+ Image Courtesy of the Institute for Market Transformation The Institute for Market Transformation soon will update its map of building benchmarking and disclosure policies to reflect a change from commercial policy interest to the commercial policy adopted by the city of Cambridge, Mass. The number of U.S. jurisdictions with building energy-use and disclosure laws has gone up for the second time this year. Thanks to a unanimous vote on July 28 by the Cambridge City Council, the Massachusetts city of 105,000 residents joins its larger neighbor, Boston, and 11 other jurisdictions that require disclosure of energy consumption by owners
The original name of the beleaguered 22-acre sports village in Brooklyn—a $4.9-billion development that overcame myriad lawsuits, years of controversy, an architect switch and the recession—has not survived. The controversial mixed-used project formerly known as Atlantic Yards is now called "Pacific Park Brooklyn."The renaming comes two months after the formalization of the sale of 70 percent of the development—exclusive of the nearly two-year-old Barclays Center arena and the B2 Bklyn apartment building under construction—to Greenland USA, a subsidiary of Shanghai-based Greenland Group Co., by Forest City Enterprises Inc., the parent company of the original developer Forest City Ratner Cos.Greenland Forest
At last year's high-stakes interview for a lead architect to shape a $1.2-billion retractable-roof stadium for the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons, 360 Architecture's Bill Johnson staged quite a show.
Related Links: Georgia Institute of Technology Prominent structural engineer and professor Stanley D. Lindsey has been called a genius, an innovator and an inspiration. He died on July 12 of a massive heart attack on his horse farm in Bluffton, S.C. He was 75.Not long after starting his eponymous firm in Nashville, Tenn., in 1966, Lindsey became known as a pioneer in the use of computers for the analysis and design of structures. Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates Ltd., which for years wrote most of its own software, was one of the first engineers to integrate computer-aided design with drafting.Lindsey
Photo Courtesy of Magnusson Klemencic Associates/Michael Dickter Related Links: New Atlanta Falcons Stadium Design More Than a Box With a Lid The multipurpose Levi's Stadium, which will be used primarily for football's San Francisco 49ers and soccer's San Jose Earthquakes, will be completed within the $1.27-billion budget and delivered on time by the Turner-Devcon Joint Venture, says Jack Hill, the 49ers project executive.The first game, between the Earthquakes and the Seattle Sounders, will be on Aug. 2. As construction winds down, planning is revving up for an estimated $6.5-billion development on 215 acres across the street. The city approved this
Rod Garrett, design director of the Washington, D.C., office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, died suddenly on June 27 while in Chicago, attending the American Institute of Architects convention. Garrett would have turned 54 on Aug. 7.Garrett, who joined SOM in 1986, focused on public and institutional projects and was considered an expert in the public agency and review process."He was recognized that way," says Mark Regulinski, managing director of SOM's New York City and Washington, D.C., offices. "He got his AIA fellowship designation on the strength of his expertise," he adds.GarrettHis recent projects include the master plan and
Courtesy of SHoP Architects Plan for $4.9-billion Atlantic Yards Project amended to fast-track construction of affordable housing units. By Nadine M. Post for ENR A 32-story modular high-rise, called B2 BKLYN, rises alongside the Barclays Center arena, which was the first building completed in the 22-acre sports village. Related Links: Developer Gambles on Modular High-Rise for Atlantic Yards Sports Village Green Light for Proposed Record-Tall Modular Building At Atlantic Yards Fancy Footwork to Steady the Course of Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards Sports Village New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) recently announced a plan to accelerate construction of the residential components—including
Photo courtesy of Hoberman's Associates Chuck Hoberman's kinetic creation for 360 Tour for the band U2 in 2009 used aperture-like motion to open and close. For a large-scale operable roof, sliding is better than rotating, he says. Related Links: Main Story: New Atlanta Falcons Stadium Design More Than a Box With a Lid Hoberman Associates Adaptive Building Initiative All of Chuck Hoberman's work is about transformation, which is why Bill Johnson, the New Atlanta Stadium's architect, was so eager to have him on his team when vying for the stadium job."Chuck helped us craft an approach that eliminated the rotation
At last year's high-stakes interview for a lead architect to shape a $1.2-billion retractable-roof stadium for the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons, 360 Architecture's Bill Johnson staged quite a show.
Related Links: Uni-Systems LLC Main Story: New Atlanta Falcons Stadium Design More Than a Box With a Lid Structural engineer Bart Riberich, travel mechanism consultant for the New Atlanta Stadium's retractable roof, is no stranger to convertible sports venues. Of the eight completed in the U.S., he has been involved with six.Riberich honed his travel-mechanism design skills while working for Minneapolis-based Uni-Systems LLC. He started there in 1994 and became president in 2006.On Jan. 1, he took on the risk by buying Uni-Systems' kinetic-architecture assets from its founder and CEO, Cyril Silberman. Riberich and his 31 employees are still in
