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Today's News - March 9, 2005
Are there skyscrapers on the horizon for St. Petersburg, Russia, and Liverpool? -- Baltimore and Boston contemplate tearing down and building over highways that cut through their urban cores. -- Utopian plans for 460-acre former Connecticut Hospital for the Insane. -- Big plans to bring Liverpool's Albert Dock back to life. -- For a Pennsylvania hospital expansion, "architecture that creates a sense of familiarity." -- Smithsonian's Indian museum "suffers from too many compromises" (but the restaurant and gift shop are cool). -- Lapidus buildings losing ground in New York. -- Wright houses in the wrong places. -- Awards galore: for smart growth in New Jersey, and creative integration of practice in architectural education.
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Skyscraper Projects Given the Green Light by City: The larger question is whether or not the planned high-rises irrevocably change the city's famed skyline and compromise the delicate urban and natural environment.- St. Petersburg Times (Russia) |
A city reaching for the skies: To cluster or not to cluster - that is the tall buildings dilemma facing Liverpool.- icLiverpool (UK) |
Rethinking life without the JFX: A developer suggests razing part of the elevated freeway downtown, as other cities have, to foster renewal.- Baltimore Sun |
Not Without Dispute, Boston Tries to Mend a Tear: Columbus Center, a $500 million complex that represents the city's first turnpike air-rights development in more than two decades...built on a six-acre deck directly above the turnpike.- New York Times |
Is Utopia Too Good to Be True? A group of developers wants to turn an abandoned group of buildings in Eastern Connecticut into a...a $1.6 billion movie studio, theme parks, hotel and retail project, and arts school. - Jerde Partnership- New York Times |
New era beckons for Albert Dock: ...master plan aimed at securing the dock's future...to make sure [it] remains a premier tourist attraction in the run-up to 2008.- icLiverpool (UK) |
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg unveils addition: $60 million expansion...just as important as the technology...is the architecture that creates a sense of familiarity... - Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates- The Morning Call (Pennsylvania) |
Strained achievement: Indian museum suffers from too many compromises: It's an odd museum when two of the most interesting exhibits are the restaurant and the gift shop. By David Dillon - Douglas Cardinal; Polshek Partnership [images]- Dallas Morning News |
Wrecking Ball Dashes Hopes for a Lapidus Work: Preservation advocates hoping to save building...at Union Square were too late to save its tower, which was demolished on Tuesday.- New York Times |
Wright house. Wrong place? For numerous reasons, including location, some of Frank Lloyd Wright's houses are at risk of demolition. [images]- Christian Science Monitor |
New Jersey Future 2005 Smart Growth Awards Celebration May 4 - Clarke Caton Hintz; Ehrenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn Architects; etc.- New Jersey Future |
2005 NCARB Prize for the Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy Winners Announced: University at Buffalo/SUNY Wins $25,000 Grand Prize- National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB ) |
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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-- Alsop & Partners: Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK |
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