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Results tagged “Architecture”
Top Five: Streets for People
Jun 28, 2012
Summer is upon us, which means it's time to get outside and go for a walk. One of the best places to take a stroll is on a street without cars, a rarity in the...
The Living Building Challenge
Jun 22, 2012
Just about every architect, and many clients, are familiar with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), a green building certification system that uses a checklist to determine a numerical measure of a building's performance,...
Saving Modern Architecture
Jun 13, 2012
In March, the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) announced its Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative (CMAI) with a goal to "advance the practice of conserving twentieth-century heritage, with a focus on modern architecture." Given that many of...
Design Like You Give a Damn [2]
Jun 8, 2012
The nonprofit design services firm Architecture for Humanity (AFH) has grown from founders Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr in 1999 to a staff of 28 people in 2012. Their latest publication, Design Like You Give a...
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Jun 1, 2012
Two years after its centennial birthday, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) has opened its new 22,000-square-foot visitor center designed by architects Weiss/Manfredi. The low, curving building replaces a modest gate as the main entrance to...
2012 National Design Awards
May 23, 2012
The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has announced the recipients of the 2012 National Design Awards (NDA), which honor lasting achievement in American design. Of the ten recipients, three are related to architecture: Atlanta's Mack...
Beach House Modernism, 21st Century Edition.
May 15, 2012
The 21st Century has seen a revival of the modern beach house, including a sustainable version. The Genus Loci House, designed by Bates Masi Architects, sits more in the Long Island landscape of sand and...
The Dream of Dream Downtown Hotel
May 10, 2012
Finishing what they began a decade ago, Handel Architects has completed the final phase of Dream Downtown Hotel. Converting the 1960s porthole-window structure made for a gaga moment in Lower West Manhattan when the hotel...
The New Factory For Art
May 1, 2012
Bethlehem Steel was a powerhouse manufacturer of steel in its day. Having visited it shortly before it closed, I can tell you it was a wonder of the world. The scale of the smelters, the...
Make It Right Branches to Kansas City
Apr 16, 2012
Make It Right, the foundation Brad Pitt created to help New Orleans recover from Hurricane Katrina, is now backing a project to turn an abandoned public school in Kansas City, Missouri, into affordable apartments and a community center.It takes something...
Bringing the Sidewalk Cafe onto the Street, But Indoors
Apr 10, 2012
Cafe/Day is a clever take on designing a sidewalk cafe. It brings the sidewalk and entire street right inside! Though Cafe/Day is indoors, all the furniture and flooring appear as if the project is not...
The New Linear Park in Connecticut
Apr 6, 2012
Linear parks are the ultimate in land re-use--they connect communities, employ existing infrastructure, and improve the environmental sustainability of the area around them. So it is no wonder that they are starting to appear everywhere....
Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
Mar 27, 2012
Actar's Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape gives a very complete picture of the father of modern landscape architecture and the designer of one of the most famous beachfront streetscapes in the world (Rio's...
Spring Break: The Lodge in the Mountains is Calling
Mar 19, 2012
It's spring break, but maybe you don't feel like going somewhere to party for a whole week. In fact, maybe you've been thinking of taking this break in your studies, or your children's studies, as...
Urbana: Architecture Against the Wall
Mar 13, 2012
I love fine art abstract sculpture, but there's something to be said about large-scale architectural sculpture, which often times flies under the radar. Urbana is here to change that. The Los Angeles-based architecture and design...
Artists Affordable Housing: Color Overload
Mar 12, 2012
Ben Ledbetter Architect and Lawrence Blough of Graftworks are two architectural offices in love with glorious, persistent streaks of color. And by color we mean a palette very familiar to anyone in the 20th century...
Women's History Month: Susannah Drake
Mar 5, 2012
Susannah Drake looks for problems to solve. Being both a landscape and conventional architect, she has a wide range of talents with which to tackle the problems of the contemporary city. A Character Approved example...
Pocket Guide to Miami Architecture
Mar 1, 2012
We have made no secret of our interest in contemporary Miami architecture. The city that most of us identify with a fully American Modern movement in the 1930s (art deco) has been bringing us interesting...
HWKN's Monument to Right Now
Feb 21, 2012
This year's PS1 Young Architects Program winner goes to New York-based office HWKN for their spiky, space-frame housed design. The structure, called Wendy, is a departure for this annual architectural competition. In the 12 seasons...
The Architect and the Painter: Charles & Ray Eames
Feb 17, 2012
Husband and wife Charles and Ray Eames are among the most influential voices in post-war America on style and design. A new documentary film celebrating their lifetime body of work, Eames: The Architect and the...
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