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Architectsnewspaper 20 4.2005 ARCHITECTSNEWSPAPER 20 4.2005 NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM $3.95 for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal. PARKS DEPARTMENT KICKS OFF The announcement closely follows the 10-11 DESIGN EXCELLENCE PROGRAM November ceremony for the sixth recipient, the Prince of Wales, who was selected earlier WANTED: this year for the prize but was unable to PARKS GET BOOST CURATORS receive it until his recent U.S. tour. The New York City Department of Parks AN EXAMINATION OF THAT RARE BREED- In addition to her CCA duties, Lambert, and Recreation (DPR) will be u.sing more THE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN CURATOR once referred to by Canadian Interiors mag• and more outside designers from now on: azine as "our undisputed grand doyenne On November 21, it released a list of eight CO 06 of architecture," is an accomplished author, landscape architectural firms that were I— a leading advocate for low-income housing granted the Requirements Contract for LU MTA, READY and neighborhood revitalization, and a Landscape Architecture Consulting Ser• trained architect who designed Montreal's vices. In October, the DPR released a simi• TO ROLL Saidye Bronfman Centre and led the reno• lar list of six firms that were awarded the O O vation of Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel. Requirements Contract for Archi-tectural 12 "Lambert has gotten people to consider Consulting Services. The pre-selected GIFT GUIDE the built environment through the CCA, firms have been offered two-year renew• her writing, and her practice," said architect able contracts, guaranteeing millions of 17 David Schwarz, who chairs the Scully Prize dollars of work. jury. "Her activities in educating the public The pre-selected landscape firms are EISENMAN/ singled her out." Donna Walcavage LA & Urban Design, Lambert is most famous, however, for her Thomas Balsley Associates, MKW & JENCKS DEBATE PHYLLIS role in selecting Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Associates, MPFP Urban Design, Nancy 03 EAVESDROP to design the Seagram Building in New York, Owens Studio, Quennell Roth.schild & 04 STUDIO VISIT LAMBERT WINS one of the 20"' century's most celebrated Partners, Abel Bainnson Butz,and Mark K. 16 DIARY structures. The daughter of Seagram's head Morrison As.sociates.The architecture firms 20 MARKETPLACE Samuel Bronfman, Lambert was working as are Architecture Research Office (ARO), 22 CLASSIFIEDS 7^" VINCENT an artist in Paris when, in 1952, she learned BKSK Architects, Rogers Mattel Architects, that her father was considering hiring the Sage and Coombe Architects, Smith-Miller SCULLY PRIZE capable but conventional Emery Roth & Sons + l lawkinson Architects,and Kiss 1 AT GREENBUILD, LEED COMES to design a new Park Avenue headquarters. Cathcart Architects. According to jonna UNDER SCRUTINY The National Building Museum has awarded To her dismay, her father seemed set Carmona-Craf, assistant director of its seventh Vincent Scully Prize to Phyllis against pursuing an architecturally distin• architecture for capital projects with Lambert, the founding director and chair of guished design—his building committee the DPR,"These pre-approved firms USGBC DOES the board of trustees of the Canadian Center even rejected an continued on page 3 will essentially compete with one another for DPR contracts." For the architectural projects, which range from renovating SOME SOUL- On November 16, Mayor Michael R. exi.sting buildings or designing new parks WINNING DESIGN CHOSEN Bloomberg announced the winner of the facilities, contracts may have budgets of up SEARCHING FOR QUEENS MEMORIAL Flight 587 Memorial competition. Freddy to $4 million. continued on paqe 2 Rodriguez, a Dominican Republic-born The U.S. Green Building Council's New York artist, was awarded the S2 million (USGBC) fourth annual GreenBuild project, which will be located at the ocean conference highlighted the increasing end of Beach 116'" Street in the Rockaways. importance and awareness of sustain• Flight 587 crashed in the Belle Harbor able design, but during the event, it neighborhood of Queens on November 12, became clear that the membership organ• 2001, just one month after 9/11. The memo• ization still has a long way to go if its LEED rial honors the 265 victims of the crash, (Leadership in Energy and Environmental most of whom were Dominican. Design) rating system is to become influ• Rodriguez bested 68 proposals that ential on a large scale. The conference, responded to an open RFP issued by the city held November 9-11 in Atlanta, was the last spring. His proposal includes a central ROCKWELL GROUP TO BUILD ARTS largest GreenBuild to date with more than wall that will be inscribed with the victims' CENTER IN EX-STEEL FACTORY 500 exhibitors and approximately 10,000 names and a quotation from Dominican poet attendees, including