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Today's News - November 30, 2004

A new arts center is a cultural haven in the Berkshire hills. -- Safeguarding an Art Deco heaven in Indonesia. -- U.S. cities echo with Islamic design. -- An impressive shortlist of local/international teams vies for Malaysian turf club project. -- Another shortlist vies to build in the Antarctic. -- Museum of Bristol selects architect (don't expect a run-of-the-mill design). -- A "shabby artery" being "remade as one of Toronto's most attractive thoroughfares." -- A happy ending for La Jolla Playhouse. -- Denver's already massive convention center gets bigger (but it's not all bad). -- Whimsy wins over restraint in MoMA's garden. -- Cookie-cutter schools don't bode well for communities. -- Space architecture launches in Houston. -- And the winners are: Cityscape 2004 Architectural Review Awards and Sustainable Leadership Awards. -- New York City's cool site for Christo's Gates in Central Park. -- Hugh Pearman's "Airports: a century of architecture" on bookshelves now.

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Daniel Arts Center, Simon's Rock College of Bard: A unique school builds a cultural haven in the Berkshire Hills. - Ann Beha Architects [images]- ArchNewsNow

Pride of Place: Safeguarding heritage in Bandung, Indonesia...an Art Deco heaven...evolved into the free-flowing "Moderne" style that reflected the 1930s... By Augusto Villalon- Philippine Daily Inquirer

Architectural Mecca: Building design flavored by Islam: Most U.S. cities have buildings with echoes of Islamic design - Minoru Yamasaki; Julia Morgan; Frank Lloyd Wright; Gaudi; T. Patterson Ross; Edward Durell Stone [images]- San Francisco Chronicle

Seven teams to design plan for Penang Turf Club site: Malaysian firms short-listed to team up with seven international firms to participate in a competition... - Morphosis/ATSA Architects; Michael Sorkin Studio/Veritas Architects; Atelier Seraji/Axis Architectural Partnership; Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)/Axis Architectural Partnership; Asymptote Architecture/Pakatan Reka Arkitek; Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop and Furuichi & Associates/RSP Arkitek; Ernst & Gruntuch Architects/SA Architects- The Star (Malaysia)

Architects off to the Antarctic: The three winning designs have a science fiction quality, reflecting ...one of the most challenging environments on earth. - Buro Happold/Lifschutz Davidson; Faber Maunsell/Hugh Broughton Architects; Hopkins Architects/Expedition Engineers [image]- Guardian (UK)

Architect chosen for new Museum of Bristol - Lab architecture studio- BBC (UK)

4 reasons why you should go to College [Street]: By the time the dust settles, an important but increasingly shabby artery will have been remade as one of Toronto's most attractive thoroughfares. By Christopher Hume - Norman Foster; Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner/Alliance; Adamson Associates- Toronto Star

New home on UCSD campus for La Jolla Playhouse a perfect fit: ...a complex drama with many players and a happy ending... By Ann Jarmusch - Michael Rotondi/RoTo Architects; Fisher Sehgal Yanez; Antoine Predock [image]- San Diego Union-Tribune

[Colorado Convention Center] Expansion will give Denverites what they 'pay' for. Will the 600-pound gorilla please leave the room? No, wait, the 600-pound gorilla is the room... By Mary Voelz Chandler - Fentress Bradburn Architects- Rocky Mountain News (Denver)

Notes on the State of American Architecture Part 2: Faking It For Real: Ken Smith is the Elvis Costello of Landscape Architecture. In the end; Taniguchi’s MoMA: 6.5; Smith’s MoMA garden: 8.9. Whimsy over restraint. [images]- Archinect

Opinion: Cloned schools multiply in Virginia Beach: Schools should reflect the values of a community, both in the things taught and in the buildings built. So imagine the values in a community where schools are born in a cookie cutter rather than an architect’s imagination.- The Virginian-Pilot

SPACEHAB Joins Forces with University of Houston's Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA)...to develop architecture for lunar outposts- Business Wire

Cityscape 2004 Architectural Review Awards: A school made from bamboo, an ultra-modern glass and steel skyscraper, and a museum were among the winners - Slee & Co Architects; Hopkins Architects; Hundred Hands; Kate Otten Architects; Heneghan Peng Architects; Frederic Schwartz Architect/Robert A. M. Stern Architects/Southeast University of China/Sungal Corporation; etc.- AME Info (United Arab Emirates)

Sustainable Leadership Awards Announced at CoreNet Global Summit - Battery Park City Authority; BNIN Architects; Environmental Home Center Seattle; ABN-AMRO- Environmental News Network

New York City announces new details regarding "The Gates, Central Park, 1979-2005" - Christo and Jeanne-Claude [images/links]- nyc.gov

"Airports: a century of architecture," a new book by Hugh Pearman [images]- HughPearman.com (UK)

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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