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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.

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.

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.

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.

Profiles architects Jennifer Siegal and Apurva Parikh in California. Family and education background of Siegal; Foundation of the Office of Mobile Design; Career achievements of Parikh; Architectural designs of the architects.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Profiles architect Alain Valdes of Gould Evans Affiliates in Tampa Bay, Florida. Significance of creativity in the business; Business planning of Valde; Educational attainment of Valde.

Focuses on the exhibition of showcasing trains and rail station by the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois. Categories of the show; Participation of several architects in the show; Presentation of architecture and design of stations.

Reports that Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut has named architects for two campus arts projects.