This year’s Biennale will open to the public September 14-23. Tickets are €15, €8 for students. For more details, visit the website.
Johannes M. P. Knoops, FAAR, Assoc. AIA, is an educator and practitioner who straddles both the innovative and romantic aspirations of our profession. This summer, he looks forward to exploring and re-mapping Venice though the conflicting cartography of Venetian business cards.
Philadelphia’s new Center for Architecture.
Courtesy AIA Philadelphia
AIA Philadelphia celebrated the ribbon-cutting ceremonial opening of its Center for Architecture on May 28, located at 1218 Arch Street — across from the Pennsylvania Convention Center by Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback and Associates, the winner of a National AIA Award for Regional and Urban Design in 2000. The spiffy, well-lit, and well-ventilated storefront Center opened to the public June 2, setting a new benchmark for architecture centers where design professionals interact with students, visitors, enthusiasts, and civic activists, along with elected, appointed officials. The ceremony and festivities were led by AIA Philadelphia President James Bogrette, AIA, and featured congratulatory remarks by recently appointed Deputy Mayor Andrew Altman, an urban planner who is also the city’s Commerce Director. Altman described how his young son had participated in the educational programs at another AIA Chapter’s Center for Architecture before moving to
Philadelphia this
year.
The Center’s design was developed by 30 individuals during a two-day charrette open to any Chapter member who wanted to participate. Four schemes were developed, and after consultation with existing tenants a winner was selected. The final design is faithful to the winning scheme. The architect of record, including engineering, was Philadelphia-based KlingStubbins, who donated their services as a charitable contribution to the Center. Certain installation details were then contributed by various volunteers and coordinated by a building committee of board members and the executive director.
The design itself makes the singularly successful AIA Bookstore part of an active streetscape, where it can have the greatest impact — and profitability. Glass windows front and back allow for passers-by to see through the shop into meeting and gallery spaces, able to accommodate large public gatherings and freestanding exhibitions, including the opening show of design award-winning projects. Back-of-the-house office space accommodates both Chapter staff and the Community Design Collaborative, a related organization that provides pre-development services to non-profit and community organizations using volunteer architects and related professionals.
The much-heralded Charter High School for Architecture + Design (CHAD) is also supported by the Center, and CHAD programs will find their way to the Center, according to Component Executive John P. Claypool, AIA, AICP, and Courtnay Tyus, Executive Director of CHAD’s Designing Futures Foundation. Such initiatives are already visible in the new bookstore through the competition-winning bookshelf systems designed and constructed in cooperative teams with contractors, architects, carpenter apprentices, and CHAD students.
Similar to recently opened Centers for Architecture created by AIA Austin, AIA Houston, AIA San Francisco, and the Virginia Society for Architects, AIA Philadelphia will utilize its public gallery and meeting facility to provide partners, public agencies, community organizations, media, individual citizens, and visitors an opportunity to participate and learn about the importance of their physical environment. The Center’s mission declares: “It will raise expectations about the region’s built environment and contribute to improved public policies and advocacy for a high quality living environment in Greater Philadelphia.” Other design centers are in various stages of planning nationwide, including AIA storefronts in Dallas and Raleigh.
Founded in 1869, AIA Philadelphia serves more than 1,700 AIA member registered architects and related professionals, making it one of the largest AIA components in the nation. In addition to providing professional and education support to its members, AIA Philadelphia serves as a resource for the general public, and with its fine new center, will be a public face for the City of Sibling Affection through its programs and exhibitions.
To read more about Philadelphia Center for Architecture, here is an article from The Philadelphia Inquirer’s architecture critic Inga Saffron published June 6 and titled, “Changing Skyline: Architecture institute finally adds gallery.”
After Alain Robert scaled the New York Times Building to protest global warming (followed by Renaldo Clarke’s climb to raise awareness about malaria) on June 6, I read all of the reports about how management was beefing up security to prevent future incidents. While I believe precautions are needed to prevent anyone off the street from climbing, I think there is an opportunity for designers to consider how building façades might take on new life — to support the climbing community.
