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The American Institute of Architects has awarded its highest annual honor, the AIA Gold Medal, to Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie. The 76-year-old architect, who apprenticed under legendary 20th-century architect Louis Kahn (himself a Gold Medal recipient), is perhaps most famous for his first solo project, Habitat 67. Safdie designed the futuristic residential complex of 158 stacked concrete units as part of his master's thesis at McGill University. It was eventually built as a pavilion for Expo 67 in Montreal.
Other notable projects by Safdie's firmwhich is based in Boston and also has offices in Jerusalem, Toronto, Singapore, and Shanghaiinclude the Salt Lake City Public Library, the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem, and the Marina Bay Sands mixed-use megastructure in Singapore (a theater, museum, hotel, and convention center rolled into one complex).
Safdie, who moved to Montreal with his family from Israel in 1953, is a citizen of Israel, Canada, and the United States. In 1995, he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
In a letter nominating Safdie for the AIA prize, Emily Grandstaff-Rice*, president of the Boston Society of Architects, wrote that he "has continued to practice architecture in the purest and most complete sense of the word, without regard for fashion, with a hunger to follow ideals and ideas across the globe in his teaching, writing, practice and research." With a flair for bold geometric forms that echo the influence of his mentor, Kahn, Safdie is an architect's architect, a designer who has built dozens of elegant, thoughtful, but not necessarily starchitect-making projects all over the world. (His latest, an addition to Singapore's Changi Airport, began construction only this week.)
The AIA Gold Medal honors individuals whose work has had lasting influence on the architectural world. Last year's award went posthumously to Julia Morgan, the first woman to receive the honor in the award's seven-decade history. (A new change in the rules allowing two individual architects to share the award went into effect in 2014, but this was apparently not Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi's year.) Safdie is the 71st architect to receive the prize, which will be awarded at the organization's annual conference next summer in Atlanta.
*An earlier version of this article quoted from a press release that misattributed Safdie's nomination letter to Mike Davis, former president of the Boston Society of Architects. The nomination letter was written by Emily Grandstaff-Rice, current president of the BSA.
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The work of Ehrlich Architects includes residential, commercial, institutional, and educational projects. The firm is renowned for melding classic California Modernist style with multicultural and vernacular design elements and for using a rich palette of materials and textures.
Steven Ehrlich, FAIA, founded the firm in 1979 after spending time working with the Peace Corps in Africa. Through these experiences, he gained an appreciation for simple, natural materials and vernacular solutions to energy, sustainability, and building performance challenges. In his practice, Ehrlich had the opportunity to renovate properties designed by well-known California Modernists, such as Richard Neutra.
Today Ehrlich Architects is led by four diverse partners: Steven Ehrlich, FAIA; Takashi Yanai, AIA; Patricia Rhee, AIA; and Mathew Chaney, AIA. They see themselves as architectural anthropologists exploring ancient, developing-world building traditions and featuressuch as Japanese-style courtyards, Middle Eastern lattice screens, and vernacular mud constructionand implementing them in contemporary buildings.
Partners (LR): Mathew Chaney, AIA; Takashi Yanai, AIA; Steven Ehrlich, FAIA; and Patricia Rhee, AIA. Photo credit: Miranda Brackett.
The marriage of the particular with the universal is one of the great virtues of the firms design approach, where connections between culture, climate, people, and place are woven together in a distinct humanistic architecture shaped by circumstance, wrote Steve Dumez, FAIA in a letter of recommendation.
The Federal National Council Parliament Building Complex in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is a symbol for a burgeoning democracy in the Middle East. Photo credit: bioLINIA.
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A five-year report on CIA torture released by the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday revealed that two psychologists signed a contract worth $180 million with the Bush administration to come up with torture tactics.
However, the psychologists were only paid $81 million after their contract was canceled by the Obama administration in 2009.
RT.com notes that the 525-page CIA torture report says the psychologists were supposed "to develop, operate, and assess its interrogation operations" even though "neither psychologist had any experience as an interrogator, nor did either have specialized knowledge of al-Qaida, a background in counterterrorism, or any relevant cultural or linguistic expertise."
The psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and Dr. John "Bruce" Jessen, used to run a company called Mitchell, Jessen & Associates in Spokane, Washington, noted NBC News.
However, Mitchell refuted the CIA report.
"I completely understand why the human rights organizations in the United States are upset by the Senate report," Mitchell told the Associated Press. "I would be upset by it too, if it were true."
"What they are asking you to believe is that multiple directors of the CIA and analysts who made their living for years doing this lied to the federal government, or were too stupid to know that the intelligence they were getting wasn't useful," claimed Mitchell.
However, Naomi Klein wrote in The Nation in 2002 that the main purpose of torture was to induce terror in individuals and groups.
The National Journal noted that Sen. Mark Udall (R-Colo.) said today on the Senate floor, "The refusal to provide the full Panetta Review and the refusal to acknowledge facts detailed in both the committee study and the Panetta Review lead to one disturbing finding: Director Brennan and the CIA today are continuing to willfully provide inaccurate information and misrepresent the efficacy of torture. In other words: The CIA is lying."
Mitchell signed a non-disclosure agreement with the CIA and wouldn't talk about his specific role, but appeared to offer some excuses to VICE reporter Kaj Larsen for foreign and domestic torture (video below).
