For the first Studio Snapshots of 2024, Alexander Walter had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and Chris Brown, founding partners of Portland, Oregon-based Linden, Brown Architecture. Noah Walker liked what he saw: "Beautiful work."
Plus, Niall Patrick Walsh lays out how Creativity Won’t Protect Architects from Automation — But Labor Unions Might. Responding to Thayer-D’s comment, Janosh writes: "Unions make a ton of sense in disciplines where there is significant profit being inequitably distributed - that's definitely not the case in Architecture as profit margins continue to fall".
Steven Holl Architects Terezín Ghetto Museum project in the Czech Republic is getting closer to groundbreaking. Gary Garvin is hoping "Holl redeems himself here…I'm curious about the interior."
KPF released new images of a supertall tower, 520 Fifth Avenue, currently under construction in Midtown Manhattan. gwharton tried to summarize folks complaints "I think the reaction to the repetitive motif here is not actually about the motif…The problem is two-fold".
LACMA’s Unframed blog profiled the work of contractor Clark Construction who is building the concrete structure for the Peter Zumthor-designed $750 million new David Geffen Galleries extension. Janosh was not impressed "This project has a long way to go just in order to expectations and justify the amount of goodwill towards the institution that Govan burned up."
In business and economic news, a new study forecasts a rise in the global demand for architectural services, and January's Momentum Index and construction starts data from Dodge Construction Network showed minor increases. Meanwhile, the AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index for the month of January signaled a continued weakening in business conditions with a score below 50, which was still a slight rise from the previous month.
Herzog & de Meuron shared updated renderings and a virtual flythrough for their Lusail Museum in Doha. Contra some commentators Will Galloway felt they showed "strong interior spaces in spite of being part of what can only be called a massive sculptural object. That is not an easy thing to pull off."
An official groundbreaking date for Gehry Partners' $335 million Colburn School campus expansion was announced. Orhan Ayyüce was impressed: "Beautiful building design…It provides pedestrian access to L.A.'s cultural playground with two major museums and from the hill to downtown Los Angeles."
Gensler will overhaul JPMorgan Chase's aging Chicago headquarters in the South Loop. Donna Sink was worried as she adores, "this building…I sincerely hope the upgrades don't change the exterior presence at all." reallynotmyname agreed "The original owner, First National Bank, built the place to a very high standard of quality materials, public art, and open space."
R.I.P. Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects co-founder Marsha Ann Maytum.
Sam Church was recently working on "designing mid-rise mass timber housing for the ASCA Timber in the City Competition".
ICYMI Stantec and their project partners delivered six schools in 2.5 years for Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland.
Looking for work?
Or, Greater Indy Habitat for Humanity is hiring a new Staff Architect.
The votes are in for ‘Nectors favorites out of the 32 architecture school lecture posters featured in the Fall '23 Get Lectured series.
ACSA announced the winners of the 2024 Architectural Education Awards, with University of Miami professor Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk clinching the Topaz Medallion.
The University of Hong Kong Applications is already reviewing applications for their Professor in the Department of Architecture position and will "continue until April 21, 2024, or until the post is filled".
Inspired by a neighbor's creative solution to an ADU-related zoning quirk, Donna Sink asked: "Anyone have other examples of saying $&?! the rules?"
Wood Guy, bowling_ball and others referenced various hijinks of facadism and jurisdictional specifics of "renovation vs new construction loophole". For instance, atelier nobody offered a fun example regarding setbacks and a "first floor cantilevered out in all 4 directions."
To JonathanLivingston there seems "to be a lot of bots lately." The Big Green Head jumped in: "Can you provide any specific examples OP? Every day our moderators spend a lot of time dealing with spam" and recommended the "flag comment" feature.
Everyday Architect seconded that: "I've always found Archinect very responsive to flagged comments. Usually they get removed within a few minutes. The mods do a fantastic job, but they can't see or catch everything and users flagging comments do get their attention."
Later, the Big Green Head noted, "Archinect uses bot mitigation technology, so the comments you're referring to are 99.9% human-generated. It's extremely difficult to set up an Archinect account and post comments without being a human." They also broke the news that they are considering "comment-locking threads older than X years” and “making comments to old threads be reviewed prior to going live. or reviewing all first-comments from new users."
Finally, a.addesso was looking for advice "Is it time to just walk away from residential design all together? How do you get clients to agree to a 5% fee on a $1 mill where the competition is barely breaking 1%." ivanmillya is struggling with this too and thinks a key is learning to sell the full value architects provide, so architects aren’t just seen as "aesthetic designers." ‘Nectors appear to utilize a range of ways to calculate fees and made reference to terms such as NRPP (Net Revenue Per Person) and "net multiplier". Some also critiqued the "built-in assumption with time-based accounting (time cards, basically) that effort is a variable cost."
Back in January, Ben Yeoh Chats spoke with Hana Loftus (of HAT Projects), and their discussion touched on the similarities between Hana’s work with the Rural Studio in Alabama and in the plotlands of the Essex coast. Other topics include the tensions between managed retreat and resilience, adaptive reuse and the lifecycle of buildings, and more.
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