Updates

May 1, 2013

AIA’s Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Green Projects program “celebrates structures that use a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems, and technology to provide architectural solutions which protect and enhance the environment.” Entries are considered for the following factors: design and innovation, integration…

May 1, 2013

Philadelphia’s Center City District has installed a construction camera atop the Centre Square East office tower at 1500 Market Street to record the construction process at Dilworth Plaza and make it easy for Philadelphians to check its progress in real time.

March 20, 2013

Our latest experiment with building sensor networks—undertaken as part of the retrofit of Building 661 (The Building Energy Sciences Center) for the Energy Efficient Buildings (EEB) Hub, one of three innovation clusters created by the Department of Energy in 2011—has yielded some interesting results.

March 15, 2013

Through a week-long “Architecture as Catalyst” workshop at the University of Minnesota, KieranTimberlake researchers Billie Faircloth and Ryan Welch challenged architecture students to recast whole material assemblies as “fast” weather probes. Using low-cost wireless sensor technology developed by our research group, students were able to align their materials and…

February 27, 2013

NPR’s Tanya Ballard Brown asks whether U.S. embassies can be safe without being unsightly—addressing one of the many requirements involved in designing the New London Embassy, scheduled to open in the Nine Elms district in 2017. Can U.S. Embassies Be Safe Without…

February 22, 2013

The new U.S. embassy in London has sparked a wave of urbanization in a gritty industrial zone on the South Bank, the Wall Street Journal reports. A Diplomatic Breakthrough By Ruth Bloomfield Nine Elms, a neighborhood along the banks of London’s River…

February 18, 2013

Our 2012 holiday card featured diagrams of green roofs surveyed in our Green Roof Vegetation Study. Kira Gould offers her perspective on the Metropolis POV Blog. A Card for Keeps By Kira Gould KieranTimberlake’s annual message of good wishes is a five panel,…

February 1, 2013

The first external deployment of our Wireless Sensor Network on an existing project took place in an exposed masonry building in Philadelphia, Ortlieb’s Bottling House, which is presently being transformed into a new studio for KieranTimberlake. Given the building’s historic significance, one of the critical questions this…

January 17, 2013

The American Institute of Architects has selected Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges at Yale University to receive a 2013 Institute Honor Award, its highest professional award for architecture, urban design, and interior design. This project was one of 11 awarded for architecture, including the Barnes Foundation and the New…

January 17, 2013

Spencer de Grey, Head of Design at Foster + Partners and Chairman, The Building Centre Trust, and Professor Michael Stacey, Chair in Architecture and Director of Architecture at the University of Nottingham, made opening remarks at the London debut of the Prototyping Architecture exhibition last week.