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Today's News - July 29, 2005
Impressive teams (and plans) vie for South Knoxville waterfront. -- Density and diversity are key to downtown redevelopment. -- With good architecture, community colleges can stand apart from strip malls. -- Monster mansions in Seattle converting "fear of the rich into terror for the poor" (and not just in Seattle, to be sure). -- Modified WTC transit hub still soars (with pix to prove it). -- The sound of music enlivens Amsterdam's industrial district. -- A Pennsylvania power plant "rebooted and recharged." -- BMW New Jersey HQ expansion speeds towards green. -- Foster's Budenberg Haus Projekte is "strange but new and wonderful." -- A Nassau resort is showcase for Bahamian talent. -- Futuro houses: "prefabs from another planet." -- Visions for living on Mars. -- Weekend diversions to see and read: gardens after Modernism in Queens, NY, and "The Secret Spirit of Korean Architecture."
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South Knoxville waterfront contenders: Committee narrows choice to 3 -- Bullock, Smith & Partners; EDAW; Hargreaves Associates [links]- Knoxville News-Sentinel |
Expert: Density just part of a vibrant downtown: Diversity, balance are key, urban designer tells crowd -- Peter Calthorpe- Ann Arbor News |
Good Architecture Can Help a Community College Stand Apart From a Strip Mall, Says Conference Speaker -- Society for College and University Planning (SCUP)- The Chronicle of Higher Education |
Unwelcome Homes: Monster Mansions Prepare to Take Over the Central District...Converting the fear of the rich into terror for the poor.- The Stranger.com (Seattle) |
WTC transit hub design steeled, yet still light: ...a modified design hardened for security reasons... -- Santiago Calatrava [slide show]- NY Newsday |
Amsterdam's Industrial Strength Music Center: Muziekgebouw crowns the renaissance of an Amsterdam industrial district. -- 3xNielsen [images]- The Slatin Report |
Rebooted and recharged: Chester's grand power plant, shuttered in 1981, is rising from its ashes. Now it's home to a software company that sought a grounding in America's past. By Inga Saffron -- John T. Windrim (1918); Blackney Hayes Architects; Hillier [image]- Philadelphia Inquirer |
Hugging the Ground, in the Style of a BMW: ...to expand its own headquarters [in Woodcliff Lake, N.J.]...will begin construction of an "environmentally sensitive" building... -- Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK)- New York Times |
Try a foster home: Something strange but new and wonderful is happening down by the canal in Altrincham -- Foster and Partners; Arkheion; Urban Splash [image]- The Times (UK) |
Marina Village demonstrates Bahamian talent: ...part of Kerzner International's $650-million Phase III expansion... -- Jackson Burnside Limited; Adam Tihany; David Rockwell- Nassau Guardian |
Futuro Flashback: The Prefab From Another Planet -- Matti Suuronen (1968) [image]- New York Times |
Mars Plan Envisions Comfy Colony -- Georgi Petrov/Laguarda.Low Architects [images, links]- Wired magazine |
Exhibition Review: Nurturing Modernism With Spades, Water and Black Flowers: "Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism" at Queens Museum of Art -- Noguchi; Robert Smithson/Gordon Matta-Clark; Diana Balmori/Brian Tolle; Mel Chin; etc. [images]- New York Times |
Book Review: "The Secret Spirit of Korean Architecture": Korean Architecture in Cultural Context- Korea Times |
Rethinking Form and Function: Swarthmore College Unified Science Center becomes an intellectual and social magnet for an entire campus. -- Einhorn Yaffee Prescott; Helfand Architecture [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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-- Under construction: Raimund Abraham: JingYa Ocean Entertainment Center, Beijing, China
-- Randall Stout: Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia
-- Design Hotel: Niall D Brennan & Associates: The Morgan, Dublin, Ireland |
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