Crafting the Interview 2: Portfolio + Resume Review Day
The New York Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects [NYCOBA]has planned a Portfolio + Resume review day for graduating college seniors and young professionals seeking feedback on their portfolio as well as some advice about the interview/job hunting process.
The event will offer one on one break-out sessions and a panel discussion comprised of professionals representing different sectors of the architectural + design community. The event is intended to be practiced for potential interviews and to gain an understanding of current job trends. Come with a complete portfolio and at least 6 copies of your resume and cover letter. If you plan on showing a multimedia presentation then be prepared to have wrk samples in multiple medias & platforms. Prepare your Portfolio and get ready to be engaged!
The event will take place on Saturday, April 16th 2011, between 11:00am and 5:00 pm at the Office of Perkins + Will: 215 Park Avenue South, 4th Floor. Admission is free for NYCOBA/NOMA members. $15 for NON Members up to April 14th and $25 after April 14th. Space is limited, so reserve your space now! Register at events@nycoba.org.
AD Classics: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University / I.M. Pei
With a desire to make a dramatic statement while maintaining an optimal amount of scenic views, transparent open spaces and windows beautifully contrast the heaviness and boldness of the rectangular forms of concrete.
More on the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University by I.M. Pei after the break.
28 Old Fulton Street / Nandinee Phookan Architects
Architects: Nandinee Phookan Architects
Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
General Contractor: Giovannitti, LLC
Structural Engineer: Pennmax Engineering
MEP Engineer: Clifford Dias Engineering
Stair Manufacturer: Product and design metalwork
Project area: 3,700 sq. ft.
Project year: 2008 – 2010
Photographs: Tom Judge Photography
In Progress: Red Hook Green / Garrison Architects
Garrison Architects are completing designs for Red Hook Green, New York’s first sustainable zero-energy, live/work building. A completion date projected is summer 2011. This unique structure is expected to become one of the most distinctive architectural additions to up-and-coming Red Hook section of Brooklyn.
Architect: Garrison Architects
Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Project Area: 4,000 sqf
Renderings: Courtesy of Garrison Architects
80 Dekalb / Della Valle + Bernheimer
Located on the third floor of a residential tower, this amenity space combines a fitness center with a diverse entertainment program including screening room, gaming area, and demonstration kitchen. The boundary between these two programs is defined by a folded metal structure. This luminous patterned surface intersects the residential corridor to form the entrance.
Architect: Della Valle + Bernheimer
Location: 80 Dekalb, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Project Area: 2,600 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Della Valle + Bernheimer
Children’s Museum of the Arts / WORKac
With the small Chinatown site proving to be too confining for the growing Children’s Museum of the Arts, the institution secured a new space in Hudson Square, New York. Now that the new space is three times the size of the Chinatown site, WORKac has designed a museum where the activities are connected in a natural manner and are organized around a central colorful gallery. This dramatic increase in square footage will allow the museum to reinterpret the best parts of their current museum and add the new programs they had long desired.
More about the project after the break.
JetBlue Airways T5 at JFK / Rockwell Group with Gensler
Rockwell Group worked with JetBlue to re-think the airline’s brand concept and to re-imagine the T5 marketplace – a triangular retail and dining area where all three concourses will meet. JetBlue believed that the marketplace was the one area in its new terminal where it could fully exhibit its “JetBlue-ness.” In response, Rockwell Group expanded JetBlue’s brand concept by equating “JetBlue-ness” with “New York-ness” and created a marketplace interior concept that is bold, celebratory and affirmatively New York.
Architect: Rockwell Group with Gensler
Location: John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, New York, USA
Planner and Design Manager: Arup
Airside/Landside Civil Engineers: DMJM Harris
Construction Management: Turner Construction
Engineers: Amman & Whitney
Collaborator: Port Authority of New York and New York
Project Area: 55,000 sqf
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Nic Lehoux
New York by Gehry
The formal opening of the 76-story 870 foot skyscraper New York by Gehry (previously Beekman Tower) was held this past Saturday. In celebration with hundreds of guests, the occasion also marked the Pritzker Prize winning architects 82nd birthday.
