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And the Winners Are: New Housing New York Competition Winners

Inspiring designs for affordable, sustainable housing on view through March at NYC's Center for Architecture.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature129.htm - February 10, 2004

Today's News - Monday, June 11, 2007

ArcSpace takes us to Copenhagen and Arkansas, and offers an eyeful of Zumthor's Brother Claus Field Chapel in Mechernich, Germany. -- Glancey finds the chapel's "simple form proves to be far richer than it first appears." -- Success for L.A. Live depends on its public elements. -- Gentrification is an uncertain blessing for another L.A. neighborhood. -- Cities finally beginning to get things right with affordable housing projects. -- As costs rise for Glasgow's new transport museum, Hadid may have to trim some more (oh those skeptics who blame innovative design). -- Budget doesn't seem to be a problem for her Opus in Dubai (and check out a new phrase for your lexicon: "Oyster concept"). -- MacMillan waxes poetic about Nelson-Atkins - and draws some interesting comparisons between Holl and Libeskind museums. -- A call to make Dubai more pedestrian-friendly. -- Kamin on Chicago's latest "battles over whether (and how) to make the past a part of the future." -- British architects call for an end to Mock-Tudor and "Disneytecture." -- "Constraints are an inspiration to genius" in Heatherwick's beach cafe for Littlehampton, U.K. -- "New kicks" in store for Route 66. -- Still more on the rail threat to Gaud's cathedral. -- The only starchitect names not on the list for new museum on Saadiyat Island is because they're already designing other stuff. -- Call for entries for design competition for downtown Charlottesville, VA.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2007_06_11.htm - Monday, June 11, 2007

Today's News - November 22, 2005

Niemeyer could care less what critics say about his new museum and his control over Brasilia's skyline. -- Scandal continues in Japan over falsified earthquake resistance certificates. -- High hopes that new design center in Bangkok will inspire. -- A town center and the arts at the heart of a new urbanist community in Georgia. -- Life in Dublin's gated communities examined. -- A thumbs-up and a thumbs-down for two NYC East Village projects. -- Another thumbs-up for (and the paradox of) Piano's High Museum expansion. -- A renaissance for a 116-year-old Sacramento cathedral. -- Even with rising competition, India's architectural outsourcing services still holds the upper hand. -- Clancy Awards for Socially Responsible Housing hold many lessons. -- Winning designs for Western Australia's CenterStage and Denmark's Herning Center of the Arts. -- Call for entries: 2006 ULI Awards for Excellence in The Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. -- Book reviews: Rochon makes no bones about bad architecture in Canada; Friedman rethinks home and community design.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2005_11_22.htm - November 22, 2005

Today's News - April 4, 2005

ArcSpace takes us to Manhattan and Copenhagen. -- In the tsunami aftermath there are lessons for architects. -- Falling out of love with the past in London and New York. -- Shock and awe: clash of old and new architecture on University of California campus. -- Turmoil in Taliesin: a thorough review. -- Budapest's "brilliant new concert hall" holds lessons in how to get things done - right. -- Another take on Holl's Nelson-Atkins Museum. -- Mayne makes judicial friend for new courthouse project in Oregon. -- An Anchorage architect raises the bar for urban design. -- Inner-city London gets a building it really needs (flash, crackle, pop not included - not required). -- NYT magazine devoted to design (plan to spend some time). -- Prefab future is here to stay. -- Landscape architecture and art the focus of Carnegie Mellon symposium. -- Malaysia on its way to producing home-grown design stars.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2005_04_04.htm - April 4, 2005

Today's News - July 9, 2004

Some interesting responses in architecture critics' survey. -- American architects struggle for simplicity. -- Developer calls British architects "Johnny-come-latelies" in social housing. -- Prefab making city life affordable. -- Chicago reclaiming its architectural crown. -- Toronto gets serious about becoming beautiful. -- A Massachusetts museum sparks an experiment in a town's creative economy. -- Project for Public Spaces doesn't give very high marks to Koolhaas library or Gehry buildings. -- Big museum plans in the Persian Gulf. -- New life for the Tent of Tomorrow? -- Lower Manhattan getting greener every day. -- Universal design principles inspire a home designed by university architecture lab. -- "Tribute in Light" to be an annual event. -- Affordable housing a new focus at Arizona State University. -- Phaidon Atlas is big and beautiful, but what does it tell us about architecture? -- Weekend diversions: Corvettes to Cuisinarts in Manhattan; iconic architectural photography in Massachusetts.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2004_07_09.htm - July 9, 2004

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

Today's News - June 23, 2003

Another tribute to Ant Farm architect. -- WTC bathtub revered and restored. -- Transit is key to NYC downtown development. -- Eminent domain powers key to NYC Olympic sites? -- Online forum: to landmark or not to landmark Edward Durell Stone "folly." -- Business looking up for 2004. -- Cities as fat burners. - "Coving" a neighborhood. -- Pyatok brings lessons in affordable housing to Malaysia. -- First there was metropolitan; now we have "micropolitan." -- Mayor of Milwaukee to lead Congress for the New Urbanism. -- A modern classic faces the wrecking ball. -- Supreme Court gets long-awaited makeover. -- High praise for museum addition. -- Dublin duo takes on world's largest museum (links to lots of images). -- Prada takes on Tokyo. -- RIBA's new president has flash. -- Niemeyer's Serpentine Gallery 2003 summer pavilion shines.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2003_06_23.htm - June 23, 2003

Today's News - November 26, 2002

A Malaysian architect/planner takes affordable housing lessons from the US: "they never did a good jobnow tearing them down and rebuilding them as high-density but low-rise housing" -- A new concept for urban development from a group of Pakistani architects, town planners and economists: sustainable "green" urban communities and entire low-cost cities. -- Are houses of cardboard a possible solution? -- Grand estates in Philadelphia, Long Island, and Rhode Island fall to sprawl: people "want less architecture and more gizmos." -- High praise for "surprising depth" of a new tower in San Francisco. -- Montreal convention center "preserves a smart but ugly example of modern architecture." -- Baltimore continues struggle to fit a hotel next to convention center. -- Architecture awards in Moscow and Australia. -- Museum news: "Making a landmark in Fort Worth, home of the ugly skyscraper and prefab duplex, doesn't take much." -- A "lustrous little museum" honors a now obscure period. -- A museum to honor picture books. -- HQ for publisher is transparent. -- A courthouse makes a good neighbor. -- Korea develops designand more.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2002_11_26.htm - November 26, 2002