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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
https://asiasociety.com/video/arts-culture/genslers-shanghai-tower-complete
With the municipal government as a client partner, the 632-meter Shanghai Tower clearly asserts the city's ambitions and commitment to high-rise urbanism. Gensler won a competition for this super-tall program with a spiraling form and double-skin facade that emphasizes sustainable values, which will overtop the adjacent SWFC by more than 400 feet and is planned for completion in 2014.
In the recession of the 1990s, and even before, savvy American and New York-based architects and engineers cultivated Asian commissions and established important client relationships that continue today. A panel of principals who pioneered their Asian practices recount the circumstances of their early commissions, illustrate recent projects, and reflect on the relevance for today.
In the recession of the 1990s, and even before, savvy American and New York-based architects and engineers cultivated Asian commissions and established important client relationships that continue today. A panel of principals who pioneered their Asian practices recount the circumstances of their early commissions, illustrate recent projects, and reflect on the relevance for today.
In the recession of the 1990s, and even before, savvy American and New York-based architects and engineers cultivated Asian commissions and established important client relationships that continue today. A panel of principals who pioneered their Asian practices recount the circumstances of their early commissions, illustrate recent projects, and reflect on the relevance for today.
In the recession of the 1990s, and even before, savvy American and New York-based architects and engineers cultivated Asian commissions and established important client relationships that continue today. A panel of principals who pioneered their Asian practices recount the circumstances of their early commissions, illustrate recent projects, and reflect on the relevance for today.
In the recession of the 1990s, and even before, savvy American and New York-based architects and engineers cultivated Asian commissions and established important client relationships that continue today. A panel of principals who pioneered their Asian practices recount the circumstances of their early commissions, illustrate recent projects, and reflect on the relevance for today.
In the recession of the 1990s, and even before, savvy American and New York-based architects and engineers cultivated Asian commissions and established important client relationships that continue today. A panel of principals who pioneered their Asian practices recount the circumstances of their early commissions, illustrate recent projects, and reflect on the relevance for today.
In the recession of the 1990s, and even before, savvy American and New York-based architects and engineers cultivated Asian commissions and established important client relationships that continue today. A panel of principals who pioneered their Asian practices recount the circumstances of their early commissions, illustrate recent projects, and reflect on the relevance for today.
In the recession of the 1990s, and even before, savvy American and New York-based architects and engineers cultivated Asian commissions and established important client relationships that continue today. A panel of principals who pioneered their Asian practices recount the circumstances of their early commissions, illustrate recent projects, and reflect on the relevance for today.
In the recession of the 1990s, and even before, savvy American and New York-based architects and engineers cultivated Asian commissions and established important client relationships that continue today. A panel of principals who pioneered their Asian practices recount the circumstances of their early commissions, illustrate recent projects, and reflect on the relevance for today.
In the recession of the 1990s, and even before, savvy American and New York-based architects and engineers cultivated Asian commissions and established important client relationships that continue today. A panel of principals who pioneered their Asian practices recount the circumstances of their early commissions, illustrate recent projects, and reflect on the relevance for today.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
In a persuasive and provocative challenge to established environmental thinking, David Owen's GREEN METROPOLIS challenges much of the conventional wisdom about being green and shows how the greenest place in the United States isn't Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York, New York. Owen states that while most Americans view congested cities as environmental calamities, with their pollution, garbage, and gridlock, residents of dense urban environments individually drive, pollute, consume, and throw away less than other Americans. Residents of New York City-the most densely populated community in the U.S.-consume less electricity than the average inhabitants of any other part of the country, generate greenhouse gases at a level far below the national average, and rank last in gasoline consumption and first in use of public transportation.
David Owen's GREEN METROPOLIS redefines what it means to be green, and offers vital insights into how to make our way to a more sustainable future: instead of depending on the acquisition of fancy new "green" gadgetry or the advent of new energy-related technologies, we should look to the lo-fi solutions already at work in dense cities around the globe.
David Owen has been a staff writer for
The New Yorker since 1991. Before joining
The New Yorker, he was a contributing editor at
The Atlantic Monthly, and prior to that, a senior writer at
Harper's and a frequent contributor to
Esquire. He is also a contributing editor at
Golf Digest and the author of several previous nonfiction books. He lives in northwest Connecticut with his wife, writer Ann Hodgman, and their two children.
Labels: urban green sustainable metropolis newyorker davidowen skyscrapermuseum newyork city future
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The prolific architectural critic and journalist Paul Goldberger will discuss highlights from two collections of his essays released this fall by Monacelli and Yale University Press. Building Up and Tearing Down brings together more than fifty essays, from Goldberger's writings for the New Yorker, Metropolis, The New York Times, and other publications that range across architectural and urban issues from Havana to Beijing to Bilbao, Chicago to Las Vegas, and beyond. Dissecting projects from skyscrapers by Norman Foster and museums by Tadao Ando to airports, monuments, suburban shopping malls, and white-brick apartment houses, these essays cover a comprehensive account of the best --and the worst-- of the "age of architecture."
