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Water bank stores stormwater underground
July 1st, 2010
Geosynthetic materials play a major role in new underground stormwater detention system. By Terence G. Sheridan Stormwater management is an ever-increasing expense on site development projects. Stormwater detention ponds are designed to protect against downstream flooding and environmental degradation. The standard of practice is to ensure that post-development flow from a site does not exceed […]
Shade canopies benefit Arizona campus plaza
July 1st, 2010
Phoenix-based architects Studio Ma, has a track record of successfully improving life for Arizona State University (ASU) students at the Tempe campus. Besides completely redesigning a student union building that dates to the early 1950s (by upgrading the facility and adding classrooms to create the award-winning Memorial Union), Studio Ma reworked the ASU Bookstore to […]
Sun valleys and cable-membrane roof define Shanghai’s Expo Boulevard
July 1st, 2010
By Zou Bin Taking center stage at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai is Expo Boulevard, a 1km-long and 110m-wide north-south transportation axis that extends from Riverside Expo Park to Yaohua Road and serves as the main entrance to the Expo complex’s main pavilions. In addition to its traffic and transportation function, the three-level boulevard […]
Architecture students design vertical exhibition center
July 1st, 2010
By Bruce N. Wright Following their professor’s quirky challenge in a construction class, architecture students Jan-Frederik Flor and Ernesto Viquez Alas designed an exhibition hall to fit into a 10-story fabric-clad tower overlooking a San Jose, Costa Rica, city lake. The result is a strikingly dynamic and energetic structure that utilizes the strength of a […]
New aquatics Down Under
May 1st, 2010
A regional aquatic center in northern New South Wales zips up the place with tensioned fabric A revamped Tweed Regional Aquatic Centre in Murwillumbah—near the Queensland and New South Wales border and 132km south of Brisbane—serves the area well with an interior lap pool, an outdoor interactive children’s leisure pool, waterslide, barbecue and picnic area […]
Canopy forms a crucial link at New York college
May 1st, 2010
Bard College gets it right with a helical connector canopy By Mason Riddle Size isn’t everything, we are told. But as with so many things, when something is just right—not too big and not to small, as Goldilocks reminded us—all of the planets snap into alignment. Such is the case with the dramatic steel and […]
London hospital’s ETFE skylight
May 1st, 2010
A redeveloped hospital complex links buildings with a membrane roof St. Bartholomew’s Hospital is the oldest established hospital in the United Kingdom and is located on a tight city center site within 500m of St Paul’s Cathedral. The redevelopment of St. Bartholomew’s (Barts) and The Royal London Hospital seeks to simplify the provision of healthcare […]
Canada’s biggest green roof
May 1st, 2010
Built on a former landfill site, this hillside community center now boasts one of Canada’s largest green roofs—and it’s open to the public By Frank Edgerton Martin Designed by the landscape architects Sharp & Diamond, the new green roof at the Burnside Gorge Community Centre brings the coastal ecology of British Columbia into a city […]
The greening of the Postal Service
May 1st, 2010
New York’s Morgan Station is one of the nation’s largest green roofs By Frank Edgerton Martin It’s hard to get public agencies to fund poetics,” observes New York landscape architect, Elizabeth Kennedy, ASLA of the new green roof atop the Morgan Station Mail Processing Facility. Yet, at 1 hectare and seven stories off the ground, […]
German architecture firm wins competition for helicopter landing platform design
May 1st, 2010
A proposed helicopter landing for a German clinic aims to speed patient recovery by speeding delivery times By Mark Zeh OX2architekten of Aachen, Germany, recently won a competition to design the new emergency care helicopter landing platform for the University Clinic of Aachen. The platform will be used for helicopter traffic for airlifted emergency patients. […]