Greenville, South Carolina McMillan Smith & Partners Citation for Excellence Only one building in this year’s collection is home to a design company. For lighting designer and manufacturer Hubbell, the first thought in planning a new corporate headquarters was lighting. The business became its building in a way that none of the other winning designs could. McMillan Smith & Partners Architects teamed with lighting design firm Visual Terrain and interior designer Storyline Studio to create a building that showcases the client’s products by integrating them into the architectural design. Photo: © Brian Dressler Photography Slide show captions: Henry Ng Located

Project Specs Hubbell Lighting Headquarters Greenville, South Carolina McMillan Smith & Partners << Return to article the People Architect McMillan Smith & Partners Architects, PLLC 17 College Street Greenville SC 29601 (864) 370-0058 Phone (864) 370-0702 Fax www.mcmillansmith.com Managing Partner: Mr. Ron Smith, AIA P.I.C./Design Architect: Mr. Cullen Pitts, AIA, LEED AP Project Manager: Mr. K.J. Jacobs, AIA, LEED AP Project Architect: Mr. Sal Napolitano, AIA Interior Designer: Ms. Millie Thomasson Architect of record Same as Above Associate architect(s) Same As Above Interior designer: Same As Above Engineer(s): Geotechnical: Mr. Sewell Crisman Carolina Consulting Engineers Charleston, SC Civil: Mr. David

New York City, New York Gehry Partners/STUDIOS Architecture Award of Excellence Frank Gehry’s first New York building, the highly anticipated InterActiveCorp (IAC) Headquarters, has been likened to the flowing pleats of a skirt, or the billowing sails of a ship floating along the Hudson River. The 10-story building near the Chelsea Piers Sports Center has fans and critics wondering what it says about the direction of the architect’s work. Meanwhile, the client is thriving and finds its own creative enterprises stimulated by the unique plan of its new facility. Photo: © Albert Vecerka / Esto Slide show captions: Henry Ng

Project Specs InterActiveCorp Headquarters New York City, New York Gehry Partners/STUDIOS Architecture << Return to article the People Architect STUDIOS Architecture 588 Broadway, Suite 702 New York, NY 10012 Phone: 212-431-4512 Fax: 212-431-6042 Architects Todd DeGarmo, AIA – Principal in Charge Tom Krizmanic, AIA – Design Principal Brian Tolman, AIA – Senior Designer / Senior Project Architect Geoff DeOld – Project Architect David Burns – Designer Sara Schuster – Designer Joshua Rider – Designer Engineer(s): MEP Engineer Cosentini Associates LLP Structural Engineer DeSimone Consulting Engineers Consultant(s) Lighting: Brandston Partnership Inc. Acoustical: Shen Milsom Wilke Audio Visual Integrator: McCann Systems LLC

Toronto, Ontario Diamond + Schmitt Architects Citation for Excellence The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, the new home of the Canadian Opera Company (COC), is Canada’s first purpose-built opera house. The company had dreamed for decades of building its own venue, so when the opportunity arose, every measure was taken to outdo the old rented performance space. Canadian Opera Company general director Richard Bradshaw worked with Diamond and Schmitt Architects to create a welcoming opera house with exceptional acoustics. Photo: © Tom Arban Slide show captions: Henry Ng Occupying a full block in downtown Toronto, the Four Seasons

Project Specs Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Toronto, Ontario Diamond + Schmitt Architects << Return to article the People Architect Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated 384 Adelaide Street West, Suite 300 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 1R7 Tel: 416.862.8800 Fax: 416.862.5508 Principal in Charge: A.J. Diamond, OC MArch FRAIC CIP OAA Project Architect: Gary McCluskie, BES BArch OAA Project Architect: Building: Michael Treacy, BASc BArch MRAIC Project Architect: Auditorium: Matthew Lella, BArch BES Interior designer: Diamond and Schmitt Architects Engineer(s): Structural: Halcrow Yolles 207 Queen’s Quay West, Suite 550 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 1A7 416 363 8123 www.yolles.com Electrical:

' Jenna M. McKnight Phil Bernstein is vice president of AEC Industry Strategy and Relations for Autodesk. He formerly was an associate principal at Cesar Pelli & Associates and has a master's degree in architecture from Yale University. Listen as he discusses his company's ongoing collaboration with the U.S. Green Building Council to develop technology that aids in green design and construction. Their research, presented at Greenbuild 2007 in Chicago, could eventually yield a sustainability analysis "dashboard" that works in tandem with the Revit platform and provides users with graphic feedback about the impact of design decisions on a project's

“Instead of experiencing our being in the world, we behold it from outside as spectators of images projected on the surface of the retina.” Juhani Pallasmaa Photography: © Jeff Goldberg/ESTO At WGBH, Polshek Partnership turned part of the facade into an LED mural. Is architecture turning into a purely visual sport? Will it be just like video games, except that it won’t have all those crashing noises? In my home city of Boston, two recent designs are both terrific in their own way. But they’re scary in what they portend for the future of architecture. Of our five, six, or

Before digital was born For many years I’ve held in my mind, as a counter to the headlong rush to a purely visual architecture, the memory of approaching a small church in an Italian hill town. This was an experience of architecture of all the senses. First came the feeling of a slight ache in the knees, an ache that told me I had climbed to an elevation. Then the entry into the building, the sudden drop in temperature, the increase in humidity. Photography: © Bruce T. Martin Elkus/Manfredi designed a Neiman-Marcus facade as a rippling ribbon. The hushed yet