| Volume 4, No. 3 - March 18, 2010 |
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 Richmond Olympic Oval, by Cannon Design (more info) |
 Peter Kuttner Heads 2010 DA Jury |
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Peter Kuttner, FAIA to Head 2010 Northern Virginia Design Awards Jury from Boston by Scott Matties, AIA, Design Awards Chair |
| The Design Awards Committee is pleased to announce that we are nearing finalization of our Boston-based jury for the 2010 Awards program. We are thrilled to have the participation of one of the most distinguished practitioners in the country who has dedicated his career not only to exceptional design but also to exception service to the profession. Peter Kuttner, FAIA is President of Cambridge Seven Associates, a Boston-based firm whose work includes museums, education, transportation, and hospitality design around the world. C7A received the 1993 AIA Architecture Firm Award. Peter specializes in informal and formal learning in museums and college facilities, with a particular focus on interactive and participatory experiences in the sciences. In the past few years Peter has completed Boston's first LEED® Gold museum, the Boston Children's Museum, Wonders of Wildlife in Missouri, and the Scientific Center Science Museum in Kuwait. He is now working on the expansion of the Museum of Discovery & Science in Fort Lauderdale, the new Gyeonggi Children's Museum in Seoul, Korea, the new US Marshals Museum in Fort Smith Arkansas, the Manitoba Museum expansion in Winnipeg, the renovation of Discovery Place in Charlotte, and a master plan for the Museum of Science in Boston. Peter graduated from the University of Michigan with his BS in 1972 and an MArch in 1974. Peter has been active in the AIA since 1981, and is the current AIA Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. He was the past Regional Director for AIA New England, and serves on the Strategic Directions Group. In line with his passion for design, he has participated on numerous design juries, and these past several years served on AIA San Diego, AIA Portland, AIA Rhode Island, AIA North Carolina, AIA Connecticut, AIA Nebraska, and AIA Rhode Island award juries, and chaired the 2008 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture. As a commitment to emerging professionals, he serves on the NCARB IDP Committee; last year co-chaired the IDP Advisory Committee, and is AIA Board liaison to the Young Architect's Forum. Look for the full jury makeup to be published soon on the AIA Northern Virginia website! |
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Design Awards Go (digitally) Green! by Scott Matties, AIA, Design Awards Chair |
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The AIA Northern Virginia Design Awards Program for 2010 will introduce an electronic submission format to the Chapter. After several years of weighing the benefits and impacts, the Design Awards Committee and Chapter leadership are united in endorsing this change. There are compelling reasons to make this change, not the least of which is fulfilling the AIA's commitment to environmental sustainability. Electronic submissions, by virtue of their on-screen development, not only eliminate the consumption of resources in their final printing, but also the seemingly endless progress printings that occur to fine tune images, line weights and colors as we negotiate between screen and printer. Substantial transportation resources will be saved by eliminating binder delivery to the Chapter House, to the jury and back, and ultimate return to entrants. This new portability has the potential to open additional jury pools unrestricted by their geographic proximity to Northern Virginia. |
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In Practice... |
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Introducing Traveling Happy Hours at Mon Ami Gabi in Reston on March 25 The Chapter is planning quarterly Happy Hours across our area in order to connect with those who are located a little farther away from the Chapter House. Members of the Chapter Board, Committee Chairs and NOVA representatives to Virginia Society will attend to listen to you, to find out what's going on and see how you're doing, and to share things that are happening in the Chapter. This is a great opportunity to give feedback about the programs you want to see, to find out about upcoming programs and to engage and network. It is also a great opportunity for the Board to hear about the things that are important to you, to help us represent the Chapter more accurately and advocate for you on a state and national level. The first event is on Thursday, March 25, in Reston, at the French Bistro Mon Ami Gabi, located at 11950 Democracy Drive, Reston 20190. We will begin to gather at 5:30p. A cash bar will be available. Please join us. Changes Coming to the AIA Continuing Education System In the upcoming weeks, AIA National is transitioning from the University of Oklahoma to its own membership database for processing continuing education credits. Because of these changes, we suggest you print and maintain a hard copy of your Continuing Education Transcript for an accurate record of the courses you have taken