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The article reports on New York-based architect Jeffrey Milstein's design and production of note cards die cut from photographs of facade models of classic American house styles. The paper models are five-to-six inches high and feature front doors that open. The design includes New England Colonial and Gothic Revival Houses.

Highlights the design of the National Studio for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, France. Who designed the building; Physical description of the structure; Details on renovation efforts.

The Paper Collection is one of the newest chair designs resulting from the collaboration between the family-owned Northern Italian manufacturer Plank and designers Raul Barbieri and Anna Giuffrida of the Taftville, Connecticut-based furniture manufacturer ICF Group. The Paper Collection is available in side, arm, and swivel options and at bar and kitchen heights. Featuring a tubular, steel-polished chrome frame, the molded seat and back are available in colored laminate, aluminum laminate, and veneer.

Evaluates the Argos for Windows software from Sepialine in San Francisco, California.

Announces Hartman-Cox Architects' plan to begin construction of the Jefferson Library at Kenwood, outside of Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2000. Scheduled completion date; Highlights of the multimillion-dollar architectural project.

Focuses on the remodeling of a car dealership into an innovative copy shop by Elliott + Associates in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Details on the architectural design of the shop; Use of copy paper glued to the wall to resemble bricks of stone; Impact of the irregularities on the texture and shadow of the place.

Looks at the plans for the presentation of documents pertaining regarding the work of 20th century architects to the Library of Congress by I.M. Pei. Information on the presentation; Information on Pei; Details on some of Pei's designs.

At this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City, the Brooklyn, New York-based interior and product design firm twenty2 launched its first collection of hand-screened wallpapers. Created by Krya and Robertson Hartnett, the firm's founding principals, the contemporary patterns are named Maxwell Group, Acco Group, Columbia Heights, and Casa Mila. Each design is hand-screened on vinyl-coated paper or a grass cloth of woven jute and carries an ASTM-E84 Class A fire rating. The firm is currently developing a line of hand-printed fabrics to coordinate with the new wallpapers.

Reports that Rebuild Downtown Our Town (RDOT), a community advocacy group for Lower Manhattan, has issued a position paper recommending several strategies for attracting retail to the neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan as a stimulus to growth. Identification of shopping districts, retail destinations, and retail corridors by RDOT; Suggestions by RDOT to avoid siphoning retail traffic away from surrounding neighborhoods.

Focuses on Japanese architect Shigeru Ban's projects which highlight the use of cardboard tubes as building material. Sculpture garden at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; Japan Pavilion at the International Expo 2000 in Hannover, Germany.

Focuses on the New York Times Printing Plant in Flushing, New York. Number of plants of its kind in the United States; What the plant was constructed to do; Cost of the construction of the plant; Size of the plant; Comments from David A. Thurm, vice president for production at the plant; Detailed information on the printing process at the plant.

Archiving project information was once merely a matter of collecting, organizing, and filing away paper drawings, each one created anew as design progressed. Chicago, Illlinois based architect Kristine Fallon, president of Kristine Fallon Associates, heads the project, which involves a team of architects, academics, museum curators, and technology experts who are reviewing the challenges of maintaining digital archives and will ultimately provide recommendations for best practices. To combat obsolescence of archival documents, a proposed global registry could alert architects to digital file types that are in danger of disappearing and provide a way for architects to reformat their files.

Discusses the architectural lighting of Ingo Maurer's luminaire showroom in the SoHo district of New York City, New York. Use of neutral backdrop to showcase lighting fixtures product; Wall mounted line-voltage receptacles along perimeter; Ceiling suspended lighting tracks; Use of halogen lamps to provide ambient and spot lighting.

The article reports that Graham and Brown, a firm that has created wallcoverings in Great Britain for more than half a century, is now expanding its presence in the U.S. with a selection of new products. The Paintable Textures collection is available in a range of textured patterns inspired by sources including Victorian-era pressed-tin ceilings, crisp linen, and painters' brush strokes. The papers allow specifiers to inexpensively recreate the look of faux-painted and fabric-covered walls.

