This year marks the 50th anniversary of the completion of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York—a landmark structure often condemned by artists but extolled by architects. It also marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Wright, who had unfortunately missed the opening on October 21, 1959. He passed away six months prior at the age of 91.
RECORD's Suzanne Stephens visits the unusually named Ghost International Architectural Laboratory. The design-build workshop in Nova Scotia celebrated its tenth session in 2008.
Architects discuss strategies for staying alive. John Lahey, AIA, chairman and principal in charge of design at Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB), in Chicago, says that after having been through the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s, he finds it better to lay off architects than offer a four-day work week. “People who are raring to go don’t like working four days a week,” he says. When SCB, known for its privately sponsored residential construction, was affected, “We reduced the staff, even though painful, ” says Lahey. Its head count now totals 130 after losing between 25 to 30 people to
Architects discuss strategies for staying alive. Layoffs. Each week the numbers of layoffs grow as architects frantically attempt to curtail the fallout from the current recession, when projects are killed, postponed, or don’t materialize. Few firms want to shed their trusted, well-trained architects, and few firms want to talk about it with the not-so-trusted members of the press. As Andrew Bartle, AIA, puts it (nicely), if the press sticks to its current role as harbingers of doom, won’t it only exacerbate the problem by keeping clients ultra-nervous? In spite of such suspicions, Bartle—whose firm, ABA Studio, is known for private
The place seems to be at the edge of the world, where an expansive sky, shimmering water, and a hilly landscape dotted with spruce and pines are only interrupted by rustic cottages and barns.
Project Specs Shobac Cottages and Studio Upper Kingsburg, Nova Scotia MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects << Return to article the People Architect MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited 2188 Gottingen Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 3B4 Phone 902 429 1867 Fax 902 429 6276 info@mlsarchitects.ca www.mlsarchitects.ca Brian MacKay-Lyons, Talbot Sweetapple, Peter Blackie Architect of record MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited Engineer(s): Campbell Comeau Engineering Limited General contractor: Builder: Cottages – Gordon MacLean, Warren Mcally Studio – Gordon MacLean, Bob Benz, Gary Kilgour Photographer(s) James Steeves Manuel Schnell Brian Mackay-Lyons the Products Exterior cladding Metal/glass curtainwall: Vicwest Roofing Metal: Corrugated metal - Vicwest Windows Aluminum:
It comes as a shock to discover one of the Bay Area’s most riveting examples of recent architecture is not the work of international highfliers imported to San Francisco and its environs to rev up the local landscape.
Project Specs Cathedral of Christ the Light Oakland, California Skidmore, Owings & Merrill << Return to article the People Architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP One Front Street, Suite 2400 San Francisco, CA 94111 415.981.1555 415.398.3214 Craig Hartman, FAIA: Design Partner Gene Schnair, FAIA: Managing Partner Mark Sarkisian, PE, SE: Structural Engineering Director Keith Boswell, AIA: Technical Director Raymond Kuca, AIA: Project Manager Patrick Daly, AIA: Senior Design Architect Peter Lee, PE, SE, and Eric Long, PE: Senior Structural Engineers Eric Keune, AIA; Lisa Gayle Finster, AIA; Christopher Kimball; Jane Lee; Christina Kyrillou; Elizabeth Valadez; Denise Hall Montgomery; Mariah Neilson;
When I was a kid (though not a mere child), I defended Edward Durell Stone’s much maligned Gallery of Modern Art at 2 Columbus Circle when it opened in 1964.