Architectural Record May 2008
AIA Honor Awards
- Features
- New Establishment Meets the Next Wave
- Boston's young and mid-career practices show there's life beyond brick.
- AIA Awards Introduction
- Gold Medal Award
- Renzo Piano: From architectural rebel to cultural establishment go-to man.
- Architecture Awards
- Honoring 13 distinct projects, from a sculpture park to an observatory.
- Interior Awards
- Vastly different programs result in a variety of innovative solutions.
- Urban Design Awards
- From Nebraska to New York, environmental concerns drive design choices.
- 25 Year Award
- Richard Meier's Atheneum still stands strong and proud in the landscape.
- Firm of the Year Award
- KieranTimberlake?s research-based culture puts the firm in the spotlight.
- Projects
- Nordpark Cable Railway, Austria
- Zaha Hadid Architects
- Four sinuous funicular stations melt into their Tyrolean environment.
- Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Illinois
- Kruek and Sexton Architects
- Bringing Chicago?s downtown street wall into the 21st century.
- Nicolas G. Hayek Center, Japan
- Shigeru Ban Architects
- Like clockwork: The moving pieces of Tokyo?s Swatch building.
- Agora Theater, the Netherlands
- UNStudio
- An auditorium complex shocks with crystalline forms cloaked in fiery hues.
- Building Types Study
- Introduction: Structures for Cars
- Citroen C42, France
- Manuelle Gautrand Architects
- A legendary carmaker gussies up its image on the Champs Elysees.
- Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure, California
- Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners
- Color and character enliven a neighborhood and a mundane building type.
- Parkit here, Tennessee
- Archimania
- Energizing an airport parking lot with simple materials and a tight budget.
- Architectural Technology
- Let the (Indirect) Sun Shine In
- A collaborative design process and an in-depth analysis produce daylighting systems for two expanding art museums.
- Lighting
- 19h04, Centre de Creation Contemporaine
- PCA Architecture
- AGC Training Center
- Takenaka Corporation
- Homo Lumens
- Sugar, Benczur, Kara
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