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INSIGHT: Save What's Left: Architects as Stewards of Our Planet

We need to develop a new design culture of responsibility, one that seeks in every instance to do as little damage as possible to natural systems.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature340.htm - August 18, 2010

Power to the Past: Cannon Design Regional Offices at The Power House

St. Louis: A design firm transforms a 1928 city landmark to support its highly collaborative, team-oriented work approach that includes space that can be used by the community as well.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature328.htm - April 1, 2010

Market Research Strategies in Uncertain Times #4: Client Research - The Secret to Turning Prospects into Clients

If you carry on a dialog from an informed position, you will project confidence and immediately earn a position of trust.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature309.htm - October 14, 2009

Loud on the Outside, Quiet on the Inside: Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) by Grimshaw and Davis Brody Bond Aedas

Troy, NY: How do you "ground" a 221,200-square-foot building on a 30-degree slope? And how do you acoustically carve out grand venues that are designed for digital technology and electronic performance? Structural and MEP engineer Buro Happold explains.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature276.htm - February 5, 2009

Sustainable Urbanism Tops the Agenda as World Environment Day Comes to the U.S. June 1-5

As sustainable design champions put the pedal to the scrap metal, they've got their eye on the distant prize - sustainable urbanism. They want your buy-in. They want it now.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature167.htm - May 31, 2005

New York Celebrates 2nd Annual Architecture Week 10/4-10/04

Events include exhibitions, parties, conferences, movies, a Design-In Marathon, and openhousenewyork - and marks the 1st anniversary of the Center for Architecture.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature146.htm - October 1, 2004

INSIGHT: RINCONoitering: How Vancouver Ideas Do - and Do Not Help - in Shaping San Francisco's First High Density Neighborhood - Part I

http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature126.htm - January 22, 2004

Who What When - 9/30/02: deadlines, of interest, on the boards, and people on the move

http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature73.htm - September 30, 2002

Who What When - 9/6/02: deadlines, of interest, on the boards, and people on the move

http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature64.htm - September 6, 2002

Today’s News - Monday, August 9, 2010

•   ArcSpace brings us eyefuls of SO-IL's "Pole Dance" at MoMA/P.S.1.
•   New Orleans Index five years later: "new evidence shows that greater New Orleans is emerging as a healthier, more resilient region," but "much work lies ahead."
•   An ambitious goal to build 80 classrooms throughout Haiti by September is well underway.
•   Moore muses about Astana, Kazakhstan: "It's a city of fable or dream...Except it's not quite so magical: it's also like a battery-operated plastic toy, all whirring noises and flashing colors" (and a slide show to prove it!).
•   In the UAE, some architectural wonders are turning out to be a burden for some businesses who work inside them.
•   An Armenian architect bemoans his country's inability to build good cities - without penalties for ignoring planning rules, hotels rise where parks should flourish.
•   Kamin x 2 - both from St. Louis and its "multitude of design pleasures"; as for the CityArchRiver2015 competition: it "looms as a test of our ability to make great but humane public places out of modest means."
•   Hawthorne finds a silver lining in the bad economy: the trajectory of gentrification is usually "entirely predictable - and more than a little depressing," but Downtown L.A.'s transformation from sleepy to energized is frozen "at a particularly appealing spot."
•   An eyeful of Santa Monica Place makeover: it "swaps Gehry for airy," making it "a classy joint - at least by mall standards."
•   In Madison, WI, and Aspen, two Weese's could face the wrecking ball, but do they really deserve to die?
•   Pogrebin ponders the fate of formerly unknown Philip Johnson treasure trove of an archive - its formerly unknown owner (former partner Ahuja) hopes it will be bought en masse (aside from the goody sold to the V&A).
•   Hume on the sad state of cycling in Toronto: "bicycle policy is no policy at all," just "a hodge-podge of rules, regulations and lanes that probably make a bad situation worse."
•   Litt sees little to cheer in three "profoundly ho-hum options" of "snooze-worthy" designs for a major Cleveland bridge; bicycle lanes not included (don't expect to make a fortune selling postcards of the winner).
•   Great design for hospitals is still a hard sell, despite all the evidence that good design affects health and healing: "we still don't have any certainty that the design of hospitals is fundamentally changing in ways that respond to this knowledge."
•   Waikiki hotel owners consider harnessing deep-sea water to power air conditioning that "could substantially cut electricity costs and help the tourism industry market the resort area as a green destination."
•   The Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Vermont continues to innovate: teaching "architects how to build might not seem revolutionary, but it was - and still is - unusual."
•   We couldn't resist: a Dutch firm has big plans for all that plastic flotsam floating around the Pacific Ocean: Recycled Island would be 3,861 square miles of sustainable living space (better than ending up in gulls' guts).

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_08_09.htm - Monday, August 9, 2010