How can Union Station be reimagined as a hub for a new era of a more sustainable, transit based Los Angeles, and a catalyst for vital new urban district? EE&K, a Perkins Eastman company in association with UNStudio, is proud to have been selected by the LAMTA to be one of six teams to develop a vision for the future...
by Carl Yost
The visible progress at Ground Zero might be New York’s biggest construction news, but one block west, a project with greater influence on urban planning worldwide is quietly wrapping up. With two condominium towers nearing completion, every parcel in Battery Park City (BPC) has now been built...
Ex-HUD secretary says ‘brilliant concept’ will allow city and university to prosper while fighting decline
By Betty Lin-Fisher
Akron will be transformed because of the alliance of community, government and business partners collaborating under the University Park Alliance, said the former secretary...
City makes a comeback as a destination with planned rebuilding of the Erie Canal
By Branden Klayko
Buffalo’s historic inner harbor waterfront has changed radically over the past century. The terminus of the legendary Erie Canal was buried, the site filled in, and the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium built...
Master plan created by renowned firm divides downtown into districts to utilize ‘untapped development potential’
By Betty Lin-Fisher
Akron’s downtown and surrounding areas are really made up of three main streets and four distinct business districts, which should be developed into vibrant,...
By Betty Lin-Fisher
Here is information about each of four districts in what the University Park Alliance is calling its master plan for development. The four districts are focused around three main streets — Main, Exchange and Market.
Crossroads District
This district is centered at East...
Redesigning the community college for 21st-century students
By Matt Bell, AIA, Sean O’Donnell, AIA, LEED AP, and Susan Shoemaker, AIA, LEED AP
Community colleges play an increasingly critical role in preparing and educating students of all ages for life in the 21st century. Whether they are teenagers...
By Brian Meyer
The architect for Canal Side met with Common Council members today and encouraged them to reimagine the waterfront as a people-packed destination that offers a variety of activities.
Today’s presentation in City Hall was the first time most lawmakers reviewed preliminary designs....
By James Fink
The nearly two-acre hole in downtown Buffalo where Memorial Auditorium once stood could be replaced by more than 200,000-square-feet of mixed-use development space.
The design would play off the replica Erie Canal waterways that will be sitting along its doorstep.
The tentative...
By Beth Herman
Lacking funds for law school and denied employment as a journalist by the Dayton Herald because of his race, Paul Laurence Dunbar read Tennyson and Shakespeare in empty cars as a $4-a-week elevator boy.
When a Washington, D.C. high school was created in 1917 to honor the man who would...
By Elaine Wolff
At the March 7 meeting of VIA’s Commission on Intra-City Rail and Streetcar, the scheduled start of the agenda was a draft study of the potential economic impact from the proposed downtown streetcar lines. (Spoiler alert: the consultants said, yes, it would spur development along the chosen...
March 3, 2011 (New York, NY) Top international design and architecture firm Perkins Eastman is pleased to announce that EE&K, a Perkins Eastman company, has completed the master plan for the William Rainey Harper College campus in Palatine, IL. The plan, completed under the joint venture of EE&K/ Graywood,...
Keeping an eye on 2011’s prospects, ENR New York highlights six firms that are poised to make big moves
By Bruce Buckley, Tom Stabile and Debra Wood
Regular readers of Engineering News-Record are familiar with the big names in the construction industry that lead off our annual “Top” lists of...
Apart from The Bund, public access to the Huangpu River is limited. That’ll change in 2012 with the Huishan North Bund development. Anna Leach hears from the architects
Marina life is coming to Shanghai – to Hongkou district to be precise. The Huishan North Bund development is transforming a...
By Linda C. Lentz
For some, the name “School Without Walls” will conjure memories of the experimental, open-plan schools of the 1960s, some of which were ill-fated. The Washington, D.C., School Without Walls (Walls), however, is a successful 40-year-old public high school on the grounds of George...
By Carolyn Cosmos
“Students are very proud of the fact they’re going to school in a nice new place. They love it,” said Marjorie Cuthbert, principal of Stoddert Elementary, a public school situated on six acres in D.C.’s Glover Park neighborhood.
Expanded and modernized, Stoddert reopened last...
Mixed-use development is becoming popular on college campuses to enrich and add amenities to student life
By Coleman Wood
College campuses across the nation are changing before our eyes. Whereas the past saw specific academic programs, administrative offices and residential housing confined to separate...
Rego Center has been named the 2010 Retail Project of the Year by New York Construction.
