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UAE to Introduce Labor Reforms

October 22, 2015

The United Arab Emirates says it will take steps to protect migrant workers, but are such measures enough? Photo © Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is taking steps to reform its labor laws, local authorities say.

Monterey Design Conference Serves Up Good Design and Good Times

Beth Broome

October 22, 2015

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The Monterey Design Conference, held last week in Pacific Grove, California, once again lived up to its reputation for creating an inspiring and memorable weekend-long conversation on design. Set against the bucolic backdrop of the Asilomar Conference Center, a former YMCA camp designed by Julia Morgan in the early part of the 20th century, the biennial event, hosted by the AIA California Council, has made a name for itself by using its rustic backdrop as a portal for showcasing innovative work across the globe and the personalities behind it.Emceed by the unstoppable architecture critic and consultant Reed Kroloff and attended

Taking the 2015 Solar Decathlon by Storm

Sarah Amelar

October 21, 2015

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The Stevens Institute of Technology, a private university based in Hoboken, New Jersey, won the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s 2015 Solar Decathlon Saturday—taking an unprecedented first place in seven of the 10 competition categories.

Newsmaker: Rural Urban Framework

The principals of this Hong Kong-based design lab took home the 2015 Curry Stone Design Prize.

Rebecca Seidel

October 20, 2015

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As part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s kickoff last month, Rural Urban Framework (RUF), a Hong Kong–based nonprofit design lab run by architects Joshua Bolchover and John Lin, was awarded the 2015 Curry Stone Design Prize.

Moving Wright

Michael Cockram

October 19, 2015

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A Frank Lloyd Wright classic finds a new home in the Arkansas Ozarks. In saving a historic building, relocation is usually the preservation strategy of last resort. But after repeated flooding at the original site in Millstone, New Jersey, architects and preservationists Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino felt that they had no other choice but to find someone who would purchase their Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian home and move it to higher ground. That higher ground turned out to be 1,260 miles away. After a prolonged international search, the Taratinos sold the Bachman-Wilson house in 2013 to Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton

São Paulo Begins Implementation of New City Plan

Tom Hennigan

October 19, 2015

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After decades spent in thrall to the car, which brought it epic traffic jams across an ever-expanding urban sprawl, the Brazilian city of São Paulo has finally decided to try something different. Image courtesy Prefeitura de São Paulo The plan calls for an overhaul of the city's building code in order to accomodate taller mixed-use buildings. Fernando Haddad, the mayor of this metropolis of nearly

Stanley Tigerman shows his model for the Pacific Garden Mission, Chicago's oldest rescue center for the homeless, in 2006, a year before it opened.

Interview with Stanley Tigerman

'Mr. Chicago' talks about his hometown and its place in architectural culture.

Cathleen McGuigan

Suzanne Stephens

October 16, 2015

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Stanley Tigerman has died at age 88. RECORD remembers the "Mr. Chicago," revisiting a 2015 interview with the architect about his hometown and its place in architectural culture.

The Monterey Design Conference Returns

Anna Fixsen

October 16, 2015

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The biennial conference will take place this weekend, October 16 to 18, in Pacific Grove, California. Image courtesy AIACC The conference will be held in the Julia Morgan–designed Merrill Hall. Summer may be over, but architects, students, and design devotees can look forward to a camplike weekend of professional development, networking, and the great outdoors during this year’s Monterey Design Conference, to take place October 16 through 18 in Pacific Grove, California. Architectural Record is a media sponsor. Image courtesy AIACC The conference will feature keynote lectures by well-known architects, including Bernard Tschumi. Since 1979, this biennial conference, organized by

Biennial Dispatch: Theaster Gates Restores Derelict Chicago Bank into a Community Hub

Janelle Zara

October 16, 2015

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In contrast to the excitement of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial’s opening weekend, artist and Chicago native Theaster Gates addressed the press in a decidedly less enthusiastic tone. “As excited as I am about the history of Chicago architecture,” he said, “we also have an amazing history of racism, segregation, [and] a history of redlining and housing covenants that work against the poor, and against black and brown people.” Gates’ contribution to the biennial, the transformation of a derelict 1923 neoclassical building into a community cultural center called the Stony Island Arts Bank, embodies the effects of redlining very succinctly.

Burntwood School Wins 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize

Miriam Sitz

October 16, 2015

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Allford Hall Monaghan Morris designed the all-girls school in London. Thursday evening, the Royal Institute of British Architects presented London-based firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) with the RIBA Stirling Prize—the U.K.’s most prestigious architecture award—for their work on the Burntwood School. The 2,000-student secondary school located in London’s Wandsworth district provides an enriched science and math curriculum. AHMM added six academic buildings and two large cultural centers to the campus, linking the new facilities to existing modernist structures designed in the 1950s by renowned architect Sir Leslie Martin. The firm created double height spaces at the end of corridors

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.