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Marysville Getchell High School Campus

Divide and Conquer: In a district plagued by years of bond failures and overcrowding, a high school initiates a fresh start with collegiate learning tracks and a complementary campus.

Laura Raskin

January 16, 2012

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In a district plagued by years of bond failures and overcrowding, a high school initiates a fresh start with collegiate learning tracks and a complementary campus.

First Look: Absolute City Centre

Residents begin to move into the first of MAD's two convention-busting apartment towers near Toronto.

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

December 16, 2011

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Instead of the boxlike apartment and commercial towers in cities everywhere, architect Yansong Ma, principal of Beijing-based MAD, prefers structures that are “organic and soft.”

Capitol Hotel Tokyu by Kengo Kuma and Associates

Tokyo

December 16, 2011

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Kengo Kuma and Associates adopt simplicity and modernity as guiding principles for the Capitol Hotel Tokyu.

Hotel Americano

A sleek boutique hotel in the Chelsea area of Manhattan's West Side combines calm and camaraderie.

Suzanne Stephens

December 16, 2011

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With all the glitzy-hip hotels opening in New York City these days, you could get very tired of the boutique approach that went into full throttle after Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell opened Morgans Hotel in 1984.

Naked Stables Private Reserve

December 16, 2011

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Program: A 136,000-square-foot, 121-bedroom resort on a 65-acre private nature reserve. Located about two and a half hours from Shanghai, in Zhejiang Province, the project draws on African and Asian construction styles with conference facilities, a spa, three swimming pools, horse stables, a clubhouse, a restaurant, a teahouse, and a yoga pavilion. Design concept and solution: Fusing nature and luxury, the architects wanted the reserve's guest rooms to feel like an extension of the landscape. The rooms take the form of individual tree-top villas (concentrated on the west side of the site) and huts (primarily on the east side), all

Park Hotel Hyderabad

A trapezoidal structure wrapped in a jewellike screen offers an adventurous yet serene ambience.

Uttiya Bhattacharya

December 16, 2011

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While India's Park Hotel group has forged a reputation over its 44-year history for boutique luxury establishments, its brazenly sculptural, 270-room hotel in Hyderabad is the first it has built from scratch.

Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom

December 16, 2011

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Program: An 18-story, 570,487-square-foot hotel with 182 rooms, 9 conference rooms, a fitness club, a top-floor restaurant with panoramic views, retail space, and five levels of below-ground parking. Design concept and solution: Rather than design a rectilinear tower, the architects imagined the Vienna Sofitel as an abstract volume of tilting planes of glass. They gave the structure—which is concrete for the building's first five stories and a mix of steel and concrete for the remainder—a trapezoidal footprint. With a mix of gray, black, white, mirrored, and transparent glass, the facade produces a dynamic range of reflections. The five-story base of

Renaissance St. Pancras London

December 16, 2011

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Program: A five-story, 347,125-square-foot hotel with a total of 246 guest rooms, 66 residential apartments, a presidential suite, a basement spa and pool, and retail space. The project, which backs up onto the Eurostar train station, is a restoration and expansion of a 19th-century Victorian Gothic railway hotel designed by George Gilbert Scott. A new five-story wing on the west side of the site contributes the majority (189) of the bedrooms. Design concept and solution: RHWL and Richard Griffiths wanted to restore the interiors and highlight the building's details with minimal interference, and to integrate the new wing naturally into

W Austin Hotel and Residences with Austin City Limits Live at Moody Theatre by Andersson-Wise Architects

Austin, Texas

December 16, 2011

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Drawing on the simple forms and pure shapes of minimalist art, Andersson-Wise Architects conceived this Texas hotel as a narrow tower defined by light and shadow.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

A folded and faceted facade.

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

November 15, 2011

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Preston Scott Cohen, architect of the recently opened expansion to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, refers to the addition’s exterior as “the urban version” of the building’s Lightfall—the spiraling skylit atrium and circulation space that vertically connects the new galleries.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 1 IIBEC CEH

Evaluate advanced PVC solutions that improve fire resistance, support WUI compliance, and enhance resilience in residential and commercial building design.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU

Upon course completion, participants will possess a deeper understanding of glass railings to help ensure that safety, aesthetic, and performance objectives are achieved.