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JULY

RIBA Sterling Prize Shortlist We have been involved in two of the six buildings nominated for this year's Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize. The shortlist, described as "unique" in the award's history, sees two UK schools up against museums in Oxford, Rome and Berlin. Atelier ten provided a full design service for both, Christ's College School in Guildford, Surrey and on the extension to Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. RIBA Press Release >>

Can good architecture transform a troubled school? Christ's College, a school rebuilt after a troubled past, has been nominated for this year's Stirling Prize. The old 70s buildings suffered arson attacks and there were problems with graffiti and discipline, but seven years on the school in Guildford has been transformed and now has a waiting list. But can a building really influence people's behaviour? David Sillito met the architect, Deborah Saunt, to find out. BBC Video >>

JUNE

UK Pavilion at World Expo 2010 in Shanghai wins RIBA Lubetkin Prize RIBA Press Release and BBC News

Ground-breaking set for Stanford University's state-of-the-art concert hall, one of Atelier Ten's largest performing arts projects on the US west coast. Read more >

UK Pavilion stands out at the Shanghai expo, according to architect's newspaper. Read More >

£50m facelift designed for National Theatre submitted for planning The Independent newspaper and bdonline (needs registration)

Ashmolean Museum makes the Twenty-two strong shortlist for the 2010 Prime Minister’s Award Better Public building website >

Ashmolean Museum wins a 2010 RIBA Award Press release >

Kroon Hall Wins International Prize, Building of Year Award Read more >

Claire Johnson, Associate Director, is on the jury for this year’s Autodesk’s AIA Student Design Competition, which challenges students to design small single-room schools that could be constructed across Haiti, with limited materials and minimal construction experience. Winners to be announced at the AIA Convention in Miami, on June 12. Read more >

Christ College, Guilford wins a 2010 RIBA Award Royal Institute of British Architects - Press release >

A look at Atelier Ten’s LEED Gold Targeted Miami Science Museum Expansion >

The £12 million Hauser forum at Cambridge University, opened last month.The building marks a landmark in the expansion of the University’s science and technology campus at West Cambridge. Along other sustainability features, it has a thermal labyrinth. Continue reading >

Larry Jones to reprise his AIA Convention presentation on LEED Tips and Tricks in a LEEDuser webinar Tuesday, June 22 at 3:00 PM Read More >

Claire Johnson to speak at Anshen and Allen’s Eco Month Event Tuesday, June 15, 12pm – 1pm Read More >

Please join us at the 2010 AIA Conference in Miami, taking place Wed 9 June – Sat 12 June. Atelier Ten has a variety of talks scheduled More Details >

Kroon Hall wins 2010 Building of the Year from Architects’ Journal Read More >

MAY

Paul Stoller to speak at AIA NY as part of their Green 101 Integration Series, Session 1: Passive Design 101. Wed., May 26 from 6 – 8 PM Read More >

Paul Stoller, Director in New York, will speak at the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) on July 15, on “Drafting and Negotiating Construction and Design Contracts: Meeting the Challenges of Sustainable Development 2010” Read More >

Atelier Ten chosen to join Krueck + Sexton in designing the new 475,000 GSF GSA design excellence building in Broward County, FL. Read More >

Ashmolean Museum wins Building's Magazine Project of the Year Award 2010. The entries for the UK construction’s equivalent of the best picture Oscar had the judges racking their brains for superlatives. In the end, a new addition to an old museum got the nod. Continue reading >

Kuwait University College of Education wins a World Architecture News Award in the education sector. Read more >

Kroon Hall is Atelier Ten's third project to win an AIA Top Ten Green award. Read more >

The Visionaire wins an Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence, read more in the Epoch Times >

Greenspun College at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas is awarded LEED Gold certification. Read more >

APRIL

LEED Silver Battery Park City Public Library, now open is the greenest library in NYC, and one of the first projects on which Atelier Ten’s lighting and environmental team collaborated. See this coverage in NY Times, Inhabitat, and on NY1 >

LEED Gold Targeted Harvard Law School is under construction, covered in The Harvard Crimson >

Paul Stoller, director in New York, has a conversation with Sarah Bacon of Now or Never Radio on the topic of retrofitting old buildings. Listen here >

Wendy Meguro and Shanta Tucker, environmental designers at Atelier Ten NY, are featured in the Rising Currents - Projects for New York's Waterfront website from the Museum of Modern Art. Read more on Urban Omnibus, Arch Record, and The NY Times >

UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010. The building is nearing completion. The Expo 2010 opens next May. Photographs and text >

