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In Their Own Words: Abu Dhabi Cultural District

How Gehry, Hadid, Nouvel, and Ando envision their cultural venues on Saadiyat Island.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature218.htm - ArchNewsNow

Report from IDSA 06: Elements of Change (and architecture)

Julie D. Taylor
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature207.htm - September 29, 2006

Green Design as Great Design: The Architecture of Sustainability

A design competition and conference seek to merge technical ingenuity and compelling design.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature188.htm - Kyle Copas

Healing Stories: Renovating San Francisco's Ronald McDonald House

Architects answered yes in the 1980s and again in the new century.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature148.htm - October 21, 2004

UPDATE 07/16/03: Designing the High Line: Competition Insights - and Results

17 winners and 720 entries now onlineThree jurors, the competition coordinator, and Friends of the High Line co-founders offer their thoughts about - and hopes for - one of Manhattan's most unique urban environments.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature113.htm - April 21, 2003

Urban Crown: Metropolitan Kansas City Performing Arts Center by Moshe Safdie and Associates

Kansas City, Missouri: Graceful forms atop a hill signal a new international landmark - and urban renewal.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature53.htm - July 29, 2002

Sustainable Showcase: Architects' Own Office by Geoffrey Reid Associates

London, UK: An architectural firm practices what it preaches for its own new home when it transforms a 1950's office building into a showcase for sustainable design strategies.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature43.htm - June 25, 2002

Today’s News - Monday, June 21, 2010

•   ArcSpace brings us an eyeful of McHugh's photographs that "capture the ghost of what was....and might be again."
•   With 20-30% of city lots vacant, Detroit residents begin to lend their support to the wide demolition of abandoned buildings: "It's really about reorganizing our land to make a more livable city."
•   A new report shows that public housing is in danger of extinction at a time when it is most needed.
•   Portland's mayor vowed to make it "the most sustainable city in the world" - and he's actually doing it.
•   A call for St. Louis to take on its own Big Dig to create a tree-lined connection between downtown, the Gateway Arch, and the riverfront.
•   King x 2: cheers for downtown Berkeley's smart growth project "that merits the title"; unfortunately, it's "more overstuffed than urbane...a box dropped onto the landscape, rather than something that looks at home" + the Fairmont makeover: "so far, what's proposed falls far short."
•   Lewis cheers a Georgetown grocery store as "a monument to changing supermarket architecture": it "may not win design awards, but it deserves recognition for what it has aspired to achieve urbanistically and architecturally."
•   Rochon has high hopes for two Ontario university projects by Snøhetta, with "fingers crossed that it imports its flare for dramatic innovation, too."
•   Moore cheers a gallery and an eatery by two young firms: "Both show more wit and delight than can be found in most of the billions of pounds of construction" going on.
•   Rasdi cheers a new university complex in Malaysia that proves "when you put students first, architecturally, learning can be exciting" (though it's not without its shortcomings).
•   Hawthorne digs deep in L.A.'s "peripatetic patron": in his relationships with so many starchitects, "Broad the client often trips up Broad the patron."
•   Jones minces no words about the British government axing new Stonehenge visitors center: "Canceling what was already an inadequate plan for the site's rehabilitation just adds insult to injury to this wonder of the world."
•   Gehry talks LEED (again): "I wasn't saying what they reported I said. I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not."
•   Forbes digs deep into the future of design, highlighting Prince-Ramus (on the "myth of architectural genius" - some amusing points), McDonough, Maeda, and many more.
•   An eyeful of the shortlisted designs for the New Aldgate temporary landmark and entrance to the City of London (sure to raise some eyebrows).
•   A building material innovation from South Africa could revolutionize housing for "the not-so-rich in the society."
•   Speaking if which, the Government of Haiti issues an RFP for a prototype housing Expo (McAslan has a hand in it) + call for presentations for AIA 2011 Convention in New Orleans (deadlines loom for both).
•   Happy Summer Solstice!

