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Today's News - February 25, 2005
Housing for gypsies a priority in Europe. -- Bad new for fans of Edward Durell Stone's lollipop building. -- Housing towers in Toronto worth saving. -- NYC wowed the Olympic Committee (but there's that pesky West Side stadium situation). -- Young Mexico City architects wow NYC - and are changing the face of their city. -- More landscape architects needed to heal "urban concrete jungles" in Kenya. -- University in California builds green. -- Can't find a Neutra? Check out the Alexanders. -- Things looking up for Solar Tower in Australia's outback. -- Survey results: architects are the most unhappy workers (hairdressers the happiest). -- Toronto launches a competition for its most pug-ugly architecture (voting starts March 1). -- Koolhaas takes home a Wired Rave Award.
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Council of Europe Recommendation on improving the living conditions of Roma/Gypsies and Travellers in Europe: The Decade of Roma Inclusion (2005-2015) project identifies housing as one of the four priorities...- Council of Europe |
Museum Wins a Court Battle on Columbus Circle Renovation - Edward Durell Stone (1959); Brad Cloepfil/Allied Works Architecture- New York Times |
Regent Park towers deserve to be saved: Despite reputation, there's nothing wrong with the buildings, and much that's right...We should now learn to cherish our modernist inheritance... - Peter Dickinson (1947)- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
For New York, Olympic Waiting Game Begins: I.O.C. member...expressed the need to build a stadium on the West Side to accommodate the Games...- New York Times |
Architects in Mexico do it all: ...group of young architects in Mexico City has taken the adage “if you build it, they will come” to a new level. "Mexico City Dialogues: New Architectural Practices” at NYC’s Center for Architecture... - Aptilon Nurko; Central de Arquitectura; Higuera y Sánchez; Volvox- Financial Times (UK) |
A faultless transformation: The length of Javier Sánchez’s career as an architect and property developer runs along a few blocks of Avenida Veracruz... - Higuera + Sánchez- Financial Times (UK) |
Experts who can prevent urban concrete jungles: Philip Ngunjiri, the first Kenyan to get a doctorate degree in landscape architecture and one of the few practitioners in the country...- East African Standard (Kenya) |
Santa Clara University Building Green: Spring Ground Breaking for New Building at SCU Showcases Sustainable Design - Kaplan Mclaughlin Diaz (KMD)- Business Wire |
Desert Cool, Hot From the 50's: ...the Alexander house has turned into Southern California's accessory of the moment. - Palmer & Krisel [slide show]- New York Times |
Solar Tower of Power Finds Home: The quest for a new form of green energy has taken a significant step with the purchase of a 25,000-acre sheep farm in the Australian outback...1-kilometer-high thermal power station [link to animation]- Wired magazine |
Good money...bad career move: a new survey has revealed...Architects, with their professional status and power to transform our cities’ landscapes, are the most unhappy workers...- The Scotsman (UK) |
That's just plain pugly: Armchair architectural critics will get a chance to decide what's excellent and what is pug-ugly about Toronto architecture in a contest to be launched March 1.- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
From Architects to Entertainers, Scientists to Bloggers, WIRED Magazine Honors the Visionaries Who Are Changing the World - Rem Koolhaas- Yahoo News |
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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