Allout Helter playing "We Are The Architects," at The Marquis Theater.
"We Are The Architects," by Allout Helter as played on March 16th 2012 at the Marquis Theater.
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Former U.S. president Bill Clinton will make an appearance at the American Institute of Architects' annual convention in mid-May, the AIA announced today. The professional organization's yearly three-day conference is one of the biggest events in the American architecture industry, with nearly 20,000 architects attending last year. President Clinton is scheduled to make a keynote address on May 14, the first day of this year's event, which will take place in Atlanta.
In the announcement heralding the event, the AIA did not specify the precise topic of President Clinton's remarks, but noted his political record of economic expansion, his post-White House work with the Clinton Foundation to improve health conditions and economies worldwide, including in Haiti, where the foundation is supporting economic growth, rebuilding, and education. The theme of this year's convention is "impact," emphasizing the role architects play in communities both local and global.
Fingers crossed that Clinton won't pull a Pharrell and drop out right before the event.
Check out Co.Design's previous coverage of AIA's annual convention here. Read more about the Clinton Foundation and one of those other Clintons from Fast Company.
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Many people know E Ink for providing technology that creates the text in e-readers like Amazon.com 's Kindle. Now the Taiwan-based company is moving beyond displays for authors to the world of architects.
E Ink is using the Consumer Electronics Show to launch Prism, a new application of its technology to decorate company walls, commercial exhibits, airport terminals and other spaces. Think of flat, sign-like surfaces composed of a collection of polygons or other shapes. Those shapes can individually switch on to show colors, creating shifting patterns that are a bit like a simple abstract painting.
Giovanni Mancini, the companys director of product management, compares the applications to paint. When decorating a wall the old-fashioned way, he says, people choose their colors, apply the paint and the effect remains static for a long period of time.
With Prism, the colors can be dynamic, changing at random, due to conscious programming or external stimuli. What E Ink is doing is taking pigments and controlling those pigments, Mancini says.
Digital display technology, of course, is much more dynamic. But it also consumes much more power. Prism benefits from the same advantage that makes E Ink a popular choice for e-readers: Power is only consumed when a page turnsor, in this case, when colors change on a wall.
Promoting Prism will be a different kind of task for the company. Instead of reaching out to dozens of hardware companies, E Ink will be trying to attract thousands of architects, designers and other professionals. Mancini says the response has been good so far. Theres a lot of interest, he says.
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Jackson Hole, Wyoming (PRWEB) January 06, 2015
Two new villas nestle into a dramatic butte overlooking Jackson Holes Teton and Snake River Ranges. Naturally elegant and at once distinct yet all of a piece, the elite private homes designed by Ward + Blake Architects are the latest of nine residences designed by the firm for Jacksons ultra-chic Amangani Resort. Named for the Shoshone word for peaceful home, Amangani was recently ranked on Robb Reports list of the worlds top resorts and named a Travel + Leisure most romantic getaway. The Ward + Blake-designed homes are part of a collection of Aman Villas situated adjacent to Aman resorts internationally and referred to by the luxury resort group as its ultimate tier of Aman accommodation options. Dream vacation homes for their owners, the villas also provide an extraordinary level of luxury and privacy available for guest lodging.
Working within the strict parameters of the resorts architectural covenants, Ward + Blake Architects designed the villas in harmony with resort architect Ed Tuttles original aesthetic for Amangani. Tuttle envisioned that the resort would be designed to be in relationship with its surroundings, creating the hotel with a modernist purity of line, its low profile and stepped roof reflecting the surrounding topography.
"The idea is to be comfortable and sink into the views," said Tuttle, designer of Aman resorts around the world, in a Travel + Leisure article about the resort.
Ward + Blakes designs for the Aman Villas have unfolded like a life-size 3-D jigsaw puzzle over a period of more than a decade. Built within resort stipulations created by Tuttle that guide proportions, materials and composition, the homes representing nearly half of 22 total residential building sites on 54 resort acres coexist peacefully from a design standpoint with one another and the Tuttle-designed resort, while standing out as individuals. The vertical-boarded exteriors of the private residences mimic the surrounding peaks, and native grasses cover sod roofs like an extension of prairie.
