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The article reports that the industrial coatings business of PPG Industries Inc. has published an eight-page white paper that compares the environmental, economical, and performance advantages associated with the application of liquid and powder coatings on architectural aluminum. The white paper provides a review of historical factors that have made liquid coatings the choice of architects in North America and powder coatings the prevailing option in Europe.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

The article discusses the trade of exporting architecture jobs. The practice of paying less-expensive workers located beyond the borders of the U.S. to do tasks once done here by architects and interns is extremely controversial. A representative of a U.S.-owned drafting service that sends some of its work abroad spoke extensively to the periodical about the practice, but several days later asked that the company not be named in this article. Other offshore providers were willing to speak about the practice, but said they could not reveal the names of the architecture firms for whom they work. To be fair, U.S. architects have made millions selling their services abroad for decades. INSET: ARCHITECTURAL RECORD'S Offshoring Questionnaire.

Optical reciprocities between ball and bleachers overwhelmingly determine the design of sports buildings. Architects typically derive the diagram for arenas from wrapping walls around optimal lines of sight to generate a box of a bowl. At Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois however, Boston architect Benjamin Wood, Carlos Zapata working with Lohan Caprile Goettsch as the master planner, recently broke free of convention, scoring an end run into new precedent. When architects Wood and Zapata received the commission to update Soldier Field as a $385 million state-of-the-art venue for the Chicago Bears football team, the architects faced the challenge of fitting a new, 62,000-seat bowl within the old one.

For a new generation of American architects, stymied by the vagaries of the domestic economy, China represents potential salvation, a constantly expanding marketplace that welcomes their expertise, with projects challenging conventional experience and scale. The overall market is enormous, consider that in 2003, China leaped from fourth to third place among construction economies, leading hungry architects to yearn for room at the Chinese banquet. For eight days, the author tagged along as firm chairman Bradford Perkins, who, in a 30-year career, has engaged clients throughout the world, made the rounds of clients in Nanjing, Shanghai, and Beijing. Brad Perkins, a sometimes contributor to this magazine, has written suggestions for other architects interested in working in China. INSET: Brad Perkins's 10 Tips for China.

Over the last couple of decades, museum building has entailed an irony for many working artists. Now there is Dia: Beacon, which makes a powerful case for the Museum Without Architects. By entrusting the transformation of a former package-printing plant in Beacon, New York, to Robert Irwin, an artist, the Dia Art Foundation disdained the prevailing trophy-museum ethos a typically iconoclastic move for this quirky yet influential institution. Achieving an ineffable, unself-conscious quality may seem like the most quixotic of occupations for artists, but Dia admirably helps them make their case.

To Erik Hemingway, a peripatetic architect who for the past few years has been based in the Detroit area, architecture is a movable feast. Hemingway earned his undergraduate degree in architecture at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He accepted a teaching assignment at the Lawrence Technical University, Cranbrook near Detroit. He formed a company called Hemingway + Associates with partner Allison Warren. INSETS: A short story about Erik Hemingway;Beyond the humming refrigerator.

Interviews architect Michael Graves, Gold Medalist in the 2001 Honor Awards program of the American Institute of Architects. Profile; Contribution in elevating the recognition of architecture in the public consciousness; Comment on his fame and recognition and how it may influence his goals and ambitions in the field of architecture.

Focuses on the design of architect Frank O. Gehry for a management school in Cleveland, Ohio. Cost of the building construction; Target completion of the campus; Total rooms of the school building.

Reports developments of the American Institute of Architects in the United States as of February 2002. Theme of the National Convention and Expo2002; Details on the Contract Documents' Electronic Format; Contact information.

Presents a discussion with architects from Stonehill & Taylor on the use of natural stone in architectural design in New York. Specialty on building construction and interiors; Works on several large hotels; Reflection of quality and longevity in the use of stone materials.

Profiles architect Mike Latham in New York City. Educational background of Latham; Career history; Achievements of the architect.

The author of this article likes to share some thoughts about the gypsum board industry with architects, engineers, and designers who read his columns. The gypsum board industry in the U.S. and Canada keeps a low profile outside of the construction trades and related professions and the building code arena. Notwithstanding their inherent unease about being in the public spotlight, the board producers quietly contribute to the success of residential, commercial, institutional, and other types of construction. For many years, manufacturers have invested diligently in research and development in order to bring innovative and quality products and systems onto the market place.

ENR New York's 20 Under 40 of 2014 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comments on the quality of construction projects in Georgia. Failure to install brick ties in multistory building; Blame of construction defects on architects for incomplete drawings and specifications; Frequency of performing substantial portion of work among contractors.