Katherine Guimapang provided an overview of the projects at Exhibit Columbus’ University Design Research Fellows showcase. Steven Ward chimed in "All excellent presentations and projects, and each remarkably (strangely?) appropriate to what I know about the schools from which their authors hail - from the enigmatic tech-box out of MIT to the precision and bespoke nature of the installation(s) from UVA. I'm most excited, though, about the Altshuler/Morrison/UIUC project as vital public space-making bringing new life to a bleak corner site."
Plus, while at the 2022 World Architecture Festival, Niall Patrick Walsh was able to have a conversation with Mario Cucinella the architect behind TECLA, the earthen 3D-printed house of COP26 fame.
A new report predicts that the global market for artificial intelligence in construction will experience significant growth (34.1% by 2031). monosierra commented "The report doesn't seem to be saying anything that hasn't been extensively reported already. You really have to attend workshops like McNeel's Shape to Fabrication to see the nitty gritty of what's actually being advanced in real projects."
Italian firm ASTM Group released a proposal that would radically alter New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden. Hannover wasn’t impressed "That's not a good solution. At all. It leaves Penn Station in the basement of MSG. The whole purpose of this is not to build a beautiful waiting room. But to build a decent station from lobby to track level. No plan that allows retention of MSG is even worth talking about."
Folks weighed in on the Studio Gang-designed Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation. archanonymous for one felt "The façade is the one part that...looks good since the formal language of the interior does come out to the street a bit, but it gets clad in a much more refined and considered material (and expensive) than the interior's shotcrete. This adds texture and complexity to what is otherwise a very direct translation of the metaphor they are using."
Moody’s Analytics declared pre-1980s office buildings ‘obsolete’ due to conversion costs. nostalgia believed this was "Ironic and idiotic, post-1980s is when the worst office buildings have been built overall" while to Richard Balkins it read "like it was written by a f---ing moron who doesn't know a single f---ing thing about architecture and even less about historic rehabilitation & adaptive reuse."
Chipotle has launched a new all-electric restaurant design pilot. Chad Miller questioned "If the building is 100% electric but the energy provided by local power grid uses fossil fuels to create the electricity is the building still green? I'm being serious. In a recent project we calculated that by going 100% electric the building would actually create around 27% more carbon emissions per year than if it use a combination of electric and natural gas." However, Janosh pointed out "Municipal energy portfolios are quickly moving away from fossil fuels. It's easier to convert the source feeding the grid for all-electric buildings than to retrofit buildings designed around gas down the road."
SWA Group unveiled plans for new 1,200-acre park in Irvine, California. jimblake had a suggestion "This scheme…is dull as f'ing hell…How about holding a professional peer-review of this conglomeration of eyewash and idiocy." Pillsbury11 added "It's tough to tell at such a small scale just what the proposed SWA planned park will be like. The notion of a peer review panel is not bad, but how 'bout running a national/international competition?"
Shijiangzhuang Poly·City Gather in Shijiazhuang, China by JLa (JAMES LIANG & ASSOCIATES LIMITED) and 44 Union Square - Tammany Hall in New York, NY by BKSK Architects, LLP are just two of the latest top images (in no particular order) from the Archinect Pinterest board Glass.
R.I.P., HOK CEO and Chairman Bill Hellmuth who passed away aged 69. Also Eric Llloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright's grandson, at age 93.
In April, Regina Troglin was working on a "Theatre Section" while Brian Cornwell a "Mountain modern build".
The folks at spatial practice, completed an expansion and renovation of the Lord House, off of Mulholland Drive, originally designed by Richard Neutra.
Lian Chikako Chang attended/live-blogged a panel discussion hosted by San Francisco Transit Riders on the role of public transit in fighting climate change. One moment of note, "skateboards, which are popular among younger people" got a shoutout. The same speaker also suggested that "Skateboard advocacy is still growing and is where bike advocacy was twenty years ago."
Orhan Ayyüce shared a short, personal take on EOM's latest: referencing context, sensationalism, teaching and theory, but promised more later.
With the season mostly at an end, at least in Northern Hemisphere, are you already looking ahead to next winter and thinking about a gig closer to the Pow’?
If so think about applying to:
The Boston Architectural College profiled the IPAL story of alumna Meredith Rutland.
In hiring news, Kansas State University announced architect Michael McClure as the new dean of the College of Architecture, Planning & Design. Over at Montana State University, Dean Adams is the institution’s next dean of the College of Arts and Architecture and of course someone had to say it
"congrats to Dean Dean."
Rossana Hu is the next chair of the Department of Architecture, at University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design
fenwayrabbit has a question about liability risk in a town without building inspection. Specifically, they are "an architect in MA" and a client came to them recently "with a vacation home project in a town in New Hampshire...I am very interested, but concerned that the town's regulation might conflict with the state of NH's requirement." JonathanLivingston’s take
"I would not think this arrangement places any more liability on you than it would previously or in a jurisdiction with greater oversight. If anything you may have less liability because of non-existent land use constraints that could create liability. Generally, AHJ inspection and review do not absolve you of any of your professional liability." Jovan Millet and Chad Miller added "the compliance part ALWAYS rests with the architect. In our drawings we have a code review and a report of special inspections. That is enough to show that we ensured compliance for codes and inspections."
Strange Cascades couldn't figure it out "Both at my current firm and at previous firms, I've noticed that the Partners and Principals never attend these lunch and learns. How peculiar!...So, how are they getting their Continuing Education credits?...how does everyone generally keep up with these credits in the most painless way possible?"
miyadaiku answered "I have to do the NCARB courses online since I'm overseas...it may be the most painful way if you don't really enjoy reading". msparchitect pointed out that requirements can differ. For instance in "NYS its every 3 years, not every year."
In reallynotmyname’s experience "My old bosses would use the firms money to travel en masse to the various annual AIA conventions and conferences and get all of their CEU's there. They wouldn't be caught dead at an in-office lunch-n-learn". bowling_ball provided some insight "Because I've got lunch meetings 4 out of 5 days of every week, really. No big conspiracy…the value in me knowing that there's a new air barrier that can be installed at -10c instead of -5c is almost zero - I pay others to know that stuff".
Finally, Chad Miller started a thread to collect architectural book recommendations. Wood Guy recommended two building science reads the first ‘A House Needs to Breathe--Or Does It?’ by Allison Bailes and ‘Water in Buildings’ by William Rose. atelier nobody put forward two classics "Ching's Building Construction Illustrated and Wiggins's Manual of Construction Documentation."
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