The nine Ward + Blake-designed villas share the main resorts earth-hugging profile and palette of rugged natural materials. At the same time they belie their similarities to be revealed as unique, gem-like residences, each an unmistakable reflection of its owners, including the owner of the villa known as Aman 12 who describes her Amangani vacation getaway as truly awesome in the literal meaning of that word.
What I love about it is the integrity of the materials, living in a home thats made of real wood and stone and also an architecturally important home, says Aman 12s homeowner. We have unobstructed views of the valley below which is really why you live in a place like this something Ward + Blake really took advantage of with their design.
The Aman 12 homeowner also praises the indoor/functionality and privacy of her villa as well as its attunement to the resorts overall peaceful home intention. We use the outdoor spaces as much as indoors, she says. We love the hot tub on the big deck that overlooks the valley. And each of the bedrooms has its own outdoor space great for reading and relaxing. I think of each of the bedrooms as a little private serenity chamber.
According to Amanresorts, the Aman Villas take the luxury, privacy and relaxation of an Aman resort stay to an entirely different level. The Amangani vacation homes include the exquisite detailing and customized approach that Ward + Blake Architects is known for the finish work is absolutely flawless, just very subtle, beautiful details, says the Aman 12 owner. At the same time they offer access to all of the ultraluxurious services and facilities of the resort, from housekeeping and concierge to the restaurant, lounge, library, spa, ski shuttle and more.
About Ward + Blake Architects: Ward + Blake Architects was built on a distinctive vision: to be provocative in thought, flexible in nature and disciplined in execution. Since 1996, the firm has earned recognition for architecture that is sensitive to its environment and successfully integrated with its surroundings, including being named Architect of the Year by International Design Awards, having a project shortlisted at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore, and being named Firm of the Year by the six-state AIA Western Mountain Region. Ward + Blake creates buildings that are tactile, modern, bio-climatically responsible, honestly expressed, technologically sound and artfully crafted. A recent monograph, In the Shadows of the Tetons: Selected Works of Ward + Blake Architects, provides an overview of the firms award-winning work. For additional information, visit Ward + Blake online at http://www.wardblakearchitects.com or call 307.733.6867.
2014 Laid Bare: Part 4 // Featuring Asking Alexandria, Architects, Lower Than Atlantis + More!
In the fourth and final part of our year in review video series, Asking Alexandria, A Day To Remember, Architects, Pierce The Veil and loads more look to the...
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The architects who designed Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium and Bayern Munich's Allianz Arena are looking at ways to increase the capacity of Stamford Bridge towards 60,000.
According to the Architects' Journal, Herzog & de Meuron are working with Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands to potentially design a revamp of Chelsea's 41,837-seater stadium to satisfy demand for tickets at the Premier League leaders' home.
Chelsea, who have previously looked in to building a new stadium at Earls Court, White City and Battersea Power Station, announced in June they had commissioned a study into how Stamford Bridge can be expanded.
Chelsea are looking in to ways to expand their 41,837-capacity Stamford Bridge stadium
Chelsea had previously looked in to moving to Battersea Power Station (above)
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Elizabeth Chu Richter, FAIA, CEO of Richter Architects in Corpus Christi, Texas, has begun her term as the 91st president of The American Institute of Architects (AIA). The announcement was made during a ceremony on December 12, 2014, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Richter is the fourth woman to serve as AIA national president since the organization was founded in 1857, and she succeeds Helene Combs Dreiling, FAIA, as president. This is the first time in history that two consecutive presidents of AIA are women.
Richter was born in Nanjing, China, but grew up in Hong Kong and Dallas. In 1974, she received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2001, she was awarded a national Young Architects Award from AIA for her community-sensitive designs and her role in spreading awareness of both regional and urban issues. She also ran a public radio series, The Shape of Texas, from 1998 to 2011.
She was promoted to the AIA College of Fellows in 2005 in recognition for her contributions to the profession and to society. In 2007, she served as President of the Texas of Society of Architects and most recently served as a regional director for Texas on the AIAs National Board of Directors.
As architects, we use our creativity to serve societyto make our communities better places to live. Through our profession and our lifes work, each of us has shaped and re-shaped the ever-changing narrative that is America in both humble and spectacular ways, says Richter. We have created harmony where there was none. We have shown we can see what is not yet there. We have shown we have the courage to grow, to change, and to renew ourselves.
