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Today's News - February 15, 2005

Learning environments can vie for a prize. -- Saving an historic facade isn't really preservation, is it? -- Venturi gets hometown downtown project. -- Yale goes for green LEED platinum. -- Q&A with Toronto's mayor: what does the city have in mind to lift the city from "a morass of mediocrity and to produce excellence in architecture." -- Q&A with Chattanooga's urban planner. -- Consider the bale house. - Zeidler honored for lifetime achievement. -- Cardinal honored with theater in his name. -- Philip Johnson remembered - with and without admiration. -- Hurricane-damaged roofs protected by vinyl billboards (gratis). -- Maltzan on view in Pittsburgh. -- Metal-eating plants could be new solution to contaminated soil.

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Call for Entries: DesignShare/School Construction News 6th annual Awards Program for Innovative Learning Environments; early registration: February 25- Design Share

Is a sliver as good as the whole? Preserving heritage can get a little silly: Saving face seems to have become more important than saving architecture. By Christopher Hume - Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg- Toronto Star

Robert Venturi to Design Dilworth House Condominiums on Philadelphia's Washington Square- Business Wire

Top firm will design 'green' Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies building: ...will meet LEED platinum standard - Hopkins Architects; Atelier Ten; Centerbrook Architects; Arup- Yale Daily News

Can the city be beautiful in the next five years? What can they do to lift Toronto out of a morass of mediocrity and to produce excellence in architecture and public space? Q&A with mayor and three key urban advisers. By Lisa Rochon- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Hundting Season: Q&A with Karen Hundt, Chattanooga urban planner- Grist Magazine

A Different Way to Build: The bale house...The naïve manner in which we build our homes and businesses must change, either out of foresight and choice now, or out of destruction and necessity in the future. - Bruce Millard- The Gateway (Canada)

A life in architecture honoured: Eberhard Zeidler to receive lifetime achievement honour at Real Estate Excellence Awards gala- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Grande Prairie Regional College dedicated its newly renovated theatre the Douglas J. Cardinal Performing Arts Centre...in honour of the architect who designed the college.- Daily Herald -Tribune (Canada)

Philip Courtelyou Johnson 1906-2005: ...influence on architecture had extraordinary reach and took many different forms. Architects who knew and admired him—and some who didn't—remember a New York fixture and a legend.- The Architect's Newspaper (NYC)

Billboards Replace Some Florida Roofs: ...victims of Hurricane Ivan to take advantage of...vinyl billboard ads as roof tarps until owners can get permanent repairs. (AP)- SF Gate

"Michael Maltzan: Architecture" at Carnegie Museum of Art through June 12- Art Daily

Attack of the Metal-Eating Plants: Genetically modified plants may be the green solution for cleaning up contaminated soils.- Wired magazine

Build Business: Marketing Technology: Connecting, Communicating, and Collaborating by Craig Park, FSMPS, Chief Marketing Officer, Fields Devereaux

-- 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

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