This article presents information on wall panels, by Texas-based Durra Building Systems. To create their strawboard panels, Durra applies both high heat and extreme pressure to straw fibers, coaxing out resins that act as a permanent bonding agent. Panels are then dry-extruded and finished with a strong, water-resistant liner paper. The resulting panels are nontoxic and offer fire, impact, mold, and mildew resistance.

Architecture critic of the newspaper "The New York Times," Herbert Muschamp will be moving to a new beat, confirms a source within the paper. Culture Desk editor Jonathan Landman told that Muschamp decided "he's been doing it long enough, and he wants to do something else." Landman notes that Muschamp's move will be of his own volition, and says that he was not at all displeased with the critic's performance. Landman would not say when the move will take place. He added that Muschamp had been thinking of changing assignments for some time, although he could not remember when he and Muschamp had first discussed the topic.

Perhaps no other American city's identity is so entwined with the profession of architecture as buildings of Chicago, Illinois. On April 4, the Art Institute unveiled a hypothetical skyline for the Windy City, one recorded in pixels and on paper rather than in concrete, glass, or steel. Chicago architect Dan Wheeler, of the firm Wheeler Kearns, drew from the Institute's collection of more than 130,000 architectural objects to showcase some 90 drawings, renderings, and models of never-built projects dating from 1880 to the present. The show reveals Chicago's long history as fertile ground for design ingenuity at all scales. The theoretical work Expanding Skyscraper by Reginald Malcomson, a tower to which cantilevered floor plates could be added over time, is an intriguing attempt to weigh the fluctuating demands of the city against the immutable nature of completed buildings.

Several stellar Japanese architects recently converged on Manhattan, New York, for a symposium at the Japan Society called "Technology and Tradition in Contemporary Japanese Architecture," co-organized by the periodical "Architectural Record." The conference was launched with a lecture by Fumihiko Maki, recently appointed architect for a new United Nations building and a tower at Ground Zero. The focus then passed to younger architects, including Ware Kishi , Kengo Kuma, and the ebullient Jun Aoki. Aoki, Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima are rising architects. Each has built or is about to build in Manhattan: Aoki's work for Vuitton on Fifth Avenue, Ban's Paper Arch at the Museum of Modern Art in 2000, and Sejima's New Museum envisaged for the Bowery.

Reports the remodeling of an old warehouse into an office building by architect Marmol Radziner and associates in Santa Monica, California. Influences of the architectural design; Removal of the upper floor to reveal laminated structures; Formation of translucent polycarbonate-lined conference and project rooms; Use of natural materials in the projects.

Reports on Rem Koolhaas' design of the Seattle Central Library by Rem Koolhaas. Competition between Koolhaas and Steven Hool; Presentation of design permutations; Sidestepping of ban on models through paper folding.

Presents designs and plans for the Warren B. Rudman United States Courthouse in Concord, New Hampshire by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbot/PMR Joint Venture Architects. Description of the overall structure; Exteriors; Features; Concept behind the design.

Presents new building products and contract furnishings exhibited in the first half of 1996 in Minneapolis, Orlando, and Chicago by the American Institute of Architects, the Construction Specifications Institute and NEOCON. Includes flexible color options; Rice-paper safety glass; Modular private office; High-performance, neutral tint.

The article discusses examples of integrated delivery project (IPD) contracts in the U.S. In a paper released by the Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) in 2004, it advocated that IPD will be facilitated by the technology of building information modeling (BIM). Examples of contractual structures for IPD are the project alliance agreement used for the Australian National Museum, the Sutter Health Care building contract agreement and the model developed by the architectural firm NBBJ.

