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Exhibition: "A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals" at the National Building Museum

If you missed this stunning, touching show in New York, you have until June to see it in Washington, DC.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature11.htm - April 4, 2002

Today’s News - Monday, September 8, 2008

•   ArcSpace brings us de Portzamparc in Brazil, and Moneo at RISD.
•   McGuigan looks forward to the day when green architecture "won't be discretionary but required...Then we could all shut up about it."
•   Q&A with two U.K. green architects: "Green technology is not something that can be bolted on."
•   A new environmental game to determine how human behavior and land use affect air quality.
•   A call for Phoenix to regain its seemingly lost architectural moxie in settling for low-bid buildings and timid design.
•   Ouroussoff offers a few highlights of the coming architectural season.
•   Davidson dives into a building-by-building survey of what's hot (and what's not) in new New York architecture (it's exhaustive and worth the time!).
•   The architects behind the starchitects (or what the architects-of-record really do).
•   Glancey finds the Darwin Centre "a quietly masterful stroke" (though it might be a bit too "Kafka-esque" for some).
•   Amery finds the "giant egg" a building "of great originality and intelligence...that functions both practically and dramatically."
•   Hadid to get value-engineered again - this time in Glasgow.
•   Rochon on the latest trend in university design: offering "big-city pleasures wrapped up in welcoming, occasionally daring architecture."
•   Saffron is pleased to see the trend catching on in new state college buildings because today, "merely being a bargain is not enough."
•   Rockwell lands the 2008 Sarno Award for contributions to the field of casino design and architecture.
•   MoMA's Lowry begs to differ with Ouroussoff's take on Koolhaas not winning the job Taniguchi ultimately landed.
•   Deadline reminder: 56th Annual P/A Awards - September 19.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2008_09_08.htm - Monday, September 8, 2008

Today's News - Monday, April 28, 2008

EDITOR'S NOTE: We're back - with a lot of catching up to do! ----- ArcSpace takes us to Lisbon and brings us a new book with an inside look at Vitra's collaboration with architects and designers. -- One year later, experts assess PlaNYC 2030. -- King assesses San Francisco's plans to go ever higher. -- Only in Las Vegas: plans to build a new downtown right next to the decaying one. -- Hume is optimistic about Waterfront Toronto's first housing project for West Don Lands. -- Lewis bemoans the pathetic state of American infrastructure: is anyone paying attention? -- Krier x 2: he attacks "idiot" architects who build "absurd shapes"; and of sustainable architecture and the environmental merits of traditional buildings. -- AIA Billings Index portends recession. -- A Caribbean luxury development boasts big-name architects, but does it bode well for the birds? -- Better news (and big bucks) for badgers: U.K. eco-home (only about $6,000/square-foot). -- Hawthorne hails Violy's creative approach to UCLA project (it has "intriguing things to say about the role of the parking garage"). -- And he has high hopes that Dodger Stadium re-do will "encourage fans to come earlier, stay later - and even visit in January." -- Glancey is aglow about newly restored St-Martin-in-the-Fields on Trafalgar Square. -- An eyeful of Alsop's new pavilion for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. -- Boddy is practically giddy over "a bold new interpretation" of Westcoast Modern. -- Dubbeldam's distinct Dutch-American blend: "tactics for one-upmanship" not included. -- An eyeful of 2008 Europe 40 Under 40 talent.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2008_04_28.htm - Monday, April 28, 2008

Today's News - January 10, 2007

Dyckhoff proposes a "Carbuncle Cup" for architecture "so hideous that it could curdle milk." -- A cautionary tale: Canadian flavor sapped out of China's Maple Town (palm trees anyone?). -- Green building renovations starting to take root. -- Rome juggles between its past and future. -- Another troubled stadium, this time in New Zealand, but heading for a happy ending (they hope). -- Inaugural IIDA/Metropolis Smart Environments Award winners are "kind to their occupants and the earth equally, in addition to being beautiful." -- Rockwell's playground revolution. -- Big plans for a casino complex in "small" Bethlehem, PA, to include a lotta culture. -- An amusing analysis of Tom Wolfe's attack on the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission ("I'm not even really a preservationist"). -- Kamin offers Chicago architecture news and forecast. -- King as a "rambling rube" waxes ever so poetic about winter light on San Francisco's architecture (even the bad stuff looks good). -- Hugh Ferriss' iconic Chrysler Building print goes on the block.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2007_01_10.htm - January 10, 2007

