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Winners of New Practices New York 2016 announced

2016-02-10T12:49:00-05:00

Judged by a five-member jury including Architect's Newspaper editor-in-chief William Menking and Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MOMA Martino Stierli, the 2016 New Practices New York winners are MODU, SCHAUM/SHIEH, stpmj, Studio Cadena, Taller KEN, and the suitably-named Young Projects. Some of the award-wining work includes a "sliding screen partition made from folded, polished stainless steel" by Young Projects in Tribeca:

stpmj garnered the award by submitting their Shear House project, an environmentally sensitive house sited in Yecheon, Korea:

Meanwhile, Taller KEN used an inventive moulded fiberglass element for their Zona 14 House in Guatemala City:

Facades+ makes its Miami debut this September

2015-08-06T13:34:00-04:00

Miami is hot right now—and not just because it's midsummer. The city, which is in the midst of a building boom, is of necessity a model of sustainable building practices and extreme-weather preparedness.

Thanks to local AEC professionals' experience grappling with high winds, hot and humid conditions, and the threat posed by rising sea levels, Miami is the perfect place to talk about high-performance building envelopes. Many of the industry's top designers, fabricators, researchers, and students will gather to do so this September 10–11, at the South Florida debut of Facades+.

Facades+ Miami is the latest iteration of the popular Facades+ conference series, previously held in cities including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Dallas. Over two days, experts and practitioners dig deep into city-specific (but universally applicable) issues like designing resilience, and explore new technologies and methods using real-world examples.

Pérez Art Museum Miami. (Ines Hegedus-Garcia / Flickr)...

New Editor at The Architect's Newspaper

2012-08-16T14:00:00-04:00

[Alan] Brake will be taking over as executive editor at the end of the month, when Julie Iovine steps down. A veteran of The New York Times, she has led the paper for almost six years, including a vast expansion online that has seen considerable gains in web traffic, as well as the launching of new editions of the paper and conferences.

In his role as executive editor, Brake, who has been at the paper for three years, wants to add more criticism to the paper and more visual story telling. In recent years, as the recession has dampened the focus on high-end, high-design work, the focus has shifted to urbanism and landscape architecture, two areas in which Brake wants to continue to focus.