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"G" is for Genome (and Green): Terrence Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research by architectsAlliance and Behnisch Architekten

Toronto, Canada: A new campus building is a symbolic and physical bridge between an academic community and the city.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature197.htm - ArchNewsNow

Musical Catalyst: Max M. Fisher Music Center by Diamond and Schmitt Architects

The restoration and expansion of historic Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall sparks downtown redevelopment.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature133.htm - March 22, 2004

Good Urbanism: RiverPark Master Plan by AC Martin Partners

Oxnard, California: 700 acres of abandoned gravel-mining pits and a failed commercial project to be transformed into a model economically viable, environmentally sound, livable community.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature105.htm - February 10, 2003

INSIGHT: Creating an Arbor for Art in Fort Worth

Just how was Tadao Ando's design for Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth translated into a concrete reality? The engineers explain the solutions that range from the exotic to the purely functional.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature92.htm - December 3, 2002

Today’s News - Wednesday, July 21, 2010

•   An architect offers up solutions to India's urban monsoon woes: given the opportunity, design professionals would be "worthy allies" to collaborate with municipal authorities to change "the ineffectual status quo" - and offers one professional who's proving it can be done.
•   Jerusalem's Israel Museum - both a "crown jewel" of cultural heritage and "a bit of a mess" - has completed the "biggest cultural development project in the country's history" - on time and on budget.
•   Kamin gives one thumb-up to Target's debut in urban Chicago that "does a decent job of walking the city walk" - but "but rest of the project disappoints."
•   Hagberg cheers ZGF's "jaunty" new Jaqua Center for the University of Oregon that offers "the college experience writ architectural."
•   Updates planned for Christian Science Church's "world renowned" Boston plaza doesn't please some architects and art historians.
•   King cheers David Baker + Partners' talent to imbue buildings "with an adventurous urbanism attuned to larger social and environmental concerns - traits that should be commonplace, but instead are all too rare."
•   Pickrel is pleased with Australia's Riddel Architecture project that harvested materials from one residence to build another in its place: "working with recycled materials definitely did not hinder the firm's aesthetic ambitions."
•   Anderton gathers a notable crew to talk about a reinvented fan, a house made of an airplane, and new California design.
•   Shepard files a post-Postopolis report: "I am at a loss as to how exactly the wealth of information and ideas I witnessed might be put to work. What comes next?" (but a good time was had by all)
•   Christo is "delighted" with an environmental impact statement (perhaps the first purely about art) re: his "Over the River" project in Colorado: it "fits his vision" - but not all are convinced.
•   Brito returns to SCAD as dean of the School of Building Arts.
•   A good reason to head to Sydney next week: HotHouse Symposium - a "collective experiment" for architects, planners, and artists to cultivate a new cultural ecology for city spaces to address urgent environmental problems.
•   An impressive shortlist listed for Emirates Glass LEAF Awards.
•   SMPS announces 2010 National Marketing Communications Awards.
•   Call for entries: IIDA/Metropolis Smart Environments Awards: Sustainability, Accessibility, Beauty + 3rd International Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction ($2 million in prizes!).

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_07_21.htm - Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Today’s News - Friday, December 4, 2009

•   Woes for a green future? Leading climate change expert says Copenhagen summit talks are already so flawed that any deal would be a disaster - it would be better to start again from scratch.
•   Why do LEED-certified buildings waste so much energy?
•   Seattle could lead the world as a carbon-neutral city - "so what's standing in the way? Political will."
•   On a brighter note, there's a new toolkit to guide cities and counties through the process of greening their communities (modeled after the PlaNYC guide).
•   Forget airports - mega-train stations are "the symbol of a new age of urban renewal and planet-friendly travel" (glamour and speed included).
•   Columbia University loses attempt to claim eminent domain for campus expansion plans: arguing neighborhood blight is "mere sophistry" and "idiocy" claims the court (read the ruling - it's practically scathing; an appeal is surely in the offing).
•   Cities continue to toss up bland glass boxes "in all their stark, anonymous severity. Will architects ever give us something new" or will they "stick to the one unwritten law of modern architecture: Thou Shalt Not Ornament"?
•   EPA's 2009 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement honors four projects that "bring together sustainability and environmental benefits on the ground."
•   Peter Bohlin, Pugh + Scarpa, and Michael Graves take home AIA national awards.
•   AR 2009 Awards for Emerging Architecture celebrate young architects from around the world.
•   Weekend diversions:
•   MoMA offers "the unruly history - not the svelte myth - of the Bauhaus."
•   An architect and an artist offer "CO2 Cubes" that will visualize carbon emissions for all attending Copenhagen summit.
•   Norway's high-design tourist routes take a "Detour" to Parsons in NYC.
•   In London, Haygarth turns the things we throw away into some amazing (and actually functional) objects.
•   Kamin ponders whether Burnham's "Plan of Chicago" is a work of literature, and cheers a new film about "Mr. Big Plans" debuting this month.
•   'Tis the season of critics' picks: King says "URBANbuild: local/global" may be "this year's most ambitious polemic on urban design" with lessons that are applicable far beyond New Orleans.
•   Ouroussoff and Planetizen offer their list of best books.
•   Eggert's "Securing the Past" is "serious, provocative and original" in defending and securing the past "against the skepticism of postmodernism" (though it's not without its "irritants").
•   A sneak-peek of the 2010 "AIA Guide to New York City" - a new edition a decade in the making.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2009_12_04.htm - Friday, December 4, 2009

Today’s News - Tuesday, June 2, 2009

•   Weinstein's Words That Build Tip #15: Cultivate communication with clients that translates architectural imagery into experience at their fingertips.
•   AIANY's Bell reflects on the future of Ground Zero: "What is happening at the WTC site? And why is there a need to get together on 6/11 to turn 9/11 around, yet again?"
•   Stewart questions whether too many publicly-funded British quangos might ultimately devalue the promotion of good design.
•   Should architects become more active in politics? Yes, says a district councilor; no, says DEGW's Duffy.
•   Forget whether architects should get more involved in politics - Glancey has a plan for politicians to learn a little more about - and appreciate - good architecture (and "wean MPs off property speculation at the taxpayers' expense once and for all").
•   Irish architects up in arms over competition to redesign the ESB headquarters in Dublin.
•   "There is more to obesity than diet": Friedman calls for local governments to rethink the way they design communities to promote physical activity instead of encouraging a sedentary lifestyle.
•   While Lincoln Center re-do garners high praise, a few discordant voices are raising an alarm that it may be changing too much.
•   Cannell considers whether modernist landscapes are the next wave for preservation, and the irony that preservationists largely ignore the outdoor portion of the sites they're trying to preserve.
•   Arieff juries a mall design competition to find "a glimpse of the future and, unfortunately, the past."
•   Pearman ponders the meaning of Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art winning the Stirling of Stirlings: "What does this say about our attitude to architecture today?"
•   King gives (mostly) thumbs-up to Viñoly's UCSF Diller Family Cancer Research Building: it "shows the difficulty of creating institutional facilities that succeed for their users and have a neighborly feel."
•   A big cheer for San Jose's new airport terminal: it's "the best piece of public architecture since the new City Hall" (too bad it's mostly hidden by a blob of a garage).
•   Providence does contemporary: Brown University breaks ground on DS+R's Granoff Center for the Creative Arts; the "biggest surprise may be on the inside" - Shipping containers take shape as a new office building for start-up businesses and artists (we can imagine Brussat broiling them in oil).
•   A paint attack on Rome's Ara Pacis Museum while the mayor backs off of wanting to tear it down and "has begun talks with Richard Meier to 'rethink' its design."
•   Bayley celebrates Big Ben's birthday: "Pugin's crazy, magnificent clock tower."
•   Scottish Design Awards 2009 winners announced.
•   Call for entries: The Self-sufficient City: Envisioning the habitat of the future.
•   Call for papers: Nexus 2010: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics Conference.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2009_06_02.htm - Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Today's News - Friday, February 22, 2008

Even with its "wonky" wheel, Boddy is ready to jump on Vancouver's EcoDensity tricycle and "peddle off" into what he hopes is the "long arcing pathway of sustainability." -- Move over BedZed; here comes Britain's first eco-suburb. -- Chicago team tapped for a mega-green project in Masdar City. -- CNU 2008 Charter Awards winners "serve as powerful examples for future development." -- Queens Botanical Garden sprouts LEED Platinum. - H&deM's Madrid museum opens (not much info, but great pix). -- AIA Dallas picks design for new Center for Architecture. -- Them's fightin' words: Jenkins calls architects "devils...who shouldn't be trusted with anything." -- "The prognosis for Wellington airport's redesign appears terminal." -- Lots of weekend diversions: Ouroussoff is left uplifted and almost breathless by MoMA's "Design and the Elastic Mind." -- Brit Insurance Designs of the Year at London's Design Museum is "hugely engaging," but Woodman wonders how the jury plans to pick. -- Dyckhoff makes his picks (slightly left-handedly). -- Walker Art Center puts the 'burbs in the spotlight. -- Kamin on two Chicago shows that offer local and global views. -- Pittsburgh's Heinz Architectural Center shows off green. -- Siegel on Silber: "Architecture of the Absurd" demonstrates "what's wrong with architecture today, but he fails to point us in a better direction." -- Heathcote on a tome about "interwar modernism's obsession with big windows, fresh air and terraces." -- How could we resist: Nouvel designs a perfume bottle: "It's very small architecture." -- Just what the world needs: a "man kitchen" by Porsche.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2008_02_22.htm - Friday, February 22, 2008

Today's News - October 24, 2002

Agoos/Lovera Architects gives two companies in the same office building two very different personae. -- For Lower Manhattan, there are lessons to be learned from past planning pundits. -- Toronto invites an international array of "enlightened designers" to explore the city's waterfront. -- The roof has been seeded and it's full "green" ahead for Ford's River Rouge plant. -- Libeskind speaks in Denver, and not just about art. -- A tribute to Ben Thompson. -- Hopefully, Thompson's legacy will inspire Destiny USA, a $2.2 billion, 15 million-square-foot project in Syracuse. -- Another architect makes Fast Company's Trendsetter list. -- Stirling winner design doesn't win. -- Baseball park is a good influence on architecture in San Francisco. -- A tempest is brewing between Israeli architecture and politics. -- The way-overdue Bangkok International Airport wants Murphy Jahn back. -- If approved, hospitality in Aberdeen will include a spinning penthouse. -- Big plans for a former air force base. -- A new leader for the National Endowment for the Arts.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2002_10_24.htm - October 24, 2002

Today’s News - Wednesday, May 1, 2002

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2002_05_01.htm - Wednesday, May 1, 2002