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2000 JULY 06

Designed by SHoP, P.S.1's conceptual seashore, Dunescape, is an artgoer's respite from the summer heat.

By: William L. Hamilton

The New York Times

Projects Discussed: Dunescape at P.S.1 MoMA


2000 JULY 10

How the SHoP designed Dunescape is where computer-enhanced design, the cabana, the beach chair, the umbrella, the boogie board and the surf meet.

By: Paul Goldberger

The New Yorker

Projects Discussed: Dunescape at P.S.1 MoMA


2000 AUGUST

"Never swim alone: MoMA and P.S.1 throws an urban beach party with designer dunes"

By: Clifford Pearson

Architectural Record

Projects Discussed: Dunescape at P.S.1 MoMA


2001 MAY

"Nevermind the blobs. Sharples Holden Pasquarelli says architecture's digital revolution is about creating a fluent practice, not fluid forms."

By: Christopher Hawthorne

Metropolis

Projects Discussed: Columbia SOA, Light Bridges, Dunescape at P.S.1 MoMA, MoSEX, Mitchell Park, Issey Miyake


2002

SHoP is included in this publication which presents twenty diverse practices to investigate the kind of originality that is unique to American culture and climate. From transforming contemporary buildings, cities and landscapes, each project represents a style that is distinctly American but traverses to the global audience.

By: Brian Carter and Annette LeCuyer

Thames and Hudson, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 978-0500341827

Hardcover, 256pp

Projects Discussed: Dunescape of P.S.1 MoMA, MoSex, SOA, Light Bridges

http://www.amazon.com/All-American-Innovation-Architecture/dp/0500341826/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196954587&sr=1-1


2003

SHoP's cutting-edge designs for an outdoor urban beach (Dunescape at P.S.1) and pedestrian walkway (Rector Street Bridge) are just a few of the projects highlighted in this indepth documentation of the top fifty New York buildings and interiors that have captured the world's imagination in the last decade.

By: Edited by Ian Luna

Rizzoli, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 978-0847825745

Paperback, 352pp

Projects Discussed: Costume National, MoSex, Dunescape at P.S.1 MoMA, Rector Street Bridge

http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Architecture-City/dp/0847825744/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196955706&sr=1-1


2003

In the age of digital technology, a new generation of architects emerged to help make way for truly ground-breaking design. Using digital technology to form "organic" architecture or "blobitecture", designs are not only just unique but conceivable in construction. This volume addresses how SHoP is amongst a new generation of architects paving the way to a new form and technique.

By: Joseph Rosa

Rizzoli, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 978-0847826186

Hardcover, 240pp

Projects Discussed: Dunescape, Camera Obscura

http://www.amazon.com/Next-Generation-Architecture-Folds-Blobs/dp/084782618X


2003 JANUARY

In this issue, guest edited by SHoP Architects, versioning is used to describe the significant shift in the way technology is being applied to expand, in time as well as in territory, the potential effects of design.

By: AD (Architectural Design), Guest edited by SHoP Architects

Academy Press

ISBN-13: 978-0470845691

Paperback, 128pp

Projects Discussed: The Porter House, Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse

http://www.amazon.com/Versioning-Evolutionary-Techniques-Architecture-Architectural/dp/0470845694/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product


2003 JUNE

"A vintage carousel brings brand-new joy to Greenport, New York, thanks to a SHoP-designed pavilion"

By: Aric Chen

Interior Design

Projects Discussed: Mitchell Park


2003 DECEMBER

This new edition, which focuses on materials and methods used in building construction, recognizes SHoP's Camera Obscura as an example of where the innovation of design tools and an openness to challenge conventional building practices can carve a new path to the approach of design and practice in the architectural field in a chapter titled, "From Concept to Reality: Camera Obscura at Mitchell Park, Greenport, New York".

By: Edward Allen and Joseph Iano

John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

ISBN-10: 0471219037

Hardcover, 912pp

Projects Discussed: Camera Obscura

http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Building-Construction-Materials-Methods/dp/0471219037


2003 DECEMBER

SHoP discusses how computer-aided technology not only enables rapid production but, if used effectively, can also better inform a practice in design and process.

