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Laura Raskin

Laura Raskin

Laura Raskin, a former editor at RECORD based in Brooklyn, New York, writes about architecture.

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New Architects Enlisted for Languishing Sagaponac Development

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Laura Raskin
March 28, 2011
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Image courtesy Houses at Sagaponac Click on the slide show button to see the new designs proposed for the Houses at Sagaponac development. Houses at Sagaponac was a project for a robust economy. In 2001, the late Harry Brown Jr. recruited Richard Meier to help lure architects, many of them famous, to design 32 modern, high-end residences for a 72-acre plot of land in Sagaponac, a village in the town of Southampton, on Long Island. Brown was hoping to beat back the number of traditional, shingle-style mansions cropping up in the area. Related Links: The Sagaponac Effect: Modernist Subdivisions Multiply
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CO Architects Designs New Dinosaur Hall for LA's Natural History Museum

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Laura Raskin
March 17, 2011
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Rendering by CO Architects Click on the slide show button to see more images of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. An intact, teeth-baring 33-foot-long Tyrannosaurus rex named Thomas is among the 20 dinosaur skeletons and 300 fossils that are moving into an upgraded space inside the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, located in Exposition Park. Designed by Los Angeles-based CO Architects, in collaboration with Brooklyn-based exhibition designer Evidence Design, the exhibition hall, at 14,000 square feet, is twice the size of the museum’s old dinosaur gallery. Never-before-displayed stars of the exhibition include a Triceratops and
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Höweler + Yoon Tapped for Boston Society of Architects Headquarters

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Laura Raskin
March 9, 2011
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Image courtesy Höweler + Yoon The new center will occupy a roughly 17,000-square-foot, two-story space in a new waterfront tower. In an effort to provide more services for its members and create a stronger public presence, the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) plans to move to a bigger, more visible spot this November. And after launching a competition to engage emerging architects and solicit the best ideas for the new center, the BSA has selected Höweler + Yoon Architecture’s attention-grabbing design. The new center will occupy a roughly 17,000-square-foot, two-story space the BSA is renting in a new waterfront tower.
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What Next: June Williamson

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Laura Raskin
January 16, 2011
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June Williamson is an associate professor at the School of Architecture at The City College of New York and the coauthor, with Ellen Dunham-Jones, of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs.


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L.E.FT

L.E.FT distills politics into design at different scales, using utopian experiments to inform real-world projects from beleaguered Beirut to the turf wars in our own homes.
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Laura Raskin
December 16, 2010
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With the name of their design firm — L.E.FT — Makram el Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine tip us off to their ideology and offer a partial clue pointing to the location of their first New York City office, on the Lower East Side.
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Robert A.M. Stern Wins Driehaus Prize

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Laura Raskin
December 14, 2010
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The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture announced today that Robert A.M. Stern has won the 2011 Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. Photo courtesy Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP Stern has won the 2011 Driehaus Prize, which is bestowed by the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Related Links: Driehaus Prize Given to Egyptian Architect Duany and Plater-Zyberk Donate Driehaus Winnings The annual award, established in 2003 by the university, recognizes architects and urban planners who spend their careers championing traditional design principles with sensitivity to region and context. “Bob brought tradition into the mainstream of
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Greg Lynn, Teddy Cruz Win $50,000 USA Awards

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Laura Raskin
December 8, 2010
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Photo courtesy estudio teddy cruz Manufactured Sites: Housing Urbanism Made of Waste, Teddy Cruz, 2008. Click on the slide show button to view more images. On Tuesday night, architects Greg Lynn and Teddy Cruz were named United States Artists Fellows for 2010, and they celebrated the no-strings-attached gifts of $50,000 at a reception at New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center. Fifty other artists from the U.S. and Puerto Rico also received the fellowships, which have been distributed annually since 2005. About 450 people attended the lively event, where dancers, musicians, actors and others—all current or former fellowship recipients—performed against a
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Five Young Firms Vying to Design MoMA PS1 Installation

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Laura Raskin
December 6, 2010
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Photo courtesy MoMA PS1 The MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program was launched in 2000. Click on the slide show button to view past installations (pictured: Dunescape, SHoP Architects, 2000). MoMA PS1 takes a gamble when it selects finalists for its Young Architects Program, which each year gives emerging designers the chance to design an installation for a 10,000-square-foot triangular courtyard at the Queens art center. The entrants don’t initially propose schemes; rather, they are selected to compete in the competition’s final stage based on the ingenuity of their past work. “There’s enormous suspense because we really don’t know what these
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Daniel Libeskind’s Line of Fire

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Laura Raskin
December 1, 2010
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Photo courtesy Christine McMonagle/The Jewish Museum “Daniel Libeskind’s Line of Fire” runs through January 30, 2011, at The Jewish Museum in New York. Libeskind designed the exhibition using 40 menorahs from the museum’s collection. Click on the slide show button to see images. Daniel Libeskind’s building signature is often characterized by a lightning-bolt scrawl, clearly visible in his designs for The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and even “Villa Libeskind,” the prefab housing line he launched in 2010.  The latest rendition of the architect’s signature can be found in a small gallery in The
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Harvard Digital Images and Slide Collection

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Laura Raskin
November 15, 2010
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The Digital Images and Slide Collection at Harvard College’s Fine Arts Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, houses more than 750,000 images in 35-millimeter-slide and digital formats.


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