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Media release 27 February 2014

Klein Architects complete landmark Red Zone building

Specialist health architectural firm, Klein have played a vital part in the new $55m Fort Hospital that was recently opened by Prime Minister John Key. Located in the heart of Christchurchs Red Zone area, the building marks a significant and historic milestone as the first significant new building to be completed in the red zone since the 2011 earthquake.

The state-of-the-art surgical facility situated on Peterborough Street replaces the Oxford Clinic building that incurred significant earthquake damage and was later demolished in 2012.

As a result of their award winning work within the New Zealand health sector, Klein Architects were commissioned in 2012 by Forte Health to complete the specialist interior fit-out working with the base-build architects Wilson and Hill. An important part of the client brief was to create an interior that was both environmentally sound and sustainable so we have incorporated a whole raft of initiatives aimed at making it as energy efficient as possible, says Melanie Mason, lead architect for the project. The projects sustainable design has resulted in a 4 Green Star Design rating by the New Zealand Green Building Council. This is a real honour as its the first time this award has been given to a medical facility in New Zealand.

The key challenge for us was the speed of the project. Construction of the building commenced while we were still finishing design of the fitout. Design was completed in just eight months and from start to finish the complex took only 18 months to construct, which is a remarkable feat.

The buildings roll call of eco credentials include solar power, smart lighting system, heat recovery air conditioning system, waste reduction and a specialist built in energy optimising building management system.

Unlike similar medical buildings the architects have incorporated an atrium in an attempt to allow natural light to permeate into areas of the building that would normally be forced to rely on artificial light. This clever design tactic has allowed light to flood into the four operating theatres and 12 bed recovery areas helping to make these areas much more pleasant environments. The overall interior has been carefully crafted around the specialist needs of patients and staff.

Dorothy Paton, Fort Healths General Manager says the specialists and stakeholders are thrilled with the environment that has been created for patients, visitors and staff. The building has been designed by healthcare professionals, which has provided the best outcome for all. We have had some amazing feedback about the light, room flow and design of the building. Klein Architects proved to be an excellent design partner.

As New Zealands leading specialists within the health field, the recent completion of the Fort Hospital follows on from other major projects such as the new five storey clinical services building at Middlemore Hospital in South Auckland for Counties Manukau DHB. This $140m, 30,000m development sees the creation of 14 operating theatres, a 43 bed recovery suite and a 42 bed assessment and planning unit. Klein continues their work in Christchurch leading the masterplanning and health design of the major redevelopment of the Burwood Health Campus which is now under construction.

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In London this year, six well-known architects will jockey for a chance to build a large public building. Sounds pretty unremarkable, right? Except that the structure was already designed and finishedmore than 150 years ago. Now, a Chinese property developer is holding a design competition to recreate it.

The building in question is the Crystal Palacethe elegant but hulking structure that was designed to house the 1851 Great Exhibition. It's been remade in different iterations several timesonce in England, once in New York, and once even in Dallas. But now, the palace is coming home to London. The Chinese developer behind the plan, Zhongrong Group, is putting up more than $800 million to rebuild the structure on its original site.

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This week, it announced a shortlist of six architects who will submit designs to do it. The list includes Zaha Hadid and Anish Kapoor, Nicholas Grimshaw, David Chipperfield, Marks Barfield, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, and Hawthorn Tompkinsnames responsible for some of London's most notable new structures, like the Millennium Dome, the Olympic Aquatic Center, and the Royal Court Theatre.

So, why even bother? Well, to architects and historians, the Crystal Palace is big deal. A really big deal. It was the building that, in some ways, foreshadowed modern architecture. It looks ornate and decorative, but this was a structure based on cold, calculated functionality. The whole thing was organized around the largest pane of glass available at that timeitself nothing short of a technological wonderwhich defined the proportions and layout of the building.

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The steel framework that held these glass panes was modular and prefabricatedwords pretty much unknown in 1853. Each module arrived at the site of the palace pre-made, and only needed to be screwed into place. The whole thing was built in record time, and became the largest prefab structure ever built. It was a blueprint for the next 150 years of architecturea super-light, super-cheap steel skeleton built to house the latest technological marvels of the day.

You know the morbid phenomenon in which an artist or musician's premature death bolsters the public's appreciation of their work? It's true for architecture, too. After the original Crystal Palace was relocated in 1854, it burned down in 1926and the memorializing began.

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A family retreat on Burden Lake in Rensselaer County and the adaptive reuse of the Malone Middle School building in Franklin County received top honors at the 2013 Design Awards event of the American Institute of Architects' Eastern New York chapter.

The awards were presented at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy.

The Brass Residence, a 2,300-square-foot, two-story, four-bedroom lake house, was designed by a team led by Scott Townsend, founder and principal of Albany-based 3t Architects.

The group turned an existing camp into a contemporary lakeside retreat that eventually will become a primary home.

CSArch of Albany received the honor award for its work on the Malone Middle School, transforming an existing building into what the jury said "was a more inviting space capturing the essence of the original facade... ." The submitting architect was Randolph J. Collins.

