Images courtesy SNFCC Renzo Piano Building Workshop has been hired to design the Stavros Niarchos Foundational Cultural Center, which will be located in a seaside district in south Athens. The Olympic Flame has not sparkled in Athens since 2004, yet the city continues to transform itself as a result of the international sporting event. Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) has been hired to design the Stavros Niarchos Foundational Cultural Center (SNFCC), which will be located in the Faliron Delta, the seaside district in south Athens where many Olympic facilities were constructed. SNFCC, a 13-year-old organization that underwrites charitable activities supporting
Today actor Brad Pitt’s organization Make It Right (MIR) released 14 new designs that will be among the 150 houses reconstructed in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. With this second round of schematics, MIR is offering residents the opportunity to rebuild affordable duplexes in addition to the single-family schemes introduced in 2007. Image courtesy Make It Right William McDonough + Partners Related Links: Pitt Selects More Architects for MIR First "Make It Right" Homes Complete Pitt Unveils Sustainable Designs for New Orleans “We always wanted to expand the design catalog, and doubles
Project Specs Rietberg Museum Expansion Zurich, Switzerland ARGE Grazioli Krischanitz << Return to article the People Architect ARGE Grazioli Krischanitz GmbH, Zürich (Alfred Grazioli and Adolf Krischanitz) Project architect: Elke Eichmann, Dipl. Arch. ETH SIA NDS Members of staff: competition: Wieka Muthesius, Birgit Frank, Ralf Wilkening construction planning: Thomas Künzle, Jay Thalmann, Dimitri Kaden, Naomi Hajnos, Simone Wiestner Interior designer: ARGE Grazioli Krischanitz GmbH, Zürich Engineer(s): Structural Engineer: Ernst Basler und Partner building services: Brunner Haustechnik building services electric: HEGE Elektro Glass-Planning (Pavillon): Ludwig und Weiler Consultant(s) Landscape: SIT Trüb Baumpflege, Aarau Lighting: d'lite lichtdesign, Zurich General contractor: Dietsche Walter,
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has revealed its list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2009. On April 28, NTHP president Richard Moe and actor Diane Keaton, an NTHP trustee, delivered the announcement in Los Angeles while standing near the Century Plaza Hotel (1966), a 19-story building by Minoru Yamasaki that is one of the sites on this year’s list. The others include: Ames Shovel Shops, Easton, Massachusetts Cast-iron architecture of Galveston, Texas Dorchester Academy, Midway, Georgia Human Services Center, Yankton, South Dakota Lāna‘i City, Hawai‘i Enola Gay hangar, Wendover Airfield, Utah Memorial Bridge, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
A culminating chapter in a century-long push to create a black-history museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., began April 14, when National Museum of African American History and Culture (AAHC) director Lonnie Bunch announced that the team Freelon Adjaye Bond and SmithGroup had been selected to design the museum’s new building at the base of the Washington Monument.
Architects from eight firms, ranging from a young New Orleans collective to world-renowned Gehry Partners, currently are racing to finish schematic designs for Make It Right. In mid-March the organization, founded by actor Brad Pitt to rebuild 150 houses in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, tapped the firms to contribute additional designs to the effort. Their visions will be released June 20. In addition to Gehry Partners, the firms include William McDonough + Partners, Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Los Angeles–based Kappe Architects/Planners, the Chilean studio Elemental, and three New Orleans firms—Bild Design, buildingstudio, and Waggoner & Ball Architects.
In an example of a firm doing more with less, in April RMJM announced the launch of a sports design studio. The studio is based in the company’s Hong Kong office and is overseen by new hire John Pauline. Pauline had lead all of PTW Architects’ projects for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, including the Watercube, and served as a competition venue planning specialist to that host city’s organizing committee. RMJM is no stranger to sports venues—the firm designed the 2.9-million-square-foot Beijing Olympic Green Convention Centre, and it is vying to design facilities for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Pauline
The residents of the Carrollton district of New Orleans must be prescient. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the Carrollton United Neighborhood Organization (CUNO) decided that reopening Alfred C. Priestley Junior High, which had been closed since 1993, would spark local revitalization, and a survey of residents indicated widespread support for an architecture and construction charter school. In spring 2005 CUNO began negotiating with the Orleans Parish School Board to secure the vacant building for its reuse as the Priestley School of Architecture & Construction.