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Today's News - March 31, 2005
U.N. report: ecosystems in trouble put global development at risk. - UIA Celebration of Cities winners offer inventive solutions. -- The facts and myths of higher-density development. -- A newer New Town for Edinburgh's waterfront takes shape. -- Seattle mayor's "urban village" vision not good news for car owners. -- The National Trust for Historic Preservation backs (and helps pay for) demolition of historic St. Louis building (a scary trend in the making?). -- U.K. seeks saviors for a "dismal list of buildings at risk." -- An urban forest and "living library" planned for a Michigan campus. -- An aquatic Eden Project in U.K. will combine science and tourism. -- Revised Koolhaas design for Dallas theater "has personality and pop" (and a few kinks to still be worked out). -- No skimping on Bank of Scotland's Dublin HQ. -- Detroit skyline to get "a much-needed shot of modernism." -- Correa to head Delhi Urban Arts Commission. -- It's Architecture Week in Virginia. -- Review of the best planning movies (some surprises).
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Earth’s Ecosystems Crucial for Economic, Social and Spiritual Stability: Experts Warn Ecosystem Changes Will Continue to Worsen, Putting Global Development Goals At Risk- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) |
UIA Celebration of Cities Winners:...a global database of inventive ways to repair and heal the nerve points of the city...- International Union of Architects (UIA) |
Higher-Density Development: Myth and Fact- Urban Land Institute (ULI) |
A newer New Town for Edinburgh. Traditionalist Robert Adam mixes ancient with modern on the waterfront. By Hugh Pearman [images]- HughPearman.com (UK) |
Parking tight in Seattle? Mayor plans to squeeze it more: has 'urban village' vision for neighborhoods- Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
When Preservation Equals Demolition: The national trust, created to preserve historic structures, supported demolition of the Century Building in St. Louis.- New York Times |
Saviours sought for UK's crumbling built heritage: Roofless farm houses, tottering follies, abandoned churches, the shell of a derelict 1970s office block...make up a dismal inventory of buildings at risk.- Guardian (UK) |
College to create urban forest: Lawrence Tech will combine architecture, nature when the school builds a 'living library.' - HarleyEllis [images]- Detroit News |
'Aquatic Eden Project' finds home in Bedfordshire: Nirah - National Institute for Research into Aquatic Habitats...£250m 40-hectare complex dominated by two geodesic "bio-domes"... - Grimshaw [image]- Guardian (UK) |
Theatre's complex design coming clear: Wyly Theatre is still a discrete object – nothing new here – yet the version being unveiled today...has personality and pop... By David Dillon - Rem Koolhaas/Office for Metropolitan Architecture [images]- Dallas Morning News |
Bank of Scotland hasn't skimped on Stephen's Green [Dublin] HQ - Robinson Keefe and Devane- The Irish Times |
10-story tower OK'd for Detroit: skyline could be about to get a much-needed shot of modernism. By John Gallagher - Neumann/Smith & Associates- Detroit Free Press |
Charles Correa appointed chairperson of the Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC)- Express Newsline (India) |
Virginia Architecture Week April 1-9- Virginia Society of the AIA |
Op-Ed: Reviewing the Best Planning Movies: Marisa Cravens examines planning through the cinematic lens with a recent compilation of important planning movies reflecting the instincts and hidden goals of planners.- PLANetizen |
Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem: A new museum tells a dark story, and then bursts through to the light. - Moshe Safdie and Associates [imagaes]- ArchNewsNow |
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-- Richard Meier & Partners: Burda Collection Museum, Baden-Baden, Germany
-- The Architect's Studio: Santiago Calatrava Sketches |
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