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Today's News - October 21, 2004
San Francisco architects collaborate for a good cause. -- Awards reports: National Design Awards; Women in Design honored; Philadelphia honors its own. -- Major renewal projects in Providence, RI, and Atlanta. -- Mumbai should take heed from Miami in protecting Art Deco treasures. -- Pittsburgh takes on the ultimate recycling project: an entire building. -- Prefab for the future on display in Sydney (great pix, too). - Jazz at Lincoln Center rises above "the mediocrity of its setting." -- University sculpture-as-garden is a "devastating failure." -- Dublin may sacrifice trees for views. -- A masterpiece reborn: Hawksmoor's Christ Church, Spitalfields. -- Many museums on the move with renovations/expansions. -- Experts examine the value of arts education (including architecture) in public schools. -- Call for entries in I.D. magazine's 51st Annual Design Review; deadline: December 1.
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Healing Stories: Renovating San Francisco's Ronald McDonald House - ADD, Inc.; Babey Moulton Jue & Booth; Chong Partners Architecture; Huntsman Architectural Group; IA Interior Architects; RMW; SmithGroup; SMWM; TSAO Design Group [images]- ArchNewsNow |
At National Design Awards, The Extraordinary That Touches The Everyday. By Linda Hales - Polshek Partnership; Rick Joy; William McDonough+Partners; Milton Glaser; Yves Behar; Amanda Burden- Washington Post |
Three top designers to receive BSA's Women in Design Awards of Excellence - Ann M. Beha, FAIA; Marion Pressley, FASLA; Martha Schwartz- BostonSF |
AIA hails 12 local architecture firms: The gold and silver medals go to Kling and Erdy McHenry Architecture for bold modernist designs. By Inga Saffron- Philadelphia Inquirer |
New Momentum for Renewal Comes to Providence: This capital city, once the embodiment of urban decline, is about to write a new chapter in its story of renewal.- New York Times |
Approval near for Auburn Avenue project: The biggest development in nearly a century...$45 million project would bring shops and residences to the forlorn street. - Praxix Three- Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
From Ocean Drive, Miami, to Marine Drive, Mumbai, taking another dekko at Art Deco: The difference is that Miami’s buildings are protected from rash redevelopment...- Indian Express (Mumbai) |
City's former Public Safety Building will be recycled: Hold the headache ball, keep the jackhammers at bay and don't alert the landfill...More than 70 percent of its parts will be recycled... By Patricia Lowry - Astorino- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
Houses of the future on show in the present: exhibition at the Sydney Opera House...showcases six prefabricated houses...modern concepts of efficient, environmental and affordable homes. - Modabode; Innovarchi; Environa Studios; Stutchbury and Pape Architects; etc. [images]- Infolink (Australia) |
Engaging the City's Intimate Connection to Jazz: Jazz at Lincoln Center has a cool ethereality that lifts it above the mediocrity of its setting...The theaters are a gift. But imagine what they would be if we could obliterate the banality that surrounds them. By Nicolai Ouroussoff - Rafael Viñoly; Rockwell Group; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill- New York Times |
Monologue in a Landscape: Not a garden for Carnegie Mellon: The Kraus Campo...on the roof of the Posner Center dubbed “both a garden-as-sculpture and a sculpture-as-garden,” is a devastating failure. - Mel Bochner/Michael Van Valkenburgh [scroll down page for text]- The Tartan (CMU) |
Dublin may trade roots of its history for a modern view: Plane trees that survived 1916 Easter rising may be cut down as city tries to create a cafe culture plaza- Guardian (UK) |
A soaring testament to mankind's genius for creativity: Nicholas Hawksmoor’s masterpiece: Christ Church, Spitalfields (1729)...undoubtedly London’s most spellbinding Baroque building... - Red Mason- The Times (UK) |
Museums are aiming to draw more visitors with renovations: Museum of Science leaders made public their selection of Fentress Bradburn Architects...to help plan ambitious renovations and additional exhibit space. - Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Norman Foster; Moshe Safdie- Boston Globe |
Do Kids Really Need An Arts Education? “The Essential Role of Arts and Architecture Education in K-12 Education” seminar - New York Foundation for Architecture [transcript]- Metropolis Magazine |
Call for entries: I.D. magazine 51st Annual Design Review; deadline: December 1- I.D. magazine |
Exhibition Review: "RED + WHITE: Canadians in Design" at Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London- ArchNewsNow |
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Henning Larsens Tegnestue: The Opera House. Copenhagen, Denmark: A grand arrival Plaza welcomes the audience arriving by boat or along the harbor promenade. |
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