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Infill in Green: 22nd Street Condominiums by John Maniscalco/Architecture

San Francisco: Lorax Development backs up its environmental claims with a GreenPoint Rated label for an infill project in the city's Mission District.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature249.htm - Jennifer Roberts

BOOKSHELF: The City of Brotherly Love takes center stage in two beautiful new volumes

http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature103.htm - February 5, 2003

Who What When - 8/15/02: of interest, on the boards, firm news, and people on the move

http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature59.htm - August 15, 2002

Today’s News - Monday, November 23, 2009

•   ArcSpace brings us eyefuls of two very different mobile performance spaces by Coop Himmelb(l)au and Zaha Hadid.
•   Industrialized nations have a plan to bring to Copenhagen re: reigning in emissions, but not much hope if China and the U.S. don't come to the table.
•   Canadian, British, and Australian architectural organizations team up to bring a 15 point "call for action" on climate change to Copenhagen.
•   Energy Star program heading for an overhaul, but exactly what it will be is a bit unclear.
•   Transit use is growing, but not where you think.
•   Moore's take on "London's Great Outdoors" plan: it's "a sane document," but will it actually deliver the goods; "the answer is a resounding maybe... The city's culture is changing, if glacially, towards valuing public space."
•   Kamin has high hopes for big changes in store for Chicago's Northerly Island and a corner of Grant Park.
•   It looks like Boston's Big Dig will finally deliver on its promise to fill in some missing links.
•   Russell rues whatever the legal outcome will be re: Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards: the project "has already changed drastically for the worse."
•   The Dutch extend a helping hand to create "more tangible, humane and sustainable" architecture and public spaces in Calcutta.
•   Dunlop cheers the "new, world-worthy buildings" boosting South Florida's profile, some of it "big and even flamboyant. Others are more modest in scale and aspiration."
•   Kennicott lauds Stern's presidential library for its "cool, quiet and dignified design."
•   U.K.'s architecture minister refuses to list Madin's 1974 Birmingham Central Library for not having "sufficient historical or architectural importance."
•   Groves on a united effort to save Yamasaki's 1966 Century Plaza Hotel.
•   Archial wins big for its Small Animal Hospital pocketing the Doolan Award Best Building in Scotland.
•   Campbell visits a new cohousing project in New Hampshire and finds it "a model for the future" because of the "quiet moves you don't notice at first" resulting in a "serious, sophisticated design."
•   A yes and a no to whether the Glasgow Lighthouse will thrive in public hands.
•   A French architect transforms a McDonald's in Manhattan with a euro-themed design, art deco, and free wifi (pix to prove it).
•   Call for nominations: The Cultural Landscape Foundation seeks landscapes and landscape features threatened with destruction or irreversible damage.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2009_11_23.htm - Monday, November 23, 2009

Today’s News - Wednesday, July 1, 2009

•   Weinstein's Words That Build Tip #16: How to balance high-speed communication with in-depth communication.
•   Preservation vs. progress: Edinburgh World Heritage Site plans halted by Unesco (will it follow Dresden's example?).
•   Indian historic architecture under pressure from builders and politicians, but a call to "change the mindset that heritage is not a liability."
•   UVA struggles with what to do with Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda: 95% of it is not his work: "We have a genuine Stanford White and destroying that for a fake Jefferson is just plain wrong."
•   New survey suggests that around 80% of residents want Robin Hood Gardens saved, and a new exhibition to keep up the pressure.
•   For a historic Dallas high school, a dispute entangles the past and future.
•   On a brighter note, BBB heads to Budapest to restore the once-grand 1905 Exchange Palace.
•   Cannell on Gehry's Rx for New Orleans: "the master goes traditional" with "his most modest plan in memory, a humble shotgun house."
•   Benetton announces winners in competition to design its outpost in Tehran: it "appears to be a very savvy bit of cultural diplomacy."
•   An "intriguing shortlist" in Oxfordshire chapel competition.
•   Discussions of Korean architecture would be incomplete without the Space Group.
•   A new vision for Toronto's Gardiner Expressway (a Canadian High Line!).
•   Is the pedestrian mall on Times Square "shoddy, sedentary and unworthy of New York" or an oasis of calm (quite amusing).
•   RIBA names new chief executive.
•   A good reason to head to Firenze next week: Beyond Media 9th International Festival for Architecture and Media.
•   Deadline extended for Architect Magazine's 1st Annual Design Review.
•   We couldn't resist: a "visual feast of some of the craziest, most ambitious ideas for buildings in the world" that will probably not be built" (in Dubai, of course).

