Monthly Archives: July 2010
New Green H2Otel Hotel Planned for Amsterdam by Powerhouse Company + RAU
RAU and Powerhouse Company developed H2Otel, a luxurious and completely sustainable hotel for Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The project, a prototype for luxury hotel typologies, is shown at the National Design Triennial ‘Why Design Now?’ at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. Introduction How to make a hotel tower more sustainable? As a
Report: Unemployment High Because People Keep Blowing Their Job Interviews
WASHINGTON—With unemployment at its highest level in decades, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a report Tuesday suggesting the crisis is primarily the result of millions of Americans just completely blowing their job interviews. According to the findings, seven out of 10 Americans could have landed their dream job last month if they had known
A green answer to Vanity Fair’s architecture poll has its own blindspot
When Vanity Fair recently released the results of a survey ranking the most significant pieces of architecture of the last 30 years — with Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, topping the list — the poll was met with extended grumbling. Some people griped about the many architects, including Richard Meier and Daniel Libeskind,
Paul Goldberger Comments on Progess at Ground Zero
Question: How do you feel about the progress on One World Trade Center? Paul Goldberger: I’m disappointed in where things are at Ground Zero right now. I think it’s sad, on the other hand, I do think the people involved are trying reasonably hard, under the circumstances. But there’s really not a great deal of
245 10th Avenue may be eccentric, but at least it’s intentional
As a Manhattanite, student and practitioner of architecture, and lover of modern architecture I disagree with James Gardner, formerly the architecture critic of the New York Sun who states in his post (below), “…we must pray is not the future of architecture.” I like the unusual materials of these buildings and the unique sculptural elements they have.
SFMOMA chooses architect for $250-million expansion: Norwegian firm Snøhetta
Can an art museum in this economic climate raise $480 million for an ambitious expansion and endowment campaign without a world famous architect like Frank Gehry or Renzo Piano attached to the project? SFMOMA has just placed a very big bet that it can, by selecting the critically acclaimed but not so commonly known Oslo-based
Architects cut hiring
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER (AP) WASHINGTON — Industries driving job growth this year added fewer workers in June, a sign that the overall hiring picture could get worse. Manufacturers, for example, added only 9,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday in its latest monthly employment report. That’s the fewest for the sector this
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