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Focuses on Amman, Jordan-based architects Sahel Al-Hayari. Date of foundation; Staff strength; Outline of completed and ongoing projects; Web address.

This article focuses on architect Lance Hosey and photographer Suchitra Sen. While he does design and write in his own name and for his own purposes, Hosey maintains a full-time job as an employee of William McDonough+ Partners, an environmentally conscious Virginia firm. One of the things that has struck Hosey recently that he wasn't fully aware of before is the relationship in his work between the individual and the community. Hosey has written on the topic of whether or not an identifiable architectural style is a good thing, and he has come to the conclusion that something else should probably be more important. Van, the principal of Van Studio in New York City, boasts a fairly traditional architectural education and often he uses his skills in fairly traditional ways, designing apartment interiors or entering memorial competitions, just like any other architect trying to forge a career.

Focuses on the architectural works of architects Alice Min Soo Chun and Theodore Galante in the United States. Creation of the Ethereal Theater designs; Interests of Chun in architecture; Competition design entry of Galante in the Palos Verdes Art Center in California.

This article offers news briefs related to architecture as of June 2006. The documentary television program, e2, the Economics of Being Environmentally Conscious, will examine built and planned green buildings in the U.S. and abroad. The New York Mets baseball team announced that Shea Stadium will be replace by a new ballpark designed by HOK Sport. Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, the 1989 recipient of Spain's Prince of Asturias Prize, is designing a cultural complex dedicated to the prizes.

Marisa Angell, a doctoral candidate in architectural history at Yale, was in Berlin "doing some language work," she noted, but she also intended to go out and see the architecture of the city. She realized the explanatory nature of museums, and it inspired her to begin thinking about her academic home, New Haven, as the basis for a new kind of museum, one that takes the buildings of the city itself as its exhibitions. She calls the project the Urban Museum of Modern Architecture. Angell began to work on a series of brochures for seven of New Haven's most important buildings. They include Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building and Crawford Manor. Each brochure tells the history of its subject, and some show other works by the same architect, or buildings that the one under discussion was influenced by, or a picture of the site before the current structure went up.

The two partners, Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen took an economic risk in buying land and building their first building, but it has been a risk that paid off.Wilhelmsen is Norwegian, but Saunders emigrated from Canada, where he lived until 1996.In 1998, Tommie Wilhelmsen returned to Norway from Stuttgart, Germany, where he had been working with Behnisch, Behnisch&He and Saunders were both becoming known around Bergen, and the director of the Bergen Architecture School paired the two up to teach a six-week course.

In one of the most widely publicized architect selections ever, the design by Daniel Libeskind was chosen on February 27, 2003 for the World Trade Center site. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey selected the scheme by Studio Daniel Libeskind, with Gary Hack, Hargreaves Associates, and Jeff Zupan, but the rebuilding process and Libeskind's ongoing role remain unclear. A spokesman for the Port Authority, said, “We haven't made any decisions yet. We would expect that Mr. Libeskind would be involved in some fashion in all the different aspects ” of rebuilding. San Francisco, California-based architect Stanley Saitowitz is designing the conversion of a factory into a new home for the University of Waterloo School of Architecture building in Cambridge, Ontario. INSET: OFF THE RECORD.

Focuses on Brooklyn, New york-based architectural firm Freecell. Four partners of the firm; Design of Freecell's office; Plans of the firm.

Features the Ply Architecture + Design, a firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Award received in Case Study House in Cleveland; Exploration of the company's design ideas from television.

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

Profiles architect David Hu in New York. Architectural designs and concepts; Educational background; Creativity.

Profiles architects Craig Scott and Lisa Iwamoto in the U.S. Collaboration of professional achievements of the two architects; Partnership between Scott and Iwamoto for several years; Inception of IS.AR Iwamoto Scott Architecture.

Focuses on the stylistic labels for architects in Europe. Architectural context of the Stock Orchard Street; Use of unorthodox materials in architectural design; Identification of the architectural solution of building problems.

