To kick off 2022, Niall Patrick Walsh published A Guide to Employee-Owned Architecture Firms, based on conversations with "Those Who Have Made the Change". b3tadine[sutures] was struck "in light of SHoP and their union-busting efforts, this really puts esops in a poor light."
Can you believe that, prior to the January 2022 edition featuring work of Jason O’Rear, the last edition of In Focus was published in 2020?
Nathaniel Bahadursingh reported on the progress of LEVER Architecture's 843 N Spring Street, which is set to be one of the largest Cross-Laminated Timber buildings in Los Angeles. Folks noted it was in fact planned as a hybrid CLT structure and as EveryDay Architect explained
"Hybrid CLT is probably where CLT makes the most sense, at least based on current codes, construction, and markets…Hybrid structures with CLT for floor panels and a topping slab is probably the best option you have for showing off the most CLT with exposed ceilings...biggest bang for your buck."
OMA officially completed the Audrey Irmas Pavilion for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Koreatown. Koww didn’t know what to make of it, feeling there is "so much weird shit going on for no reason" but as randomised reminded "the reason is architecture".
News that a consortium of private developers are partnering with NYCHA on the upgrading of a 1,673-unit public housing portfolio, was met with suspicion by some. Yet while square. agreed "capitalism does indeed suck" they added "being in nyc housing, and know many people involved in this and other projects, it's not quite that clear cut…aside from the economics, the truth on the ground is residents are indeed getting safer, cleaner apartments, which should be acknowledged. the methods suck, but many of these buildings and the people living in them are in crisis."
According to the Guardian, Foster + Partners "almost doubled its profits as it expanded in the Middle East and gained new business despite pandemic lockdowns" for the 2020-2021 fiscal year. monosierra for one, appreciated the reporting as it provides an "Interesting and rare look into an actual architecture company's finances."
Sou Fujimoto’s House of Music opened in the Hungary, after almost six years of construction. archanonymous liked the "Really nice programming, parti, and planning" but wishes "the glass at the curved voids was curved and not faceted." Similarly bowling_ball thought the metal fascia shouldn’t "be faceted like that. I do like a lot of of what I see though".
The Royal Institute of British Architects awarded URBANA’s Friendship Hospital project in Bangladesh the winner of the 2021 International Prize for the World’s Best New Building, which kicked off an extensive discussion about: lintels, thin-brick veneer and the general non-existence of pure load-bearing bricks in contemporary construction. Gary Garvin weighed in
"I see nothing dishonest here, however. Expression overrides a strict sense of structure…this is architecture for the people. Compare with the cheap, expressionless crap most of us get stuck with and the exorbitant sterile designs for the 1%...Our sense of what a brick structure is here is pushed into something linear and delicate, yet durable."
R.I.P., Eberhard Zeidler, Ricardo Bofill and Hilario Candela.
Slab Hill Lifestyle Lab in Changsha, China by line+ and gad and Le One in Rennes, France by Christophe Rousselle Architecte are just two of the latest top images (in no particular order) from the board Architect Sure!.
Leigh Ann Black recently worked on a "Greenwood, Mississippi Police Department Addition".
AMADȮR released their proposal for the Low Rise Competition - A Queer Agenda which closed with this challenge "kill the R1…Change the zoning policy."
Looking for a new job? How about; as Junior Architect in Salt Lake City or Senior Project Architect in New Orleans. Maybe just Architect (with anywhere 5 - 15 years experience) in Helena, MT.
Or maybe you’d prefer something remote? CM Peck Inc., is seeking a "Project Architect with 4 - 10 years of experience to manage execution of complex single-family residential projects in the hillside areas of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Malibu."
Liqui Group completed a new coffee shop and flagship store for Brew92, located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Over at #BACbuzz, deancascieri celebrated the life of Bobby G. Foster and a new Memorial Scholarship in his name, which will support Black BAC Students in Architecture.
The 2021-2022 Editorial Team is pleased to announce the call for submissions for POOL Issue No. 7: Float. POOL invites submission of any form of communicative media and encourages both content endemic to academic publishing such as essays and drawings, and unconventional media such as comics, experimental films and syllabi. Submissions for print are due by March 7, 2022.
Trying to get your foot in the door of higher ed? Tulane University is accepting applications for a full-time, benefits-eligible, 9-month non-tenure track teaching position at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor, in Urban Studies. Applicants should submit all materials by April 1st.
Chad Miller has found cartoon sets "a bit cumbersome" but was curious "For those of you who do use cartoon sets how do you like to do them? What types of media / programs to do you like to do them in?" Answers included "they're loose" to "I'll use Revit to wireframe a sheet set, then print it to PDF and paint it red with notes." Other key points were how early/late to start (DD vs SD?) and effort/ROI, where beyond a certain point it "falls into the realm of redlines" or can be used "to redline / pace myself with too."
Wood Guy wanted to talk High-tech translucent membrane. Specifically, for a "light shelf…and a see-through balustrade…My clients like to sail so I thought about sail cloth…Or polycarbonate, or some other modern, high-tech material".
A couple of folks recommended PMMA plus acid-etched glass was suggested "if you don't want 100% opacity." archanonymous recommended "Okalux…an incredible material. Pretty cost effective too as it just goes in the air-space of an IGU." Alternatively Wood Guy could "Spend tons of money on Corian" though personally atelier nobody was a sucker for original "sail cloth idea…would totally go down the rabbit hole of finding all the cool stainless steel fittings to detail out the connections."
Finally, RValu100 wondered "Is it time to update the climate zones?"
mightyaa answered "Actually on the litigation side I’ve had similar climate change ponderings…since code changes and regulations take so long to get updated (like most government stuff), how long before designers will be held to a standard higher than code minimums when it comes to climate events". Meanwhile Marc Miller linked to a paper which used climate-analog mapping for 540 North American urban areas, to identify the location that's a contemporary climate most similar to each urban area’s expected 2080’s climate.
ICYMI, Debbie Chachra wrote about "infrastructure, technology, what I’m optimistic about" and the challenge of anthropogenic climate change, aka Bodies, agency and infrastructure, for Comment Magazine.
Therein she argues "we can begin to transform our technological systems into systems of compassion, care, and resource-sharing at all scales, from the individual level, through the level of cities and nations, all the way up to the global."
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