Utilizing the theme “from one came many,” ADC Grandmasters honors current and retired US-based educators who taught for a minimum of 10 years, and whose students (past and present) are currently involved in the industry.
The first-annual ADC Grandmasters honors are:
ADC Grandmasters is the brainchild of Bill Oberlander, executive vice president, executive creative director, McCann Worldgroup and an ADC past-president (1999-2001). He chaired a nominating committee comprised of Rick Boyko, managing director, VCU Brandcenter; Janet Froelich, creative director, The New York Times; Ann Lemon, professor, University of Delaware; Gael Towey, chief creative officer, Martha Stewart Living; Richard Wilde, chairman, Advertising/Graphic Design Departments, School of Visual Arts and Ami Brophy, CEO, ADC.
“Bill Oberlander’s concept of ADC Grandmasters is strongly aligned with part of the ADC’s mission to elevate the role of educators in the visual communications field,” said Brophy. “Under his committee leadership, ADC has developed a way to both honor those who have mentored others to greatness, and give students the opportunity to see where their education can take them.”
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(New York, N.Y.) New York City stands at the forefront of the green building and design movement, and the winners of the 2008 Green Building Competition for New York City exemplify a growing commitment to incorporate environmental factors into the city’s architecture. The competition, co-sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, with support from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, selected six winning projects, five in Manhattan and one in the Bronx.
The Visionaire, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
The Battery Park Conservancy’s maintenance facility, designed by Dattner Architects, and the Visionaire condominium building, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, were selected as this year’s grand prize winners for their exemplary integration of design and sustainability. The maintenance facility sits in the first floor of the Visionaire, under construction between 2nd and 3rd Place and Battery Place and Little West Street in Manhattan’s Battery Park City.
Battery Park City Conservancy’s maintenance facility, Dattner Architects
The Bowery Hotel (250 Bowery Street), designed by Flank Inc., Architects, and West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc.’s center (to be built at 459 West 140th Street), designed by AQC Architects PC, are this year’s winners. Hearst Tower (300 West 57th Street), designed by Foster+Partners, and a condominium building at 1347 Bristow Street in the Bronx, designed by the Community Environmental Center, are this year’s honorable mentions.
“Greening New York City’s buildings is essential if we are to reduce our ecological footprint,” said Alan J. Steinberg, EPA Regional Administrator. “Through their vision and creativity, the winners of the Green Building Competition are helping make New York healthier and more vibrant.”
The Bowery Hotel 250 Bowery Street, FLANK Architects
“In our city, more carbon is emitted from buildings than cars,” said New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. “That’s why green design – and events like the Green Building Competition – are so important to our efforts to build a greener, greater New York City.”
The green building competition solicits projects that utilize sustainable construction techniques, incorporate post-construction occupancy concerns and are integrated into the existing New York cityscape. A seven-member jury comprising public and private architectural experts selected the winning projects from 18 applicants.
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Danish schmidt hammer lassen architects have just won the architecture competition to design the new DGI complex and overall master plan for Holbæk Harbour.
The winning proposal includes a lyrical, contemporary interpretation of a more locally anchored, traditional building culture. It is inspired by the vision of an area where new and old merge to create a spatial interplay between the new townscape and the DGI complex.
The proposal’s strikingly sculptural roof profile intentionally refers to the heritage and the scale of Holbæk’s old harbour – the site of the shipyard, fishing boats and the scent of wood chips, tar and seaweed.
The overall master plan and the DGI complex are part of the transformation of the town’s old commercial and transportation port into attractive urban areas close to the inlet, ensuring better integration with the water and making the harbour accessible to all.
“With our proposal, we wanted to create a concentrated urban atmosphere. The buildings are tightly arranged in blocks with narrow alleyways between them. The blocks are clustered around the harbour square – a shared civic space with small shops and offices, cafés and restaurants located around the old shipyard. This is a reinterpretation of an old town with narrow alleyways, which opens up to create a meeting point – a place for passing time,” according to Kasper Frandsen, associate partner of schmidt hammer lassen architects.
The DGI complex functions in the same spirit, with an inner quadrangle resembling one of these “town squares”, with the building’s varied functions arranged around it. The DGI scheme is designed to be open and accessible to all, and it offers very flexible, multi-functional settings that match the multifaceted patterns of life and sporting images of our time.
