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Today's News - September 9, 2005
Katrina vs. New Orleans: Planning for a new, improved NOLA. -- The next phase: shelter. -- A look at the historical problems with emergency housing. -- The debate whether a bungalow was Sullivan- or Wright-designed is over - it's gone. -- A conflict resolution specialist for WTC Freedom Center (not all see it as a good thing). -- Washington, DC, to get Foster's "elegant glass canopy" after all. -- He's also on the University of Virginia's shortlist. -- A Toronto condo tower for ROM is both "royal tomb and swank," but is it the right location? -- Celebrating "the most important building Toronto erected in the 20th century." -- How RISD does a dorm (with style, you can be sure). -- Architect of Times Square subway station "needs a farrago of skills." -- New sites named National Historic Landmarks (U.S.). -- 'Tis the season for competitions: Urban Voids in Philadelphia, Community Greens in Glasgow, and trade show exhibit designs anywhere.
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Planning for a New, Improved Orleans: Should we not all be aware that failure will be a great shame, in all senses of the word? By Benjamin Forgey- Washington Post |
Filling a Desperate Need for Shelter Begins With Cruise Ships and Proposals: ...relief organizations and policy makers - as well as architects - are also thinking about the next phase. -- Daniel Libeskind; Shigeru Ban- New York Times |
There's No Place Like Home: The historical problems with emergency housing. By Witold Rybczynski -- Ian Davis- Slate |
Wright-Sullivan gems gutted: Twin bungalows--both claimed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan -- suffer Katrina's wrath. By Blair Kamin et al- Chicago Tribune |
Conflict Resolution Specialist Is Hired To Mediate Dispute Over Freedom Center- New York Sun |
A Roof That's Patently the Best Option: Washington was spared a great embarrassment yesterday. The National Capital Planning Commission, in another striking reversal, voted to approve the elegant glass canopy...to cover the courtyard of the historic Old Patent Office Building. By Benjamin Forgey -- Norman Foster; Kathryn Gustafson [image]- Washington Post |
University of Virginia selects design finalists [for] a new $98 million Center for the Arts -- Foster and Partners; VMDO Architects; William Rawn Associates/Kyu Sung Woo Architects/Glave & Holmes Associates; Robert A.M. Stern Architects- Daily Progress (Virginia) |
Starry-eyed design for ROM [Royal Ontario Museum] site: Rising from the rubble of the McLaughlin Planetarium...a 45-storey skyscraper destined to rise from the debris of the decommissioned McLaughlin Planetarium. By John Bentley Mays -- Brisbin Brook Beynon- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
The icon that changed a city turns 40: New City Hall, designed by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, is the most important building Toronto erected in the 20th century. By Dave LeBlanc- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Rhode Island School of Design starts its lessons in the dorm: How RISD does a dorm: Start with a landmark,embellish stylishly, and design the furniture -- Office dA; Stegman + Associates; ADD Inc [slide show]- Boston Globe |
Third Time's the Charm for Architect of Times Square Station -- Darko Hreljanovic/Gruzen Samton- New York Sun |
Secretary Norton Announces Designation of Eudora Welty House in Mississippi as National Historic Landmark: Seven other Sites in Six States Added to National Historic Landmark List -- Richard Upjohn (1861); of William L. Coulter (1029); William West Durant (1870s); Frank Lloyd Wright- ArriveNet |
Urban Voids: Grounds for Change International Ideas Competition: Philadelphia LANDvisions; registration deadline: October 7, 2005; entries due January 6, 2006- Van Alen Institute |
Expressions of Interest (EOI): Community Green - a 21st Century village green international competition for the Pollokshields neighborhood, Glasgow, Scotland; registration deadline: September 14- New Media Scotland |
20th Annual Exhibit Design Awards honor the world's best trade show exhibit designs; discounted deadline: Dec. 1; regular deadline: Dec. 15- Exhibitor Magazine |
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-- Inauguration: Zaha Hadid Architects: Ordrupgaard Museum Extension, Copenhagen, Denmark
-- Santiago Calatrava: Turning Torso, Malmö, Sweden |
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