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Lithuania's Do Architects have developed a cool modular housing concept, for glass-sided cylindrical dwellings they call "Rolling Homes." To be clear, these things aren't meant to actually roll. They are pretty neat though!
The wood-clad outsized pipe sections are planned for a seaside development in Svencel, Lithuania, to add to a kiteboarding and windsurfing center designed by the firm. Per a project description, the transparent facades were designed to "allow for uninterrupted views of the surrounding canals and ensure a strong connection, both visual and physical, between the occupant and nature," while the canals allow for surf-in, surf-out capabilities.
The inset front entryways give each home a covered porch. The second floors combine living room, dining room, and kitchen functions, while the top floors are partitioned "sleeping lofts." Here's what they look like in miniature:
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Also on the docket is a marina and yacht club, and a number of apartments, plus rows of homes with different design schemes. According to the firm, construction is expected to begin next year.
Image via Do Architects
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Do Architects develop a new rolling home concept [Design Boom]
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An ambitious retail and restaurant plan set to be revealed Thursday for the new Transbay Transit Center on Mission Street is intended to make the transportation depot a thriving hub for eating, drinking and shopping.
Before the end of the year, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority will solicit proposals for a private retail development and leasing group to build out, lease and manage 100,000 square feet of restaurants and shops at the center. In comparison, San Franciscos Ferry Building has 65,000 square feet of retail, and New Yorks Grand Central Terminal has 135,000 square feet.
The retail is a very important and exciting part of the Transbay program, said Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan, who heads up the authority, which is managing construction of the transit center. When we open the station and the park at the end of 2017, we want to have the active retail component up and running.
Retail will eventually sprout on three levels, with a 15,000-square-foot food court modeled after Mario Batalis highly successful Eataly in New York, on the second level. There will also be three or four full-service restaurants, including one on the 5.4-acre rooftop park, and smaller coffee bars, newsstands, a gym, and shops selling everything from electronics to clothing to eyeglasses.
And an additional 60,000 square feet of retail could be added to a lower level when or if high-speed rail and Caltrain are added to the transit center.
Rooftop amphitheater
The group picked for developing and managing the stations retail will also be responsible for programming both the 1,000-seat rooftop amphitheater and the stations grand hall, which will also be used as a performance space.
The mix of retail, dining and performance space might help temper the criticism that the $4.5 billion transit center project is the worlds most expensive bus station.
The Transbay retail is quite important for three reasons, said Gabriel Metcalf, the executive director of SPUR, a San Francisco urban think tank. Its an amenity for transit riders, its a source of revenue for the TJPA, and its an amenity for the neighborhood.
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Redwood Citys blueprint for downtown development is being tweaked to increase the allowable office space but overall density will remain the same by reducing housing and retail limitations.
The council, with Councilman Ian Bain voting no and Councilwoman Diane Howard abstaining, directed staff to move ahead with the proposed changes and required environmental review. Both plus a recommendation will be back to the Planning Commission and City Council in early 2015.
Amid the recession in 2010, the existing Downtown Precise Plan predicted 2,500 residential units, 500,000 square feet of office space, 100,000 square feet of retail space and 200 hotel units.
Four years later, amid an unprecedented downtown construction boom drawing new projects and tenants like Box, Inc. the projections for office space have just about reached the maximum allowed.
The proposed conversion adds an extra 168,930 square feet to the office space amount, maintains the hotel units, drops residential units by 740 and shaves 85,000 square feet from the retail space.
Councilman John Seybert said, while the numbers are different, the plan amendments still adhere to the original community intent and will contribute to the quality of life.
Despite numerous speakers who disagreed with the proposal or worried about housing reductions and traffic, the council majority emphasized that it does not change the plans overall density.
Were not talking about unlimited development, Mayor Jeff Gee said.
The increased office space might actually lower traffic in the area because employees like those at Box are prone to using public traffic which is why developers pay high prices for the location, Community Development Director Aaron Aknin said.
Aknin said the office space itself doesnt create new jobs but instead job growth drives the need for office space.
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Published: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 4:37 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 6:55 p.m.
PORT ORANGE Construction of Riverwalk Park is set to begin in spring and will include a kayak launch, green space, boardwalk and trails in the northern city limits along Halifax Drive.
During a presentation to Port Orange council members on Tuesday, Shailesh Patel, principal of Dredging & Marine Consultants, said complete construction of the park is expected to be finished by the summer of 2016.
Last year the city approved $210,000 in contracts for the firm to provide design and consulting services for Riverwalk. That included a workshop last year where the public weighed in on the overall design.
Plans for a second phase of the park include additional trails, a playground, splash pad, restrooms, concessions stands, an iconic feature and utility improvements. The park is designed to accompany a private development with high-rise condos, a boat marina, retail space and a riverboat restaurant.
Other key features of the park include 180 parking spaces, lighting, a sea wall and a fishing pier.
The city is budgeting $3.1 million for construction of the park and has received $200,000 in grants. Wayne Clark, Port Orange community development director, said that the city will have a budget of $4.1 million for the park if it receives all the grants its seeking.
This is a high-profile park in the city, Clark told council members. Instead of coming back with construction bids, we wanted to come to you first for input.
Council members expressed overall approval of the design plans and are expected to bid on construction work early next year. However, a few members did not support the construction of a splash pad, which is expected to cost $275,000.
Do we really want a splash pad? Councilman Bob Ford said. That is a logistical nightmare to maintain and control.
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