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http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature80.htm - October 17, 2002

Today’s News - Thursday, February 18, 2010

•   Q&A with Kunstler re: how he came to write "The Long Emergency" and why he advises: "If you live in the suburbs, you could sell your house and relocate to a place that has a future."
•   McDonald chats with RIAI's new president re: an 11-point action plan for "survival, renewal and recovery," and his mantra "architecture matters."
•   Rochon visits Vancouver's Olympic Village and finds it "a serious urban accomplishment" and "a test zone of urban daring" + a few Olympic additions "that inspire and impress" (Canada Pavilion not included).
•   Brussat on the "hypocrisy of additions, old and new" (and - gasp - "a modernist triumph (yes, even I love it)."
•   Merrick marvels at SANAA's "spectacular floating" Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne: sort of like Niemeyer's architecture "on acid" - but not really; watch out, starchitects - you now have some "serious competition." + an eyeful of what it looks like.
•   Atlanta Beltline design team selected (no pix - yet).
•   In Kentucky (as elsewhere), universities have to decide between operational budgets and new construction: "It is, indeed, a Sophie's Choice."
•   Yale's Morse College by Saarinen will sport right angles so square tables (and radiators) will fit into the corners of its rooms.
•   Holl will build again at flood-damaged University of Iowa.
•   Pearman offers an amusing romp through the history of hotel typology.
•   Levete's big impact in a tight setting in London "does more than capture the passing glance - it commands attention."
•   Heatherwick's "seed cathedral," a.k.a. British Pavilion, for the 2010 Shanghai Expo intends to change Chinese view of Britain.
•   Libeskind on his unusual career path: "My life has developed in a reverse order" + his new prefab house.
•   Seattle's DKA Architecture's central tenet serves nonprofits, public agencies with its "culture of resourcefulness": it's all about making do with what you have.
•   Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2010: DS+R and MVRDV make the Top 50 (plus a bunch more).
•   SpecSimple's "Save A Sample!" goes national to create "another life" for design firms' unused resource library materials by donating them to local design schools.
•   Call for entries: two-stage international competition is for the design of a children's center for the Aoibhneas Women and Children's Refuge in Dublin.

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http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_02_18.htm - Thursday, February 18, 2010

Today’s News - Friday, September 5, 2008

•   Weinstein's Words That Build Tip #6: Master a communications tool that generates copious variations on your theme.
•   Asia playing catch-up with learning how to give modern makeovers to historic buildings.
•   Mays finds a new "jaunty," swaggering tower will "stake a spot for Toronto on the international architectural landscape" - and a developer more interested in city-building than purse strings (and LEED Silver to boot).
•   King at the groundbreaking of a groundbreaking building to house 7 organizations that serve the disabled where Universal Design makes it a model for future non-medical buildings. Yale's pick of Stern sparks debate: students seem pleased; some critics agree, others don't.
•   KieranTimberlake's Cellophane House is "poised to change the residential marketplace."
•   Shortlist for $100,000 University of Kentucky Curry Stone Design Prize breakthrough projects that have the "power and potential to improve our lives and the world we live in."
•   AIA National Healthcare Design Award winners.
•   Weekend diversions - and debate: With Palladio, New Palladians, and Corbu on view in London, Robert Adam hails start of a classical revolution.
•   Baillieu says it's time to "ditch the mudslinging" - the "old debate about style detracts from the very real issue of how to produce an architecture that is progressive and truly original."
•   Dyckhoff is disappointed with Design Museum's "Design Cities"; it's "hardly the kind of ground-breaking exhibition to lend ballast to its argument that London is today the creative capital of the world."
•   Lautner at the Hammer pulls out all the stops (but Schulman growls "it's all blueprints!").
•   Rawsthorn on George Nelson as centenary retrospective about to open at Vitra Design Museum: his "bold look went beyond future schlock" and his contributions to the "Kleenex culture" he despised.
•   New documentary raises question: "If only Charles Correa were Mumbai's chief architect. The city might have scored higher on aesthetics and urban planning."
•   Photographer Dermansky on view in NYC presents "a global record of architectural structures that address issues of injustice and genocide that people might otherwise avoid."
•   Last chance to catch Kapoor's "shiny, curvy work" in Boston.
•   In Australia, a theatrical attempt to bring to life the remarkable but under-recognized Margarete Schutte Lihotsky "strains under narrative weight&hellip remarkable events do not guarantee memorable theater."

