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Today's News - November 19, 2004

MoMA opens tomorrow (finally!). All this week we've presented the pick-of-the-litter from hundreds of reports - those with at least a touch of attitude…there are a few more today. -- Controversies begin to swirl around the other gargantuan Manhattan museum complex (are we surprised?). -- Much-lauded waterfront projects in Philadelphia just a tad difficult to get to. -- We'll have to wait until next year to find out who's going to design the European Bank's new home (only one of three entries pictured - but worth a look!). -- A Scottish Modernist masterpiece on its last legs? -- A call to go back to the drawing board for corporate HQ in Providence. -- Foster to design glass envelope for Smithsonian Patent Office Building. -- A new school where "form follows function with single-minded force." -- Necco factory to go condo. -- Firms selected for GSA "First Impressions" program to enhance federal building lobbies and landscapes. -- Weekend diversions: Florence Knoll in Philadelphia; Corbusier at Harvard.

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Oedipus on 53rd Street: Of the many criticisms one can make of the new, grossly expanded and grossly expensive Museum of Modern Art...first and gravest of our disappointments is with the ill-conceived architecture. By Hilton Kramer - Yoshio Taniguchi- New York Observer

Gentle Giant: The reborn Museum of Modern Art is determinedly low-key—benefiting both the visitor and the art. - Yoshio Taniguchi- New York Magazine

Bring on the new: It has been a wait, but [MoMA's] transformation runs deep: Those hoping to return to a familiar, comfortable Modern will be surprised, even shaken, but perhaps also stirred.- The Economist (UK)

New York MOMA finds new expression in enlightened renovation: Only those who have seen Taniguchi's museum buildings in Japan will be prepared for the remade MOMA's combination of material lavishness and self-effacement, complexity and transparency.- San Francisco Chronicle

A $1B cultural building divide: Modern isn't what it used to be, and neither is the Museum of Modern Art...One can imagine the outcry if anyone in Canada were to propose a $1 billion cultural building program. It wouldn't be pretty. By Chritopher Hume- Toronto Star

Fearing That Museum Will Cast Shadow on PATH Hub: Snohetta, which is designing the [WTC museum complex], faces an extraordinary challenge: Make a 275,000-square-foot building transparent. By David W. Dunlap - Gehry; alatrava; Libeskind- New York Times

Barriers remain to public at Water Works and Schuylkill River Park trail: Build it in Philadelphia, and people will come. Just don't count on it being easy to get in. By Inga Saffron- Philadelphia Inquirer

Three Visions Compete for European Bank's New Home: ...expected to award the much-anticipated commission on Thursday...[will] choose a winner by the beginning of next year. - Coop Himmelb(l)au; ASP Schweger Assoziierte; 54f architekten/T. R. Hamzah & Yeang [image]- New York Times

Will the church save its icon? St Peter's seminary in Cardross...multi-faceted masterpiece in concrete...has been repeatedly mourned as it declined from a work of high modernist glory in the sixties to a near ruin in the nineties...Gillespie, Kidd & Coia...have become, in their own lifetimes, the new Alexander "Greek" Thomsons.- The Herald (UK)

A win for GTECH: Despite some opposition, the lottery giant gains approval for its [$80-million, modernist glass-and-metal structure] downtown Providence headquarters. - Spagnolo, Gisness & Associates- Providence Journal

Smithsonian [Patent Office Building] Receives $25 Million Gift For Renovation: Foster and Partners selected to design the enclosure...- Art Daily

The sound of music within concrete walls: Community School of Music and Arts...the distilled essence of modern architecture: a place where form follows function with single-minded force. By John King - Mark Cavagnero Associates [image]- San Francisco Chronicle

Home sweet home: A scent of change as Cambridge Necco factory goes condo...One First St., a [$100 million] 199-unit condo complex. - Elkus/Manfredi Architects- Boston Herald

GSA Awards 'First Impressions' Architecture and Landscape Contracts - Elliott + Associates Architects; Huff + Gooden Architects; Pfau Architecture, San Francisco; Joel Sanders Architect; Carol R. Johnson Associates; Rios Clementi Hale Studio- PR Newswire

Thoroughly modern maven: Architect/designer Florence Knoll Bassett changed the look of corporate America in the '50s. An exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art honors her influence on furnishings and design. - Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia- Philadelphia Inquirer

"Huyghe + Corbusier: Harvard Project" at Harvard University Carpenter Center- AbsoluteArts

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

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

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