Today’s News - Tuesday, August 25, 2020
● Sisson delves into how "Covid-19 has exposed the lethal vulnerabilities of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities - exposing a deadly dilemma at a challenging time," and talks to architects about how they're dealing with it.
● Darran Anderson delves into "why every city feels the same now. A return to vernacular architecture is overdue. If there is to be a habitable future, it will need to be vernacular" - not "monumental follies."
● Lamster bemoans the selection process for the team (led by Weiss/Manfredi) tasked with the transforming "the ugliest building in Dallas - the dreary" Dawson State Jail - into a gateway to a new park; by not including the public - "the result has the unfortunate appearance of a preordained outcome."
● Wainwright, on a brighter note, cheers "an astonishing variety of 20 postwar living landscapes and buildings being awarded protection" that includes factory ponds and a car park near Heathrow - "an eye-opening move that might make you look again at an innocuous bit of verge or a concrete bench."
● Luo Jingmei parses how architects are using biophilic design to "bring more greenery to Singapore - already a poster child for biophilic architecture" because of long-standing "astute directives and incentives that have supported the creation of a lush urbanscape, which has become part of our collective psyche."
● Edwin Slipek uses "a sublime and mind-bending" show at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as the jumping-off point to explore the Egyptian Revival treasures in Richmond.
● Poet, activist, journalist, and essayist Claire Schwartz brings us the fascinating tale of how (the mostly unsung) June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller "tried to redesign Harlem" with "a plan for public housing without displacing any of its existing residents, who often became the collateral damage of 'urban renewal.' Though 'Skyrise for Harlem' wasn't built, it wasn't a failure."
● Speaking of Harlem, Kimmelman takes us on another of his wonderful walkabouts - this time in "New York's most storied neighborhood" - with David Adjaye, who moved to Harlem with his family in 2015, when he was tapped to design a new home for the Studio Museum.
● Speaking of Kimmelman: Spencer Bailey's great Q&A with the critic re: "his lesser-known talents as a pianist, his three-plus-decade path at The New York Times, and his goal as architecture critic to build a greater discourse around designing cities that are better, healthier, and simply fairer for all": "As with all architecture, intent and result are very often not the same thing."
● Meghan Edwards' great Q&A with S9 Architecture's Pascale Sablan, "a deeply committed and passionate advocate for the marginalized and underserved" - and "the 315th living female Black registered architect in the U.S." (September 1 is deadline to submit to her SAY IT LOUD initiative that is elevating the voices and work of women and diverse architects and designers).
● NCARB launches its Destination Architect campaign, a new educational STEAM resource for aspiring architects and mentors, that includes a guide to earning and helps shorten the path to licensure.
● Sarah Holder talks to Brad Hargreaves, founder and CEO of Common, the largest co-living company in the U.S., re: his intentions in launching Remote Work Hub, "a public competition in the hopes that under-the-radar, more affordable cities will apply to host a housing and office project purpose-built to capture remote workers."
● Request for Proposals/RFP: Common's Remote Work Hub site selection competition. Stage 1 Expression of Interest/EOI deadline: October 16.
● ICYMI: ANN feature: Mary Ann Lazarus & Joyce Lee explain why they and a group of industry leaders launched a petition to the World Health Organization to work with industry experts to develop much-needed indoor environment guidance that is currently hard to find, contradictory, and minimal at best.
Winners all!
● Robert Booth talks to some of the six shortlisted architects in the U.K.'s Home of 2030 design competition, many who "hope to tear down garden fences of England's future homes. But entrants fear their designs will be resisted by builders determined to stick with existing blueprints."
● Egyptian Architect Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim, founder of Community Design Collaborative Abdelhalim, takes home the 2020 Tamayouz Lifetime Achievement Award - and eyefuls of some of his stunning projects!
● One of the Deborah J. Norden Fund 2020 travel grant winners "will explore placemaking tactics used in Brooklyn, Illinois, the first Black incorporated village in the U.S."; the other "will visit and study enclave communities for adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the country."
● The International Committee of Architectural Critics announced its 2020 shortlist for the Dennis Sharp CICA Awards for Architectural Criticism - Kamin & Kimmelman (two of our faves) are in the running.
