Outer beauty: Illuminating facades
Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz practice a unique form of arson in which 6,000-lumen projectors play the role of kindling. The Copenhagen-based artists, collaborating with the Danish
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Philippe Chiambaretta adds 19h04 to the CCC's facade
In Tours, France, a building-size mask has transformed the nondescript face of an experimental arts center into a striking neighborhood talking point. Built from clear Plexiglas and
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Picture perfect
Beat the heat of typical accent lighting with the Ledra Display 3-watt LED light. Its lamp life is said to be more than 70,000 hours, and it
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Polshek Partnership's Newseum
Polshek Partnership's Newseum, the world's largest museum dedicated to journalism, opened on April 11 in Washington, D.C. The institution now occupies 250,000 square feet, three times more
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Private Residence
Northfield, Illinois Architect: Roszak/ADC Associate architect: Wallin/Gomez Architects
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Protective barrier
Smoke seals--a requirement for many hospital applications--help protect against the infiltration of smoke and flames in the event of a fire. Besam now offers smoke seals for
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RMJM helps Harvard launch practice program
RMJM, the international design firm based in Edinburgh, donated $1.5 million to the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) for the creation of the "RMJM Program
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Ralph Rapson, 93, a Modernist who drew to the end
Ralph Rapson, FAIA, regarded as one of the foremost architectural draftsmen of the 20th century and Minnesota's premier Modern architect, died of heart failure on March 29
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Record Reveals: Boston
The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), responsible for planning and economic development in Boston, is presiding over a major urban transformation. Despite the economic slowdown, cranes dot the
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Residence Halls Units 1 & 2 Infill Student Housing
Berkeley, California Architect: EHDD Architecture
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Revisiting Le Corbusier without the thrill of the new
Toward an Architecture, by Le Corbusier. Translated by John Goodman, with an introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen. Los Angeles: Getty, 2008, 341 pages, $25.
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Room for All Our Talents
The two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination clearly illustrate that America is changing. Look around the American workplace or the adjacent seat on mass transit. Demographics
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SANTA MONICA CIVIC CENTER PARKING STRUCTURE Santa Monica, California
Moore Ruble Yudell develops a lively parking garage that simultaneously cloaks and celebrates Southern California's car culture.
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SCI-Arc's CHUB table
And in L.A., F-Lab builds a table for SCI-Arc that proves the digital age isn't just smoke and mirrors.
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Serpentine links
Whether for work, play, display, or sheer ambience, this innovative selection of light sources offers an exciting glimmer of things to come, combining art and technology with a growing concern for sustainability and function.
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Shaw Center for the Arts
Baton Rouge, Louisiana Architect: Schwartz/Silver Executive architect: Eskew+ Dumez+Ripple Associate architect: Jerry M. Campbell & Associates [record, June 2005, page 86]
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Shigeru Ban sets showrooms and facades in motion at the Swatch Group's Nicolas G. Hayek Center in Tokyo
Like an expertly crafted Swiss watch, the Nicolas G. Hayek Center is an assemblage of movable pieces that work together with machinelike precision. The product of Japan's
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Spare housing
Designed to accommodate 42'', 50'', and 60'' flat-panel televisions, the Kabé by TV2ART floats a mere 81/4'' from the wall and measures 89'' x 42'', 98'' x
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Strolling through Tokyo's hothouse of architectural wonders
The cherry blossoms were at their peak on a Thursday in late March when I went for a stroll in Ueno Park in Tokyo. A nimbus of
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Sweet home Alabama for stray dogs
It was as if the Rural Studio's 2005 thesis candidates had hit the jackpot. "That year's set of projects was amazing: a 40-acre park, the Hale County
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THREE: PARKIT HERE Memphis, Tennessee
Applying vision to modest materials and a tight budget, archimania energizes a humble, but ubiquitous, building type.
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TRUTEC Building
Seoul, South Korea Architect: Barkow Leibinger Architects
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Takenaka Corporation's design for the AGC Training Center transforms a building into a nighttime rainbow
Aquiet collection of aging factories and outdated manufacturing plants, the Keihin industrial district of Tokyo seems light-years away from the city's eye-popping, neon-clad commercial centers. But against
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Tehama Grasshopper
San Francisco Architect: Fougeron Architecture
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Terra forma
Formulated specifically for the commercial and multi-unit residential markets, American Clay's Enjarre (pronounced n-har-ray), is a spray-on, single-coat plaster that contains zero VOCs. A blend of postindustrial
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Textured metal
Engineered for numerous vertical cladding configurations such as wall, equipment-screen, linear-panel, and parapet-panel applications, Petersen's 7.2 (7.2'' on center) rib (right top) and 7/8''- and 1/2''-high (22/3''
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The '62 Center for Theatre and Dance
Williamstown, Massachusetts Architect: William Rawn Associates, Architects [RECORD, January 2008, page 114]
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The American Academy of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters will award its Gold Medal for Architecture to Richard Meier on May 21, in New York City. The honor recognizes
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The Liberty Memorial Restoration and Museum
Kansas City, Missouri Architect: ASAI Architecture [record, February 2008, page 106]
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, Missouri Architect: Steven Holl Architects [record, July 2007, page 92]
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The New Establishment Meets The Next Wave
BOSTON'S YOUNG AND MID-CAREER PRACTICES FIND COMMON GROUND IN THEIR TRAINING AND ESEARCH-BASED DESIGN.