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2008_09_05.htm - Friday, September 5, 2008

Today’s News - Wednesday, August 13, 2008

•   A group of smart people answer the question: What will U.S. suburbs look like in 40 years? (Kunstler is "vastly entertaining")
•   British think tank report saying regeneration projects in the north should be abandoned called "barmy."
•   Why is so much of Edinburgh’s skyline in the hands of one man? Because "the developer, and the architect of his choice, is king."
•   Phyllis Lambert and some other prominent Canadians critique their cities.
•   Kamin’s "Skyscraper wars, part three."
•   Goldhagen eloquently explains why Nouvel deserved the Pritzker this year.
•   Q&A with an "affable, with moments of mischievous wit" Stern, who talks about how personal his Scully Prize is (and why he deserves a Ph.D. in juggling).
•   Farrelly on Food for the Future: it "will turn grungy, working-class town into a model of urban feeding."
•   An eyeful of what will be Dublin’s new canal park (floating gardens included).
•   Kaplan hopes, despite the downturn, that a new L.A. apartment complex is "a harbinger of sensitive urban infill projects of the future."
•   The once-stodgy Museum of the City of New York is stodgy no more as it unveils its future today.
•   Gunts talks to a few of the star contenders vying for University of Baltimore law school.
•   Two young African-American architects in Kansas City "have a clear view of their role in the design landscape."
•   Cheek reports from the new stadium in Indianapolis: at first, "a 19th-century factory on steroids," but finds an artfulness that "may be in the architects’ willingness to defy the ethic of it-could-be-anywhere modernism."
•   Houston Ballet has plans to grow by leaps and bounds.
•   A haunted hospital may become Louisville’s next luxe lodging (ghosts included).
•   Saffron applauds landmark designation for Philly’s Boyd Theater (but interiors not yet protected).
•   King plunges into Pflueger and Corbu monographs to find the architects "more alike than you’d expect."
•   Winners for 5.12 Sichuan Earthquake Memorial Landscape announced.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2008_08_13.htm - Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Today's News - Thursday, August 30, 2007

EDITOR'S NOTE: In honor of Labor Day (U.S.), we're taking a break from our labors...we'll be back Tuesday, September 4. ----- Conclusion from a Smart Growth Summit Baton Rouge: "It might not require a New Urbanist village to raise a child, but it really helps." -- A Kenyan architect comes up with a "community cooker" that can get rid of more than just garbage. -- Gehry's Utah development gets the go-head. -- Go-ahead for a South Bank development in London leaves many grumbling. -- Students designing a modern, energy efficient neighborhood of affordable homes in Tennessee. -- Decades in coming, Pakistan's National Art Gallery finally opens. -- Chicago's Greek museum might get a new home, tied to "what else? -- sales in a new condominium tower." -- A new center of the arts for Bowling Green. -- Farnsworth House barely escapes a flood, and another mid-century modernist gem in Chicago suburb to open its doors. -- Some familiar names on shortlist for Olympic handball venue. -- A way to hold on to historic treasures: resident curator programs. -- Some not-so-famous spaces in Seattle that "that create a sense of joy." -- What can happen when you order an ivy-covered cottage from your son, the architect. -- Weekend diversions: "Me, Myself and Infrastructure" at the Chicago Architecture Foundation is "sly, sometimes slightly coy and often subtly disturbing." -- Berlin's good social housing is finally getting the recognition it deserves at the Bauhaus Archive/Museum of Design. -- New York landmarks celebrated in London. -- "Looking Forward/Looking Back" the Cooper-Hewitt promotes the notion that design objects are more than decoration. - One we couldn't resist: a call for an "archive for humanity" on the moon.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2007_08_30.htm - Thursday, August 30, 2007

Today's News - February 9, 2007

Edinburgh mandates green building. -- Delaware waterfront plan gathers a stellar team. -- What Vancouver can learn from Melbourne about building an arts district. -- Robert Stern takes on Manhattan's Museum Mile. -- Philadelphia bridge plan is "a lost opportunity." -- Brisbane's vanishing heritage. -- In the sad case of Rudolph's Riverview school, the "school district, preservationists and the community should be embarrassed." -- A shorter London tower gets a thumbs-up. -- More culture for Abu Dhabi: a Ferrari theme park (and pix to prove it). -- Votes are in: Chicagoans win "City of the Future" competition. -- Cities everywhere climbing aboard the streetcar craze. -- Buyers circling Foster's firm. -- New Jane Jacobs Medal comes with a big purse. -- Calls for entries for innovative learning environments, and ULI student awards expand to Europe. -- "Spatial Inquiry" will confound and illuminate.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2007_02_09.htm - February 9, 2007