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Today's News - July 24, 2003
At Ground Zero: Huxtable says public interest - not profit motive - must determine what happens at the World Trade Center site. -- Culture and commerce on collision course? -- Concerns about WTC environmental impact report. -- Finding a role for historic buildings downtown before they're lost. -- Rebuilding public housing in Toronto. -- Insensitive restoration of Islamic sites in Kosovo (good intentions gone wrong?). -- St. Basil's Cathedral threatened by military marches and rock concerts. -- Don't lay off -- lend! -- Glasgow loses preservation champion to Cambridge. -- Move over malls…we prefer "lifestyle centers." -- Public markets ripe for urban placemaking. -- Jazzy streetlamps jazz up downtown Manhattan. -- Gehry at Columbia preaches "abstinence in the bawdy house of form, temperance to the theory-drunk, patience at a school where the professional model is the shooting star: streak, flash, burn out." -- Bubble houses in our future? -- Young architect wins MoMA prize. -- Gaudi café wins high praise (the food is good, too).
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| No Games With Ground Zero, Please: The profit motive must yield to the greater good. By Ada Louise Huxtable - Daniel Libeskind; David Childs/SOM- Wall Street Journal |
| No Greater Legacy: Culture, commerce and public spirit on collision course at Ground Zero. Whose place is this? By Peter Slatin- The Slatin Report |
| WTC Plans Draw Concerns: Experts, planners and concerned residents gave their response to a draft environmental impact statement- NY Newsday |
| Here, Preservation Meets Imagination: ...needed to find a meaningful role for these small 19th- and early 20th-century structures [or] preservationists risk being identified as impediments to revitalization. - SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli- New York Times |
| City plans to bulldoze, rebuild Regent Park: Council approves $400-million project that mixes different types of housing- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
| Heritage or Sacrilege? Kosovo’s Islamic sites are being insensitively restored, say local preservationists. It has nothing to do with us, say the foreign charities funding the projects. [images]- Transitions Online (Czech Republic) |
| Gamblers and pop music rock Russian landmark: have all taken their toll on the 450-year-old St. Basil's Cathedral ...report commissioned by the government from the architectural firm Kreal...- Guardian (UK) |
| Building bridges to a job: [Architecture firms] avoid layoffs by lending employees when the work slows- The Oregonian |
| Champion of Glasgow's architecture quits Scotland: Gavin Stamp, who has led a revival of interest in Alexander "Greek" Thomson buildings...[takes] post at Cambridge University.- The Herald (Scotland) |
| Still Crazy for Lifestyle Centers: Key...is an open-air design with upscale architecture...- National Real Estate Investor |
| Market Zeitgiest: This identity with a public space is what urban designers strive for: places where people can bind with a community... By Sam Hall Kaplan- KCRW.org (Los Angeles) |
| Downtown Lighting With Hints of Jazz: 54 street lamps...are part of a smart collection of street fixtures. By Herbert Muschamp - Cooper, Robertson & Partners [image]- New York Times |
| Relax. Don't Do It. Frank Gehry's words of advice to a roomful of Columbia shapemakers. By Philip Nobel- Metropolis Magazine |
| Dreaming Between the Grooves in a Futuristic Bubble: Roger Dean...has built a futuristic bubble of a house that he hopes will sweep England. [images]- New York Times |
| Designer for Akron Art Museum honored: fourth annual MoMA/P.S. 1 Young Architects Program - Tom Wiscombe/Coop Himmelb(l)au/EMERGENT- Beacon Journal (Ohio) |
| Mosaic pieced together artfully: Gaudi's Café Mosaic- Budapest Sun |
| Tradition and Innovation in Sustainable Design: EHDD Architecture: The legacy of Joseph Esherick- ArchNewsNow |
| Saved or Destroyed? The Noguchi Room at Keio University, Tokyo [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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