Not so long ago, architects were struggling to keep their heads above water during the recession. Now huge investments in key sectors have led to a boom in design and construction. Is all this new money good for architects—and for architecture?]]> https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/1986 en-us Architecture is a cyclical business. Just five years ago, the industry was down in the depths, and now the profession, by most measures, is rebounding. 

]]> 1505.asp Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11211-money-changes-everything 1505-architects-give-back.asp Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/6869-continuing-education-architects-give-back Architects Give Back Through his family trust, London-based architect John McAslan has initiated projects like the development of new schools and teacher-training centers in Malawi; the facilities were subsequently designed by John McAslan + Partners and Arup. Image courtesy John McAslan + Partners Architects Give Back Mikel Beaumont studied in the Mekong Delta as part of NBBJ’s 26-year-old traveling fellowship program. Photo courtesy Evan Conroy/NBBJ While bottom-feeding architects are as old as the profession itself, the business challenges facing most mainstream firms are unprecedented.

]]> 1505-how-to-make-money.asp Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/6870-continuing-education-how-to-make-money How to Make Money Pickard Chilton maintains that its buildings deliver a higher return. Last year, its 300 North LaSalle, a Chicago office tower completed in 2009, sold for a reported $850 million—a record for an office building in that city.   Photo © Scott McDonald/Hedrich Blessing How to Make Money Gluck+ says design-build reduces construction-phase inefficiencies. On the Cary Leeds Center—a nearly complete clubhouse for a nonprofit that offers tennis lessons and tutoring to New York children—the approach helped the firm avoid costly change orders.   Image courtesy Gluck+ How to Make Money Among Marmol Radziner’s many design-build projects is a Beverly Hills house for an investment advisor. The firm recently launched a residential-development unit and will do everything from buying the land to marketing the completed houses.   Photo © Barry Schwartz 1505-is-bigger-better.asp Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/6871-continuing-education-is-bigger-better 1505-top-10-business-tips-for-architects.asp Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/6874-top-10-business-tips-for-architects 1505-top-travel-fellowships-for-young-designers.asp Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/6875-top-travel-fellowships-for-young-designers These projects are ranked on the basis of hard construction costs (including labor and materials, but excluding equipment, land, and design fees). Construction for these projects started between January 1, 2013, and February 28, 2015.

]]> 1505-top-10-big-ticket-buildings.asp Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5921-top-10-big-ticket-buildings Top 10 Big-Ticket Buildings Project: Apple Campus 2; Cost: $2.5 billion; Architect: Foster + Partners; Location: Cupertino, CA Top 10 Big-Ticket Buildings Project: Salt Lake City International Airport Terminal Redevelopment Program; Cost: $1.8 billion; Architect: HOK; Location: Salt Lake City Top 10 Big-Ticket Buildings Project: California Pacific Medical Center Van Ness and Geary Campus Hospital for Sutter Health; Cost: $980 million; Architect: SmithGroupJJR; Location: San Francisco Top 10 Big-Ticket Buildings Project: Nordstrom Tower; Cost: $957 million; Architect: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture; Location: New York City Top 10 Big-Ticket Buildings Project: New Atlanta Stadium; Cost: $948 million; Architects: HOK, TVSA, Goode Van Slyke Architecture, Stanley Beaman & Sears; Location: Atlanta Top 10 Big-Ticket Buildings Project: Comcast Innovation and Technology Center; Cost: $931 million; Architects: Foster + Partners, Kendall/Heaton Associates, Gensler, Daroff Design; Location: Philadelphia Top 10 Big-Ticket Buildings Project: MGM National Harbor Casino; Cost: $925 million Architects: HKS, SmithGroupJJR, Hamilton-Anderson Associates; Location: Oxon Hill, MD Top 10 Big-Ticket Buildings Project: High Performance Computing Center II; Cost: $861 million; Design-Builder: Hensel Phelps/Kiewit; Location: Fort Meade, MD Top 10 Big-Ticket Buildings Project: 53W53; Cost: $861 million; Architects: Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Adamson Associates Architects, SLCE Architects, The Office of Thierry W Despont; Location: New York City   Rendering courtesy Hayes Davidson for Hines Top 10 Big-Ticket Buildings Project: New Stanford Hospital; Cost: $830 million; Architects: Rafael Vi'oly Architects, Lee, Burkhart, Liu; Location: Palo Alto, CA   Rendering courtesy Rafael Vi'oly Architects If all goes as planned, Midtown Manhattan will soon add a high-rise to its skyline substantially taller than the Empire State Building.

]]> 1505-blurred-lines.asp Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5914-public-private-partnerships Blurred Lines One Vanderbilt, a 64-story tower designed by KPF may rise beside New York's Grand Central Terminal in exchange for civic improve'ments such as a commuter waiting room (at the tower's base) and pedestrianizing the street.   Image courtesy KPF Blurred Lines One Vanderbilt's tapering design protects Chrysler Building views as seen from Bryant Park.   Image courtesy KPF Blurred Lines In Austin, Texas, the Waller Creek restoration project, by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and Thomas Phifer & Partners, will connect existing parks and add new ones.   Image courtesy Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and Thomas Phifer & Partners Blurred Lines In Manhattan, the Diller von Furstenberg Foundation plans to finance Pier 55, a $130 million park and performance space designed by Heatherwick Studio.   Image courtesy Pier 55 Inc. / Heatherwick Studio Blurred Lines A Whole Foods Market and Public School 59, both designed by SOM, were part of a public-private partnership in Manhattan.   Photo © Eduard Hueber Blurred Lines The Exploratorium's new home on piers 15 and 17 in San Francisco, designed by EHDD, includes a glass pavilion with an observatory.   Photo © Bruce Damonte It's not often that art, architecture, and wine-making come together as a cultural statement. Unless, of course it occurs in France, which prides itself on its own special savoir vivre. Ironically, the person behind this sensual conjunction at Chateau La Coste in Provence, where a winery has been enlivened with works of architecture and sculpture, is an Irishman, Patrick (Paddy) McKillen.

