The AIA has selected the 2010 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, the profession’s highest recognition of works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban design. TKTS Booth and the Revitalization of Duffy Square received the Institute Honor Award for Architecture with the jury comment, “With its elegant conception and realization, its refined design stands up to the cacophony of Times Square; this is as much a 21st Century art piece as a building.”
On a recent holiday trip to the Yucatan, our twelve-year-old son Ethan learned to ride a bicycle in the ruins of Coba. To some it may seem late in one’s youth to be getting to this point, which is due a set of unrelated circumstances (not the least of which is living in New York City). Once Ethan got the hang of it—in less than a half an hour—it was wonderful to see how easily he took to it and to see what the empowerment of riding a bike did for him. (Seeing him ski double diamonds at the age of eight, I never thought it was going to be an issue, but was relieved to see him pick it up so quickly.)[...] Read more…
Madison Square Park looms large in the history of New York City. Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz immortalized the Park and environs at the turn of the century in their work. Steichen’s photographic views of the Flatiron Building and the Park are Iconic of the city. This time in the city’s history was a moment personified by the lives of Stieglitz and O’Keeffe, a mythic American Romance that is synonymous with a transformative point in American Art. Truly a time of great hope and aspiration, when technology and design were posed to break new ground and propel the nation into the modern era.[...] Read more…
We are pleased to see that dezeen has posted a review of Duffy Square and the TKTS Booth Renovation. It is inspiring to see the broad based support and recognition that the new Father Duffy Square has generated and we look to build on this work.
The Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, CT, became a National Trust for Historic Preservation site three years ago. Since then the Trust’s careful stewardship of the site limits the number of visitors each day to maintain the quiet reserve of this important estate and its rich collection of structures that served as Johnson’s Modernism laboratory for nearly six decades. [...] Read more…
If God did come to earth last week, he would have found a packed house at the AIA Center for Architecture where the question of the evening was: “are current attitudes towards the environment affecting man’s attitude toward God… or conversely, are man’s changing attitudes toward God affecting our thoughts about nature?” Most importantly for this group, the discussion begged the question: how does all of this affect the architecture of religious spaces? [...] Read more…