The competition recognizes construction excellence from across the region. An independent jury of industry experts judged nearly 180 nominated projects and deemed 31 of them as award winners. Eligible projects were...
By Bill Turque
After a week’s worth of news about disorder and disarray at Dunbar Senior High School, District officials were pleased to change the subject for at least a few minutes Tuesday morning. In one of his last school-related press events, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) unveiled the proposed design...
Three new plans in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York plot a multi-faceted future for the post-postindustrial waterfront
By Linda McIntyre
Bing Thom’s renovation of the Arena Stage in Southwest Washington, D.C., unveiled last month, is the talk of the design world. With its alluring...
This article developed from a presentation EE&K Principal Sean O’Donnell, AIA, LEED AP gave at the Inter-American Development Bank’s 2-day workshop in Santiago, Chile in late September. The workshop engaged the vice-ministers of education from the region and top experts on Education and Infrastructure from...
By Sean O’Donnell, AIA, LEED AP, and Raj Setty, PE
Imagine the opportunity to dream up the school of the future. How would it address the issues confronting the 21st Century? How would it foster a more individualized education, adapt to the rapid pace of technology, expand the students’ ability to...
Last night at Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theater, with nearly every seat filled by nearby residents and development types, P.N. Hoffman and Madison Marquette unveiled the framework of their plans for the 27-acre Southwest Waterfront. The vision was breathtaking.
Southwest Quadrant has a great rundown, so I...
By Amanda Peterka of Greenwire
Stoddert Elementary School Principal Marjorie Cuthbert sees her school as a “microcosm of solving future world problems.”
The Washington, D.C., public school reopened recently after a renovation that added a geothermal heating and cooling system, energy usage...
Behold the proposed Silver Line bus station in downtown. Currently called the “Union Station/Patsaouras” station, this new elevated stop will serve riders of the Silver Line, that nearly year-old line that connects the South Bay and the San Gabriel Valley to Downtown. So you know what you’re...
By Franklyn Cater
The business of green building is growing, even though the construction market as a whole has been in a slump.
The U.S. Green Building Council, or USGBC, and its certification system are swaying the industry — creating cachet around green buildings.
The company is influencing...
By Carl Yost
After the overreaching of Modern city planning—barren plazas, rows of soulless apartment slabs—urban design got a bad rap. But as suggested in the documentary Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City, when ambitious visions are tempered with civic sensitivity, great things...
By Liam Casey
Waterfront Toronto unveiled plans to build a massive $800 million neighbourhood Thursday.
Developers have dubbed the new neighbourhood Bayside, which will stretch along the water from Sherbourne St. to Parliament St. Waterfront Toronto chose Hines, an American development company based in...
by Kavitha Cardoza
Stoddert Elementary School in Northwest DC has undergone a 34 million dollar makeover and is the first DC public school to have a geothermal energy system among it’s many environmentally friendly features.
Ryan Lewis has been attending Stoddert since he was in kindergarten. And...
By Kenneth Caldwell
Design on the Edge: A Century of Teaching Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, 1903–2003
Edited by Waverly Lowell, Elizabeth Byrne, and Betsy Frederick-Rothwell
William Stout Publishers, $60.00
It is probably fair to say that most of the nation’s...
Looking back on 2009 there were a few reasons to smile.
1. Trans-Hudson Express Tunnel
2. N.J. Turnpike Interchange 6-9 Widening
3. 440 West 42nd Street
4. East Side Access – Queens Bored Tunnels & Structures
5. New York City Police Academy
6. Weill Cornell Medical...
by Stan Eckstut and Fran Rosenfeld
For decades, urban universities and hospitals have had to contend with all the perceived ills of the city — downtown decay and disinvestment, rising crime, poverty and unemployment, lack of adequate housing and green space — while enjoying few of the benefits. In many...
By Amanda Fung
Early next year, two luxury condominium towers—the Liberty Luxe and Liberty Green—will open in Battery Park City. The buildings, which will be 33 and 23 stories, respectively, and will feature similar brick-and-glass facades, are being developed by Milstein Properties.
More...
1. Rethink Governors Island
It’s an architect’s fantasy: a glorious 172-acre canvas in the heart of New York Harbor. The city takes full control of it in July and plans an 87-acre park. The rest is up for grabs, except for developers of casinos or permanent housing—uses forbidden in the federal deed....
By Hamil R. Harris
When Wade Mercer was growing up in the Deanwood section of Northeast Washington, there were few recreational options for young people. Swimming meant finding space in a crowded outdoor pool.
