Industry News + Featured Members

Connect 05.08 03.08 01.08   Innovations 07.08 06.08 05.08   Green ’07 ’06

Discovery Center      South Lake Union, WA
Miller Hull Partnership        © Lara Swimmer

AIA Green Building Awards 2008

Each project in the 2008 "Top Ten Green Projects" awards by the Ame- rican Institute of Architects (AIA) Co- mmittee on the Environment (COTE) was evaluated on ten measures, do- cumented extensively on the COTE web site. more Miller Hull AIA Top Ten Yale Sculpture Bldg Kieran Timberlake

Yale Sculpture Bldg, CT   Kieran Timberlake

ASLA Announces 2008 Honors

The Board of Trustees of the Ameri- can Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has selected the recipients of its 2008 honors, the highest awards the Society presents each year. more

Joseph Porter                            Durango, CO

Joseph A. Porter, FASLA, will receive the ASLA Medal for his life-time achievement and contributions to the profession, the welfare of the public, and the environment. Porter holds more than four decades of experience in the landscape architecture profe- ssion. He is also a founding principal of Design Workshop, a leading land- scape architecture firm with over 200 employees and this year’s Firm Award recipient. He is known for his ... more

Design Workshop Is
ASLA’s Top Firm for 2008

The medals and Awards will be pre- sented during the ASLA Annual Meet- ing in Philadelphia from October 3-7.

Pima Community College  Design Workshop

Design Workshop will receive the ’08 ASLA Landscape Architecture Firm Award. Don Ensign, FASLA, and Jo- seph Porter, FASLA, founded Design Workshop in 1969 when both were teaching in North Carolina. Five years later they relocated to Aspen, where the firm earned a reputation for sol- ving the complex problems found in fragile ecosystems and development challenges of the Western landscape. Today, Design Workshop’s seven off- ices across the country employ 200 people, whose work in county master plans, planned communities, resorts, urban centers, public parks, residen- ces, and roadways has earned more than 125 awards from ASLA and other organizations. more Design Workshop

Featured Members

Of Interest

Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Venice Biennial

Elsewhere, while Starck and Foster are charting the 7 seas, Frank Gehry is in his rumpus room in the base- ment, trying to figure out how to clear off some space in his trophy case, as it’s been announced that the starchitect will be receiving the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement... more About

Disney Concert Hall        LA, CA

Eero Saarinen:
Shaping the Future

At the Natl. Building Museum

TWA, JFK, NY       Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) is perhaps the least-known famous architect of the 20th century. Designer of such iconic structures as the St. Louis Gateway Arch and the terminal at Dulles Interna- tional Airport, as well as po- pular furniture including the sculptural ’Tulip’ chair, Saa- rinen produced a body of work that not only explored the promise of new mate- rials and technologies, but also seemed to capture the uniquely American spirit of optimism... more Fact Sheet Saarinen’s Shadows

Selux Celebrates a Quarter Century in US

When SELUX U.S. initiated a joint American venture with Staff Lighting in 1983, it had five employees and shared office space. Today, it em- ploys 120 and occupies a new 50,000 sq.ft state-of- the-art manufacturing faci- lity, which it completed in 2006. Even more impress- ive are the company’s sales growth, which has topped 20 percent for more than ten years, and its a résumé of noteworthy architectural projects, including the new Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, New York City’s Seven World Trade, and the Getty Museum in LA. more Press release

Teneo Storage, Herman Miller

NeoCon’08: Herman Miller’s Teneo storage wins Best of NeoCon highest award

Herman Miller swept the Best of Competition award with its Teneo storage units. President and CEO Brian Walker lauded the Herman Miller design team that had created the Teneo cabinets. It’s part of the trend toward smaller, lighter work sta- tions. Global business also will remain important, he said. more FM Link

NeoCon World Trade Fair