“Buildering” is not new. Documentation exists as early as the 1890s, according to Wikipedia. Other forms of structure scaling include a martial arts-inspired Parkour, BASE jumping, and even Craning. Robert is a celebrity in this world (his website claims he has climbed more than 70 buildings worldwide), and even though he is frequently arrested for his feats, he is sometimes paid to climb for celebratory events. Professional rock climbers ascend mountains much higher than most buildings, so why has buildering never been accepted as a professional practice?
In 2007, Dan Goodwin (a.k.a. Spider Dan), who climbed the Sears Tower in 1981, proposed the Skyscraper Defense Act calling for a new department within Homeland Security called the Skyscraper Defense Department. Goodwin intends to modify high-rise rescue procedures, appealing to cities to create a master plan for every skyscraper outlining roof rescue protocols, and to assemble a team of professionals who can rescue occupants trapped inside a building from the exterior. Exterior egress stations should be provided on each floor; refuge areas should be strategically placed throughout the skyscraper; and green, non-toxic materials should be used in construction to pose no short- or long-term ill effects to climbers.
If passed, Goodwin’s proposal would change skyscraper construction significantly.In addition to rescue procedures, the changes could also encourage a new, legal profession of “urban climbing,” establishing a more modern definition of building inhabitation.
To see up-close photographs of Alain Robert on the New York Times Building, check out The Center, AIANY blog.
In this issue:
· Downtown: Gehry Makes a New Impression
· Foundation Grants $25 Million to Improve 2 NYC Parks
· Upper East Side Patterns New Condo Design
· Action at Pier 94: NYC Expands Trade Show Capacity
· Melrose Commons Builds First Sustainable Building
· Crafting a Center for Kids
· Calais Border Station is Flexible, Secure, Pollution-Free
· 1815 WV Mansion Gets New Lease on Life
Downtown: Gehry Makes a New Impression
Beekman Tower looking up from Park Row.
Artefactory
The 76-story Beekman Tower will be Gehry Partners’ first residential high-rise/mixed-use commission in NYC, and at 867 feet tall it will be the tallest residential building in Manhattan. The Forest City Ratner Companies’ development will feature a 1.1-million-square-foot structure sheathed in glass and stainless steel cladding atop a six-story masonry podium. In addition to 903 market-rate rental apartments, the development will include a four-story, 100,000-square-foot pre-K through eighth-grade public school in the podium — the first public school built in NYC on private land — with a 5,000-square-foot rooftop play area. A 21,000-square-foot ambulatory care center for New York Downtown Hospital will be used as doctors’ offices, 1,300 square feet will be dedicated to neighborhood-oriented ground-floor retail space, and there will be 26,000 square feet of below-grade parking.
Due to the design of the curtain wall, each floor will have a different configuration. The folds of the façade create bay windows inside. The complex surface geometry of the curtain wall will be mapped by computer software developed by Gehry Technologies called Digital Project. There will also be a wide range of amenities including a gym, spa with swimming pool and sundeck, business conference-center, residents’ recreational lounge with golf-simulator, demonstration kitchen, and children’s playroom and television lounge. The site will feature two 15,000-square-foot landscaped public plazas designed by Field Operations.
Foundation Grants $25 Million to Improve 2 NYC Parks
Rendering of Prospect Park’s future Concert Grove.
Rendering by Peter DePasquale, courtesy NYC Department of Parks and Recreation
The Leon Levy Foundation is awarding $15 million to The New York Botanical Garden for the creation of a new Native Plant Garden on 3.5 acres adjacent to the Native Forest and Rock Garden. It will serve as a center for the study and display of plants native to northeastern United States. The garden will be one of the first projects in the Botanical Garden’s Master Plan, being developed by the Philadelphia-based landscape architecture firm Olin Partnership.
The foundation has also awarded $10 million to Prospect Park to fund renovation of the park’s 26-acre Lakeside Center, and help to restore the park to its original design as envisioned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The grant will fund the demolition of Wollman Rink, the first step toward bringing back the area’s native trees, shrubs, and aquatics; new rinks will be built nearby. In addition, Music Island will be rebuilt as a natural habitat sanctuary where pedestrian viewing paths will be restored along the lake edge, and invasive aquatic reeds will be removed. Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects will design the new building and ice rinks, with Christian Zimmerman of the Prospect Park Alliance as landscape architect.
