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Gulfstream G250 lands at the end of its first flight on Dec. 11

Gulfstream Aerospace flew its new G250 business jet for the first time Friday.

Gulfstream designed and built the mid-size, eight- to 10-passenger jet in collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries. IAI chief test pilot Ronen Shapira flew the G250 for three hours and 21 minutes, taking off from and returning to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, Gulfstream said in a news release.

“The G250 performed extremely well, just as we expected,” Pres Henne, Gulfstream’s senior vice president, programs, engineering and test, said in the release. “We’re looking forward to 2011 when we’ll begin delivering this aircraft to the customers who had tremendous input in its design.”

Shapira flew the aircraft to 32,000 feet, achieving a maximum speed of 253 knots. He said the flight was “extremely smooth with no issues,” according to the release.

Powered by twin Honeywell HTF7250G engines, the G250 can travel 3,400 nautical miles at Mach 0.80, has a maximum operating speed of Mach 0.85, has an initial cruise altitude of 41,000 feet, can climb to 45,000 feet and can depart from a 5,000-foot runway at maximum takeoff weight.

Eclipse Aerospace expects to complete upgrades to 28 jets acquired as the assets of the former Eclipse Aviation and it plans to start selling them as early as next spring. Mike Press and Mason Holland Jr., the two investors behind the new Eclipse Aerospace LLC, have now hired 60 employees and are back in business in Albuquerque. Eight Eclipse 500 Very Light Jets are currently in the care of the new company, receiving upgrades to their avionics and de-icing systems to the tune of $149,000 each. And Eclipse Aerospace has earned FAA approval for a pilot training program that takes place in the aircraft, as opposed to the simulators used by the former Eclipse Aviation. They’ve also earned FAA and EASA approval to put owners, operators and repair station personnel worldwide through a maintenance training curriculum.

The resurgent company’s progress dates back to August, when Press and Holland acquired Eclipse’s assets out of bankruptcy for $40 million. Now, the company’s 60 employees are distributed between the Albuquerque facility and a Chicago service station at a balance of about 48 to 12. Eclipse Aerospace has an existing market of 259 Eclipse 500 jets sold before its predecessor’s demise. Sales of “new” Eclipse 500 jets will be competing with used jets. The company is already acting as broker for 10 aircraft.

he Burj Dubai, by far the tallest building in the world, will open as planned next month in its namesake city. It has topped out four stories taller than half a mile high—2,684 feet—a chilling figure that was known to very few until it was reached. The tower’s Chicago-based architect, Adrian Smith, confided three years ago that this secrecy was not a marketing gimmick (though it did stir up the press); it was a practical response to some brutal intramural competition. Emaar Properties, the Dubai-based developer that built the tower, was trying to best its rival, Nakheel, most famous for its land-reclamation projects, the Palm islands and the World, which dredged up miles of luxury from the silt of the Persian Gulf. As soon as the final height of the Burj Dubai was known, Emaar feared, Nakheel would unveil plans for something even more ambitious.

Sure enough, as the final height of the Burj Dubai became clear, renderings of the expected counterbuilding were made public. Nakheel’s response, defiantly named Al Burj (The Tower), had a projected height of 4,600 feet.

Savor that in your mind for a moment—sunset, a warm breeze, white clouds wrapping a glass-and-steel spire three and a half Twin Towers tall—because it is never going to happen: Nakheel is the development arm of Dubai World, the state-owned investment company that triggered financial panic around the world two weeks ago when it announced it would seek forbearance on up to $59 billion in debt. Real estate in Dubai had hardly been immune to the general downturn—Nakheel stopped work on its nearly mile-high tower last January—but this latest economic disaster emphatically marks the end of a golden age for those who dream in buildings.

Though they can’t do their jobs without the complicity of real money and real materials, architects are trained to fantasize. It’s what they do best. At the top schools especially, students are encouraged to let their imaginations take them to heights and breadths and topological convolutions far beyond the practical in order to define a personal style or express an idea. Their teachers tend to be architects of the hothouse variety (genus star) whose work, often reliant on very expensive engineering, is unbuildable in any but the most favorable climate.

