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Traditional Brick: A Contemporary Solution at University of New Hampshire by Anshen+Allen

Durham, N.H.: New forms and expressions with traditional materials create a forward-looking contemporary building that expresses the engineering disciplines it houses.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature271.htm - December 11, 2008

Classic Nuance: Simon Hall at Indiana University by Flad Architects

A new research facility fits harmoniously with neighboring historic campus structures.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature257.htm - July 18, 2008

Modern Focus on the Patient: Intermountain Medical Center by Anshen + Allen

Murray, Utah: A massive healthcare facility gives form to a parallel shift in medicine that emphasizes the art of healing rather than the mere administration of scientific procedures.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature235.htm - Gregory Hoadley

Discovery and Collaboration = Chemical Reaction: University of Missouri-Columbia Life Sciences Center by Anshen+Allen Architects in association with BNIM Architects

Columbia, MO: A variety of interaction areas, clustered faculty offices, and an inviting atrium encourage interdisciplinary research and make science a part of everyday campus life.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature163.htm - April 7, 2005

Today’s News - Tuesday, August 31, 2010

•   We're back from the Biennale and will have our own report one of these days (when we're a bit less dazed).
•   In the meantime, Glancey, Menking, and Hawthorne offer their (often amusing) takes on what they saw.
•   Eyefuls of the winners of Golden Lions for best national pavilion, best project, etc. (our fingers were crossed that our fave from the Kingdom of Bahrain would win - it did!).
•   Also making a splash along the canals of Venice: Audi Urban Future Award winner J. Mayer H. (and notable runner-up's).
•   Heathcote says Strelka is no ordinary architecture school, but "an arrow pointing in the right direction" for Moscow (hopefully - with Koolhaas at the helm).
•   Massive mega-project Stuttgart 21 faces major resistance, mostly because of a serious "breakdown in communications" between citizens and politicians: "is the idea genuinely bad or just poorly marketed?"
•   Hadid bags her first commission in Baghdad.
•   Davidson on the "crop of ungainly monoliths that will soon make up Manhattan's skyline" + the battle over the Empire State Building's views "was over before it even really began."
•   Bozikovic finds Teeple's new Toronto co-op is "a building that works. Yes, it looks sexy and impractical," but "it has substance, too."
•   Rothstein finds mixed messages in the new Yellowstone visitor center overlooking Old Faithful: "the geyser is so carefully framed here, it can seem almost denatured" (but, for the most part, he likes it).
•   Stantec's buying spree now includes Anshen + Allen: the "acquisition is being made on friendly terms, a 'must' for this industry because people are the assets."
•   If that's true, what's in store for RMJM, which just lost five key people (and some uncertainty about former Hillier office in Princeton to boot?).

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_08_31.htm - Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Today’s News - Tuesday, April 6, 2010

•   Heathcote on the transformation of mega-cities to meta-cities, "a new breed of city" with lots of problems, but none are insoluble - "the city remains, on the whole, a civilizing place."
•   Hume x 2: when it comes to transit, politics has a blind spot that puts Toronto and the region 25 or more years behind where they should be.
•   He cheers Ryerson University urban planning students' proposals organized around a public transit network: "they are light years ahead of today's thinking."
•   A Stanford study finds land preservation efforts in Silicon Valley have had only a minor effect on housing construction, and demand for urban housing close to jobs and transit has helped bring developers and conservation groups together.
•   Greenberg resigns from Toronto waterfront sports complex project because it "fails to integrate with the Plan for the Lower Don Lands" (but he'll remain on the master plan team).
•   King on the preservation debate swirling around two lowly Presidio barracks, "an example of the inherent subjectivity as to what preservation in the 21st century should be."
•   BSA's Rotch Traveling Scholarship winner and runners-ups show "the potential for remaking the much-reviled Boston City Hall and its sprawling empty plaza at a time when its fate is in limbo" (now, if only the powers-that-be would pay attention - great slide show).
•   Chihuly glass museum debate revives question: Is Seattle Center a park or arts hub?
•   SANAA tapped to transform 141-year-old Art Nouveau La Samaritaine department store in Paris into a hotel.
•   OMA wins competition for Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec expansion (lots of pix).
•   ZGF wins $61 million Homeland Security HQ contract.
•   Merrick cheers the Junction, a new arts and civic center in Yorkshire: it is "a joy...viscerally anti-bling and a small triumph of lo-fi design."
•   Kennicott cheers a new Washington, DC, library: it "isn't radical or innovative, but it is the product of thoughtful design, and it looks handsome...a good reminder of why people pay taxes and what they get in exchange."
•   Arad's Holon Design Museum in Israel aims for the Bilbao effect; it "might lack its Spanish role model's interesting location and size," but it "makes up for any shortcomings with sheer chutzpah."
•   SHIFTboston competition winners are part of "a growing movement that aims to preserve - and reuse - urban infrastructure."
•   The Ford Foundation has a $100 million initiative to develop arts spaces and housing.
•   2010 IIDA-NC Honor Award and Pioneers in Design winners announced.
•   Call for entries: Build a Better Burb open ideas competition to retrofit 3 Long Island downtowns (cash prizes; no fee).