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The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library has narrowed its choice of architects to six, from a field of a dozen, for the $300 million renovation of its main
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is cashing in its chips on a Rem Koolhaas-designed museum branch that it had operated in Las Vegas since 2001--but it is
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The best is yet to come
OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes) are complementary to most existing light sources. Osram Opto Semiconductors' pioneering transparent white OLED tile is still in development, but the firm claims
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The glow of Minimalism
Made of 60 percent recycled aluminum, the A?197-154?light Accolade5 direct-recessed luminaire cuts a flush silhouette in a range of ceilings and walls, from gypsum board to concrete
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Thinkers for Architects
Thinkers for Architects series, London: Routledge, 2007: Deleuze and Guattari for Architects, by Andrew Ballantyne, 136 pages, $28; Heidegger for Architects, by Adam Sharr, 144 pages, $28; Irigaray for Architects, by Peg Rawes, 128 pages, $29.
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Thomas L. Wells Public School
Toronto, Canada Architect: Baird Sampson Neuert Architects
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Tishman Speyer
Tishman Speyer won the rights, on March 26, to develop Manhattan's Hudson Rail Yards with a scheme designed by Murphy/Jahn and Peter Walker. Now owned by New
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Top-notch performers
Having completed 5 million cycles under the Window & Door Manufacturers Associations's NWWDA T.M. 7-90 cycle-slam test, Special-Lite's SL-17 FRP Flush Doors have successfully proved to be
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Tulane students finishing another NOLA house
Last fall, when Tulane University School of Architecture students were given the dimensions of the tiny lot in New Orleans's Central City neighborhood that their URBANbuild prototype
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UNStudio shocks a quiet Dutch city to life with the crystalline form and electric colors of the Agora Theater
Imagine Ben van Berkel as a child, traveling among the theaters of the Netherlands to listen to his mother sing in the chorus of the latest musical.
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Unilever House (100 VE)
London Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
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Variations on sustainability
Whether for work, play, display, or sheer ambience, this innovative selection of light sources offers an exciting glimmer of things to come, combining art and technology with a growing concern for sustainability and function.
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Verdant illusion
Whether for work, play, display, or sheer ambience, this innovative selection of light sources offers an exciting glimmer of things to come, combining art and technology with a growing concern for sustainability and function.
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Visioning Rail Transit
Northwest Arkansas Architect: University of Arkansas Community Design Center
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WINNERS
Gold Medal (page 124)
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Waste not
Composed of 70 to 85 percent recycled content, the Triad litter and recycling receptacle system takes a modular approach to trash disposal. Depending on sight-specific requirements, the
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Wheels Turning
As long as we prefer the individual automobile to all other forms of transit, cars will continue to be made and sold, displayed and parked, in large numbers.
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Wild west
I enjoyed Michael Sorkin's Critique of the Hudson Yards project ["Making (too) big plans for Manhattan's West Side," February 2008, page 55] and agree with much he
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Zaha Hadid redefines "contextual" with four sinuous stations for Innsbruck's NORDPARK CABLE RAILWAY
One of the limitations of relying on images to explain architecture is that the practice can sometimes encourage viewers to see buildings primarily as objects. And when
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Zuccotti Park
New York City Architect: Cooper, Robertson & Partners
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www.annafrench.co.uk
This visually dynamic new Web site is a virtual resource library of the Scotland-based British textile artist Anna French's extensive collections of wall coverings, fabric, and lace,
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www.armstrong.com
Click on Commercial Flooring and you'll gain access to Armstrong Commercial Floorings' relaunched Web site, www.armstrong.com/commflooringna, featuring an improved structure and navigation built around the needs of
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www.calfaucets.com
California Faucet's Virtual Faucet Creator is a new Web tool that provides architects, designers, and specifiers with the ability to create customized bath faucets or fittings by
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www.firelight.com
Part of Honeywell's Life Safety Group, Fire-Lite Alarms has launched a new Web site that features a spare, clean graphic design with intuitive navigation of products, industry
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www.ki.com
From the maker of furniture and wall systems for education, health-care, government, and corporate installations, this site enables A&D professionals with such efficient interactive design tools as
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www.lamurrina.us
Founded on the island of Murano, Italy, 40 years ago, La Murrina has its roots in the centuries-old art of decorative glass. Fast forward to the 21st
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www.omnimount.com
This notable source of residential and commercial A/V mounting and furniture solutions has launched an online database that provides a comprehensive lineup of current downloadable product information
