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Today's News - August 5, 2005
Eminent domain ruling: backlash has some developers reeling. -- Five futuristic designs make shortlist for Sydney's East Darling Harbour $1 billion re-do. -- London seeing a "surge of phallic architectural abandon" - but not paying enough attention to what goes on at ground-level. -- A guide to some of Moscow's hidden (and possibly soon-to-be-lost) Soviet constructivist treasures. -- In Prague, Wenceslas Square may soon be more pedestrian-friendly; and a housing complex inspired by NYC's Central Park. -- Is 1980s architecture due for a revival? (yikes!) -- A data center is first to be LEED green. -- Manhattan's Columbus Circle finally has a center. -- Heat taking its toll on Chicago's Millennium Park. -- Sydney Design 05 includes "Sydney designers unplugged." -- Touring rock concert "a node of mobile architecture" and "ambitious nomadic design erecting itself nightly."
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Eminent-Domain Uproar Imperils Projects: Real-estate and economic-development officials are growing increasingly concerned that the backlash will block more projects, potentially causing big losses for developers and canceling long-planned projects.- Wall Street Journal |
Planners with designs on Harbour's darling: ...futuristic designs short-listed for a $1 billion waterside CBD development site. Five designs for the 22 ha East Darling Harbour site on public display... -- Lippmann Associates/Lend Lease/Martha Schwartz/Richard Rogers; Lend Lease Design Group; Peddle Thorp Walker; Project Architecture; Hill Thalis Architects [slide show]- Daily Telegraph (Australia) |
London does not need more skyscrapers: ...success of Lord Foster's Swiss Re Tower has encouraged this surge of phallic architectural abandon...I have no problem with skyscrapers, only with what happens at their feet. By Edwin Heathcote- Financial Times (UK) |
Faded Dreams: Soviet constructivism...was seen by its adherents as a method, not a style...Sadly, many of Moscow's constructivist treasures have already been sharply altered, are currently undergoing ill-advised "reconstruction" or are simply falling into ever-greater disrepair...a guide... -- Mikhail Okhitovich; Konstantin Melnikov; Le Corbusier- Moscow Times (Russia) |
Square to be hip? Fed up with crime and grime, politicians plan overhaul of city center...Wenceslas Square may soon be more pedestrian-friendly- The Prague Post |
Aiming high in Zižkov: An ambitious residential complex brings a new look to the old neighborhood... Central Park Praha complex will become a new model for a planned urban community. -- Atelier 69 [image]- The Prague Post |
Mullets. White jeans. Architecture? As with fashion, styles come and go in buildings. With the haircuts, clothes and music of the 1980s making a comeback, is its architecture due a revival?- BBC News |
Fannie Mae Cuts Ribbon on Green Data Center: ...the first of this type of facility in the country to obtain a LEED rating. -- Gensler- GreenBiz.com |
An Island of Sanctuary in the Traffic Stream: At last, the circle has a center: Columbus Circle...a surprisingly generous sanctuary at the heart of a busy traffic rotary, cocooned inside a wrap-around fountain with 99 jets... -- Olin Partnership; Vollmer Associates; Wet Design [images]- New York Times |
Millennium Park Has Broke Its Crown: A long, hot summer overheats one of the Crown Jewels of Chicago's Millennium Park. By Lynn Becker -- Kapoor; Plensa [images]- Repeat (Chicago) |
Sydney Design 05: 9th International Design Festival August 6 -21...includes "Sydney designers unplugged: people, process, product" at Powerhouse Museum- Powerhouse Museum (Australia) |
U2's City of Blinding Lights: The Vertigo tour is a monster concert machine... Architect Mark Fisher...introduced me to the intricacies of how a rock concert, a node of mobile architecture, can inhabit a sports arena...ambitious nomadic design erecting itself nightly... [images]- Wired magazine |
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-- Santiago Calatrava: Fordham Spire, Chicago
-- Moshe Safdie: Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum, Jerusalem
-- Pugh + Scarpa: Solar Umbrella, Venice, California |
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