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Metaphors for Motion: University of Connecticut Farmington Musculoskeletal Institute by AHSC Architects

Farmington, Connecticut: A building articulates its purpose with muscle and grace.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature137.htm - June 2, 2004

Today's News - July 12, 2005

Farrelly questions whether Australia can ever get past mediocre and "bog-ordinary" architecture. -- Is the "urban majority" bullying the rural minority? -- The Olympics need to leave behind more than memorable games. -- Toronto likes pedestrians - just not on its streets. -- Starting from zero at Ground Zero: a design marathon. -- A chemically-sensitive Arizona community worried about what new neighbors might do. -- Germany encourages its architects to look to Dubai and Shanghai. -- A grand vision for U.K.'s Battersea power station. -- UConn's Musculoskeletal Institute is "an excellent example of how a building can respond to its local setting without sacrificing its identity" (also featured in ANN: "Metaphors in Motion"). -- Malls evolving or withering - or transforming into schools. -- "X" marks the design for new Liverpool museum. -- Architect's high-profile ferry lifestyle now under scrutiny (but very good for business). -- Call for entries for South Africa's reconstituted Loerie Awards; seeking brand-based architecture and design. -- ASLA honors 33 with Professional Awards.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2005_07_12.htm - July 12, 2005

Today's News - June 2, 2004

A university research building articulates its purpose with muscle and grace. -- We lose an international architect of an earlier age. -- A Bangladeshi architect explains the pitfalls of globalization: the "onslaught of showpiece models of architecture from alien cultures" -- Conservation architecture is a lucrative career in India. -- An Arab village designed by a Dutch competition because it "will generate a bigger international echo than it would in Israel." -- Nine Shanghai satellite towns for 500,000 people will be everything from an English village to a German "auto-town" complete with a BMW plant (did somebody channel Disney?). -- Paying for the privilege of being a most livable city? Say it ain't so! -- The battle continues over the fate of 2 Columbus Circle. - Melbourne University's Newman College is "architecture of the raw nerve, low art and unpolished" -- Fast-tracking a new generation of U.S. embassies: a kit of parts so you'll know where the coffee machine is no matter where you are. -- Architect defends his boxy design for Anchorage museum expansion. -- Miami's own Holyrood: new performing arts center late and way over budget. -- The civic center that isn't but would have put Tallahassee on the world architecture map. -- Lessons for new Philadelphia library from Seattle and Salt Lake. -- New life for Wall Street landmark and Edinburgh's Odeon cinema. -- Supreme awards for New Zealand architecture. -- The massive mosques of Malaysia.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_06_02.htm - June 2, 2004

Today's News - June 3, 2004

Wal-Mart discovers architecture. -- China's Thames Town inspired by Birmingham; vicar not pleased with spire plans. -- Irksome dispute over Freedom Tower fees. -- New report says hospital design affects patients, staff (haven't we already figured that out?). -- Rivals join forces to rival Gehry for Kansas City stadium project. -- Gensler gets new airport terminal project in Detroit. -- 2 Columbus Circle: shabby lollipop or landmark? -- Not everyone in Needham likes new library design (too much glass? where are the bricks?). -- de Menil's Modernist mansion in Texas restored. -- Deadline looms for emerging architecture awards. -- A new biographical dictionary of forgotten African American architects (women included). -- A new book looks at malls aging badly. -- Spanish architect wows them in Budapest. -- Long lost Breuer chair found.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_06_03.htm - June 3, 2004

Today's News - June 4, 2004

Will a New Urbanist development in Ohio threaten Cleveland's downtown? -- Fear that Provence could turn into a French Florida. -- Tel Aviv shoreline development plans a land-grab or good for the city? -- Lots of possibilities for Ottawa waterfront development - if the right decisions are made. -- East London's new leisure center "a scandal, just as much as the Millennium Dome but without the publicity." -- Waterloo tower plans panned. -- Manhattan's never-ending flair. -- London Eye designers left out of New York Eye plans? -- Indianapolis native (a.k.a. Michael Graves) returns home to kick-start Artspark. -- An architectural pioneer: African American and female. -- Koolhaas "Content" confounds and delights. -- "Greed to Green," the transformation from developer honcho to committed environmentalist. -- Cooper-Hewitt show misses the mark. -- Berkeley Prize Essay and Travel Fellowship competition winners announced.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_06_04.htm - June 4, 2004

