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Image © Architectural Record Allen Eskew in his New Orleans office in 2011. The American Institute of Architects announced today that New Orleans firm Eskew+Dumez+Ripple has won the 2014 Architecture Firm Award, the organization's highest honor for a firm. The announcement comes two days after the death of cofounder Allen Eskew at age 65. “This is incredibly bitter sweet,” said Eskew's longtime collaborator, Steven Dumez, in a statement released by the AIA. “Allen was tremendously proud of this nomination. We are grateful that we can reflect on what we have been able to accomplish.” Eskew was a major figure in

“By the time I was 12 or 13 years old, I knew that someday I would have something to do with influencing place,” says Carol Coletta of growing up in South Memphis. From co-developing the first condominium conversion in downtown Memphis to serving as executive director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, Coletta has proven her 12-year-old self right. As CEO of CEOs for Cities, she helped gather ideas for improving the urban realm via text messaging. While director of ArtPlace, a collaboration of 13 national and regional foundations and six banks, Coletta tapped Impresa Consulting to measure economic,

Miami Center for Architecture & Design (MCAD) opened last week with an exhibition of 105 renderings, Drawn From Miami. For MCAD's home, Shulman + Associates designed the renovation of 5,000 square feet in a 100-year-old post office. Proof that Miami is a hotbed of architectural experimentation resides less in its collection of gimmicky new condo towers than in the work on display at the Miami Center for Architecture & Design, which opened last week with an exhibition of 105 renderings, Drawn From Miami (through February 7, 2014). Together, the renderings show that Miami had been a magnet for design talent

Attendees at a dinner hosted by developer David Martin at the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum. The dinner was organized in part by Terry Riley, the former Museum of Modern Art curator, who recently helped Martin choose OMA to design a condo complex for a site Terra and the Related Group co-own in Coconut Grove. Converging on Miami during “Basel week,” the world’s top architects had lots to talk about—OMA’s convention center project, Herzog & de Meuron’s new museum, and Zaha Hadid’s trippy condo building expected to rise on a site that now houses a gas station and pawn shop. The sales office,

Photo © Charles Emerson Phare No. 1-9, by London based Dutch designer Simon Heijdens. The installation was commissioned by Perrier-Jouët for Design Miami. “My practice is about countering the perpetual nature of architecture,” said Simon Heijdens, a London-based designer. His hypnotic installation, consisting of nine glass vessels hung from the ceiling of a 600-square-foot booth, was a hit of the Design Miami fair—and one of many temporary engagements with architecture on display during Art Basel week. Photo © Architectural Record Garrett Ricciardi, of formlessfinder, in front of the firm's entry pavilion for Design Miami. Heijdens’s vessels operate like high tech

Sefaria's web-based service generates a profile of each building model's energy flow.  Today, Sefaira, an energy analysis service for digital building models, launched support for Autodesk Revit. Following the release of their real time analysis plugin for SketchUp in November, Sefaira is intensifying its efforts to integrate energy analysis and performance visualization into the digital design workflow. These new products provide “early and frequent analysis, so analysis can shape design,” says CEO Mads Jensen. The SketchUp plugin is a fast, lightweight complement to Sefaira’s more robust web-based analysis service, which was introduced in 2012. The Sefaira for SketchUp plugin utilizes

Early this afternoon, during a preview of his firm’s new building for the Perez Art Museum Miami, Jacques Herzog sat in a window seat in a second floor gallery and discussed what the building lacked. “It doesn’t really have a form,” he said, looking out at Biscayne Bay past rows of thin concrete columns supporting a trellis overhead. “It’s more about its permeability. There is so much form in Miami. We wanted to do something that shows the potential in this city to let in sun and vegetation.” In a town where form is often everything and ornament is the

As the design world converges on Miami this week for Design Miami’s ninth annual congregation of curators, collectors, critics, and celebrities, design icons from the past are taking center stage. 

Construction is underway on a building to house “Hunk” and “Moo” Anderson’s significant collection of postwar American art. In the spring of 2011, Stanford University reached out to Richard Olcott, partner at Ennead Architects, asking him to design a new museum space for a major collection of artwork recently acquired by the school. A gift from Harry “Hunk” and Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson—as well as their daughter Mary Patricia “Putter” Anderson Pence—the 121 masterworks by 86 artists represent a comprehensive catalog of postwar American movements: Abstract Expressionism, Post-Minimalism, Bay-Area Figurative Art, and Light and Space, among them. Highlights include Jackson

view past Newsmakers »  view current Newsmakers » 2013 Newsmakers Architectural Record presents brief interviews with the personalities making headlines in the architecture world. From noteworthy architects to clients to policy makers, we speak with the people shaping the profession. Zo' Ryan With her appointment as curator of the second Istanbul Design Biennial, set to take place from October 18 to December 14, 2014, British-born, U.S.-based Zo' Ryan is helping shape one of the most important new design events even as she approaches her third year as chair and curator of architecture and design at the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo