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Design by the Bushel: San Francisco design firms work fast to bring Slow Food Nation ′08 to the city′s front door, August 29 to September 1

http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature260.htm - August 25, 2008

Today’s News - Wednesday, February 17, 2010

•   A dressing down of starchitects who "feel able to design abominable" buildings, and "expect the rest of us to be admiring, deferential and grateful" (specifically Libeskind in Dresden and Hadid in Oxford - ouch!).
•   Ditto for Canadian architects designing "technological dinosaurs" and missing opportunities being filled by others: the "profession has marginalized itself with its passive stance."
•   A new report warns London's 2012 Olympics "may not leave its promised legacy of regeneration" (perhaps a study trip to Vancouver would help).
•   Lubell is a bit kinder than Hawthorne was to L.A. Live's new hotel/condo tower: it's overall aesthetic may not be "earth-shattering," but it's still "a major step forward for an urban project that has been sorely lacking in innovative design and urbanism."
•   An infusion of big bucks for NYC's Moynihan Station plans (remember those?), but its future is still "murky" (bless the transit advocates who are trying to stay optimistic - so are we).
•   H&deM tapped for a residential project in Beirut with hopes it will "raise the bar in terms of quality architecture and community development."
•   Baghdad names a winner in a competition to develop an area surrounding shrines in Al Kadhimiya that is "sensitive to area's historical, cultural and social character."
•   An impressive shortlist to reinvent Toronto's St. Lawrence Market North building.
•   Potential work for green designers? Ford to offer dealerships a sustainability program to help them become more energy-efficient.
•   Discovering the mystery of the tent-roofed cube house, the "most characteristic countryside building type of 20th century Hungary."
•   Glancey offers a glowing (but bitter-sweet) tribute to Eduardo Catalano: the ghost of his house in Raleigh "lives on to haunt the architectural imagination."
•   Mark your calendars: this Saturday is 20x20 Pecha Kucha Haiti fundraiser in 200+ cities around the world (check listings - some cities are doing it on different dates).
•   Szenasy challenges design competitions to get beyond awarding prizes based on pretty pictures: it's "a hopelessly outdated approach" that "does a disservice to everyone."
•   Winners all (pretty pictures included): 4th Annual Smart Environment Awards for "for intimate spaces that are not just inspirational but humane"; Travel + Leisure's Design Awards 2010 (Motel 6 among 'em!); and UPTO35 winner is a "bold scheme" for student-housing in the historic center of Athens.
•   Call for entries: UNESCO poster to celebrate "2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures."
•   We couldn't resist: some really amazing 3D pavement art (part deux).

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_02_17.htm - Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Today’s News - Thursday, November 13, 2008

•   How architects can buoy up business in the downturn: 20 essential steps to show you how to check your practice's financial health.
•   Gehry and his AGO take center stage: Hume says it's the "most effortless and relaxed architectural masterpiece Toronto has seen."
•   The master's only regret: the rift it caused with his friend Barton Myers.
•   An in-depth look at the AGO's often contentious relationship with its neighbors now it's broken out of its "ivory-tower syndrome."
•   Rybczynski's "Piano's California Adventure Part II": he likes it a lot!
•   Brussat on Providence's "Make no little plans" charrette: maybe a recession is "a really good time to practice the ethos of "small is beautiful""?"
•   Bay Area architects making their marks on Shanghai.
•   British firms barred from US Embassy competition ("for security reasons" huh?).
•   Meanwhile, British architecture and urban planning students are being trained how to reduce the impact of terrorism in the buildings they design.
•   Baguio City (Philippines) revisits its 1906 Burnham Plan as a template that could be applied to current urban renewal.
•   Under threat: a mid-century modern Lord & Taylor in Connecticut; and Trinidad's "Painted Ladies." - A look at the 3 (green) Czech buildings up for the Mies van der Rohe Award.
•   Call for Entries: ASLA 2009 Professional and Student Awards.
•   A good reason to head to Dubai: The Big 5 Technical Conference and GAIA Awards.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2008_11_13.htm - Thursday, November 13, 2008

Today's News - Tuesday, April 24, 2007

ArcSpace brings us two projects in Aarhus, Denmark. -- A green city in China is a "dramatic gambit" in urban design that will test whether cities everywhere can get greener as they grow. -- L.A. puts forth "Do Real Planning" plan. -- A 1965 book has King ticking off checklist of how San Francisco has grown - the good and the bad. -- For some, new BBC HQ is not iconic enough. -- 24-story tower next to Tate Modern rejected (again). -- Never mind the self-conscious, trendy street furniture design - is Toronto selling its public realm to a scofflaw? -- Is Ground Zero in for another power struggle? -- So much rejection...there's a better, ore constructive way to say "no." -- Too many hotels in Vegas? Never. -- With new TODs on the boards, Utah commuter rail is finally paying off. -- Heathrow's Terminal 5 is ready, on time and on budget (but, oh, those pesky bean counters). -- AIA + Google Earth = layers of American architecture. -- What the world needs now: Harry Potter theme park. -- 17th century Beijing theater about to bite the dust. -- Even as Gaud is considered for sainthood, his masterpiece is under threat. -- Call for entries: 1st Annual R+D Awards. -- Winners all: U.K. Building Awards and AIA San Francisco Design Awards.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2007_04_24.htm - Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Today's News - January 29, 2007

ArcSpace brings us an eyeful of new museum projects. -- A sometimes touching, sometimes biting take on the world "now studded with memorials." -- Green giants: A global teach-in on global warming - sign up now. -- Businesses now vying to save the planet; so are British supermarkets, the Super Bowl, and lots of sporting events. -- A new media center in Bristol, U.K., will be "the largest straw bale building in Europe." -- IIDA/Metropolis issue a call for entries for Smart Environments Awards. -- Ouroussoff ponders: Can Gehry save Grand Avenue? -- Adjaye to Dyckhoff: "I feel like a foot soldier at the front..." -- Rybczynski likes the de Young (except from a distance). -- Inspired Dutchmen help Middlesbrough, U.K., lose its "crap town" tag. -- A stellar shortlist for University College Dublin's Gateway project. -- Goldberger rethinks Robert Moses. -- Revisit vintage Moses vs. Jacobs in 1959 Mumford column. -- In Firminy, Dyckhoff finds Corbu the humanist (not the tyrant). -- Hume's heart takes flight at new Pearson terminal. -- Call for ideas to re-use Carlsberg Brewery site in Copenhagen. -- Winners all at 28th Annual Interiors Awards. -- One we couldn't resist: Dubai as the "most curious catechism to capitalism" (amazing images, though no architects named).
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2007_01_29.htm - January 29, 2007

Today's News - October 26, 2005

Being very tall has never been bigger. -- Ten rules for successful Transit Oriented Development (TOD). -- The EPA's Best Workplaces for Commuters list (and why). -- In California, "granny flats" are one solution for affordable housing (design included). -- In Texas, offshore wind farms may be the new black gold (if they can figure out if there's enough wind). -- A jewel of a shed for a new museum on the Welsh waterfront. -- New life for a has-been Gehry building in Paris. -- Calatrava's Turning Torso disappoints - and raises questions. -- Another Las Vegas development with stellar design team. -- Carmakers use architecture to brand their vehicles. -- The postwar ranch house is cool again. -- A graveyard for vanished buildings in New Zealand. -- Prince Charles takes the National Building Museum's Vincent Scully Prize. -- Another Inventioneering Architecture lecture online. -- The Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal opens "Sense of the City."
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2005_10_26.htm - October 26, 2005