By: Julia Mandell

Architecture

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects


2004

Containing brilliant portraits by Richard Schulman and an insightful introduction by Paul Goldberger, the founding partners of SHoP Architects are included in this discerning publication celebrating 50 architects who have redefined architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries.

By: Photographs by Richard Schulman, Introduction by Paul Goldberger

Editions Assouline, New York, 2004

ISBN-13: 978-2843235733

Hardcover, 228pp

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects

http://www.amazon.com/Portraits-New-Architecture-Paul-Goldberger/dp/2843235731


2004 JANUARY

In designing The Porter House, Sara Moss discusses how SHoP redefines their role as the architect and becomes the project’s own client.

By: Sara Moss

Architectural Design

Projects Discussed: The Porter House


2004 MARCH

Offering a "solution for the job", The Porter House "incorporates innovative contemporary materials into a project with a limited budget by using and reconceptualizing technology - both material and digital"

By: Amanda Reeser

Praxis

Projects Discussed: The Porter House


2004 SPRING

By: Nina Rappaport

Constructs, Yale Architecture

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects


2004 JUNE

"A residential tower by SHoP Architects remakes the past using the digital processes of the future"

By: Julia Mandell

Architecture

Projects Discussed: The Porter House


2004 JULY

"Facing rigid building codes, limited space, and bureaucratic oversight, SHoP uses its love for the building process to create a shimmering new airport lounge"

By: Tom Vanderbilt

Metropolis

Projects Discussed: Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse


2004 JULY/AUGUST

"Flying first class from New York to London with Virgin just got a whole lot more glamorous..."

By: Jeroen Bergmans

Wallpaper

Projects Discussed: Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse


2004 NOVEMBER

"Designed on a desktop, custom-cut with a laser, assembled on demand. It's computer-driven construction raised to high art"

By: Jessie Scanlon

WIRED

Projects Discussed: Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse


2005 JANUARY

Japanese magazine speaks to SHoP about fabrication techniques.

By: Hiroko Sueyoshi

Spa-de

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects


2005 JANUARY 19

With one foot in the 19th century and the other in the 21st, the most innovative young firms are tempering their love affair with the computer with a healthy respect for arc welders and chop saws.

By: William Menking

The Architect's Newspaper

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects


2005 FEBRUARY

"U.S.-Korean team of architects from SHoP and Himma connect culture and nature at the Hangil Book House north of Seoul"

By: Clifford Pearson

Architectural Record

Projects Discussed: Hangil Book Hous


2005 FEBRUARY

"The conversion of a vintage New York City warehouse into condominiums including adding four floors and creating a dramatic cantilevered addition - all frame with structural steel"

By: Oliver Osterwind

Modern Steel Construction

Projects Discussed: The Porter House


2005 MAY

The completion of the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse is mapped out in a step-by-step process beginning with its design in 3D modeling software and ending with the on-site assembly.

By: Keisuke Toyoda

A+U: Fashioning Spaces

Projects Discussed: Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse


2005 FALL/WINTER

"If you want to understand the state of a nation, look at its architecture, and more particularly, how it is handling possibly the most sensitive of architectural bellwethers, the architecture of additions."

By: Paul Spencer Byard

Harvard Design Magazine

Projects Discussed: The Porter House


2005 NOVEMBER 16

"SHoP Architects design one day, build the next, in Mississippi"

By: Jerry Portwood

The Architect's Newspaper

Projects Discussed: 39571 Project


2006

By: Edited by Andre Chaszar

Academy Press

ISBN-13: 978-0910503983

Paperback, 224pp

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects

http://www.amazon.com/Blurring-Lines-Computer-Aided-Manufacturing-Contemporary/dp/047086849X


2006

SHoP's design and fabrication process of the Camera Obscura in Greenport, NY is highlighted in this publication specially designed for the 2006 National Design Triennial - an exhibition which celebrates creatives and forward thinkers across all fields of the design practice.