Today's News - June 7, 2004

Big plans and downtown rebirths in London's King's Cross, Connecticut's New Haven, Glasgow, and Milwaukee. -- Architecture takes the stigma out of state housing in New Zealand. -- Adelaide misses the mark as a capital city. -- Eight critics debate culture at Ground Zero; Muschamp: "more sympathetic to the "cop-out" positionof reconstructing the twin towers more or less as they were." -- Stern oversees science center competition; deadline June 18. -- Manhattan's newest Meier tower has luxury in mind; an "architectural Arcadia" on Long Island finally off the boards. -- Instead of steel and concrete, a museum that can be "sawed, drilled and otherwise modified to artists' specifications." -- Icons of the 60s endangered in New York and Sydney. -- Wither U.S. design? -- Toronto's newest landmark is "architecture that concerns itself with space-making as well as city-building." -- Tracing history of mysterious architect. -- Shining projects win glass awards.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_06_07.htm - June 7, 2004

Today's News - June 8, 2004

High praise for New Urbanism village architecture (alas, no mention of the architect!). -- Old Hollywood Bowl revamped and reinvigorated. -- New Miami high rise out of scale and out of sync (original HOK design had the right idea; credit for new design hard to track). -- A new San Diego-like Gas Lamp District planned for Phoenix. -- Trees are to cities what walls are to buildings. -- Awards for developers and builders who save trees. -- Hadid gets her Pritzker in Moscow - and a juicy new project to boot. -- Noguchi Museum renovation makes it friendlier. -- Will Portland architects come to the party? -- French port town takes Charles Rennie Mackintosh to heart (in hopes for tourists). -- Atlas of world architecture "isn't a coffee-table book It's a coffee table waiting for its legs to be attached." -- Calling architectural technicians: lots of opportunity in Scotland. -- Quite a mix in Canada's Governor General's Medals in Architecture. -- New architecture award for budding urban design stars. -- New CEO for CABE. -- International photography call for entries. -- MoMA and the mob and "Yoshio Taniguchi, who has left nothing of Philip Johnson's work and very little of Cesar Pelli's."
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_06_08.htm - June 8, 2004

Today's News - June 9, 2004

EDITOR'S ALERT: We're off to Chicago for AIA national convention (and lots of rain, we hear). There will be no newsletter June 10 & 11; ANN will return on Monday, June 14. --- Dallas adds to its portfolio of Pritzker winners with new opera house and theater. -- U.K. tries to find balance between high design and high security in new embassies. -- Copenhagen's newest architectural jewel. -- Praise (if slightly backhanded) for Pelli performing arts center in Madison. -- The Royal Geographical Society's bet on "an unexpected and previously largely untried architect" pays off. -- Some progress - but not enough - in making cities accessible for people with disabilities. -- Australia's Northern Territory pays big bucks for its first government architect to provide "design leadership and will help raise the standard of our built environment." -- Richardsonian Romanesque treasure being restored in Boston. -- Interview with an urban ecologist. -- Alexander "Greek" Thomson: dark secrets and lost buildings. -- Architecture students want their mentor back. -- ASLA hands out medals. -- An interesting mix of shows at the Canadian Centre for Architecture this summer.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_06_09.htm - June 9, 2004

Today's News - June 14, 2004

A labor of love is U.K.'s Building of the Year (along with a few other hot projects). -- Muschamp changing his beat? -- Gaps in the greening of Chicago. -- Tower envy (and mediocre architecture?) in Toronto. -- Another thumbs-up for Holyrood. -- Back to the drawing board (and a second competition) for Berlin museum -- the original winner not happy at all. -- A state-of-art complex planned for Perth not really arts-friendly. -- A university master plan in Michigan: is it worth the price, and will it actually be followed? -- Plans on paper: University of California regents missing the point when looking at pictures. -- Big bucks for Clinton presidential library (with link to article questioning who should pay the big bucks). -- Revamped department store a cross between Blade Runner and teatime. -- Guggenheim getting a facelift. -- Four visionaries re-imagine Times Square. -- A house by Murcutt (the other one). -- A call to re-think how to teach architects about urbanism. -- The "stealth designers" reshaping Manhattan.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_06_14.htm - June 14, 2004

Today's News - June 15, 2004

Arthur Erickson's 80th a cause for civic celebration. -- You, too, can buy a St. Petersburg palace - and have money left over for restoration. -- Where the big bucks for big projects come from these days. -- Another New Jersey land initiative: sprawl or smart growth, depending on whom you talk to. -- Timely questions raised re: Kennedy Center expansion and plans for a Manhattan stadium. -- In China: A Scottish firm wins big in Beijing, and protesting too much "novelty architecture" and "squandered state assets on quirky notions of modern grandeur." -- Two cases of possible conflicts of interest in the U.K. -- Culture by committee at Ground Zero. -- Four proposals to bring Les Halles back to life. -- Huxtable waxes poetic about Nervi's Manhattan bus station. -- Alsop would rather you either love or hate (and eventually learn to love) his buildings. -- Interview with editor of the new book that celebrates African-American architects. -- AIA selects 2006 president.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_06_15.htm - June 15, 2004