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The CHA Women & Children's Hospital, located in a suburb of Seoul, South Korea, was one of four recipients of the 2008 AIA Healthcare Design Awards. (Photo: Jong O Kim)

AIA Healthcare Awards 2008
At the CHA Women & Children's Hospital near Seoul, a softness of natural light, organic elements, and curving form tempers a sleek building of glass, aluminum, and stainless steel. KMD Architects designed the facility, with associate architect yo2 Architects, to provide uncluttered respite from the surrounding neighborhood's visual noise. The hospital in South Korea received one of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards for 2008. In this inaugural awards cycle, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health recognized four healthcare facilities, from Tucson to Shenzhen, for exemplary design in addressing concerns of program, aesthetics, and context. (More)

The new California Academy of Sciences is capped by two spheres covered with plants. (Tim Griffith)

A Building That Blooms and Grows, Balancing Nature and Civilization
(San Francisco) - Not all architects embrace the idea of evolution. Some, fixated on the 20th-century notion of the avant-garde, view their work as a divine revelation, as if history began with them. Others pine for the Middle Ages. But if you want reaffirmation that human history is an upward spiral rather than a descent into darkness, head to the new California Academy of Sciences, in Golden Gate Park, which opens on Saturday. Designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano on the site of the academy's demolished home, the building has a steel frame that rests amid the verdant flora like a delicate piece of fine embroidery. (More)

Jeff and Alice Speck use a flatiron lot to create a geometric showcase. (Sid Tabak)

Finding the Right Angle
Just before dusk on a sharp bend in Florida Avenue NW, a very pregnant Alice Speck smashed a bottle of champagne across the prow of her new house. Husband Jeff Speck, who designed the startling triangular dwelling, stood close enough to revel in the fizz. After two years of dreaming, sleuthing and coaxing to acquire a tiny flatiron plot at 10th Street, and 15 months of exacting construction to build on it, the couple was finally able to call their brick-and-glass aerie home. "The story of this house is breaking a whole lot of rules," says Jeff, an urban planner and former design director of the National Endowment for the Arts. (More)

Rafael Viñoly Architects' expansion of the Brooklyn Children's Museum. (BD Online)

Viñoly Completes Brooklyn Museum Extension
Rafael Viñoly Architects' expansion of the Brooklyn Children's Museum has been completed, doubling the museum's space to 102,000sq ft. The L-shaped building, at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and St Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, is clad in 8.1 million yellow ceramic tiles. Two extra storeys integrated with the existing structure have added a lobby, exhibition galleries, classrooms, a library, a café and a gift shop. It is the first museum in New York City to use geothermal wells for heating and cooling purposes, and has applied for a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) silver certificate from the US building council. (More)

A new addition to the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, was designed by Ann Beha Architects. (Photo: © Jonathan Hillyer)

Currier Museum of Art
The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, reopened its doors in spring 2008 after an expansion designed by Ann Beha Architects. This was both a sympathetic and a very modern expansion, and the results provide quite an elegant increase in the museum's scope. The project extends the original 1929 museum building in two directions. To the north, the addition bridges two 1980s pavilions, creating a new main entrance and lobby. To the south, a new wing encloses the original grand entrance in a skylit court encircled by galleries. The 33,000-square-foot expansion doubles the amount of space for exhibits, programs, and visitor services, while maintaining the museum's intimate scale. (More)

At 893,000 square feet, the Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, currently under construction in Shenzhen, China, will hold 500 patient beds and is expected to serve 2,000 outpatients per day. (Image: Yuanjing Company)

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