By: Cooper-Hewitt Museum Smithsonian Institution

Cooper-Hewitt Museum Smithsonian Institution

ISBN-13: 978-0470868492

Paperback, 224pp

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Life-Now-National-Triennial/dp/0910503982


2006

This publication covers state-of-the-art New York design from architecture, interior design and fashion. SHoP's Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse is showcased as an example of original design and a source of inspiration for the technological age.

By: Anja Llorella Oriol

Te Neues Publishing

ISBN-13: 978-3832791070

Hardcover, 527pp

Projects Discussed: Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-York-Design-Llorella-Oriol/dp/3832791078/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196956031&sr=1-1


2006 JUNE

"In a remarkably short time, the five young principals of New York-based SHoP Architects have moved from designs on paper to built projects"

By: Tim McKeough

Azure

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects


2006 JULY

"Project Diary: It took three phases and 12 years, but SHoP shepherded Mitchell Park into the revitalization of a once-despondent town"

By: James Russell

Architectural Record

Projects Discussed: Mitchell Park


2006 SEPTEMBER

"A design-build studio from Parsons offers post-Katrina relief in Mississippi"

By: Dominique Gonfard

Architecture

Projects Discussed: 39571 Project


2007

The process of SHoP's Camera Obscura is detailed in this extensive publication concentrating on how complicated yet beautiful design is achieved through the use of innovative technology.

By: Christine Killory and Rene Davids

Princeton Architectural Press

ISBN-13: 978-1568985763

Hardcover, 207pp

Projects Discussed: Camera Obscura

http://www.amazon.com/Details-Contemporary-Architecture-AsBuilt-Christine/dp/1568985762/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197935500&sr=1-1


2007

Focusing on projects whose spatial considerations meet the needs of an ever-changing modern lifestyle, the book includes SHoP's temporary space, Dunescape at P.S.1, amongst the many projects that explore how contemporary influence can redefine the boundaries of today's architecture.

By: Edited by Robert Klanten and Lukas Feireiss

Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, Germany

ISBN: 978-389955-192-1

Hardcover, 255pp

Projects Discussed: Dunescape at P.S.1 MoMA

http://www.amazon.com/Spacecraft-Fleeting-Architecture-Robert-Klanten/dp/3899551923/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197934030&sr=1-1


2007

”Examining the parking garage from an architect’s perspective, Shannon McDonald chronicles the evolution and future of parking garage innovations from early elevator and ramp designs, through the modern, sustainable structures of today.”

By: Shannon S. McDonald

ULI - The Urban Land Institute

ISBN: 978-0-87420-998-3

Hardcover, 312pp

Projects Discussed: V-Mall

http://www.amazon.com/Parking-Garage-Design-Evolution-Modern/dp/0874209986/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203967625&sr=1-1


2007

SHoP's Camera Obscura is included in this book which celebrates forty small structures and examines how each project's creativity, function, beauty and style manifests beyond its modest size while maintaining a ecological responsibility to its environment.

By: Phyllis Richardson

Universe Books

ISBN-13: 978-0789315250

Hardcover, 224pp

Projects Discussed: Camera Obscura

http://www.amazon.com/XS-Small-Structures-Green-Architecture/dp/0789315254


2007

SHoP Architects is included in this publication profiling 26 young architects or architectural practices. Presented in German and English texts, this publication focuses on how these individuals or practices are emerging from the likes of Wright, Meier and Eisenman and forging a new identity of American architecture.

By: Beate Engelhorn

DOM-publishers, Berlin, Germany

ISBN: 978-3938666-17-3

Hardcover, 415pp

Projects Discussed: Camera Obscura, Porter House, Me and Ro

http://www.ribabookshops.com/site/viewtitle.asp?pid=8148


2007 FEBRUARY 19

"Why turn Stewart (where?) into New York's fourth airport? SHoP Architects presents a radical alternative, in which check-in could be as close as 14th Street"

By: Staff Writer

New York Magazine

Projects Discussed: Idea for airport access from Union Square in New York


2007 APRIL

"A critical mass of building information modeling projects demonstrates the technology's benefits and its potential for redefining practice"

By: Joann Gonchar, AIA

Architectural Record

Projects Discussed: 290 Mulberry


2007 JUNE

Rebuilding a community devastated by Hurricane Katrina, a group of architects, residents, and students build the 39571 Project - a community center in Pass Christian, Mississippi.

