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So Tall: International High-Rise Prize 2006 Goes to Barcelona's Torre Agbar by Jean Nouvel

Commendations to: Calatrava; Delugan Meissl Architects; mecanoo architecten; and Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature193.htm - ArchNewsNow

On View: "Santiago Calatrava: The Architect's Studio" at the University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California

Buildings take wing and bulls stampede in an exhibit exploring the architect's design process
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature184.htm - ArchNewsNow

Iconic Arcs: Jubilee Church by Richard Meier & Partners

Rome: White concrete "sails" soar into a Roman neighborhood.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature123.htm - October 23, 2003

Who What When - 10/31/02: dates & deadlines, noteworthy, on the boards, names and faces

http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature85.htm - October 31, 2002

Dream Teams No Longer Just a Dream for Ground Zero

Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announces shortlist of international architects and planners who will help shape the future of Lower Manhattan.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature72.htm - September 27, 2002

Who What When - 7/25/02: of interest, on the boards, firm news, and people on the move

http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature51.htm - July 25, 2002

Today’s News - Monday, July 12, 2010

•   ArcSpace brings us a colorful school complex in France.
•   Moore and Jones debate: Do good buildings make for better educated children?
•   Gardner minces no words about what things about Barnard's Diana Center: "Weiss/Manfredi clearly had a thankless task."
•   A great U.K. report on Detroit's "daring bid to return the land to farming" that could be "a harbinger of urban development for the western world's declining inner cities."
•   Litt on Cleveland's attempt to revive Burnham's historic vision for downtown: the question is whether the new commission will "rise to the occasion or whether it caves to pressures that have led to mediocre planning and civic design in the city's recent past."
•   Some radical rethinking of Long Island among the finalists in the Build a Better Burb competition.
•   Cheers for Whitney Museum doing "something very bold and scary" near the High Line - with caveats.
•   Roux has a most amusing encounter with Nouvel, who "is as inconsistent as he is bold"; per Prince Charles's penchant for pastiche? "Pastiche is the worst. A big mistake is better than a false friend."
•   Snøhetta named to lead a great team to design the long-term transformation of Times Square.
•   SOM's Hartman tapped to design the first Roman Catholic Cathedral in Orange County, CA.
•   How the revolution in digital modeling is transforming 20th-century "male" architecture into something much more feminine: "Think Marilyn Monroe rather than Charlton Heston."
•   A new study shows how theater seats have gotten (or need to get) wider for our broader butts.
•   Calls for entries: USGBC/Bank of America Charitable Foundation Affordable Green Housing Grant Program for LEED ND projects; design a temporary use for a cleared site in a development in east Manchester, U.K.; and Expo 2010 Awards for pavilions, exhibits, or elements of pavilions and exhibits in Shanghai.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_07_12.htm - Monday, July 12, 2010

Today’s News - Thursday, July 22, 2010

•   Chakrabarti calls for the creation of an infrastructure coalition that will demand smart urbanization.
•   A "neo-Marxist economic geographer" issues an urban manifesto: Cities like New York "are increasingly being constructed around spectacle...We're all suburbanites now, without knowing it."
•   Beirut, "where money is king, it may be too late" to save its architectural heritage in a battle against "big money, corruption, lack of law."
•   Szenasy on Fit City 5 and the collaboration between NYC's policy makers and creative community, resulting in the city's new Active Design Guidelines now being "downloaded to addresses far and wide."
•   King on Snøhetta winning the starchitect-studded competition to design SFMOMA's new wing.
•   Heathcote and Booth on RIBA's Stirling Prize shortlist of museums and schools: "We are unlikely to see many of either for a while now, so the announcement of a winner may be tinged with architectural nostalgia" + betting odds favor Hadid + shortlist in pix.
•   Neuroscientists and psychologists are not far behind architects with new research showing space has a very real impact on how we feel.
•   An eyeful of 6 notable firms' visions of NYC and L.A. in 2030: the "results are stunning, and in some ways, revolutionary."
•   Till tallies the problems with student end-of-year architecture shows: they're "euphoric, exuberant, and in need of an overhaul...It is essential to question how appropriate it is to stick with a 200-year-old model."
•   The Israel Museum makeover "is one of the most inspired museum expansions in decades" (and nary a starchitect in sight).
•   Kahn's once-threatened Trenton Bath House is (thankfully) in the last stages of a restoration.
•   Calatrava's design for Denver International Airport terminal soon to be revealed.
•   An alternative location and design for Philly's planned (and much-maligned) Family Court.
•   Winners all: Australia's 2010 Premier's Design Awards + National Park Service first Designing the Parks competition (maybe these will stay open?).

