Michelle Collins performing May 31

Wdnsdy May.30.2007 11:15am | by lvhrd

Michelle Collins, blogger for Best Week Ever, who hosted LVHRDâ€™s ARCH DL III and MCFGHT I, is performing uptown at Carolineâ€™s Comedy Club on Thursday, May 31.

Bobby Tisdale will be the host for the evening of stand-up, short films, improv and sketch comedy, featuring the talent of Ms. Collins along with Reggie Watts and Baron Vaughn.
$10 cover includes 2 drinks.

Show starts at 10pm; Carolineâ€™s Comedy Club, Broadway btw 49th and 50th.

High Line development underway

Thrsdy May.24.2007 3:01pm | by lvhrd

Bluejake has some nice photos of development on and around the High Line. You get to see the back of that Frank Gehry building along the West Side Highway too. (via kottke.org)

Compare the development to what the High Line used to look like, overgrown with rambling roses and bramble patches.

Field Operations is leading charge to turn the High Line into a winding public park. They competed in, and won, LVHRDâ€™s ARCHDL III.

Field Operations a finalist in the National Design Awards

Frdy May.18.2007 10:05am | by lvhrd

LVHRD would like to congratulate landscape and urban design firm Field Operations for making it to the finals in the Landscape Design category at the National Design Awards.

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum recognized Field Operations for their ongoing work converting the High Line on Manhattanâ€™s West side into a winding garden thoroughfare in the sky, and for their plans to turn the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island into parkland.

In January of this year Field Operations competed in and won LVHRDâ€™s third architect competition, ARCH DL III, by creating a green roof network…

LVHRD on Studio 360

Tsdy Apr.3.2007 1:32pm | by lvhrd

This week on Studio 360 Kurt Anderson talks to novelist Howard Jacobson about his new book, Kaloooki Nights, speculates on Shakespeare’s race politics, and talks about LVHRD’s “Iron Chef-like contests for creative professionals.”

Tune in to Studio 360 on PRI, WNYC, or listen to the podcast to hear a discussion of LVHRD’s Master-Disaster Architect Duel III where two teams of architects were tasked with the challenge of building a model green roof network across a four building span of Stuyvesant Town, Manhattan.

The catch: teams were given 25 pounds of cheese, the only substance…

Media v. Construction: Architecture’s "Little Magazines"

Tsdy Feb.13.2007 10:30am | by Smokie LePlume

If you long for the days when architecture was as sensational as street art is today, run do not walk to Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines, showing through February 26^th at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Featuring fantastic cover design, including everyoneâ€™s favorite gorilla and a skyscraper constructed from Swiss cheese (sound familiar?), as well as content from heavy-hitters like Bernard Tschumi and Kenneth Frampton, the little magazines emerged internationally in the 1960s and 1970s as young architectureâ€™s response to a global atmosphere of political and social change. New…

LVHRD VDO: 024: ARCH DL 3.2

Tsdy Feb.6.2007 7:36pm | by lvhrd

On Tuesday, January 23rd, teams of female architects from Balmori Associates and Field Operations met at 41 Broad Street, in Manhattan’s financial district, for the 3rd Annual Master-Disaster Architect Duel. In a surprise announcement, each team was given the task of creating a green roof network across a model version of New York’s Stuyvesant Town neighborhood. The brief required that their structure provide a food source or viable cash crop for the citizens that tended the space, as well as include two bridges to traverse the roof tops. Consistent with the revolutionary…

LVHRD VDO: 023: ARCH DL 3.1

Thrsdy Feb.1.2007 10:11am | by lvhrd

On Tuesday, January 23rd, teams of female architects from Balmori Associates and Field Operations met at 41 Broad Street, in Manhattan’s financial district, for the 3rd Annual Master-Disaster Architect Duel. In a surprise announcement, each team was given the task of creating a green roof network across a model version of New York’s Stuyvesant Town neighborhood. The brief required that their structure provide a food source or viable cash crop for the citizens that tended the space, as well as include two bridges to traverse the roof tops. Consistent with the revolutionary…

LVHRD VDO 022: ARCHDL 3.0 TMLPS

Frdy Jan.26.2007 10:08am | by lvhrd

On Tuesday, January 23rd, teams of female architects from Balmori Associates and Field Operations met at 41 Broad Street, in Manhattan’s financial district, for the 3rd annual Master-Disaster Architect Duel. In a surprise announcement, each team was given the task of creating a green roof network across a model version of New York’s Stuyvesant Town neighborhood. The brief required that their structure provide a food source or viable cash crop for the citizens that tended the space, as well as include two bridges to traverse the roof tops. Consistent with the…

ARCH DL III: Spread around the web

Thrsdy Jan.25.2007 5:01pm | by lvhrd

Architects Kilian O’Brien and Sarah Wayland-Smith from Balmori Associates faced off against Sierra Bainbridge and Maura Rockcastle from Field Operations in our third Architects Duel - constructing a green roof-network atop Stuyvesant Town using 20 lbs of cheese.

EVENT PRESS

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Master-Disaster Architect Duel III Recap

Wdnsdy Jan.24.2007 7:28pm | by lvhrd

On Tuesday, January 23rd, LVHRD welcomed almost 500 members and guests, bringing either cheese or crackers as required for entry, to The Broad Street Ballroom in NYC’s financial district, for the third iteration of LVHRD’s Master-Disaster Architect Duel. Teams of female architects from Balmori Associates (Killian O’ Brien and Sarah Wayland-Smith) and Field Operations (Sierra Bainbridge and Maura Rockcastle) took the stage to compete in a three-round, timed model building competition, with Dewar’s White Label and Sapporo Beer on the sidelines.

At this year’s duel, architects were tasked with the challenge of building a green…

LVHRD’S ARCHDL III

Wdnsdy Jan.24.2007 3:30pm | by lvhrd

On Tuesday, January 23rd 2007, LVHRD welcomed almost 500 members and guests, bringing either cheese or crackers as required for entry, to The Broad Street Ballroom in NYC’s financial district, for the third iteration of LVHRD’s Master-Disaster Architect Duel.

THROW DOWN

Teams of female architects from Balmori Associates (Killian O’ Brien and Sarah Wayland-Smith) and Field Operations (Sierra Bainbridge and Maura Rockcastle) were tasked with building a green roof network across a four building span in a model section of Stuyvesant Town, Manhattan out of 25 pounds of cheese.

VICTORY

After completing their models, Team…

Grzywinski Pons Architects: Plans For This Year

Tsdy Jan.23.2007 12:22pm | by lvhrd

Winners of the last Master-Disaster Architect Duel, Grzywinski Pons Architects, have a lot to look forward to this year. After speaking with Principal Matthew Grzywinski, we’ve learned that the small firm is currently working on six new buildings in New York City; a mix of residential and hospitality commissions, the majority of their local projects will be breaking ground over the next few months. We say LOCAL because the golden sons of last years duel are set to lay foundations in Las vegas and Washington D.C. as well.
You heard…