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Today’s News - Tuesday, August 19, 2008

•   As some London tower plans are put on hold (including Rogers Stirk Harbour’s "Cheesegrater"), Glancey thinks this might be a good time "to pause and to think of what the city might appear to be in a decade’s time."
•   King on the strong reactions to his review of Saitowitz-designed synagogue: "offers backhanded proof of its architectural power"; and his picks for S.F.’s upcoming "eclectic, freewheeling" Architecture and the City Festival.
•   Two developers call on two big guns to vie for big New Haven redevelopment project.
•   Russell on a British Columbia development that comes as close as possible to being carbon-neutral "without using unproven technologies or promising to plant trees in Brazil."
•   Glancey takes his telescope to the Kielder Observatory and finds it one of a "cluster of unpretentious, low-cost British buildings by intelligent architects that offer something way beyond what money can buy."
•   Gunts on Baltimore’s new convention hotel: views are great, but Camden Yards fans will probably give it a Bronx cheer.
•   Gustafson Porter wins in Woolwich to redesign two squares (paddling pool included).
•   Meier makes a case for minimalism, and muses: "Minimalism is not the only style, but it’s my style."
•   Eames’s Case Study House #8 "looks better now, when viewed in our age of architectural pomposity, than perhaps ever before."
•   Rotterdam’s Club Watt to generate energy from dancers, while a similar club in London "has raised some green hackles."
•   London is a new playground for alternative cars to avoid congestion fees (great pix, too).
•   Deadlines loom: Call for EOI: Pennine Lancashire Squared International Landscape Architecture Competition. - Call for entries: Re:Construct: Sustainable building materials and practices. - Call for registration: Schools and Engineer-Mentors for 2008/2009 Future City Competition.
•   Heathcote finds a small RIBA show on Modernism in China to be "a revelation."
•   He likes a new tome on 20th century icons, but hopes the next might be about "buildings you hardly notice but make the city a little bit better. Now that would be radical."
•   In King’s Wood, Kent, show homes for animals based on dictators’ palaces.
•   Winners all: SMPS Annual National Marketing Communications Awards.
•   Brad Pitt is back with season 3 of e2 design - premiering online this week.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2008_08_19.htm - Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Today's News - March 13, 2007

New report says we want "New Urban" not gated communities. -- A green subdivision in Missouri will be cross between co-housing and a conservation community. -- A call for "even the authors of LEED" to refocus priorities. -- A windowless concrete box in San Jose will have zero emissions, zero electricity from the grid (and lots of light!). -- Ouroussoff offers high praise for Maltzan's skid row housing projects: "keen architectural intelligence and a social conscience are not necessarily at odds." -- Artists lofts project in L.A. shows what can be done (if zoning doesn't do it in). -- Not all are convinced by fresh details for Chicago Spire (and no pix - yet). -- First pix of Gehry's "artful expansion" of Weisman Art Museum. -- Violy defends his "walkie talkie" tower (as do some other big names). -- Alsop in Delhi says buildings should be fun, and he'd like to design in India, but "architects here don't get paid enough." -- Karachi's remade urban park is a missed opportunity. -- Emerging Voices 2007 are stronger than ever. -- "Robert Moses and the Modern City" has "lessons to teach far beyond the intricacies of urban design."
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2007_03_13.htm - March 13, 2007