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 Each phase of a building design project has green design elements that need to be addressed in a consistent, rational manner. This program and panel discussion will look at building design projects phase-by-phase to identify the green design issues and ways to integrate LEED requirements into each project phase. Attendees will also receive a process checklist and brainstorm with the presenters to expand, verify, and prioritize the appropriate green issues. AIA SF members $45 pre-registration and $55 same week of class; nonmembers $55/ $65. AIA San Francisco, 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600, San Francisco. (415) 362-7397
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(Illustration by Stephen Kroninger).
A controversy heats up over one of the most celebrated buildings in recent memory.
When MIT's Simmons Hall opened in 2002, almost all of the considerable press the building received mentioned that it was inspired by a bath sponge. But given recent revelations that the Steven Holl- designed 360-student dormitory ran tens of millions of dollars over budget, the sponge metaphor is turning out to be a more apt one than the university bargained for.
Rumors have been flying around campus about the final cost of the building, which students began moving into in fall 2002 (even though construction wasn't yet complete). The budget numbers have been kept under wraps, so much so that nearly everyone involved with the construction of the building has been left to speculate about its price tag. But Victoria Sirianni, chief facilities officer of the MIT campus, tells Metropolis that the final cost for Simmons Hall-completed in 2003-is $92.5 million. Depending on whom you ask, that's $30 to $50 million more than early estimates. Sirianni quickly adds that she doesn't want to discuss it further because MIT is looking into bringing "claims against the architect." Asked what that means, she declined to elaborate.
Holl seems unaware that MIT is consid
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Deadline: 21 May 2004
The aim of The Wood Awards is to recognise and encourage outstanding design, craftsmanship and installation in joinery and structures in timber. The next Wood Awards will take place at Carpenters' Hall on Tuesday 19th October 2004.
Projects completed between 21st May 2003 and 21st May 2004 will be eligible to enter The Wood Awards 2004.
The shortlist will be launched at the 100% Detail Exhibition in Earls Court on 23rd September 2004. The short
listed entries will be exhibited throughout the Exhibition until 25th September 2004.
There are four main categories for which one winner and one runner-up will be awarded by the panel of judges.
The criteria for these awards are based on design, craftsmanship, quality of installation and do not take size or
value into account. Entries can be made for any one, or more, of the following categories:
Commercial
This category includes all public and commercial buildings funded by public or private clients.
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Registration ends 5 May 2004.
Submission deadline is 31 July 2004.
OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAMME
Natural daylight and sunlight have always played a determining role in architecture. Through this Award, VELUX wants to stimulate reflection and debate on the re-interpretation of daylight in architectural design today. The aim of the Award is to encourage innovation in this field and to highlight quality architectural solutions that improve the quality of living conditions and the environment.
All types of buildings can be proposed, be they newly built or refurbished, facilities or housing. The focus must be on daylight, whether in architectural design concept or in research into daylight construction techniques.
REGISTRATION
The Award is open to students of architecture in schools in the following countries: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ire
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Registration: 31 May 2004
Submission: 12 September 2004
The first Europe-wide architecture competition for solid surfaces.The SolidSurfaceDesign competition carries prize-money totalling 12,000 euros. It is an invitation to create innovative and extraordinary solutions for interior architecture and design by experimenting with solid surfaces. The SolidSurfaceDesign competition is open to architects, interior architects and students of these subjects based throughout Europe.
The prize will be awarded at the E3S 'European Solid Surface Show & Engineered Stone Exhibition' which takes place in November 2004 at the Bad Salzuflen Exhibition Center in Germany.
The jury will be: Georg Gewers (Gewers, Kühn + Kühn, Berlin), Amandus Sattler (Allmann Sattler Wappner, Munich), Roman Delugan (Delugan_Meissl, Vienna, Austria) and Rudy Ricciotti (Bandol, France).
The submissions should be experimental solutions to mineral material applications for interior design work, which demonstrate the ver
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