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Today's News - November 8, 2004
ArcSpace visits a sports facility in Mexico that responds to the weather. -- Goldberger and Updike wax poetic about the new MoMA. -- Modernist heritage under siege in Toronto and Lebanon. -- Shanghai is a city on construction steroids, where "preserving the past and planning for the future are rarely part of the architect's vision." -- Berlin's building binge pays off. -- A welcome taste of Modernism in Philadelphia. -- An "astonishing new landmark" in Washington, DC (and it's oh-so-green, too). -- Despite the nay-sayers, good architecture for public building is a good urban investment for Cleveland. -- Creative new digs for Alvin Ailey dancers. -- Experts say the Taj Mahal is not tilting. -- Industrial archeology incorporated into waterfront parks. -- A wrecking ball aimed at another Times Square stalwart. -- Libeskind still smiling in New York and Toronto.
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-- TEN Arquitectos/Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos, SC: Educare Sports Facilities, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico |
Outside the Box: Yoshio Taniguchi’s elegant expansion of the Modern: Although Taniguchi has created some superb display spaces, his design is most splendid, and subtle, in its urbanism. By Paul Goldberger- New Yorker |
Invisible Cathedral: A walk through the new Modern. By John Updike - Yoshio Taniguchi- New Yorker |
Our modernist heritage is being rapidly obliterated: If demolitions of such buildings keep happening at the current rate, Toronto is going to be an odd-looking place a few years from now -- a mix of quaint relics...and some bling-blang items from Daniel Libeskind and Frank Gehry... - Peter Dickinson; James A. Murray; John C. Parkin- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Architects embark on campaign to save Tripoli Fair Grounds: Development will disfigure symbol of Lebanon's disappearing modernism. - Oscar Niemeyer; Constantinos Doxiadis [image]- The Daily Star (Lebanon) |
Where Blade Runner meets Las Vegas: Shanghai is mad for skyscrapers...preserving the past and planning for the future are rarely part of the architect's vision. And now the city's planners are grappling with the consequences.- Guardian (UK) |
After the wall came tumblin' down: With new city center, Berlin is the heart of Europe again. It's not often that architects from around the world have the chance to construct the heart of a metropolis from scratch. By Ulf Meyer - Foster; Koolhaas; Eisenman; Kollhoff; Jahn; Piano; Nouvel; Pei; Gehry; Libeskind [images]- San Francisco Chronicle |
Modernism gets a new welcome in Philadelphia: ...two proudly modernist apartment towers have slipped into the red-brick territory of Center City...a breath of fresh air... By Inga Saffron - SHoP; Bower Lewis Thrower Architects; Solomon Cordwell Buenz- Philadelphia Inquirer |
A Slice of Blue Touching the Sky: National Realtors Association...an astonishing new landmark...just about every move the architects made in designing this building reinforces the impression of sleek, self-confident elegance. By Benjamin Forgey - Oehme, van Sweden & Associates [image]- Washington Post |
Sewer district building a solid investment: ...complaints...are based on the view that civil servants ought to work in surroundings only slightly better than a Quonset hut. This makes no sense at all. Public buildings matter. By Steven Litt - Collins Gordon Bostwick- Cleveland Plain Dealer |
Alvin Ailey's Creative New Digs With Room for Comfort: Joan Weill Center for Dance just what Ailey officials say they wanted and what the architects say they intended... Iu & Bibliowicz [image]- New York Times |
Concerns over tilting Taj Mahal dismissed [by] Archaeological Survey of India- New Scientist |
On Waterfronts of the Present, Rail-Bridge Relics of the Past: evocative industrial archeology...made integral parts of the design. - Thomas Balsley Associates [image]- New York Times |
Change, as It Does, Returns to Times Square: The 102-year-old Studebaker Building...is to give way to an apartment tower. - James Brown Lord (1902); Einhorn Yaffee Prescott; Schuman Lichtenstein Claman Efron [image]- New York Times |
A structure built on emotion: New York City battles take toll on Libeskind: Architect moves beyond aesthetics..."I'd love to do a condo." By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star |
Blazing a Freedom trail: The prospect of a greatly diminished role in reconstructing the World Trade Center site seems to have had little effect on Daniel Libeskind's love for the project.- NY Daily News |
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 |
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