M. PAUL FRIEDBERG & PARTNERS-DESIGNED PARK OPENS IN NEW YORK CITY’S GREENWICH VILLAGE
(COURTESY JACKIE HLAVENKA/RUBENSTEIN ASSOCIATES)
On Friday, the gates opened at a long-awaited, $10 million park in Greenwich Village. The 16,000-square-foot, triangular-shaped space was designed by Rick Parisi of M. Paul Friedberg & Partners and features hexagonal pavers, benches, colorful water jets, an array of tree and flower species, and an amorphous lawn at its center.
OBAMA FOUNDATION GEARS UP TO ISSUE OPEN CALL FOR ARCHITECTS FOR CHICAGO’S PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
A RENDERING OF GARFIELD BOULEVARD, PART OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO’S PROPOSAL FOR THE BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY. (SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
In May Barack and Michelle Obama ended months—perhaps years—of speculation over where the 44th President would site his presidential library, choosing the University of Chicago as the host of the hotly anticipated legacy project.
HORD COPLAN MACHT PUSHES PERFORMANCE AT CSU
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HORD COPLAN MACHT’S SUZANNE AND WALTER SCOTT, JR. BIOENGINEERING BUILDING ACHIEVED LEED GOLD CERTIFICATION WITHOUT SACRIFICING TRANSPARENCY. (COURTESY HORD COPLAN MACHT)
Ultra efficient curtain wall system marries transparency and sustainability.
For some institutions, building “sustainably” means doing the bare minimum—checking the boxes of government or in-house requirements and then moving on.
HERZOG AND DE MEURON JUST WON THE 2015 CHARLES JENCKS AWARD FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARCHITECTURE
THE BIRD’S NEST STADIUM IN BEIJING, CHINA. (COURTESY HERZOG & DE MEURON)
Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have been named the winners of the 2015 RIBA Charles Jencks Award, an annual prize named for British architect and critic Charles Jencks recognizing “major international contributions to the theory and practice of architecture.”
THESE FIVE FINALISTS ARE VYING TO DESIGN A MEMORIAL FOR WORLD WAR I IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
“PLAZA TO THE FORGOTTEN WAR.” (COURTESY BRIAN JOHNSEN, SEBASTIAN SCHMALING, AND ANDREW CESARZ FROM JOHNSEN SCHMALING ARCHITECTS)
Five finalists have been named in the competition to design a new World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C. The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission received more than 350 proposals for the memorial, which will rise on Pershing Park near the White House. The park is named for John J. Pershing who led the American Expeditionary Force during the war.
THIS SKINNY HOUSE IN TOKYO IS SQUEEZED ONTO A LOT ONLY EIGHT FEET WIDE
1.8 M RESIDENCE IN TOKYO. (COURTESY YUUA ARCHITECTS & ASSOCIATES)
Limited space was no issue for Japanese architecture firm YUAA Architects in designing this slender home in Tokyo. Their so-called 1.8M House, true to its pint-sized name, stands on a mere eight-foot-wide and 36-foot-deep plot, sandwiched between squat neighborhood buildings and jutting up past their rooflines like a lanky sibling.
THIS TOWER BY ATKINS AND ARUP WILL SOON BE THE TALLEST SKYSCRAPER IN VIETNAM
(COURTESY ATKINS)
Vincom Landmark 81, a massive skyscraper project in Ho Chi Minh City’s lavish Vinhomes Central Park represents a collaboration between architects and engineers at Atkins and Arup. Developers at Vietnam-based Vingroup recently broke ground on the complex and when it’s completed, the tower will be Vietnam’s tallest at over 1,500 feet tall
UNMASKING THE MOTOR CITY: NEW MAPPING SOFTWARE BY LOVELAND TECHNOLOGIES IS HELPING TO FIGHT BLIGHT IN DETROIT
PROPERTY IN DETROIT (COURTESY GOOGLE STREET VIEW TIME MACHINE)
Detroit is in the midst of the single-largest tax foreclosure in American History. More than 60,000 foreclosed properties are clustered in the Motor City. The threat of eviction looms over remaining inhabitants and poses the larger long-term threat of a spike in homelessness. The root of the problem—unpaid property taxes—seems untenable when viewed alongside the resulting greater city-wide disaster.
ON VIEW> ALEXANDER GORLIN EXPLORES THE KABBALAH IN HIS LATEST NEW YORK CITY EXHIBITION
(COURTESY SANDRA GERING)
The Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical tradition that seeks to explain the inner workings of god and “directs initiates to an ecstatic experience of he divine.” The architect Alexander Gorlin has created Light and the Space of the Void, an exhibit that takes the idea of the tradition and focuses it on how it might be seen “either directly or indirectly in contemporary art and architecture.”
VOILA! ZAHA HADID REINVENTS CONSTRUCTION SCAFFOLDING WITH ALLONGÉ AT HER HIGH LINE CONDO TOWER
(COURTESY RELATED COMPANIES)
Should you be strolling along the High Line during the next couple weeks, you may encounter a temporary construction shed at the site of Zaha Hadid‘s condominium project going up at 520 West 28th Street.
MULTIBILLION DOLLAR PLAN UNVEILED TO REDEVELOP PARTS OF ASBURY PARK, NEW JERSEY
1101 OCEAN. (COURTESY HANDEL ARCHITECTS)
A team of architects will transform a 1.25-mile stretch of Asbury Park in New Jersey as part of a massive mixed-use redevelopment plan recently unveiled by iStar. The multibillion-dollar scheme includes 20 individual projects (primarily a mix of residential buildings and hotels) as well as infrastructure upgrades, and “beach-themed landscaping.”
BJARKE INGELS WANTS YOU TO HELP FUND THE WORLD’S FIRST SMOKE RING GENERATOR
(COURTESY BIG)
As if the ski slope Bjarke Ingels placed on top of his new waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen wouldn’t already make it the most interesting power plant in the world, the Danish architect wants the building’s smokestack to puff smoke rings of carbon dioxide. Each ring will represent one ton of CO2 burned at the plant, which is being billed as the cleanest power plant on earth.
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