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architecture and design firm Sid Lee earned nods for its rebranding of the city’s public transit system; and for bota bota, a floating spa in the Old Port. Other winners included Claude Cormier + Associés, for suspending a kilometre-long ribbon of 170,000 pink resin balls above the gay village last summer; Lemay Associés and media corporation Astral, for the vibrant four-storey interior of the latter’s local headquarters; and Alto Design, for the revolving-deck oven and stackable oven system it developed for Picard Ovens. For the full list of winners, see facteurd.com. boston’s Höweler + Yoon took home the audi Urban future award for an ambitious concept that proposes the reorganization of all transportation systems in the boston–Washington, D.C., corridor. The new american Dream plan calls for a network of roads, train tracks and tunnels, starting in boston, and connecting to Providence, Rhode Island; new Haven, Connecticut; new York; Philadelphia; and baltimore; and ending in Washington. as well as rail traffic, it is designed to accommodate cars, bicycles and pedestrians. Led by Vito acconci, brooklyn’s Acconci Studio was named Designer of the Year at Design Miami in December. Commissioned by the fair, the studio has conceived a children’s climbing structure, to be perma- Library Ladders nently installed in the Miami Design District by 2014. green goods 5130 st-patrick montréal, québec h4e 4n5 The U.S. Green building Council has named the 2012 tél: 514-765-3414 / 1-800-508-6479 class of LeeD fellows, a program that designates LeeD professionals and recognizes extraordinary green fax: 514-762-9196 / 1-800-440-6945 building innovations and developments. among the 43 LTD 042 Azure JanFeb2013 Lobby_FNL 15/11/12 9:43 AM Page 1 scodesign.com Get it from Scodesign @ 800.508.6479 prac ti tion ers named are Steve Benz, of landscape design firm OLIn and Paula Vaughan, of Perkins + Will. scodesign.com For the full list, visit usgbc.org. The massive Royal bank Plaza in Toronto now broadcasts its energy usage in real time, on large screens in the main lobby. In October, Oxford Properties Group, the tower’s owner, selected Zerofootprint’s Velo platform to display how much energy is consumed throughout the day by the The Lobby Collection 195,000-square-metre complex. coming soon The Center for Character and Leadership Development, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for the U.S. air force academy in Colorado, broke ground in October. Located where the cadet precincts meet the campus’s public spaces, it will provide flexible spaces for academic and social interaction. Thanks to a collaboration with astronomer Devin Della-Rose, the 4,275-square-metre building aligns with the north Star, via an oculus that tops a 32-metre-tall skylight in the Honor board Room. In Lyons, new jersey, construction began on The Archi­ tec tural Team’s Valley brook Village, a 62-unit housing facility for veterans of the Iraq and afghanistan wars. The development will offer on-site services, including out patient treatment and job training programs. in memoriam Lebbeus Woods, the visionary architect whose elaborate drawings, installations and models defied gravity, died in Manhattan in October. He was 72. Woods worked along- side Kevin Roche at eero Saarinen and associates and collaborated with Steven Holl. While his conceptual work resembled alternate realities, it explored the possibilities of seismic vulnerability and postwar rebuilding. Gae Aulenti, a female pioneer in postwar con tem por ary architecture, died in november in Milan, Italy. aulenti famously converted a Paris train station into the Musée d’Orsay and renovated museums in Venice and Istanbul. She also designed showrooms for Italian auto giant fiat, lisataylordesigns.com and pens and watches for Louis Vuitton. jan ⁄ feb 2013 111

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