MARCH

Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. Two sustainably cooled conservatories designed by Wilkinson Eyre and engineer Atelier Ten are part of Singapore’s extensive public gardens project at Marina Bay South. Building Design >

Ben Shepherd, Associate, joins the 25th annual SCUP conference, at MIT's campus, on 25 March, to speak about "Smart Campus Infrastructure or Simply Smarter About Campus Infrastructure?" Read more >

Dartford learning campus opened. A £10 million lifelong learning campus in Dartford, UK, designed by Hazle McCormack Young and Atelier Ten has been officially opened by designer Wayne Hemingway. Building Design >

South Korean Eden Project. Grimshaw has unveiled plans for a National Ecology Centre in South Korea, reminiscent of the Eden Project. The practice is collaborating with local firm Samoo Architects and other firms including Atelier Ten, to create the 33,000sq m “Ecorium” landmark, which is in Seocheon Province. Continues at BD >

Plastic Fantastic. Plastiki a nod to Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition, is made of 12,0002lt plastic water bottles over a plywood frame. The boat started trialling in San Francisco Bay before heading on a voyage across the Pacific to Australia. Atelier Ten was part of its design team. Download article from Yatching World >

Eco-Tower for east London. Studio RHE has submitted plans to build a 24-storey eco-tower in Newham, east London. The proposed tower, dubbed SilverTree, will be built on a brownfield site at the Royal Victoria Dock. An energy efficiency and sustainability study carried out by Atelier Ten states that the building should achieve a Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) Level 4 and a ‘Very Good’ BREEAM rating. More >

Claire Johnson, Associate Director, has been appointed to the jury of the What Makes it Green? awards, run by the AIA Seattle. Read more >

Kroon Hall is recognized as a Wood Champion as the 2009 Wood Design Awards unveils the winners for cutting-edge Wood Design in North America. Read more >

Emma Marchant, Senior Environmental Designer at our London office, joined the judging panel for the Surface-to-Air Event ‘Design my learning space – Live” at the BSEC Conference on 24th February. Ten local school groups, joined by ten young architects worked up innovative and thought-provoking proposals to meet a series of real briefs set by primary and secondary schools to address a range of the current challenges in education. The teams used mixed media to explore their ideas generating colourful sketches and dynamic models as well as using interactive whiteboards. The winning school was awarded £1,000 of IT equipment courtesy of Smart Technologies.

The LEED Silver Gary Comer Lab at Columbia is the first LEED certified building on Columbia's campus! Atelier Ten joined the design team for LEED administration as well as lighting design to champion this effort. Read more >

Atelier Ten to work with Office dA on the LEED Gold targeted renovation of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at University of Toronto. Read more >

Kroon Hall wins a 2009 SBIC Beyond Green Award for integrated design process. Read more >

Creating a Sustainable San Francisco by and Innovative Water Strategies at the Transbay Terminal Project Claire Johnson, Associate Director in San Francisco will speak at AIA-SF COTE. March 09, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. AIA San Francisco, 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600.
Read More >

FEBRUARY

Patrick Bellew at Ecobuild. Atelier Ten's Principal Patrick Bellew will be discussing passive cooling and ventilation for non domestic buildings in a panel talk next wednesday 3rd of March at 11:20 am. Ecobuild website >

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is shortlisted for Building Awards under the category Building Magazine Project of the year. Read the shortlist >

Associate Director Claire Johnson will be speaking at the National Transit Institute’s Advanced Seminar on Managing the Environmental Review Process on February 22 and 23. She will be speaking on green design & LEED for transportation facilities, using Transbay as a case study. Read more >

World Architecture News highlights two of Atelier Ten's projects: Transbay Transit Terminal, California's LEED Gold targeted, largest transit hub at $4 billion can now move forward. Read more >

LEED Platinum Business Instructional Facility at UIUC is nominated for a WAN award in the category of education. Winners will be announced at the end of March. Read more >

The art of positioning: The Herbarium at Kew. Peter Blunell Jones visits the recently opened Herbarium building at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. A high quality office and research environment associated with the national repository for plant specimens. Atelier Ten designed the environmental systems and the building services engineering. Download a PDF of the Article from Architecture Today #205 and read our profile sheet of the project.

