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Holly Hotchner Steps Down as Director of MAD

Amanda Gruen — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:19:15 +0000

After a 16-year tenure as director of The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), Holly Hotchner stepped down from her position. Under her guidance, MAD has been transformed into a significant cultural institution, attracting more than 400,000 visitors annually. Hotchner’s leadership ends on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the museum’s new location. Hotchner wrote, in [...]

Hollywood Towers To Be Slightly Less Gargantuan

Sam Lubell — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:10:46 +0000

The developer of the two-tower Millennium Hollywood, located just next to the Capitol Records building in Hollywood, has agreed with the city of Los Angeles to limit the buildings’ heights to 35 and 39 stories, reports Curbed LA. The original proposal put forth heights of 485 and 585 feet (that’s roughly 48 and 58 stories). [...]

Michael Van Valkenburgh Overhauling The Menil Collection Campus

Amanda Gruen — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:40:26 +0000

New York-based landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) has been selected to develop new designs for The Menil Collection’s 30-acre campus in Houston, Texas. The appointment kicks off the Menil’s “neighborhood of art” master plan, designed in 2009 by London-based David Chipperfield Architects. Chipperfield’s scheme attempts to tie together a group of six buildings spread across several [...]

Waterfront Gateway Design Competition: New Rochelle, NY To Launch Important Architecture Competition June 19

The Editors — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:24:51 +0000

The City of New Rochelle, New York, is announcing the start of an exciting new competition to re-imagine its waterfront and downtown communities. Founded in 1688 by a craftsman from La Rochelle, France, New Rochelle, sits on the shore of Long Island Sound just a few miles north of New York City. A diverse, highly [...]

Frank Gehry’s Ice Blocks Chilling Out Inside Chicago’s Inland Steel Building

Chris Bentley — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:36:41 +0000

Follow the Architecture Chicago Plus blog as Lynn Becker raises an eyebrow at the new sculpture that quietly popped up in the lobby of downtown Chicago’s celebrated Inland Steel Building. The 1957 SOM icon seems to have acquired a consortium of ice hunks, courtesy Frank Gehry. Ostensibly a formal counterpoint to the elegant energy of [...]

Product > Finds from the Floor at NeoCon 2013

Emily Hooper — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:22:30 +0000

Nearly 42,000 architects, interior designers, facilities planners, furniture dealers, and distributors converged on NeoCon, the A&D industry’s largest exhibition of office, residential, health care, hospitality, institutional, and government design products. Held from June 10–12, the show included education components and keynote presentations from Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG; Michael Vanderbyl, principal of Vanderbyl Design; Holly [...]

Landscape Architects Recognized in 2013 ASLA Awards

Amanda Gruen — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:17:27 +0000

Today, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) revealed its 2013 Honors recipients. The Honors acknowledge individuals and organizations for their lifetime successes and notable contributions to the landscape architecture profession. The process is straightforward – ASLA members submit nominations to be reviewed by the Executive Committee and forwarded to the Board of Trustees. This [...]

May Architecture Billings Index Bounces Back From April Slump

Vincenza Di Maggio — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:52:23 +0000

April showers bring May flowers. The AIA’s latest numbers for May’s Architecture Billings Index have fortunately showed renewed strength with a score of 52.9, an increase from April’s low score of 48.6, which marked a surprising setback into negative territory for the first time in nine months. (Any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings.) “This [...]

SANAA Shares Renderings of Bazalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem

Jaclyn Hersh — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:51:54 +0000

The Architecture firm Sejima & Nishizawa and Associates (SANAA), in partnership with Israel’s Nir-Kutz Architects, recently unveiled a proposal for a new 400,000 square-foot building for Jerusalem’s Bazalel Academy of Arts and Design. The design of the new building aims to promote collaboration between the school’s eight different—and currently separate—departments by housing them under one roof [...]

Q+A> Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, SFMOMA Architecture & Design Curator

The Editors — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:17:18 +0000

Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher was recently named the head of the department of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), filling a position vacated by Henry Urbach more than two years ago. Fletcher just completed a assessment of the museum’s architecture and design collection, and, most recently, she co-curated the exhibition [...]