a:27:{s:9:"weblog_id";s:1:"4";s:8:"entry_id";s:3:"261";s:6:"sticky";s:1:"n";s:14:"allow_comments";s:1:"n";s:16:"allow_trackbacks";s:1:"n";s:10:"entry_date";s:19:"2008-10-09 06:55 AM";s:15:"expiration_date";s:0:"";s:23:"comment_expiration_date";s:0:"";s:8:"category";a:2:{i:0;s:1:"4";i:1;s:2:"24";}s:9:"author_id";s:1:"2";s:10:"new_weblog";s:1:"4";s:6:"status";s:4:"open";s:14:"trackback_urls";s:0:"";s:18:"versioning_enabled";s:1:"y";s:5:"title";s:48:"Metropolis Editor  Looks  for Bright  Ideas Here";s:9:"url_title";s:45:"metropolis_editor_looks_for_bright_ideas_here";s:6:"submit";s:6:"Update";s:11:"field_id_26";s:45:"Metropolis Editor Looks for Bright Ideas Here";s:11:"field_ft_26";s:4:"none";s:11:"field_id_31";s:1:"9";s:11:"field_id_44";s:203:"Metropolis editor-in-chief Susan Szenasy stopped in St. Louis on Monday to take her design innovation tour to the headquarters of design firm HOK. While here, she had a few things to say about the Arch.
";s:11:"field_ft_44";s:4:"none";s:11:"field_id_28";s:24:"Szenasy, HOK, Metropolis";s:11:"field_ft_28";s:4:"none";s:11:"field_id_29";s:2499:"<p>Metropolis editor-in-chief Susan Szenasy stopped in St. Louis on Monday
to take her design innovation tour to the headquarters of design firm
HOK. While here, she had a few things to say about the Arch.<br /><br />Szenasy
is traveling the country with \"Brilliant Simplicity,\" a short movie
about recent winners of the Metropolis design innovation award winners,
to encourage large design firms to incorporate innovation into their
projects. She acknowledged that business and economics constrain what a
firm can do, but she encourages companies to search their portfolios
for a project where the owner would be open to incorporating \"high end
innovation\" into their building.<br /><br /><img alt=\"Susan Szenasy\" class=\"image-left\" height=\"200\" src=\"/images/uploads/sss.jpg\" style=\"float: left;\" width=\"200\" />\"We have stopped being about
innovation in our country and we have to rekindle it,\" she said. While
admitting that most owners want only proven<br />technologies in their
buildings, she asked her audience to think about what it would take to
prove new technologies. \"If every large design firm did<br />just one project that incorporated high-end innovation, think how much it would move architecture forward,\" she said.<br /><br />Szenasy
said she is very excited by HOK\'s new partnership with the biologists
of the Biomimicry Guild and she looks forward to seeing what comes
out of it. \"Collaboration with academic researchers in
non-architectural fields is the way for us to move the built
environment to the next level,\" she said.<br /><br />In a conversation
with CNR before her meeting with HOK designers, Szenasy expressed
astonishment that St. Louis has done so little embrace the Arch.<br />\"Cities around the world would die for a symbol like the Arch,\" she said. \"The question is: what is the city doing around it?\"<br /><br />She
agreed with John Berendzen of Fox Architects that how one develops the
boundaries between the park and the city is of special importance. The<br />initiative
by John Danforth, the former senator, and Mayor Francis Slay to get
park land turned over to a private entity \"is the wrong conversation,\"<br />she said, and won\'t do anything for how the city embraces the park.<br /><br />\"There
is plenty for everyone to do: the feds, local government, and the
private sector,\" she said. \"For example, you go to the Arch and what do
you<br />see - a Cargill grain elevator. Couldn\'t they at least spruce that up?\"</p>";s:10:"category_0";s:1:"4";s:10:"category_1";s:2:"24";}