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May 4, 2010
The Annex at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health wins 2010 AIA Housing Award for Specialty Housing from 200 other entries. The award is widely published in different formats, including an extensive article in the L.A. Times. The project also boasts an exhibit at the AIA National Convention in Miami.

AIA Housing Awards 2010

May 3, 2010
The Annex at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health earns is an Honorable Mention Winner in the Environments category of I.D.'s 2010 Annual Design Review.

www.id-mag.com

March 24, 2010
Peter Rose + Partners, in partnership with Montreal based Le Groupe Arcop, have been placed on a shortlist of two firms for the design of a new Sport Centre for Universite Bishop's in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

The Centre Multisports et de Sante is the largest development investment in the century-and-a-half history of Bishop's University, and includes a competition hockey rink, two double gyms, a health center, and a range of other university and community sporting facilities totaling about 150,000 square feet. The Peter Rose + Partners | Arcop submittal was selected based on its intelligent integration to the site and for its ability to use the new project as a catalyst for a series of key master planning transformations.

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Bishop's University

March 22, 2010
Casa Bronfman short film to be screened at FIFA, describes the design and construction of a six-story Manhattan townhouse designed by architect Peter Rose.

The film, by Elizabeth Lennard and Ermanno Corrado will be screened twice for the 28th Festival International of Films on Art in Montreal, Quebec. Peter Rose designed the six-story Manhattan townhouse of financier and philanthropist Edgar Bronfman Jr. and his wife Clarissa, an avid art collector. Rose describes his design and the architectural choices that were made to meet the demands of his clients. The Bronfmans take us through the townhouse, detailing the features of a space judiciously designed for public use—fundraising, parties, art viewing—and the private use of the Bronfman family.

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FIFA - Casa Bronfman

February 14, 2010
Princeton Architectural Press releases Peter Rose: Houses, by Will Morgan.

Providing an overview of the range of scales the office has worked in during the its last three decades of practice, the book then turns to Peter's love of solid building materials, craftsmanship, and old-fashioned building methods. Five seminal houses are presented in complete detail from client collaboration and site evaluation to construction, and illustrates the residential project as a laboratory for design ideas applicable at any scale.

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Peter Rose: Houses

June 1, 2009
The Housing Tower at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health is now open to guests.

The compact, 80-room residential dormitory at the Berkshire retreat uses sliding sun screens, radiant cooling and heating, daylighting, and natural ventilation to consume half the energy of a conventional forced-air based system. Organized along a tapering axis that both funnels breezes and captures views, the building takes a deferential stance with respect to the landscape. Built from concrete, wood and glass, with each material designed to express its natural characteristics, the building reveals an environmental stewardship which is rooted in the sensually based, human scaled transformation of the landscape.

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Building for the Future: Kripalu's Annex

May 6, 2009
Peter Rose + Partners selected for shortlist of five international teams competing in the Sitra Low2No Sustainable Development Design competition.

The Low2No competition requires the creation of a sustainable urban community on a one kilometer square island in Helsinki Harbor, Finland. The goal: produce a master plan and a flagship building for Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, and a phased development process with initially low, and ultimately no, carbon emissions. The selection committee received 73 proposals.

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Sitra selected the Low2No competition participants
Sitra webcast