By: Andrew Wagner

Dwell

Projects Discussed: 39571 Project


2007 SEPTEMBER

"Not far from the Korean DMZ, twin developments showcase a veritable library of architectural bravado, using a vast pool of international talent"

By: Eric Mumford

Surface Magazine

Projects Discussed: Hangil Book House


2007 SEPTEMBER

"Our columnist's favorite architects? His list of one begins here"

By: Philip Nobel

Metropolis

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects


2008

SHoP Architects is the focus of the 10th edition in this Italian series edited by Antonino Saggio. Written by Stefano Converso, “SHoP Works” discusses the digital design process of key SHoP projects which include the Camera Obscura in Mitchell Park, Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse, 290 Mulberry and The Porter House.

By: Stefano Converso, ed. Antonino Saggio

Edilstampa

ISBN: 978-88-7864-045-0

Paperback (in Italian), 96pp

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects

http://www.edilstampa.ance.it/franav.htm


2008

By: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi

ISBN: 978-0-470-51890-8

Paperback, 240pp

Projects Discussed: Dunescape at P.S.1 MoMA

http://www.amazon.com/New-Directions-Contemporary-Architecture-Revolutions/dp/0470518898/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210166918&sr=1-1


2008 APRIL

"With breakout projects for MOMA and Google on its resume, the hip, young architecture firm SHoP is discovering a fresh way forward"

By: Richard Lacayo

Time Style and Design

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects


2008 JUNE 18

"Conceding the failure of the South Street Seaport pier as a ‘festival marketplace’ — these days, it is not much more than a waterfront mall..."

By: David W. Dunlap

The New York Times

Projects Discussed: The Seaport


2008 JULY/AUGUST

"SHoP's modus operandum combines elements of traditional artisan production with high-tech digital design..."

By: John Walsh

ArchitectureNZ

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects


2008 OCTOBER

"This renovation of and addition to a genteel Madison Avenue plays on the notion of liberating the interior volumes from the structural grid of the building frame."

By: Jeon Min Ji

bob

Projects Discussed: M127


2008 OCTOBER 17

"Every person who works here has an equal say..."

By: Jason Sheftell

Daily News

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects, 290 Mulberry, Dunescape at P.S.1 MoMA, M127, The Porter House, The Seaport


2008 NOVEMBER

"How do you think about the concept of the condo in New York?"

By: Staff Writer

Architecture Note EXTRA: United Project Files 01

Projects Discussed: 290 Mulberry, The Seaport


2009 FEBRUARY 11

"New Jersey's first green residential building opens in Hoboken."

By: Jason Sheftell

Daily News

Projects Discussed: Garden Street Lofts


2009 JANUARY

"The impact of software technologies on how we manage building information will continue to have an important impact on how we as architects create and manage the art of building."

By: Staff Writer

A+U

Projects Discussed: SHoP Architects


2009 MARCH 11

The project incorporates new construction into an old coconut processing plant, and is expected to receive LEED silver certification. Garden Street Lofts gets lots of merit badges: adaptive reuse, urban infill, green features, good design in Jersey, etc.

By: Alan Brake

Architect's Newspaper

Projects Discussed: Garden Street Lofts


2009 APRIL 21

By: Patrick McGeehan

The New York Times

Projects Discussed: East River Waterfront

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/vision-for-new-esplanade-near-seaport/


2009 JUNE 14

By: Angela Montefinise

New York Post

Projects Discussed: Fashion Institute of Technology


2009 SEPTEMBER 09

The developer Bruce C. Ratner unveiled a new design for the Barclays Center, his planned basketball arena for the Nets near Downtown Brooklyn.