Upper East Side Patterns New Condo Design
Isis Condominium.
Courtesy Alchemy Properties
FXFOWLE Architects has designed an 18-story luxury residential condo on Manhattan’s Upper East Side for Alchemy Properties. Billed as a “family-friendly” building, Isis Condominium will contain 31 two-, two-plus den, and three-bedroom residences — two units per floor and four penthouses. Resting on a six-story base, the façade features a greenish-gray mosaic made by Trespa. The project is currently under construction with an expected completion date in July 2009.
Action at Pier 94: NYC Expands Trade Show
Piers 92 and 94 — future home of a new trade show facility.
Courtesy Dattner Architects
New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has designated the team of Vornado Realty Trust and its subsidiary Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. to redevelop and expand the trade show facility on Manhattan’s far west side. The design team includes Dattner Architects and SMWM, with Philip Habib and Associates acting as traffic consultants. The project will expand the trade show facility on Pier 94 to include Pier 92 and will contain approximately 355,000 square feet of trade show and conference space. The project will also feature a 9,300-square-foot winter garden and accessible open space around the perimeter. A 60,000-square-foot logistics center will accommodate loading/unloading, storage, and other back-of-the-house functions to relieve traffic congestion. Developers hope the $100 million renovation will help NYC capture a larger share of the tradeshow market.
Melrose Commons Builds First Sustainable Building
El Jardin de Seline.
Magnusson Architecture and Planning
Construction is underway on El Jardin de Seline, a new, sustainable affordable housing project in the Melrose Commons section of the Bronx. The mixed-use, mixed-income rental building was designed by Magnusson Architecture and Planning (MAP) and developed by a joint venture of Nos Quedamos, MJM Construction Services, and Melrose Associates. At 12 stories, the project will be the tallest building in the neighborhood and will reference “old Bronx style” with its use of art deco motifs and materials consistent with local buildings. Funded by the NYC Housing Development Corporation, the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Richman Housing Resources, and NYSERDA, El Jardin will contain 84 units from studio to 2-bedroom apartments and will be available to residents making up to 60% and 80% of AMI. The project will contain over 2,000 square feet of community space including a laundry room and outdoor courtyard, as well as 6,000 square feet of retail
space and 12,000 square feet of parking. It is expected to receive a LEED Silver rating upon completion.
Crafting a Center for Kids
The Queens Child Guidance Center.
CetraRuddy
CetraRuddy has redesigned the Queens Child Guidance Center in Woodside. The organization is a family-focused non-profit that annually serves more than 12,000 children, ranging from newborns to 20-year-olds. Programming and design combined four separate facilities into one central location. The space includes two large conference rooms for group sessions — one specifically for young children with play spaces, and another for older children and adults adjacent to a two-way observation room for staff — and 40 brightly-colored soundproof counseling rooms. The Child Center is now moving into a second design phase and is adding 5,000 square feet to the existing space.
Calais Border Station is Flexible, Secure, Pollution-Free
U.S. Land Port of Entry.
Robert Siegel Architects
Ground was recently broken on the U.S. Land Port of Entry in Calais, ME. The 100,000-square-foot building, designed by NY-based Robert Siegel Architects for the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection, is part of the General Services Administration’s Design Excellence Program. The design is intended to create a welcoming yet secure, flexible yet permanent gateway between the U.S. and Canada. The facility will be wrapped with a textured aluminum façade that acts as a protective barrier for surveillance and reflects sun and shadows. A concealed courtyard protects staff from pollution and vehicle traffic but manages to offer unobstructed views of the rugged landscape. The station, which has an overall budget of $48 million, is slated for completion in November 2009. The firm garnered a Merit Award in the Projects category of the 2007 AIANY Design Awards.
1815 WV Mansion Gets New Lease on Life
Holly Grove Mansion.
