Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture
By Kiel Moe
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Hardcover, 208 pages
A PAPress publication

Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture takes a comprehensive look at projects that exemplify current approaches to this exciting new field.

From museums to residences, from office buildings to universities and yoga centers, this book showcases twenty-eight examples of integrated design that cut across building types, budgets, climates, and locales. This is a well-written book with illustrated explanations of projects that have adopted sustainability at the core of their design. It features impressive range of diversified projects like the US Federal Building from Morphosis, Steven Holl’s Residence at the Swiss Embassy and Lehrer + Gangi ‘s Water + Life Museums.

Steven Holl Architects Wins Copenhagen LM Competition by Unanimous Decision. New Gateway for Copenhagen Harbor Formed by Two Towers Connected By ‘Handshake’ of Public Bridges.

“The LM Project” has a program that connects office towers and civic spaces with a public walkway 65 meters above the harbor, the new design is intended to form an iconic landmark for Copenhagen’s waterfront. The competition was organized by CPH City and Port

Awarded Projects Prove that Great Architecture Performs as well as Inspires.

At a sold-out event Monday night, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Seattle chapter honored architects from across Washington State for innovative, and in some cases, groundbreaking projects exemplifying best examples in a broad array of settings from single- and multi-family residential, to health care, to civic, to commercial.

Award-winning projects served as powerful demonstrations of how architecture can perform financially, sustainably and humanistically, as well as positively transform our social and urban landscape.
 
“This is an awards program that is moving away from focusing on “the money shot” in terms of measuring excellence in architecture,” said David Baker FAIA of San Francisco, one of the AIA Honor Awards jurors.  “It was great to see the high degree of sustainable design. The Pacific Northwest is clearly a leader in this area.”

Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Rafael Viñoly Architects presented their vision for the development of the new Stanford Hospital on Monday. 

The unveiling marks an exciting milestone in advancing the hospital's plans to build for the future, increase capacity to meet the healthcare needs of the community, and design with earthquake safety standards in mind.

Rather than creating the typical base-and-tower hospital building, the firm has proposed a modular plan that can be easily adapted for different uses, allowing for both incremental expansion of the hospital building and a horizontal massing strategy that matches the low-rise campus context of Stanford University and the Stanford Hospital & Clinics.