Troy-based architecture + received a merit award for historic preservation for its exterior rehabilitation of Husted Hall at the University at Albany's downtown campus, and an institutional merit award for its design of the Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital in Worcester, Mass. The submitting architect on the Husted Hall project was J. Michael Bergen, while Francis Murdock Pitts was the submitting architect for the Worcester project.

James Dixon Architect PC of Chatham received merit awards for a party barn in Sharon, Conn. and a village house in Kinderhook

JMZ Architects & Planners of Glens Falls received a merit award for the Fulton Campus at River Glen (renovation/addition/adaptive reuse category), the conversion of a strip mall into a campus for Cayuga Community College in Fulton. The submitting architect was Karen Kilgore-Green.

The event was Thursday.

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Its been 10 years since the arrival of Richard Meiers twin glass towers on the West Villages Perry Street whose iconic architecture and celebrity residents helped the project achieve record pricing. Yet while the bold-named buyers were certainly newsworthy, the towers also came with an undeniable downside: The apartments concrete, open-plan interiors required ample time, money and effort to make livable despite their original seven-figure price tags.

But that was then.

Today, instead of delivering multimillion-dollar units raw, the more recent wave of architecturally significant luxury developments Annabelle Selldorfs 10 Bond St., Steven Harris 7 Harrison, 56 Leonard by Herzog & de Meuron, and Singaporean architect/developer Soo K. Chans Soori High Line, among them are coming to market ready for occupancy.

What truly makes these properties, along with other notable newcomers in Manhattan and Miami, stand out from the upmarket crowd are their unusual design bona fides. Unlike the Meier towers (where the starchitect simply handled the exterior) or at the forthcoming billionaire buildings 432 Park Ave. and One57 which rely on a name-brand architect for the outside and top-tier interior designer for within these new developments feature a single stellar designer tackling the inside and out. And this means both the exteriors and interiors are thoughtfully and equally conceived by a sole talent and vision.

The aesthetic value of this inside/out approach is clear but so too is its ability to increase a projects bottom line. The use of a well-regarded architect from the exterior of the building to the interior of the apartment has the potential to add a premium to the projects value, says Jonathan Miller, president of leading real estate appraisal firm Miller Samuel. By providing such continuity, it tends to raise the bar and places the project at or near the top of the food chain.

For architects, the appeal of this type of design and development approach is obvious: Finally they have a chance to create a great building from tip to toe sometimes even from the ground up. Theres always a disconnect when there are several designers on one project, says Nancy Ruddy, principal of CetraRuddy, a firm long known for offering architectural and interior design services. When you do both [elements], you can manipulate the exterior to maximize the interior.

Living space inside Walker Tower.Photo: Thomas Loof

In Ruddys case, her firm was tasked with both the exterior renovations and interior innovations of Chelseas famed 1929 Art Deco Walker Tower. We did view studies throughout every angle of the building, so we could place rooms with respect to sunrise and sunset, explains Ruddy of her approach to Walker Tower. That enabled us to create magical apartments. Magical and profitable. Walker Towers nearly 6,000-square-foot penthouse commanded one of the highest prices for a downtown residential unit with the completion of an all-cash deal of $50.9 million this past January.

CetraRuddy has also given the inside/out treatment to smaller-scale projects, such as the former garage at 12 E. 13th St., now home to eight luxury condos. The 5,700-square-foot triplex penthouse with two terraces is crowned by a glass structure and runs $30.5 million. We formed the glass top around the floor plan, which is a kind of architecture that wouldnt exist if there had been two designers, says Ruddy. And in doing so, they were able to meld the exteriors to fit with the design inside.

Beyond securing record prices, this approach to new luxury developments is becoming a crucial marketing tool. Properties with interiors and exteriors by the same architect are seen differently by buyers, especially when the architect is globally recognized, says Pamela Liebman, president and CEO of The Corcoran Group. It helps with marketability, and more importantly, it can create an exceptional product. When one designer has touched every aspect of a building, from the doorknobs to the faade to its silhouette on the skyline, a home feels as if its been designed from the inside out. And like Miller, Liebman also sees this philosophy boosting the bottom line up to 25 percent when executed at its highest form.

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They include Olympics aquatic centre designer Dame Zaha Hadid, in collaboration with artist Sir Anish Kapoor, and London Eye architect Marks Barfield.

Space: inside the building Others on the list of six include David Chipperfield, who designed the River and Rowing museum in Henley and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, the architect behind Waterloos international station and the Eden Project in Cornwall.

Rogers Stirk Harbor, the new firm of Millennium Dome designer Richard Rogers, and Young Vic architects Haworth Tompkins also feature.

Green: the exhibition centre will sit at the top of Crystal Palace Park in south London The winner will be tasked to design the new 500million Crystal Palace in the spirit, scale and magnificence of the original. The new exhibition space, which could create 2,000 jobs, will sit at the top of Crystal Palace Park in south London.

The original was a huge iron and glass building erected in Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was rebuilt in south London three years later but was destroyed by fire in 1936.

Plans: how the park could look Chairman of the Chinese developers, ZhongRong Group, Ni Zhaoxing, said: The outstanding shortlist demonstrate the wealth and diversity of design talent inspired by the challenge of rebuilding the Crystal Palace in the spirit of the magnificent original.

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