Pegasus theatre in Oxford, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios with Atelier Ten. Christopher Gray visits the theatre building site, as it nears completion. Read on >

Atelier Ten are working with Ridge and Partners LLP on the construction of a new Lecture Theatre for Merton College, Oxford. Due to open in the Summer of 2010, the building has just achieved a BREEAM score of 70.50% and an Excellent rating due in part to a highly efficient adiabatic ventilation system and a strategy of displacement ventilation in the theatre. More info >

Atelier Ten in one of nine tems selected to particpate in the St. Lousi Gateway Arch grounds redevelopment competition. Leaders of the effort to reshape the Gateway Arch grounds and improve pedestrian connections to downtown have whittled to nine the professional teams seeking a chance to do the work. Continue reading >

Associate Chad Groshart will be speaking with CEO of Finelite, Terry Clark at this years NeoCon World's Trade Fair about the lighting manufacturer's involvement in National Grid's award-winning green building project. The NeoCon conference is scheduled for June 15-17 in Chicago. Read more >

The Treehugger's Ivory Tower Gets Plantinum LEED. Yale's high-performance Kroon Hall also pulls off the near-impossible feat of looking at home on a campus with legendary Gothic architecture. Continue reading >

And from Yale Daily News Kroon sets sustainable standard Kroon Hall received 59 out of 60 points submitted for LEED approval. Continue >

International Interior Design Association and Metropolis magazine award Kroon Hall a 2009 Smart Environments Award. Read More >

Kroon Hall Achieves LEED Platinum Certification. Under the LEED rating system for new construction, Kroon Hall was awarded 59 points, or seven more than required for the top rating of Platinum. Read the rest of the story >

Christ’s College secondary school in Guildford, UK. A year after its opening, Pond Meadow special needs school is joined on the site by the fantastically impressive Christ’s College secondary school, designed by DSDHA in collaboration with Atelier Ten. Read the story in BD (Registration needed) or Download PDF > of article

JANUARY

National Grid’s new headquarters building in Waltham, MA earns LEED Platinum certification for both core and shell construction AND commercial interiors, only the second single-tenant facility in the world to accomplish this feat. Atelier Ten played a significant role in this endeavor by designing a lighting scheme for the building that uses less than .54 watts per square foot.
Read More >

Museo del Acero Horno3 in Monterrey, Mexico receives recognition from the American Society for Landscape architects for its innovative and environmentally integrated landscape design. Read More >

Yale's Green Ark Architecure Week's article on the Yale School of Forestry - Kroon Building Link >

Harold Ickes Homes Redevelopment project wins recognition with AIA Chicago >

Patrick Bellew starts his tenure as Endowed Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture

Holding the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professorship of Architectural Design, Patrick will be teaching an Advanced Design Studio together with Andy Bow (Foster + Partners) and Timothy Newton. More >