]]> 1505-chateau-lacoste.asp Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5915-collectors-edition-chateau-la-coste Chateau La Coste The V-shaped structure juts out over a shallow pond where Louise Bourgeois's 'Crouching Spider 6695' (2003) hovers.   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste The owner of Ch'teau La Coste, Patrick McKillen, asked Tadao Ando to figure out how to welcome visitors to the architecture and sculpture park and winery. Completed in 2011, Ando's discreet gateway directs guests to his art center.   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste Walkways with benches extend from Ando's poured-in-place concrete art center into the verdant landscape.   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste Nearby, Jean Nouvel designed two barrel-vaulted structures in 2008 that are connected underground. They employ a gravity-flow production process for the biodynamically grown grapes.   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste Ando discovered an old stone building nestled in a grove of trees and restored it in 2011 for a chapel enclosed with glass.   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste The Ch'teau acquired Frank Gehry's Serpentine Gallery pavilion in 2008 after it had been exhibited in London.   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste The Ch'teau acquired Frank Gehry's Serpentine Gallery pavilion in 2008 after it had been exhibited in London.   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste Designed for concerts, it is now surrounded by a grassy amphitheater. The Ch'teau also purchased two prefab structures that Jean Prouv' created in 1945 for refugee housing and placed them to face each other across a pool.   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste Ch'teau La Coste, Arts Center   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste Ch'teau La Coste, Arts Center   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste Ch'teau La Coste, Arts Center   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste Ch'teau La Coste, Chapel   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste Ch'teau La Coste, Serpentine Pavilion 2008   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste Ch'teau La Coste, Art and Architecture Library   Photo © Alan Karchmer Chateau La Coste Ch'teau La Coste, Arts Center model   Image courtesy Ch'teau La Coste Chateau La Coste Ch'teau La Coste, Arts Center model   Image courtesy Ch'teau La Coste Chateau La Coste Ch'teau La Coste, site plan   Image courtesy Ch'teau La Coste Eli Broad has his name on several buildings by high-profile architects, including The Broad in Los Angeles by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, opening this fall.

]]> 1505-mega-patron-eli-broad.asp Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5916-mega-patron Mega Patron After building two separate billion-dollar businesses, Eli Broad (pictured here inside The Broad in Los Angeles during construction) turned his attention to giving.   Photo © Ryan Miller Mega Patron Eli Broad has his name on several buildings by high-profile architects, including The Broad in Los Angeles by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, opening this fall.   Photo © Iwan Baan Mega Patron The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA by Renzo Piano.   Photo © 2008 Museum Associates/LACMA Mega Patron The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University by Zaha Hadid.   Photo © Brad Feinknopf As you traverse the streets of Midtown Manhattan, the new skyscraper known as 432 Park Avenue pops in and out of view unexpectedly, hidden behind the Waldorf-Astoria at one moment, then looming menacingly over Lever House'a giant watchtower of blindingly white concrete with the proportions of an elongated toothpaste box stood on end. 

]]> 1505-the-high-life.asp Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5919-the-high-life The High Life Renderings of Rafael Viñoly's 432 Park in the cityscape.   Image courtesy DBox for CIM Group, Macklowe Properties The High Life Rendering of exterior   Image courtesy DBox for CIM Group, Macklowe Properties The High Life Rendering of restaurant   Image courtesy DBox for CIM Group, Macklowe Properties The High Life Rendering of a bathroom   Image courtesy DBox for CIM Group, Macklowe Properties The High Life Rendering of a living room   Image courtesy DBox for CIM Group, Macklowe Properties The High Life Rendering of a breakfast bar   Image courtesy DBox for CIM Group, Macklowe Properties The High Life SHoP's 111 West 57th with One West 57th by Portzamparc (to the left and right in photo, respectively).   Image courtesy SHoP Architects The High Life Rendering of facade detail   Image courtesy SHoP Architects The High Life Rendering of helipad   Image courtesy Extell Development Corporation The High Life Rendering of helipad   Image courtesy Evan Joseph The High Life Rendering of helipad   Image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects The High Life Rendering of helipad   Image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects The High Life Rendering of balcony   Image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects The High Life Rendering of pool   Image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects The High Life Floor-to-ceiling glass with sweeping views of the city and beyond are a major amenity of the supertalls.   Image © MIR, courtesy Perkins+Will The High Life Floor-to-ceiling glass with sweeping views of the city and beyond are a major amenity of the supertalls.   Image © MIR, courtesy Perkins+Will The High Life Artist's rendering of the future skyline of Manhattan.   Image courtesy New York YIMBY The High Life Artist's rendering of the future skyline of Manhattan.   Image courtesy New York YIMBY