It’s unlikely to be an accident that the first photo in the AIANY’s new A Platform for the Future of the City shows the planned Hudson Yards district – not, say, another roughly comparable and better-known multi-tower development, the World Trade Center complex. The ambitious 26-acre project to revitalize the West 30s with mixed-use buildings, parks, public space, and cultural facilities has been gathering momentum for much of the past decade; construction began last fall. If completed as planned on the projected timetable, with the eastern Yards opening in 2019, it will link the High Line and Hudson River Park with Times Square, unite the West Side as a work/live/play district, and convert eight currently undeveloped railyard blocks into a skyline-defining, game-changing, creative-class magnet. Skeptics will inevitably emphasize the “if” in these projections, as the panelists in the first Hudson Yards Speaker Series were aware. Related Companies’ L. Jay Cross observed as a general principle: “Everything works until you draw it to scale.” Read More
Cross-disciplinary. Streamlined. Flexible. These are the principles New York architects hope to see in the city’s future, as evidenced by the major themes presented at The Future of the City Symposium on 05.11.13. Taking lessons from their own experiences, four present and former AIANY presidents, along with leaders from AIANY’s Post-Sandy Initiative, spent the afternoon discussing the issues related to architecture, planning, and design that will be facing the New York’s next mayor and the city as a whole. Read More
Each chair at the 05.03.13 “Future of the City” exhibition preview at the Center for Architecture – presented as a part of the IDEAS CITY Festival – was loaded with publications. A jam-packed schedule for the festival lay in between copies of AIANY’s Post-Sandy Initiative Report, along with its A Platform for the Future of the City. Read More
On 05.02.13, the AIANY Global Dialogues Committee hosted “Viral Voices: Global Discussions,” organized by Jeff Kenoff, AIA, and Bruce Fisher, AIA – the committee’s co-chairs – along with its dedicated members. This was the second of what may become an annual conversation around the combination of new media, rapid global communications, and emergent social needs. In both its topic and delivery – by a young and diverse panel – the evening was a perfect hybrid of Jill Lerner’s 2013 presidential theme, Global City/Global Practice, and AIA National’s Repositioning effort now underway. Read More
Elizabeth Diller explained, “We had to make a book about this project – there are a million stories – some of them unutterable.” It was a journey she said was filled with discoveries. The book, Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account (Daimani, 2013), tells this story through full-bleed photos, every other spread opening to reveal a four-pane image of various aspects of the design process, from exploration and analysis to iterations and delivery. Diller explained that they “designed, commissioned photographers, re-did lots of things” in order to create the story in images. “It really was a spatial and architectural challenge to create this book.” As in architecture, it took a bit of experimentation to get it right. Read More
On 04.08.13, Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed Alex Garvin, Hon. AIANY, about his latest book “The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities,” published by W.W. Norton & Company. Listen to the interview on Soundcloud, which took place just after the Oculus Book Talk on 04.08.13. And read Maxinne Leighton’s, Assoc. AIA, book review in e-Oculus here.
Each May, 7th-grade students from IS 220 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, make their way to the Center for Architecture to present models and drawings they’ve created in a three-month school design program conducted in partnership with the Center for Architecture Foundation. For most students, these are the first architectural drawings and models they have ever made, and for all of them, their first visit to the Center. Having the opportunity to present their designs to a jury of professional architects in this setting elevates an ordinary school project into something with an extra sense of excitement and importance. Read More
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In this issue:
- Design for an AIANY Design Award-Winning Library Revealed
- Canopy Completes Art Museum
- High School Raises the Bar
- Modernism Part Deux
- Murray Hill Makeover
- Medicine Goes Modular Read More
Via Verde, designed by Dattner Architects and Grimshaw Architects, has won both an AIA/HUD Secretary Award for Outstanding Housing Projects, and an AIA 2013 Housing Award. The project is also one of the Silver Medalist winners of the 2013 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. Read More
At the Center for Architecture
“FitNation“
Opens June 13, 2013
“The Edgeless School: Design for Learning”
Last Chance – Through 05.25.13
“Building Connections 2012”
Through 06.15.13
“2013 Design Awards“
Through 05.31.13
“Low Rise High Density“
Through 06.29.13
“Future of the City”
Through June 29, 2013
“Design(in) The New Heart of New York”
Through June 30, 2013
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