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Today's News - September 26, 2005
ArcSpace brings us a winning design for concert and congress center in Reykjavik, and two new, hip hotels in Spain. -- New Orleans: lessons from Chicago; New Urbanist architects and engineers making plans; and legal issues that could affect rebuilding. -- In Manhattan and Brooklyn, it "isn't looking like a great season for the legacy of Jane Jacobs." -- Disappointment also in grand plans for L.A.'s First Street. -- Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction announces Asia Pacific competition winners. -- Melbourne's "new pride and joy" may be the greenest of green, but some disappointment: not a model for affordable sustainability and the "sacrifice of architectural aesthetics." -- Green design no longer considered hippie-chic in Southern California. -- A new Cuban revolution to preserve its golden age of architecture. -- New York design schools hiring "hot architects of the moment" to design new buildings. -- A Dublin car-park turned architects' home base. -- Musings on museums everywhere: Roanoke goes for bold hoping for Bilbao effect. -- Nasher Museum at Duke University - and others - part of a growing backlash against the Bilbao effect. -- San Francisco's de Young "thick with concepts but short on architecture." -- Akron museum has to curb some of its design enthusiasm. -- Tsunami memorial competition (announced in Friday's ANN) called a "bad precedent" by Wildlife Fund Thailand .
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-- Competition winner: Henning Larsens Tegnestue (with Olafur Eliasson): Concert and Congress Centre, Reykjavik, Iceland
-- Design Hotels: Hospes Ámerigo, Alicante, Spain; Palau de la Mar. Valencia, Spain
-- kk Letter: Exploring Alicante and Valencia, Spain |
Lessons from Chicago: Over a hundred years ago, the entire city of Chicago was lifted up above the waterline. Why can't we do the same with New Orleans today? By Austin Williams- Spiked (UK) |
Anti-sprawl group eyes cozier designs for residents: About 80 traditional town planners from around the country will join local architects and civic leaders next month to plan the reconstruction of Gulf Coast towns devastated by Hurricane Katrina... By Blair Kamin -- Andres Duany; Congress for the New Urbanism- Chicago Tribune |
Special series on legal issues arising in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: The Need for Caution, Creativity, and Cooperation in Rebuilding New Orleans After the Flood Waters Recede - and more- FindLaw's Writ |
At W.T.C. and Brooklyn Arena, Death and Life of the Superblock: ...this isn’t looking like a great season for the legacy of Jane Jacobs. -- Gehry; Project for Public Spaces; Ouroussoff; Gregg Pasquarelli; Calatrava; etc.- New York Observer |
First Street Fumble: Streetscape Plan Doomed by Politics and Superficial Solutions...regrettably evades the root causes of the street's drab urban character: the lack of engaging edges. By Sam Hall Kaplan -- Rios Clementi Hale Studios; Campbell & Campbell; Suisman Urban Design- LA Downtown News |
Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction - Asia Pacific competition winners anounced -- Chang Qing; Ronald Roland Cesar Rodriguez; Kazuhide Doi; etc. [links to images]-- Holcim Foundation |
Building tracks the sun around the CBD: Melbourne's Council House 2 [CH2] is a bold experiment in environmentally sustainable design -- Mick Pearce; DesignInc- The Age (Australia) |
No Longer Just Hippie, Green is Finally Chic: With the city of Santa Monica leading the way, Southern California homeowners are turning to ecologically sound design as an alternative to soaring energy costs [links to more green articles]- Los Angeles Times |
New Cuban revolution: Preservation...a growing movement to preserve scores of homes and buildings from the 1950s, a golden age of Cuban architecture... -- Eduardo Luis Rodriguez;Nicolas Quintana; Frank Martinez; Manuel Gutierrez; Docomomo (Chicago Tribune)- The Herald (Florida) |
Now at [New York] Design Schools, Big Concepts on Campus: ...moving to add new buildings conceived by hot architects of the moment. -- Steven Holl; Lyn Rice; Rafael Viñoly; Thom Mayne/Morphosis- New York Times |
How architects turned own mews into airy new building: A Dublin architects' firm bought a car-park and turned its mews building...into a light-filled open-plan office and four apartments. -- Newenham Mulligan and Associates- The Irish Times |
With Bilbao in Mind, Roanoke Goes for the Bold: Art Museum of Western Virginia...is quite a breathtaking thing for Roanoke to do. By Benjamin Forgey -- Randall Stout [image]- Washinton Post |
Bold, clean design lets art shine: The new Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University looks at first glance like a campus radical...in many ways a fundamentally conservative piece of museum architecture...part of a growing backlash against...Bilbao Effect... By Steven Litt -- Rafael Vinoly; Gehry; Calatrava; Libeskind; Piano; Taniguchi- News & Observer (North Carolina) |
Avant-garde de Young Museum misses a sense of place: ...thick with concepts but short on architecture. By Alan Hess -- Herzog & de Meuron; Walter Hood- Mercury News (California) |
Creative solution an art: Akron Art Museum's new building design tweaked...Cost forces material substitutions...had to curb a few of its ambitious design features. -- Coop Himmelb(l)au- Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio) |
Memorial a `bad precedent': ...plan to place the tsunami memorial and museum in Khao Lak Lamlu National Park...was made without permission from the National Parks Committee- Bangkok Post |
INSIGHT: Vancouverism vs. Lower Manhattanism: Shaping the High Density City. By Trevor Boddy [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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