The article features the kitchen design by Studio Dwell Architects for a housing developer's home in Chicago, Illinois. The designer divided the kitchen into two spaces wherein a part of the kitchen can be enclosed by sliding doors to hide appliances and kitchen clutter. The firm created an atrium at the center of the house that allowed natural light to reach the kitchen from both ends.

The article features the house of Elizabeth and Mordechai Kubany in New Jersey that was renovated by Markus Dochantschi, principal of studioMDA. Dochantschi was hired to add a new kitchen and master suite to the house. The new kitchen, a modern wood-and-glass addition, brings light and views of nature into the dining area. The new masters suite was constructed at the unfinished attic of the house.

The article focuses on the controversy arising from the increasing construction cost of the Freedom Tower in New York City, which was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and authorized by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The port authority estimated the original contract price of the building's construction at $500 million. But the building's total price tag is currently set at $2.88 billion. Many observers believe that the final amount will rise far higher.

This article provides information on the formation of the Urban Studio Brooklyn (USBK) group by eco-conscious restaurateur Sean Meenan and his intern, Lori Gibbs. The USBK is a design-build collective that would attempt to bring together students from all of New York City's accredited schools of architecture to build a rainwater collector that would catch the runoff from the courtyard's solar panels to water the restaurant's plants.

This article explains that as controversy and politics have slowed progress at the Ground Zero memorial site, several other memorials to the victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are proceeding at paces that surprise even their designers. The memorial to victims in Westchester, New York, will be dedicated on September 10. And the Staten Island memorial, though significantly smaller than some of the others, was completed in 2004. Paul Murdoch, AIA, who is designing the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, says that his process has been not only surprisingly smooth, but also surprisingly accelerated, even though Murdoch finds that he is working with far more constituents than he normally does. In Alexandria, Virginia, Julie Beckman, who is designing the Pentagon Memorial with her partner Keith Kaseman, has had a slightly different view of working on one of the three major memorials.

The article reports on the plans made by the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant to build a series of digester tanks on the banks where the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers meet in Washington, D.C. Sorg & Associates designed the new structures, which use microbes to convert solid waste into a product suitable for agricultural use. Models of the digester tanks show two rows of egglike forms connected by footbridges and anchored by elevator towers.

The article features a beach house in San Francisco, California, designed by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects Co. The house has an indoor/outdoor kitchen. The kitchen flows from the open floor plan of the house, which gives the house a casual, vacation-home feel. There is a Dutch door that goes to the outdoor fireplace. Past the outdoor fireplace, there is a dining area. The kitchen has its own set of stairs down to the beach, and a window over the sink looks directly onto Mount Tamalpais, connecting the space to the beach and the Marin Hills.

The article features a residential bathroom designed by Clint M. Larkan Design Studio for a client in Alexandria, Virginia. In designing the room for a woman and her adult son in a wheelchair, Larkan personalized the idea of accessibility in a space where good design was as important as sink height and turning radius. A walk-in closet was incorporated into the design for more space.

Reports on the occupancy of The Drawing Center and International Freedom Center at the Ground Zero in New York City. Complaints of families and members of the WTC Memorial Foundation board against exhibitions of the tenants; Views of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on the removal of the centers; Decision of the centers to stay in the location.

Deals with the controversies and questions that emerged concerning plans for the World Trade Center Site in New York City in 2005. Opposition to display of unpatriotic exhibits in the site; Comment on the influence of International Freedom Center executive director Tom Bernstein on the architectural plans for the site; Controversy over the involvement of architect Michael Arad in the design review process.

The article discusses a dialogue of eras in the kitchen of architect Anne Fougeron's San Francisco Victorian. When people first come to her house, an 1890s San Francisco Victorian, they often hesitate to use bathroom. It's separated from the kitchen by a translucent wall of laminated glass, which allows light and as well as silhouettes to be transmitted between the rooms. My house is south-facing in the back, so it gets really good sun, and Victorian houses are dark in the middle, she said. So I wanted to open up the back of the house as much as possible, she says.

