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01.06.2009

DC moves ahead with ambitious public library expansion

studioamd

No Alternative

01.05.2009

LPC ire over St. Vincent's latest Village tower plans, or lack thereof

Courtesy St. Vincent's

Arch Enemies?

12.29.2008

Debate flares over bid to alter landmark Jefferson Memorial grounds in St. Louis

John Shappell/flickr

All Consuming

12.19.2008

AN's gift guide brings you a trove of holiday treasures, both silly and serious

Courtesy Matter

Show Me the Way

12.19.2008

Proposals exhibited for New York wayfinding system

Julia Galef

Broad-Based Powers

12.17.2008

LA philanthropist's new museum coming into focus

Down We Go

12.17.2008

AIA billings index hits new lows for second straight month

Going Once, Going Twice, Sold!

12.17.2008

Empire State Building drawings auctioned

Courtesy Wright

LA Planning Czar Resigns

12.16.2008

Jane Ellison Usher, often at odds with city officials, steps down

AIA Honors 3 More

12.11.2008

Announces 25-year, social justice, and service awards

Jonathan J. Klein/via flickr

NY FEATURED SECTION

Courtesy CASE

Making A Case For Innovation

The Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) is an innnovative new program in which researchers and students at Rensselaer Polytechnic are working wtih Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to push buildling science into the 21st century, and to respond to the urgent environmental concerns of architects and developers today. For director Anna Dyson and her students, the best way to build green is to rethink everything we know about materials. Anne Guiney and Sara Hart get a first look at the future.

CA FEATURED SECTION

Tim Griffith

China Express

Despite the downturn, China is still the place to be for Western architects seeking large-scale work and a meaningful role in the global architectural dialogue. Amara Holstein checks in with California firms doing business in this complex, frenetic market, and finds that technology helps them thrive, yet also opens the door to new challenges amid Asia's fast-forward culture of building.

DIARY

Courtesy Princeton Architectural Press

My Paradise: A Hundred Years of Finnish Architects' Summer Houses

AIA San Francisco

130 Sutter St.

1/5/2009

For a few scant summer months of the year, the Finnish landscape affords its people time to bask in the nation’s magical extremes. Since the latter part of the 19th century, the tradition of leaving the urban environment and communing with nature became a part of Finnish culture,...

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COMPETITIONS

ImagineConey

Deadline :Thursday, January 15, 2009

ImagineConey is an initiative of the Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) to create new ideas for the future of Coney Island to restore the area to its former position as a great entertainment and amusement area-the "world's playground." After consulting with world-class architects, engineers, amusements designers and creative producers, MAS needs your ideas for its future. Please send, in words or graphics, your ideas for the future of Coney Island, including ideas for Events and Activities, New Amusement rides, Design Ideas, Housing and Retail-Related Ideas, as well as thoughts, memories or photos that may spur others to generate ideas. The ideas will be displayed online at imageconey.com, and at an exhibit that will open at MAS in January 2009.

imagineconey.com

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