July - August - September 2000

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UN Studio in America
September 28, 2000
UN Studio (Berkel & Bos) together with Brad Cloepfil, Zaha Hadid and Thom Mayne are chosen out of fifty designoffices as potential designers for the renovation and expansion of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford (V.S.). The design architect will be named in mid-October.

MOVEMENT!, work by Petra Blaisse in New York
September 19, 2000
On Friday September 15, at the Storefront Gallery in New York, Terence Riley (Chief Curator Architecture & Design of MOMA) opened the exhibition MOVEMENT!, featuring work by the Dutch interior and landscape designer Petra Blaisse.

Touchdown Groundcontrol: Comfortable Landing
September 12, 2000
Back to where Groundcontrol was launched: the engine building of the Wester Gasworks in Amsterdam. Last Saturday the platform for young urban designers and landscape architects got ready for the touchdown! that rounded off two years of research and discussion. What is the state of physical planning in the Netherlands in the year 2000? Can anything be done to combat the imprecision and compartmentalisation that characterise physical planning today?

Research presentations at the BiA
July 31, 2000
Just before ArchiNed takes a short summer break till mid-august, we would like to draw you attention to the research projects recently presented at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam. This Laboratory for Architecture facilitates a highly international group of young architects for a two-year research programme. On July 4th and 5th, in two-day event, the results of these two-year researches were presented by a group of 12 of its participants. What do they focus on? A short summary of the works can be found in this article.

Archiprix 2000
July 18, 2000
The winners of the first Archiprix of this century were announced recently. Each year the Dutch institutions of architectural education put forward their best student projects for Archiprix. A jury then selects the very best projects from the past academic year. Here are the results.

Vision Machine
July 11, 2000
Visit the first broadcasting of ArchiTV, on the making of the Vision Machine installation in Nantes (France) by Lars Spuybroek. The broadcast is available in three versions for Realvideo and QuickTime. ArchiNed presents a short film (by Marc Neelen, Tony Maslic and Piet Vollaard) on the making of the installation, an interview with Lars Spuybroek and photos of the project. The film lasts for about 17 minutes.