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Review of the 2009 RAIC Awards of Excellence |
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 08:12 |
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 On May 29th, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada had announced the recipients of the 2009 RAIC Awards of Excellence.
Innovation in Architecture
According to the RAIC, “The award is to recognize excellence in architectural innovation, including the research and development and the applied use of new technology; unique adaptation of existing technology; new project delivery methods; new design processes; new details; or the development of new methods related to the construction process.”
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 09:25 |
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AIA selects the 2009 recipients of the Small Project Awards |
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 00:23 |
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) have selected the 20 recipients of the 2009 Small Project Awards. The AIA Small Project Awards Program, now in its fifth year, was established to recognize small-project practitioners for the high quality of their work and to promote excellence in small-project design. This award program emphasizes the excellence of small-project design and strives to raise public awareness of the value and design excellence that architects bring to projects, no matter the limits of size and scope.
The jury for the Small Project Awards includes: jury moderator Louis
Smith, AIA, Microtecture, PLLC; Kenneth Workman, AIA, RWA Architects,
Inc.; Sanford Steinberg, AIA, Steinberg Design Collaborative, LLP; Eric
McRoberts, AIA, RLPS; Katherine Austin, AIA; Sherry Ahrentzen, Assoc.
AIA, Arizona State University.
Award recipients are categorized into three groups; (1) Small project
objects (furniture, fixture, or fragment; up to $50,000 construction
budget), (2) Small project structures (up to $500,000 construction
budget) and (3) Accessible residential designs.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 May 2009 02:47 |
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The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi, Designed by Asymptote Architecture, Opens October 2009 |
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Friday, 15 May 2009 02:24 |
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New York based Asymptote Architecture nears completion of The Yas Hotel project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Yas Hotel is a 500-room, 85,000-square-meter complex now under construction. Asymptote was awarded the commission to design the buildings and environs from a closed competition two years ago targeting an opening date of October 30, 2009 to coincide with the Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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Last Updated on Friday, 15 May 2009 02:37 |
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Perkins Eastman - Urban Waterfront Visioning Effort in Pittsburgh |
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Thursday, 14 May 2009 02:14 |
Reconnecting a Valuable Natural Resource to Pittsburgh’s Neighborhoods
The Pittsburgh office of Perkins Eastman was recently contracted to lead a 12-month visioning process for a 6.5-mile segment of the city’s riverfront that stretches from the convention center east to the Highland Park neighborhood, including an under-developed section of the River’s northwest bank.
“The Allegheny’s edge can be a primary thread that connects Pittsburgh’s distinct riverfront neighborhoods and become an amenity in their future development,” Stephen Quick FAIA, a Principal at Perkins Eastman, said. “We are thrilled to be working on this vision plan that links the Allegheny to its neighborhoods and downtown—a precedent for other Pittsburgh riverfront neighborhoods.”
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:14 |
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Establishment of an International Living Building Institute |
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Saturday, 09 May 2009 04:16 |
Maximum-Green “Living Buildings” Take Another Leap Forward With of a New Institute Announced at Living Future Conference in Portland, OR
The idea of a Living Building, a high-performance building that produces its own power and cleans and reuses all of its water, is gaining momentum around the world. In an effort to oversee the global development of Living Buildings, the International Living Building Institute (ILBI) has been established.
The Living Building Challenge began as a program of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council just three years ago. The idea has sparked the creative juices of design professionals around the globe, with more than 60 proposed Living Buildings now in some stage of design or construction in the US and Canada. A Living Building is a radical step forward in green building and comes at a time when there is growing consensus that the time for baby steps in green building is past.
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MVE & Partners - Irvington Terrace Wins National AIA/HUD Award |
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Wednesday, 06 May 2009 02:22 |
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 Previously featured on Archinnovations.com , Irvington Terrace, a 100-unit low-income housing complex in Fremont, CA, designed by MVE & Partners, has won a prestigious 2009 AIA/HUD Secretary Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing Design. The honor will be presented at the AIA 2009 National Convention and Design Exposition in San Francisco, on May 1.
The Secretary Award is determined jointly by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community and the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Only four projects are honored in this very competitive, national awards program.
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Last Updated on Monday, 23 November 2009 14:11 |
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