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Today's News - Friday, June 27, 2008

-- Western architects invade Russia (not enough local talent?). -- U.K.'s BRE under fire for focusing on "green gimmickry" rather than solid research. -- Saffron is pleased with Philadelphia mayor's endorsement of PennPraxis waterfront plan (and rethinking casino sitings). -- Q&A with Violy re: his Battersea plan: is he "a menace or a sustainable design hero?"-- Meanwhile, his "shimmery spaceship" is about to touch down at the Brooklyn Children's Museum. -- Calatrava's Jerusalem bridge: a "ship's sail, a crooked nail, or a giant headache"? -- Robin Hood Gardens design competition results are in! The most successful entries were not the most reverent. -- The most expensive house in the world: is it a bold statement or vulgar and inappropriate? -- Koshalek's contract won't be renewed, throwing some big plans into limbo. -- Perl's postcards from nowhere: museums that are "only brands designed to contain brands." -- Weekend diversions: Eliasson's NYC waterfalls are "actually relatively unobtrusive and brilliantly insidious" (with pix/video to prove it). -- Bucky at the Whitney "bears the stretch marks of its 1930s origins." -- London's Soane Museum is the perfect venue for Chipperfield Neues Museum show that is "really about the conservation dilemma." -- Murcutt in Tokyo wonders if he should have gone there 30 years ago. -- Norten's "inTENtions" in Monterey, Mexico. -- Louis Sullivan in Chicago. -- Page turners: Meier's American odyssey. -- "Building New Brunswick" offers "much to admire and quite a bit to condemn." -- The secrets of the Golden Gate in a "colorful, graphic-novel-style." -- "Stonehenge" is a "fascinating and delightful book."
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2008_06_27.htm - Friday, June 27, 2008

Today's News - Thursday, July 19, 2007

Good news/bad news day for Modernism: Why we should care about the fate of Modernist masterpieces. -- RFQ to reuse Rudolph's Riverview High School. -- Mies's MLK library is landmarked. -- Ingenuity abounds in ideas to save Breuer tower (sadly, not much hope it will survive). -- Russell is disappointed in WTC5 tower plans (but hopefully not too late to get things right). -- MSU Broad Art Museum shortlist designs unveiled. -- Duke picks Pelli Clarke Pelli. -- Mayne on Yu and more. -- National Design Award winners feted at the White House. -- RAIA awards Melbourne's best abodes. -- An American architect's "eureka moment" in Ireland. -- A socialist's take on Hadid's London show. -- Becker on building Asia brick by brick - in Legos. -- Gardner is fairly entranced by Russian avant-garde on view at MoMA. -- A tribute to the man who rescue France's architectural treasures from the vandalism of 19th-century developers.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2007_07_19.htm - Thursday, July 19, 2007