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County Judge Veronica Escobar, left to right, along with commissioners David Stout and Andrew Haggerty, listen to city Rep. Carl Robinson during Monday's meeting of the El Paso County Commissioners Court. Newly elected commissioners Stout and Haggerty took part in their first meeting. (Victor Calzada / El Paso Times)
The El Paso County Commissioners Court on Monday voted unanimously to initiate contract negotiations with Carl Daniel Architects to complete the troubled Sportspark project.
If a contract is reached, Carl Daniel Architects will oversee the pending construction at the 45-acre Sportspark, 1780 N. Zaragoza. Renovation of the sports complex was supposed to be completed in August 2013, but construction and legal problems with the former contractor and architect stalled the project.
Carl Daniel Architects was selected over ARTchitecture, another company that applied for the job that has built area schools and other city projects.
Kennie Dawning, the county's purchasing agent, said Carl Daniel Architects, a local company, is uniquely qualified to provide the service to the county because Steve Franco, who the company is proposing as the project manager, was the project manager for the original Sportspark built in 1986.
"He has all the records, drawings as a reference point, and any other documents from the original construction," she said.
Carl Daniel Architects was a project manager for the 16-acre Sunland Park Sports Complex, which is similar to the Sportspark, Dawning said. Franco also designed the El Paso County Community College athletic field for baseball and softball, she added.
Franco attended Monday's meeting and told the Commissioners Court that his firm is ready to start negotiations Tuesday. County officials and Franco are expected to take a tour of the facility Tuesday as well.
"I know this is a very important project, not only for the county, but for the community as well," he said. "I'm very close to the project and we would like to go ahead and see it completed."
Downing said that by the end of January her department should be able to present a proposed contract to the Commissioners Court for approval.
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The 2010 and 2011 earthquakes have prompted a rethink on the way the architectural and engineering professions work together.
The Royal Commission report following the earthquakes says architects and engineers need to collaborate more effectively, right from the concept stages of the building project, University of Canterburys architect-in-residence Tim Nees says.
The best way to effect change on a long-term basis is to raise understanding and awareness within the tertiary education sector, he says. The University of Canterbury is taking the lead by initiating this change with the appointment of Nees as its architect-in-residence within the College of Engineering, it is developing a masters in architectural engineering programme and it has established the Ada Rutherford professorship in architectural engineering.
"We now have a great opportunity to establish strong relationships across the engineering and architecture disciplines and promote a culture of collaboration," Nees says.
"Broadening undergraduate and graduate engineers exposure to architecture and architects, to drawing and design as well as analysis and computation, will produce a new generation of structural engineers able to contribute to design collaborators with architects and other construction industry professionals.
"There is never one ready solution to a building design. Design is a reiterative process. The more complex the project is, more expert contributors are needed to define and interpret the requirements and more iterations and changes may be necessary to refine the design.
"A common complaint is that there is never enough time and not enough budget in the fee structure to work in this manner. Professional rigidity can counter the ability to satisfy all the demands of a project. This is because nine times out of 10 sufficient information is not gathered or shared early enough in the design process.
"If architects and engineers and other building consultants can come together to share information before any design assumptions are made, an appropriate design concept will emerge more quickly, one that will require less redesign and less refinement. Time spent upfront leads to efficiencies at every subsequent stage.
"Communication is key. Collaboration requires open communication. Creative communication is a give and take process. It requires a good understanding of each others professional language to build a working team. For engineers to be taught the language of architecture, how the creative design process works, and the way architects think, will open the door to effective collaboration.
"This, in turn, must lead to better outcomes for New Zealand society - better and safer buildings, a richer built environment, more efficient design and delivery processes, greater professional satisfaction. Collaboration will improve the quality of New Zealands commercial and public buildings and housing. When structural requirements are more seamlessly knitted into the building design, the opportunity to improve cost ratios and employ sustainable resources is enhanced. Appropriate design leads to gains in spatial character, no matter what a clients building budget may be. Building functionality and performance will improve. Individual wellbeing will also therefore improve."
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Lecture by the Architects register about the BEP
Lecture by the Architects register about the BEP at Eindhoven, University of Technology (September 11, 2014).
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