Calling all architects

Deadline: rolling
Note: the committee selects projects quarterly for presentation in New York Designs. Please submit material by March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1 for consideration in the following quarter.

2010 New York Designs Committee
Andrew Berman, Stella Betts, Phu Hoang, Joe MacDonald, Anne Rieselbach, Linnaea Tillett, Shawn Watts, Claire Weisz, Barbara Wilks, and Stephen Yablon

Call for Submissions
Architects, landscape architects, engineers, and other designers are invited to submit projects to the Architectural League’s New York Designs series. Projects of all types at any scale, either built (completed within one year of submission) or under construction in New York City, are welcome. Quality is the sole criterion for selection.

New York Designs recognizes accomplished built work in New York City. If your project is selected, League staff will work with you to develop an appropriate presentation, most often taking the format of an on-site tour or brief lecture. We invite designers to include project collaborators, such as consultants, contractors, engineers, clients, and others in the project presentation. Submission assumes the accessibility of the space by a group of 20-30 people and availability of the designer to take part in a New York-based program. Travel monies will not be provided.

Submission deadlines
New York Designs is an ongoing project recognition series. You may submit a project at any time.

Submission requirements
Submissions are digital. Please submit a PDF of no more than four pages that includes project images, a written statement not to exceed 250 words, and a brief project description and timeline.

Submissions should be sent to Nick Anderson at anderson@archleague.org. For more information, call 212.753.1722 x13.

League programs are made possible, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Latest Publication

Published by Princeton Architectural Press, Foresight is the eleventh in a yearly series of publications that features the work by the winners of the Architectural League’s annual competition for young architects and designers. The theme is 2010 features ways to take the present and mold it to the future.

The winners of the 2009 Young Architects competition—Bureau E.A.S.T., Frida Escobedo Lopez, Ether Ship, ex.studio, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, and Phu Hoang Office—are represented in this publication with innovative projects featuring architecture for the years to come.

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1. Regardless that its a full-sized sedan, drivers sit almost as low as in the classic version: the position of the steering wheel, pedals, and driver’s seat are akin to the sports car.

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Regardless of featuring popular Mexican artists such as Paulina Rubio, and Vicente Fernandez, it seems to have a weak start. It doesn’t currently hold as many songs as the 6 million+ US version, and lacks iPod nano and classic games, audiobooks, television shows, and movies.

According to Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services, “The iTunes Store in Mexico is off to a great start with music from all of the majors and hundreds of indie labels. And the revolutionary App Store in Mexico gets bigger and better with great new apps using amazing new features, and we can’t wait to see what developers come up with next.”

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According to ENR, the design market has taken a hit in the recession. “The ENR Top 100 Green Design Firms generated $2.85 billion in revenue in 2008 from projects registered with such green design programs as the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, an increase of 63.9% over $1.74 billion in 2007.”

Here’s the first 25, and check out the rest and the details at ENR.

1              HOK, St. Louis, Mo.
2             URS Corp., San Francisco, Calif.
3             Perkins+Will, Chicago, Ill.
4             AECOM Technology Corp., Los Angeles, Calif.
5             HKS Inc., Dallas, Texas
6             Gensler, San Francisco, Calif.
7             HDR, Omaha, Neb.
8             Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP, Portland, Ore.
9            Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc., Raleigh, N.C.
10          Tetra Tech Inc., Pasadena, Calif.
11           LPA Inc., Irvine, Calif.
12          Perkins Eastman, New York, N.Y.
13          SmithGroup Inc., Detroit, Mich.
14          Callison, Seattle, Wash.
15          KlingStubbins, Philadelphia, Pa.
16          Corgan Associates Inc., Dallas, Texas
17          RMJM, New York, N.Y.
18         Anshen+Allen Architects, San Francisco, Calif.
19         RTKL Associates Inc., Baltimore, Md.
20        Burns & McDonnell, Kansas City, Mo.
21         WSP USA, New York, N.Y.
22        Vanderweil Engineers, Boston, Mass.
23        Burt Hill, Washington, D.C.
24        Cannon Design, Grand Island, N.Y.
25        FXFOWLE, New York, N.Y.

Image: Center for Global Conservation, from fxfowle.com

The nominations include:

5 Aldermanbury Square – Eric Parry Architects
Kentish Town Centre – AHMM
Maggie’s Centre -  Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners
Fuglsang Kunstmuseum – Tony Fretton Architects
Bodegas Protos – Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners
Liverpool One Masterplan – BDP

See the details for each finalist here.

The RIBA Stirling Prize 2009 winner will be announced at the RIBA Stirling Prize 2009 Dinner on 17 October 2009 at Old Billingsgate, London.

Image courtesy of bdonline.co.uk

Contemporary buildings were no stranger to him; his clients include famous names found in any modernist architecture text, among them Richard Neutra, Rudolf M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, Frank Lloyd Wright,  John Lautner, Eero Saarinen, Albert Frey, P and many others.

Known to perhaps make architecture look too beautiful, Shulman had a heavy hand in making his photography deliver the best possible representation. He would gladly rearrange furniture, bring in props, use model, and crop unwanted images.

According to the LATimes, Shulman found these tactics part of the job, saying he wasn’t just the photographer, but instead “selling modernism.”

“I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does,” he had explained.

Read the full story here.

Image courtesy of wirtzgallery.com

He is foremost known for what he did in the 1950s with his then-wife Mary Ford, who, together, collected 36 gold records for a string of singles, including their nine-week Billboard topper How High the Moon.

They then separated and he focused on jazz, performing well into his 90s.

His most notable contribution, however, was that of the design of the electric guitar, resulting in the Gibson Les Paul, one of the most famous electric guitars ever made.

As if that wasn’t enough, he also invented the tape echo, sound-on-sound recording, and multitrack technology, all which permanently changed the way recordings are made.

“Without Les Paul, we would not have rock and roll as we know it,” Terry Stewart, president of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, told the Associated Press. “His inventions changed the infrastructure for the music. … He was truly an architect of rock and roll.”

LES PAUL

Les Paul was born Lester William Polfus in Waukesha, Wisc., on June 9, 1915. He died on Aug. 13, 2009, in White Plains, N.Y., of complications from pneumonia. He leaves long-time companion Arlene Palmer, sons Lester, Gene and Robert, daughter Coleen, five grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.