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Today's News - April 11, 2005
ArcSpace takes a fresh look at the High Line and a new book about nanoarchitecture. -- Koolhaas strikes the right chord (twice) with Casa da Musica in Portugal. -- Championing placemaking: Architecture+DesignScotland launches today; hopefully to correct "erratic planning." -- Planning from the inside out makes the Lincoln Presidential Museum "an architectural flop" (that's the most polite phrase in the review). -- Trying to save portable cubes for affordable housing in Toronto. -- Modern minimalism wins Architecture Association of Ireland awards. -- Sometimes designing a good copy is the right thing to do. -- Walker Art Center ready for its close-up (and hopes are that it makes people smile). -- Meier learns his lesson well. -- Interesting take on 2012 Olympics. -- Gehry's Ground Zero performing arts center put on back-burner? -- Pelli takes on a theme-less hotel-casino in Las Vegas (or: architecture as theme - what a concept!). -- Landscape architects no longer in the background (it's about time). -- Inaugural awards for that most glamorous building type: pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
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-- Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Field Operations: The High Line, New York City
-- Book: Nanoarchitecture: A New Species of Architecture By John M. Johansen; photographed by Michael Moran |
Sublime madness in the new houses of music: Rem Koolhaas in Porto, Henning Larsen in Copenhagen. What about London? By Hugh Pearman [images]- HughPearman.com (UK) |
Rem Koolhaas Learns Not to Overthink It: The recently completed Casa da Musica is something new for the architect — a building whose intellectual ardor is matched by its sensual beauty. By Nicolai Ouroussoff [slide show]- New York Times |
Designs on a better quality of life for us all: Architecture+DesignScotland (A+DS) is the new public body to champion placemaking in Scotland...launched today. By Raymond Young, chairman, A+DS- The Scotsman (UK) |
Leading architect accuses council of erratic planning in attempt to save Glasgow’s skyline: The architect appointed [A+DS deputy chairman]...to champion good design in cities has berated Glasgow for its scattergun approach to erecting high-rise buildings. -- Malcolm Fraser; Murray and Dunlop- Sunday Herald (Scotland) |
Lincoln Land: The new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield is more theme park than adventurous architecture...hits a disappointing low, shackling rather than liberating creativity. By Blair Kamin -- Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum; BRC Imagination Arts- Chicago Tribune |
Legalities block cube-ist's vision; Architect wants permission to move...the trio of large green metal cubes... By Christopher Hume -- Ben Kutner- Toronto Star |
Suddenly it's hip to be square: The Architecture Association of Ireland awards have been scooped by cube-shaped minimalist affairs... Boyd Cody; Niall McLaughlin; Henchion & Reuter; Moyard- The Times (UK) |
Kennedy-Warren's [apartment building] Welcome Addition: Copying, of course, is not a fashionable thing to do these days...remains the right thing to do in certain cases. By Benjamin Forgey -- Joseph Younger (1931); Hartman-Cox; Johnson-Berman; Hartman Design Group- Washington Post |
Walker Art Center: Expansion on the edge: "What we've achieved, I hope, is a building that makes people smile" -- Edward Larrabee Barnes (1971); Herzog & de Meuron [image]- Minneapolis Star Tribune |
For Act II, Architect Gets More Hands-On: Perry Street experience was exasperating...but it taught him an important lesson: how crucial it is to have greater control over the construction and the interior design of his projects. -- Richard Meier- New York Times |
Contenders vie for 2012 games: From Britain, with much apathy...a leading member of the International Olympic Committee publicly said that the previous favorite Paris is now "neck and neck" with London. [slide shows]- NY Newsday |
Towers Site Campaign to Bypass Theaters: It might have gone unnoticed amid the pomp of Thursday's news conference...that Gretchen Dykstra had been named the president of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation...the campaign to raise $500 million...will not include the performing arts center being designed by Frank Gehry.- New York Times |
Pelli to Design Themeless Casino: MGM Mirage hires the architect to create a 4,000-room hotel-casino, part of a $4.7-billion project to be built on the Las Vegas Strip. "When you don't have a theme, the attraction of the building has to rest in the beauty of the architecture"- Los Angeles Times |
Reclaiming an industrial past: All too often, landscape architects are the afterthoughts of the design world...Michael Van Valkenburgh calls this "putting parsley around the pig." By Whitney Gould [images]- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
Top International Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Facilities to Be Honored as Finalists for the Inaugural Facility of the Year Award - Parsons; Whitney Bailey Associates; Shimizu Corporation; Foster Wheeler; NNE A/S [images]- International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering |
Discovery and Collaboration = Chemical Reaction: University of Missouri-Columbia Life Sciences Center. By Gregory Blackburn, AIA - Anshen+Allen Architects/BNIM Architects [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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