In Why Architecture Matters, Paul Goldberger examines "how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually." In examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage, the Prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Lincoln Memorial, to Borromini's Church of Sant'Ivo in Rome, Goldberger raises the awareness of fundamentals --proportion, scale, space, texture, materials, shapes, light, and memory --engaging the reader to learn a new way of seeing and experiencing the built world.
Paul Goldberger is the architecture critic for The New Yorker, where since 1997 he has written the magazine's celebrated "Sky Line" column. He holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in Manhattan. He began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Jane King Hession, a native of Nyack, New York, received her M.Arch. from the University of Minnesota. An architectural writer and historian with interests in Frank Lloyd Wright and mid-century modernism, she is the coauthor of Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design. Hession resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
Debra Pickrel is a New York journalist who has written on architecture and design for Architectural Record, House Beautiful, Metropolis, and Preservation. She is also the author of A Day in Turtle Bay, a walking tour of her Manhattan neighborhood with a foreword by Walter Cronkite. A former board member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, Pickrel is a journalism graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received her M.A. in Historic Preservation from Goucher College. She is a native of Richmond, Virginia.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
The Skyscraper Museum's 2009 Booktalk, Michael Rockland onTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE: Poetry in Steel. For more on the Museum and upcoming talks, see
www.skyscraper.org.
Skyscraper Museum Booktalk: Gail Fenske, The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York
The Skyscraper Museum's 2009 Lecture, Slenderness: Super Slender Midtown Towers. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/slenderness.
The Skyscraper Museum's 2009 Lecture, Slenderness: Super Slender Midtown Towers. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/slenderness.
The Skyscraper Museum's 2009 Lecture, Slenderness: Super Slender Midtown Towers. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/slenderness.
The Skyscraper Museum's 2009 Lecture, Slenderness: Super Slender Midtown Towers. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/slenderness.
The Skyscraper Museum's 2009 Lecture, Slenderness: NSuper Slender Midtown Towers. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/slenderness.
The Skyscraper Museum's 2009 Lecture, Slenderness: Super Slender Midtown Towers. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/slenderness.
The Skyscraper Museum's 2009 Lecture, Slenderness: Super Slender Midtown Towers. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/slenderness.
The Skyscraper Museum's 2009 Lecture, Slenderness: Super Slender Midtown Towers. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/slenderness.
The Skyscraper Museum's 2009 Lecture, Slenderness: Super Slender Midtown Towers. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/slenderness.
The Skyscraper Museum's 2009 Lecture, Slenderness: Super Slender Midtown Towers. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/slenderness.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Audio only version of The Skyscraper Museum's 2008 Vertical Density Symposium. For more see https://old.skyscraper.org/verticaldensity.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Ackbar Abbas, Professor of Comparative Literature, Hong Kong University and UC-Irvine.
Alexandros E. Washburn, Chief Urban Designer, New York City Dept of City Planning.
Featuring: Eric Howeler, Jim Robinson, Brian McGrath.
Brian McGrath, Associate Professor of Urban Design, Parsons School of Design
Jim Robinson, Executive Director, HongKong Land
Eric Howeler, Principal, Howeler Yoon Architecture
Panel Moderators: Ackbar Abbas, Professor of Comparative Literature, Hong Kong University and UC-Irvine.
Alexandros E. Washburn, Chief Urban Designer, New York City Dept of City Planning.
Featuring: Paul Chu, Laurence Liauw
Laurence Liauw, Architect and Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paul Chu, Convener, Urban Design Alliance
Brian McGrath, Associate Professor of Urban Design, Parsons School of Design
Carol Willis, Founder, Director, The Skyscraper Museum
Amanda Burden, Chair, City Planning Commission and Director, NYC Department of City Planning. Mrs. Carrie Lam, Secretary for Development, The Government of the HKSAR
Mrs. Carrie Lam, Secretary for Development, The Government of the HKSAR
Carol Willis, Director, The Skyscraper Museum, and Michael Cohen, Director of the International Affairs Program, The New School
.
Robert Tierney, Chair, NYC Landmark Preservation Commission.
Margaret Brooke, Convener, Heritage Hong Kong
Christine Loh, President and CEO, Civic-Exchange, Hong Kong
Peter Cookson Smith, Founding Director, Urbis, Hong Kong
Mark Willis, Visiting Scholar, The Ford Foundation
Nicholas Brooke, Chairman, Professional Property Services Group, Hong Kong
Carol Willis, Founder, Director, The Skyscraper Museum introduces day two of the Vertical Density Symposium: Debating Density.
New York Response, Multi-Level and Mixed-Use: Panel Discussion. Featuring Paul Katz, Julia Lau, and David Scott. Moderated by Vishaan Chakrabarti.
Vishaan Chakrabarti, Related Companies
David Scott, ARUP, Council on Tall Buildings and the Urban Habitat
Panel Discussion: Thomas Wright, Thomas Ho, Lee Sander, Chris Ward.
Christopher Ward, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Lee Sander, MTA: New York Response.
Thomas Wright, Regional Plan Association.
Carol Willis, Founder and Director, The Skyscraper Museum
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