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Please join us for drinks and socializing next Friday, April 29th, in New York City, at the Samsung Experience space in the Time Warner Building, for a celebration of the launch of Archinect v3.0, and a very special announcement of an exciting new alliance formed by Archinect, Designer Pages... View full entry
Thursday April 21 Van Alen Books Launch Party, New York, NY Lecture by Ogrydziak Prillinger, Bellevue, Washington Friday April 22 Interpretations: Exhibition Practice, New York, NY PIDGIN Magazine #10 Launch, New York, NY Kim Beom, Los Angeles, CA Saturday April 23 Triangle... View full entry
Art=Relief is a benefit art auction to raise funds and awareness for earthquake relief efforts in Japan. General Architecture Collaborative is organizing the event to bring together the community of emerging and established artists from the New York area and beyond, in service of another... View full entry
Most buildings in New York will undergo renovation over the next twenty years. A number will also get demolished. As well, many building enclosures will soon need replacement, particularly post-WW2 curtain wall buildings. Gut renovations of office spaces take place on a regular basis. There is great opportunity to re-imagine and reduce energy consumption in all these buildings. — huffingtonpost.com
Our friend Jacob Slevin talks to Ed Mazria, sustainable architecture activist and founder of Architecture 2030, about changes he envisions for NYC and beyond. View full entry
The sculptural form is meant to advertise the center's building-innovation mission. The low, sloping volume encloses tall industrial space for experimentation, while the higher slab building houses labs that focus on a variety of evolving technologies, like indoor air quality. — James S. Russell, Bloomberg
Described as a building "advertising its construction- innovation mission with an angle here, a kink there," the recently opened $41,000,000 and 55,000-square-foot Syracuse Center of Excellence, an incubator dedicated to energy conservation, is a laboratory for sustainable building and energy... View full entry
When you approach the High Line in the Chelsea neighborhood on the lower west side of Manhattan, what you see first is the kind of thing urban parks were created to get away from—a harsh, heavy, black steel structure supporting an elevated rail line that once brought freight cars right into factories and warehouses and that looks, at least from a distance, more like an abandoned relic than an urban oasis. — NGeo
The Buckminster Fuller Institute announced the Semi-Finalists for the 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The jury will select a winner who will be revealed at a public ceremony in New York in early June 2011. The winner will be presented with the OmniOculi sculpture and the $100,000 prize money to honor and encourage further development of their work. — bustler.net
An international competition - the "urbanSHED International Design Competition" - was held to challenge the design community to create a new standard of sidewalk shed. The competition winner, “Urban Umbrella,” was developed by Young-Hwan Choi, a 28-year-old student from the University... View full entry
At the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, people are communicating directly with people on London's South Bank. The two 'Telectroscopes' are the creation of artist, Paul St George using a fibre optic link up between the two cities. BBC View full entry
Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy has never lived in the 176 Perry Street triplex he bought for $17.57 million five years ago, but it still may go down as the best home he ever owned. That's because Joy is looking to get a whopping $40 million for the 11,000-square-foot slab of Richard Meier minimalism, a nice profit even after hiring Meier to also design the interior. — Curbed
Curbed shows us what $40mil will get you in NYC's Meier-designed Perry tower. View full entry