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (SHCA) has been selected by the state of West Virginia to design a comprehensive rehabilitation plan for Holly Grove Mansion, a 5,300-square-foot mansion listed on the National Historic Register of Historic Places. The circa 1815 Classic Revival mansion is on the State Capitol grounds in Charleston, next to the Governor’s Mansion. SHCA performed a due diligence evaluation and researched adaptive new uses, such as offices, event space, guesthouse, and museum. The scope of services entailed a full building assessment, including code-compliant analysis for stabilization and repair of deteriorated structural components. In addition to restoration and replication of period elements, new mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire suppression systems will be concealed, and period appropriate architectural finishes and features will be selected to support the building’s historic character.
In this issue:
· From the Foundation: Students Build Links to Their Future
· Website Invites Firms to Show Green Work
· Coming: Community Planning Fellowship Program
From the Foundation: Students Build Links to Their Future
By Erin McCluskey, Executive Director, Center for Architecture Foundation
As urban and community development evolves, today’s students will be facing climate change, a housing crisis, possibly an economic downturn, as well as challenges to create sustainable designs. Continuing a popular tradition at the Center for Architecture, the exhibition Building Connections: 12th Annual K-12 Design Work opens June 13. On display are the talents of elementary and high school-age designers.
Building Connections features drawings and models that explore the built environment, from lighting design to city planning and mapping. The students’ enjoyment and excitement are to be seen in their use of a wide range of materials, model-building techniques, and design approaches. The opening reception takes place June 13 from 5:30-8:30pm.
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Coming: Community Planning Fellowship Program
Designed to draw second-year graduate planning students in public service, the Manhattan Borough President’s Community Planning Fellowship combines work in the offices of community boards with a seminar component that explores key issues in community planning. The program has a two aims: (1) to enable community boards to better undertake planning activities and (2) to impart respect for local government and the community to the next generation of planners.
The fellowship provides hands-on experience working with communities on planning issues, and informs thesis work and/or other academic assignments. Past Fellows have completed community-based plans (197-a plans); made recommendations on land-use applications (ULURP); mapped and analyzed neighborhoods; and researched landmarks/historic sites. E-mail all application materials to fellowship@manhattanbp.org by 06.15.08. For more information, please click here.
The St. Vincent's Hospital expansion debate is heating up. AIANY has supported demolition of the O'Toole building so the hospital can construct a state-of-the-art medical facility (See The Center: AIANY Blog for more information). Do you support this decision?
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Now that summer has hit the city, you can take advantage of the NYC Streets Renaissance (NYCSR) Block Party NYC. Mini-grants were awarded to fund 30 block parties intended to bring together neighbors, local businesses, and community groups by flooding streets with people, music, and art. The goal is to help re-imagine local streets through a community-led design process. As the website states, “Block Party NYC is a good, old-fashioned block party and a chance to redesign your street — all in one day.” Check out the online calendar to see where the next party will happen.
The 141st AIANY Annual Meeting on June 3 presented the following honors and awards: Founders Award — Margaret Helfand, FAIA (posthumously), Rolf H. Ohlhausen, FAIA; Medal of Honor — Max Bond, FAIA; Award of Merit — Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan; Honorary Member: Commissioner Shaun Donovan; Andrew J. Thomas Award — Carlton Brown; Harry B. Rutkins Award: Kristen Richards; Public Architect Award — Joyce S. Lee, AIA; George S. Lewis Award — Richard Fitzgerald; Oculus Award — Fred Bernstein; Special Citations — Queens Botanical Garden; NYC Audubon Birdsafe Guidelines; Public Art Fund; Vice Presidential Citations — Public Outreach: AIANY Planning and Urban Design
Committee, AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Design Excellence: AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee… A special proclamation was awarded to Patricia Lancaster, FAIA, as the Commissioner of the NYC Department of Buildings for her six years of service to the architectural community and NYC
citizens…
Five short-listed teams to create the Hudson Park and Boulevard and a streetscape plan for the Hudson Yards area on Manhattan’s West Side have been selected by the Hudson Yards Development Corporation, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, NYC Department of Design and Construction, NYC Department of Transportation, and NYC Department of City Planning: Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd. and Allied Works Architecture; Hargreaves Associates and TEN Arquitectos; Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and Toshiko Mori Architect; West 8 and Mathews Nielsen; and Work architecture company and Balmori Associates. The park and boulevard will be part of an approximately 20-acre open space system in the Hudson Yards district, including 12 acres to be created by the Related Companies on the MTA Rail Yards to the south
of Hudson
Park.
