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Today's News - September 2, 2004
From the fastest growing county in the U.S. to Sydney to Chicago: creative or audacious approaches to development, an "epic struggle between the rule players and the rule benders," and glitzy (but green) plans for an urban block. -- Border stations getting architectural makeovers. -- Perhaps Speilberg should be designing airports. -- Penn Station's "stalled revival" causing high anxeity. -- A museum's message captured in its architecture. -- Pawson's "least-is-more" look a perfect fit for monks. -- Historic architectural gems: buy today - they may be gone tomorrow. -- New appreciation for an understated modernist. -- Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence deadline: September 16. -- Wright Foundation seeks new CEO (again), and treasure trove of Wright's collection of Japanese prints go on show. -- Young architects making a splash in Mumbai.
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| Loudoun County Building Proposals Pour In: 21 Plans Will Test Rules on Growth...a debate about how big America's fastest-growing county should become, and how it should get there.- Washington Post |
| Putting the squeeze on Orange Grove: Principle before pragmatism might cost jobs, but the Government has our city's planning future to worry about...who needs principle when there's good old-fashioned blow-with-the-windism to rely on. By Elizabeth Farrelly- Sydney Morning Herald |
| Big, bold plans for Block 37: Think Times Square. Think Vegas, baby. - Perkins & Will [images]- Crain's Chicago Business |
| Border stations get architectural makeovers: ...small, cutting-edge architecture firms are busy designing a sweeping overhaul in the look and operation of border crossings. - Smith-Miller + Hawkinson; Ross Barney + Jankowski; RNL Design (Wall Street Journal/AP)- San Francisco Gate |
| The Terminal: not just a Spielberg movie but architecture at extremes. ...greatest challenge is for real architects to do what the magic-dust of movies can do: make airports more human...thinking of them as real villages, towns and cities, not isolated holding-pens. By Hugh Pearman [images]- HughPearman.com (UK) |
| At Penn Station, a Stalled Revival: Anxiety is building among some planners that [it] may never get built - a setback that would be a major blow to the city...far more important than Calatrava's $2 billion design for a new transit station at ground zero. By Nicolai Ouroussoff - David Childs/Skidmore, Owings & Merrill [images]- New York Times |
| Architects capture museum's message: Paleontological Research Institution's Museum of the Earth - Weiss/ Manfredi Architects [images]- Ithaca Journal |
| A Minimalist Chapel Opens in the Czech Republic - John Pawson [images]- New York Times |
| The livable masterpiece: Buying historical architectural gems, whether homes or skyscrapers, is the latest trend among those with an eye -- and the wallet -- for the fashionable, big purchase...feeding frenzy...For every Modernist structure purchased, 20 have been destroyed.- Los Angeles Times |
| The Straight Lines That Came Full Circle: In a land of flamboyance, Norman Jaffe's understated [modernist] homes are taking off. [images]- New York Times |
| Deadline approaches for 2004 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence: September 16- Canadian Architect |
| CEO of 5 months leaves the Wright Foundation...second chief executive in five months.- Arizona Republic |
| Wright loss was Elvehjem Museum gain: 4,000 prints are probably the largest portion of Wright's personal collection- The Capital Times (Wisconsin) |
| High & Rising: He has designed the spanking new Sports Bar at Colaba barely a few months after going solo. - Saaket Sethi, Rupali Saple/Archilogics- Indian Express (Mumbai) |
| Modern Meets Tradition: University of Michigan Museum of Art Expansion/Restoration - Allied Works Architecture [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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