This article presents information on Technology in Construction conference in Orlando, Florida, in January 2004. designers posed that question to each other about building information modeling (BIM), long billed as the technological sine qua non for efficient and cost-effective design and construction. But most designers, it seems, are taking a wait-and-see attitude about BIM--interested in its benefits, but hesitant to adopt it unless assured of Building information modeling (BIM) is the latest rebranding of a 25-year-old idea that architects should create intelligent 3D models instead of paper drawings to communicate design ideas and guide construction.

Reports on several conferences, symposium and lectures related to architecture to be held during October 2002 and November 2002 in the United States. Conference entitled AIA California Council Desert Preactice Conference 2002 to be held in Indian Wells, California; Lectures from the Dallas Architecture Forum on architecture to be held in Dallas, Texas.

The article informs that former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt started it all with a sketch in 1937 of a tasteful Dutch Colonial-style building to house his presidential papers. Over the next three years, he erected the small library in Hyde Park, New York, following his own design and using Hudson Valley fieldstone for the exterior walls and small dormers in the sharply pitched roof. Today, there are 12 presidential libraries, 11 of which are run by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Typically, a president sets up a private foundation that builds his library, then hands it over to NARA to operate.

Focuses on the architectural design for kitchen and bathroom renovations of Prince Street by Hut Sachs Studio in New York City. Significance of the design for master bathroom; Materials used for the design of flooring; Functions of the open space plan.

Reports on the holding of the exhibition 'On the Job: Design and the American Office,' at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Focus on the history of office design in the United States; Featured works.

Discusses the advantages of Smart Permit project, a range of programs and software aimed at upgrading the regulatory environment, to architects in the United States. Standardization of permitting processes; Unifying building codes and their interpretations; Testimony of David Bendet of MBT Architecture, on the effectiveness of Smart Permit.

The article reports on the position paper, released by the American Association of Engineering Societies, which states that the U.S. government has failed to provide a comprehensive policy that would encourage alternative energy sources. The position paper emphasizes the development of coal and synthetic liquids and the exploration for new sources of coal and gas. It also calls for incentives to encourage oil extraction from shale and tar sands and nuclear and solar sources.

Focuses on lighting designed by Cooley Monato Studio for Aveda's beauty and personal care products outlets in Edina, Minnesota and Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Client requirements; Design standards developed with Gensler architects; Means for providing consistent ambient illumination; Standard wall-washing fixtures for both stores.

The article focuses on roofing installation in the U.S. The author believes that attachment methods should reflect concerns for wind uplift, building movement and cost, but vary from material to material. The paper also features products from different companies including those from Seaman Corp., Kelly Energy Systems Inc. and Benoit Inc.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to the development of small parks called parklets throughout the U.S.

This article features Guy Nordenson, a structural engineer who began his career drafting in the joint studio of R. Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi. He established the New York office of Arup in 1987 and his own practice in 1997. After the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks of 9/11, he undertook structural inspections of some 400 buildings around the site and continued to provide his services with the various design deliberations that followed, including collaborating with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill on the scheme that became the Freedom Tower.

The article announces the memorials that are being established for the victims of terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11, 2001 and in Spain on March 11, 2004. Memorials include Ground Zero in Manhattan which has broken ground in May 2007, the Palace of Remembrance in Logan Airport in Boston and a tribute at the Saint Vincent Hospital in New York. A special room in the train station has been set up as a memorial dedicated to the 191 people killed in Madrid, Spain.

The article describes the architectural design of Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona. The airport's importance to the city's economy and culture inspired Wellington Reiter, an architect and dean of Arizona State University's College of Design, to sketch out a vision of its future. The architect conceived the highway pipeline into the airport as both a sort of utopian entry and a darker surveillance system.

This article reviews several building materials and architectural products. DuPont Corian remains a vital supplier to the architectural and design community. The latest patent-pending technology developed for the material is Dye Sublimation in Corian, manufactured exclusively by R.D. Wing Co. of Kirkland, Washington. For the atrium of the 300,000-square-foot Kendall Square Biotech Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Cambridge Architectural Security & Safety mesh system was specified to provide fall protection using panels of metal fabric within railings. iLevel Trus Joist Commercial, formerly Trus Joist, has introduced a new family of commercial framing products to the market. The TimberStrand LSL beam allows for the drilling of multiple holes and has capacity for larger holes up to 45/8″. Parallam PSL beams and columns reach up to 60′ long.