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_06_21.htm - Monday, June 21, 2010

Today’s News - Wednesday, June 30, 2010

•   Vanity Fair takes on "architecture in the age of Gehry, the complex legacy of Modernism, and the impact of its greatest renegade" + 52 architectural stars name their favorite buildings (most amusing are those who named their own).
•   Stephens takes on the newest land use challenges for planners in California (and perhaps elsewhere): "Defining where 'legal' marijuana could go" is "like fencing in a pasture for unicorns."
•   Iovine on Phifer's North Carolina Museum of Art: it "requires attention and time...to engage with its pleasures"; the architecture is "both wonderful and problematic."
•   The Red Star Line Antwerp warehouse buildings to be restored and re-launched as a museum with an "evocative structure" that "will add a bit of visual drama to its utilitarian brethren."
•   A cotton field by Konyk to bloom under the High Line.
•   Not everyone is thrilled with Guggenheim plans for an extension in Spanish nature reserve.
•   The Art Gallery of Saskatchewan picks design team that is "not interested in designing an object that looks like it fell from the sky" + But why not just invest in renovating and expanding the Mendel Art Gallery, "one of Saskatoon's most important architectural structures," say some.
•   Chelsea Barracks (the news story that just keeps on giving): "Prince Charles believes it is his duty to defend 'ordinary people' against profiteering property developers" (unless you're a resident of his own Duchy).
•   An architect is set to design sets for "Fidelio" in the remains of the last functioning Gulag in Russia.
•   Glancey has an amusing - and telling - sit-down with Lord Foster (one of his 75th birthday gifts to himself: a replica of Bucky's Dymaxion!).
•   Winners all: Heatherwick's Seed Pavilion at Shanghai Expo wins RIBA Lubetkin Prize + 2010 Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award shorlist (it's a doozy) + ASLA 2010 Honors, Medals, and more + Open Source House/OS-House Awards winners.
•   Call for entries: The Future of Competitions - Tell Them What They Need so they again "generate ideas rather than simply deliver solutions."
•   We couldn't resist: Behre discovers guerrilla architecture in Charleston by "a public-spirited yet mischievous group of local architects" (who wish to remain anonymous).

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_06_30.htm - Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Today’s News - Thursday, May 20, 2010

•   Bernstein pays tribute to Arakawa who "explored ideas about mortality by creating buildings meant to stop aging and preclude death."
•   Big plans for a big slice of Baltimore's waterfront (and nary a NIMBY in sight).
•   Yesterday it was Russians coming to the aid of Caracas; today, Japan lends a hand in India's vision for an urban future
•  - "though urbanization is not without detractors."
•   Cheers for plans to revamp London's National Theatre so the best Thames views are no longer marred by garbage bins.
•   Bellamy bemoans parking lots leaving Winnipeg's downtown "resembling the toothless grin of hockey Hall of Famer" (never mind the historic buildings being demolished to make way).
•   Appelbaum takes on LEED: it's time "to make sure that a green building doesn't go gray after its grand opening."
•   Rapid response puts an end to plans to pink up Hejduk's Kreuzberg Tower in Berlin.
•   On a more sober note, NTHP issues its 2010 America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places annual list (great presentations).
•   Russell roams around remade Lincoln Center: DS+R "have done the impossible&hellipthe changes have transformed the tired bombast of the architectural ensemble" - it's "almost hip."
•   An impressive team behind NYC's Museum for African Art extends Manhattan's Museum Mile.
•   Bilbao opens its newest architectural landmark: "an imposing new cultural center" by Starck.
•   Hawthorne comments on the all the comments he's getting re: his review of Gehry's Ruvo Center.
•   Kennicott gives thumbs-up and down to architects' endeavors in stage design (great slide show).
•   Q&A with Gilabert and her plans for Storefront for Art and Architecture: "I want to introduce more characters into the contemporary discussion - for highly productive disagreements."
•   Chen offers a most amusing report from the Pritzker fete for SANAA on Ellis Island (who wasn't there - besides us?!!?).
•   Booth on 2010 RIBA architecture awards: "as a measure of the recession's impact, the major museums and airports that graced the list in recent years are few" (we really like the bus driver's loo).
•   Lisbon Architecture Triennale's competition names 30 finalists from around the world.
•   Call for entries: AILA's Seachange 2030+ International Urban Sea Level Rise Ideas Competition for Sydney Harbor.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2010_05_20.htm - Thursday, May 20, 2010