February 8, 2016
David Schalliol
The Charnley-Persky House
Road to Restoration The nonprofit Society of Architectural Historians has received a $123,000 grant from the Chicago-based grant-making group the Alphawood Foundation to hire local firm Harboe Architects to develop a restoration plan for its headquarters, the Charnley-Persky House (above), in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. [Society of Architectural Historians]
Brutal Preservation Christine Cipriani reports how Boston City Hall architect Michael McKinnell and others debated possible futures for Boston City Hall and its adjacent plaza at a recent BSA forum. [ARCHITECT]
Mary McCartney/Courtesy RIBA
Zaha Hadid, Hon. FAIA
RIBA Gold At Last Joseph Giovannini reports from the RIBA’s medal ceremony about why Zaha Hadid, HON. FAIA’s Gold Medal matters. [ARCHITECT]
Courtesy HNTB
First Super Bowl Behind the scenes at San Francisco’s Levi’s Stadium, designed by HNTB, which hosted its first Super Bowl last night. [ARCHITECT]
Capital Winners AIA|DC announced the winners of its annual design awards. [ARCHITECT]
HKS Sports & Entertainment
The 70,000-seat arena can be expanded to 80,000 seats.
NFL Returns to L.A. Brian Libby explores why the Rams’ new Inglewood Stadium could be a game changer in planning. [ARCHITECT]
Ending 2015 in Good Shape The January jobs report had detailed data from December 2015 in it, where architecture added another 500 jobs, and landscape architecture and engineering also added jobs. Ten of 12 months for 2015 showed job growth for architecture . [ARCHITECT]
Mixed Bag January was a strangely weak yet strong jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Total job gains were down at 151,000 but wage growth was up. And the architectural and engineering services sector had another good month. [ARCHITECT]
Awards and Competitions
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is now accepting submissions to its fourth Wheelwright Prize, an open, international competition for early-career architects that supports travel-based research. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 15, 2016. Read more about the Wheelwright Prize.
The Architectural League has announced a call for entries for its Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, focused this year around the theme of (im)permanence and time as a defining characteristic of architecture. Entries are due Feb. 17, 2016.
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge recognizes initiatives that take a comprehensive and anticipatory design approach to advance human well-being and the health of the planet’s ecosystem. The Buckminster Fuller Institute awards one $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a design solution that addresses complex global problems. The application window will open on Jan. 15 and entries are due by March 1.
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