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Today's News - October 28, 2004

Commercial buildings win big in Ireland. -- Libeskind project back on track in San Francisco. -- Mr. Gehry builds his dream house. -- Green projects in New Mexico and Washington, DC, LEED the way. -- Are competitions on the way out? -- A Chinese artist blossoms as an architect: "It seems to me that bad buildings give in to many temptations, and good ones are able to limit temptation. That's about all I know about architecture, and it seems enough." -- A São Paulo park in a no-man's land blossoms with rocks. -- A new campus "arts village" for Nashville. -- Architecture students take on a jazz club in Kampala. -- Call for entries to UIA student competition. -- Exhibition of "superb" photos of synagogues opens in New York today. -- High Point displays a low point in American design. -- Perhaps designers should pick up a copy of Terence Conran's new book for inspiration.

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Commercial buildings reel in top architecture awards...proving just how effective a good building can be to commercial enterprises...Opus Architecture and Construction Awards...15 winners- The Irish Times

Jewish Museum will be a test for "starchitect": With luck, San Francisco will be where [Libeskind] shows the "starchitect" still has substance. We'll soon find out. By John King- San Francisco Chronicle

Mr. Gehry's neighborhood: As the celebrated architect finishes plans for a Venice home, he is quietly wooing the locals. Unlike reaction to his then-shocking Santa Monica design, they're not "as hostile this time."- Los Angeles Times

University of New Mexico to seek green certification for new architecture building - Antoine Predock- New Mexico Business Weekly

Architects Dig Going Green With [their own] Office Building: ...will be the first LEED-certified building in Santa Fe and the first private building with the LEED certification in New Mexico. - Lloyd & Associates Architects- Albuquerque Journal

National Association of Realtors Opens New Environmentally Advanced Building on Capitol Hill: ...expects to earn LEED certification - Graham Gund Architects; SMB Architects; Lucas Stefura Interiors; Oehme, Van Sweden & Associates- Business Wire

Death to design competition: ...[Newton] public facilities committee voted down the competition...it's not likely to be resuscitated.- TownOnline (Massachusetts)

An Exile Ascends China's Big Stage: Thanks to his work with the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron on the [Beijing] Olympic stadium...Chinese artist Ai Weiwei suddenly finds himself with a rising profile in the architecture world. By Christopher Hawthorne - Michael Maltzan; Toshiko Mori [images]- New York Times

The Parks of Colors From The Dark: Amelia Toledo has created an artistic oasis in a no-man’s land surrounded by the buzzing traffic of a São Paulo thoroughfare. [images]- BrazilMax

New "Arts Village" to spice up campus: ...not known for its architectural edginess...exciting new architecture will alter MetroCenter’s [Watkins College of Art & Design] built environment... - Gresham, Smith & Partners [image]- Nashville City Paper

MUK, Club Pilsener Jazz Up Musicians: Plans are underway to give the stuffy Musicians' Club at National theatre a new look...Makerere University Department of Architecture to redo the interior...- The Monitor (Kampala)

UIA 2005 Istanbul Congress Student Competition: “EXTREME Creating Space in Extreme and Extraordinary Conditions”; registration deadline: January 25, 2005; submissions due June 13, '05- International Union of Architects (UIA)

Built Judaism: How Synagogue Photography Opens Worlds: "Palaces of Prayer," a new exhibit...on New York's Lower East Side includes 70 superb color prints of synagogues... - Laszlo Regos- Forward

All this schlock and not a decent couch to faint on: A trip to High Point's giant furniture show reveals an exhausting and disappointing proliferation of dated American design. By Barbara King- Los Angeles Times

Book Review: How things work better: "Designers on Design" by Terence Conran and Max Fraser- Los Angeles Times

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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