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Today's News - November 3, 2004
ArcSpace takes us to the Museum of World Culture in Göteborg, Sweden. -- Toronto's waterfront still in a quagmire (and sinking fast?). -- A very strong opinion about (and look at history of) planning in Lagos. -- Montreal's design commissioner inspires New York's Times Square. -- A true artist of public spaces. -- An architect finds gold in "green." -- A revolution in recycling. -- Holyrood in the news again. -- A look at one of the U.K.'s ugliest buildings. -- SHoP uses high-tech, high design, and breaks an architectural taboo. -- A new skating rink will be icy-green. -- Arizona campus calls in experts. -- An artful "shack" by a Canadian master rescued from the wrecking ball. -- Smart Growth Awards presentation coming up. -- New media, new technologies in architectural practice and theory explored by the experts.
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-- Brisac Gonzalez Architects: Museum of World Culture, Göteborg, Sweden
-- Opening: Cesar Pelli & Associates: National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
Waterfront is a quagmire: ...lesson of similar agencies around the globe, from Beirut to Barcelona, New York to London. To miss this opportunity, and to allow waterfront revitalization to devolve into a series of isolated projects would spell ruin. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star |
Opinion: Town Planners Should Limit Their Role to Physical Planning: Femi Olomola's article "Architects have no role in planning approvals"...not only distorted the facts, but has the potential of pitching architects against their professional colleagues in the town planning profession. - Niyi Okelede/Department of Architecture, University of Lagos- Vanguard (Lagos) |
Montreal's designing woman: Marie-Josee Lacroix...the force behind Commerce Design Montreal, a high-profile strategy in which the city promotes the power of design...New York's Times Square business-improvement district has bought the strategy. By Lisa Rochon- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Canuck imprint on Times Square: Montreal inspires N.Y. design awards; T.O.-firm's classy interiors lauded - Commerce Design Montreal; Times Square Alliance; Yabu Pushelberg- Toronto Star |
The art of creating public spaces: Landscape architect Walter Hood takes bits and pieces of forgotten land and turns them into public spaces for the people who live near them.- Miami Herald |
Message Written in Evergreen Ink: That stony stumbling block of human nature has turned into a kind of gold mine for William McDonough, one of the country's greenest architects.- New York Times |
Throwplace.com revolutionizing the world of recycling, reuse and charitable donations.- Environmental News Network |
Scots Ask of New Parliament, Was It Worth Its Wait in Gold? Three years late and 10 times its budgeted cost, the architecturally ambitious Edinburgh complex [Holyrood] is far from 'a triumph' to some. - Enric Miralles; RMJM- Los Angeles Times |
Everyone hates it .. but should we really care? St James Centre repeatedly highlighted as the ugliest sight in the Capital - a "monstrosity" which clearly illustrates the absolute worst of 1960s architecture. - Ian Burke & Martin (1964)- The Scotsman (UK) |
Frank Gehry for the Rest of Us: Designed on a desktop, custom-cut with a laser, assembled on demand. It's computer-driven construction raised to high art...SHoP has broken one of its profession's big taboos... - Sharples Holden Pasquarelli [images]- Wired magazine |
Thinking outside the rink: A Boulder nonprofit recruits architect Will Bruder to design a skating venue that will be a cut above...Hoping to reclaim the standard of architectural excellence set by Saarinen...[and "green"]. By Kyle MacMillan- Denver Post |
Consultants to aid look of [Arizona State University] tech center: Scottsdale has committed up to $130 million... to build the project's infrastructure on the 37-acre site before the ASU Foundation hires a developer and architect to design the buildings. - Urban Design Associates- Arizona Republic |
Mendel [Art Gallery] rescues art relic: 'shack' was built by one of Saskatchewan's most celebrated architects, to be used as a studio by one of Saskatchewan's most influential artists. - Clifford Wiens [image]- The StarPhoenix (Canada) |
November 17: National Award for Smart Growth Achievement - 2004 Winners Presentation at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
November 18: Devices of Design: All-day colloquium/workshop will examine the growing use of new media and software technologies in contemporary architectural theory and practice - Daniel Langlois Foundation; Frascari; Carpo; Wigley; Galison; Lynn; Cache; Lane- Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) |
Second Look: George Washington Bridge Bus Station / Pier Luigi Nervi, 1963: One of Nervi's few completed projects outside Italy is a superb example of the poetry he wrought from ferro-concrete. By Fred A. Bernstein- ArchNewsNow |
Exclusive Principal's Report Survey: Is Offshore Outsourcing an Idea Whose Time has Come? By Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA- ArchNewsNow |
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