New York by Gehry, located within the Lower Manhattan skyline, has a recognizable facade of stainless steel cladding appearing as draped fabric. Now the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere the building boasts 903 luxury rental units and 22,000 sqf of amenity space. A building under a lot of scrutiny during its design and construction phase, the completed New York by Gehry received remarks of praise from architecture critics stating that it is “the finest skyscraper to rise in New York since Eero Saarinen’s CBS building went up 46 years ago,” (NY Times) and from the New Yorker, “one of the most beautiful towers downtown”.
Our previous coverage of New York by Gehry including a short video about the design can be found here.
Symposium: ‘AFTERTASTE 2011: Immaterial Environments’
AFTERTASTE: Immaterial Environments will investigate aspects of interior space that are seemingly intangible yet highly perceived. What are some of the immaterial qualities that make up our surroundings? How do we better understand elements of interior climate, the physiological and psychological impacts, so that these become material with which we create and educate?
On April 1st and 2nd, designers, physicians, scientists, scholars and artists will come together to explore these questions.
Preceding the symposium, there will be an exhibition and panel discussion called Radical Shifts, documenting the transition from an ‘Interior Design’ to an ‘Environmental Design’ program at Parsons dating from the mid-60s, a predecessor to our current Program in Interiors. More information right here.
Chanel Soho / Peter Marino Architect
The new 4,170 sqf Chanel boutique, located in the heart of Soho, was inspired by the artistic feel of the neighborhood, and was designed to reflect its legendary spirit. The work of Peter Marino, the NY architect responsible for the design of Chanel’s worldwide boutiques, its interiors also draws inspiration from signature icons of the house and from materials reminiscent of the brand.
Project description and images after the break.
Architect: Peter Marino Architect
Location: 139 Spring Street, New York City, New York, USA
Project Area: 4,170 sqf
Photographs: Paul Warchol
AD Classics: United Nations / Wallace K. Harrison
Two years after the largest international peacekeeping organization was founded, the United Nations began searching for the location of their world headquarters. After numerous offers from cities around North America, the United Nations settled on a 17 acre plot of land on the banks of the East River in New York City after John D. Rockefeller donated the land. With the effects of World War II still looming throughout the world, the United Nations decided to invited prominent architects from the founding nations to work in collaborative, peaceful manner rather than holding a competition.
In 1947, the UN commissioned Wallace K. Harrison to lead the international design team to create their new world headquarters to be a symbol of the bright, peaceful future ahead that did not dwell upon the past.
More on the United Nations after the break.
AD Classics: The Brooklyn Bridge / John Roebling
As one of oldest and arguably the most cherished suspension bridges in New York, and perhaps the world, the Brooklyn Bridge is as valuable and breathtaking today as it was the day it was built. Designed by John Roebling in the late 1860s and completed in 1883 by his son and daughter-in-law Washington and Emily Roebling, the bridge changed the world’s attitude toward steel construction, revolutionized suspension bridge building, and transformed New York into the city it is today.
Update: High Line 23 / Neil M. Denari Architects
Alf Naman, Developer, and Erin Boisson Aries, SVP and Director at Brown Harris Stevens, announced that, the eagerly awaited residential tower by acclaimed Los Angeles architect Neil Denari, will be ready to welcome its first occupants on June 1st. Just as the High Line has reinvigorated West Chelsea, HL23 has participated in the radical transformation of the cityscape. HL23 now stands as a new beacon for the district that has firmly established itself as a major cultural hub. All interiors are scheduled to be complete to coincide with the opening of Section 2 of the High Line.
More information and photos of this project after the break.
Exhibition: Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
“Marcel Breuer and Postwar America”, an exhibition from the Breuer archives, is on display through March 29 in Slocum Gallery at Syracuse University School of Architecture. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting 13 of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.
The show was curated by architecture students as part of a seminar on the Bauhaus architect taught by visiting professor Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, with Jonathan Massey, Syracuse Architecture associate professor and undergraduate chair. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center (SCRC). Hours M-F, 9-5. Closing reception March 22 at 5 pm.
For more information, click here.
Light Loft / Fabrica 718
Architects: Fabrica 718
Project Team: Cara Solomon, Minyoung Song, Kim Letven, Michael Brehmer, Natalya Egon, Abigail Coover, and Corey Yurkovich
Location: Soho, New York City, NY, USA
Architect of Record: Melissa Cicetti, AIA
MEP Engineer: D’Antonio Consulting
Expediter: JAM
Project area: 1,850 sq. ft.
