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Today's News - October 27, 2004

Wanted: striking entrance for University Of British Columbia. -- And the winners are: Business Week/Architectural Record Awards cover the globe. -- Australia names its own stars. -- Sleek streetlights for New York City streets. -- In New Zealand, extravagant new buildings may win awards, but they're often dysfunctional - and cost too much. -- Speaking of dysfunctional, Columbia University student center looks for a long-overdue overhaul. -- Ditto Toronto's SkyDome. -- Glass art as architecture. -- Skyscraper planned for Nashville. -- Luxury lands in Seattle. -- A pedestrian bridge in London curls up and out of the way (great pix). -- My House magazine to launch regionally.

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Expressions of Interest: University Of British Columbia International Architectural Competition For Campus Entrance; deadlines: EOI questions: November 16; EOI forms: November 30- University Of British Columbia

2004 Business Week/Architectural Record Awards - Alamo Architects; Bucholz McEvoy Architects; Cooper, Robertson & Partners; Diamond and Schmitt; Frank Harmon; Mark Cavagnero Associates; Ishimoto Architecture & Engineering; Lehrer Architects LA; Miller/Hull Partnership; JASMAX/Mario Madayag/Salmond Reed [images]- AIA

2004 Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) award winners - Glenn Murcutt; Renzo Piano/Lend Lease Design/Group GSA/HPA Architects; Durbach Block; MGT Architects/Romaldo Giurgola; Russell & Yelland/MGT Architects; etc.- Infolink (Australia)

NYC City Lights Design Competition Winners Announced - Thomas Phifer and Partners; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Atelier Imrey Culbert [images]- NYC Department of Design and Construction

Extravagant new buildings cost ratepayers a fortune: ...let down by their councillors and council staffs in the building of new public facilities. The baffling question is why this is happening...It is common for an "award-winning" building to be dysfunctional.- New Zealand Herald

At Lerner Hall, Some Changes Expected: Administrators, Students Work Together On Upgrades for Unpopular [Columbia University] Student Center...design fails to complement its function. - Bernard Tschumi- Columbia Spectator

This old 'Dome: Can the SkyDome's image be repaired? Most people...look upon the much-maligned, under-loved concrete mausoleum and agree that it needs the Joan Rivers of facelifts...professional advice... - Robbie, Young and Wright Architects (1989); Joseph Bogdan Assoc.; Core Architects; Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg; MacLennan, Jaunkalns, Miller- Toronto Sun

An Empire Built of Glass: Stainless steel architecture can be visually striking, but glass sculptor James Carpenter can make it quite literally glow. - James Carpenter Design Associates; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill [images]- Wired magazine

Developer announces plans for skyscraper: $200 million, 700-foot mixed-use Signature Tower...would dominate the downtown [Nashville] skyline. - Lucien Lagrange Architects- Nashville City Paper

Luxury Four Seasons Hotel and Condos to Return to Seattle Market - NBBJ; Brayton + Hughes; Susan Marinello Interiors- Hospitality Net

London Bridge Is Curling Up: It isn't every day that you see a steel bridge that lifts upward like a trained seal standing on its front flippers and curls itself into a ball - Thomas Heatherwick [images]- New York Times Magazine

McGraw-Hill Construction Announces My House Magazine: Mountain States Will Be the First Region Served by New Network of Homebuilding and Design Publications- PRNewswire

Exclusive Principal's Report Survey: Is Offshore Outsourcing an Idea Whose Time has Come? By Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA- ArchNewsNow

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

-- Rem Koolhaas/OMA: Samsung Museum of Art (Leeum), Seoul, South Korea
-- The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture

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