The city of Pittsburgh encountered and was transformed by modern architecture in an ambitious program of urban revitalization in the 1950s and ’60s. HAC Lab Pittsburgh: Imagining the Modern untangles Pittsburgh’s complicated relationship with modern architecture and urban planning. This experimental presentation at Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center includes abundant archival materials from the period, an active architecture studio, and a salon-style discussion space, unearthing layers of history and a range of perspectives.
United States
HAC Lab Pittsburgh: Imagining the Modern
Student Center at Georgetown University / ikon.5 architects
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Architects: ikon.5 architects
- Area: 45000 ft²
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Acurlite, Galaxy Glass & Stone, Gordon, Otis, Vancouver Gas Fireplaces
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Professionals: Robert Silman Associates, MCLA
BIG Replaces Foster, Unveils Plans for 2 World Trade Center
BIG has revealed plans for the fourth and final skyscraper planned for the World Trade Center site - the 2 World Trade Center (2 WTC) - confirming rumors that the Danish architect has replaced Norman Foster as the project's architect.
As announced by WIRED, the controversial take over is the result of James Murdoch's distaste for Foster's decade-old scheme and preference for a more integrated workplace. Though the foundation of Foster's building has already been built, the BIG scheme will now be realized and become the new headquarters of Rupert Murdoch’s media companies, 21st Century Fox and News Corp.
Designed as seven unique building stacked on top of each other, the stepped 2 WTC tower will rise 1,340 feet - a height that would make it Manhattan's third-tallest building if built today.
Watch Bjarke Ingels explain the concept in a video, after the break.
36 SML House / LEVENBETTS
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Architects: LEVENBETTS
- Area: 8000 ft²
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Eastern Architectural Products
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Professionals: Guy Nordenson and Associates, Tillotson Design Associates
House of Shifting Sands / Ruhl Walker Architects
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Architects: Ruhl Walker Architects
- Area: 2800 ft²
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Subzero/Wolf, VELUX Group, Acor, Andersen Windows & Doors, Baldwin, +14
Open Call: AECOM's 2015 Urban SOS Student Competition
In collaboration with the Van Alen Institute and 100 Resilient Cities, AECOM has announced its international Urban SOS: All Systems Go competition for undergraduate and graduate students.
The competition “calls on multidisciplinary teams of students to envision more resilient food, water, and energy systems for supplying cities and regions today and in the future.” Teams should “identify an urban population facing the possibility of disruption to its food, energy, or water systems, and offer strategies that strengthen these systems’ ability to withstand future shocks or stresses, while also making them more efficient, equitable, and accessible to diverse populations.” All “proposals must be located in one of 67 cities that currently make up the 100 Resilient Cities network.”
Intersections 2015
This event hosted in collaboration with the NSF TUES grant’s Center for Performative Design & Engineering Technology will consist of a series of presentations and panel discussions, aiming to instigate a conversation from different perspectives on the areas of data visualization, sensing, simulation, and artificial intelligence.
Wolf Creek Red Tail / Johnston Architects
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Architects: Johnston Architects
- Year: 2014
Exhibition: "Emotions from Pisa" by Stefano Pasqualetti
The author goes along with the observer in a photographic stroll through the colors, surfaces and lights of the Grand Tour City of the Leaning Tower, Pisa. "Emotions from Pisa" is more than a collection of fine photographs: it is an exploration of the dialogue between place and photographer. The “emotions” of the shots are recognized, captured and made available to us. Pasqualetti preserves moments which we often miss and teaches us to read and feel the messages sent out by places and buildings. He shows us the Pisa that we know and above all a Pisa that we never noticed. This collection of photographs does not only record the face of the city, here shown in ways which truly surprise and move. His photos also demonstrate how architecture, through its forms and its surfaces, can evoke emotions that are constantly changing, as sun and seasons take their daily and yearly paths.
Brooklyn Desks / STUDIOSC
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Architects: STUDIOSC
- Area: 10000 ft²
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: Roguebuilt
Janus Residence / Workshop AD
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Architects: Workshop AD
- Area: 2983 ft²
FBI South Florida Headquarters / Krueck + Sexton Architects
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Architects: Krueck + Sexton Architects
- Area: 375000 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: FabriTRAK®, Bega, Pentair, Sherwin-Williams, Zurn, +78
AA Visiting School NYC: Embedded Intelligence
Join us July 6-17 for a unique educational experience devoted to exploring the intersection of natural systems and advanced manufacturing.
Big & Small House / Anonymous Architects
The Crawford Hotel – Denver Union Station / Tryba Architects + JG Johnson Architects
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Architects: Tryba Architects, JG Johnson Architects
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Fil Doux
John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center - Phase II / Perkins+Will
Farmers Park / Hufft Projects
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Architects: Hufft Projects
- Area: 156400 m²
- Year: 2014
Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts / Machado and Silvetti Associates
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Architects: Machado and Silvetti Associates
- Area: 89000 ft²
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Acoustical Surfaces, Decoustics, Lutron, ACGI, Alkco, +27
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Professionals: Charles A. Gaetano Construction Corporation