In the last decade, real-estate nutsiness created those rare conditions all over (even at a few spots in Manhattan), but Dubai was the place where the furthest whimsies of architects—rotating towers! A carbon-neutral ziggurat for 1 million people! A hotel designed by Brad Pitt!—were finally matched by the hubris of clients. Or we might say client, since, one way or another, nearly all of the big digs in the emirate were tied to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the visionary ruler who responded to drying oil wells by remaking Dubai into a business and entertainment center, a corporate pied-à-terre, an oasis of capitalism between Europe and the East. Wall Street meets Las Vegas. Meets Xanadu. On crack.

Dubai was a place where people came together to test what was possible. Engineers from London worked with New York architects and Korean contractors to marshal armies of indentured Pakistanis and Indians—globalization at work—to build monuments to their patrons’ ostensibly bottomless wealth. Various marvels rose. More were imagined. But it turns out that even with loose credit, exploited labor, central control, caviar dreams, and the most venal intentions, you still cannot defy the financial laws of gravity.

When Michigan State University sought out architects to design its new Eli and Edythe broad art museum, Zaha Hadid may have been a bold choice. The British Iraqi designer has a unique sensibility when it comes to form and function that is not typical of traditionalist viewers.

After months of financial and conventional debate, the designs have finally been approved, and construction on the new museum will break ground on March 16, 2010.

The museum was made possible through a $26 million donation from MSU alumnus and noted philanthropist Eli Broad and his wife Edythe. The structure will take 23 months to construct, placing its completion date in mid 2012.

Hadid’’s design, a sort of asymmetrical rhombus comprised of steel and glass, was the winner of an international competition that ran through 2008. The artist herself is a Pritzker Prize winning architect, the first woman ever to achieve the honor, and a veteran of many international design competition, contributing plans to both the One-north Masterplan in Singapore and the City Casino in Basel, Switzerland.

Noted Architect Frank Gehry – world renowned for his unique designs on buildings like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain – will design a new $800 million hotel, housing and performing arts complex in New York’’s theater district.

In addition to providing sustainable, low-income housing in a chic area of the city, the 59-story Signature Centre will also house a café, a bookstore and a theater that will serve as the new home of New York’’s award-winning nonprofit Signature Theater Company.

James Houghton, the founder of the theater company, hopes to use the new space to provide writers and playwrights coming through the big apple that will inspire them to create “work that engages even more artists and audiences.

“(The building) is an example of how or city can keep growing,” says New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the groundbreaking ceremony.

The energy-efficient project is anticipated to create 700 construction jobs in the metropolitan area according to the Associated Press.

The Venice Biennale is one of the most prestigious exhibitions in modern architecture. Each year, the event showcases the finest works of architects representing countries across the globe, and for the second year in a row the University of Waterloo will serve as the Canadian representative in the momentous presentation.

Philip Berkely, an architecture professor at UW, will helm the Canadian pavilion with his unique installation called Hylozoic Ground.

Resembling a collection of fishnets and tangles of fiver optic cables adorned with spider webs and snowflakes suspended from the ceiling, the installation is littered with thousands of sensors that detect human movements, changes in air pressure, body heat and sound. The end result is a luminous breathing room that replicates a shimmering, backlit forest setting.

“It’’s really quite stunning,” says the school’’s director Rick Haldenby, in a statement to The Record. “The thing behaves like a kind of organism. Movement in one part induces movement in other parts.”

The name hylozoic ground is a reference to a philosophical concept that believes that all matter has life

The Austin Art Alliance, a co-op of national and international artists and designers, is holding a Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space ideas competition. The competition, the groups third such event, is part of a larger partnership among local design groups including the Austin Foundation for Architecture and AIA designed to stir interest in the architecture field.

Designers are asked to transform an open-air art fair into a unique experience that will help introduce the element of architecture into the public consciousness while showcasing the talents of existing professionals in the architecture community.

The 2010 competition will be the first to allow participation from architecture and interior design students in addition to current professionals working in the field. Entrants are asked to submit concepts for a 10-ft by 20-ft structure, identify how the space will be installed and provide detailed illustration.

Winning selections will be judged by a panel of industry professionals. Past panels have included Goil Amornvivat of TLCs Trading Spaces, Yale professor of architecture Deborah Berke and Dana Friis-Hansen of the Austin Museum of Art.

The grand prize winner will receive $1,000, with second and third place winning $500 amd %250 respectively.