The Charlotte Business Journal announced today the opening of UNC Charlotte's Center City Building, which will house the MBA program as well as masters programs in urban design and health administration.
UNC Charlotte opened its new Center City building Monday, with the school describing the move as a historic step in strengthening its ties to Charlotte's business community.
The 11-story, $50.4 million academic building at the corner of Ninth and Brevard streets provides the university with a space that will allow programming “tailored to the nearby business and residential community and the rest of Charlotte,” UNCC says in a written statement.
A suction-cup device used for lifting glass panels at the Thiele Glass fabrication works near Dresden.
KieranTimberlake consulted a number of glazing suppliers from around the world during the design of the all-glass Putman Pavilion. Our selection criteria were stringent; the supplier needed to have the expertise to fabricate and deliver what may be the tallest insulated glazing units in North America. We selected the German company Roschmann Group for the project, which included both design scope assistance and procurement services.
A recent publication by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Building Operations features the London embassy as an exemplar of a new paradigm for embassy design that emphasizes the role of architecture in diplomacy.
James Timberlake is serving as the international member of HOME New Zealand magazine's Home of the Year jury, alongside New Zealand judges Patrick Clifford of Architectus and Jeremy Hansen, Editor of HOME.
In anticipation of his visit to New Zealand, James spoke with Clare McCall of the New Zealand Herald about KieranTimberlake's work with the Make It Right foundation to design housing to rebuild New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward following Hurricane Katrina.
He also spoke about rebuilding in Christchurch after the severe earthquake of February 2011—and the mandate to rebuild for environmental sustainability—via radio broadcast on Afternoons with Jim Mora at Radio New Zealand.
What's involved in moving highly sensitive scientific equipment into the new Brockman Hall for Physics? Rice University released a video detailing the complex process of transporting a giant 6,000-pound laser table and situating it in the new underground space.
British publication The Telegraph featured Loblolly House recently, including an interview with Partner Stephen Kieran and his wife Barbara, who are the home's owners.
The September 24, 2010 issue of the Yale Herald reflects on the history of Morse College, designed by Eero Saarinen, and what it means to bring the buildings into the present day.
The master plan includes expanding existing caps over 1-95, the highway that runs along the waterfront, to create a continuous park from Front Street to the water’s edge at Penn’s Landing.
Our plan for the Delaware River waterfront is moving toward the final stages. Inga Saffron of the Philadelphia Inquirer comments on the recommendations, including the proposal to fill Penn's Landing with a mix of housing, cultural uses, and shops.
O, the Oprah Magazine, this month featured Melba Leggett-Barnes, the owner of our Special NO 9 House in New Orleans—part of an effort by Make It Right foundation to rebuild the city sustainably following Hurricane Katrina. Leggett-Barnes says her sustainable home has saved her money due to energy-efficiency features, and she credits the ventilation system with improving her asthma symptoms.
Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina wiped out the life she knew. Now Melba Leggett-Barnes has a place to call her own again—a home that's good for her and the planet.
Melba Leggett-Barnes stands in slippers on the roof of her house in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. It's a blazing August afternoon, yet this mother of five and grandmother of six is gripping an orange mop and wiping down 15 metallic solar panels, each about the size of a picnic table. "I like to make sure all the sun gets through," she says over the clamor of nearby construction work. "Every last drop is money in my pocket."
From her roof, Leggett-Barnes can see dozens of other new homes like hers. With their sharp angles and tropical-fruit hues (mango orange, papaya pink, banana yellow), these houses suggest giant origami sculptures more than traditional New Orleans architecture, known for its deep front porches and curvaceous woodwork. In the blighted Lower Ninth, this vibrant micro-neighborhood seems surreal—an architectural mirage.
On the western border of the two-square-mile area, the levees broke on August 29, 2005, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The floodwaters left some 14,000 residents homeless, including Leggett-Barnes and her husband, Baxter. Yielding to the evacuation order, they had packed a few clothes and documents in their car and inched through traffic to her cousin's house in Baker, Louisiana, 100 miles north. They came home to an empty lot. "Scraps were the only thing left," she recalls. "Pieces of the fence, the porch my daddy built, the wheel of my granddaughter's bike."
Today whole city blocks of the Lower Ninth still stand vacant. The hurricane destroyed more than 4,000 homes in the area; fewer than 200 have been rebuilt. Roughly 75 percent of local families are still displaced, staying in FEMA trailers or with relatives across the southeast and beyond.
But Melba Leggett-Barnes is back. The 53-year-old school cafeteria worker, born and bred in New Orleans, is living on the same plot of land her family has owned for generations: one-tenth of an acre just two blocks east of the collapsed floodwall. And in returning to her neighborhood, Leggett-Barnes has also become part of a radical experiment to prove that a 21st-century house can be at once affordable and sustainable.
