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Today's News - February 14, 2005
ArcSpace brings us Gehry and Vitruvius. -- We lose a master dedicated to healing devastated urban neighborhoods. -- A not-so-glowing ode to Philip Johnson: "a product of wealth, good connections, and media savvy." -- This week, London shows off (but can it pull off?) it's Olympic dreams (it's New York's turn next week). -- Big plans for an old public housing project in Toronto - but are they the right plans? -- Big plans for Edinburgh and Belfast draw thumbs-up and thumbs-down. -- Time for Mumbai to reclaim its waterfront. -- Hard to tell if Trump's Chicago spire will inspire - no one has seen the drawings. -- An old warehouse in Hoboken has green dreams. -- An Oregon university project is a lesson in the beauty of frugality. -- A new Holocaust museum in Jerusalem "of unusual boldness." -- A museum in Baden-Baden is close to perfect. -- Columbia's Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture weighs in on the new MoMA: "subservient yet elegant good manners" not something to celebrate. -- Calatrava feted with AIA Gold Medal in D.C. -- Timeline of winning the eBay bid for rare Taliesin photographs (rebate included). -- Happy Valentine's Day!
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-- In design: Gehry Partners: Novartis Campus, Basel, Switzerland
-- Book: Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture By Indra Kagis McEwen
-- New in The Image Library: Foreign Office Architects; Richard Meier; Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen; Yoshio Taniguchi; Rafael Viñoly; MVRDV |
Obituary: Karl Linn, Architect of Urban Landscapes, 81: ...created opulent spaces...but abandoned the work to spend the rest of his career building community gardens in devastated urban neighborhoods- New York Times |
Style Is Never Enough: Philip Johnson was a stylist, and not a very good one at that...how depressing it is that an architect of such meager talent was, ironically, one of the most publicly recognizable. By Michael J. Crosbie- Hartford Courant (Connecticut) |
The Olympic dream: This week London must show the world it can be transformed by 2012. Jonathan Glancey is not convinced. - Foreign Office Architects; Zaha Hadid; Allies and Morrison; Norman Foster; Terry Farrell; Jan Gehl- Guardian (UK) |
The big fix: 7,500 people will be uprooted and $1 billion spent on Regent Park's remake. But plans for mixed housing are sending out mixed signals- Toronto Star |
Capital plans a new New Town: 15-year facelift of Edinburgh’s Leith docks will create up to 18,000 homes...offices, shops, leisure facilities and libraries.- The Scotsman (UK) |
A huge development plan aimed at transforming Belfast has been slammed by a leading city architect for lacking a “design vision” and coming too late. - Barrie Todd/Todd Architects- BD/Building Design (UK) |
Soon, city's coastline to have a new look: It’s Mumbai’s biggest asset...planners have never given it its due...Suddenly, it’s waterfront time...there is a hint of a possibility of a new seascape opening up to Mumbai’s citizens.- Times of India |
Playing the Trump card on spire: Public deserves to see drawings of tower now [for] $750 million, 92-story hotel and condominium tower... By Blair Kamin - Adrian Smith/Skidmore, Owings & Merrill- Chicago Tribune |
Hoboken turns green: Developer gets approval for city's first 'sustainable architecture' project; will convert [80-year-old warehouse] 'Coconut Building' - SHoP Architects; Buro Happold; Dean Marchetto Architects [image]- Hoboken Reporter |
Organic architecture: Opsis is a firm with green principles, modern lines and a deep understanding of what buildings can do...A lesson in the simple beauty of frugality... By Randy Gragg- The Oregonian |
Israel Dares to Recast a Story Set in Stone: 10 years in the making, Yad Vashem opens a new Holocaust History Museum, a $56 million project of unusual boldness... - Moshe Safdie [images]- New York Times |
Windows of Opportunity at A German Museum: The Richard Meier-designed public home for a private art collection [in Baden-Baden] comes as close to perfect as I can imagine a building to be. By Benjamin Forgey- Washington Post |
The 425 Million Steps from Intimacy to Elegance: While savoring the return of [MoMA's] wonderful collection...this is not a moment to celebrate architecture for its capacity to maintain subservient yet elegant good manners. By Mark Wigley - Yoshio Taniguchi [images]- Artforum |
American Architects Honor A Man of Grand Designs: Santiago Calatrava defies classification...compellingly deserves the [Gold Medal] award he received...from the American Institute of Architects. By Benjamin Forgey- Washington Post |
Timeline: The Battle for Taliesin: 32 photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin were for sale on eBay...the Wisconsin Historical Society...realized that the photos were exceedingly rare. By Fred A. Bernstein [images]- New York Times |
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