Updates

July 11, 2013

London’s Centre for the Built Environment announced the winners of the New London Awards 2013 at an annual luncheon yesterday at Guildhall. The Embassy of the United States was recognized with a prize in the Office Buildings category. New London Awards recognize the very best in architecture, planning and…

July 11, 2013

Philadelphia, PA – Renovation work continues on the Henry F. Ortlieb Company Bottling House at the corner of N. American and Poplar Streets in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberties neighborhood. The Philadelphia architecture firm KieranTimberlake will move into the renovated building in early 2014. Work currently underway includes exterior envelope…

July 5, 2013

The Master Plan for the Central Delaware has received a 2013 Award of Excellence from AIA New York State. The goal of this 30-year plan is to transform this six-mile length of Philadelphia’s Central Delaware River Waterfront into an authentic extension of the thriving city and vibrant neighborhoods immediately…

June 6, 2013

Hidden City‘s Vivienne Tang reviews two in-progress projects at the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub in Philadelphia–both of which will serve as demonstration projects for energy-efficiency strategies in commercial buildings. Testing And Proving Building Innovation At The Navy Yard Philadelphians spend 29…

June 3, 2013

Opened in 2011 and designed by James Corner Field Operations, Race Street Pier is the newest space along the Philadelphia waterfront to open to the public as a component of the Master Plan for the Central Delaware. Now the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that work is underway to bring…

May 29, 2013

KieranTimberlake Research Group Director Billie Faircloth and Fabrication Studio Manager Peter Curry went to Ahmedabad recently to conduct a site visit and workshop with the goal of building a full bay prototype of the Ideal Choice Homes structural system. Over the three-day workshop, the scope, specifications, evaluation…

May 16, 2013

PlanPhilly’s Eyes on the Street reported recently on our adaptive reuse project at Ortlieb’s Bottling House, the former bottling plant of a brewery that will be home to our new studio in 2014. Writer Ashley Hahn spoke with James Timberlake about plans to make use of natural ventilation and…

May 14, 2013

At Keeling Apartments, a residence hall on the University of California, San Diego campus, the exterior and interior walls, floors and ceilings are exposed concrete, constructed with intense focus on composition, formwork, and craft. The exterior is clad with precast concrete panels hung in front of the structure…

May 10, 2013

According to a survey conducted by the Smithsonian Institution, Philadelphia has more public art than any other American city. Dilworth Plaza will be no exception. The transformation of the space adjacent to City Hall includes an installation called Pulse that will trace the paths of the three major…

May 7, 2013

A fourth volume of Vision+Voice, compiled by the federal government’s Design Excellence Program, features interviews with architects working to fulfill the environmental sustainability mandate for federal building projects. Chapter 3 focuses on “Achievement Through Integrated Design” and includes our work for the Eisenhower Executive…