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_04_06.htm - Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Today’s News - Monday, March 15, 2010

•   ArcSpace brings us Kuma's "green glass box" in Beijing.
•   Did Utzon do some "unconscious borrowing" from Bartning's 1922 Star Church for the Sydney Opera House?
•   Moore surveys Pitt's Make It Right project: "is it just a celebrity ego trip or a true regeneration?"
•   Clinical care inside former shipping containers for underserved areas of the developing world (hoping Haiti is the next stop).
•   Ouroussoff finds nary a misstep in Nouvel's 100 11th Ave. in Manhattan: it's "a sly commentary on the conflict between public and private realms," and "demonstrates what a major talent can accomplish when he focuses his mind on a small corner of the city."
•   Lifson is lifted by the experience of walking through Maki's "magnificent" MIT Media Lab: it's "exquisite" and offers "a new definition of what's 'cool' in modern architecture." (great pix, too)
•   Saffron sings high praise for a "voluptuous" new row house in Philadelphia that "bends all those right-angle rules" at just the right angles.
•   Big plans for a Libeskind and a Safdie on Boston's Greenway not so big anymore.
•   Big plans for Seattle Center seem a bit "light on the vision thing": they're "not quite ready for prime time."
•   On an even darker note, a plan for a Chihuly museum "is in keeping with Seattle Center's glorious tradition of schlock."
•   Ikea thinks big with an "airport-sized" development in Moscow (lots of culture included).
•   Good news/bad news on the preservation front: restoration of Kahn's 1955 Trenton Bath House is (finally!) underway.
•   A. Quincy Jones barn in L.A. to be restored "using a very light touch."
•   China plans to restore an Art Deco gem of a movie theater in Nanjing.
•   Gallagher cheers the last-minute saving of Yamasaki archives, but warns that without diligence more of Michigan's architectural history will be lost.
•   Litt re: Cleveland Clinic's razing of a historic school building, prompting debate about preservation and highlighting "a curious anomaly in city planning regulations."
•   An architect decries the possible demolition of a house in Cincinnati: "Tearing down a culturally significant historic building is usually a bad idea" (especially when done by a foundation with a "mission of encouraging conservation").
•   Hume x 2: cheers for a new waterfront park that doubles as a water treatment facility; and watch out Toronto - woonerfs are coming to town to give precedence to pedestrians: "the most remarkable aspect of the project is that it's happening at all."
•   Archial Group rebrands its overseas business as Alsop Sparch (try saying that fast three times).
•   Scott Brown offers an eloquent essay: What good is language to an architect?
•   Call for entries/EOI for a visitor security screening facility for Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh.
•   Happy(?) Ides of March!

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_03_15.htm - Monday, March 15, 2010

Today’s News - Thursday, June 4, 2009

•   Kamin on landmark law turmoil: "If Chicago's law falls, could ordinances in New York or Los Angeles also be toppled?"
•   A wrecking ball headed for parts of Dinosaur National Monument's 1958 visitors center (at least a cool part will be saved).
•   Filler finds plenty to criticize about Lincoln Center, "parts of which annoy me more and more as time goes by," but "one cannot imagine life in America's cultural capital without it."
•   Brussat (as expected) takes on the Modernist onslaught of Providence: "The uglitarians are inside the gates"; and an image gallery to prove his point.
•   Appelbaum on Times Square's lesson in design value: "the plan that gets people together quickly and cheaply should guide policymaking...a convincing start toward reinventing a city."
•   Financially-strapped Chicago is losing the battle against "sight blight" by "joining the push to commercialize the public way."
•   A peek at Viñoly's latest re-do of Battersea.
•   Legorreta is "happy" with the almost-complete Fort Worth Museum of Science and History; it will be "'an environment of happiness and playfulness,' not a sacred or intimidating place."
•   An eyeful of Wood's design for Apple's 2nd Beijing store that will combine classic Chinese design with Mac's signature glass and metal.
•   An eyeful of 49th Annual LA Architectural Award-winners signifies "a shift from praising spindly sky-grazing towers to humble community assets."
•   Antonelli's "new map for design" includes a shift to "a practice of experimentation, ideas take precedence over products."
•   L.A. MoCA lays off architecture curator Hodge, cancels blockbuster Morphosis show, but says it is "committed to its architecture and design program" (sans curator).
•   Students in Louisville and Tacoma reinvent a run-down neighborhood and re-think housing using shipping containers.
•   India's Council of Architecture makes it a bit easier for students to major in architecture.
•   China's Ordos Prize will be first to award a commission to design a building.
•   Call for EOI/PPQ: Competition revamp Manchester's civic center.
•   Call for entries: AJ Common of Houses competition to solve the controversy over MPs' second homes.
•   We couldn't resist: East German airplane to become luxury hotel in the Netherlands (whirlpool and sauna included).

