Although longtime New Yorkers will bemoan the transformation of once-scrappy neighborhoods like Williamsburg or the East Village, gentrification does have its holdouts. PS 122, a former public school building located on the corner of First Avenue and 11th Street, is one such fortress of bohemian activity. As if ripped from the book of Jonathan Larson’s Rent, a group of artist squatters took over the Beaux Arts–inspired, five-story structure in 1978 after local officials, cowing to the city’s perilous financial crisis, closed the primary school. Photo ' David Shankbone/courtesy Wikipedia The NYC Department of Design + Construction has tapped Deborah Berke
Project Specs La Rinascente Milan, Italy Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands << Return to article the People Architect Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands Island Studios 22 St Peter’s Square London W6 9NW Phone: +44 (0)208 600 4800 Fax: +44 (0)208 600 4700 www.lds-uk.com Principal in charge: Paul Sandilands, RIBA (Registered Architect) Project Architect: Germano Di Chello, Dip Arch (Registered Architect) Architectural Assistants: Chris Waite, Chloë Phelps, James Miles Lighting Consultant: Equation Lighting Design Mechanical engineer: BRE Enginnering s.r.l. Electrical engineer: CS Progetti General contractor: Impresa Minotti s.r.l. Feature Ceiling sub-contractor: Camagni Arredamenti s.r.l. Photographer Chris Gascoigne/VIEW VIEW 14 The Dove Centre 109 Bartholomew Road
The largest business school in the European Union, the 20,000-student Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, has increased its head count by two a half times since 1981. Yet it has accommodated this explosive growth hastily, scattering four academic campuses throughout its home city. Image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects Zaha Hadid Architects won a competition to design a new Library and Learning Center for the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. In October 2007 school and government officials announced the university would consolidate into a 22.7-acre site just south of the city’s fairgrounds. And this past November a
A Modern Addition Planned for a Picturesque Museum in Zurich In December the Swiss federal parliament, as well as the state and municipal governments of Zurich, approved funding for an extension to the Swiss National Museum. Groundbreaking on the 111 million CFH ($93.5 million) addition, designed by the Basel, Switzerland–based Christ & Gantenbein Architects, will take place in 2010 with completion scheduled for 2013. Images courtesy Christ & Gantenbein Architects Switzerland'based Christ & Gantenbein Architects has designed a new wing for the Swiss National Museum in Zurich. The extension will add approximately 79,000 square feet to the original museum, which
When the late Maria A. Bentel, FAIA, was a member of the Committee on Design (COD) in its earliest days four decades ago, the group decided to organize conferences overseas because “there was a lot of learning we could do to make us better architects.” So recalls Bentel’s daughter-in-law Carol Bentel, FAIA, a partner at New York-based Bentel & Bentel. The COD is one of the AIA’s 24 Knowledge Communities.
The London-based Arts Alliance Productions (AAP) has been putting on “ID: Identity of the Soul” since 1994. This theatrical work, based on Henrik Ibsen’s epic poem “Terje Vigen” and Mahmoud Darwish’s poem “A Soldier Dreams of White Lilies,” features dancers navigating around five screens displaying graphically manipulated landscapes. The set designs have been equally nimble. The show debuted in southern Norway with AAP improvising a lighthouse as a projection surface; for a staging in Japan in 2006, the group fashioned sails into screens by draping them over shipping containers in Yokohama harbor. Image courtesy Various Architects Measuring 40,900 square feet,
Photos courtesy Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil Egyptian architect Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil has won the 2008 Richard E. Driehaus Prize. His work includes the Quba Mosque (top) and the Oxford University Centre for Islamic Studies (above). Since Léon Krier was presented the first Richard E. Driehaus Prize for achieving design excellence in the classical tradition in 2003, the award’s stewards have sought to broaden people’s understanding of classicism in modern times. “It’s not about columns or construction,” says Michael Lykoudis, jury chair and dean of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, which administers the annual honor. “It’s about urbanism and how people
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill design partner Roger Duffy, FAIA, describes his SOM Education Lab as “a studio that is both independent and dependent on the bigger whole.”