NYC Hall of Fame inducts Architecture category winner Frederic Schwartz, FAIA, for “changing the course of post-9/11 planning in NYC”…2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge announced winners including New Yorkers Hee-Yun Kim, Mark Mangapora, and Jason Roberts, Honorable Mention… Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners’ Campus Plan at Princeton University won an Honor Award, SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Planning for an Established Campus… Perkins Eastman was honored with an International Achievement Award at the fourth annual World Trade Week Awards Breakfast…
Van Alen Institute announced seven recipients of the 2008-2009 New York Prize including Maya Lin, New York Prize Senior Fellowship, and six New York Prize Resident Fellowships: Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder (NYC); Elisa Fuksas and Alexander Josephson; Nataly Gattegno and Jason K. Johnson; Denise Hoffman-Brandt (NYC); Alexander Levi and Amanda Schachter (NYC); Gabi Schillig; and honorable mentions: Annie Barrett; Eduardo Coutinho and Patricio da Silva; and Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis…
Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) 2008 Design Award winners include (Honor Award) The New York Times Building Façade by Pentagram Design; (Merit Awards) Chroma Streams: Tide and Traffic by Leni Schwendinger Light Projects Ltd.; Detroit Institute of Arts Interactive Exhibits and Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947-1957 by Pentagram Design; W.L. Gore Capabilities Center by Carbone Smolan Agency; Good Housekeeping Institute Exhibit by C&G Partners; InterActiveCorp Video Wall by Trollbäck + Company; Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century by The Rockwell Group; and Yale University Art Gallery Signage by Open; (Jury Award) 34th Street Parking Regulation Sign System by 34th Street Partnership…
Margaret Sullivan, AIA, of Holzman Moss Architecture has been appointed acting executive director of openhousenewyork as it gears up for the sixth annual weekend; OHNY is searching for a new Executive Director… Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has appointed David Helpern, FAIA, to Community Board 8, which covers the Upper East Side…
Flack + Kurtz, Inc. has promoted Patricia Leyden and Cheryl Ann Massie as vice presidents… William Fellows, AIA, is joining PKSB Architects as principal… Lucy Carter, Assoc. AIA, joins Ted Moudis Associates as Director of Marketing and Business Development…
06.03.08: The 141st Annual Meeting took place at the Center for Architecture. The incoming Board was announced, and honors and awards were given out. For a full list of award winners, see the Names in the News section.
Patricia Lancaster, FAIA, (center) was awarded a special proclamation for her work as NYC Department of Buildings Commissioner. AIANY Executive Director, Rick Bell, FAIA, (left) and 2008 AIANY President Jim McCullar, FAIA (right) presented the award.
Sam Lahoz
Fred Bernstein was awarded the Oculus Award. Jim McCullar, FAIA, and Oculus Committee Chair Kirsten Sibilia, FAIA, presented the award.
Sam Lahoz
Kristen Richards was awarded the Harry B. Rutkins award, presented by Jim McCullar, FAIA, and Rick Bell, FAIA.
Sam Lahoz
06.03.08: OCULUS celebrated its Fifth Anniversary with a celebration at the Center for Architecture, after the Annual Meeting.
(L-R): Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, editor-in-chief, e-OCULUS; Kristen Richards, editor of OCULUS; Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA, OCULUS Editorial Director; Kirsten Sibilia, FAIA, Chair, OCULUS Committee.
Sam Lahoz
(L-R): Matthew Bremer, AIA, and Marc Clemenceau Bailly, AIA, co-chairs of the New Practices Committee, which won a Vice Presidential Citation of Professional Development at the Annual Meeting. Bremer will join the OCULUS committee in 2009.
Sam Lahoz
AIA Philadelphia held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new Center for Architecture.
