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Today's News - March 24, 2005

Call for entries for smart growth awards. -- Affordable housing going green. -- Green rating system challenges LEED. -- Preservation wars take on mid-century modernism in NYC. -- A U.K. proposal to digitize listed buildings then tear them down to make room for the new (with some big-name support). -- Big names lined up for big casino plans in Singapore. -- A thoughtful profile of Tange by Glancey. -- Another Mayne profile finds his roots in the '60s. -- San Francisco interiors enchant. -- "Carchitecture" for Nissan's Michigan design studio. -- Holyrood documentary makes Edinburgh look great, but leaves a lot of questions unanswered. -- Troubles continue for Taliesin West. -- An Art Deco city in New Zealand is a must-see (great pix!). -- The '60s (sans lava lamps) on view at Finnish Embassy. -- Second tome to new faces in architecture.

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Call for Entries: 2005 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement; deadline: May 18- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Greening Affordable Housing: ...putting environmental benefits in places where they can help the people who most need them. - Green Communities Initiative; Office of Jerome King, AIA; NOVY Architects [images, links]- BuildingGreen

Green Globes Emerges to Challenge LEED- BuildingGreen

In Preservation Wars, a Focus on Midcentury - Edward Durell Stone; Morris Lapidus; Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture- New York Times

Preserving listed buildings - on computer: ...could be demolished and preserved in virtual form to make way for fresh architecture...proposal...Better Places to Live, has caused consternation among campaigners for historic buildings. By Charlie Gates and Robert Booth- Guardian (UK)

Big names in architecture linked with Singapore's casino proposal: The government has said that design will be a critical factor when awarding the project. - Daniel Libeskind; Liu Thai Ker; Arata Isozaki- ChannelNewsAsia

Kenzo Tange: The most influential figure in postwar Japanese architecture. By Jonathan Glancey [images]- Guardian (UK)

Rooted in 1960s, he's an architect for the ages: Thom Mayne says that '60s…still inspires his designs for buildings and homes. [images]- Christian Science Monitor

Five enchanting San Francisco interiors show just what makes great architecture. By John King - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill,/Michael Willis Architects/Del Campo & Maru (2000); Charles Gottschalk (1921); Miller and Pflueger (1930); SOM (1951, 1999); Mario Botta (1995) [images]- San Francisco Chronicle

Architecture and Carchitecture: fused domestic and industrial design in Nissan's new Michigan studio. - Jennifer Luce; Albert Kahn Associates [images]- New York Times

Gathering a substantial fee, but no explanations: "The Gathering Place" BBC's much-heralded four-part documentary on the Holyrood parliament project proved a very expensive damp squib. - Enric Miralles; RMJM- The Scotsman (UK)

Dissent Roils Wright's World: …the future of Taliesin West and Frank Lloyd Wright's legacy have been thrown into doubt as competing factions struggle for control of the institution.- New York Times

Living monument to the Art Deco age: A provincial city on New Zealand's North Island, Napier is a world away from the design centers of Europe and North America. [images]- CNN

"Pop Fantasies: Furniture Design by Eero Aarnio": A Style That Stays Around: In the atrium of the Embassy of Finland…The '60s are in full swing. By Linda Hales- Washington Post

Book Review: 10x10_2: 100 Architects 10 Critics: follows in the footsteps of its acclaimed predecessor and presents 100 new faces chosen by a different set of critics… By Shane O'Toole [images]- Archiseek (Ireland)

Home-grown: Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner Takes on the World [images]- ArchNewsNow

Build Business: Diversity Is Harmony: Making Music Not Noise

-- Richard Meier & Partners: Burda Collection Museum, Baden-Baden, Germany
-- The Architect's Studio: Santiago Calatrava Sketches

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