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Patrick Sisson: Getting Old Needs a New Look: Covid-19 has exposed the lethal vulnerabilities of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities. Can better design make aging safer? For the entire multibillion-dollar ecosystem of senior living in the U.S...the pandemic is exposing a deadly dilemma at a challenging time...design trends have been pushing...more independence and social connectivity...But the deadly impact of the coronavirus is forcefully pushing back in the opposite direction...the true dimensions of the silver tsunami are only now becoming clear. -- Matthias Hollwich/Hollwich Kushner/HWKN; Anthony Vivirito/The Architectural Team; MASS Design Group- Bloomberg CityLab |
Darran Anderson: Why Every City Feels the Same Now: Glass-and-steel monoliths replaced local architecture. It’s not too late to go back: A return to vernacular architecture...is overdue. It can combat the placelessness that empires and corporations have imposed...[It] aims for harmonious interaction with the environment...The goal is not to replace glass skyscrapers with thatch huts, but to see vernacular as the future...rather than abandoning it to the past...If there is to be a habitable future, it will need to be vernacular: reengaging with people where they actually live rather than fixated on monumental follies. -- Mies van der Rohe; Minoru Yamasaki; Marwa al-Sabouni; Minnette de Silva; Lina Bo Bardi; Muzharul Islam; Jørn Utzon; Alvar Aalto; Vann Molyvann; Carlo Scarpa; Rifat Chadirji; Hassan Fathy- The Atlantic |
Mark Lamster: A makeover for the ugliest building in Dallas: Weiss/Manfredi has been selected for the coveted project to reinvent Dallas' notorious Dawson state jail, but like the jail itself, the process to get there was opaque - and raises serious questions about diversity: ...transformation would reinvent [dreary beige-block jail] as a gateway to the forthcoming Trinity Park [200-acre Harold Simmons Park]...Given the import of the commission, the Trinity Conservancy could have moved forward with a more public selection process, at minimum a public review of the finalists. Instead...the result has the unfortunate appearance of a preordained outcome. -- Malone Maxwell Dennehy; Mell Lawrence Architects; Michael Van Valkenburgh- Dallas Morning News |
Oliver Wainwright: Let's hear it for the Jammie Dodgers factory ponds! Everyday marvels win protection: From a car park near Heathrow to the water features of a Wirral biscuit factory, an astonishing variety of postwar living landscapes and buildings are being awarded protection. Is this a revolution? Historic England and the Gardens Trust want you to think differently...a fascinating new list of 20 postwar [sites]...an eye-opening move that might make you look again at an innocuous bit of verge or a concrete bench...refreshing list points to a time when parks, gardens and the wider public realm were treated with an ambition and level of care that we could do well to learn from. -- Beth Chatto; Geoffrey Jellicoe; Michael Brown; Eric Lyons; Roche-Dinkeloo; Dan Kiley- Guardian (UK) |
Luo Jingmei: How Architects Are Bringing More Greenery To Singapore With Biophilic Design: Singapore is already a poster child for biophilic architecture...Over the years, astute directives and incentives have supported the creation of a lush urbanscape, which has become part of our collective psyche even before biophilic architecture became popular in other parts of the world. -- Moshe Safdie; WOHA; RMJM; Thomas Heatherwick; Serie Architects; Tan Szue Hann/Singapore Institute of Architects; Grant Associates; WilkinsonEyre; Wow Architects- Singapore Tatler |
Edwin Slipek: Egyptian Revival Treasures in Richmond: “Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts [thru January 18, 2021] delivers a sublime and mind-bending experience...Richmond has a number of Egyptian revival structures built in the first half of the 19th century...Perhaps no Egyptian form is more ubiquitous than obelisks... -- B. Henry Latrobe; Robert Mills; Baskervill & Son- Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) |
Claire Schwartz: When June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller Tried to Redesign Harlem: The “Skyrise for Harlem” project speaks with resonant clarity in this summer of uprisings: ... a plan for public housing that was attuned to the well-being of 250,000 of the neighborhood’s residents, most of them Black...would transform Harlem without displacing any of its existing residents, who often became the collateral damage of “urban renewal”...15 fireproof, conical towers could take place above existing buildings...would contain...light-filled apartments of 1,200 square feet, each equipped with a balcony and parking spot...Though “Skyrise for Harlem” wasn’t built, it wasn’t a failure...- New Yorker |
Michael Kimmelman: A Walk Through Harlem, New York’s Most Storied Neighborhood: ...David Adjaye about Hotel Theresa, Marcus Garvey Park, the home of Langston Hughes, the Y.M.C.A. and other landmarks: Harlem is the American saga packed into one neighborhood, its architecture a palimpsest of African-American and Latino experience in the city...[Adjaye] began to explore the area while working on a mixed-used housing development...Sugar Hill, which opened in 2015. That same year he won the commission to do a new home for the Studio Museum in Harlem and moved to Harlem with his family...We “met” on 120th Street... -- Marble Fairbanks; SCAPE; James Cameron Mackenzie Jr.; Vertner Woodson Tandy; George Washington Foster; Costas Machlouzarides; Renzo Piano- New York Times |
