When this magazine declared the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis “America’s leading museum of design” in 1990 [RECORD, March 1990, pages 45-47], it was paying tribute to Mildred Friedman, who died on September 3, at 85, in New York City. Photo courtesy Martin Friedman A portrait of the young Mildred Friedman. Beginning in 1969, Mildred—who went by Mickey—had been the museum’s go-to-person for anything and everything relating to design. She was best known for curating a series of prescient exhibitions on architecture and design while editing the Walker’s incisive and influential Design Quarterly. At the same time, she presided over
The Young Architect Program's inaugural project in Asia marks an exciting time for design and construction in Seoul. Moon Ji Bang's installation is made of 60 cloud-shaped balloons. In Seoul, the Shinseon Play pavilion is a walk in the clouds. Visitors meander along an elevated walkway among 60 cloud-shaped balloons, stopping for a game of baduk or a jump on a trampoline along the way. Cool mist machines provide both an ethereal cast to the area and very real relief from the summer heat. Eventually, the pavilion ascends to a grass-covered plaza with a view back to the picturesque Inwang
After years of anti-LEED lobbying, the American Chemistry Council says it wants to work to make LEED better. This story originally appeared on BuildingGreen.com. It looked more like a headline from BuildingGreen’s April Fool’s issue than one from an official press release: “USGBC and ACC to Work Together to Advance LEED.” Nonetheless, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the American Chemistry Council (ACC) have confirmed the news is real—so what’s going on behind the scenes? Combining expertise“Obviously, we had some concerns with LEED v4 and the building materials credits,” Anne Kolton, ACC’s vice president of communications, told Environmental Building
The original hotel was completed in 1929. Jerusalem has strict standards for preservation of historic sites, and the Palace Hotel façade has been meticulously restored. The Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem is a study in contrasts. It is both the oldest and the newest luxury hotel in the city. It has a traditional Islamic façade, yet the most modern and green amenities and infrastructure. Situated in the heart of Jerusalem, the hotel is a five-minute walk from the historic Old City walls. Built as the Palace Hotel in 1929 by the Supreme Muslim Council headed by the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini,
It’s rare that an artist, or an architect, manages to group their affinities into a body of work so that each piece or design contains their combined fascinations.
Image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects A rendering of Hadid Al Wakrah Stadium in Qatar. A lawsuit brought by Zaha Hadid against The New York Review of Books and its architecture critic, Martin Filler, has prompted Filler to correct the record. In a book review published in June, Filler accused Hadid of being indifferent to the deaths of 1,000 workers during construction of her Al Wakrah Stadium in Qatar, a venue for the 2020 FIFA World Cup, based on comments the architect had made to The Guardian newspaper in February 2014. In a letter posted on the NYRB website on Monday
Through September 28, an exhibition at the New Museum in New York highlights contemporary art from 45 Arab artists from over 15 countries. A group of artists called GCC created a wallpaper and sound installation for the lobby of the New Museum, meant to look like a luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi. For what might be the most relevant exhibition of the summer—months during which our eyes have been transfixed on the Middle East—Here and Elsewhere at New York’s New Museum does not focus on ancient artifacts or political propaganda. Instead, it displays videos, paintings, photographs, and installations—personal reportage and
LEED, IgCC, 189.1 to be parts of a single system. This story originally appeared on BuildingGreen.com. In many parts of the U.S., LEED has been law for years, particularly for public buildings—but that’s starting to change, and LEED’s creator, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is one of the first to celebrate. A new partnership among five major U.S. standard developers in the U.S. will harmonize ASHRAE 189.1, the International Green Construction Code (IgCC), and the LEED rating systems with the aim of simplifying implementation of local green building regulations and incentive programs. Although the organizations and their development processes
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