With swim trunks and towels, Mercer and four of his children were ready for a swim in a new...
by Tracy Ostroff
How do you . . . bring varying constituencies into a school environment?
Summary: EE&K | AE, a joint venture of Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects and two engineering firms, will transform a currently cramped school by providing new teaching and common spaces, including a...
Q&A: Adaptive Reuse
By Nick Gosling
As prime real estate in urban areas disappears, school districts are looking for creative ways to expand. A growing trend is to adapt abandoned or unused buildings to fit the needs of school districts.
Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects of New York...
New development aims to knit former industrial site into Baltimore’s thriving waterfront.
by Julia Galef
The shoreline around Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is well known for its bustling urban life, but just a mile away lies a body of water with three times the area and none of the development. The...
by John Hill
In my previous Request for Buildings (RFB) for my Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture — to be published by W. W. Norton next year — I asked for help from readers to determine what projects should be included in the book. One project type that I was not going to consider...
Worlie Steven Moore spent much of his working life selling stylish men’s suits in luxury stores like Saks Fifth Avenue. But in February 2009 he was laid off and spent nearly a year out of work, mostly catching up on reading because looking for employment in his field during a recession seemed futile.
Worlie...
By Philip Nobel
It’s not Florianópolis, the island paradise off the coast of Brazil where Pat McKeever and her husband, Jim, had planned to retire. And it’s not Fort Bragg, California, where they owned and ran a bed-and-breakfast in a Victorian farmhouse overlooking the Pacific. But it’s not a bad view...
Alexandria, VA – March 17, 2010 – LEARNING BY DESIGN has released its much‐anticipated Spring 2010 edition, which showcases the nation’s best education design and construction projects, from pre‐K to 12 to college and university facilities. Of all of the outstanding design projects chosen for publication in ...
ERNEST MAIER BLOCK AND THE CONSERVATION FUND LAUNCH “BUILDING BLOCKS OF CHANGE”
Effort will Offset CO2 Emissions from Concrete Building Materials, Restore Wildlife Habitat and Advance Green Building in Washington, D.C. Metro Area Arlington, VA—Ernest Maier Block and The Conservation Fund announced the...
By Mark Sommer
Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp.’s board voted unanimously to adopt the project plan and completed environmental review process. That leaves only the Empire State Development Corp., its parent, to do the same at its March 25 board meeting.
When that happens, as expected, requests...
By Joey
Down in Battery Park City right behind the ball fields, the last empty patch of land zoned for residential use is being filled with a pair of buildings from Milstein Properties: Liberty Luxe (200 North End Avenue) and Liberty Green (300 North End Avenue). Construction is zipping right along after a...
By Inga Saffron
What influences the public’s perception of Market East more: The mobs of rampaging teens who have descended on the Gallery mall over the last few weeks? Or the building’s gloomy fortress walls, which have weighed down Philadelphia’s traditional shopping street for well over...
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Century 21 Department Stores brings their legendary selection of famous brands at deep discount prices to Queens, with the March 3, 2010 grand opening of their megastore in the brand-new Rego Park Center complex. The 133,000 square foot location will be stocked with couture designers and European apparel, fashion...
by Karrie Jacobs
Unlike almost everything else in Las Vegas (with the exception of Steve Wynn’s most recent towers), the buildings of CityCenter are emphatically three-dimensional. They don’t go blank on the back side and, amazingly, they even look good from above. CityCenter is a complex puzzle of...
The Buffalo Planning Board was provided with an overview of Canal Side General Project Plan and associated design guidelines that will apply to future development in the inner harbor area on Tuesday. The presentation was given by consultants retained by the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation (ECHDC). No...
Architectural Record’s annual “Schools of the 21st Century” issue spotlights the latest thinking and the best ideas on the planning and design of K-12 school buildings. This year’s issue features EE&K’s inventive design for PS59. Working with a public-private partnership between the World Wide Group...
By Steven Litt
Despite extreme turmoil at the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, the beleaguered agency is doing at least one thing right.
The port’s real estate director, Eric Johnson, has led the formulation of a strong new plan to transform 100 acres of downtown waterfront from...
By Liz Benston
Visitors to CityCenter, the Strip’s newest spectacle, will be driven to look up at the glistening glass and steel. It is an inexorable pull, to cock your head backward and take in the sweep of six high-rise towers — including two that lean — that create an urban scene unlike any other.
...
