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The redesigned web page of the AIA New York Chapter.
Credit to the A Daily Dose of Architecture blog
- National Audubon Society Manhattan Headquarters
FXFOWLE’s Manhattan headquarters for the National Audubon Society offers lessons in how to maintain green leadership
By Aric Chen
Some organizations jump through elaborate cost-benefit hoops before deciding to build a green office. But for the National Audubon Society, the choice was a no-brainer. When changing needs prompted the century-old, New York-based environmental advocacy group to move its headquarters elsewhere in the city, “We wanted to make sure we were maintaining our leadership in green architecture,” says John Flicker, its president and CEO.
Full article via GreenSource
By ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE
Brooklyn, N.Y.
May 13, 2009
Now that the age of irrational exuberance and outrageous excess is apparently over, can we please talk about real architecture again? It has been fun seeing just how far talent can stretch itself before achieving irrelevancy, but there are diminishing returns in watching more become less in an escalating game of real-estate toys for the superrich. It has been less fun to see how easily, and paradoxically, in a time of extreme affluence, the social contract that is an essential part of the art of architecture has been abrogated. Or at least driven under the radar by the kind of showy construction where creativity and cost are terminally confused. You do begin to wonder what happened to the art that could build with genuine grandeur and still serve and elevate ordinary lives.
The Saratoga Avenue Community Center's exterior with its references to earlier styles.
As the hype and the construction stop, there is much soul-searching talk by born-again architects about modesty, sustainability and social and environmental responsibility. But I find it hard to believe that those operating in the stratosphere of pricey self-indulgence in an undimmed celebrity culture really get it, or that they are having even a tiny epiphany. Architecture has always been the enabler of excess, for better or worse, and architects will succumb again to the same seductive pieties about cutting-edge design and a trickle-down theory that simply doesn’t work. Full article
Cross posted from WSJ
architecture, architecture critic, modern architecture, modern buildings
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ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE, Art Deco, Brooklyn, Carlo Scarpa, David Burney, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Ranalli, Housing Authority, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Raimund Abraham, Saratoga Avenue Community Center, Vienna Secession, WSJ
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