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Today's News - June 14, 2005
A call to battle for British heritage. -- In India, a call for architects to do more than just celebrate environment week. -- Urban design is more than "architecture writ large." -- Young architects in Tijuana offer insights to their complicated city. -- San Francisco's Octavia Boulevard competition has two winners (we'll see if they actually get built). -- Jencks's Maggie's Centres: "a new building type emerges." -- A festival of great music in great buildings in Great Britain. -- Lessons for Toronto in Vancouver. -- Who needs Olympic stadium(s) when NASCAR rolls into town (good planning included). -- A stellar shortlist for Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Awards. -- Rosa leaves SFMoMA for the Windy City. -- "One woman, one project": a Lebanese architect pushes culture and philanthropy. -- The next generation of design talent could come from Limerick. -- Riviera-style living in Qatar. -- 20 years (and some incredible talent) of NYC's Percent for Art Program on view. -- We couldn't resist: for all us workaholics - how to be idle (what a concept!).
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Battle cry from head of English Heritage: The plight of Stonehenge, the most famous prehistoric monument in the world, epitomises the problems facing English Heritage. -- Denton Corker Marshall- Guardian (UK) |
Eco friendly architecture: Mere celebration of environment week won't do, we need to involve ourselves- GreaterKashmir (India) |
System locks developers into forcing return for their dollars: We tend to see urban design as architecture writ large. People who do it, therefore, tend to be architects with slightly elevated levels of abstraction and/or megalomania. By Elizabeth Farrelly- Sydney Morning Herald |
Worldview: Tijuana looks at this complicated and dynamic city through the eyes of young architects working there.- The Architectural League (NYC) |
Octavia Boulevard rolls along: Of the 167 entries submitted from nine countries, two shared first place -- Envelope A + D; Amit Price Patel [images]- San Francisco Chronicle |
The remarkable Charles Jencks and his Highlands Maggie's Centre: a new building type emerges. -- By Hugh Pearman -- Page and Park; Richard Murphy; Gehry; Hadid; Libeskind [images]- HughPearman.com (UK) |
Raise the rafters: Lloyd's of London, the Gherkin and St Bart's Hospital seem unlikely concert venues. But great music and great buildings belong together. By Jonathan Glancey -- Richard Rogers; Norman Foster; James Gibbs; Mies van der Rohe; Libeskind; Piano; Le Corbusier- Guardian (UK) |
Arthur Erickson plays critical role in new downtown Vancouver high-rise: Toronto could learn lessons from Vancouver's stringent development process -- Musson Cattell Mackey- Canadian Architect |
NASCAR, The Largest Proposed NYC Sports Stadium Of All: ...on Staten Island..."So, what does it say about the state of New York City urban planning and development that the toothless, beer-bellied rubes of Nascar are doing a better job of caring for our city than we are?"- Gotham Gazette |
Sixth Annual National Design Awards Finalists: award recipients will be honored at the Oct. 20 gala at Cooper-Hewitt -- Eva Zeisel; Diller, Scofidio + Renfro; Tom Kundig/Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects; Antoine Predock; 2x4; Paula Scher/Pentagram; etc.- Art Daily |
Art Institute of Chicago hires architecture curator: ...taking its architecture department in a bold new direction...Joseph Rosa...currently in a similar position at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.- Chicago Sun-Times |
One woman, one project, one vision: Joy Kanaan attempts to make a case for architectural projects pushing culture and philanthropy [image]- Daily Star (Lebanon) |
University of Limerick establishes School of Architecture -- Merrit Bucholz/Bucholz McEvoy- Limerick Post (Ireland) |
Pearl-Qatar tower interiors unveiled: the essence of Riviera-style living -- Callison Architecture- TradeArabia News Service |
"City Art: New York’s Percent for Art Program" Surveys Two Decades of the Percent for Art Program...at the Center for Architecture- Art Daily |
How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson: On the insane hustle of modern life and the virtues of kicking back.- Mother Jones |
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Exhibition: Jean Nouvel: "Louisiana Manifesto," Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark |
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