The article informs about an Ottawa apartment, which flows with custom creations of its owner-architect. From the handheld shower and drainable wood-slat floors in the entryway to the removable wooden chaise in the poured-concrete bathtub, the theme of water flows through architect Paul duBellet Kariouk's Ottawa apartment. At the center of this is the sculptural faucet that breaks the flat plane of the kitchen counter, one of the few design elements that does not move.

The article presents the view that chef Tyler Florance's kitchen is ideal setting for work and play. When construction crews were poking around behind a Sheetrock wall in order to run electrical wires into the renovated New York City apartment of chef and television personality Tyler Florence, they discovered something serendipitous: a brick wall that had once been the exterior of the building next door that bore the remnants of a painted advertisement. Time was running short to complete the project: Besides being Florence's residence, the apartment was to serve as a set for his new show, Tyler's Ultimate, and filming was weeks away. Florence initially wanted to push through with the original design, but something nagged at him, and he called architect Thomas C. Lekometros, the principal of the New York City office of the Lawrence Group Architects.

The article reports that New York State leaders and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. unveiled a schematic design for the first of two cultural buildings at the World Trade Center site on May 19, 2005. The building, designed by Norwegian firm Snøhetta AS, will house New York's Drawing Center and a new museum called the International Freedom Center. The Snøhetta building, which will sit on the northeast corner of the Trade Center Memorial's plaza, has been designed to minimize interference with the memorial. In contrast to the planned 1,776-foot Freedom Tower, the cultural center would be a low, horizontal building, with clear sight lines from Greenwich Street, to its east, to the memorial on the west.

This article reports that since the two symmetrical fiberglass walls of Staten Island's September 11 memorial were fabricated offsite by a Rhode Island shipbuilder, their installation seemed almost magical to some of the families of the victims that the memorial honors. The memorial comprises two gently curved "postcards" that sit on the Staten Island waterfront and control views toward the site of the World Trade Center, New York. More than 100 plaques on the walls contain water-jet-cut portraits of the victims. Masa Sono, the project's original designer, says that the memorial has been well received, noting families have left colorful candles and presents at its base, adding color to the white walls.

The article reports that on December 6, a federal jury decided that the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, were two separate attacks, entitling Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder, to a total of $2.2 billion from nine different insurance companies. Had the jury, in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, decided the planes constituted only a single attack, Silverstein would have received$ 1.1 billion. The decision was Phase II of a trial that began earlier this year.

The article informs that on October 21, Tishman Construction topped steel for 7 World Trade Center, the last building at Ground Zero to collapse on September 11, 2001, and the first on the site to be rebuilt. The 750-foot-tall, 1.7-million-square-foot tower is designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. The original building, designed by Emery Roth & Sons and completed in 1985, stood 641 feet tall but contained more floor space than the new building, which is narrower to accommodate a restored street.

This article reports that the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City's East Village recently unveiled schematic designs for its new academic building. Thorn Mayne of Morphosis is creating the ninestory building, which will house the school of engineering and the department of humanities and social sciences.The building will have a glass envelope surrounded by a metal screen that will be operable by studio occupants inside. The building's elevators will stop only on every other floor, so students and faculty will be forced to take the stairs in the atrium and interact with each other. An exhibition at Cooper Union that closed on October 23 illustrated some of Mayne's initial design concepts, and showed that the architect struggled with the building's preset envelope.

This article reports that six months after the fall of the World Trade Center towers, a documentary filmmaker began filming time-lapse movies of the site from 35-millimeter cameras placed atop buildings around the area. The project is called Project Rebirth, and the documentary filmmaker behind it is Jim Whitaker, who is also the president of Imagine Entertainment, the film production company started by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard. In September, Project Rebirth launched its own Web site, www. projectrebirth.org, which is a project in its own right in several ways. In addition to information about the film, the site provides an interactive timeline, interviews with important figures in the rebuilding process, and information about the architecture, urban planning, and engineering that is going into the rebuilding.

