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Today's News - February 23, 2005
The Economist (UK) offers its first survey the New York City since 1983 (things are looking up). -- An international research project to measure how cities profit from encouraging the "creative class." -- Of new urbanism, temporary urbanism, public spaces...and bicycles. -- A new niche market for senior housing: themed communities. -- Move over baby boomers: new campus architecture for the "millennial generation." -- Fordham has big plans that will add to midtown Manhattan "gigantism." -- New tool for reducing campus greenhouse gas emissions. -- New findings to improve healthcare design. -- Big plans for Dublin's historic - but rundown - Parnell Square. -- Kamin takes on the "McArchitecture" of "McBank" branches popping up everywhere. -- Impressive list vies for Washington, DC stadium. -- Alaska getting closer to choosing its Capitol Building design. -- A survey to define the icon of U.K. region...London Eye or "a horrid new 'sustainable community'." -- Colorado awaits its own "Gates."
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The town of the talk: The Economist last surveyed New York, in 1983... [links to related articles]- The Economist (UK) |
Intercultural innovation: Our cities can profit from the creativity that cultural diversity brings: Comedia has launched a major piece of international research - The Intercultural City: Making the Most of Diversity.- Guardian (UK) |
Op-Ed: The Temporary Urbanism of Critical Mass: a monthly gathering of cyclists originally founded in San Francisco, has quickly become a worldwide phenomenon. ...relationship with New Urbanism, smart growth, and temporary urbanism -- an alternative way of looking at public space.- PLANetizen |
Retirees seeking common grounds: ..."niche retirement communities" springing up to serve targeted segments of the $176 billion senior housing market...- Dallas Morning News |
Xavier University changing face of campus: Hoff quad to serve 'millennial generation'...a 10-year plan that will change the way it educates its students and reshape those old baby boomer buildings. [image]- Cincinnati Enquirer |
Cramped Fordham Plans to Expand at Lincoln Center: ...a high-rise quadrangle for 10,600 students...would greatly advance the steady march of Midtown gigantism... - Cooper, Robertson & Partners [image]- New York Times |
New Tool for Reducing Campus Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Clean Air - Cool Planet offers web-based resource- Environmental News Network |
Center for Health Design Releases Findings on How Design Can Improve the Standard of Care in Health-Care Facilities- AIArchitect |
€200m facelift for historic square: ...aims to turn Dublin's historic - but rundown - Parnell Square into a national cultural quarter. - Howley Harrington Architects- Irish Independent |
Once grand, now bland: Branch banks are booming: While the services are praiseworthy, the architecture -- and the effects on neighborhoods -- is troubling. By Blair Kamin- Chicago Tribune |
8 Bid to Design Wasington Nationals' Stadium - Rafael Vinoly Architects; Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum Sport; Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; Ehrenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn Architects; Harwood K. Smith Architects; HNTB Architects; EwingCole; David M. Schwarz Architects- Washington Post |
Anchorage weighs in on Capitol building's designs - Moshe Safdie and Associates/McCool Carlson Green; Morphosis/mmenseArchitects; NNBJ/ECI Hyer; Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design/Livingston Slone- Anchorage Daily News |
Alaska's Capitol Building in Juneau: Finalists Design Concepts - Moshe Safdie and Associates/McCool Carlson Green; Morphosis/mmenseArchitects; NNBJ/ECI Hyer; Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design/Livingston Slone [images]- AlaskaCapitol.org |
Jellied eels versus the London Eye: ...a survey...to define the essential characteristics of region...My own candidate for a symbol of the East of England is Barking Reach, a horrid new "sustainable community"... By Jonathan Glancey- Guardian (UK) |
Colorado Still Waits for Its "Gates": "Over the River," Christo and Jeanne-Claude's plan to suspend several miles of shimmering fabric panels above a stretch of the Arkansas River... [images]- New York Times |
Wild about Saffron: New York City. A February Tuesday in Central Park; 55 degrees and sunny... By Kristen Richards [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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-- Santiago Calatrava: Atlanta Symphony Center, Atlanta, Georgia
-- Rockwell Group: Chambers Hotel, New York City |
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