(L-R): Walter Palmer, III, EVP, General Building Contractors Association; Joseph A. Castner, AIA, Past President, AIA Philadelphia; James Bogrette, AIA, Current AIA Philadelphia President; Daniel Bosin, AIA, Past President, AIA Philadelphia; Stephen Pouppirt, President, Clemens Construction Company; Terry Steelman, AIA, Past President, AIA Philadelphia; Michael Prifti, FAIA, Past President, AIA Philadelphia; Scott Killinger, AIA, Past President, AIA Philadelphia.
Courtesy AIA Philadelphia
The National Association of Commercial Real Estate Women (NYCREW) and Association of Real Estate Women (AREW) hosted their first joint event — a tour of the IAC/InterActiveCorp’s new world headquarters, designed by Gehry Partners with interiors by STUDIOS Architecture. (L-R): Isabelle Pullis, First Title Insurance Company of New York; Joan Berkowitz, The Community Development Trust Inc.; Deena Baikowitz, STUDIOS Architecture; Elif Bali, Loews Hotels; Geoff DeOld, Brian Tolman, and Sarah Schuster, STUDIOS Architecture.
Courtesy NCREW and AREW
THE CENTER: AIANY BLOG: The AIANY Chapter has launched a new blog. The Center features opinion pieces on architectural issues relevant to NY-based designers, firms, and projects, along with spotlight debates and discussions at the Center for Architecture and AIANY, and is an informal discussion board. Be sure to check it out regularly and contribute to the dialogue.
If you would like to become a regular contributor to The Center, please e-mail e-Oculus.
Oculus 2008 Editorial Calendar
If you are an architect by training or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, note that OCULUS editors are looking for writers for the Winter issue. The theme:
Winter OCULUS: Competing for Space. Explore the growing competition between expansionist institutions on limited sites and the interests of adjacent communities, many in residential areas with moderate-income families.
If you’re interested, please contact OCULUS editor-in-chief Kristen Richards. with a brief outline and full contact information.
08.01.08 Winter 2008-09: Competing for Space
Launching 06.10.08: Call for Identification: Doors of Downtown
The Alliance for Downtown New York has created a photo essay featuring 19 doorways located throughout Lower Manhattan. The first person to correctly identify all of the doors, either by address or building name, will receive a $100 gift certificate to Century 21 Department Store, a $100 gift certificate to J&R Music World, a $100 gift certificate to Delmonico’s Restaurant, and free admission to the Sports Museum of America. The contest is open to all and no registration is required.
08.15.08 Call for Entries: IDA 2008 Design Competition
Architects and designers of interiors, fashion, products, and graphics are invited to enter work. Winners of IDA08 will be celebrated at a cocktail party and week-long reception in LA and NYC in December 2008. In addition, each of the winners will receive publication of his/her work in the 2008 International Design Awards art book to be distributed to museum bookstores nationwide; promotion to 100,000 design professionals and potential clients worldwide; and year-long coverage on the International Design Awards website. The “early bird’ deadline is 06.16 for a 10% discount on the registration fee.
10.20.08 Call for Entries: 2008 International Architecture Award for Diploma
Architecture students are encouraged to explore current cultural contexts. Prizes come in several categories. Any final year/diploma project presented from October 2007 to October 2008 at an architecture school officially recognized in the country of origin is eligible for submission. The jury will grant three prizes of €5,000 euros each. Hosted by ACXT Architects and IDOM Engineering, winners will also be eligible for an internship at an ACXT-IDOM studio.
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Exhibitions
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
May 22 — September 6, 2008
Ecotones: mitigating NYC’s contentious sites
Galleries: Margaret Helfand Gallery, Gerald D Hines Gallery, Public Resource Center
Given the global and local challenges of climate change, the Landscape Architecture profession is at the forefront of New York City’s sustainability efforts. Collaborating with governments, regulatory agencies, community groups, and design professionals, Landscape Architects are transforming ecological problems into opportunities for habitation and recreation. With Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s sustainability plan, plaNYC, in place, the challenge is to understand the interconnectedness of the City’s green spaces.
