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Today's News - November 17, 2004
More musings on MoMA (and - gasp - not all are thumbs-up!). -- Lest we forget two other important openings in London and Little Rock. -- Cheers for smart growth/new urbanism/urban mixed-use development (whatever you want to call it); so why isn't the concept flying? -- RAIA questions 'bizarre' inconsistencies in Ireland's planning system. -- Six architects dream up "truly postmodernist skyscrapers that bypass modernism's dead end" for Manhattan's West Side (gargoyles, anyone?). -- Meanwhile, we have adventures in glass technology for (dare we say) modern skyscrapers. -- London's Temple Bar now an adventure in "kitsch" and "schlock." -- Historic Cutty Shark clipper ship to be saved in a plastic bottle. -- Green is the new black in U.K. public projects. -- Seattle struggles with monorail design. -- Competition-winning streetlight design for Pasadena doesn't mean the city wants to wear them. -- Design team picked for British Columbia's 2010 Olympic skating rink. -- Texas A&M Bonfire memorial has power and grace.
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Modern love? The new, expanded MoMA in New York works beautifully as a frame for art -- if not as architecture...It isn't bad, it's just uninteresting. By Robert Campbell - Yoshio Taniguchi; Kohn Pedersen Fox- Boston Globe |
Playing to the gallery: A bold use of space and light is at the heart of the redesigned Museum of Modern Art in New York. But how well does the $425m building serve its art? By Jay Merrick - Yoshio Taniguchi; Michael Maltzan; Cesar Pelli- Independent (UK) |
An exhilarating temple of enlightenment: The new building housing New York's Museum of Modern Art is serenely minimalist – and simply stunning, says Richard Dorment - Yoshio Taniguchi [images + slide show]- Telegraph (UK) |
V&A salutes architects: ...handsomely designed in a perfectly rational manner by...Gareth Hoskins, the collection of architectural riches is the museological equivalent of a box of expensive, gift-wrapped chocolates: temptation layered upon temptation. By Jonathan Glancey- Guardian (UK) |
A new chapter: The Clinton presidential library is a bridge to the future. There are threads of city living here, and the library's enlightened idea is to weave those threads into a bigger urban cloth...a major design success ...monumental modernism is liberating, not oppressive. By Blair Kamin - Polshek Partnership; Ralph Appelbaum Associates [images]- Chicago Tribune |
Mixed results: [urban mixed-use development] heralded for creative design. Cheered by critics of sprawl. And applauded by backers of inner-ring suburb redevelopment...slow to catch on in many places,- St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) requests answers to 'bizarre' planning decisions: inconsistencies in the planning system...are causing frustration and alienation among building professionals and ordinary people alike, as well as imposing unnecessary extra financial costs.- Irish Independent |
Reimagining the Far West Side [NYC]: ...six architects to design a half-dozen truly postmodernist skyscrapers that bypass modernism's dead end... - Alexander Stoddart, Thomas Gordon Smith, John Simpson, Richard Sammons, Peter Pennoyer, Franck Lohsen McCrery, Robert Adam [images]- City Journal/The Manhattan Institute |
Curtain (wall) Time: Advances in glass technology could make new buildings like 7 World Trade Center more energy efficient and, say some experts, safer. Others demur. - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Fox & Fowle Architects; Renzo Piano; James Carpenter Design- The Slatin Report |
Temple of doom: ...the newly re-erected Temple Bar at Paternoster Square...seems as out of place and as kitsch as a cheap, over-restored carriage clock plonked on an overcrowded mantelshelf ...squeezed between a busy public lavatory and the alarmingly new and schlock baroque Juxon House. By Jonathan Glancey- Guardian (UK) |
Plan to save rotting Cutty Sark: would be displayed like a giant ship in a bottle within a transparent plastic tent... - Grimshaw Architects [image]- Guardian (UK) |
When it comes to PPP, green's the new black: Two of the chief influences on the design element of PPP projects are affordability and sustainability. By Kevin Cooper/Parr Partnership Architects- The Scotsman (UK) |
Monorail station designs: flair or function? A year ago, it sounded like elevated thinking: Hire local talent to design Seattle's new monorail stations...so the project would...create an architectural splash....it's too early to judge whether the investment in design work paid off. - Zimmer Gunsul Frasca; NBBJ; VIA Suzuki; Cascadia Monorail Co. [images]- Seattle Times |
Arroyo Parkway [street] light plan dim to some: The lighting standards may be bold...but so is the haute couture celebrated in fashion magazines. "Just because it is award-winning, doesn't mean you want to wear it.' - James Corner/Field Operations; Nancy Goslee Powers- Pasadena Star News (California) |
Richmond, B.C., picks architectural team for Olympic Oval...for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. - Cannon Johnston Architecture [link to images]- Canada News Wire |
Circular design, Chinese stone give[Texas A&M Bonfire] memorial 'power, grace'...hauntingly severe, arguably timeless. - Overland Partners [images]- Houston Chronicle |
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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Archline design: Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool, UK [images] |
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