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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

Today’s News - Thursday, March 5, 2009

•   Is the green building market recession-proof? Maybe.
•   LEED is not the only path to sustainable development...the topic from three perspectives: environmentalism, design, and funding.
•   Why "green jobs" may not save the economy or the environment (but there's hope).
•   More on new seaside projects revitalizing some of U.K.'s coastal towns.
•   New Urbanists revive dead malls - is this the re-urbanization of the U.S.?
•   Another win for AHMM (and an eyeful of the contenders).
•   WTC tower plans slow down (not unexpected) - but will go ahead "albeit at a substantially slower rate than before."
•   Gehry's AGO springs some leaks - but no cause for concern - they'll be fixed come spring.
•   An eyeful of Portland's first new bridge in 30 years: a hybrid Brooklyn Bridge "but without stonework or Gothic arches."
•   Q&A with Hadid: "In these moments of recession, uplifting the spirit is even more important."
•   Glancey meets Paffard Keatinge-Clay, the 'Zelig' of modern architecture.
•   Oubrerie's Miller House stands as a landmark in history and modernism now a house museum and educational facility, and for the architect, "a dedication to all what makes architecture today."
•   A Denver couple share a museum - and its architect; for Adjaye, it's "a transitional point, almost like a full stop between two worlds" (great pix, too).
•   Viñoly's 2009 Research Grants awarded to 4 teams from 5 continents to explore the needs of communities under stress.
•   NYC's Lower East Side Tenement Museum honors 3 architects.
•   Kamin cheers Society of Architectural Historians' upcoming online journal; authors wanted.
•   Call for entries: Arch League's "New York Designs: Public" juried lecture series: how designers think about and define "public" today.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2009_03_05.htm - Thursday, March 5, 2009

Today's News - January 2, 2007

Here's to a healthy, prosperous, and more peaceful New Year for us all! ----- It's off to a running start with CABE's Festive Five Awards to the "pace-setters for 2007." -- Towering futures with "a renaissance in British high-rise architecture." -- In Edinburgh, "making skylines is an art that's rather been lost." -- King takes on towering plans in San Francisco. -- A look at what was and what could be the best and the worst in London, Detroit, Toronto, and Miami. -- Proposed smart growth fixes to stem suburban sprawl in Miami-Dade County come under fire. -- Will Chicago's Landmark Commission set a precedent that would make "faadectomies" a whole lot easier? -- In Washington, DC, the "compulsion to gum up memorials with unnecessary kiosks, shops and museums only gets worse." -- Boston's ICA is a "sexy new building" that "will remind its owners of their own self-imposed limits on edginess." -- Restored Yale gallery is "a work of cultural courage." -- Two thumbs-up's for Holl projects. -- A "relatively dark" (but not all that dark) conversation with Frank Gehry.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2007_01_02.htm - January 2, 2007

Today's News - January 5, 2007

Pigs fly in Chicago as landmarks commission throttles "a plan for a spectacularly ill-conceived act of architectural taxidermy." -- Cloepfil doing a triple in Clinton, NY. -- Valerio Dewalt Train delivers a blockbuster in Madison. -- Marion wows them down under. -- Copyright infringement case continues. -- Squatter cities: "where tomorrow's leaders will likely be born." -- Rybczynski hails Hoffman. -- Vote for your favorite "City of the Future." -- Weekend diversions: Gritty Brits in Pittsburgh. -- Czech prisms and pyramids in Prague. -- The history of technology "eviscerates our obsession with novelty" and looks at the way we really use things. -- Nance on de Botton: "[he] finds comfort in more of the samefamiliar architecture is required to act as a kind of cultural Valium." -- Meanwhile, de Botton finds Vancouver a plague of condos. -- Perfect houses on the horizon designed by "New Pragmatists."
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2007_01_05.htm - January 5, 2007

Today's News - November 10, 2006

We lose an Irish "enfant terrible." -- CNU launches 2007 Charter Awards competition. -- Glancey sides with Rogers re: Olympic design/build process: "The result is nearly alwayssecond-rate architecture. A little meagre. A little tinny. And about as Olympian as a garden shed." -- Obata is often underwhelmed by Olympic over-hype. -- Salt Lake City takes building green seriously. -- University of Minnesota has utopian vision for a green community built from scratch. -- The Scots want to make an entire island green. -- Kazakhstan building a capital city from scratch: "a cross between Moscow and Las Vegasa cocktail of Eurasian modernity and Soviet confectionary" (a building in the shape of a dollar sign?!!?) - the slide show says it all. -- Some big names have soaring plans for St. Petersburg, Russia - but not all are pleased. -- Hopefully all big plans will include smog-eating cement. -- One size does not fit all in designing safe school environments. -- Award-winning projects in Detroit do not a city make - it's time to demand better design across the board. -- In L.A., "a dreary, 'functionalist' flop" gets more than a facelift. -- On Cape Cod, McMansions take the dunes while Modernist gems rot. -- For his Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City, Weizman takes on the growing relationship between war and design. -- A British "upstart" takes Prince Philip Prize. -- Eliasson's "Eye See You" on view around the world.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2006_11_10.htm - November 10, 2006

Today's News - August 3, 2005

EDITOR'S NOTE: There was a technical glitch (faulty URL) to yesterday's link for SMPS August '05 Build Business, so we lead with it again today - with correct link. -- In Auckland, big plans for a new town based on social, environment, and economic sustainability. -- Parramatta's "urban heart" gets a long-overdue jumpstart. -- A "civic investor" sees new urbanism as key to a new development in Florida. -- In Hoboken, NJ, a gentrification project builds around artists instead of evicting them for a "culturally anchored" neighborhood. -- L.A. moves to limit McMansion behemoths. -- A call for New York City to pay for parks with developer impact fees (other cities do it). -- Washington, DC, puts the brakes on a third major design project. -- The battle over Tel Aviv's Mann Auditorium is only just beginning. -- A Salt Lake City modernist library may not have the flash of the new, but deserves preservation. -- Cleveland courthouse renovation brings back its majesty. -- New Detroit airport terminal design is "mainstream modernist tradition" rather than flamboyant. -- Kent State has new architecture dean. -- DX National Design Conference in Toronto in October. -- AIA's $100,000 Latrobe Fellowship funds research to examine the link between healthcare design and healing rates.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2005_08_03.htm - August 3, 2005

Today's News - June 24, 2004

Branding spaces with environmental graphic design. -- Building opportunities for African-American architects. -- Balinese architects gearing up to compete in the "cutthroat architectural world." -- Pyatok picked to head new think tank for affordable housing. -- A look at new skyscraper technologies. -- Like it or not, Torontonians are putting themselves on the architectural map. -- A revived gem in Philadelphia. -- Plans to protect a Lapidus gem in Miami. -- One of the best-kept architectural secrets in Ohio: a Wrightian-inspired subdivision. -- A modern library addition has protesters claiming a design "bait-and-switch." -- Urban planning comes to the Burning Man festival: includes a Department of Public Works, and a DMV (Department of Mutant Vehicles). - Partial paralysis hasn't slowed down Michael Graves. -- Landscape architects who meld the historic with the new. -- Celebrating Prague's Art Nouveau splendor. -- A bamboo canopy shows off its curves.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_06_24.htm - June 24, 2004