Ecotones are transition zones between adjacent ecosystems. In urban environments they emerge as contentious sites located between disparate or opposing forces: where industry meets the river; where community and industrial uses collide; where public and private interests merge. These areas are often the unconsidered result of infrastructure improvements and building developments yet have the potential to be cultural and ecological mitigators. The projects in this exhibition show us how sustainable practices, specifically, the collecting, cleansing, and reclaiming of water, can be used to mediate conflicting circumstances, integrating technical solutions with the social and cultural considerations that make for vibrant urban spaces.
Organized by the AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation in collaboration with the American Society of Landscape Architects New York Chapter
Curator: Tricia Martin
Exhibition Design: Moorhead & Moorhead
Graphic Design: PS New York
Patron: Alcan Composites USA
Sponsor
H.I. Interior Corp
Duggal Visual Solutions
Supporters: Delta Fountains; H.M. White Site Architects; Landscape Forms; Langan Engineering and Environmental Services; Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Landscape Architects
Friends: EDAW; Lee Weintraub Landscape Architecture; Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects; Sawyer/Berson, Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Related Events
Saturday, July 26, 2008, 11:00am — 5:00pm
Symposium
organized by the ASLA New York Chapter
May 1 — June 28, 2008
Design Awards & Building Type Awards 2008
Galleries: Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, HLW Gallery
The AIA New York Chapter 2008 Design Awards exhibition is a showcase of the 2008 award-winning projects in three categories — Interiors, Architecture, and Projects. Selected from international, national and local submissions, these projects spotlight the extraordinary achievements in architectural design excellence in New York City and around the world.
The AIA New York Chapter 2008 Biennial Building Type Awards program has been established to recognize excellence and innovation in specialized design fields and to honor the architects, clients, and consultants who work together to improve the built environment. The 2008 design categories are: Educational Facility Design, Sustainable Design, and Urban Design. The program is co-sponsored with the Boston Society of Architects.
Design Awards 2008 is organized by the AIA New York Chapter and the AIA New York Chapter Design Awards Committee.
Building Type Awards 2008 is co-sponsored by the AIA New York Chapter and the Boston Society of Architects. The 2008 program was organized in collaboration with the following AIA New York Chapter Committees: Architecture for Education, Committee on the Environment, and Planning & Urban Design.
Exhibition Design: Graham Hanson Design
The 2008 Design Awards Program was made possible with support from the following organizations:
Benefactors
Patrons
Lead Sponsors
Arup
Consulting for Architects
Gensler
KI
Lutron Electronics
Mancini Duffy
RMJM Hillier
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
STUDIOS architecture
Turner Construction Corporation
Related Events
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:00 — 8:00pm
Design Awards Winners’ Symposium: Projects Winners
June 13 — August 23, 2008
Building Connections: 12th Annual Exhibition of K-12 Design Work
Join us in celebrating our young designers! This annual exhibition of K-12 explorations into the built environment showcases models and drawings from Learning By Design:NY, our school based residency program, as well as work from our youth programs at the Center for Architecture.
Exhibition Design: Arquitectonica
Exhibition Graphics: Casey Maher
Exhibition organized by the Center for Architecture Foundation and the AIA New York.
Building Connections was made possible with generous support from the following organizations:
Sponsor: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel; Robert A. M. Stern Architects
Supporters: Ingram, Yuzek, Gainen, Carroll & Bertolotti; Robert Silman Associates
Friends: Archetype Associates; Baldinger; Bentley Prince Street; Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design; Fisher Marantz Stone; InterfaceFLOR; Langan Engineering and Environmental Services; Murray Engineering; Petty Burton Associates; Pustorino, Puglisi & Co.; RMJM Hillier; Tamarkin Architecture; Weidlinger Associates; Linda Yowell, FAIA
Friday, June 13, 2008, 5:30 — 8:30pm
Exhibition Opening
Special Live Performance at 8pm: Care Bears on Fire
Spend the Summer@theCenter!