By: Charles V. Bagli

The New York Times

Projects Discussed: Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/new-design-unveiled-for-atlantic-yards-arena/


2009 NOVEMBER

"'Provisional' profiles nine of the United States most exciting architectural practices. They all share a pragmatic, 'roll-up-your-sleeves' approach that seeks opportunities to redefine the role of craft in architectural practice. Enlightening interviews together with a selection of drawings, diagrams, models, renderings, and building process photographs reveal a shared commitment to experimentation and learning-by-doing."

By: Elite Kedan , F. Jonathan Dreyfous, Craig Mutter

Princeton Architectural Press

ISBN: 978-1-56898-878-8

SHoP Architects

http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781568988788


2010 FEBRUARY

"Winners of the 2009 Cooper-Hewitt award for design, SHoP collaborates with material manufacturers and trade contractors during the design phase to reduce client spending and ensure that buildings get built."

By: Linda Tischler

FastCompany

http://www.fastcompany.com/mic/2010/industry/most-innovative-architecture-companies


2010 SEPTEMBER

From the book jacket: "Ornament is currently acquiring a new status in architecture. Parametric design and digital production of building components are radically altering its role. The free forms of ornament are no longer antithetical to the constructive geometry of a building; rather, both are designed and produced according to the same logic and using the same tools. The old opposition between structure and ornament has been eliminated. This opens up a wealth of new possibilities of interaction between function and decoration, volume and surface, load-bearing structure and building skin."

By: Ben Pell

Birkhauser

ISBN: 978-3-0346-0220-4

Hardcover, 200 pp

290 Mulberry Street

http://www.amazon.com/Articulate-Surface-Ben-Pell/dp/3034602219


2010 OCTOBER

"Total Housing is a demonstration of the virtues of high and medium density multi-family homes, and an antidote to urban sprawl....Total Housing selects 61 projects from 22 countries that exemplify outstanding innovations in construction systems, spatial organization, models of unit aggregation, and integration of the residential program into the complex of functions that make up our cities."

By: Albert Ferre and Tihamer Salij, Editors

ACTAR

978-84-96540-88-0

Soft cover, 396 pp

The Porter House

http://www.amazon.com/Total-Housing-Alternatives-Urban-Sprawl/dp/849654088X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304343848&sr=8-1


2011 JANUARY

"The Power of Pro Bono: 40 Stories about Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients" is a first-of-its-kind book. Edited by John Cary and Public Architecture, all 40 projects are told from the perspective of the architect and client with equal weight given to both narratives. Projects span the country from rural Alaska to New Orleans with a variety of project types, budgets and scales.

By: John Cary and Public Architecture

Public Architecture

978-1935202189

Hardcover, 288 pp

39571 Project

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Pro-Bono-John-Cary/dp/1935202189


2011 JANUARY 7

The New York Observer provides an update on SHoP's project at the South Street Seaport.

By: Matt Chaban

The New York Observer

South Street Seaport

http://www.observer.com/2011/howard-hughes-corp-floating-still-mysterious-plans-seaport


2011 FEBRUARY 10

The New York Observer breaks the news of SHoP's appointment to design the first tower at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn.

By: Matt Chaban

New York Observer

Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards

http://www.observer.com/2011/real-estate/shop-scores-first-apartment-building-atlantic-yards


2011 FEBRUARY 17

"SHoP Architects -- one of Fast Company’s 2010 Most Innovative Companies -- has won a competition to design a colossal $50 million science and tech park in Botswana. A project initiated by the Botswanan government, the park is expected to catapult this nation built on diamonds and beef into the 21st century."

By: Suzanne LaBarre

Co.Design, Fast Company

Botswana Innovation Hub

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663248/could-botswana-become-a-high-tech-hub-shop-architects-builds-a-50m-gamble


2011 FEBRUARY 11

Curbed discusses SHoP's plans for the Hudson Square neighborhood in Manhattan.