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		Recent News JULY RIBA Sterling Prize Shortlist We have been involved in two of the six buildings nominated for this year's Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize. The shortlist, described as "unique" in the award's history, sees two UK schools up against museums in Oxford, Rome and Berlin. Atelier ten provided a full design service for both, Christ's College School in Guildford, Surrey and on the extension to Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. RIBA Press Release >> Can good architecture transform a troubled school? Christ's College, a school rebuilt after a troubled past, has been nominated for this year's Stirling Prize. The old 70s buildings suffered arson attacks and there were problems with graffiti and discipline, but seven years on the school in Guildford has been transformed and now has a waiting list. But can a building really influence people's behaviour? David Sillito met the architect, Deborah Saunt, to find out. BBC Video >> JUNE UK Pavilion at World Expo 2010 in Shanghai wins RIBA Lubetkin Prize RIBA Press Release and BBC News Ground-breaking set for Stanford University's state-of-the-art concert hall, one of Atelier Ten's largest performing arts projects on the US west coast. Read more > UK Pavilion stands out at the Shanghai expo, according to architect's newspaper. Read More > £50m facelift designed for National Theatre submitted for planning The Independent newspaper and bdonline (needs registration) Ashmolean Museum makes the Twenty-two strong shortlist for the 2010 Prime Minister’s Award Better Public building website > Ashmolean Museum wins a 2010 RIBA Award Press release > Kroon Hall Wins International Prize, Building of Year Award Read more > Claire Johnson, Associate Director, is on the jury for this year’s Autodesk’s AIA Student Design Competition, which challenges students to design small single-room schools that could be constructed across Haiti, with limited materials and minimal construction experience. Winners to be announced at the AIA Convention in Miami, on June 12. Read more > Christ College, Guilford wins a 2010 RIBA Award Royal Institute of British Architects - Press release > A look at Atelier Ten’s LEED Gold Targeted Miami Science Museum Expansion > The £12 million Hauser forum at Cambridge University, opened last month.The building marks a landmark in the expansion of the University’s science and technology campus at West Cambridge. Along other sustainability features, it has a thermal labyrinth. Continue reading > Larry Jones to reprise his AIA Convention presentation on LEED Tips and Tricks in a LEEDuser webinar Tuesday, June 22 at 3:00 PM Read More > Claire Johnson to speak at Anshen and Allen’s Eco Month Event Tuesday, June 15, 12pm – 1pm Read More > Please join us at the 2010 AIA Conference in Miami, taking place Wed 9 June – Sat 12 June. Atelier Ten has a variety of talks scheduled More Details > Kroon Hall wins 2010 Building of the Year from Architects’ Journal Read More > MAY Paul Stoller to speak at AIA NY as part of their Green 101 Integration Series, Session 1: Passive Design 101. Wed., May 26 from 6 – 8 PM Read More > Paul Stoller, Director in New York, will speak at the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) on July 15, on “Drafting and Negotiating Construction and Design Contracts: Meeting the Challenges of Sustainable Development 2010” Read More > Atelier Ten chosen to join Krueck + Sexton in designing the new 475,000 GSF GSA design excellence building in Broward County, FL. Read More > Ashmolean Museum wins Building's Magazine Project of the Year Award 2010. The entries for the UK construction’s equivalent of the best picture Oscar had the judges racking their brains for superlatives. In the end, a new addition to an old museum got the nod. Continue reading > Kuwait University College of Education wins a World Architecture News Award in the education sector. Read more > Kroon Hall is Atelier Ten's third project to win an AIA Top Ten Green award. Read more > The Visionaire wins an Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence, read more in the Epoch Times > Greenspun College at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas is awarded LEED Gold certification. Read more > APRIL LEED Silver Battery Park City Public Library, now open is the greenest library in NYC, and one of the first projects on which Atelier Ten’s lighting and environmental team collaborated. See this coverage in NY Times, Inhabitat, and on NY1 > LEED Gold Targeted Harvard Law School is under construction, covered in The Harvard Crimson > Paul Stoller, director in New York, has a conversation with Sarah Bacon of Now or Never Radio on the topic of retrofitting old buildings. Listen here > Wendy Meguro and Shanta Tucker, environmental designers at Atelier Ten NY, are featured in the Rising Currents - Projects for New York's Waterfront website from the Museum of Modern Art. Read more on Urban Omnibus, Arch Record, and The NY Times > UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010. The building is nearing completion. The Expo 2010 opens next May. Photographs and text > MARCH Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. Two sustainably cooled conservatories designed by Wilkinson Eyre and engineer Atelier Ten are part of Singapore’s extensive public gardens project at Marina Bay South. Building Design > Ben Shepherd, Associate, joins the 25th annual SCUP conference, at MIT's campus, on 25 March, to speak about "Smart Campus Infrastructure or Simply Smarter About Campus Infrastructure?" Read more > Dartford learning campus opened. A £10 million lifelong learning campus in Dartford, UK, designed by Hazle McCormack Young and Atelier Ten has been officially opened by designer Wayne Hemingway. Building Design > South Korean Eden Project. Grimshaw has unveiled plans for a National Ecology Centre in South Korea, reminiscent of the Eden Project. The practice is collaborating with local firm Samoo Architects and other firms including Atelier Ten, to create the 33,000sq m “Ecorium” landmark, which is in Seocheon Province. Continues at BD > Plastic Fantastic. Plastiki a nod to Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition, is made of 12,0002lt plastic water bottles over a plywood frame. The boat started trialling in San Francisco Bay before heading on a voyage across the Pacific to Australia. Atelier Ten was part of its design team. Download article from Yatching World > Eco-Tower for east London. Studio RHE has submitted plans to build a 24-storey eco-tower in Newham, east London. The proposed tower, dubbed SilverTree, will be built on a brownfield site at the Royal Victoria Dock. An energy efficiency and sustainability study carried out by Atelier Ten states that