to date. Your transcript is the official record of continuing education credits you have earned. While we anticipate this to be a smooth process, as with any transfer of data, this is a precaution to be sure all your credits are properly assigned. To access your transcript, visit www.aia.org/education, under Find Your Transcript, log in with your member number, click View Transcript and print. Norwegian Architect Per Olaf Fjeld Speaks at the Lyceum this Friday, March 19 Per Olaf Fjeld is a professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He studied architecture at Washington State University and University of Pennsylvania, where he studied under Louis I. Kahn. Returning to Norway, he worked in Sverre Fehn's office before opening his own studio in Oslo with his wife, Emily Randall Fjeld, in 1975. Fjeld has written a number of books and articles on architecture, most recently, Sverre Fehn: The Pattern of Thought, a biography and perceptive critique on the acclaimed postwar modernist. The lecture, organized by Virginia Tech's Washington Alexandria Architecture Center, is at 6:30p and is free and open to the public. The Lyceum is located at 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria. Public Presentation for the 4 Mile Run Pedestrian Cyclist Bridge Competition on March 27 This public presentation is the final phase in the 4 Mile Run Pedestrian Cyclist Bridge Professional Competition evaluation process. The top three finalist teams will be sharing their work and a conceptual design of the bridge to the public. The selection panel will announce the top ranked team at the end of the event. This free event begins at 1:00p at the George Washington Masonic Memorial, 101 Callahan Drive, Alexandria 22301. For additional information and registration, visit www.4milerun.org. 2010 Building Information Modeling (BIM) Awards Submissions Due March 29 The AIA Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) Knowledge Community seeks projects that have used integrated and interoperable BIM in the following areas: Creating Stellar Architecture; Design/Delivery Process Innovation; Outstanding Sustainable Design; and Academic Program or Curriculum Development. All entries are submitted online and are due on March 29. Submission details are available on the BIM Awards website. |
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Richmond Olympic Oval |
  Within minutes of the Vancouver International Airport and the Olympic Village, this waterfront facility was designed as a gathering place for Olympic spectators and the local community, as well as an Olympic legacy for the City of Richmond. The main feature of the venue is the 400m speed skating track consisting of two 4m competitive lanes, a 5m warm-up lane inside the inner competition lane, and seating for 8,000 spectators. This multi-use facility also includes a fitness centre, athlete testing area, cardiovascular rehabilitation centre, wellness centre, sports medicine centre, and concession area.While one purpose of the facility was to provide a venue for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, the facility was primarily designed as a valuable community asset in the post-Games period. After the Games, the facility will transform into a community wellness, training and developmental centre for high performance sports-use, as well as act as a public gathering facility, offering community meeting spaces for gatherings and conventions.  Emphasizing lightness, transparency, and translucency, the interiors of the Richmond Olympic Oval reveal the myriad functions within, and maintain continuity with the Oval's exterior, reflecting the qualities of openness and accessibility that lie at the heart of the building's conception. To offset the building's highly expressive and complex architecture - exemplified by its iconic "heron wing" roof - the interior spaces feature understated, consistent shapes and a simple color palette that employs a language of compliments and contrasts to delineate activity centres.The Richmond Olympic Oval is certified LEED® Silver. |
| Lead and interior photos by Hubert Kang Photography, exterior by City of Richmond. All images courtesy of Cannon Design. |
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March 19 + 20 - Design Forum IX: An Architecture of Necessity March 20 - ARE Prep Series - Construction Documents + Service: Legal March 24 - ARE Prep Series - Americans with Disabilities Act March 25 - Traveling Happy Hour - Reston March 31 - In Studio with Suzane Reatig March 31 - ARE Prep Series - Historic Preservation March 31 - Super Saver Rates for DesignDC 2010: Insight + Innovation April 3 - ARE Prep Series - Construction Documents + Services: Practice April 10 - ARE Prep Series - Building Design + Construction April 11-18 - Architecture Week April 11 - Walking Tour of Historic Old Town Alexandria April 12 - Northern Virginia Board Meeting April 13 - PechaKucha 20x20 Night April 16 - 7th Annual Canstruction® Build-Out Night April 16-18 - Rebuilding Together Volunteer Weekend April 16-18 - ARE Prep Series - Structural Systems Workshop with David J. Thaddeus, AIA April 21 - AIA Northern Virginia Lunch Series April 30 - AIA Northern Virginia Design Award Submittals Due |