The impassioned controversy over the now-complete addition to the land-marked Harvard Club of New York is not over. While for some, the Modernist-style glass and limestone exterior respects the original neo-Georgian brick clubhouse built in 1894 by McKim, Mead and White, for others, the addition is a desecration. Members opposed to the Davis Brody Bond addition went to extraordinary lengths to kill it before construction started. Stephen Raphael, a club member who served on the New York City Landmarks Commission from 1991 to 1997, says he would have voted against the Bond addition if he were still a commission member.

Mahandi is the hand-screen-printed wall-covering from Yonkers, New York-based designer Carolyn Ray.Named after the Mahandi tree that produces henna sap for the arms of Indian brides, the pattern on the 27″-wide Class A fire-rated wallpaper is a companion to an earlier design from the company named Foo Lim.Mahandi features a leafy cascade motif in four color offerings: Taj Express, Monsoon, Darjeeling, and Groove Mahal.

The article discusses innovative site construction in three projects in the U.S. Artist Mary Miss' proposal for a foot bridge at the art and nature park of the Indianapolis Museum of Art is aimed at developing an innovative viewing device. The Kieran Timberlake Associates incorporated a constructed wetland for the Sidwell Friends School in Washington to recycle its waste water. The firm Lake/Flato Architects designed the conservation district Government Canyon Visitor Center in Helotes, Texas.

Focuses on the three-wheel cycle design by Eric Whiting of Saratoga Associates in Saratoga Springs, New York. Physical description; Features; Architectural concepts.

Highlights the annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture held in New Orleans, Louisiana. Discussion on the issues about distance education; Impact of the September 11 terrorist attacks on architectural schools and students; Elimination of time requirements for a professional degree by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

This article presents the recipients of the 2006 American Institute of Architects Honor Awards. Winners of the architecture category includes the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and the Washington State Legislative Building. Winners of the interior design category includes Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co. and Mother London.

Reports the use of digital planning techniques in architectural designing of charrette in Honolulu, Hawaii. Development of massing models of the sites; Accessibility of the process to designers and local community; Importance of digital media in design and planning.

Focuses on issues related to electronic business in the United States. Role of digital technology in architecture; Advantages of using digital equipments; Products and services offered by technology companies.

Reports on the development of the Architectural Studio software by Autodesk in the United States. Features of the software; Emergence of digital design; Role of the software in architectural design formulations.

Features the conceptual design for an expansion and renovation on the Walker Art Center museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Description of the planned structural addition to the center; Construction schedule.

Focuses on the installation of operable windows in high-rise commercial buildings in the U.S. Views of Clark Bisel, senior vice president at Flack and Kurtz in San Francisco, California, on one reason to provide natural ventilation; Challenges that lie in managing the intake of natural pollutants according to David Bearg, an engineering consultant on Indoor Environmental Quality; Factors that can support or thwart the effectiveness of natural ventilation systems; Necessity of operable roofs in greenhouses.

Criticizes the proliferation of big-box stores across the U.S. which define the elements of the landscape of the country and the culture of profit. Improvements in the design of big-box stores in response to complaints from local communities; Definition of a big-box store by the International Council of Shopping Centers; Implementation of zoning regulations to restrict store sizes in the country.

This article focuses on the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), the green-building rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council. Today, LEED has virtually become a household word. More and more projects have been registered, and LEED ratings increasingly find their way into marketing brochures distributed by developers, building owners, architects, and contractors. The rating system is divided into six categories. Now that LEED has been available in one form or another for some five years, it's appropriate that the system has been reviewed externally and internally for various purposes.