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Fulton Trotter Architects interview on ArchiCAD
Nathan Hildebrandt, the BIM Manager of the Brisbane-based, award-winning company, Fulton Trotter Architects, told us how they use ArchiCAD to get the informa...
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The George Lucas museum is currently in the works, looking to house his large collection of art and memorabilia.
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas on Monday announced an architectural team for his controversial planned museum on Chicago's lakefront: an avant-garde Chinese designer whose credits include Toronto-area skyscrapers dubbed the "Marilyn Monroe Towers" and Chicago's Jeanne Gang, shaper of the undulating Aqua Tower here.
Ma Yansong, founder of the Beijing firm MAD Architects, will design the building for Lucas' Museum of Narrative Art. Gang, who heads Studio Gang Architects, will conceive the landscape around the building and design a pedestrian bridge linking the museum to Northerly Island, a peninsula east of the museum site.
The announcement of the star-studded team, a surprise given Lucas' penchant for traditional designs, has political implications for a project championed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. It would rise on 17 acres now occupied by parking lots between Soldier Field and McCormick Place.
If the architects produce a design gem that upgrades the landscape of the Museum Campus, the cluster of shoreline museums to which the Lucas Museum would belong, it could soften, or at least blunt, opposition.
Critics include open-space advocates threatening a lawsuit to block construction and Chicago Bears fans fuming that the museum will boot them from tailgating spots. Citing the opposition, a newspaper in San Francisco, where Lucas first intended to build the museum, last week labeled Chicago "the City of Cold Shoulders."
Conceptual designs are expected to be released later this year.
Lucas is promising to pay for the pedestrian bridge, which would have to be high enough to allow sailboats using Burnham Harbor to pass beneath. It won't come cheap. The price for a soon-to-be-built lakefront pedestrian bridge at 35th Street is pegged at more than $18 million.
Further sweetening the pot for Chicago, Lucas has selected another Chicago firm, VOA Architects, to be the museum's executive architect. While Ma and Gang focus on the broad creative strokes, VOA will be responsible for details like construction drawings. VOA has designed offices for Ariel Investments, whose president, Mellody Hobson, is Lucas' wife.
Lucas declined an interview request. In a prepared statement, he said: "We are bringing together some of the top architects in the world to ensure that our museum experience begins long before a visitor ever enters the building."
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One of the most remarkable periods in the history of Connecticut's evolving architectural landscape was the late 1940s to the late 1960s, when a group of Harvard-trained architects took up residence in the town of New Canaan and made modern history.
Known as "The Harvard Five," Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, Landis Gores, John Johansen and their teacher Marcel Breuer built homes for themselves and others that were nothing like the traditional clapboard Colonials with pitched roofs and many-paned windows that dotted the leafy town.
These architects took a gutsy new approach in their Mid-Century Modern designs, using broad horizontal lines, exposed steel beams, dramatic cantilevers, spare detailing and massive walls of glass that blurred the line between the inside and the great outdoors.
New Canaan quickly became the locus of Modern home design in this country. House tours were organized to benefit local charities and so the architects could show off their work but they created traffic jams in the sleepy town.
"This was an architecture that burst on the scene. And like the uninvited guest, many a resident wished for some forewarning," Jean Ely wrote in an article published in the New Canaan Historical Society Annual of 1967.
The unconventional designs were derided as "packing boxes," dismissed as "cracker boxes," and in a poem that ran in the local newspaper and set off a flurry of other versifying critics likened to "partially-opened bureau drawers set on steel posts and stanchions, an architecture as gracious as Sunoco service stations."
A couplet from one of the many replies: "They're lousing up the countryside with buildings most alarming, It isn't like New Canaan, where everything's been charming."
William D. Earls, a Wilton architect and author of "The Harvard Five in New Canaan" (W.W. Norton, 2006), said the young architects have to be given credit for taking chances with their careers and reputations.
Eliot Noyes, for example, who was the first of the five to settle in New Canaan and built his first house in 1947, used his own houses as "experiments, with little regard for conventional public opinion," Earls writes. The second home Noyes designed for his family, on Country Club Road, was built in 1955 around a central courtyard, with massive stone walls that evoke New England's classic stone walls. Bedrooms and bath are on one side of the house; the kitchen, dining room, living room and study on the other.
Some visitors were rather aghast that the family had to walk outside through the covered courtyard to get from one side of the house to the other.
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What skills are architects looking for in new staff?
What skills are architects looking for in new staff? Tom Hodgson from Maven gives talks about the in demand skills that emplyers are asking for.
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Tajmahal Agra Architects Forum 17
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The George Lucas museum is currently in the works, looking to house his large collection of art and memorabilia.
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas on Monday will announce an architectural team for his controversial planned museum on Chicago's lakefront: an avant-garde Chinese designer whose credits include Toronto-area skyscrapers dubbed the "Marilyn Monroe Towers" and Chicago's Jeanne Gang, shaper of the undulating Aqua Tower here.
Ma Yansong, founder of the Beijing firm MAD Architects, will design the building for Lucas' Museum of Narrative Art. Gang, who heads Studio Gang Architects, will conceive the landscape around the building and design a pedestrian bridge linking the museum to Northerly Island, a peninsula east of the museum site.
