Judy Cunningham MESA For the last 33 years, MESA has had the pleasure of having NorthPark Center as a client. The only challenge they present to us is to outdo the previous year’s designs by keeping… With this particular landscape architecture project, what was the most difficult issue your firm faced or the most unexpected [&hellip
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Christoph Köpers & Johan Østeng Østengen & Bergo We met several challenges in this project. The most important was to meet the Oslo city’s strong ambitions and strict demands on universal access, on a site which has been regarded… With this particular landscape architecture project, what was the most difficult issue your firm faced or [&hellip
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James Lord Surface Design The critical factors in this project were the budget and timing. The architect pleaded to bring on a landscape architect and at the very last minute, Surfacedesign… With this particular landscape architecture project, what was the most difficult issue your firm faced or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced [&hellip
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Mehrdad Yazdani Yazdani Studio Infrastructure projects like this invariably involve a multitude of different agencies – often with conflicting interests. It’s important (and often challenging) to consider all sides while… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your [&hellip
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Ross Wimer SOM The design for the Tanggu Rail Hub accommodates many complex challenges. The program includes a high-speed rail station, three subway stations, a bus station and a large taxi staging area, all of which reside beneath a large public park. This is a new type of building… What was the most difficult issue [&hellip
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Eric Owen Moss Eric Owen Moss Architects We’ve done a number of unusual projects in the area and you could argue that it is the making or the remaking of a piece of the city in that central Los Angeles and Culver City area. We made an iconic event which actually celebrates and brings… The [&hellip
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Simon Summers Aedas Prior to our appointment on Dubai Metro, Aedas had designed more than 100 rail stations globally. With the experienced gained on these earlier projects in Hong Kong, Singapore, India and the UK we were already very familiar with… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the [&hellip
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Karim Rashid Karim Rashid I started this project over 6 years ago. Now I would have designed the project totally differently as the design/manufacturing world has changed so much. Previously… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your [&hellip
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Rein Jansma, Reinald Top and Rob Torsing Zwarts & Jansma Architects The most common building type for a highline train tube and station exists of two pieces: the main structure that actually carries the construction and the roof that’s added… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most [&hellip
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Peter Stevens Grimshaw Architects Without doubt the most difficult issue working within this building type is that of executing a design that contends with and resolves the matter of building within an operating rail corridor. This project provided the unique challenges of designing and constructing… What was the most difficult issue about working within this [&hellip
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Mark Rios, Frank Clementi, Julie Smith-Clementi and Robert Hale Rios Clementi Hale Studios This project presented two significant challenges, one dealing with access and the other with existing infrastructure. The first challenge was finding a solution to the many entries and passageways… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or [&hellip
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Adam Hatvani sporaarchitects In the last thirty years there hasn’t been such an ambitious development regarding the transport in Budapest as the metro4. The idea, trace and previous plans for the metro4 were made in the 80’s and 90’s, with stations reflecting… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or [&hellip
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Arnold Lee HOK Planning for future connectivity and designing for flexibility is our greatest challenge. There are currently no precedents for these types of rail stations in the United– our current traditional rail stations need to be re-imagined… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge [&hellip
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Alfons Soldevila Barbosa, David Soldevila Riera and Alfonso Soldevila Riera Soldevila Architects In our case, the most difficult issue was to work with a 60 meter-deep void. The challenge was to avoid the vertigo effect… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have [&hellip
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Andrea Maffei Andrea Maffei The most difficult issue was the dimension of the Bologna station project and its relationship with the context all around. The size of a new station of such importance always… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced [&hellip
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Dean Hill greenscreen® Today’s leading architectural ideas need to strongly focus on a holistic approach to materials, products and design program. The cyclical nature of this focus makes it very difficult to consider one without the other. The design challenge is to find the best possible product solution that meets the design program and incorporates [&hellip
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Stephani Haynes Bluebeam Software One of the most exciting aspects of Bluebeam is that our software is used throughout a project, not only by architects but also by engineers, General Contractors, consultants, sub-contractors and even government plan check agencies. If you are looking to digitize your project communication, the odds are that you are already [&hellip
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John E. Kroll VirtualWorks.dk Architectural photography has evolved into a new branch – 360° architectural photography. Danish-based architect and photographer John Kroll has refined the interactive 360° media to a standard that matches and in many ways exceeds the classic deeds of… Tell us about yourself, your company, your services. Born into families where art [&hellip
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Talia Vinograd CPI Daylighting Inc. CPI Daylighting pioneered the use of polycarbonate translucent panel systems for architectural use two decades ago, and has followed up by driving daylighting innovation… Tell us about yourself, your company, your product. CPI Daylighting pioneered the use of polycarbonate translucent panel systems for architectural use two decades ago, and has [&hellip
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Daniel Heney Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association Since 1897, the members of the MFMA have been dedicated to producing the highest quality northern hard maple flooring and sports flooring systems in the world. More than 100 years later… Tell us about yourself, your company, your product. Since 1897, the members of the MFMA (Maple Flooring Manufacturers [&hellip
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Darlene Byrne Trespa Trespa International, B.V. has launched a new and exciting program in 2010, the Architecture & Design Program. As a part of this program, Trespa hosts global workshop where we solicit the ideas and feedback of today’s top designers. During … What is the role of your materials and products in the development [&hellip