the building should achieve a Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) Level 4 and a ‘Very Good’ BREEAM rating. More > Claire Johnson, Associate Director, has been appointed to the jury of the What Makes it Green? awards, run by the AIA Seattle. Read more > Kroon Hall is recognized as a Wood Champion as the 2009 Wood Design Awards unveils the winners for cutting-edge Wood Design in North America. Read more > Emma Marchant, Senior Environmental Designer at our London office, joined the judging panel for the Surface-to-Air Event ‘Design my learning space – Live” at the BSEC Conference on 24th February. Ten local school groups, joined by ten young architects worked up innovative and thought-provoking proposals to meet a series of real briefs set by primary and secondary schools to address a range of the current challenges in education. The teams used mixed media to explore their ideas generating colourful sketches and dynamic models as well as using interactive whiteboards. The winning school was awarded £1,000 of IT equipment courtesy of Smart Technologies. The LEED Silver Gary Comer Lab at Columbia is the first LEED certified building on Columbia's campus! Atelier Ten joined the design team for LEED administration as well as lighting design to champion this effort. Read more > Atelier Ten to work with Office dA on the LEED Gold targeted renovation of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at University of Toronto. Read more > Kroon Hall wins a 2009 SBIC Beyond Green Award for integrated design process. Read more > Creating a Sustainable San Francisco by and Innovative Water Strategies at the Transbay Terminal Project Claire Johnson, Associate Director in San Francisco will speak at AIA-SF COTE. March 09, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. AIA San Francisco, 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600. Read More > FEBRUARY Patrick Bellew at Ecobuild. Atelier Ten's Principal Patrick Bellew will be discussing passive cooling and ventilation for non domestic buildings in a panel talk next wednesday 3rd of March at 11:20 am. Ecobuild website > Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is shortlisted for Building Awards under the category Building Magazine Project of the year. Read the shortlist > Associate Director Claire Johnson will be speaking at the National Transit Institute’s Advanced Seminar on Managing the Environmental Review Process on February 22 and 23. She will be speaking on green design & LEED for transportation facilities, using Transbay as a case study. Read more > World Architecture News highlights two of Atelier Ten's projects: Transbay Transit Terminal, California's LEED Gold targeted, largest transit hub at $4 billion can now move forward. Read more > LEED Platinum Business Instructional Facility at UIUC is nominated for a WAN award in the category of education. Winners will be announced at the end of March. Read more > The art of positioning: The Herbarium at Kew. Peter Blunell Jones visits the recently opened Herbarium building at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. A high quality office and research environment associated with the national repository for plant specimens. Atelier Ten designed the environmental systems and the building services engineering. Download a PDF of the Article from Architecture Today #205 and read our profile sheet of the project. Pegasus theatre in Oxford, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios with Atelier Ten. Christopher Gray visits the theatre building site, as it nears completion. Read on > Atelier Ten are working with Ridge and Partners LLP on the construction of a new Lecture Theatre for Merton College, Oxford. Due to open in the Summer of 2010, the building has just achieved a BREEAM score of 70.50% and an Excellent rating due in part to a highly efficient adiabatic ventilation system and a strategy of displacement ventilation in the theatre. More info > Atelier Ten in one of nine tems selected to particpate in the St. Lousi Gateway Arch grounds redevelopment competition. Leaders of the effort to reshape the Gateway Arch grounds and improve pedestrian connections to downtown have whittled to nine the professional teams seeking a chance to do the work. Continue reading > Associate Chad Groshart will be speaking with CEO of Finelite, Terry Clark at this years NeoCon World's Trade Fair about the lighting manufacturer's involvement in National Grid's award-winning green building project. The NeoCon conference is scheduled for June 15-17 in Chicago. Read more > The Treehugger's Ivory Tower Gets Plantinum LEED. Yale's high-performance Kroon Hall also pulls off the near-impossible feat of looking at home on a campus with legendary Gothic architecture. Continue reading > And from Yale Daily News Kroon sets sustainable standard Kroon Hall received 59 out of 60 points submitted for LEED approval. Continue > International Interior Design Association and Metropolis magazine award Kroon Hall a 2009 Smart Environments Award. Read More > Kroon Hall Achieves LEED Platinum Certification. Under the LEED rating system for new construction, Kroon Hall was awarded 59 points, or seven more than required for the top rating of Platinum. Read the rest of the story > Christ’s College secondary school in Guildford, UK. A year after its opening, Pond Meadow special needs school is joined on the site by the fantastically impressive Christ’s College secondary school, designed by DSDHA in collaboration with Atelier Ten. Read the story in BD (Registration needed) or Download PDF > of article JANUARY National Grid’s new headquarters building in Waltham, MA earns LEED Platinum certification for both core and shell construction AND commercial interiors, only the second single-tenant facility in the world to accomplish this feat. Atelier Ten played a significant role in this endeavor by designing a lighting scheme for the building that uses less than .54 watts per square foot. Read More > Museo del Acero Horno3 in Monterrey, Mexico receives recognition from the American Society for Landscape architects for its innovative and environmentally integrated landscape design. Read More > Yale's Green Ark Architecure Week's article on the Yale School of Forestry - Kroon Building Link > Harold Ickes Homes Redevelopment project wins recognition with AIA Chicago > Patrick Bellew starts his tenure as Endowed Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture Holding the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professorship of Architectural Design, Patrick will be teaching an Advanced Design Studio together with Andy Bow (Foster + Partners) and Timothy Newton. More > For previous news please click on each year: 2009 / 2008 / 2007 / 2006 / 2005 / 2004
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