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Today's News - Monday, August 4, 2008

-- Countdown to the Beijing Olympics: Hawthorne x 2: Western architects' "dramatic role as advertisements for the power and ubiquity of the state"; and the "quasi-Orwellian turn" of primary design credit being given to local firms. -- Heathcote sits down with H&deM: "Neither smiles much, although the humor is there in their architectural chutzpah." -- Kamin on Beijing's "wow-chitecture" and why Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid will be different. -- Sizing up Shanghai: Kennicott finds "there's almost too much to take in." -- Qingyun Ma on Shanghai skyscrapers: "Most of them are so superbly ugly that they're exciting...If they're ugly, they'll be torn down sooner" (and "much of Western architectural education is wrong"). -- East Darling Harbour's winning architects launch a stinging attack for government's "pandering to developers by 'bulking up and dumbing down' their plans." -- Dyckhoff on the latest grand design to inject new life into a British town - in primetime: "It's good for planning to be shown in all its gory detail." -- Hume on "cities of the future" and his hope that Toronto will have the time to catch up. -- Rural communities need long-term planning, too. -- An eyeful of Zaha's Singapore towers (might she be channeling Corbu?). -- Russell gives a (mostly) thumbs-up to new "fishnet tower" plans for NYC's South Street Seaport. -- Farrell bags first New Zealand job. -- Heathcote has high praise for London's 7/7 memorial design. -- Photiadis on the vision behind the New Acropolis Museum. -- An international shortlist of 30 for the BSI Swiss Architectural Award for under-50s. -- An eyeful of shortlisted designs for NYC's CityRack bicycle rack design competition. -- In protest at plans to mine a sacred mountain in India, an to demolish St Paul's. -- 2008 European Architecture Students Assembly set to convene.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2008_08_04.htm - Monday, August 4, 2008

Today's News - January 14, 2005

A bold design selected for European Bank. -- Chicago Athenaeum selects Good Design winners; London's Design Museum announces shortlist. -- Canberra possibly "the most aesthetically and functionally satisfying 20th-century planned city in the world." -- Arabs and Jews "pooling their talents to come up with strategies to increase awareness of Umm al-Fahm's cultural, tourism and business potential." -- A planned mosque in Strasbourg designed by an Italian faces a bumpy road. -- A failing mall reborn not without its problems. -- Another take on MoMA's rebirth. -- Old factory in Hobart, Australia, reborn as a hip luxury hotel. -- A New York architect's "magnificent obsession" for detail. -- Hidden da Vinci laboratory discovered in Florence. -- Deadlines loom for innovative technology and classical architecture. -- Weekend diversions: Thoughtful review of Ground Zero books by Goldberger, Nobel, and Libeskind. -- Italian architect in the spotlight in Toronto. -- Art Deco celebrated in Miami.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2005_01_14.htm - January 14, 2005