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Matthew Kocian Boddingtons I came to Boddingtons with 7 years of design/build experience in everything from site construction to greenroofs and a graduate degree in Landscape Architecture. I have always been intrigued with grass paving… Tell us about yourself, your company, your product. I came to Boddingtons with 7 years of design/build experience in everything [&hellip
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Michael E. Murray Lucid Design Group Building Dashboard® monitors building resource consumption such as electricity, water and natural gas in real time and visualizes it on the web. Building occupants, managers and visitors… What is the role of your product in the development of today’s leading architectural ideas? Building Dashboard® monitors building resource consumption such [&hellip
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Barbara Horton Horton Lees Brogden Lighting – both daylight and supplemental light play a pivotal role in architecture. HLB’s approach is a holistic one that integrates the aesthetic and technical aspects of each project and carefully plays with the form, function and finishes… What is the role of your service or specialty in the development [&hellip
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Skip Burck Richard Burck Associates We work in a variety of very complex environments – ergonomic, environmental, urban, social and often times in settings that have a long and significant history to them. Fundamental to being progressive in… What is the role of your service or specialty in the development of today’s leading architectural ideas? [&hellip
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Architekturburo Zeytinoglu Architects Shanghai World Expo Actually, there is nothing new about amorphous-shaped houses, but the design process has changed dramatically. Special software for computer-supported design allows the generation of new building techniques that cause new social discussions… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge [&hellip
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Ben van Berkel UN Studio We have often said that the concept of the architect has changed a great deal in just the last ten years and is continually changing. In recent years this has required the expansion of specializations; of the sustainable, infrastructural and material knowledge… What was the single hardest issue to predict [&hellip
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Bernard Tschumi Bernard Tschumi Architects The most challenging part of the project was to make it simultaneously a powerful architectural concept and to support the audience experience with the architecture.This can be quite complex with spaces that have large spans, such as a concert hall for six thousand people… What was the single hardest issue [&hellip
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Helen & Hard Architects Shanghai World Expo We aimed to combine the architecture with the exhibition and the infrastructure in a “forest” of 15 trees. In addition, we wanted to design the trees according to a specific use of the pavilion after Expo. To acheive this interwoven space, a close collaboration with all involved … [&hellip
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Kohn Shnier Architects Schools As a school specializing in young students gifted in the arts, we had a mandate to provide a building which performs at a higher level than many public schools in the city. Examples of this include, sprung floors for the dance… What was the single hardest issue to predict about working [&hellip
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Mahlum Schools The narrow, north-south oriented site presented an immediate challenge. In order to align classrooms for optimum daylighting, we developed compact learning clusters that extend east from a grand hall that follows the site’s length. This… What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected [&hellip
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Gilles Saucier Saucier + Perrotte Architectes The subject of what type of museum this could be was an interesting challenge. The idea of representing music is often about treating sound as a material, but in the case of the National Music Centre with its collection… What was the single hardest issue to predict about working [&hellip
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Lehmann Fidanza & Associes Schools The greatest challenge was the search for an adequate typological-spatial solution to the issue of a primary school building. The ramp and the schoolroom shape derive from this search and are not the formal point of initiation. The… What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this [&hellip
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LARRAZ ARQUITECTOS Schools Without a doubt, the fact of projecting a building for three year old children. A nursery is the first public space that they are going to inhabit out of their home, in a time of their life that is going to condition their future adult capabilities… What was the single hardest issue [&hellip
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Craig Hodgetts Hodgetts + Fung The Wildbeast was to be a chameleon, transforming from classroom to recital hall to outdoor performance shell and, while those functions could be technically accomplished, there were both physical constraints and symbolic goals which were… What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or [&hellip
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Peter Gluck & Partners Schools School buildings have historically been designed for the pedagogy of the day; as pedagogies change, the buildings are difficult to reconfigure. For this infill site, the challenge was to create a structure and façade that allowed for great program flexibility… What was the single hardest issue to predict about working [&hellip
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Snøhetta Craig Dykers The overall experience of a performance in a theater is difficult to gauge accurately because there a multiple of interacting forces that are mostly invisible, such as acoustics and sight lines. Furthermore there are a number of moving features like stage lifts, curtains… What was the single hardest issue to predict about [&hellip
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Mass Studies Architects Shanghai World Expo For the Korean Pavilion for the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, we had to work with another quintessential condition of faster, bigger, and cheaper, but at a much more extensive level. Korea took one of the 10 largest sites… What was the most difficult issue about working within this [&hellip
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José Adrião Architects Schools The fact that this a Elementary School and that we are dealing with four to ten year old kids make this project very stimulant. The project ideas are very simple. We have decided to work with archetypal forms… What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building [&hellip
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BiCuadro Architects Shanghai World Expo Matching the Chinese globalized environment with the philosophy of our design strongly oriented on representing the Italian lifestyle and high quality standards. Two different approaches that hardly go together nowadays, as global and local… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected [&hellip
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