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2009_07_01.htm - Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Today’s News - Tuesday, July 7, 2009

•   We lose Bernard Zimmerman, who "will be best remembered as the conscience of his profession."
•   A review of London's "particularly poignant" 7/7 Memorial, which opens today.
•   Ouroussoff sees much more at stake if Kurokawa's 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower is allowed to be demolished: "This is not only an architectural tragedy, it is also a distortion of history."
•   New homes in a New Orleans neighborhood show a "gutsy individuality" - a.k.a. "Post-Katrina Eclectic"; architects critique (judging from the pix, there are some goodies - and some groaners).
•   King looks at three teams' visions for "collateral damage from the recession": vacant lots.
•   The profession of the future: landscape architecture.
•   Of Fisher's museum plans for the Presidio and the "sheer venom" of the NIMBY crowd: "No wonder he pulled the plug on the project."
•   Pei's National Gallery East Building façade is getting an $85 million overhaul.
•   Gardner on Gwathmey's "best recent work in New York": Soho Mews possesses "an undeniable dignity."
•   The new Beirut Art Center in a former factory is now "a popular destination for Beirutis, tourists and critics across Lebanon."
•   A most intruiging look at what life was like living in Koenig's Case Study House No. 22 (and did he really design it?).
•   Despite the economy, "interest in sustainability is at an all-time high" (it's good to have LEED after your name on a resumé).
•   ENR's Top 100 Green Design Firms.
•   A sustainable design survey calls out who architects cite as role models.
•   Getting serious about urban farming: in NYC, a massive rooftop vegetable garden, and Milwaukee's Growing Power "is an agricultural Mumbai."
•   Australia's National Portrait Gallery takes top prizes.
•   Call for entries: international competition to redesign Abbey Green in Barking, East London.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2009_07_07.htm - Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Today’s News - Tuesday, July 21, 2009

•   ArcSpace visits a magical sculpture park and an old paper mill transformed into a charming hotel - not too far from Copenhagen.
•   Some Vietnamese experts are "surprised by audacity of proposed Hanoi master plan" by an international consortium.
•   Planning is "'priority profession' on the immigration scorecard" as Australia looks overseas for planners to help fill a gap in rebounding building sector.
•   U.S. architects, designers looking for strategic partnerships with local developers and architects for property developments in China in the Philippines.
•   Kennicott comments on AIA's "Design for Diplomacy" report: perhaps a bit dull and dry, but "the fact that it exists means that the age of the American embassy as architectural wasteland may finally be coming to an end."
•   Is America leading the way on sustainability? Yes, says Patrick Bellew/Atelier Ten, but Gary Lawrence/Arup says it's China.
•   Baillieu wonders why U.K. architects "design some of the least energy-efficient buildings in Europe" - and offers some plausible explanations that some might find "uncomfortable."
•   Heathcote gives us a sneak-peek at Scheeren's Bangkok tower: "An archetypal modernist skyscraper with its erosion programmed in from the beginning - it is quite a metaphor for the contemporary city."
•   West Kowloon Cultural District project seems to be back on track; Foster's back - this time teamed with OMA and Rocco Design.
•   Russell reports from Yale's Kroon Hall: it "strikes a rustic note," but it's "not about quaint" as it reaches for "the Holy Grail in the battle against global warming" - carbon neutrality.
•   A Detroit banker with a mission to show how to make historic preservation economically viable even in these tough times.
•   Saffron strolls the High Line and finds it makes a case for not demolishing "Philadelphia's unloved Reading Viaduct" (great pix).
•   St. Louis' newest urban park "brings to downtown not only an entirely new, and enthusiastic, demographic, but a new formal and aesthetic framework."
•   Signs of the times: KPF UK to split from U.S. parent (let's hope they come up with a better new name than some other splitsville firms).
•   McDonough goes Dutch with a new office in Amsterdam.
•   Rose on the "rural renewal" of Kathryn Findlay: she's back with a new project that "could contain the germ of a new aesthetic for 21st-century rural architecture."
•   Chelsea Barracks redux: a handy round-up (links included) of all the brouhaha (in case you missed anything).
•   Call for entries: AIA Show How You Re-Green Housing Awards; and 24th Annual Mockett Design Competition (royalties included).

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2009_07_21.htm - Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Today’s News - Wednesday, July 22, 2009

•   Weinstein finds "a Texas flood of architectural ideas that unsettles pat assumptions" in "Everything Must Move: 15 Years at Rice School of Architecture 1994-2009."
•   Webb on the paucity of good design incubators in Los Angeles.
•   Could (long mothballed) plans for WTC Performing Arts Center get back on track (and will Gehry design it)?
•   An in-depth look at life after Sambo at the Rural Studio; under Freear, it has "morphed into a hothouse of practical and pragmatic design" (great pix!).
•   Good news/bad news on the climate change news front that implicates architecture, and a call for architects to "mobilize and take action."
•   Kamin gives thumbs-up to Chicago's first net-zero home; it may not be a model for mass production, but it makes the right statement: "A well-designed net zero house should be about more than slapping a huge array of photovoltaic panels on a roof" (good slide show).
•   An eyeful of "arbo-architecture" with a new specialty: "building botany" uses living trees as part of the structure.
•   Thompson wonders what it will take to move beyond green-roof "starchitecture" to get multi-acre green roofs on whole city blocks and big-box stores.
•   Green Roofs for Healthy Cities launches a professional accreditation exam: now you can add GRP (green roof professional) after your LEED AP.
•   Szenasy ponders "ghost architecture" as Rudolph's high school awaits the wrecking ball.
•   AIA's June Architecture Billings Index suggests "the sector's downturn has yet to hit bottom" (will it ever end?).
•   A good reason to be in D.C. on Friday: a very impressive line-up for a series of free public programs celebrating Cooper-Hewitt's 2009 National Design Awards.
•   Call for entries: Arch Record's 2009 Design Vanguard; and Log Postcard Competition for a cover story and image ("wit and surprise are encouraged").
•   Winners all: Australian Institute of Architects Queensland Awards; U.K.'s 2009 Housing Design Awards; and WRAP/RIBA Designing out Waste competition winners.
•   We couldn't resist: architects re-imagine London landmarks.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2009_07_22.htm - Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Today’s News - Monday, June 8, 2009

