Tidda Tippapart recently talked to Aurash Khawarzad ( founder of Change Administration + co-founder of the Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary collective DoTank) about the challenge of creating the post-Hipster city, gentrification, and what it means to (re)build New York City from the ground up.

"Mr. Miyakawa also worked for years as a model-maker for the architect Rafael Viñoly, Mr. Lim added."

(Published in One: Twelve Issue 4, April 2012.)

Peter Eisenman’s Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University has been typically understood through its relationship to and manipulation of then-current postmodern trends within architectural discourse. While the discussion about the building has been host to a plethora of theoretical issues (ranging from the historicity of quotation, to new forms of monumentality, to contemporary modes of estrangement, to architecture-as-collage, etc.) it seems that today certain shifts have caused the work to move to the fringe of current debates.

With the academic year in Blacksburg over, we moved into Clifton Forge last week to begin assembling the prefabricated portions we built over the past couple months.  We began by transporting all the preassembled modules by truck to the site.  Smitty's Welding has been operating a crane on site to erect the steel that supports the structure as well as place the roof panels and projection booth.  As of now we have the roof and side wall in place and are beginning to bolt down the backstage decking with the help of Commonwealth Contracting Services Inc. 

We were recently featured in an article on Virginia Tech's website, complete with photos and video.

STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS - NEW YORK

Steven Holl Architects is seeking talented designers with 4 years experience in all phases of the design and construction process to work on new projects in our New York office. Candidates should possess strong communication skills, technical abilities and leadership qualities.

Proficiency required in AutoCad, REVIT, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Premiere, AfterEffects, 3d Studio Max/Viz and Rhino proficient applicants will receive favorable review.

Salary commensurate with experience.

Built at the edge of a new park and small lake in the southwest of Amsterdam, the four slab-like towers each cantilever out over the public street, allowing the street to pass under the building at the entry, and they cantilever over the lake at the other end, where they face the park. Between the four towers, the naturally-lit and ventilated parking is placed underground, with plantings on the roof so that the landscape of the housing site is joined with that of the public park, and the glazed entry lobbies are experienced as being surrounded by nature. Unlike typical low-cost housing, the plans of the 11-story towers allow a wide variety of layouts, with the apartments able to be mirrored and shifted. Each apartment has covered outdoor patio that can be opened across the width of the living room, and in some cases, the living rooms are extended vertically into a double-height space. The façades of the four towers present the subtle overlapping patterns of the domestic spaces ins...

Xu Weiguo Studio SCI-Arc Fall 2011

The objective of this vertical studio is to utilize
digital diagram for form-finding. Digital
diagram, the combination of diagram and
computer technology, can greatly expand the
potential of the diagram.
The studio will start from understanding the
Chinese four arts: Qin (music), Qi (game), Shu
(caligraphy), and Hua (painting). Based on the
four arts, a physical experiment follows, which
will bring about the result of a complex physical
phenomena. After analyzing and research,
the rule system will be chosen in order to be
used for computer programming. Thus, leads
to the design a Chinese art museum located in
798 Art district in Beijing, China.
798 Art District is the only sector in the Chinese
society that is so publicly integrating political
thought into their public expressions. It is
a massive artists community filled with studios,
lofts, and stores.
Buildings have gained a re-birth with new functions
evolved naturally ...

To be precise, the opening ceremony for Tokyo Skytree is scheduled for Tuesday morning, May 22 at 9:15 a.m. local time.

Wiel Arets.

I don't know if he has accepted or not but he has been spotted making the rounds.

A candid conversation on the horrendous state of new construction in New York, with the crankiest of architecture critics, Ivana Force-Majeure, and Vice Magazine's Bob Nickas.

For the latest Working out of the Box feature Archinect interviewed Prutha Raithatha. Raithatha is actually a full-time  architect but also an experimental fashion blogger, stylist and writer. She writes a personal blog called Don’t Shoe Me that captures New York City’s rebellious street fashion and my personal experiments with styling in a storyline or an artistic concept all captured in cool photography.

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Philip Kennicott interviewed Frank Gehry and analyzed the current proposal for the Eisenhower Memorial and what has gone wrong to date with the process. Donna Sink, felt it "was an excellent article.  The slideshow is the first time I've really understood the urban context of this memorial, and OMG I love it completely now!  it makes a wonderful outdoor room, and the narrative opportunities of the tapestries are great. Bringing a kid to this memorial will be fun, as they'll be able to have a level of understanding one doesn't get with a Classical building or a simple f...

Mencke & Vagnby have, in co-operation with architect Peter Sand, completed a villa 300 M2 in Bali, combining Scandinavian traditions with the openness and materials traditional to Bali. The villa is called Ashoka Canggu and is designed as a summer residence for a Hong Kong based couple. It is located in the small Canggu village, one hour drive north west of Denpasar. The ground floor has an open plan and in close contact with the garden and pools, while keeping a scenic view over the rice paddies to the west. A surrounding wall of Balinese stone continues inside and becomes the main structure, to further blur the boundaries between indoors and outdoors. The same applies to the stone floor, which only changes surface structure from a rough surface around the pools to a slight matt indoor surface. All done to obtain the openness so typical for Balinese homes. In contrast to the openness of the ground floor, the first floor box is kept in white concrete, reflecting the sunlight and p...

The concept solution for this house starts from a compact block transforming, after several divisions and shifts, into an external broken-down form, result of the arrangement of the interior spaces.

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This residential complex is defined by a continuous volume snaking around two semipublic courtyards. Its height adapts to the different conditions of the plot to combine a domestic and urban appearance.

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Archinect Editorial Contributor Aaron Plewke recently visited the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, which opens officially Fall 2012. Designed by Louis I. Kahn the park is on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, New York City. Check out more photo's via his Flickr stream.

Team:  Atkins Olshin Schade Architects, The Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority

Location: Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico

Issues Addressed:  Cultural Heritage, Historic Preservation, Education, Affordable Housing, Job Training, Community Building, Local Identity

Project Description:  Re-creating a more vital Pueblo center and reinvigorating cultural heritage traditions through the rehabilitation of the historic Pueblo core was this project’s focus. The pueblo core is the spiritual, social and cultural center of the Pueblo.  Community members were trained in traditional building techniques and played a key role in rebuilding the houses and community spaces. The project also re-appropriated preservation practices and treatment of the Pueblos’ cultural resources from federal guidelines to what is suitable for Ohkay Owingeh.

The Financial Times has an interesting story about Gary Anderson, an engineer/architect/urban planner that designed the famous recycling logo in a competition in 1971.