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Today's News - July 17, 2002

Though not an unbiased news source, we lead today's news with a link to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation site because it offers the most complete set of visuals (including animations) of the 6 preliminary plans for the World Trade Center site. Rather than follow with rehashes of wire service reports from other papers, we present today's editorials from New York City's leading papers. (We've also repeated the ANN story that "connects many of the dots" involved in the WTC redevelopment process, including links to the "Imagine New York: An Exhibition of Ideas" that opens today, the "Listening to the City" town hall meeting scheduled for Saturday at the Javits Center, and other concerned coalitions and organizations).There is other news, of course: Take a tour of London's new "glass egg" cum City Hall; Canadians are pleased (for the most part) with Frank Gehry's first homeland commission; a tribute to William Lim, the "grand old man of Singapore's building design scene," pays as much homage to his hair as his accomplishments; Washington DC seems an appropriate setting for the new Spy Museum; and another Soviet-era hotel bites the dust...foreign design proposals welcome.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2002_07_17.htm - July 17, 2002

Today's News - July 22, 2002

Anyone traveling by Amtrak's new high-speed Acela trains along the northeast corridor (U.S.) will find their way to ticket counters and platforms without a problem. Our newest feature presents the signage program, by Calori & Vanden-Eynden/Design Consultants, is as elegant - and aerodynamic as the trains themselves.As you can well imagine, there is much follow-up to Saturday's "Listening to the City" town hall gathering in New Yorkmost of it opinion and commentary: "Don't be surprised if Disney-style urbanism winds up infecting the entire site." - Slate. "So rather than offer a solitary design to absorb the rage, disappointment and hatred of those viewing it, [the planning/design team] offered up six designs to absorb the blows." - New York Post. "looks to some eyes as if somebody dug up a chunk of downtown Dallas and plopped it on the Washington Mall." - New York Times. "Looks like Albany." - anonymous participant. Paul Goldberger and Nicolai Ouroussoff also have a few things to sayMeanwhileWashington, DC's original master planner is lauded, as is the city's new $799 million convention center (question: why is it so many in mainstream media cover large scale projects like this without ever mentioning the architects?); the Canadian Embassy there takes its licks; and historic preservation and adaptive re-use save a neighborhood. Historic preservation wins over a long-standing Louis Kahn design for a 500-year-old Jerusalem synagogue. Sasaki Associates won Beijing's heart with its master plan for Olympic venuesand much more.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2002_07_22.htm - July 22, 2002