I recently met Larry Parisi who will become president of the New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in January. Like many architects, he has a wide range of interests. Born in Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, N.J., Larry, who is 62, grew up in nearby Cliffside Park where he went to [...]

The Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park City in New York City has opened a new exhibition called Supertall! It opened July 27 and runs through January 2012. The exhibit is a survey of skyscrapers worldwide featuring projects that have been completed since 2001, are under construction, or are expected to top out by 2016. Museum [...]

Recently The New York Times carried an interesting review of a new condo building designed by Neil Denari in which glass played a very prominent role. The article explains how glass was used on the south façade to accommodate the unusual space requirements. In this case, the glass façade bulges out of the main structure [...]

I wanted to make sure that you didn’t miss the insightful article in The New York Times on Wednesday, February 9, about the new interdisciplinary science building at Columbia University by the Spanish architect José Rafael Moneo, at the corner of Broadway and 120th Street. As Nicolai Ouroussoff explains, the structure “draws on a range [...]

The Sunday, August 1 issue of The New York Times had a one-page feature on James Carpenter and his creative use of glass in architecture. If you missed it, you can read it here. The article explains the niche that Carpenter has developed in the architectural glass industry. It points out that while he started [...]

Do you Twitter? Do you have a page on Facebook? Are you on LinkedIn? These are the social media sites of today’s world and increasingly a part of our business as well as our social lives. According to a study which the firm Function: recently conducted, looking at the habits of more thab 600 architects, [...]

There is something about the dawn of a new decade, which seems to hold out the promise of good things. We have ushered in 2010, but prospects don’t look immediately bright for the architectural construction market. According to the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) semi-annual Consensus Construction Forecast, a survey of the nation’s leading construction [...]

The Vitrum show, held last month in Milan, was deemed a success. The every other year event is second only to Düsseldorf’s glasstec in terms of international industry trade show.Exhibitors were pleased with the show and reported actually making sales on the trade show floor. Is this a sign that the global architectural glass and [...]

I was watching the news on Monday night when an item came up on the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Kabul. As horrifying as that news was, I was even more struck by something even more unbelievable.The footage of the bombed out headquarters showed the glass in the front of the structure had [...]

I recently returned from a trip to Russia and I have some architectural news to report. While the country’s economy may not be what it was in the boom days of high natural resources prices, things still look pretty good. It certainly looks better than when I was last there in 2003. And I saw [...]