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Today's News - January 19, 2004
ArcSpace takes us to Rome and Beijing. -- We lose a master of Modernism. -- WTC memorial: the critiques continue. -- Another competition on another memorial site. -- Urban renewal in Dublin includes some mediocre (and some wonderful) new architecture. -- Quake-safe housing is a hard sell. -- Fanciful ideas for unsightly expressway. -- Audubon Society proves green can be platinum. -- "Brain drain": a look at where the "creative class" is moving (or staying). -- Cleveland puts its museum plans on hold. -- Chicago lights up its buildings (and not all are pleased). -- Santos is new dean of architecture at MIT. -- A new ATM enriches a neighborhood -- withdrawal not required. -- Some 20th century Scottish architecture ugly enough to call a treasure.
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-- Massimiliano Fuksas: Congress Center, EUR District, Rome
-- PTW: National Swimming Centre, 2008 Olympics, Beijing |
Obituary: Julian Neski, 76, Who Brought Modernism to Beach Houses- New York Times |
| The 9/11 Memorial: How Pluribus Became Unum: ...jurors opened the curtain on cloak-and-dagger moments...tranquillity, and the comfort food that fueled their struggle.- New York Times |
| Mourning Absence: I’m trying not to hate Reflecting Absence.... But aspects of the revised Ground Zero memorial raise questions, lots of them. By James S. Russell- ArtsJournal |
| Growing Up: Getting the Ground Zero memorial right—with the help of an older designer. By Christopher Hawthorne - Michael Arad; Peter Walker [images]- Slate |
| 2-stage Vietnam Veterans Memorial Education Center Competition (U.S. Design Teams): Expressions of Interest & Qualifications due February 20- Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund |
| From shoeboxes to urban chic: how tax incentives changed the face of Dublin...but left a mediocre architectural legacy. By Frank McDonald- The Irish Times |
| Time to start legislating for better apartment design: Le Corbusier and thousands of architects since then have shown how you can create good design from mass-produced building elements...- The Irish Times |
| Architect finds quake-safe houses hard to sell: ...slow to be adopted because they don't make a lot of money for anyone... - Nader Khalili (Reuters)- Environmental News Network |
| Stick it in the lake? There are a lot of big ideas out there for what to do about the Gardiner Expressway. Some are bigger than others- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
| National Audubon Society Center at Debs Park, Los Angeles, is the first building in the nation to receive the Platinum Rating under U.S. Green Building Council's new LEED system - EHDD Architects; Campbell and Campbell [link to images]- National Audubon Society |
| Labor Supply and the "Brain Drain": Signs from Census 2000- Brookings Institute |
| Cleveland Museum of Art delays decision on proposed $225 million expansion and renovation. By Steven Litt - Rafael Vinoly- Cleveland Plain Dealer |
| No dimmer switch on night lights: Some of the city's most distinctive buildings are awash in color at night. [image]- Crain's Chicago Business |
| Adèle Naudé Santos appointed dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning- MIT Tech Talk |
| Designer ATM agent of change? Bronze machine brings chic to blight. By Christopher Hume - Robin Collyer- Toronto Star |
| Nuclear plant may win listed building status: Thornton Colliery in Fife and a distillery in Edinburgh should all be given listed status, according to leading architects.- The Scotsman (UK) |
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