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Today's News - November 15, 2004

ArcSpace visits a really cool Liverpool hotel. -- The new MoMA: subtle, serene, exquisite (and we're sure to hear lots more). -- ULI laureate discusses strategies to "reclaim urban areas that have been devastated by the conscious and deliberate policies of national, state and local governments." -- Culture lights up burned-out coal towns in the U.K. -- Florida on a fast-track to build affordable housing after hurricanes (but can it be more than the same-old-same-old vulnerable mobile home parks?). -- Extreme makeover houses - Iraqi --style. -- Lutyens about to be bulldozed in India; a Frank Lloyd Wright bites the dust in Michigan. -- Modernism winning and losing in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Montreal. -- Museum architect designs for the artists. -- Honors abound: Green Building Leaders and AIA chapters in Los Angeles and Miami.

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Archline design: Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool, UK [images]

Art Fuses With Urbanity in a Redesign of the Modern: [MoMA] is one of the most exquisite works of architecture to rise in this city in at least a generation. By Nicolai Ouroussoff - Yoshio Taniguchi; Kohn Pedersen Fox [images & slide show]- New York Times

For architect Taniguchi, subtlety reigns in MoMA's redesign: "This is architecture that's all about hiding itself." By Justin Davidson- NY Newsday

Richard D. Baron Says Let Us Agree That Cities Are Worth Saving: [ULI J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development]...“The condition of weak market cities was not economically or socially inevitable...We have done it as a nation and it is time to deal with it as a nation."- RIS Media

Burned-out coal towns fired up by culture, art: England's Newcastle-Gateshead port rubs off the gritty dust of its past, discovers it can sparkle- Chicago Tribune

Florida Aims to Build Low-Cost Homes: [officials] acknowledged that many of the rebuilt structures will be mobile homes, which are most vulnerable to Florida's hurricanes.- RIS Media

Iraqi's hit house makeover show: A home makeover-style TV programme in Iraq that offers needy families the opportunity to have their war-damaged homes re-built from scratch has become a massive hit.- BBC News

The rubble of the Raj: Edwin Lutyens' architecture was the first to successfully fuse east and west. Is India really about to bulldoze his work? [image]- Guardian (UK)

Even a Wright can be a teardown: OK, it was `ugly,' but the house is still the first Frank Lloyd Wright building to be razed since '73. By Blair Kamin and Alex P. Kellogg- Chicago Tribune

Retro metro: New condo buildings adhering to old architecural styles: With such backward-looking design dominating the landscape...Is Minneapolis ready for modernism? By Linda Mack - Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle; Jean Nouvel; Herzog & de Meuron; James Dayton; Elness Swenson Graham Architects; Built Form Architecture; Julie Snow; Horty Elving; Architects Alliance; etc. [images]- Minneapolis Star Tribune

Modernist icons usher in new design era: Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, could serve as a model of how to marry innovation to context...less ambitious but engaging pairings here in Milwaukee... By Whitney Gould - Krueck & Sexton Architects; The Albion Group; Flux Design; Joe Valerio [images]- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Place Ville Marie facelift sparks outcry: Concrete vs. Glass. Heritage activists wary of change - I.M. Pei/Affleck, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Michaud and Sise (1962); Pei Cobb Freed & Partners- Montreal Gazette

"I'm making the best of a ruined building": designer [Henry Cobb]: Appalled by damage to Place Ville Marie from successive renovation projects - I.M. Pei & Partners/Affleck, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Michaud and Sise (1962); Pei Cobb Freed & Partners- Montreal Gazette

The Artists' Architect, Building For Art's Sake: in a case of career following title, Richard Gluckman [is]...designing the personal work spaces for some of the most prominent figures in contemporary art. - Gluckman Mayner- New York Times

U.S. Green Building Council Honors Green Building Leaders...at Greenbuild 2004 - Herman Miller; Mithun; Edward A. Feiner/GSA; William D. Browning/Rocky Mountain Institute's Green Development Services- Yahoo News

AIA Los Angeles 2004 Design Awards Announced [images]- AIA Los Angeles

AIA Miami honors local design leaders: 50th annual design awards part of month-long Celebrate Architecture 2004 [link to images]- Miami Herald

In His Own Words: Luxembourg's New Concert Hall by Christian de Portzamparc [images]- ArchNewsNow

Beauty in Garbage: Naka Incineration Plant...real-time science museum and tourist destination. By Fred A. Bernstein - Yoshio Taniguchi [images]- ArchNewsNow

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