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Today's News - Monday, May 5, 2008

ArcSpace brings us UNStudio's first NYC project, and Studio Granda in Iceland. -- British architects sound off about their wishes for London (will the city's new mayor listen?). -- King says planned new high-rise area in San Francisco "can exude a dynamic urbanity" - with attention to what's on the ground. -- Miss Brooklyn to be a lot shorter (and renamed "B1" - ugh). -- Now in its 5th incarnation, design for Chicago Children's Museum still leaves Kamin with questions. -- Heathcote gives two (more like three) thumbs-up to London's first Maggie's Centre. -- American urban rivers making major comebacks. -- Hume's eloquent ode to the lost art of strolling. -- Columbia, Maryland, in search of its own urban center. -- Debate heats up over plans to redevelop San Francisco's Parkmerced neighborhood. -- Kamin on the ever-changing and complex battle to preserve Chicago's past (facade-echtomy, anyone?). -- He has some hopeful news re: SOM's 1954 Gunner's Mate School/Building 521. -- Architects brainstorm ideas to re-use Saarinen's Bell Labs. -- A castle-like former asylum in upstate New York gets a face-lift and a new purpose. -- Aging planners not being replaced by younger generation. -- Flight 93 Memorial design still raising hackles. -- Calls for entries: AIA National Healthcare Design Awards, and 2008 Record Interiors awards. -- SEGD Conference heads to Austin at the end of the month.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2008_05_05.htm - Monday, May 5, 2008

Today's News - October 5, 2005

Hot off the press: Hollyrood wins RIAS Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture. -- A PBS discussion among urban planners about rebuilding New Orleans. -- A Dutch solution: houses that float. -- Is it time we learn to love sprawl? -- Eminent domain as a tool for curbing urban decay and sprawl (or is it?). -- Melbourne waterfront experts with some sound advice for Toronto: "it's so easy to get it wrong." -- Meanings of memorials: architects learn the hard way. -- Two experts debate the progress and pitfalls of LEED certification. -- Portland Building to sport green top (might be the best thing about it?). A thin line between what is and isn't truly public space. -- U.K.'s modernist white elephant a pleasure palace once again (now it just needs to have fun). -- A former missile base in Germany and a subdivision in Korea's DMZ blossom with art and architecture. -- NYC's Museum of Chinese in the Americas taps Maya Lin for new digs. -- California firm tapped for University of Virginia project. -- An exhibit in Beirut looks at the "fading poetry of old Lebanese architecture. -- Call for papers for Architecture|Music|Acoustics conference in Toronto next year.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2005_10_05.htm - October 5, 2005

Today's News - October 27, 2004

Wanted: striking entrance for University Of British Columbia. -- And the winners are: Business Week/Architectural Record Awards cover the globe. -- Australia names its own stars. -- Sleek streetlights for New York City streets. -- In New Zealand, extravagant new buildings may win awards, but they're often dysfunctional - and cost too much. -- Speaking of dysfunctional, Columbia University student center looks for a long-overdue overhaul. -- Ditto Toronto's SkyDome. -- Glass art as architecture. -- Skyscraper planned for Nashville. -- Luxury lands in Seattle. -- A pedestrian bridge in London curls up and out of the way (great pix). -- My House magazine to launch regionally.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_10_27.htm - October 27, 2004