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An extraterrestrial presence on the Bronx skyline

2016-05-11T13:57:00-04:00

A 240-by-240-by-240-foot concrete fortress, as tall as a 24-story apartment building and all but windowless, rising north of Mercy College and the Hutchinson Metro Center complex...In recent years, motorists saw the structure clad with silver- and charcoal-colored aluminum panels. These were set in a saw-tooth pattern that makes the enormous cube blend gauzily with the sky or stand out like an impenetrably dark mesa

David W. Dunlap writes about a recent visit to the new Public Safety Answering Center (PSAC) II building in the Bronx. Designed by SOM, the project features the debut installation Active Modular Phytoremediation System designed in collaboration with Center for Architecture Science and Ecology' (CASE).

To learn more that system check out this article by Architect Magazine

The design never stops: WeWork acquires Case

2015-08-05T13:32:00-04:00

In the design process, you design buildings and then you leave them. You don't check on them. Every building we open, since space is our product, we can talk to our members. We can close the loop and continue to make our spaces better and put that feedback into new spaces. -David Fano

Traditionally, an architect's involvement stops once the building is constructed and the red ribbon has been cut. Clients and tenants often go on to populate pristine spaces with their own furniture and paint schemes, often to the chagrin of the original designer. But what if the architect's role could be extended into a kind of perennial interactive process, whereby clients and designers would continue to refine not only the physical work space, but the work processes that go on within them? Such is the potential for the acquisition of Case, an architectural consultancy firm specializing in building information and technology by WeWork, a global provider of co-sharing workspaces.

In an interview with Architect Magazine, new WeWork chief technology officer and chief development officer David Fano describes the pioneering potential for this new relationship, in which Case is able to transform recommendations into directives and then witness the real-world results. This enhances the c...

Revisiting CASE Conference Hosted by MIT HTC - 5/2/15

2015-03-12T12:25:00-04:00

Participants: CASE members Stanford Anderson, Anthony (Tony) Eardley, Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Robert Kliment, Donlyn Lyndon, Michael McKinnell, Henry (Hank) Millon, Jaquelin (Jaque) Robertson, and Thomas (Tim) Vreeland, plus Robert Goodman, K. Michael Hays, Sylvia Lavin, Reinhold Martin, Joan Ockman, Felicity Scott, Anthony Vidler, and faculty and students from the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program at MIT.

Michael Graves, a member of CASE, passed away on March 12, 2015. His life, and his contributions to architecture, will be long remembered.

In 1964, a group of young architects got together to form CASE, the Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment. Instigated by a young, recent doctorate from the University of Cambridge, Peter Eisenman, the group contained a swath of architectural intellects then newly stepping into American universities, many of whom would become formative institutional and intellectual forces in their own rig...