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Study reports hot housing boom is not a boon for affordable housing. -- Toronto's new think-tank "jumping into the battle for a new deal for cities." -- Conservatives have (or should have) a place at the table with New Urbanists. -- A "gentrification reality tour." -- A little "branding" can go a long way for a town. -- U.K.'s Design Museum Designer of the Year award exposes a "kudos-hungry design bureaucracy." -- Solar power from painted-on plastic in our future? -- Olympics or not, NYC joins the stadium craze - and should take lessons from Atlanta. -- Bellevue Arts Museum finally gets it right (except for getting the original architect's name right). -- Manhattan's elevated High Line chugs forward. -- Is Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science an architectural treasure or a symbol of communist oppression? -- Korea's Samsung Museum of Art is an artful blending of three starchitects. -- Is Chicago's "civic psyche" ready for what would be the world's largest mausoleum?
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Hot Housing Market Masks Eroding Affordability and Mounting Risks, Harvard Study Reports [link to report]- RIS Media |
Think-tank: University of Toronto poised to join discussion on new deal for cities: Proposed new "Cities Centre" would pool academic expertise...jumping into the battle for a new deal for cities.- Toronto Star |
Conservatives at the Congress for the New Urbanism: ...why conservatives might like New Urbanism, and why New Urbanists should like conservatism. By Ken Masugi -- Philip Bess, CNU executive director John Norquist, and NU founder, architect Andres Duany- The Claremont Institute |
Gentrification Reality Tour: Neither Benign nor Benevolent: Claims that the threat of gentrification are grossly exaggerated belie a fundamental misunderstanding of the real threat, the real victims, and the real consequences of inner-city redevelopment. By Charles Shaw- PLANetizen |
Branding Your Town for Success: Communicate, Expect Pitfalls, etc.- New Jersey State League of Municipalities |
Bureaucrat of the Year: Hilary Cottam won Designer of the Year for her work on Kingsdale School in south London, even though she didn’t design it. The subsequent dispute over credit for the project shows up all the weaknesses of today's kudos-hungry design bureaucracy. -- de Rijke, Marsh and Morgan (dRMM)- Spiked (UK) |
Coat the world in plastic to catch the sun: Buildings and laptops could one day be coated in plastic that generates electricity from sunlight- ABC (Australia) |
Yankees' Stadium Plans Stepping Up to the Plate -- Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK)- New York Times |
Atlanta a Model for Reusing an Olympic Stadium: ...one that organizers of NYC's 2012 Olympic bid echoed loudly... -- Heery; Rosser International; Williams, Russell, Johnson; Ellerbe-Beckett- New York Times |
The rebirth of Bellevue Arts Museum: They finally got it right...with a newly pluralized name and a stunningly remodeled interior... -- Steven Holl; Sclater Partners architects [scroll down]- King County Journal (Washington) |
Rusty Railroad Advances on Road to Pristine Park: Plans for [NYC's] first elevated park...have taken a major step forward with a favorable ruling by a federal transportation board. -- Field Operations; Diller, Scofidio + Renfro; Friends of the High Line [slide show]- New York Times |
The heart of Warsaw? There are few things that make the blood boil quicker in a Varsovian than the Palace of Culture and Science...what should happen in the future to Warsaw's most controversial building. -- Przemo Lukasik/Medusagroup; Rafal Szczepanski/president, Polish Architects' Association Warsaw; Paul Ayre/Broadway Malyan Polska; etc.- Warsaw Business Journal (Poland) |
Pride of Place: The Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Korea: Different architects designed the three museum buildings...diverging architecture visually harmonizes with each other and also with its backdrop... -- Botta; Nouvel; Koolhaas [image]- Philippine Daily Inquirer |
Monument Mori: Architect John Ronan proposes to transform Chicago's abandoned 2.5 million-square-foot post office into the largest municipal mausoleum on the face of the earth. Is it grand vision or high theater? By Lynn Becker [images]- Repeat (Chicago) |
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Exhibition: Jean Nouvel: "Louisiana Manifesto," Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark |
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