Today New York developers Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias unveiled the design of 56 Leonard Street, a 57-story condominium tower that is now under construction in Manhattan’s Tribeca Historic District. It will be the first skyscraper realized by Switzerland–based Herzog & de Meuron.
Oklahoma City is experiencing a second wind. Having transformed its river from a trickling Army Corps of Engineers drainage ditch into a series of connected lakes that are scullers’ paradises, the Midwestern capital is enjoying an urban renaissance.
Project Specs This Way Brooklyn, New York Linnaea Tillett and Karin Tehve << Return to article the People Client The City of New York, Percent for Art Program 31 Chambers Street 2nd floor New York, NY 10007 ph: 212.513.9300 http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/panyc.shtml DUMBO Business Improvement District 111 Front Street Suite 258 Brooklyn, NY 11201 ph: 718.237.8700 http://dumbonyc.org Artists Linnaea Tillett Tillett Lighting Design 172 North 11th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 ph: 718.218.6578 www.tillettlighting.com Project team: Stephen Horner, Kate Gardner, Seth Ely and Jennifer Bickford Karin Tehve K3TD, LLC 176 Grand Street 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 ph: 917.692.6042 www.kt3d.com Lead design
Project Specs Underground Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Elliott + Associates Architects << Return to article the People Architect Elliott + Associates Architects 35 Harrison Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73104 ph: 405.232.9554 fx: 405.232.9997 www.e-a-a.com Principal in charge: Rand Elliott, FAIA Project architect: Michael Hoffner, AIA Project team member: Joseph Williams, Assoc. AIA Structural engineer Wallace Engineering Structural Consultants 120 E. Sheridan, Suite 104 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 ph: 405.236.5858 fx: 405.236.2058 www.wallacesc.com MEP engineer PSA Consulting Engineers 3031 NW 64th, Suite 101 Oklahoma City, OK 73116 ph: 405.840.1901 fx: 405-840-1916 www.psaokc.com Audiovisual consultant Audio Video Design ph: 405.799.7555 Historian Pendleton Woods
Architecture tourists may think of Milwaukee as a destination thanks to the Quadracci Pavilion, the 2001 expansion to the Milwaukee Art Museum by Santiago Calatrava featuring a dynamic, wing-like sunscreen.
The fourth time was the charm for a young Vesa Honkonen. Only eight percent of applicants are accepted into Finland’s three university-level architecture schools, Honkonen says, but “I decided I would try for as long as it took, I felt it was my way.”
Project Specs Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Milwaukee, Wisconsin Focus Lighting << Return to article the People Client Marcus Center for the Performing Arts President: Paul Matthews Director of facilities: Dick Hecht Technical director: Eric Zaun Lighting designer Focus Lighting 255 West 101st Street New York, NY 10025 ph: 212.865.1565 fx: 212.865.4217 www.focuslighting.com Principal designer: Paul Gregory Lighting designers: JR Krauza, Josh Spitzig Project manager: Dan Nichols Electrical Contractor Uihlein Electric 12660 West Townsend Street Brookfield, WI 53005 262.781.1260 www.uihleinelectric.com the Products LEDs Color Kinetics (now Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions) www.colorkinetics.com www.philips.com Lighting controls ETC www.etcconnect.com
For architects Winfried Brenne and Franz Jaschke, restoring the 80-year-old ADGB Trade Union School, in Germany, was a case of subtraction. “The building was not in worse condition than others we had worked with,” Brenne says, “but it was more hidden under changes made over time.”