New York-based architect Frederic Schwartz was selected last month to design the New Jersey 9/11 memorial in Jersey City, New Jersey, against the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. The design, which is called "Empty Sky," frames a view of the former Twin Towers from the Hudson River's banks in Jersey City. He also won the commission to design Westchester County, New York's memorial, and was a finalist to design a Hoboken, New Jersey, memorial. The New Jersey memorial will be composed of two 30-foot-high, 200-foot-long steel walls, flanking a 16-foot-wide bluestone path. The walls will be inscribed with the names of New Jersey's nearly 700 victims and will be surrounded by a landscaped, that forms a natural amphitheater facing Manhattan.

When Alexander Gorlin, principal of Alexander Gorlin Architects, approached the design of a kitchen for the renovation of a Modernist 1958 uptown Manhattan town house in New York City, he preserved something of the 1950s idea of a kitchen — even though the space wasn't one to begin with. Gorlin designed the new kitchen to preserve the "luminous" nature of the room, and created translucent cabinetry to let the natural light through. The translucent cabinets hang from the ceiling, completely separate from the window frame behind. The cabinet doors were manufactured by Rudy Art Glass, and the sliding panels in the back are made of Lumasite plastic.

The Gipsy Trail residence, designed by Archi-Tectonics for a site in rural upstate New York, looks almost boxy from the outside, but running through the center spine of the house is an organic "armature," a twisting collection of the house's infrastructure. Within the armature are the kitchen, fireplace, heating and cooling mechanisms, and perhaps most spectacularly, the master bathroom. As the armature winds through the center of the house, a skylight follows. The skylight is formed of individual glass panes dividing the zinc roof. The architects, led by principal Winka Dubbeldam, oriented the entire house to capture views of the lake and as much natural light as possible, and deliberately chose shiny white and chrome fixtures to make the most of the light.

New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has released drawings for a new transit hub in Lower Manhattan, to be designed by Grimshaw's New York office. The new building will link stations for nine subway lines, and will stand at the corner of Broadway and Fulton Street, about a block from the site of the World Trade Center. The building itself is planned as a 50-foot-tall glass pavilion, with a tapering steel-and-glass dome rising from the middle. The design, say its architects, is intended to make the station a neighborhood landmark and bring light into the now-dark subway platforms below ground. The design incorporates two small stores at street level, and preserves the Corbin Building, an ornate office building from 1889 that sits adjacent to the new subway entrance.

As the highly scrutinized designs for the World Trade Center and Pentagon memorials continue to progress, several smaller, more specific September 11 memorials of interest have also been developing in New York. On Staten Island, contractors working for New York City's Economic Development Corp. broke ground for Staten Island's memorial, which its architect, Masayuki Sono, calls Postcards. Sono has been working to refine the design with another architect, Lapshan Fong, since he won the open competition in June 2003.

Family and community groups involved in advocacy for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site agree that the process is entering a new, more settled phase. Monica Iken, the founder and chairperson of September's Mission, an organization representing families of victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, feels comfortable with the current state of development. Other groups, however, are not so content. The Coalition of 9/11 Families, a large advocacy group comprised of 9/11 family organizations, has polled victims' families and other interested parties and has found that many are unhappy about a number of matters.

The Cooper Union in New York City, New York, announced that architect Thom Mayne of the firm Morphosis will design the school's new academic building. The building, which will rise to nine stories and cover an entire block in Manhattan, will be Mayne's first major project in New York City. Mayne has not produced any designs for the building yet, having been selected on the basis of a Request for Proposal and an in-depth interview process. He was one of four finalists selected from an initial field of 150.

