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Today's News - August 8, 2005
In Scotland, sustainable design accreditation based on achievement. -- First residential development in southeast U.S. with LEED dreams. -- Winners not announced yet, but first national Clancy awards for socially responsible housing offer lessons for public and professionals alike. -- "It's not easy being the Bob Geldof of architecture." -- An architect and Seabee offers an insider's look at rebuilding in Iraq. -- Urban professionals with big dreams to build a sustainable community from scratch. -- SimCity software brings out our "inner Jane Jacobs...edging out those usual suspects, the bleak cabal of Robert Moses-style bureaucrats...can professionals and the public learn to play well together?" -- A museum at the end of the High Line? -- New Columbus Circle "doesn't ring true." -- Trying to define D.C. with a baseball park. -- A decidedly British news day: The U.K. has a new "gang of four" taking on the old guard and "another dose of Dutch and Spanish architects coming to do the [Olympic] work." -- Alsop's "posse of like-minded professional pugilists...needs to do much more than float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." -- Britain votes for the "12 most vile" buildings: Holyrood scores Grade X listing. -- But Miralles and Tagliabue score a big thumbs-up in Barcelona. -- U.K. seaside 1930s modernist masterpieces getting a new lease of life. -- "Monumental ambition for ancient tower houses.
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Scottish Sustainable Design Accreditation Based on Achievement -- Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS)- BuildingGreen.com |
Savannah Sprouts First ‘Green’ Residential Project in Southeast: ...will be built according to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards... -- Lott+Barber Architects [image]- Savannah Business Report & Journal |
Low-Income Housing With Emphasis on Design: By launching the Clancy award program nationally ...Boston Society of Architects...telling the public as well as professionals that "socially responsible" housing can be designed as artfully as any other buildings. By Roger K. Lewis- Washington Post |
Blueprint for Building a Better World: For Cameron Sinclair, Architecture Is About Shelter, Not Skyscrapers: It's not easy being the Bob Geldof of architecture. By By Linda Hales -- Architecture for Humanity- Washington Post |
Architectural Efforts to Bring Safety and Stability to Iraq: an insider's tour... By Lt. James Vandenberg, AIA, CEC, USNR (Seabees) [images]- AIArchitect |
The new Village people: A group of urban professionals is taking environmental friendliness to a new level with their plan to create a sustainable community from scratch. -- Brian O'Brien [link]- The Sunday Times (UK) |
Sim civics: New game-like computer software is empowering ordinary citizens to help design better cities. Can the professionals and the public learn to play well together?- Boston Globe |
The Museum at the End of the Line: The Dia Art Foundation, one of New York's most distinctive institutions, sets its sights on one of its least artful neighborhoods...just a stone's throw from the High Line -- Roger Duffy/Skidmore, Owings & Merrill- New York Times |
A Circle that doesn't ring true: A $20-million park has just made its long-awaited debut in Columbus Circle, and it is a pathetic little disc of greenery and granite floating in a soup of car exhaust. By Justin Davidson -- Olin Partnership; Vollmer Associates; Wet Design- NY Newsday |
D.C. Ballpark Architect Has Towering Test: ...has learned quickly that the city is hard to define. -- Joseph Spear/HOK Sport; Devrouax & Purnell- Washington Post |
'Gang of Four' architects take on old guard: The ascendancy of Lord Rogers and Lord Foster is under challenge from practices saying they seek a more open attitude -- Alsop; FAT; Branson Coates; AOC- Guardian (UK) |
Design pugilist must prove he is a heavyweight: Stung, perhaps, by accusations that he has become architecture's Mr Blobby, urban planning's Ali G, Will Alsop has decided to ring himself around with a posse of like-minded professional pugilists...Branson Coates Architecture, FAT, AOC... By Jonathan Glancey- Guardian (UK) |
The buildings we hate most in Britain revealed: £431m Holyrood has been voted one of Britain's 12 most vile buildings...Grade X-listing... -- Enric Miralles- Telegraph (UK) |
Foodie heaven: Like their Scottish Parliament building, Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue's Barcelona market took a very long time to construct. But it is another outstanding piece of architecture. By Jonathan Glancey [image, link]- Guardian (UK) |
Pleasure palaces: They are the elegant relics of Britain's 1930s seaside heyday. Now the coast's modernist masterpieces are receiving a new lease of life -- Erich Mendelsohn; Serge Chermayeff; RWH Jones; Wells Coates; Oliver Hill [image, links]- Observer (UK) |
Restoration project with monumental ambition: An architect who fell in love with Cork’s ancient tower houses has snapped up three of them and is confident of making a profit by turning them into businesses -- Peter Inston- The Sunday Times (UK) |
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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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