Spencer Bailey: Michael Kimmelman on Building More Beautiful and Equitable Cities: ...more often than not [he] sees the bigger picture and, at the same time, injects his own shrewd, deeply studied understanding of the subject at hand...Q&A re: his lesser-known talents as a pianist, his three-plus-decade path at The New York Times, and his goal as architecture critic to build a greater discourse around designing cities that are better, healthier, and simply fairer for all.- Time Sensitive |
Meghan Edwards: 10 Questions With ... Pascale Sablan, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP: A deeply committed and passionate advocate for the marginalized and underserved...[she] often leads with the statement that she is "the 315th living female Black registered architect in the U.S."...founder and executive director of Beyond the Built Environment...showcases the work of women and diverse architects and designers...SAY IT LOUD has elevated the voices and work of 250 designers and architects..."being a great architect also lies in empowering those without a voice...Our charge is making sure the world is more equitable and just...to change policy that inches us closer to the inclusive and just profession and world that we all deserve." -- S9 Architecture; Aarris Architects; FXCollaborative- Interior Design magazine |
NCARB Launches Destination Architect Campaign for Aspiring Architects: The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards launched...a new educational STEAM resource...designed to raise awareness of the architect’s role and how to earn an architecture license through a video-based format...also highlights data-driven tips to help shorten the path to licensure.- ArchDaily |
Sarah Holder: The Race to Make a Better Brand of Home Office: The co-living company Common will have cities compete to host a housing and office project purpose-built to capture remote workers: ...presenting this site selection process as a public competition in the hopes that under-the-radar, more affordable cities will apply...the focus on individual workers demonstrates that the principles of economic development bidding wars may be shifting to a more employee-based approach.- Bloomberg CityLab |
Call for entries: Request for Proposals/RFP: Remote Work Hub: site selection competition to create a live/work product that addresses the challenges associated with the accelerated growth of the distributed workforce; Stage I Expression of Interest/EOI deadline: October 16- Common |
Robert Booth: Architects hope to tear down garden fences of England's future homes: Finalists in Home of 2030 design contest plan communal gardens to boost social integration on estates: ...six teams of designers to be teamed with volume housebuilders in an attempt to make the next generation of housing estates greener, healthier, better for elderly people and quicker to build...But entrants fear their designs will be resisted by builders determined to stick with existing blueprints for homes. -- Chris Brown/Igloo; Patrick Usborne/Perpendicular; Michal Pajakiewicz/Studio Open; HLM Architects; Outpost Architects; Openstudio Architects- Guardian (UK) |
Egyptian Architect Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim - 2020 Tamayouz Lifetime Achievement Award: ...established in 2014 as part of the Tamayouz Excellence Award programme, which champions and celebrates the best architecture worldwide...Over the last 40 years, he has...collaborated with some of the world’s most renowned architects...and his projects can be seen all over the world... -- Community Design Collaborative Abdelhalim (CDC Abdelhalim)- Bustler |
The Deborah J. Norden Fund 2020 travel grant winners: Alicia Ajayi will explore placemaking tactics used in Brooklyn, Illinois, the first Black incorporated village in the United States...Chris Starkey and William Doran will visit and study enclave communities for adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the country.- Architectural League of New York |
The International Committee of Architectural Critics shortlist announced for Dennis Sharp CICA Awards for Architectural Criticism 2020: ...four categories; CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award 2020, CICA Julius Posener Exhibition Catalogue Award 2020, CICA Pierre Vago Journalism Award 2020 and CICA Marina Waisman Digital Communication Award 2020...Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin, The New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, Rice Design Alliance editor Jack Murphy compete in the CICA Pierre Vago Journalism Award 2020 category.- World Architecture News (UK) |
ANN feature: Mary Ann Lazarus & Joyce Lee: The Role of Buildings in Combating COVID-19: As information on how to address the potential spread of COVID-19 via airborne aerosol emissions is hard to find, contradictory, and minimal at best, a group of industry leaders launch a petition to the World Health Organization to work with built environment experts to develop much-needed indoor environment guidance.- ArchNewsNow.com |
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