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Marlon Blackwell to design new air traffic control tower for Columbus Municipal Airport in Indiana

2023-12-19T14:09:00-05:00

Marlon Blackwell Architects has announced it will be designing a new air traffic control tower at the Columbus Municipal Airport in Columbus, Indiana. The $11.5 million project helps the airport modernize its facilities in line with current Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Control Tower design and safety standards.

Plans call for a 100-foot design to replace an aged-out 80-foot tower with help from a team that includes Woolpert (aviation design), Guy Nordenson (structural design), Thornton Tomasetti (façade design), and Threshold Acoustics (acoustic consulting). The project is being supported, in part, by a grant from the Cummins Architecture Foundation.

Marlon Blackwell was selected over other shortlisted finalists from Snow Kreilich Architects, SO – IL, and Höweler + Yoon.

“We are so honored to have been selected to contribute to the architectural legacy of Columbus,” Blackwell sa...

Michael Kimmelman explores New York City's iconic skyscrapers on virtual walks with Guy Nordenson and Annabelle Selldorf

2020-04-29T15:06:00-04:00

Over the years, architects have not been the only ones to inscribe New York’s skyline — the signature image of the last American century — across the urban ether. Among others, structural engineers, practical poets of often towering imagination and import, have also figured out how to scale those heights. Skyscrapers are team efforts, after all.

For his latest feature in a series of virtual strolls exploring iconic Manhattan skyscrapers with noteworthy building experts, NYT architecture critic Michael Kimmelman invited engineer Guy Nordenson to join him for a closer look at the midcentury, Eero Saarinen-designed Black Rock/CBS Building, the Postmodernist classic 550 Madison Avenue, formerly known as AT&T Building, and 432 Park Avenue by Rafael Viñoly.

If you missed last week's virtual walk around town, catch up with Kimmelman and architect Annabelle Selldorf inspecting Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson's Seagram Building, the MetLife Building (formerly Pan Am Building), 270 Park Avenue (originally known as Union Carbide building and currently being demolished by JPMorgan Chase), the Lever House, and 601 Lexington Avenue (once known as Citicorp Center) designed by Hugh Stubbins.

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Princeton SOA "Manual of Urban Distance" awarded COVID-19 research funding

2020-04-20T11:34:00-04:00

Princeton University School of Architecture Professors Paul Lewis and Guy Nordenson have been awarded a research grant by the Princeton University Funding Program for Rapid Novel and Actionable COVID-19 Research Projects fund to help propel the duo's work on "Manual of Urban Distance: Strategies for Reconfiguring the City," a guide that investigates "the challenges of physical distancing in urban settings and [explores] strategies that minimize the effects of potential resurgences of COVID-19 and other future pandemics."

According to the Princeton School of Architecture website, "Lewis and Nordenson's proposal focuses on the fact that distancing has been especially crucial in the dense urban environments of cities as the rate of infection in the world’s cities greatly outpaces that of suburban or rural areas. The density of the city, which has historically been considered its greatest asset, economically, socially and environmentally, is now precisely at odds with the realities of a...

Norman Foster, Daniel Libeskind, Guy Nordenson to speak at Innovators talk series at the MCNY

2014-05-05T17:44:00-04:00

Mark your calendars! Some popular architects will be speaking in the upcoming "Innovators" talk series at the Museum of the City of New York, starting tomorrow May 6 at 6:30 p.m... Accompanying the current "Palaces for the People" exhibition, each talk will explore the influence of the Guastavino Company, led by a Catalan father-son team whose architecture, construction, and design practices helped shape NYC's built landscape.

Below is the panelist line-up:

May 6 - Innovators: Building Design and Construction: Guy Nordensen (Guy Nordenson Associates); Valentine Lehr (Lehr Consultants International); Jill Lerner and Marianne Kwok (Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates); and Corie Sharples (Shop Architects)

May 14 - Innovators with Norman Foster: From Guastavino to the Moon: Lord Norman Foster and his engineering partner Roger Ridsdill Smith

July 7 - Innovators: The Uses of Tiles Today: Suzanne Stephens (writer, critic, and deputy editor of Architectural Record) as moderator; Daniel Libeskind (Studio Daniel Libeskind), Ingeborg Rocker (Harvard University GSD, Rocker-Lange Architects); and Matthew Karlin (president of Nemo Tile Company).

Find more details about the series on Bustler.

The House on Chicken Feet

2011-12-22T14:23:00-05:00

We were able to meet the Grimms’ strict design requirements by employing a slender tower design of vertical cylindrical stems that are joined by intermittent outrigger beams with a reinforced space at the very top for Rapunzel’s long captivity.

This week, Places has a holiday series on fairy tale architecture. Participating firms — Bernheimer Architecture, Leven Betts, and Guy Nordenson and Associates — have selected favorite tales and produced works exploring the intimate relationship between the domestic structures of fairy tales and the imaginative realm of architecture.

Baba Yaga's Hut, by Bernheimer Architecture

Jack's Beanstalk, by Leven Betts with Bret Quagliara

Rapunzel's Tower, by Guy Nordenson and Associates