This article checks up on one of last year's Design Vanguard architects, who has recently completed a year of working with a Pritzker Prize winner and is contemplating his next, metaphorical, move up-to a higher level of practice. Sahel Al-Hiyari, an architect from Amman, Jordan, joined the ranks of the Design Vanguard on December 2002. Al-Hiyari was then just beginning a one-year apprenticeship of sorts, sponsored by Rolex Co., during which he worked with Alvaro Siza, the Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect. The two architects discussed some of the more philosophical aspects of architecture and topics as far afield as the history of Islamic architecture in Portugal.

Despite protests from local preservationists, the Chinese government plans to begin construction on the 161,458-square-foot, Pel Partnership-designed Suzhou Museum, on the site of a classical garden in the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Zheng, China. The Humble Administrators garden was originally laid out in the early 16th century, and its nearly 13 acres rank among a handful of the most famous classical gardens. Pel's museum would replace a group of 200-year-old traditional wooden buildings in the southwest courtyard of the garden, which do not have United Nations protection.

Daniel Libeskind and Larry Silverstein, the developer who holds the lease for commercial space at the World Trade Center site, reached an agreement on July 16 about Libeskind's role in the design of the 1,776-foot tower that will anchor the site. According to the agreement, David M. Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill will serve as the design architect and project manager for the office building, which the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. (LMDC) bills as the world's tallest. Libeskind, whose master plan for the site was selected by the LMDC, will collaborate with Childs during the concept and schematic design processes and will be a full member of the project team.

Daniel Libeskind reached an agreement with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ensuring that Libeskind will design the main hall of a new transit hub on the World Trade Center site. Libeskind has already secured a contract with the Port Authority to develop his master plan and design guidelines for the site, and has another with the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. to design the museum and cultural buildings. On May 30, 'The New York Times' reported that Larry Silverstein, the developer who holds the lease to office space on the site, would not hire Libeskind to design the buildings he plans to erect there, citing concerns about Libeskind's lack of experience in designing tall buildings. It also reported that Libeskind's plan would inspire any work done by whatever architect Silverstein eventually hires.

Architect Zaha Hadid has unveiled preliminary designs for a new building for the Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The arts center, a museum of art, architecture, and design will abut his Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower. The new facility will give the museum 58,000 square feet of gallery space and areas for support services. The museum will share a new plaza to its South with the performing arts center. The plaza will serve as the pedestrian approach to the museum. One of two 5,000-square-foot galleries will be devoted to the museum's permanent collection, and the other will house temporary exhibitions.

Tom Wiscombe, a Los Angeles, California and Vienna, Austria-based architect, has won the fourth annual MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. The competition invites architects to design and build an urban beach in the courtyard of P.S.1, a museum of contemporary art in Long Island City, New York. Wiscombe's design will shade the courtyard during the day with a 2,500-square-foot tensile fabric or membrane roof which will stretch in sections between aluminum and steel supports. The museum allows a $60,000 construction budget for the project.

This article reports that General Services Administration (GSA) has announced the recipient of the 2002 GSA Design Awards for outstanding public architecture.The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., is exhibiting the winning projects through October 19, 2003.

A new building designed by Tadao Ando will form the centerpiece of a major renovation of the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The building will add 95,000 square feet of space to the institute without increasing the amount of above-ground floor space on the campus. More than three quarters of the new Ando building will be below ground, and an existing service building and parking lot will be demolished to make room for the new structure. Ando has also designed a new entrance pavilion for the institute's original 1955 building, a white marble Neoclassical structure.

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 architectural design layouts, proposed by architect Fumihiko Maki, for two buildings in the Sam Fox Arts Center in Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Professional achievements of the architect; Features of a remodeled museum building, designed by Maki for the arts center; Purpose of the architecture of a building for the university's School of Art.

Reports that Swedish low cost furniture retailer Ikea has planned to demolish a portion of a 1969 Marcel Breuer building in New Haven, Connecticut. Original architectural plan of the company; Other designs proposed by architects; Efforts of different groups to preserve the building.