Thus, the DGI project includes a water culture centre, a flexible multi-purpose hall and smaller activity rooms, a health centre, fitness centre, hotel, café and restaurant as well as a four-screen cinema and sports kindergarten.
In addition to proximity to the inlet and the harbour basins, two new channels will also be added to the area. The result will be an attractive maritime townscape in touch with the surrounding water on all sides.
Facts:
Area: 40,000m2, of which the DGI complex occupies 20,000m2
Engineer: Moe & Brødsgaard A/S
All images by schmidt hammer lassen architects.
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A Polish-Spanish consortium has won the competition for the new New Lublin International Airport in Poland. The program foresees a massive airport renovation and expansion with an administrative building, control tower, and a 17,345 m2 terminal.
The winning consortium consists of SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas, Spain (technical coordination, airport master plan, functional project of terminal, calculation of buildings area and number of parking spots), ARE, Poland (architectural design of the terminal building, flight control tower, administration building and airport maintenance facility building, graphical presentation), SENER, Poland (parking and airport circulation system, coordination of work), and Polconsult, Poland (runway infrastructure).
From the description of the winning project: “We placed the first phase of airport buildings along the planned runway lane to create a stripe of buildings. On the perpendicular axis of the stripe we placed a central component of the design - Terminal building. The railway station, connecting the terminal with the city, was designed as a part of the terminal itself with the access situated on the extension of the lateral axis. Such an arrangement provided a logical division of circulation around the terminal to the arrival and departure zones with the railway placed in between. It also allowed distribution of all required functions on a single level.”
“Parallel situation of buildings and the runway allows the future expansion of the terminal and the airport itself. Road access to the Terminal is provided with two one-way road junctions serving separately the arrival and departure zones.”
“The main high capacity building is the terminal building. It was designed as a three-wing hall containing both functional zones: the airside zone, enclosing luggage sorting plant, waiting rooms and luggage claim hall with all accompanying rooms as well as the landside zone enclosing check-ins, railway station and commercial facilities like airline offices and gastronomy etc.
Sizes and parameters for the Terminal were assumed in accordance with IATA guidelines and counted for the capacity of 1 million passengers for the first stage and 3,2 million passengers terminally.”
All images by Port Lotniczy Lublin S.A.
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The 2008 recipients of the San Diego Architectural Foundation’s Steven C. Ladislaus Memorial Scholarship have been selected. A $4,000 scholarship has been awarded to Tri (Tim) Quang Do of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, California. An additional $1,000 was awarded to Chelsea Chan Hei, also of SCI-Arc. These two talented students were selected from submissions solicited from nine regional schools of Architecture.
Tri (Tim) Quang Do: summer 2008 graduate thesis
The $4,000 Scholarship was made possible through a generous grant from the national American Institute of Architects/American Architectural Foundation (AIA/AAF). This grant, awarded to the San Diego Architectural Foundation for the third straight year, reinforces the national AIA’s beliefs that the investment to support the education of future architectural professional is a crucial part of its mission.
Tri (Tim) Quang Do: spring 2007 graduate studio
The Steven C. Ladislaus Memorial Scholarship program was created in 1984 following the death of an award-winning and inspirational fellow architect, Steve Ladislaus who died in 1980. Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded more than $31,000 in scholarships to twenty-nine uniquely qualified students who possessed the talent, enthusiasm and dedication to architecture and design that Steve Ladislaus pursued, until his death at age 33.
Tri (Tim) Quang Do: fall 2006 graduate studio
Tax deductible contributions to the Steven C. Ladislaus Memorial Scholarship may be made through the San Diego Architectural Foundation in P. O. Box 122228; San Diego, CA 92112. For additional information about the San Diego Architectural Foundation’s scholarship programs, please visit their website.
Tri (Tim) Quang Do: slide from photography project “sun tunnels”, 2008
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The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture has announced the recipients of ACADIA awards for excellence. Inaugurated in 1998, the ACADIA Award of Excellence is one of the highest awards that can be achieved in the field of architectural computing. It represents recognition, by colleagues and peers worldwide, of consistent contributions and cumulative impact on the field over the course of a career. At most one award is presented each year in each category, to an individual whose work, in the eyes of the awards review committee, provides evidence of exceptional and innovative achievement.