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2009_06_04.htm - Thursday, June 4, 2009

Today’s News - Wednesday, January 14, 2009

•   In Brooklyn, a new community center re-imagines public architecture and what civic buildings represent.
•   Calys cheers small town public buildings: "they aren't ho-hum any more."
•   AIA develops Rebuild and Renew Plan to stimulate economy and create 1.6 million jobs (let's hope Obama crew and Congress listen!).
•   Seven questions every firm needs to answer to see a "future beyond the economic dilemmas of today."
•   Campbell bids adieu to the "Bilbao Decade."
•   Viladas steps into the Cannell vs. Moss flap: "Score one for designers."
•   Stepping into the conversation now: Starck, Conran, and Allsopp debate the future of their industries in these lean times.
•   Another (not very positive) take on U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
•   A $5,000 dwelling made out of paper could revolutionize slums.
•   An environmentally-friendly cement that eats carbon dioxide could revolutionize construction.
•   Voelz Chandler gives (mostly) thumbs-up to 3 new Denver buildings that, while contemporary, get along with their more traditional, historic neighbors.
•   A new bridge for the Portland-Vancouver area could include vertical wind turbines; not all are convinced.
•   Heathcote heaps praise on London's "quirky, delightful little" Garden Museum.
•   Hume takes us on a stroll through the "accidental wilds" of the "new urban wilderness emerging in the shadowy spaces" beneath the Gardiner Expressway.
•   Parker receives Lifetime Achievement Award from ACHA.
•   We couldn't resist: the $40,000 workstation to replace your desk, chair, and computer setup (we're adding this to our Christmas wish list!).

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2009_01_14.htm - Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Today’s News - Thursday, December 11, 2008

•   University of New Hampshire's new science complex uses traditional materials to create a contemporary building.
•   LEED 2009 approved; revised certification system 'reweights' certain credits, rewards design innovation.
•   Brussat weighs in on the Duany vs. British architects brouhaha.
•   Hume hails a preservation project transforming an abandoned 19th-century industrial site into the "green heart of the sustainable city."
•   AIA HQ re-do is "an example of renovating in sustainable ways."
•   Cranes on New Haven's skyline indicate developments continue despite downturn.
•   Litt basically likes revised Cleveland Institute of Art design: at least it "lessens the odds that it could be perceived as a comical confrontation between the two architecture firms."
•   Calgary bridge controversy continues: "there are more than a few future Calatravas among us who equally deserve a chance to compete."
•   More on Mecca makeover: "Even if Hadid fails to win a commission, the fact that an Arab woman is in the running for such a prestigious project speaks volumes."
•   It's 'disgraceful" that there's opposition to a new parliament building for Malta "designed by one of the leading architects of our time" (Renzo Piano, though not mentioned).
•   A new design for London's controversial Potters Fields site.
•   Van Valkenburgh/Toshiko Mori to design Hudson Yards Boulevard (though it's not official, it seems).
•   Foster's Yale School of Management expansion to be "strikingly modern" (not a hint of James Gamble Rogers c. 1889).
•   Glancey's round-up of 2008 architectural highs (scroll way down).
•   A "super-regenerator" generates a secret government report on how to kickstart the U.K. housing market.
•   Israeli Azrieli designs his legacy dedicated to education.
•   Is RIBA/RIAS collaboration heading for a divorce?
•   Call for entries: Greener Gadgets Design Competition.
•   We couldn't resist: A life-size replica of the Taj Mahal in Bangladesh. - The Indian government is not amused; will "investigate to see if any copyright laws had been breached."

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2008_12_11.htm - Thursday, December 11, 2008