Photo courtesy hudsons.opportunitydetroit.com The site of the former Hudson's department store in Detroit. SHoP Architects and Hamilton Anderson Associates have been tapped to come up with concepts for a new building there. One of Detroit’s most iconic sites will be the subject of an intense design concept study in coming months, headed by New York’s ShoP Architects. Photo courtesy historicdetroit.org/Detroit Free Press Archives The former Hudson's department store. The focus will be on the site of the old Hudson’s department store, which for decades in mid-20th century reigned as Detroit’s most important shopping locale. The store dated to 1891 and
The 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale feels like a work in progress. But that’s the idea, according Beatrice Galilee, the London-based editor and curator who organized the exhibition.
Despite cost overruns and leaky roofs, Santiago Calatrava’s buildings have the power to inspire. The West Concourse of Santiago Calatrava's PATH station at the World Trade Center opened on October 22. Shown here is its marble-lined walkway.
Higher-education construction is largely dependent on endowments and the health of the stock market. However, the sector’s peaks and valleys lag behind those of Wall Street, due to the time required for project planning. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
The New York City firm transforms a former parking lot into an urban garden and teaching space for an elementary school. A public elementary school in New York City is an odd place to come across an abundance of fine, farm-fresh dining options—until now. At P.S. 216, a pre-K to 5th grade school in working class Gravesend, Brooklyn, a team of architects has transformed a parking lot into a verdant garden, greenhouse, and interactive culinary classroom where students learn to grow and cook their own fruit, vegetables, and herbs. Earlier this week, the architects at WORKac, a firm based in
Fumihiko Maki's 4 World Trade Center tower is complete. Larry Silverstein, the octogenarian developer, has emerged as a hero of Ground Zero reconstruction. His 7 World Trade Center, designed by David Childs, with assists from the glass-master James Carpenter and the artist Jenny Holzer, is a crystalline gem, far more satisfying than 1 World Trade Center, the 1,776-foot tower that is meant to be the centerpiece of the rebuilt 16 acres in lower Manhattan. (Silverstein hasn’t been involved in that building, also designed by Childs, since 2006.) Now Silverstein has completed 4 World Trade Center, by the Tokyo-based architect Fumihko
The new national stadium of Japan, by Zaha Hadid Architects, will be built for the 2020 summer Olympics in Tokyo. In September, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the host city for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in 2020. A town with a good track record, Tokyo beat out Istanbul and Madrid and took the prize for the third time. The city was first selected for the 1940 summer games, which were canceled due to World War II. Tokyo’s second win was for the 1964 summer Olympics. Symbolizing the end of Japan’s post–World War II reconstruction, new athletic facilities
The social impacts of urban redesign was a key theme of the 2013 Bruner Loeb Forum in Detroit. Photo courtesy J. Max Bond Center From left to right: Sally Young, Loeb Fellowship; Nicholas Hamilton, The American Assembly; Esther Yang, J. Max Bond Center; Anne-Marie Lubenau, Bruner Foundation; Jim Stockard, Loeb Fellowship; Toni Griffin, J. Max Bond Center; Simeon Bruner, Bruner Foundation; Dan Pitera and Krista Wilson, Detroit Collaborative Design Center; and David Mortimer, The American Assembly The fine art of reimagining what post-industrial cities can become through better design took the spotlight last week at the 2013 Bruner Loeb Forum,
The Port Sudan Pediatric Center is another project by TAMassociati and Emergency. Together, TAM and Emergency have built five hospitals in Africa that have treated more than 700,000 patients. As Super Typhoon Haiyan was bearing down on the Philippines last week, across the Pacific in San Francisco, the Curry Stone Foundation announced the winners of this year's Curry Stone Design Prize. Now in its sixth year, the award honors architects and designers who devise innovative, often low-tech responses to help strengthen communities faced with natural disaster, political upheaval, or a poverty of resources. At an awards ceremony at the Contemporary
The 375,000-square-foot University Center at The New School, designed by SOM, is clad in overlapping brass panels. The New School, a university that includes the Parsons School of Design, has long operated out of a motley collection of spaces in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. Hoping to create a campus center, the school proposed building a 350-foot-tall tower on a site has owned since the 1960s, at Fifth Avenue and 14th Street. A tall, tapered building would have enhanced that crossroads. But facing neighborhood opposition, the school scaled back its plans, ending up with a structure that, at 16 stories and 178
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