The ACADIA Award for Emerging Digital Practice has been awarded to Fabian Scheurer. Fabian Scheurer is a computer scientist with Design to Production—an interdisciplinary consultancy for the digital production of complex architectural designs based in Zurich.
One of Design to Production‘s projects was to form the “master geometry” for UN Studio’s Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart.
Design to Production implemented a parametric 3D-model of the whole museum building to coordinate all the subsequent planning steps of the numerous trades involved.
The ACADIA Award for Innovative Research has been awarded to Professor Robert Woodbury. Dr. Woodbury was the founding Chair of the Graduate Program in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at SFU and a founding member of the Master of Digital Media program jointly offered by four Vancouver institutions.
Thesis at School of Interactive Arts and Technology: Modeling and Simulating the Role of Fear in Pedestrian Navigation, researched by Andrew Park (Ph.D. Candidate)
Graduate student project at School of Interactive Arts and Technology: 3D Spacial Learning by David Milam
The ACADIA Award for Innovative Academic Program has been awarded to Professor Michael Weinstock. Professor Weinstock is the Academic Head of the Architectural Association, London, and co-director of AA’s Emergent Technologies program.
Emergent Technologies Projects: Evolutionary Algorithms by Andreas Harris-Aguirre & Onur Suraka Ozkaya
Emergent Technologies Projects: Crassula Columnella by Gabriel Sanchiz Garin & Elke Pedal Baertl
Emergent Technologies Projects: Biomimetics: The Crab by Yi Wen Chen & Christy Widjaja
The ACADIA Society Award has been awarded to Professor Tom Maver. Professor Maver is currently Research Professor in the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Architecture and is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Strathclyde.
Mackintosh School of Architecture project: Katchryn Whatmore, 5th year student
Mackintosh School of Architecture project: Chinese Culture Exchange by Tom Turner
All the award winners will be honored at the 2008 ACADIA Conference to be held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis from October 16-19, 2008.
ACADIA was formed in 1981 for the purpose of facilitating communication and critical thinking regarding the use of computers in architecture, planning and building science.
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JDS and Bjarke Ingels received the Danish TRÆPRISEN 2008 award for their conceptual and effective use of wood on the MAR_maritime youth house project and the VM_VM Houses.
The MAR_maritime youth house project (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004):
The VM_house (Ørestad, Denmark, 2005):
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The following projects are the winners by Jury selection:
First Prize:
J.P. Maruszczak, Ryan Manning (assistant), Roger Connah
“The 12 scripts that make up the Revenge of the Lawn are like snapshots in an Architecture Album - vivid, delightfully informal, they cast a new dream light on the un-captured moments of experience, between the political and the personal. In these fantasies and love stories, the relationships and lost histories from Kabul, Little Rock, Tacoma and Peshawar demonstrate an architecture of wit, humanity and originality not previously achieved since writers imagined an architecture of iDeath.”
Second Prize:
David Iseri, Jefferson Frost, Justin Kruse, Laura Sperry
Third Prize:
Grant Gibson, Chris-AnnMarie Spencer
Third Prize:
Wayne Congar, Arielle Assouline-Lichten
Honorable Mention:
Pieterjan Ginckels, Julian Friedauer
On November 3rd at 12:00 a.m., White House Redux will close the polls and announce the popular vote winner.
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A major entry to the Princeton campus and community is being redesigned as a 21st-century portal with the door lodged firmly open.
At an open house for the community Wednesday, Sept. 17, Steven Holl Architects unveiled concepts for the initial academic buildings in the new arts and transit neighborhood. In addition, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners presented updated information on traffic circulation and other plans for the area near the intersection of Alexander Street and University Place.
This model shows the proposed three-sided arts complex on the left and Forbes College on the right looking south down Alexander Street. The large pool with skylights in the center of the buildings is shown, while the green roofs are not in this model. The traffic circle leading to a reconfigured University Place is mirrored by the arced-corner lecture hall. (Image: Princeton University)
A model and visual displays set out at the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts showed a proposed three-sided complex situated on Alexander and University across from Forbes College and McCarter Theatre. It will be home to the University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, as well as several performance and teaching spaces for the Program in Theater and Dance, the Department of Music and the Society of Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts.
