Illustrative Plan, Master Plan for the Central Delaware

The American Institute of Architects announced this week that the Master Plan for the Central Delaware has received national acclaim with a 2012 Institute Honor Award for Regional & Urban Design. This master plan transforms six miles of the Delaware River waterfront in Center City Philadelphia, based on the Civic Vision which was prepared through an extensive public engagement planning process. The goal of the plan is to provide a practical implementation strategy for the phasing and funding of public realm enhancements to the waterfront, including the locations of parks, a variety of waterfront trails, and connections to existing upland neighborhoods. Specific zoning recommendations to shape private development as well as design guidelines for the public spaces are integral components of this project.

Congratulations to the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation and the consulting team: Cooper Robertson & Partners (Team Leader and Urban Designer), KieranTimberlake (Architecture and Sustainability), OLIN (Landscape Architect),  HR&A (Economics), Parsons Brinckerhoff (Transportation), Hurley Franks & Associates (Outreach), Urban Affairs Coalition (Wealth-Building), Toni L. Griffin (Waterfront Policy Advisor), KBE (Activation Programming), KS Engineers (Civil Engineer), CH Planning (Planning), BlankRome (Land Use Counsel), Kelly/Maiello (Supporting Architect), Emily Cooperman, Ph.D. (Historic Resources), Katherine Woodhouse-Beyer Ph.D. (Archeological Resources), Davis Langdon (Cost Estimator), Brooklyn Digital Foundry (Renderer).

Our new book KieranTimberlake: Inquiry has been selected as one of Phil Patton’s favorite books of 2011! Patton writes about design and cars for The New York Times. View the list here, and take a look inside the book here.

KieranTimberlake wishes you the best of the season and in the new year. We completed several projects in 2011, in Charlotte, NC, San Diego, CA, Houston, TX, New Haven, CT, Washington, DC, and our hometown of Philadelphia, PA.  Here are some pictures:

photos © Peter Aaron/OTTO

Center City Building, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
with Gantt Huberman Architects
Charlotte, North Carolina

photos © Tim Griffith

Charles David Keeling Apartments, University of California at San Diego
San Diego, California

photos © Michael Moran/OTTO

Brockman Hall for Physics, Rice University
Houston, Texas

photos © Richard Barnes/OTTO (top) and © Peter Aaron/OTTO (bottom)

Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Yale University
New Haven, CT

photos © Michael Moran/OTTO

Quaker Meeting House, Sidwell Friends School
Washington, DC

renderings © Brooklyn Digital Foundry

Master Plan for the Central Delaware, Delaware River Waterfront Corporation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

KieranTimberlake was deeply honored last Thursday evening to receive five AIA Philadelphia Awards for Design Excellence. The honors included a Divine Detail and an Honor Award for the Sidwell Friends School Meeting House, an Honor Award for Brockman Hall for Physics at Rice University, a Silver Medal in the Unbuilt Category for Dilworth Plaza, and a Gold Medal for Morse and Ezra Stiles College at Yale University. Continue reading to see images of the winning projects and read the jury comments.

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Cover image: Atwater Commons, Middlebury College, photo by Barry Halkin

KieranTimberlake is happy to announce the release of a new monograph, KieranTimberlake: Inquiry, written by Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake, and Karl Wallick, and published by Rizzoli. The book is a reflection on the last decade of inquisitive approaches to our clients’ needs, as well as the needs of the environment, and how that has broadened our vision of the relationship between process, craft, and form. This volume offers a glimpse into how the environment, energy, the economics of construction, and processes of collaboration inform KieranTimberlake’s practice.

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