architects, interior Pedro Mir: "Afterwards I want only peace." designers, and product manufacturers. The wall will also include portals for visitors POST-INDUSTRIAL Morning plenary sessions featured to leave objects. The memorial opens up to PROGRESS speakers including Janine Benyus, the FLIGHT 587 a plaza that Rodriguez hopes will evoke a nature sciences writer, innovation consult• happy gathering place for family and friends. ArtsQuest, an ambitious performing arts ant, and author of Biomimicry: Innovation The project is to be completed in Fall 2006. nonprofit, recently selected the Rockwell Inspired by Nature (William Morrow, MEMORIAL GUNNAR HAND Group to design SteelStax, a multiple- 1997); Interface CEO Ray Anderson; and venue facility around a colossal industrial environmentalist Paul Hawken, author site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The of The Ecology of Commerce (Harper organization decided three years ago Collins, 1993) and co-author of Natural that the area needed a performing arts, Capitalism (Little Brown, 1999). Andres education, and media facility. Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk turned up In late spring, a Request for Qualifications his rhetoric meter to 11 in a morning ses• (RFQ) was issued to top design firms sion about sustainable urban design. In throughout the country. According to Kim his first GreenBuild appearance, the New Plyler, director of marketing and public Urbanism guru proselytized about the relations at ArtsQuest, about 60 firms need for connected communities. He was responded. Three continued on paqe 2 a hit among the continued on page 8 CO (\l 3 O LU THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER DECEMBER 14, 2005 PARKS GET BOOST continued from front page PUBLISHER CO By virtue of their rarity, architecture and design curators wield an enormous In September 2004, Mayor Michael R. Diana Darling OH amount of power. By virtue of its longevity and prestige, the specific position Bloomberg initiated his Innovative EDITORS O at the Museum of Modern Art has been by far the most influential and impor• Cathy Lang Ho Procurement Task Force. The group devel• William Menking tant, not only to the profession but—given the museum's historic educational oped recommendations to integrate quality ART DIRECTOR mission—the academy as well. "The job is important enough that it should design into new contracts. Previously, a fee- Martin Perrin turn over once in awhile," said Terence Riley, who is leaving the post in March, based procurement process preferenced low- SENIOR EDITOR after 14 years of service. bidders or in-house involvment. As part of Anne Guiney Riley's accomplishments at MoMA both contributed to and coincided with the same initiative, the Department of Design ASSOCIATE EDITOR a .shili ill architecture and design curatorship. The curator's role is considerably and Construction (DDC) launched its higher- Andrew Yang profile Design Hxcellence program last year, DESIGN AND PRODUCTION difierent from what it was in Philip lohnson's day. Curators in recent decades Christine Koroki have had to wrangle with an increasingly nebulous conception of what archi• which pre-certified 33 architecture firms to EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS tecture encompasses. Moreover, though architecture has always had its celebri• receive contracts from the city. Gunnar Hand ties, the era of the"starchitect" has never been more pronounced. Curators The parks department followed suit, Jaffer Kolb must reconcile the pressure of creating shows with mass appeal and of uncov• opening up its projects for bid by some of Stephen Martin ering or demystifying new talents or trends. The media explosion has chal• New York's most talented firms. The RFPs EDITORIAL INTERN for architectural and landscape consulting Rebecca Fuchs lenged curators' ability to be fresh. "There are so many more magazines and services, issued last spring, received over 50 SALES AND MARKETING DIRECTOR people are generally more aware of architecture and design," observed inde• Karen Begley pendent curator Donald Albrecht."But museums by nature work slowly. responses for each. "Most firms tended to shy MARKETING INTERN Shows are often criticized for not showing anything new, but that's not the only away from these programs in the past due to Daniel Barber thing shows are about, of course." the ma.ssive amounts of paperwork, but the Curators also confront the difficulty of showing, collecting, and preserving new RFP opened up the process a lot," said CONTRIBUTORS works that are increasingly created in digital media, which still .seem le.ss Stephen Cassell, principal at ARO, one of the MARISA BARTOLUCCI/ALAN G.BRAKE/ pre-selected architecture firms. ARIC CHEN / DAVID D'ARCY / MURRAY FRASER / immediate and revealing than sketches and models. If these representational RICHARD INGERSOLL/JULIE V. lOVINE
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