Many of Enrique Norten's projects pull off a balancing act between cool, rational Modernism and an acute responsiveness to landscapes and local building traditions.
Photo courtesy SHoP Architects “We’re basically focusing on digital integration services, but we could go as far as construction management advisory services,” says Jonathan Mallie of SHoP Construction, a newly founded spin-off of SHoP Architects. New York-based SHoP Architects made what might seem like a counterintuitive move early this month. The 12-year-old firm—best known for the meditative Hangil Book Hall (2004) in Seoul, South Korea, several high-profile New York residential projects, and still-shaking-out plans for Manhattan’s East River Waterfront and South Street Seaport—has decided to put itself at the forefront of the profession-wide push for greater design-build project integration, not
Shortly after the 2004 AIA Accent on Architecture dinner in Washington, D.C., editor in chief Robert Ivy visited I. M. Pei at his office in Lower Manhattan, where they discussed the evolution of Pei’s design thinking, the importance of working abroad, and his current slate of projects.
Three years ago, 1994 Rome Prize in Architecture winner Garrett Finney was happily designing furniture in New York City when a former classmate from the Yale School of Architecture called him to see if he was interested in becoming part of a new NASA program.
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