We are thrilled to relay our most recent news: Bat Cloud has won First Place in the 2012 Animal Architecture Awards, Urban Animal! Read about our project, and the other award winners on Animal Architecture. Thanks also to Archinect and Bustler for sharing the news!
Check out the coverage of Bat Cloud on Designboom! Bat Cloud also makes an appearance in its article about the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Thanks to DesignNet, The Scientist, Azure, and The Buffalo News for spreading the good word about bats, Bat Cloud, and Animal Architecture! Also check out the August issue of Architect Magazine for coverage on Spontaneous Interventions at the U.S. Pavilion in Venice. Bat Cloud is intervention #12.
We are excited to be included in the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, organized by the Institute for Urban Design on behalf of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The exhibit, Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, will feature 124 urban interventions initiated by architects, designers, planners, artists, and everyday citizens that bring positive change to their neighborhoods and cities.
Thanks to Lola Sheppard and the faculty and students at University of Waterloo for the invitation!
Read about HIVE CITY in Inhabitat, Phys Org, The Dirt, Architect Magazine, The Globe and the Mail, Rust Belt Chic, … and check out more about the project on the Design Team’s website!
Winning project, “Elevator B,” by Courtney Creenan, Kyle Mastalinski, Daniel Nead, Scott Selin, and Lisa Stern. Photos courtesy of Kyle Mastalinski. Project sponsored by Rick Smith/Rigidized Metals and University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning. HIVE CITY Competition coordinated by Martha Bohm, Joyce Hwang, and Chris Romano/UB Department of Architecture Ecological Practices Research Group. Thanks and congratulations to everyone who contributed to the project (See here and here)!
Roundtable discussion between contributors to Praxis 13, Ecologics. Join us at Storefront for Art and Architecture, Friday June 8th, 7 to 9 pm.
Helping Endangered Bats Through Art: Thanks to Terry Belke and Channel 2 WGRZ!
Congratulations to Courtney Creenan, Kyle Mastalinski, Daniel Nead, Scott Selin, and Lisa Stern – winners of the Hive City Competition! Read about the project in the Buffalo News and check out the team’s blog for more info. 
Thank you to an incredible installation crew: Sze Wan Li (design and fabrication manager), Matt Bain, Josh Gardner, Shawn Lewis, Sergio López-Piñeiro, Nellie Niespodzinski, Mark Nowaczyk, Alex Poklinkowski, Joey Swerdlin, Duane Warren, and Robert Yoos. Thanks also to Lauren Makeyenko and David Spiering of Tifft/Buffalo Museum of Science. BAT CLOUD is part of the UB Humanities Institute’s Fluid Culture Event Series, organized by Colleen Culleton and Justin Read.
Bat Tower is featured in Praxis 13: Ecologics, an issue that “considers how architecture might adopt the logics of ecologies to move beyond received notions of sustainability.” Celebrate the release of Praxis 13 on Friday May 11, 6-8 pm: BSA Space / 290 Congress Street / Boston, MA.
