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http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature48.htm - July 18, 2002

Today's News - Friday, September 28, 2007

Big may be the new beautiful in high-end tourism, but "building identical cookie-cutter luxury resorts will eventually prove short-sighted." -- Sustainability experts warn it's "the triumph of hope over experience" in fast-track eco-town competition. -- Zumthor's Cologne museum is "magnificently successful." -- Chipperfield's plan for Berlin's Neues Museum wins fans and foes. -- Kamin minces no words re: "fundamentally misconceived" plan put forward to put Chicago's Children's Museum underground; good architects being made to "walk an impossible tightrope." -- Big plans afoot for Baltimore's Walters Art Museum. -- A little brother for Chicago Spire? -- First shortened, then approved, now South Bank tower plan "called in." -- Genzyme's Boston flagship to get a lot bigger. -- "One of the most remarkable texts in American architecture," Marion Mahony Griffin's "The Magic of America" now on the web for all to see. -- A great reason to head to Vienna next week. -- Weekend diversions: Boddy goes to the movies: see "'One Way Street on a Turntable' and see a bit of what we are and what we are becoming." -- An eyeful of artful "Bathing Beauties" (a.k.a. beach huts) arrive in Lincolnshire (available for rent). -- The legacy of Swid Powell on view at Yale. -- Starchitects' scribbles at Buffalo's Albright-Knox. -- Piranesi's influence on modern architects, and Maurer's "peripatetic mind" at Cooper-Hewitt. -- Photographer to photographer: Q&A with Richard Barnes and Julius Shulman. -- One we couldn't resist: 10 suggestions for designing a city: "First we kill the architects. Then we burn the malls..."
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2007_09_28.htm - Friday, September 28, 2007

Today's News - Monday, June 18, 2007

ArcSpace makes its first foray to Beijing. -- The "'magnificent catastrophe' of the urban jungle" and yet cities "work wonderfully well." -- Thames Gateway: "Sadly, the British planning establishment has somehow lost its once-celebrated capacity for designing decent communities." -- Cambridge University's school of architecture tackles the impact of ethnic unrest on the built environment. -- A call to raise the international profile of Australian culture. -- Chicago isn't really as green as everyone had hoped. -- Who couldn't use a Bus Rapid Transit Planning Guide these days? -- King gives (mostly) thumbs-up three proposals for Presidio Lodge. -- Hume gives an emphatic thumbs-down for Toronto's Roundhouse plan as one example of city's "creative bankruptcy." -- Heathrow's new terminal may be a "cathedral to flight," but just try finding a place to sit. -- Boddy finds a new condo "one shipwreck of housing development" (Though he does find some elements to admire). -- Bing is gracious - but not happy - with peer review of Texas project already underway. -- What's striking about an oh-so-green building in Albuquerque building is how simple it was to get there. -- San Diego's Old Globe sees new life. -- Johnson's Glass House has more to offer than just tours. -- Who isn't taking part in Debate London this week? -- It's now Sir Peter Cook to us commoners. -- More on the "captivating documentary 'Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture'." -- Reminder: deadline looms for 1st stage design competition for a new Museum in Perm, Russia.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2007_06_18.htm - Monday, June 18, 2007