For more information go to www.cfafoundation.org, or contact 212.358.6133 or info@cfafoundation.org
FamilyDay@theCenter
Green Roof for a Green Planet, Saturday, June 7, 10:00 – 12:00 pm and 1:00 – 3:00
Bucky’s Maps, Saturday, July 12, 10:00 – 12:00 pm and 1:00 – 3:00
Explore Governor’s Island, Saturday, August 9, Meet at 9:45am at the Ferry Building
“Baldaquin de Pury,” by Hani Rashid. Fiberglass, enamel pearlescent finish, internal steel structure.
Courtesy Phillips de Pury & Company
Through 06.28.08
Atmospherics by Hani Rashid
The works on view are linked by their shared, formal exploration of objects subjected to speed and movement, such as auto bodies or aerospace prototypes. Here, Asymptote founder Hani Rashid returns to geometric forms called Motionscapes (or M-Scapes), initially produced in 2001 as digital drawings and exhibited at the ICA Philadelphia. Iterations of the M-Scape form are consistently used as building blocks for Asymptote’s larger concepts and are described by Rashid as “ambiguous bodies caught between the automotive body and the anatomical body.” This is the first time M-Scapes have been produced as physical objects for exhibition.
Phillips de Pury & Company
450 West 15th St
Oh Chi-Gyun. Empire State, 1994. Acylic on canvas. 132×199cm.
Courtesy Chelsea Art Museum
Through 07.12.08
Oh Chi-Gyun: Defining Landscape
Over 30 large-scale paintings by this Korean artist are on view. Chi-Gyun’s subject matter includes the city, the country, flora and fauna, and sunsets. The paintings are created on found and discarded doors and windows in addition to canvas, and his painting technique involves painting directly with his hands instead of using brushes.
Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd Street
Installation view of Ateliers Jean Prouvé.
Museum of Modern Art
Through 03.30.09
Ateliers Jean Prouvé
MoMA is revisiting an earlier historical moment of workshop mass-production as practiced by architect and designer Jean Prouvé. This exhibition examines Prouvé’s collaborations within his Ateliers Jean Prouvé, from idea to finished product. Equipped with a skilled creative team and advanced manufacturing technologies, the Ateliers were laboratories to produce furnishings and prefabricated buildings on an industrial scale. The evolution of the “Standard” Chair is featured and includes other examples of furniture and buildings that show Prouvé’s approach to construction and handling of materials, particularly his original applications of sheet metal.
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
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Director of Business and Human Resources
Mid-size NYC firm seeks Director of Business/HR to implement financial strategies to grow the business, and to hire appropriate staff to support those strategies. Candidate will pursue RFQs/RFPs; work on budgets for proposals; negotiate contracts. Working with Principal and Partners, he/she will determine fee structures and staffing requirements for design projects, and ensure clients’ financial obligations are met. Candidate must know industry costs/fees; streamline project-related accounting processes; identify and address project-related financial/HR problems. E-mail resume and cover letter to jobs@selldorf.com.
Project Managers
Columbia University in the City of New York is seeking project managers for the Exteriors and Historic Preservation Team within the Capital Project Management Department, Morningside Campus. Candidates must have technical expertise in historic Preservation, masonry repair, roofing and site work. Projects vary in type including exterior restoration, Local Law 11 work, roof replacement, plaza and vault work, as well as upgrades to historic interiors.
For a more detailed description please logon http://www.columbia.edu/cu/jobs/.
For consideration please submit your resume through our online application system at: https://jobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=109683
Columbia University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.
HEALTHCARE ARCHITECT
Design Ideas Group Architecture + Planning, one of the largest architectural, interiors, and planning firms in New Jersey and headquartered in New Brunswick, is looking for a Healthcare Architect to join their design oriented, collaborative, robust healthcare practice.
Depending on the level of experience, this person will be responsible for leading the delivery of multiple health care projects from inception to completion and for overseeing the quality of client service.
Ideally the successful candidate will have healthcare experience and a keen interest in continuing his/her career with a wide variety and size of healthcare projects. Architectural registration is required.
An excellent benefits package and salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Please submit resumes with salary history to: LOsborne@coxegroup.com
NBBJ, a growing international design firm, has opportunities for Medical Planners, Project Managers, and Project Architects 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. EOE
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