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Today's News - October 29, 2004
Two miles of road and a Glasgow school building win big in the U.K. -- Meanwhile, multicultural analyst Stuart Hall includes urban architecture as much as anything else for cities' failures. -- Financing flux for Freedom Tower continues: result may be only "a symbol of rebuilding." -- Ontario doesn't please all with plans to curb sprawl. -- CABE called on the carpet for favoring developers over historic preservation. -- Cleveland's lakefront plans fall a bit flat. -- Big plans to make Baton Rouge more user-friendly. -- Pelli/Stantec team gets go-ahead for Winnipeg Airport redevelopment. -- To save or not to save a Philip Johnson arcade of glass in Peoria. -- Alsop rescued by venture capitalists; sees the future in North America, Asia, and Moscow. -- New York City Opera wants a home of its own. -- New Denver museum to look "like an iceberg and at night glows." -- Old schools reborn as new homes. -- Memorial service planned for Los Angeles Times former architecture and design critic John Dreyfuss. -- Weekend diversions: Exhibition of international innovative housing in Philadelphia inspires students to do their own. -- New book explores Miami Modern.
Editor's note (for E.U. and most of U.S.): Don't forget to turn your clocks back one hour on Saturday night…and Happy Halloween!
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Top prize cements Scots success storey: Clavius building at St Aloysius Academy...in the heart of Glasgow, won the £25,000 prize from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS). - Elder & Cannon- The Scotsman (UK) |
'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.' Or for two miles at least: Britain's best new public building this year is ... a couple of miles of tarmac painted with dotted white lines...A650 Bingley relief road [wins] Prime Minister's Award - previously won by icons... [image]- Guardian (UK) |
Divided city: the crisis of London: The contemporary city...was supposed to be the model for the workable, cosmopolitan multicultural future. But neo–liberal globalisation and its disastrous consequences are reproducing...growing inequalities of the world...urban architecture...mirrors this shift...- openDemocracy (UK) |
Plans for Ground Zero Are Outpacing Financing: Some at the Port Authority have resigned themselves to the fact that the Freedom Tower may not be a revenue generator. "We've decided that the Freedom Tower is a symbol of rebuilding"... By Alex Frangos- Wall Street Journal |
Ontario to curb urban sprawl: Province to protect huge swath of land around Toronto from development...future urban development "on existing grey fields, strip malls, surface parking lots, brown fields..."- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Architecture watchdog '"favours developers": Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)...too eager to approve new developments at the expense of historic buildings, heritage groups warned...will get a rough ride when the inquiry's hearings begin on Monday.- Guardian (UK) |
Lakefront plan has many flaws: The plan...isn't a disaster. But it's hardly a triumph, either. By Steven Litt - JJR; City Architecture; The Outside In- Cleveland Plain Dealer |
Firm finds plenty of signs to point Baton Rouge to better way: The plan is part of the $5 million Visitor's Amenity Plan...includes the way-finding signage, improving sidewalks and crosswalks, creating attractive landscaping... - Sasaki Associates- The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) |
Winnipeg Airports Authority names architect team for Airport Site Redevelopment program: ...targeted in the $350 million range, including approximately $200 million for the new terminal building. - Cesar Pelli and Associates; Stantec Architecture Ltd.- Canada NewsWire (CNW) |
Peoria Civic Center glass arcade deteriorating: considered the hallmark of the original Philip Johnson design, will have to come down...three options: to rebuild the arcade as it is now, rebuild it as Johnson originally envisioned it...or build it according to the redesign concepts of HOK.- Peoria Journal Star |
Risk-taking architect bailed out after projects founder: Alsop Architects...has been forced into receivership by a financial crisis..."the message is we are in great shape and we are well-funded," Alsop said. By Jonathan Glancey- Guardian (UK) |
New York City Opera in Talks to Build Its Own Home: in negotiations to build a new opera house on the site of the former American Red Cross New York headquarters near Lincoln Center - Christian de Portzamparc- New York Times |
Museum to glow: New art facility [Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver] will be flooded with light both day and night. By Mary Voelz Chandler - David Adjaye- Rocky Mountain News (Denver) |
Turning Public Schools Into Private Homes: Imaginative Developers Open a New Book by Refitting Old Buildings [image]- Washington Post |
Memorial Set for John Dreyfuss, a former architecture and design critic for The Times: November 14- Los Angeles Times |
Exhibit merges art with urban planning: "Urban Life: Housing in the Contemporary City" showcases examples of innovative housing designs...Penn students are about to embark on a similar project.- Daily Pennsylvanian |
New book examines Miami Modern architecture on a grand scale: "MiMo: Miami Modern Revealed," by Eric P. Nash and Randall C. Robinson, Jr.: Call it connecting the dots on 20 years of postwar South Florida architecture- South Florida Sun-Sentinel |
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 |
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-- Rem Koolhaas/OMA: Samsung Museum of Art (Leeum), Seoul, South Korea
-- The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture |
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