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Sean Hemmerle
Myrtle Hall / Wasa/Studio A
Architects: Wasa/Studio A
Location: Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, USA
Partner in Charge: Jack Esterson, AIA
Project area: 120,000 sq. ft.
Photographs: Alexander Severin RAZUMMEDIA, Wasa/Studio A
Quick Response Codes for New York
It has become standard to check the stock market, book a flight, and find a restaurant using our phones…but to review building permits? Starting today, Mayor Bloomberg of New York announced the Quick Response code that will allow New Yorkers to simply scan the bar code located on construction permits to access information about a specific building or construction site. The information given will share the “approved scope of work, identities of the property owner and job applicant, other approved projects associated with the permit, [and] complaints and violations related to the location,” explained the Mayor in a press release.
What do you think of this new feature? More about the latest app after the break.
Commonthread: Hyperlocal Community for Global Applications / HTDSTUDIO
This community prototype, designed by HTDSTUDIO, calls for a targeted approach to true sustainability and a cost effective model as key residential, commercial, cultural and institutional components reside on the same one block site. It is a de-facto return to the true, urban planning model (at least from a practical standpoint) that came to prominence in the 19th and 20th Centuries. This model proved most sensible where most goods and services were locally provided to the neighborhood. The advantage is that residents would have essential elements of their neighborhood within walking distance of less than one city block; in this case the study is in the Gowanus – Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York. More images and architects’ description after the break.
HSU House / EPIPHYTE Lab
Architects: EPIPHYTE Lab
Location: Ithaca, New York, USA
Design Principals: Dana Čupková, Kevin Pratt
Design Team: Man Kim, Jamie Pelletier, Travis Fitch, Monica Freundt, Kyriaki Kasabalis
General Contractor: Paul Hansen Construction
Structural Engineer: Gary Bush P.E.
Stair Fabrication: BuildLab
Mass Wall Form-work Fabrication: SCCM, LLC; Frank Parish
Landscape: The Plantsmen
Project area: 3,900 sq. ft.
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Susan & Jerry Kaye
Hall & Partners, Branding Research Agency / Fabrica 718 + Corey Yurkovich
Architects: Fabrica 718 + Corey Yurkovich
Location: 19th Floor, 711 Third Avenue, New York City, NY, USA
Project team: Cara Solomon, Mike Brehmer, Minyoung Song, Kim Letven, Natalya Egon
Architect of Record: Melissa Cicetti, AIA
Client: Hall & Partners
Graphic Designer: WSDIA
MEP Engineer: D’Antonio Consulting
Acoustic Engineer: Acoustic Dimensions
Expediter: Milrose Consulting
Project area: 15,000 sq. ft.
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Floto+Warner, Sean Hemmerle
One Jackson Square / KPF
KPF transformed an existing surface parking lot into a mixed use development within Greenwich Village of Manhattan that received an AIA Honor Award. Considering the neighborhood fabric the design for One Jackson Square literally reflects its surroundings through its glazed facade and incorporates sustainable practices including green roofs and rainwater harvesting. This project has received numerous awards for its integrated design including: SARA/NY Urban Contextual Award (2010), NY Construction Award of Merit (2010); Chicago Athenaeum/Europe American Architecture Award (2010); AIA NY State Award of Merit (2010), and the MIPIM AR Future Project Awards Commendation (2007).
Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Design Principal: William Pedersen, FAIA
Design Principal: Trent Tesch, AIA
Project Manager: Dominic Dunn, AIA
Project Team: Albert Lin, Michael Kokora, Lauren Schmidt
Contractor: Hunter Roberts Construction Group
Associate Architect: Schuman Lichtenstein Claman Efron
Structural: Gilsanz Murray Steficek
MEP: WSP Flack & Kurtz
Vertical Transportation: Jenkins & Huntington
Geotechnical/Civil: RA Consultants
Historic Preservation: Higgins & Quasebarth
Acoustical: Cerami Associates
Sustainability: Steven Winter Associates
Project Area: 65,000 sqf
Photographs: Michael Moran Studio, Paul Riveria, Raimund Koch, Trent Tesch
