“Living” Building Steps Lightly to Give Back to Nature

AIA New Hampshire Announces Annual Excellence in Architecture Awards
AIA New Hampshire announced five Awards for Excellence in Architecture at the chapter’s 24th annual awards banquet, held this year at the New Hampshire Institute of Art on January 18. All projects are located in the Granite State. Jurors for the 24th Excellence in Architecture, all of whom hail from Philadelphia, were James Kruhly, FAIA, James Oleg Kruhly + Associates; Rachel Schade AIA, Schade and Bolender Architects LLP; and Ed Barnhardt, AIA, Always by Design. Additionally, the public voted and awarded two People’s Choice Awards that were honored at the celebration.

Digital Video Portraits Capture Internal and External Spaces
Chicago-based artist Lincoln Schatz is wowing architects with his generative digital video portraits. His video work, called media art, gathers images of external or internal spaces using digital video cameras to create a changing collage of images, or portraits, shown on plasma screens. His video portraits have has been commissioned by architects in Chicago and include the new 600 North Fairbanks high-rise tower designed by Helmut Jahn, McCormick Place Convention Center, Spertus Museum, and the Blackstone Hotel on Michican Avenue. Schatz’s work called “Cluster” garnered raves at last year’s Sundance Film Festival art program and was seen as a new non-linear means of filmmaking. He recently showcased at the PULSE art show in Miami, will begin work for the Hearst Tower in New York City, and hopes to showcase at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. His current CUBE project, a 10-foot x 10-foot translucent architectural structure, uses 24 video cameras that record an individual in a cube for one hour, forming a changing, 24-hour digital rendering.