“Among the many things I love about Steven Holl’s initial design is the extent to which it incorporates a very potent feature of the archetypical Princeton courtyard,” said Paul Muldoon, chair of the Lewis Center. “One has heard the architecture of Princeton likened to that of Oxford. There’s a subtle, but significant, difference. The Oxford quadrangle has four sides and a door that says, ‘Stay out.’ The Princeton courtyard has three sides and no doors or gates. It says, emphatically, ‘Come in.’
This view of the model looking east shows the different levels of the arts complex. New South (tallest building) and Whitman College are beyond it at left and Baker Rink is beyond it at right. (Image: Princeton University)
“Steven Holl’s design echoes that three-sided aspect,” he continued. “It is an embodiment of Princeton University’s deep desire to open its arms to the Princeton community. The building is itself offering an embrace.”
In an interview before the open house, Holl said, “This is not like the other squares of the campus. It’s more like another town square. There will be events at night. People will come here. It isn’t like the campus is pushing out; this is like an indentational space that becomes a shared space that everyone is invited to. There are no closed gates here.”
This view of the model shows the proposed reconfigured University Place in the foreground curving around the arced-corner lecture hall of the arts complex. (Image: Princeton University)
This area, already home to the McCarter Theatre Center’s Matthews and Berlind theaters, is considered an ideal location for various facilities the University needs to meet the goals of the creative and performing arts initiative announced by President Shirley M. Tilghman in January 2006.
Emily Mann, artistic director of McCarter Theatre, said, “We are very excited by the potential of the arts and transit neighborhood. The opportunities that it will present promise to be a great addition to McCarter Theatre and our patrons.”
A special project
Holl’s award-winning firm, which has extensive experience in the arts, was named as the architects for the project in January.
“It’s a very special project for me because I know that it’s so complicated,” Holl said.
He said he was inspired by a talk Muldoon gave to the community about the ability to view arts activity serving as a catalyst.
Encompassing about 130,000 gross square feet, the three contemporary buildings will share a common reception area and will house several public spaces, including an art gallery, a black box theater, a dance studio and a music rehearsal room. The latter three are designed to serve as both rehearsal and performance venues. While materials for the buildings have yet to be chosen, Holl is intending a transparency that will allow inviting views into the arts activities.
“You will feel like you’re almost inside when you’re outside and you’re passing through,” he said. “Paul Muldoon’s inspiration mixed really well with my idea of porosity.”
University Place would be extended as a pedestrian walkway and pass the complex along a courtyard before coming to a new transit plaza and Dinky station to the south.
This neighborhood design schematic plan shows the arts complex in relation to the transit plaza to the south and the new Dinky station and Wawa convenience store proposed nearby. (Image: Princeton University)
In the plans, the courtyard is built around an 89-by-89-foot pool that is filled with recycled and filtered stormwater. The shallow water would be allowed to freeze in the winter, so in all seasons the pool is translucent and a piece of art itself. The pool would have skylights that would provide natural light to the large reception space below called the forum, which would connect the buildings on the lower level.
The buildings also would house faculty and administrative offices, smaller acting and dance studios, music practice rooms, a 200-seat arced-corner lecture hall, a box office and a café.
According to Chris McVoy, senior partner at Steven Holl Architects, the buildings are designed to be set into the site in a way that minimizes their height. “This gives it the right scale relative to the community as well as the adjacent University facilities,” he said.
Three arts buildings form a plaza at the upper level and an internal forum on the lower level. Each building contains spaces for performing and visual arts open to all. The natural grade of the site is used to promote public access and visibility of these spaces from University Place, Alexander Street and the transit plaza. (Image: Steven Holl Architects)
The complex will be a model when it comes to sustainability, McVoy said. In addition to having the pool for daylighting the forum, stormwater collection, and graywater treatment and reuse, the facility will be covered with green roofs made of sedum. Geothermal wells beneath the site are planned to provide all of the energy necessary to heat and cool the complex, as well as the new Dinky station proposed nearby.
Holl said he looks forward to working with those involved to see his vision come to fruition.