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www.richardfrinier.com
This new Web site features the indoor/outdoor furniture, fabric, and lighting of Richard Frinier for Century, Dedon, Sunbrella, Curry & Company, and others. A favorite among designers
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1 Feel the heat
Tile is the thing at Cersaie, the ceramic-and-bath trade's annual exhibition in Bologna, Italy. For its 25th anniversary, held October 2-6, 2007, more than 1,000 exhibitors displayed such diverse trends as super-size formats, black-and-white mot
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10 Mark of industry
Tile is the thing at Cersaie, the ceramic-and-bath trade's annual exhibition in Bologna, Italy. For its 25th anniversary, held October 2-6, 2007, more than 1,000 exhibitors displayed such diverse trends as super-size formats, black-and-white mot
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11 Photorealism
Tile is the thing at Cersaie, the ceramic-and-bath trade's annual exhibition in Bologna, Italy. For its 25th anniversary, held October 2-6, 2007, more than 1,000 exhibitors displayed such diverse trends as super-size formats, black-and-white mot
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2 Guilding the lily
Tile is the thing at Cersaie, the ceramic-and-bath trade's annual exhibition in Bologna, Italy. For its 25th anniversary, held October 2-6, 2007, more than 1,000 exhibitors displayed such diverse trends as super-size formats, black-and-white mot
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3 Warm play
Tile is the thing at Cersaie, the ceramic-and-bath trade's annual exhibition in Bologna, Italy. For its 25th anniversary, held October 2-6, 2007, more than 1,000 exhibitors displayed such diverse trends as super-size formats, black-and-white mot
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4 All that glitters
Tile is the thing at Cersaie, the ceramic-and-bath trade's annual exhibition in Bologna, Italy. For its 25th anniversary, held October 2-6, 2007, more than 1,000 exhibitors displayed such diverse trends as super-size formats, black-and-white mot
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5 Asian therapy
Tile is the thing at Cersaie, the ceramic-and-bath trade's annual exhibition in Bologna, Italy. For its 25th anniversary, held October 2-6, 2007, more than 1,000 exhibitors displayed such diverse trends as super-size formats, black-and-white mot
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6 Quick fix
Tile is the thing at Cersaie, the ceramic-and-bath trade's annual exhibition in Bologna, Italy. For its 25th anniversary, held October 2-6, 2007, more than 1,000 exhibitors displayed such diverse trends as super-size formats, black-and-white mot
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7 Op art
Tile is the thing at Cersaie, the ceramic-and-bath trade's annual exhibition in Bologna, Italy. For its 25th anniversary, held October 2-6, 2007, more than 1,000 exhibitors displayed such diverse trends as super-size formats, black-and-white mot
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8 Slim line
Tile is the thing at Cersaie, the ceramic-and-bath trade's annual exhibition in Bologna, Italy. For its 25th anniversary, held October 2-6, 2007, more than 1,000 exhibitors displayed such diverse trends as super-size formats, black-and-white mot
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9 In the groove
Tile is the thing at Cersaie, the ceramic-and-bath trade's annual exhibition in Bologna, Italy. For its 25th anniversary, held October 2-6, 2007, more than 1,000 exhibitors displayed such diverse trends as super-size formats, black-and-white mot
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A clear view
An aesthetically pleasing alternative to frequently used institutional-looking products such as wired glass, FireLite ceramic glass is ideal for highly visible fire-rated locations. This UL-listed translucent glazing
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A natural collaboration
As part of Bentley Prince Street's Mission Zero initiative, with a goal of eliminating any negative impact on the environment by the year 2020, the company has
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AIA names 2008 Housing Awards
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) named 19 recipients of its eighth annual Housing Awards program in March. The AIA recognizes outstanding projects in four categories: one-
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After the Flood on view in Los Angeles
After the Flood: Building on Higher Ground, an exhibition organized by RECORD and Tulane University for the U.S. Pavilion at the 10th International Venice Architecture Biennale in
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Bauenstudio: Exploring container and contained
We connect with our environments in positive ways if thoughtful design allows. archrecord2 introduces you to a firm and a university program that work toward that goal. First, check out Boston-based Bauenstudio, a firm concerned with how archite
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Beyond Blubberland: In the land of the super plenty
The noun want used to mean need. Want was life or death stuff, as in "the baby wants feeding." Now, want has flipped 180 degrees to imply
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Bronze variations
Made of solid bronze, the TT620 2" x 6" Arched Border tile is fabricated in either silicon bronze (which is made up of copper, silicon, and zinc,
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Building With Light in the Pacific Northwest: The Houses of Thomas L. Bosworth
by Erika Rosenfeld. New York: Art Publishers, Inc., 2007, 256 pages, $75.
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Can trim McMansions fatten architect wallets?
In a ruling that could help bolster the enforcement of zoning ordinances that cap house size, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently upheld the authority of local
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Chain metal
Made of recycled scrap metal, this versatile woven-wire fabric diffuses and enhances light without blocking the ventilation or views. Appropriate for such substantial installations as multistory draperies
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