By: Joey Arak

Curbed

Hudson Square

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2011/02/11/hudson_square_transformation_includes_new_shopdesigned_tower.php


2011 JUNE 23

Rob Parker of ESPN writes of the Barclays Center: "As a sports writer for 25 years and someone who has covered major events in just about every arena and stadium in this country, most venues don't wow me. This one, unfinished and all, did." Photo courtesy of The Nets

By: Rob Parker

ESPN

Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nba/columns/story?columnist=parker_rob&id=6695259


2011 JUNE 23

SportsPro Magazine, the London-based international sports business publication, has named the Barclays Center as one of "the 10 most important new venues in the world over the next decade," saying it "might be the most ambitious and aesthetically pleasing indoor arena ever constructed in the United States."

SportsPro Magazine

Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards

http://www.barclayscenter.com/pdf/Top_10_Sports_Venues_in_the_World.pdf


2011 JULY 5

"Omi International Art Center’s Architecture Omi program will be using cutting-edge mobile technology in an unconventional exhibit, 'Augmented Reality: Peeling Layers of Space Out of Thin Air,' to open July 9 at its namesake location just north of Hudson, NY. The show will host fantastically layered structures and environments by nine commissioned studios—among them, Vito Acconci, Asymptote, SHoP, Daniel Libeskind, and SITE—without touching a twig of an idyllic, twenty-some acre landscape of wetland, forest, and rolling farmland."

By: Aileen Kwun

The Architects Newspaper

http://www.archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5498


2011 JULY 14

"With all eyes fixed on everything coming up roses on the West Side’s High Line, City Planning has been concentrating on the East. The long-term goal of connecting the lushly-landscaped promenades and bike paths of the West Side to the heavily trafficked spaghetti of the East Side moved a step closer with the opening on July 14 of the section from Pier 11 at Wall Street to Pier 15 at South Street Seaport."

By: Tom Stoelker

The Architects Newspaper

East River Waterfront

http://www.archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5536


2011 JULY 14

The Downtown Alliance has posted two videos on their YouTube channel showing SHoP's new East River Waterfront Esplanade: "A Walk Along the East River Waterfront" http://youtu.be/xPPQdEFJBss "East River Waterfront Dog Run" http://youtu.be/EOwFO5kd7a0

By: The Downtown Alliance

East River Waterfront

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDowntownAlliance


2011 JULY 14

New York Magazine's Architecture Critic, Justin Davidson, gives a video walking tour and critique of the new East River Waterfront Esplanade.

By: Justin Davidson

New York Magazine

East River Waterfront

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/07/justin_davidson_on_the_east_ri.html


2011 JULY 14

"On Thursday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is to officially open the first 600-foot section of the new $165.9 million East River Waterfront Esplanade. It runs two blocks, from Wall Street to Maiden Lane. Neighbors didn’t wait for speeches and ribbons, however. They have been flocking to it ever since the construction fences came down in July."

By: David W. Dunlap

The New York Times

East River Waterfront

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/off-wall-st-a-new-hang-out-area-by-the-river/


2011 JULY 14

“'The new East River Waterfront Esplanade is the newest jewel on New York City’s magnificent harbor,' Bloomberg said in a prepared statement. 'One of the goals of the waterfront plan we unveiled earlier this year is to reconnect New Yorkers to New York City’s more than 500 miles of waterfront and make it part of their everyday lives, and the new esplanade will help do that for Lower Manhattan’s tens of thousands of residents, 300,000-plus workers and millions of visitors.'”

By: Jennifer Strom

The Lo-Down

East River Waterfront

http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2011/07/new-section-of-east-river-esplanade-opens.html


2011 JULY 14

"Mayor Michael Bloomberg today led the city in opening the first section of the new East River Waterfront Esplanade, that stretches from Wall Street to Maiden Lane. The opening is part of a $165 million project to transform two miles of city-owned land along the East River, from the southern edge of Manhattan to the East River Park that lies north of the Manhattan Bridge, into open public space."

By: Adam Fusfeld

The Real Deal

East River Waterfront

http://therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/bloomberg-opens-new-east-river-esplenade-stretching-from-wall-street-to-maiden-lane-today


2011 JULY 14

"Whether eating lunch by the water, relaxing with a book, or taking a catnap on a wooden chaise lounge, residents and Financial District workers were making the most of the newly-completed two-block section of the East River Waterfront Esplanade on Thursday afternoon."