The announcement of the star-studded team, a surprise given Lucas' penchant for traditional designs, has political implications for a project championed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. It would rise on 17 acres now occupied by parking lots between Soldier Field and McCormick Place.
If the architects produce a design gem that upgrades the landscape of the Museum Campus, the cluster of shoreline museums to which the Lucas Museum would belong, it could soften, or at least blunt, opposition. Critics include open-space advocates threatening a lawsuit to block construction and Chicago Bears fans fuming that the museum will boot them from tailgating spots. Citing the opposition, a newspaper in San Francisco, where Lucas first intended to build the museum, last week labeled Chicago "the City of Cold Shoulders."
Conceptual designs are expected to be released later this year.
Lucas is promising to pay for the pedestrian bridge, which would have to be high enough to allow sailboats using Burnham Harbor to pass beneath. It won't come cheap. The price for a soon-to-be-built lakefront pedestrian bridge at 35th Street is pegged at more than $18 million.
Further sweetening the pot for Chicago, Lucas has selected another Chicago firm, VOA Architects, to be the museum's executive architect. While Ma and Gang focus on the broad creative strokes, VOA will be responsible for details like construction drawings. VOA has designed offices for Ariel Investments, whose president, Mellody Hobson, is Lucas' wife.
Lucas declined an interview request. In a prepared statement, he said: "We are bringing together some of the top architects in the world to ensure that our museum experience begins long before a visitor ever enters the building."
After an aggressive lobbying campaign by Emanuel, Lucas last month selected Chicago over Los Angeles and San Francisco as the site of his museum, which will showcase highlights from his collection of more than 500,000 objects. They include "Star Wars" memorabilia and paintings by Norman Rockwell.
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George Lucas picks architects for lakefront museum
The George Lucas museum is currently in the works, looking to house his large collection of art and memorabilia.
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas on Monday will announce an architectural team for his controversial planned museum on Chicago's lakefront: an avant-garde Chinese designer whose credits include Toronto-area skyscrapers dubbed the "Marilyn Monroe Towers" and Chicago's Jeanne Gang, shaper of the undulating Aqua Tower here.
Ma Yansong, founder of the Beijing firm MAD Architects, will design the building for Lucas' Museum of Narrative Art. Gang, who heads Studio Gang Architects, will conceive the landscape around the building and design a pedestrian bridge linking the museum to Northerly Island, a peninsula east of the museum site.
The announcement of the star-studded team, a surprise given Lucas' penchant for traditional designs, has political implications for a project championed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. It would rise on 17 acres now occupied by parking lots between Soldier Field and McCormick Place.
If the architects produce a design gem that upgrades the landscape of the Museum Campus, the cluster of shoreline museums to which the Lucas Museum would belong, it could soften, or at least blunt, opposition. Critics include open-space advocates threatening a lawsuit to block construction and Chicago Bears fans fuming that the museum will boot them from tailgating spots. Citing the opposition, a newspaper in San Francisco, where Lucas first intended to build the museum, last week labeled Chicago "the City of Cold Shoulders."
Conceptual designs are expected to be released later this year.
Lucas is promising to pay for the pedestrian bridge, which would have to be high enough to allow sailboats using Burnham Harbor to pass beneath. It won't come cheap. The price for a soon-to-be-built lakefront pedestrian bridge at 35th Street is pegged at more than $18 million.
Further sweetening the pot for Chicago, Lucas has selected another Chicago firm, VOA Architects, to be the museum's executive architect. While Ma and Gang focus on the broad creative strokes, VOA will be responsible for details like construction drawings. VOA has designed offices for Ariel Investments, whose president, Mellody Hobson, is Lucas' wife.
Lucas declined an interview request. In a prepared statement, he said: "We are bringing together some of the top architects in the world to ensure that our museum experience begins long before a visitor ever enters the building."
After an aggressive lobbying campaign by Emanuel, Lucas last month selected Chicago over Los Angeles and San Francisco as the site of his museum, which will showcase highlights from his collection of more than 500,000 objects. They include "Star Wars" memorabilia and paintings by Norman Rockwell.
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Architects are demanding strict design standards be enforced on new apartments and say a generation of residents in high-rise towers are at risk of being forced to live in substandard homes.
Confidential draft design rules, leaked last week, show the Victorian government architect is preparing to recommend that all new apartment towers adhere to strict new guidelines.
The draft proposals include that apartments have minimum ceiling heights of 2.7 metres, and a minimum floor size of 37 square metres for a studio apartment or 50 square metres for a one-bedroom unit.
The guidelines also recommend all apartments above ground level have a two-metre deep balcony.
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Australian Institute of Architects national president David Karotkin said developers had claimed the new guidelines would hurt housing affordability. They say that design standards should be dictated by market forces, he said.
But developers were motivated by profit, not affordability, he said.
They seek to build as cheaply as possible and to sell for as much as possible fair enough. That is why regulation of minimum standards is essential to protect the interests of occupants ... long after the developers have taken their profits and moved on.
The institute argues that the current high demand for high-rise apartments skews market forces in favour of developers seeking quick profits, not residents seeking a place to call home.
So controls are required now more than ever to ensure we do not end up with a poor housing legacy, Mr Karotkin said.
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