Today's News - November 6, 2006

ArcSpace brings us SANAA in the Netherlands, and shopping in Tokyo. -- Kamin finds two projects prove there's a place for subtlety in an age of spectacle. -- The proliferation of glass condo towers that look like "look like live-in limousines." -- The story behind the one-two punch in Denver's Civic Center saga. -- Campbell finds "excitement and delight" in Denver's new museum: "Libeskind has simply taken a well-known architectural language and used it to write a better poem." -- A Q&A with the 3 finalists vying for Denver's Clyfford Still Museum. -- New study finds sprawl not the cause of sprawling waistlines. -- Boddy finds Vancouver's EcoDensity Initiative a "minor masterpiece of the literature of greenwashing." -- Glancey revisits Britain's 60-year-old new towns and wonders if it is "time to embrace Basildon, Milton Keynes and co." -- A Canadian community looks to embrace New Urbanism (not without growing pains). -- Hopeful lessons in the Jacobs vs. Moses debate. -- Lowly rooftops becoming Corbu's dream of being the "fifth facade." -- Lessons sprout from a lone patch of green roof in the Bronx. -- One proposal for L.A.'s Cornfield Park is way out there (but at least it stirred the pot). -- Pearman finds a new London gallery "chillingly impressive." -- A third Sullivan treasure in Chicago goes up in smoke. -- A look at how sustainability is suddenly good for business. -- A Parsons program has students hanging their hearts on their hardhats. -- NYC firms offer their visions of the city in 2016.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2006_11_06.htm - November 6, 2006

Today's News - October 30, 2006

ArcSpace brings us more than just a new hotel in Tokyo, and an art pavilion in the Netherlands. -- We lose an early champion of International Style. -- Australian architects organize to help those in desperate need. -- New neighborhoods in Seattle that are socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable. -- Affordable housing in NYC can still afford elegant touches. -- A Canadian architect designs model home for the have-nots in the Philippines. -- At Hadid's new Maggie's Centre, patients will "feel hugged" by the building. -- A woman architect working with mostly women to design Toronto's Women's College Hospital: "This is so refreshing." -- Mendes da Rocha on architecture and the future of humanity. -- Things are finally looking up for one of Melbourne's "least lovely sites." -- Navy Pier taking the right steps, but still too early to break out the bubbly, says Kamin. -- Glancey meets the architects determined to make London's Abbey Mills mosque a building that offers "hope of reconciliation within and between different cultures and beliefs." -- A very positive take on Mount Vernon's new centers (without a Doric column in sight). -- Hats off to Ban's Centre Pompidou-Metz (literally and figuratively). -- L.A.'s Griffith Observatory ready for its close-up: "preservation allowed a certain measure of unorthodoxy." -- Architects gathered in Chicago to debate 21st-century icons (and figure out how to wash the windows). -- A look at a Welton D. Becket modern classic. -- An exhibit in NYC blurs the line between architecture and installation art. -- Call for applications: Inaugural Jane Jacobs Fellowship opportunity in New Orleans.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2006_10_30.htm - October 30, 2006

Today's News - November 5, 2004

Why don't architects get credit in press reportsand does it matter? (We think so.) -- Starchitect projects certainly get a lot of ink (and proving profitable for developers' pockets as well). -- Will ferries be crossing the (long-hidden) Mersey again? -- L.A. River plans roll along. -- Pennsylvania river towns making a mark with Main Street programs. -- Another development battle brewing on another historic London corner. -- U.K. building codes called "eco-timebomb." -- A call for design and architecture schools to take the lead in "practicing environmental sustainability and social equity." -- A new dorm in Philadelphia has "all the charm of a highway sound barrier." -- Glass cancer cracking London windows. -- Can Wal-Mart make a good neighbor to Mexican pyramids? -- Chicago day care center threatens shrine to skyscraper hero. -- Moms are heroes to architectural illustrator (and the writer). -- Geddes to be feted at Princeton. -- Anything Goes? Hadid to kick off MAD New Technologies & Materials Conference in NYC.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_11_05.htm - November 5, 2004

Today's News - August 17, 2004

It must be Ugly Building Day in Scotland (architects pick a demolition hit list); Toronto (so bad the architects aren't even mentioned); and Seattle (architect demands correction, might sue, and critic quits). -- Design grand projects keeping in mind the "ordinary people who will - or otherwise won't - use them" (what a concept!). -- A downtown campus where art and architecture colleges (and businesses) have plenty of room to blossom. -- A green school is "the poster child for eco-minded." -- Expanding seminary to include affordable housing and performing arts center. -- Zero-energy houses not the stuff of dreams anymore. -- Landscape architects create and artful garden. -- Architects re-imagine security barriers. -- New conferences focus on transportation alternatives and sustainable building techniques and technology. -- 3-day journal report from CA Boom (with lots of pix).
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_08_17.htm - August 17, 2004

Today's News - June 28, 2002

It is not typical to find architecture listed at the top of "visual arts" categories (it usually follows painting and sculpture), so it is refreshing to see that the inaugural cycle of the just-launched Rolex Mentor and Protg Arts Initiative leads with architecture (along with dance, literature, music, and theater arts). Even more heartening is the selection of a young architect from Jordan who is doing wonderful but - until now - unheralded work. Sahel Al-Hiyari now has a year (and a stipend) to broaden his horizons, literally and figuratively, to glean inspiration from his mentor, lvaro Siza.Other news: Herbert Muschamp ventures to MoMA QNS; PWD Consultants (formerly Singapore's Public Works Department) is now considered an independent practice, but not everyone sees it that way; Arata Isozaki's Globe Theatre in Tokyo is for sale as of July; there are cheers and jeers for a decision to make a developer of luxury housing pay into the coffers for affordable housing; and, should you find yourself in Berlin this weekend, Daniel Libeskind will be conducting the Deutsche Opera.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2002_06_28.htm - June 28, 2002