October 4, 2012
Image by Michael Moran
The Parsons Design Workshop has completed its most recent project, Splash House, a pool house at the Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center in Washington Heights. The outcome of a long collaboration process between Parsons graduate students, city officials, and community residents, the new pool house marks the resurgence of High Bridge and its surrounding park land, leading up to the expected reopening of the bridge in 2014. Continue.
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May 11, 2010
Unpaid internships are on the rise, which led the New York Times to report on the trend and Hannah McCann from Architect to relate the practice to sweatshops and a blog called Architects Who Eat Their Young to call out the fancy firms hiring free labor. Whew! [via Worklife]
This spring, architecture diversifies into other artistic platforms, from dance to theater to opera. We’re especially keen to check out Santiago Calatrava’s sets for the New York City Ballet; what’s on your cultural docket? [via A Daily Dose of Architecture]
The AIA 2010 Housing Awards are out, and boy, are those some sexy domiciles — for example, Formosa 1140 in West Hollywood. [via Fast Company]
New York City’s The New School just approved a diluted version of a Skidmore Owings & Merrill design for its Fifth Avenue campus. Roger Duffy is the lead architect for the 16-story, 350,000-square-foot structure “clad in glass and weathered brass panels,” still the largest building the university has ever commissioned. [via The Architect's Newspaper]
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