Issue Archives IN THIS ISSUE 16_10.06.2010
In This Issue:
  • China Confidential
    An invitation to build in China sounds too good to be true, and probably is, say New York architects
  • Meet 'Em in St. Louis
    Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates wins major competition to transform grounds around Saarinen icon
  • Review> Ben Thompson's Retail Love Affair
    Kenneth Caldwell basks in the modern mystique of this definitive and nuanced Design Research biography
  • Silo Saved? Developer Bows to Community Pressure
    Philly developer nixes mixed-use plan for 85-year-old grain elevator
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  • Review> Camera Obscura
    Two gorgeous new photography books stalk the evocative ruins of Brooklyn's industrial waterways
  • Charter School Set for Harlem Housing Superblock
    Cash-strapped NYCHA sees pending deal as model for selling development rights in problem-plagued projects
  • Billings Still Slogging Toward Salvation
    Modest uptick in August AIA index marks slow road to recovery
  • City College Retools with Research Lab Revival
    SOM-designed Marshak Science Building gets facelift amid R&D building boom at Hamilton Heights campus
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  • What's It Worth?
    Considering the Venice Biennale's relevance after forty years.
  • Letters
    One more for the books
  • Eavesdrop> Isadora Mullion
    AD's New Guard, Viva Brasilia!, We Heard at a Party
  • Open> Boutique
    Chanel Soho by Peter Marino
  • Banking on Preservation
    New tax rules boost investment in rehabilitation
  • Treasure Hunt
    Open House New York reveals the city's hidden spaces
  • Sacred Space Reaches to the Light, and Beyond
    Hanrahan Meyers Architects composes a New York chapel with physics and the human spirit in mind
  • Unveiled> Willoughby Square Park
    Hargreaves Associates design Brooklyn park atop a parking garage
  • Studio Visit> WXY Architecture + Urban Design
    Fordham Plaza, Far Rockaway Park, Times Square Visitors Center, Xinjin Landscape Bridge, Zipper Bench
  • Solar Bake-Off on the National Mall
    New School team ups the ante in sustainability competition
  • In Detail> New Meadowlands Stadium
    360 Architecture and Ewing Cole design a football stadium for two New York powerhouses
  • Unveiled> Carnal Hall
    Bernard Tschumi Architects shows off their competition-winning performing arts center
  • At Deadline
    Superfund for Newtown Creek, Subway stall-out on Second Avenue, Field Operations storms Seattle
  • Security Detail
    New security systems with digital brains make it so much easier to get by