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Today's News - September 13, 2005

Ode to lost Bunshaft house.-- Katrina brings on a building blitz of new communities (the good news); "We are a lot of right-brained guys, nothing too artistic" (the bad news). -- Libeskind's 9/11 memorial in Italy. -- Q&A with Flight 93 memorial architect. -- Traditional Native American architecture fits with the modern. -- Chipperfield gets another U.S. museum. -- Tschumi sees blue in Manhattan. -- Montreal metro stations worth a look. -- Towering plans for Miami's Fontainebleau. -- Bahrain trade center to be powered by wind. -- An old Manhattan hotel tastefully transformed for the homeless. -- An Arkansas museum offers landscape challenges. -- Glaciers inspire museum expansion in Alaska. -- Tribute to man who brought Olmsted to life.

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Op-Ed: Modern Ironies: Notes on Losing the Bunshaft's Travertine House (1963). By Kenneth Caldwell [images]- ArchNewsNow

A Rush to Set Up U.S. Housing for Storm Survivors: The government is beginning what urban planners are calling one of the biggest bursts of federal housing development in United States history.- New York Times

Libeskind-designed Sept. 11 Memorial Unveiled in Italy [image]- ChallengerNKY.com

Flight 93 memorial emphasizes contemplation: Q&A with Paul Murdoch. By Patricia Lowry- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Modern architecture employs traditional designs: Throughout Canada and the United States, traditional First Nations designs are being incorporated into modern architecture with greater frequency. -- Lubor Trubka; Minten & Stewart- Indian Country Today

British architect will oversee St. Louis Art Museum expansion -- David Chipperfield- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Seeing the Blues on the Lower East Side: Bernard Tschumi has a portfolio of high-profile buildings to his credit, but he had never designed a residential structure. [image]- New York Times

Underground Showcase for Artists, Architects: An endless variety of forms, colours and textures shape the subterranean experience -- Victor Prus; Dan Hanganu; Pierre Mercier/Pierre Boyer-Mercier/Patrice Poirier; Papineau, Gerin-Lajoie, Le Blanc, Edwards [images]- Montreal Gazette

Tower of glass to replace Spite Wall: Owners of the Fontainebleau plan a [$450 million] modern structure where a 16-story building now stands. Twenty feet away, the Eden Roc wants a new building, too. -- Morris Lapidus (1954); John Nichols [images]- Miami Herald

Bahrain World Trade Centre to be powered by wind -- W S Atkins and Partners Overseas [image]- Gulf Daily News (Bahrain)

An Elegant Old Hotel Gives New Lives to the Homeless -- Howard Greenley (19094); Beyer Blinder Belle; Common Ground- Gotham Gazette

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Site Unique And Challenging -- Peter Walker; Moshe Safdie- The Morning News (Arkansas)

Hundreds attend University of Alaska Museum expansion opening -- Hammel, Green and Abrahamson (HGA)- Juneau Empire (Alaska)

Obituary: Charles McLaughlin, 76: Brought Park Designer [Frederick Law Olmsted] to Life for Readers- New York Times

Sept. '05 Build Business: Marketing from the Inside Out

-- Under construction: Gehry & Partners: Marques de Riscal Winery, Elciego, Spain
-- Book: "NOX: Machining Architecture," by Lars Spuybroek

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