Yearly Archives: 2010
Instant View: July housing starts rise less than expected
NEW YORK | Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:06am EDT (Reuters) – U.S. housing starts rose but to a much weaker rate than expected in July, while permits for future home construction fell to their lowest level in more than a year, according to a government report on Tuesday that pointed to a weak housing market.
NYC Council Approves New Domino Project
The landmarked Domino Refinery complex will be preserved and adapted for residential, commercial, and cultural uses, including 30- and 34-story apartment buildings. Rafael Viñoly Architects developed the overall master plan as well as the conceptual design for all new buildings on the site; Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners developed architectural concepts for the refinery;
Choi+Shine wins BSA Unbuilt Architecture Award for Land of Giants
Brookline, MA-based Jin Choi & Thomas Shine of Choi+Shine recently received the 2010 Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture Award for their “Land of Giants” project. The project was originally submitted for an Icelandic pylon competition, where it received an honorable mention. The competition was to find a new typology for Iceland’s high voltage
Nonresidential Construction to Grow by 3 Percent in 2011
AIA’s Consensus Construction Forecast predicts a 20 percent-plus decline in nonresidential construction spending through 2010. According to the semi-annual Consensus Construction Forecast recently released by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the poor conditions created by a combination of surplus nonresidential facilities, low demand for space, declining commercial property values, and lack of available credit
Sydney, Australia’s “One Central Park” by Jean Nouvel Moves Forward
Jean Nouvel’s design for “One Central Park” in Sydney, Australia finally approved. Much more via Designboom here.
New Green H2Otel Hotel Planned for Amsterdam by Powerhouse Company + RAU
RAU and Powerhouse Company developed H2Otel, a luxurious and completely sustainable hotel for Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The project, a prototype for luxury hotel typologies, is shown at the National Design Triennial ‘Why Design Now?’ at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. Introduction How to make a hotel tower more sustainable? As a
Report: Unemployment High Because People Keep Blowing Their Job Interviews
WASHINGTON—With unemployment at its highest level in decades, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a report Tuesday suggesting the crisis is primarily the result of millions of Americans just completely blowing their job interviews. According to the findings, seven out of 10 Americans could have landed their dream job last month if they had known
A green answer to Vanity Fair’s architecture poll has its own blindspot
When Vanity Fair recently released the results of a survey ranking the most significant pieces of architecture of the last 30 years — with Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, topping the list — the poll was met with extended grumbling. Some people griped about the many architects, including Richard Meier and Daniel Libeskind,
Paul Goldberger Comments on Progess at Ground Zero
Question: How do you feel about the progress on One World Trade Center? Paul Goldberger: I’m disappointed in where things are at Ground Zero right now. I think it’s sad, on the other hand, I do think the people involved are trying reasonably hard, under the circumstances. But there’s really not a great deal of
245 10th Avenue may be eccentric, but at least it’s intentional
As a Manhattanite, student and practitioner of architecture, and lover of modern architecture I disagree with James Gardner, formerly the architecture critic of the New York Sun who states in his post (below), “…we must pray is not the future of architecture.” I like the unusual materials of these buildings and the unique sculptural elements they have.
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