•   ArcSpace brings us eyefuls of Siza's museum in Brazil, and Zaha's latest concoctions for our tootsies.
•   Calthorpe and others weigh in on the Stapleton paradigm and more on the eve of CNU's confab in Denver.
•   Houpt on Gehry's departure from Atlantic Yards: "good news for the architect, bad news for the neighborhood."
•   Pedersen has second thoughts about his earlier support for the project.
•   Schumacher calls for serious discourse about university development on Milwaukee's lakefront, and launches her own "unorthodox" design competition: "this lakefront plan is too important to be left to the devices of bureaucracy."
•   Davidson gives two cheers to the High Line (opening tomorrow!) and its district of lively architecture: "The tale is a triumph of urban salvage."
•   Gardner cheers Times Square transformation: a perfect example of "how cities are evolving on our post-industrial planet."
•   Morgan is not very enthusiastic about EMPAC: while it's "a technological tour de force; unfortunately, it is not a landmark of contemporary architecture."
•   Betsky on OMA's Prada Transformer: the only disappointing thing about it is that it doesn't actually transform.
•   Pearman takes on four "profoundly unfashionable buildings" (mostly Po-Mo) that he thinks "will sooner or later regain favor."
•   RMJM's 1985 "flawed masterpiece" in Edinburgh under threat - again; is it part of the city's architectural heritage, or a building with "no future"?
•   The same battle rages over Detroit's Tiger Stadium with a last-minute reprieve from the wrecking ball (for the time being, anyway).
•   Thailand weighs legal options for foreign architects.
•   The greening of AIA's 1973 HQ gets thumbs-up from D.C. planning commission.
•   A study finds that making buildings more "physical activity friendly" can help fight obesity (a fitting story on the day of Fit City conference in NYC).
•   Q&A with Ed Feiner: What to do once you've revolutionized the GSA?
•   Q&A: Pentagram's Paula Scher on failure (in Psychology Today, no less).
•   Call for entries: Guggenheim/Google Design It: Shelter International Competition.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2009_06_08.htm - Monday, June 8, 2009

Today’s News - Thursday, June 11, 2009

•   IIT's new student residence halls will give students control over their environment and generate performance data to be shared beyond the IIT campus.
•   Revisions in landmarks laws have preservationists hopeful and developers fuming in Los Angeles, NYC, and St. Augustine, Fla.
•   France's president has scaled back his grand plans for Paris; focus will be on transportation and housing (not a bad thing).
•   Brussat has a few things for mayors to think about on the eve of the U.S. Conference of Mayors: "Channeled through the ego of the modern architect" the "spread of greed and corruption...might perhaps be most clearly perceived and understood through its most visible symbol - modern architecture" (yikes!).
•   King thinks Emeryville must be doing something right as he discovers "blocks of lavish delight" and a "burst of pure cutting-edge fun" - even with its "scars on full display."
•   A call for leadership from architects and designers to "re-imagine their cities in very directly political ways."
•   Architecture for Humanity is another kind of model for activist architects.
•   DIGMA, a new design industry organization to promote Massachusetts' design industry.
•   Rosenbaum continues her Chicago adventure; this time, it's a "Gehry- Piano smack-down" (each wins points).
•   de Portzamparc explains his personal connection to his new Hergé Museum (great pix).
•   An eyeful (and fly-through) of Wilkinson Eyre's dramatic plans for London's Science Museum - bulges and all.
•   Bose basks in the new West Harlem Piers Park, but suggests an adjacent marine transfer station is now "ripe for repurposing."
•   Glancey doesn't think building tower blocks for wildlife is all that batty of an idea.
•   Russell on the impending re-do of Johnson's landmarked Four Seasons restaurant - "to reveal more of its elegance."
•   Steve Jobs' 8-year campaign to demolish his historic mansion goes back to court - again.
•   London School of Economics picks shortlist for new student center; can you match the architect with the design?
•   No big surprises on Lubetkin Prize shortlist (but you get to match pix with firms here, too).
•   Quite a few surprises on 9th Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award shortlist (no need to guess which firm goes with which pix here).
•   Call for entries: AIAS/Kawneer 2009 Student Design Competition: design a green municipal courthouse.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/news_2009_06_11.htm - Thursday, June 11, 2009