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Today's News - May 6, 2005
Architectural superlatives about the Canadian War Museum almost made us swoon. -- Anchorage Museum design goes through some dramatic changes. -- A mid-century modern gem continues struggle for survival. -- Big ideas, big plans (and big bucks) for long-range Palestinian infrastructure. -- Boston Greenway planner throws in the trowel. -- A Cairo suburb that is more than a suburb. -- Straw-bale construction the "canary in the mineshaft" for the industry. -- Competition winners galore: Beirut's Martyrs' Square prize somewhat of a surprise. -- U.S./Canadian team takes UBC University Boulevard prize. -- Green go the AIA COTE awards. -- African Burial Ground design winner (and runners'-up) worth a look. -- So are the winners of the Metropolis Next Generation Design Prize and Berkeley Prize Essay Competition. -- When style is king, it's time for business to start thinking like design. -- Companies reinvent themselves with design. -- SCAD takes on the world.
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Architect of Peace: ...Raymond Moriyama's Canadian War Museum is a monument to war — and to the human capacity for renewal...$132-million structure ranks among the most remarkable examples of contemporary architecture in this or any country. By Christopher Hume -- Moriyama Teshima Architects; Griffiths Rankin Cook- Toronto Star |
Anchorage Museum of History and Art expansion gets a new look: Latest designs by architects show dramatic change from past plans. -- Chipperfield Architects/Kumin and Associates [image, link]- Anchorage Daily News (Alaska) |
A Double Diamond May Not Be Forever: Hoping to rescue the Pearlroth house in Westhampton Beach, preservationists are campaigning to move, restore and transform it into an architecture museum. -- Andrew M. Geller (1959) [image]- New York Times |
RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy: “The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State”...proposals [include] a landmark rail, highway and infrastructure link between the West Bank and Gaza -- Suisman Urban Design- Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN) |
Weary of process, planners of a Boston botanical garden for the new Rose Kennedy Greenway site walk away -- Haar/Boston Planning Institute Inc.- Boston Globe |
Through the looking glass: Heliopolis is more than a suburb of Cairo, argues architect Adel Mokhtar. It is rather an embodiment of the city's past, its present and future [images]- Al-Ahram (Egypt) |
Tote that straw, lift that bale: Building method [straw-bale] is one to watch: "We're the canary in the mineshaft for the mainstream construction industry" By Christopher Hume -- Chris Magwood- Toronto Star |
Athens-based team wins Martyrs' Square prize: International urban ideas competition chooses plan to revitalize Beirut's central space but future remains uncertain -- Vassiliki Agorastidou/Antonis Noukakis/Lito-Lemonia Ioannidou/Bouki Babalou-Noukaki [image]- The Daily Star (Lebanon) |
University of British Columbia Picks a Winner for University Boulevard -- Moore Ruble Yudell/Hughes Condon Marler; Patkau Architects; Allies and Morrison Architects/Proscenium Architecture & Interiors [links to winner & finalists submissions]- University Of British Columbia |
AIA Announces the 2005 COTE Green Project Awards -- LZT Architects; Bohlin Cywinski Jackson; Arkin Tilt Architects; Rob Wellington Quiqley; Polshek Partnership Architects; Davis Gardner Gannon Pope Architecture/Bruce Lindsey; Croxton Collaborative/Gould Evans; Mahlum Architects; Mithun [links]- American Institute of Architects (AIA) |
Rodney Léon Tapped To Design National Historic Landmark: Winner to Create Memorial for 17th, 18th-Century Africans [link to images]- African Burial Ground |
Metropolis Announces Two Winners for its 2005 Next Generation Design Prize: architect Alisa Andrasek and engineer Joseph Hagerman- Metropolis Magazine |
Winners Announced in the Berkeley Prize Essay Competition and the Berkeley Prize Travel Fellowship Competition...winners from U.S., Canada, Nepal, UK, and Israel [links to essays]- Berkeley Prize |
The Business of Design: In an economy where style is king, we all need to start thinking and acting more like design.- Fast Company magazine |
Designing Where We Work: When you want to reinvent the way your organization operates, take a look at the way you work -- and your workspace...three companies that have redesigned their workplace...to reinvent their companies' culture. By Peter Lawrence -- Pentagram; John Andersen; Meyer, Scherer and Rockcastle- Fast Company magazine |
The empire SCAD built: Savannah College of Art and Design expands its campus to Atlanta and across the globe.- Savannah Morning News |
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