Wednesday, October 27, 2010 41 Cooper Square Thom Mayne

Thom Mayne’s Cooper Square First New York LEED Academic Building

by Nicholas Tamarin | posted 2:00 pm

The Pritzker Prize-winning Morphosis principal’s building 41 Cooper Square features energy-saving stainless steel panels offset from a glass and aluminum window wall, a green roof, and a cogeneration plant that provides additional power to the building and recovers waste heat.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Hickock Cole Architects NYU

Hickok Cole Set to Break Ground on NYU-DC

by Nicholas Tamarin | posted 1:00 pm

On September 20, the Washington, D.C.-based A&D firm will start work on a satellite academic center for New York University in the nation’s capitol.

Friday, September 3, 2010 Gwathmey Siegel Cleveland University

Gwathmey Siegel Completes Cleveland State University Student Center

by Nicholas Tamarin | posted 12:00 pm

The New York-based A&D firm has just finished up work on the new 138,000-square-foot facility in downtown Cleveland, marking the start of the second phase of CSU’s master plan to reorient its campus.

Monday, August 16, 2010 Thurston Elementary School AIA CAE 2010 Educational Facility Design Awards

AIA Announces 2010 CAE Educational Facility Design Awards

by | posted 1:00 pm

Design matters…especially when facilitating a healthful, productive educational environment. The American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education is helping to ensure today’s youth is exposed to school facilities optimized for student growth by way of excellence in planning and design.

Friday, June 25, 2010 Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive

UC Berkeley Picks Diller Scofidio + Renfro for New Museum Complex

by Nicholas Tamarin | posted 1:23 pm

The New York based firm will be heading west after beating out a field of 10 national firms to create the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, with a targeted completion date of late 2014.

Thursday, May 20, 2010 Museum of Modern Art Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement

MoMA Surveys Architecture’s Impact on Social Conditions

by Nicholas Tamarin | posted 6:00 am

New York’s Museum of Modern Art will present “Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement,” an exhibition that will focus on 11 projects in impoverished communities, from October 3 through January 3. The exhibit will concentrate on the ways architects engage with local, social, economic, and political circumstances.