new york NEW YORK
SOFTlab is producing an installation at the bridgegallery in the lower east side of Manhattan. For a month, starting August 26th,CHROMAtex.me will fill a small part of the world with one of our favorite things: COLOR! Please help us fill it with your support. We would love to see a name on every panel.
new york NEW YORK
With its third biennial New York portfolio competition, the New Practices Committee of the AIA New York Chapter is thrilled to recognize seven promising and innovative new architecture firms. These young firms—each has been founded since 2004—will be featured in an exhibition and programming at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, throughout the summer and fall, and will be featured in 2011 in an exhibition in São Paolo.
new york NEW YORK
Merit award from the New York American Society of Landscape Architects was recently awarded to Petra Mager, Alison Duncan, Sarah Ludington, Gareth Mahon, Stephanie Saulmon, and Julie Torres Moskovitz/Fabrica 718 for their project for the East River State Park.
This project integrates waterfront access, community art, educational opportunities, and the use of sustainably-designed technology to create a much-needed public space. This vision for the waterfront is now being used by park officials and local organizations as a roadmap for future park development.
rome ITALY
MAXXI OPENS: 30 MAY 2010
MAXXI_National Museum of XXI century Arts is a
Foundation established by the Ministry of National Heritage
and Culture.
It is the first national museum dedicated to contemporary
creativity thought as a great campus dedicated
to culture, a laboratory of experiment, study and research.
Thus, in the adventure of an institution so projected towards the future,
it was decided to carry out a grand public work with the innovative
and spectacular architectural forms of the architect Zaha Hadid.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
the american institute of architects los angeles chapter proudly announces the winners of the first annual arch is_ program.
congratulations to:
dwayne OYLER and jenny WU – oyler wu collaborative, los angeles, ca
tom WISCOMBE – emergent, los angeles, ca
the award ceremony and lectures are scheduled for monday, april 5 2010, 7 pm at sci-arc (960 east 3rd street, los angeles, ca 90013)
new york NEW YORK
MoMA’s department of architecture and design has acquired the @ symbol into its collection. it is a momentous, elating acquisition that makes us all proud.
image: ray tomlinson. @. 1971. here displayed in itc american typewriter medium, the closest approximation to the character used by a model 33 teletype in the early 1970s
los angeles CA + new york NY
david FREELAND + brennan BUCK announce the release of their website and recent collaboration.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
bentley systems, incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that jenny sabin and peter lloyd jones, workshop leaders and speakers at the smartgeometry 2010 conference in barcelona, taking place march 19-24, were recently recognized by the american association for the advancement of science and the national science foundation.
east lansing MICHIGAN
michigan state university will break ground on the iconic eli and edythe broad art museum at 10 a.m. tuesday, march 16, at the museum site just west of the collingwood entrance on the msu campus. the ceremony will be followed by a program at 11 a.m. in the pasant theatre of the wharton center.
both events are open to the public. the broads, who have donated $28 million for the project, and zaha HADID, the award-winning architect who designed the building, are expected to attend.
new york NEW YORK
evolo magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 skyscraper competition. established in 2006, the annual skyscraper competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organization. the award seeks to discover young talents whose ideas will change the way we understand architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.
