Thursday, 13 August 2015

Measure

Measure opens tonight (running until September 12) at the Storefront for Art and Architecture.

It will be worth going just to see this drawing by James Wines on the measurable and immeasurable impact of the Storefront:

Participants include:
The Architecture Lobby
Barozzi / Veiga
Víctor Enrich
Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (Urtzi Grau, Cristina Goberna) and Georgia Jamieson
FIG Projects
FleaFollyArchitects
Formlessfinder
Michelle Fornabai
Grimshaw Architects
Steven Holl
Bernard Khoury
Kohn Pedersen Fox Assoc.
KUTONOTUK (Matthew Jull + Leena Cho)
Erika Loana
Jon Lott / PARA Project
MAIO
m-a-u-s-e-r (Mona Mahall + Asli Serbest)
MILLIØNS (John May + Zeina Koreitem)
Nicholas de Monchaux
Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood / First Office
pneumastudio (Cathryn Dwyre + Chris Perry)
+ POOL
James Ramsey, RAAD Studio
Reiser + Umemoto
Mark Robbins
Selldorf Architects
Malkit Shoshan
Nader Tehrani / NADAAA
Urban-Think Tank
Anthony Titus
Ross Wimer
James Wines

Wednesday, 12 August 2015

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Here are some photos of the Public Toilets (2011) in Uster, Switzerland, by Gramazio Kohler Architects, photographed by Ken Lee.

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A Return to the Parrish Art Museum

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At the end of 2012 I visited the Parrish Art Museum shortly after the grand opening of the Long Island institution's Herzog & de Meuron building, writing a weekly dose on it in early 2013. Over the weekend I finally returned, specifically to see the Tara Donovan Slinky sculptures. Those sculptures were decent, kind of worth the trip, but I was more impressed by how in just a over a couple years the building has integrated itself into the landscapes designed by Reed Hilderbrand Associates. So below are a few 2012/2015 photos comparisons (keep in mind that the views are not exact matches, but they are fairly close).

Southern roadside elevation in 2012:

Southern roadside elevation (with Roy Lichtenstein sculptures) in 2015:

Left is bioswale at parking lot in 2012 and right is bioswale in 2015:

Approach to the museum from parking on the north in 2012:

Approach to the museum from parking on the north in 2015:

North elevation in 2012:

North elevation in 2015:

The southern elevation in 2012:

The southern elevation in 2015:

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Here are some photos of the Philharmonic Hall (2014) in Szczecin, Poland, by Estudio Barozzi Veiga, photographed by Maciek Lulko. The building won the 2015 Mies van der Rohe Award, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.

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Wednesday, 5 August 2015

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Here are some photos of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (2013) in Warsaw, Poland, by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, photographed by Ziemowit Cabanek.

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AIA Chicago's Lifetime Achievement Awards

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Today AIA Chicago announced that Richard H. Driehaus is the recipient of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award. While I'm not too excited about one of the driving forces of neoclassical architecture getting an award from an AIA chapter in one of the most modern American cities (where Driehaus and his foundation resides), the award made me curious about the previous recipients. How does he compare to others? Although I immediately recall that Stanley Tigerman and John Vinci recently receiving the honor, it's surprising just how difficult it is to find a list of AIA Chicago's Lifetime Achievement Awards, which started in 2006. Basically AIA Chicago doesn't have one. So I did a little digging and put the list of winners from this and past years below (hopefully I got them all correct). Videos about the winners are supplied when available.

2015: Richard H. Driehaus

2014: John Vinci

2013: Stanley Tigerman

2012: Helmut Jahn

2011: Ben Weese

2010: Natalie de Blois

2009: Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett (jointly and posthumously on the 100th anniversary of their Plan of Chicago)

2008: Gertude Lempp Kerbis

2007: John A. Holabird Jr.

2006: Walter Netsch