By: Jessica Terrell

Tribeca Trib

East River Waterfront

http://www.tribecatrib.com/news/2011/july/1068_space-for-lounging-and-lunching-at-newly-opened-east-river-esplanade.html


2011 JULY 15

"Burden selected a plan from SHoP Architects, the New York-based studio known as the architects of the Barclays arena in Brooklyn. Back then, SHoP, winners of the 2009 National Design Award from the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt, had moved their offices to lower Manhattan to be a part of the resurgence....'The design totally embraced the infrastructure,' says Burden. 'It was unapologetically urban, yet tough and gritty and beautiful and inspiring.'”

By: Jason Sheftell

New York Daily News

East River Waterfront

http://bestplaces.nydailynews.com/stories/east-river-waterfront-esplanade-opens-style


2011 JULY 15

"...the esplanade that was officially opened yesterday is of outsized importance. When completed, it will be the last link in the pedestrian waterfront loop between the East River and the Hudson, one more critical piece of real estate in the ancient dream of a fully accessible New York waterfront." Guest op-ed for New York Daily News by Julia Vittulo-Martin, Senior Fellow at the Regional Plan Association and Director of its Center for Urban Innovation.

By: Julia Vittulo-Martin

New York Daily News

East River Waterfront

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/07/15/2011-07-15_learning_to_love_the_fdr_drive_east_river_waterfront_esplanade_reclaims_a_stretc.html


2011 JULY 17

Crain's New York provides an update on progress at The Barclays Center.

By: Matthew Flamm photo by Buck Ennis

Crain's New York

Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110717/REAL_ESTATE/307179978


2011 JULY 17

"Designed so that half is below ground level and half above, the building will fit seamlessly into the bustle of the surrounding area, home to the nearby Atlantic Terminal Mall and Atlantic Center. It will neither clog the downtown Brooklyn commercial center to the north nor threaten the quality of life in residential communities to the south." Photo: Willens/AP/AP

By: Editorial

New York Daily News

Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/07/17/2011-07-17_brooklyn_rising.html#ixzz1SrGP8eRI


2011 JULY 20

"The Barclays Center has unveiled what the inside of the arena will look like when it is scheduled to open in September 2012."

By: NY1 News

NY1

Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/143253/developers-reveal-interior-plans-for-barclays-center-arena


2011 JULY 20

"It’s not 'The World's Most Famous Arena,' but it’ll certainly be New York’s most modern."

By: Rich Calder

New York Post

Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/inside_klyn_net_gain_hS22v4EiCGBSwYGFUObUDP


2011 JULY 20

"The first section of the two-mile-long East River Waterfront Esplanade, designed by SHoP Architects with Ken Smith Landscape Architects and lighting designer Tillotson Design Associates, has opened. Future sections are currently under construction. Located south of South Street Seaport on what was once a neglected, inaccessible stretch of waterfront, the esplanade now has plantings, trees, and seating elements evocative of the area’s maritime past."

By: Linda G. Miller

eOculus

East River Waterfront

http://www.aiany.org/eOCULUS/newsletter/?p=10001


2011 OCTOBER 24

SHoP was selected as one of eleven shortlisted teams for Chicago's Navy Pier redevelopment project.

Chicago Tribune

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-24/entertainment/ct-ent-1025-arts-briefs-20111024_1_navy-pier-dov-davidoff-south-dock


2011 NOVEMBER 17

"The developer Bruce C. Ratner unveiled the design Thursday morning for the world’s tallest prefabricated steel structure, a 32-story residential building at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Dean Street in the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project."

By: Charles V. Bagli

The New York Times

B2 at Atlantic Yards

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/design-unveiled-for-tower-at-atlantic-yards/


2011 NOVEMBER 17

"In choosing the route of modular or pre-cast construction, a debate that occupied over a year's worth of planning between developer, architect, engineer, and modular expert, the team actually designed two separate buildings, finding that the modular option costs 15-20% less than its traditional equivalent, weighs half as much, produces 70-90% less waste, and has 'a reduced energy consumption of up to 67%.'"

