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Today's News - March 3, 2005
Unchecked building blitz in China needs to be reigned in. -- Toronto's "proud commitment to its own banality" deserves the Pugly Awards. -- Meanwhile, an exhibition aims to honor mid-century Toronto architecture. -- NYC planning department aims high by hiring "high-profile, trend-savvy architects." -- A few weeks ago, it was lessons San Francisco's de Young museum could learn from MoMA; today it's the Art Gallery of Ontario's turn for a lecture. -- WTC memorial hits a bump (or is it hump?). -- NYC affordable housing to be energy-efficient (what a concept!). -- Penthouses are no longer the most desired location in "condo craze." -- "Social architecture" gathering steam. -- Orlando getting a new VA hospital. -- Top 10 Asian firms honored. -- Shulman "still finding the soul of the homes." -- Battle over Breuer classic ends in the trash heap: "Exclusivity was probably the last thing on his mind."
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Too tall and too close for comfort: ...unchecked building blitz destroys the landscape of historic cities and bring along attendant problems such as traffic congestion, high energy usage and pollution...- China Daily |
Beauty lags far behind bottom line: Transformed Toronto isn't imminent...those wonderful people who have made Toronto as ugly as it is — has now given us the Pugly Awards. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star |
Is it ugly or is it cool? "Mean City," an exhibition on the architecture and design of mid-century Toronto opens March 5.- Eye Weekly (Toronto) |
Guess Who the City Is Hiring to Do Some Planning: As part of an initiative to step up the quality of urban design, the [NYC] is hiring high-profile, trend-savvy architects who are in effect acting as urban planners, in the first widespread planning effort since the 1960s... - Libeskind; Richard Rogers Partners; SHoP; Diller Scofidio+Renfro; Field Operations; Mayne/Morphosis- New York Sun |
Lessons from big MoMA: The reno of the Museum of Modern Art addressed large urban questions that need to be asked at the Art Gallery of Ontario. By Lisa Rochon - Yoshio Taniguchi; Frank Gehry- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Concept Meets Reality at World Trade Center Memorial: The design...has hit a bump...how appropriate is it for architecture to set street heights, rather than the other way around? - Michael Arad; Peter Walker & Partners; Davis Brody Bond [graphic]- New York Times |
NY Officials Announce Partnership for Energy: Agreement will save millions of dollars in energy costs by providing energy-efficiency upgrades at approximately 5,000 affordable housing units...the first of its kind in the U.S.- RIS Media |
In Today's Sizzling High-Rise Market, The New Hot Spot Is Near The Street: 'Condo Craze' and Mixed Use Trends Reinvigorate Downtown Areas - RTKL- Business Wire |
Architects Who Build Around People: Zagrodnik + Thomas specializes in shaping buildings to community needs, a personalized process that small firms can excel at- Business Week |
Design team chosen for new Orlando VA hospital: ...includes a new 500,000-square-foot hospital with another 200,000 square feet of renovated space. - RLF/Ellerbe Becket- Orlando Business Journal |
Architectural firms awarded BCI Asia Top Ten 2005 Awards- Bangkok Post |
A photographic memory: Julius Shulman's photographs of West Coast Modernist architecture introduced it to the rest of the world. Seven decades later, he's still finding the soul of the homes' design. [images]- Los Angeles Times |
Design Classic Lands on Scrap Heap: In a controversial ruling Wednesday, a court in Düsseldorf barred a company from selling the 'B9' chair designed by Marcel Breuer and ordered it destroy all existing stocks. - Tecta; Knoll- Deutsche Welle (Germany) |
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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