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Today's News - March 2, 2005
MIPIM Future Project Awards winners will be celebrated in Cannes next week. -- Anti-sprawl laws losing (or gaining?) momentum in Oregon, Ontario, and elsewhere. -- New York looking forward to new East River esplanade. -- New plans for New Delhi have conservationists fuming. -- Winning design for Alaskan Capitol picked (but no one really liked any of the designs and no one really wants to pay for it). -- Vancouver developers see gold in green design by starchitects. -- Gehry to add some glitz to Las Vegas while the gleaming Disney Hall will get de-shined. -- Toronto's Ryerson University has unusual urban plans. -- Lofts in Oregon are "striking and ecologically sound." -- Wright's Ennis-Brown House in L.A. gets red-tagged (danger of landslide). -- A priest is the architect of whimsical churches in Bolivia (a Bilbao effect for a poor city?).
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MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Award Winners Announced: Selected winning entries will be critiqued in a seminar March 9 at Cannes, followed by the presentation of the Awards.- The Architectural Review |
Anti-Sprawl Laws, Property Rights Collide in Oregon: The nation's strongest laws against sprawl are beginning to buckle here...Thanks to Oregon's new law, anti-sprawl legislation has lost political momentum across the country...- Washington Post |
New land-use rules aim to prevent sprawl, protect sensitive areas: The aim is to discourage urban sprawl and protect agricultural and sensitive environmental areas, such as wetlands.- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Along the East River, Everything Old Is to Be Made New Again: A new two-mile esplanade and bicycle path...would run along the river, linking Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan Island to the East River Park... - Richard Rogers Partnership; Ken Smith Landscape Architect; SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli- New York Times |
New benchmark for heritage site: Conservationists protest against plan to revamp Rajpath area: The area listed as one of the hundred most endangered sites in the world by World Monument Watch...will be ruined forever. - Lutyens Bungalow Zone; Ratish Nanda- Delhi Newsline (India) |
Dome-shaped Capitol design selected: Legislators don’t want to pay for it and the public... condemned all four of the design visions that competition finalists submitted. - Thom Mayne/Morphosis; mmenseArchitects [link to images]- Anchorage Daily News (Alaska) |
Shangri-La in Lotus Land: ...going for the gold: [Vancouver] developers are hiring high-profile architects in a bid to convince wealthy suburban homeowners to move downtown. - Norman Foster; Arthur Erickson; James K.M. Cheng Architects- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Frank Gehry to design local project: commissioned to work on Alzheimer's research center...proposed for downtown's 61-acre Union Park development...- Las Vegas Review-Journal |
Hit the Dimmer, Disney Hall Is Told: Construction crews are set to take hand sanders to some of the shimmering stainless-steel panels that have wowed tourists and architecture lovers but have baked neighbors in condominiums across the street. - Frank Gehry [images]- Los Angeles Times |
A place to learn, shop and park a car: Ryerson University's new building in Toronto is unusual co-op arrangement with parking garage and retail space - Zeidler Partnership Architects; ZAS Architects- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Radical lofts nail the details: Belmont project is both striking and ecologically sound - Holst Architecture- Portland Tribune (Oregon) |
Warning: Hills Can Slide, Even on the Sunniest Days: Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark Ennis-Brown House and other homes are red-tagged.- Los Angeles Times |
Whimsy in Bavaria? Nope, Bolivia: Fabulously playful churches built by a German priest are bringing the fast-growing but poor city of El Alto an odd renown across Bolivia. [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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-- Legorreta + Legorreta: Fashion and Textile Museum, London, UK
-- "The Camera": John Boak's photos of the Denver Art Museum addition by Daniel Libeskind during the last year |
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