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_07_22.htm - Thursday, July 22, 2010

Today’s News - Friday, June 18, 2010

•   Booth on the "meddling prince" and some pesky e-mails revealing his efforts to "scupper modernist design for Chelsea Barracks" (when Charles gets NIMBY-ish, "property developers, architects and planners quake").
•   Saffron gives cheers - and jeers - to "an architectural thought experiment" to transform an old granary: it's "as exciting as anything Philadelphia has seen in years," yet the idea "is as wrongheaded as it is irresistible."
•   An eyeful of Patkau's winning design for low-impact cottages at Fallingwater - "a subtle but provocative scheme burrowed into a high meadow" that "melds into the landscape rather than rivaling Wright's landmark below."
•   Woodman finds Caruso St John's Chiswick House café quite wonderful.
•   A panel discusses the differences between Danish and American approaches to embassy design.
•   Uber-recycling: a Malibu house built from a Boeing 747 is almost ready for takeoff (with pix to prove it).
•   More on Calatrava's ballet adventure: he "soon learned the differences between designing for the confines of the stage and building a full-scale, gravity-defying structure."
•   Australian Institute of Architects hands out 2010 NSW Architecture Awards.
•   Call for entries: "Felicity. Change your city, change your life" international competition for architects and graphic designers.
•   Weekend diversions:
•   Glancey rounds up his pick of top 10 London Festival of Architecture treats; and cheers the V&A's "1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces": "even when they become historic curiosities, these buildings will have something worthwhile to tell us."
•   Long is less laudatory: "the architects involved have responded rather predictably with self-absorbed and, for the most part, rather shallow reflections on what makes a refuge."
•   A "wonderful exhibition" in Vancouver shows off architects' models.
•   In NYC, a Brazilian photographer's seemingly abstract prints are actually "some of the world's most seductive new buildings"; and Creative Time offers free skeleton keys to some of the city's secret places.
•   Vienna rediscovers Joseph Maria Olbrich with his first big exhibition in the city he helped shape (his "cabbage head" building looks amazing!).
•   Mouzon's "Original Green" should be read "by everyone interested in crafting a more sustainable built environment."
•   "Boathouses" by Mornement richly illustrates how "these once little-loved sheds have metamorphosed into breathtaking residences which are, frankly, too good for simply housing a boat."
•   "The Houses of Greenwich Village" by Murphy and Rocheleau is "a beautiful book...that is also quite thoughtful...there is a lot more behind these brick facades than meets the eye."

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_06_18.htm - Friday, June 18, 2010

Today’s News - Friday, June 25, 2010

•   Columbia University wins its battle to use eminent domain to claim the land it needs for $6 billion expansion.
•   Chelsea Barracks developer wins in court, too - it's also "a victory for Richard Rogers and other architects who have long complained that Prince Charles has too much influence on the democratic planning process."
•   Cities within cities: Indianapolis Airport unveils its aerotropolis plans + Edmonton International considers an aerotropolis of its own.
•   With 45,000 employees, AECOM is a giant in the field - but what is it?
•   Brussat visits Stern, "the only American starchitect doing classical" who "has managed, unlike any other starchitect in this land, to beautify our world" (that's why his modernist work causes the critic "distress").
•   Viñoly x 2: he is undaunted by the size and scale of the Battersea project ("I am a realist") + praise for New York for the speed of its decision-making which eases development, but the UK has a sophisticated approach to design that is entirely lacking in the States.
•   King enjoys a jaunt through San Francisco with Goldberger.
•   Bozikovic tours a project by two "gutsy" young Toronto architects and finds "there is beauty in doing things right."
•   Friedman on Saarinen: "Professional jealousies are only part of the story of his complex relationship with the modern movement" (this is long-form journalism at its best!).
•   Weekend diversions:
•   Several takes (and lots of pix) on "Our Cities, Ourselves" at NYC's Center for Architecture, presenting "full-blown ideas for integrating sustainable transport into the fabric of 10 different modern cities."
•   Kennicott on Michael Graves and "Revealing Culture" at the Smithsonian: "The surprising and thrilling thing is how much ADA-sensitive exhibition design rewards ordinary, fully able-bodied visitors...even in a room that is fundamentally charmless."
•   McGuirk finds surreal adventures at London's Barbican and the Hayward: "In a world where, increasingly, everything is designed, these two rich exhibitions remind us that not everything can be controlled."
•   In Stockholm, nine architects design full-scale buildings for 6- to 16-year-old clients to be climbed on and explored.
•   Kamin cheers "Looking After Louis Sullivan" at the Art Institute of Chicago, "a new, small gem of a show" of photographers who put Sullivan's genius in enduring focus."
•   The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston revisits Ishimoto Yasuhiro's photos, "giving the now 89-year-old artist a do-over on one of his crowning achievements."
•   In San Diego, artist-architect Enos works "to subvert what he sees as architecture that serves the economy rather then people."
•   Hollis on Sudjic's Foster biography: it's a tale told with "admirable lucidity," but "there's little sense...of the agony or the ecstasy that may or may not rage behind Foster's inscrutable smile."

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_06_25.htm - Friday, June 25, 2010