By Sarah Krouse
Nearly 1 million cars drove into the nation’s capital in 2008. And though Washington is considered one of the grandest cities in the world, it also hosts some of the most lackluster entrances.
Sure, the 236,500 cars that crossed the 14th Street Bridge each week in 2008 caught a...
Hearing set tonight on waterfront project
Bass Pro remains determined to build a store in Buffalo, the president of the giant retailer said Monday night, on the eve of a public hearing about the city’s evolving Canal Side project.
“Bass Pro is fully committed to coming to Buffalo, and we are...
YONKERS – The City Council has approved a deal to transfer several acres of land to a development partnership promising a $1.5 billion makeover for downtown.
The redevelopment envisions the construction of 1,436 housing units, a 6,500-seat baseball stadium, a 150-room hotel, a new municipal justice center,...
New neighborhood gets the supermarket of its dreams; rare residential success.
In an era when big residential real estate projects have stalled all across the city, one of the biggest of the lot—Arverne by the Sea, in Rockaway, Queens—is motoring ahead briskly.
Four of the planned six...
The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners early this morning unanimously approved the San Pedro Waterfront Project. The 400-acre waterfront infrastructure and revitalization initiative will extend from the Port’s inner harbor cruise facilities to Cabrillo Beach in the outer harbor and create a world-class...
SL Green Realty and partner Hard Rock Entertainment know what they bring to the table as one of six bidders competing for do-over rights at Aqueduct Race Track — namely, the splashy, sleek, Singapore Sling-sipping spirit of “cleaned-up” and highly marketable rock ‘n’ roll.
But the duo, along with...
At the opening of the renovated School without Walls, named for its distinctive mission to foster learning outside of the classroom through its partnership with GWU, there was a feeling of eager anticipation from the students, families, faculty, and neighbors — all whom had gathered to view the long awaited...
As Cleveland looks to revitalize its downtown, the Port and City of Cleveland take the lead in reenvisioning the future of the city’s waterfront and the role it might play in leading this intiative.To read more about initial concepts developed by EE&K Architects, click the link below.
Education has become a more-than-stable sector (yes, that’s a ringing endorsement these days); thus, EE&K Architects has made it a large part of its portolio, including the just finished School Without Walls in Foggy Bottom.
We snapped Matt Bell, principal at Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn, just after the...
The newly renovated School Without Walls opened its doors Thursday with a grand reopening and ribbon cutting ceremony featuring D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and University President Steven Knapp.
University President Steven Knapp and D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty pose for photographers outside of the newly...
The lead architect of the city’s plan to revitalize the Market East corridor gave the public a second look at his still-in-draft-form vision Tuesday evening.
The major themes presented by Stan Eckstut, principal of New York’s Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, did not change from his first...
The Southampton Village Board is nearing approval of a new master plan for the business district, but not before residents have had time to familiarize themselves with the plan and offer their reactions to the proposal.
The Village Center Vision Plan is designed to direct all future development of...
EE&K Architects has had great success in designing with BIM. Our School Without Walls project (due to be completed this summer) is featured in the attached article on BIM.
Cleveland’s new image will start with a walkable waterfront that embraces all the allure and activity a river and a Great Lake can bring, influential planners and developers say. That includes public squares, promenades and fishing piers in a world-class, maritime neighborhood that port, city and civic leaders...
Matthew Bell, a principal with EE&K’s District of Columbia office, has been involved in a number of transit-oriented projects.
With the struggling economy and persistent credit crunch both working to put the kibosh on most new development plans, high-density projects with a mass transit component are still...
EE&K’s projects have been featured in many articles recently.
West Side neighbors and waterfront activists had mostly good things to say last week about the three competing proposals for developing Pier 57 at a public forum co-sponsored by Community Board 4 and the Hudson River Park Trust.
This is the second time around for redeveloping the Hudson River pier at 15th St....
Redevelopment of Hill East by HDG Waterfront Partners, LLC. Submission made to The District of Columbia Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development.
What if they had shorted the Empire State Building by a couple of football fields?
Or gave the Great Pyramid a flattop? Or built the Eiffel Platform?
Size certainly isn’t everything when it comes to buildings, of course. But the impact of many iconic structures is in their sheer stature. That is why...
With little ground left to build on, developers are looking to the skies and the city’s schools for new space. NY1’s Tara Lynn Wagner filed the following report.
The southwest corner of 57th and Second Avenue is dominated by two low lying buildings — PS 59 and the High School of Art and Design....