“I’m very confident that we can make something that’s really inspirational,” he said. “It will be fresh and new.”
Traffic and other plans
In the coming months the University will be working with the Regional Planning Board and municipal officials on further planning for the project and on potential rezoning for the area, which lies in both Princeton borough and township.
Neil Kittredge, a partner at Beyer Blinder Belle, provided an update on traffic circulation, parking, retail space and other plans for the neighborhood. As discussed at earlier gatherings, the intersection of Alexander Street and University Place would be reconfigured from a “T” with a traffic light to a roundabout to ease traffic congestion. Traffic lights would be installed south of the roundabout at a pedestrian crossing for Forbes College and at a roadway that would connect Alexander to a relocated Dinky station and the University’s Lot 7 parking garage, which currently can be reached only by driving through the campus on Elm Drive.
The buildings form a new plaza of public space. This connection to Princeton architecture then will be developed with visual interconnection from the passerby to the arts activity through transparency. The central concept of the arts plaza is a catalyst with visual connection that will yield a more open architecture. (Image: Steven Holl Architects)
The plan includes incorporating the Wawa convenience store into the Dinky station, along with a newsstand, bicycle storage facilities and other amenities such as a heated/air-conditioned waiting area and restrooms. A carefully designed transit plaza would provide convenient access to the Wawa and the station, and would accommodate an enhanced University shuttle service, a community jitney service and potential bus rapid transit service.
“The drop-off area would be off the main corridor of Alexander Street,” said Kittredge, pointing out how congested the area on University Place near the Wawa and Dinky station currently is, with cars regularly backing into heavy traffic.
A relocated Dinky commuter lot south of the station also is included in the plan as are long-term as well as short-term parking spaces, enhanced wayfinding and extensive landscaping.
The creation of an arts and transit neighborhood that more fully integrates campus and community is part of the 10-year Campus Plan unveiled by the University at the beginning of this year. Other arts facilities proposed for the area, for which different architects will be named, are an experimental media studio and new contemporary galleries for the Princeton University Art Museum.
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This competition is first and foremost about the application of the principles of Universal Design to the cause of affordable housing. The sponsor of the competition, Beyond Housing, wishes to both honor and advance the work of one of its founding members, Janet Becker. Mrs. Becker has been a steadfast advocate for affordable housing in the region, and a strong voice for Universal Design in her capacity as a member of the Board of Beyond Housing.
All of the entries, not just the winners, will be on display at Universal Design Summit III at the Busch Center on the Saint Louis University Campus from September 21-23, 2008.
90 designs were submitted and the Jury just recently announced the winners:
First Place: Cherner Design, New York, NY (board, PDF, 5MB)
Purcell Avenue looking West
Section
Neighborhood Site Plan
Second Place: Andrew Burdick, the studio collaborative, New York, NY (board, PDF, 1MB)
Third Place: Macy Architecture, San Francisco, CA (board, PDF, 2.7MB)
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In February 2008, the Larvik Commune, Norway, has launched an open, single stage, international competition of urban planning to develop the Inner Harbor zone. The competition has been made possible with the support of the NAL (National Association of Norwegian Architects). Submissions were due on May 26, 2008. 22 proposals have been received from all over the world.
The jury, under the presidency of Øyvind Riise Jenssen - Larvik municipality, was composed of : John Thorsen - Larvik municipality, Knut Anvik - Larvik municipality, Hege Voll Midtgaard - Larvik municipality, Laila Aarstrand - Larvik Business Association, Ragnar Ridder-Nielsen - representative Vel-lag, Erik Schüller - Jernbaneverket/National railway organisation, Hettie Pisters- landscape architect mnla, Haakon Rasmussen - architect mnal, Tore Schjetlein - architect mnal
The jury has concluded that Connecting Larvik surpass the other projects regarding concept and strategy for developing the harbor in relation to the town center. This decision is reflected in that there is no 2nd prize given. The jury recommends that the authors of the 1st prize to be appointed to the planning stage.
The official announcement of the results + awards ceremony took place on Sept 11 in Larvik.
All images above are from Dark Arkitekter AS’ winning entry Connecting Larvik.
Results :
1st PRIZE
Connecting Larvik
by Dark Arkitekter AS – O
