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#39;architects and engineers...it #39;s complicated
Mark Raymond is an architect and a Lecturer in Architecture in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UWI St Augustine. He studied at the Architectural...
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Why architects should copy, agonistically | Cristina Goberna Urtzi Grau | TEDxMadrid
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2014 Emerging Voices - AIA Atlanta Young Architects Forum
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The Everyman Theatre in Liverpool by Haworth Tompkins has won the RIBA Stirling Prize coming ahead of Irelands ODonnell and Tuomey Architects. Photograph courtsey of RIBA Stirling Prize.
The Everyman Theatre in Liverpool by Haworth Tompkins has won the RIBA Stirling Prize coming ahead of Irelands ODonnell and Tuomey Architects who were on the six-strong shortlist for the fifth time.
An RIBA insider said that ODonnell and Tuomeys London School of Economics Saw Swee Student Centre had proved popular among architects when it was on the shortlist and seemed to have a high chance of winning.
Sheila ODonnell and John Tuomey, who set up their practice in the 1980s, recently won a globally recognised lifetime achievement award; the RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
Both ODonnell and Tuomey have judged the Stirling Prize and, said Sheila in an interview last month: Its a totally different group that judges Stirling each year so you feel as though anything could happen.
The winning practice this year has also been on the Stirling Prize shortlist before. Competition was fierce this year with a shortlist also including the Shard by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Olympic Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects, Library of Birmingham by Mecanoo and Manchester School of Art by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio.
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Architects and the building industry have criticised the report by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on green buildings titled Building Sense and said it makes unfair comparisons and does not adopt a correct approach.
Data put out by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) on energy consumption of large commercial buildings that were rated and awarded silver, gold and platinum rating, under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green rating programme, are grossly underperforming, the CSE report had said. Several of them could not qualify even for the one star label under the star labelling programme of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) that ranks buildings based on their energy efficiency when operational, according to the report.
However, S Raghupathy, Executive Director, CIIGodrej Green Business Centre said the interpretation of data was not correct and misleading. Office buildings should never be compared with IT buildings. The Energy Performance Index (EPI) concept developed by the BEE is presently available only for three types of buildings malls, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centres and commercial offices.
One cannot compare an office building vis--vis data centers, malls, BPO showrooms, hospitals, and hotels etc., which are unique in their own ways. The report compares an 8-hour office building with other types of buildings, which is totally incorrect, Mr. Raghupathy said.
Clarifying the CSE report, Avikal Somvanshi, senior research associate, CSE said, BEE has developed EPI benchmarks for various building typologies based on which it awards star labels to buildings. It has rated 135 office buildings and 26 BPO buildings for energy efficiency so far.
The CSE has just compared the energy performance of IGBC-LEED rated buildings disclosed by IGBC on its website, and found gross under-performance, he said.
Questions were being raised about EPI not being right measure of judging energy, he said adding that the CSE had not framed these benchmarks and standards which were being questioned.
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The Chartiers Valley School District is using an advisory team of administrators, students, teachers and architects to determine the scope of a renovation/construction project at the middle school and high school.
The district is working with Downtown-based architects, IKM Inc., which has brought BLRB Architects, based in Oregon and Washington, as consultants for the project.
The 486,000-square-foot high school/middle school complex was built in 1970; its last renovation was in 2006.
Matt Hansen, project manager with IKM, said the firm looked to BLRB because of its expertise in school construction projects. While IKM has done work at higher-education facilities such as Slippery Rock Universitys Physical Therapy Building and alumni centers at West Virginia University and Grove City College, it has not done much work with school districts.
IKM is known for its work designing health care facilities, such as St. Clair Hospitals outpatient center in Peters and Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMCs outpatient center in South Fayette.
Mr. Hansen said one of the main focuses in the process of renovating or constructing a school is to look to stakeholders for newer ideas.
The reality is that all of this has been done before, Mr. Hansen said about traditional school construction.
The project has not been specifically defined yet, but it might include a mixture of demolition, renovation and new construction.
In September, school design advisory teams that include parents, taxpayers, teachers, administrators and students began to meet to talk about what they want in the school.
On Tuesday and Wednesday members of some of the advisory teams will tour several schools in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore areas to glean new ideas.
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Advisory teams for Chartiers Valley school renovation plan to tour facilities in D.C. area
The latest crop of luxury residential developments is breaking ground in a whole new way: by hiring interior designers and architects better known for their work in hotels, restaurants and product design along with swanky private homes.
Previously lauded for their smaller-scale commissions, these talents bring a fine eye for architectural and design detail to their first-ever large-scale residential developments. Along the way, theyre imbuing these projects with bespoke features that come from very personal visions.
Andrew Sheinman.
Who knows how to better craft homes than interior architects? says Barbara van Beuren, managing director of Anbau Enterprises, which hired Andrew Sheinman of Pembrooke & Ives for a new Upper East Side development. They have a deeper understanding of lifestyles and needs, and that translates into the design.
People want beautiful design rather than a brand name just for the sake of the name, says Shaun Osher, CEO of Core, which marketed 141 Fifth Ave., one the citys first bespoke developments, in 2008. Something that feels customized to the buyer and feels unique is what theyll put the value on.
Citing the high stakes and high costs of todays market, Jonathan Miller, president and CEO of real estate appraisal firm Miller Samuel, sees this new trend driven by economics.
Theres an extra cost associated with a brand that might not translate into additional returns, he says. Bringing in people who have been successful in their own right [versus a starchitect] but that dont have the brand recognition [is] a cost-effective alternative.
On the Upper East Side, developers are placing a value on reinterpreting history, selecting interior designers who can straddle tradition and trends, and respect the neighborhood context.
155 E. 79th St., from $8.95M: Interior designer Andrew Sheinman mixed modern and traditional design elements at this 14-story building on the UES.Photo: Anbau
Such is the case at 155 E. 79th St., a 14-story building of seven duplexes that broke ground last October. Units range from $8.95 million for a 3,291-square-foot maisonette to $12 million for the remaining duplex. Developer Anbau Enterprises chose Andrew Sheinman, founder of Pembrooke & Ives, an interior design firm known for its private residential work. The choice was driven by Anbau managing director Barbara van Beuren, who grew up a couple of doors down at No. 151, and who envisioned homes that would be as equally personal to buyers.
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Manhattans most-celebrated architects and interior designers go large-scale