Updates

October 22, 2010

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. Changing Skyline: Master plan for riverfront…

September 30, 2010

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…

September 23, 2010

The Design for Reuse Primer, a free e-publication project by Public Architecture, was recently released. In this comprehensive guide to repurposing materials directly from the waste stream, read about the reclaimed lumber and stone used at our LEED Platinum-rated Stewart Middle School at…

July 22, 2010

The Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced the winners and finalists of the 2010 National Design Awards, which commend excellence across a variety of disciplines. The Architecture Design Award recognizes work in commercial, public, or residential architecture. The jury noted the firm’s “integration of…

May 26, 2010

The New London Embassy design competition exhibit officially opened today at the headquarters of the American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C. The exhibit celebrates the completion of the design competition to select the architect for the New London Embassy for the United States of…

May 13, 2010

Loblolly House was built in just six weeks in 2006, inaugurating a novel approach to building off site using integrated component assemblies that are factory-built and assembled together on site. We recently constructed a full-scale critical detail of Loblolly House in our Philadelphia shop, and it is currently…

April 23, 2010

In this video, Partners Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, along with Project Architect Marilia Rodrigues, the Production Engineer, and others, discuss the ideas and methodologies behind Loblolly House, a sustainable residence fabricated off site yet fully integrated to its setting on the Chesapeake Bay.

April 22, 2010

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have announced that the Special NO 9 House, designed with New Orleans firm John C. Williams Architects as executive architect, has been named a Top Ten Green Project for 2010. The house is one of…

March 1, 2010

On February 23, 2010, KieranTimberlake was selected from four finalists as the architecture firm to design the new U.S. embassy in London. In his remarks at the announcement, OBO Acting Director Adam Namm commented on the embassy’s potential to be a “net exporter of energy” owing to the…

February 10, 2010

With the Yale Sculpture Building and School of Art Gallery, the client aspired to LEED Silver performance only. The Platinum award (which is the highest level of LEED certification) in this case arose from the integrated process, not from exceptional expenditure for additive systems. For several months at…