By: Kelsey Keith

Curbed

B2 at Atlantic Yards

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2011/11/17/atlantic_yards_modular_rental_tower_will_be_worlds_tallest.php


2011 NOVEMBER 18

"The essential firm of the post-binge era is shaping up to be SHoP, headed not by a celebrity but by a half-dozen fortysomething New Yorkers who share a messianic high-tech pragmatism."

By: Justin Davidson

New York Magazine

Firm Profile

http://nymag.com/arts/architecture/features/shop-architects-2011-11/


2011 DECEMBER 1

"When SHoP Architects unveiled their design for Brooklyn's new, 675,000-square-foot Barclays Center in September 2010, a few things were evident: the arena not only looked like a museum, it also incorporated a sidewalk-level public concourse that ensured a connection to the surrounding urban environment. Simply put, the design blended business and art, one of SHoP's strategies since the company...was founded in 1996."

By: Alison Prato

MANHATTAN Magazine

http://digital.modernluxury.com/publication/?i=90989&p=102


2011 DECEMBER 1

The book discusses how the changing climate of construction is driving designers and manufacturers to find innovative solutions, and how a culture of ‘Mass Innovation’ is created through many incremental changes: the development and introduction of digital control systems in buildings, information and communication systems within construction processes, and new social meanings and requirements.

By: Ingrid Paoletti, Paola Tardini

Maggioli Editore

978-88387-6017-9

Softcover, 149 pp

The Porter House

http://ordini.maggioli.it/clienti/product_info.php?products_id=7742


2011 DECEMBER 7

A video of the Conversations in Context session at the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, hosted by Gregg Pasquarelli and Philip Nobel on September 22, 2011. interview: Hunter Palmer video: Hudson Lines produced by The Philip Johnson Glass House

The Glass House

http://vimeo.com/33272456


2011 DECEMBER 11

"Even in the historically drab world of affordable housing, the prospects are lively: Hunters Point South, a 30-acre waterfront site with wide-screen Manhattan views, is being rethought by the hot firm SHoP."

By: Justin Davidson

New York Magazine

Willets Point, Atlantic Yards, Hunters Point South

http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2011/building-boom/


2011 DECEMBER 14

"Architects know that Building Information Modeling is changing the way that buildings are designed, constructed, and managed post-occupancy—but are they really taking advantage of how much it can do? Aaron Seward considers three projects at the forefront of what’s possible."

By: Aaron Seward

The Architects Newspaper

Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards

http://www.archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5800


2011 DECEMBER 19

The Architects Newspaper visits Pier 15 on its opening day, with a slideshow.

By: Tom Stoelker

The Architects Newspaper

East River Waterfront - Pier 15

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/29277


2011 DECEMBER 19

Curbed visits our Pier 15 project.

By: Curbed Staff

Curbed

East River Waterfront - Pier 15

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2011/12/20/pier_15_officially_open_to_everybody_but_skateboarders.php


2011 DECEMBER 30

"Quality waterfront access has finally come to the East Side of Manhattan. Following 9/11, when the Lower Manhattan community was given millions of dollars in federal grants to rebuild, one of the top priorities was the new two-mile East River Esplanade, running from the Battery to Williamsburg Bridge. The right bank of the river has long been neglected, cut off by Robert Moses’ FDR Drive. SHoP has sought to reconnect the water and the city by activating the underside of the overpass itself while repurposing the piers and moorings of old for the active enjoyment of bikers, strollers, shoppers and sitters."

By: Matt Chaban

New York Observer

East River Waterfront and Pier 15

http://www.observer.com/2011/12/the-designer-dozen-the-best-new-york-architecture-of-2011/#slide6


2012 JANUARY 27

"A real estate developer in NYC hopes to use modular construction on an unprecedented scale. It may revolutionize high-rise construction. CNN's Steve Kastenbaum says the industry is watching closely."

By: Steve Kastenbaum

CNN

B2 Bklyn at Atlantic Yards

http://podcasts.cnn.net/cnn/services/podcasting/audio/cnnradioreports/cnnradioreportsa01-26-2012.mp3