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Today's News - August 9, 2005
A preservation architect shares her insights about integrating modern technology without destroying the historic fabric of a National Historic Landmark. -- Comparing Australian cities to LA: it's "time to shed light into the dark and fetid corner of the type of planning zealotry that predicts disaster, of Los-Angelean proportions..." -- Sydney's Metropolitan Strategy suffering a brain-drain. -- Perth perched to be hot spot for the creative class. -- An urban redevelopment experiment in Vancouver: mix the haves with the have-nots (not all are convinced). -- Gehry's pro-bono record (not his "fantastical buildings"?) convinced developer he's the right planner for LA's Champs-Elysees dreams for Grand Avenue. -- The secret to building a house for £60,000. -- Architecture students build a house of phone books (cost: $3,000). -- A traditional neighborhood development in Pennsylvania: sprawl or smart growth? -- Skywalks and retail tunnels not an urban solution once thought to be bright ideas. -- Miami's new architecture reshaping remake of "Miami Vice." -- Fixing up the Bauhaus: almost ready for its close-up. -- King Tut's tour a boon for a much-needed new Egyptian Museum. -- Architecture students build a house of phone books. -- Landscape architect lauded for community service.
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INSIGHT: Old Governor's Mansion: Turning a House into a Public Building: A preservation architect explains how HVAC systems were integrated and life safety codes addressed without destroying the historic fabric of a National Historic Landmark. -- Lord Aeck & Sargent [images]- ArchNewsNow |
LA likeness lingers in la-la land: It is time to shed light into the dark and fetid corner of the type of planning zealotry that predicts disaster, of Los-Angelean proportions, for Australian cities practising unsafe development...- The Australian |
Brain drain jeopardises city strategy: It was meant to guide Sydney's planning for the next three decades, but the delayed Metropolitan Strategy is now in doubt, with its three top champions leaving the project.- Sydney Morning Herald |
Perth: a city on the edge: The message to Australia's growing "creative class" is "head west"- Sydney Morning Herald |
Urban redevelopment with an edge: Haves and have-nots to live together in [$200-million] housing plan for abandoned Woodward's [Vancouver] -- Henriquez Partners Architects- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Los Angeles Taps Architect Gehry for "Champs-Elysees": ...will test penchant for designing fantastical buildings...pro bono record of helping redesign areas of downtown for at least 10 years helped convince Related Cos. that he was the right planner.- Bloomberg News |
How to build a house for £60,000: What's the secret? Inspired by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's competition for developers...four young architecture practices have come up with their own designs. -- Sybarite; Proctor and Matthews; Project Orange; Buckley Gray Yeoman [images. links]- BBC News |
Students build house by the book: architecture students at a Halifax university...used more than 7,000 phone books to build a house.- Toronto Star |
Development emphasizes density, walkability, sustainability: Northpointe is designed to be a traditional neighborhood development, or TND, meeting the principles of New Urbanism...sprawl or "smart growth"... -- Mike Rosen Architects- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
Rethinking Skyways and Tunnels: Two seemingly bright ideas for urban renewal in the 1960's - skywalks and underground retail catacombs - have been dimmed by urban realities.- New York Times |
Movie likely to reshape pop image of Magic City: South Beach is out and high-rises are in for Michael Mann as he moves 'Miami Vice' from the 1980s to today...''it's the new architecture. A lot of Chad Oppenheim's stuff...''- Miami Herald |
Fixing up the Bauhaus: ...a mixture of conservation of what exists and restoration of what had vanished. -- Walter Gropius (1926); Monika Markgraf- Taipei Times |
Tut, tut: Egyptian Museum sorely in need of new site: Planned grand space will replace the current hodgepodge. U.S. tour will help fund it. -- Yasser Mansour; Heneghan.Peng Architects- Los Angeles Times |
Landscape Architect Kevin Shanley/SWA Group to receive ASLA 2005 Community Service Award- American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) |
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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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