FUTURE GROUND

Future Ground Competition Open for Registration
What will New Orleans look like in one year? Ten years? Fifty years? The
Future Ground design competition, hosted by the Van Alen Institute, is
looking for multi- displinary teams help shape the city’s future by answering
these questions. The competition is specially looking for teams to “generate
flexible design and policy strategies to reuse vacant land in New Orleans,
transforming abandoned landscapes into resources for the city”.
Request for qualification applications are due September 29, 2014 and the
three winning teams will be announced the following month. These three
teams will be awarded 15.000$ to participate in a six-month research and
design process alongside national experts and local stakeholders. The
outcome of their research will be socially, economically, and ecologically
sensitive solutions that the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA)
can implant.
Re-Imaging The Athenaeum of Philadelphia careful dismantling, moving,
re-assembling and most importantly, restoring, John Natman’s historic
Athenaeum building hos finally arrived of its new location in Fairmount
Pork, where it will serve as the headquarters of the newly formed
Philadelphia chapter of the Friends of Brownstone ( PhilaFOB ). Flush with
government funding from lottery and frocking revenue, PhiloFOB mode the
Athenaeum Board of Directors on offer it couldn’t refuse. So now, for the
first time since I845, the lot of 6th & Si. James Streets is vacant, and the
Athenaeum, still o Vitol independent lending and research library, with
growing architectural ond design collections, master- imagine itself without
its historic building. Given its location and its corporate purposes, what
might o mid-21st century Athenaeum
look like?
Workshop and LEGP Architecture Studio Launch: Villa Pensnisi in Musica
LEGO Architecture Studio, a new concept of the LEGO Architecture line,
makes his appearance in Italy in an innovative context of architecture and
music. The LEGO Group chose Italy and the prestigious setting of the
Sicilian “Villa Pennisi in Musica” event for the launch of the new set of
building blocks.
Villa Pennisi in Musica is an architecture and design-to-build summer
school and a classical music master class, where young architects will be
challenged to design and build and acoustic shell for outdoor chamber
music concerts from a pile of uncut wood in less than then days, and
others, world-class featuring, among others, world-class conductor sir
Antonio Pappano.