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Today's News - November 29, 2004

Aga Khan Awards for Architecture announced, "the world's most lavish design prize." -- Plans to close Cambridge school of architecture called "an act of extraordinary folly." -- High praise and mixed reviews for Clinton library. -- Ground Zero as a "watershed in American architecture." -- Icons facing demolition in New Delhi, London, and New York. -- Irish World Music Centre will dance a jig. -- Libeskind's crystal in Toronto taking shape. -- Piano takes on Boston's Gardner Museum expansion. -- Gateshead, U.K.'s "post-industrial wasteland" is singing a different tune. -- Earthship architect out to save the earth (with some not-so-kind words for his contemporaries). -- A school's design fails as a bridge to the future. -- Wanted: developer for Chicago mixed-income housing (Helmut Jahn design included). -- Wanted: solution to dimming Disney Hall's sparkle.

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Aga Khan Award for Architecture: The Ninth Award Cycle, 2002 - 2004 - Snøhetta Hamza; Diébédo Francis Kéré/Burkina Faso; Nader Khalili; Han Tümertekin; Cesar Pelli & Associates; etc. [links to projects/images]- Aga Khan Development Network

The Spirit Behind the Aga Khan Awards. By Linda Hales- Washington Post

Architects condemn plan to close Cambridge...department of architecture because it has failed to meet the university's research standards..."an act of extraordinary folly"- Guardian (UK)

Clinton Library Builds Bridges: Complex Connects and Transforms a Little Rock Wasteland...Bravo to all involved. By Benjamin Forgey - Polshek Partnership; Ralph Apelbaum Associates; Hargreaves Associates [images]- Washington Post

An Earnest Building for a Complex President: Clinton Presidential Center...a dignified approach but not a compelling one. By Nicolai Ouroussoff - Polshek Partnership; Ralph Appelbaum Associates; Hargreaves Associates [images]- New York Times

Museum Review: Political Self-Celebration in a Library Guise: The dominant impression is of a grand party that was disrupted in 2000... - Polshek Partnership; Ralph Appelbaum Associates- New York Times

How Ground Zero Changed the Equation: ...a watershed in American architecture, because it has shown us the impressive public demand for quality design. By Alexander Garvin - Peterson and Littenberg; Beyer Blinder Belle/Parsons Brinckerhoff; Libeskind; Think (Vinoly, Schwartz, Ban, Smith); Calatrava; Arad/Walker; Gehry; Snohetta; Childs/SOM- New York Sun

Lutyens Losing Ground in New Delhi? Our report suggests that 'bungalow zone' may still be endangered [images]- International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU)

Architectural icon faces demolition: Delisting or renovation? Battle over building [Commonwealth Institute] that symbolised end of empire when opened 42 years ago - Sir Robert Matthew (1962) [image]- Guardian (UK)

2 Columbus Circle And The Need To Preserve Preservation: Communities throughout the city are increasingly frustrated by the...Landmarks Preservation Commission, which seems out of touch with our concerns.- Gotham Gazette

Irish World Music Centre jigs the metaphors to step out in style: ...judges were impressed with how [competition winning] scheme relates to its surroundings. - DLB Cordier Architect- Irish Times

New ROM rising: It's controversial, complex and structurally challenging. Slightly behind schedule, the Crystal's slowly taking shape. By Christopher Hume - Daniel Libeskind- Toronto Star

Gardner museum to grow: 1903 institution plans tripling space in 1st major expansion - Renzo Piano- Boston Globe

The Tyne, it is a-changin': Not so long ago, it was a post-industrial wasteland - but now buildings such as the new Sage music centre are transforming Gateshead. By Jonathan Glancey - Spencer de Grey/Foster and Partners; Raj Patel/Arup Acoustics- Guardian (UK)

What a load of rubbish: Built from waste and dirt cheap to run, Mike Reynolds' earthships just might save the planet- Guardian (UK)

School's design fails as bridge to future: The sprawling structure barely acknowledges the existence of its historic neighbors...resembles a Richard Meier design, but with a low-budget finish... By Inga Saffron - Prisco Group [images]- Philadelphia Inquirer

Developer sought for Jahn building: ...60 units of mixed-income housing... - Murphy/Jahn- Chicago Tribune

Disney venue reflects badly on downtown: crown jewel of downtown Los Angeles' revival -- must lose some of the luster from its polished stainless-steel exterior before somebody goes blind, according to a new report. - Gehry; Sapphos Environmental; Schiler and Associates- Los Angeles Daily News

Second Look: New York Hall of Science: Its power undiminished after 40 years, a 20th century cathedral to science is about to be rediscovered as a luminous addition debuts this week. By Fred A. Bernstein - Harrison and Abramovitz (1964); Polshek Partnership Architects (2004) [images]- ArchNewsNow

Exhibition: Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City

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