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Today's News - September 28, 2005
Thoughts on what to rebuild - and not rebuild - in New Orleans. -- A call for the "graceful and sensitive" cultural building to be built at Ground Zero - whether it's the International Freedom Center or not. -- NYC's Javits Center picks U.K./U.S. team for expansion. -- Attention to inner-city regeneration leaves the 'burbs neglected. -- But perhaps not. -- What Charlotte has that Nashville needs more of: aggressively redefining its urban core. -- Chicago inspires Davenport, IA's riverfront revival (and a mostly-positive review for the city's new museum and bridge). -- High hopes for (but perhaps too much - or not enough -- pink?) for Hundertwasser project in Magdeburg, Germany. -- Architects' HQ in Seattle with lots of fresh air (and no air conditioning). -- National Preservation Conference puts Portland, OR, in the spotlight. -- Niemeyer on Niemeyer: "I am a small voice."
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Op-Ed: Thoughts On Rebuilding (And Not Rebuilding) New Orleans: Jason Henderson, Assistant Professor of Geography at San Francisco State University, and a New Orleans native, warns...that rebuilding all is a bad idea, and that the flooding was an act of public policy failure, not nature.- PLANetizen |
Seeking the meaning of 9/11: The fight over whether to grant a patch of Ground Zero to a museum of freedom has become a battle over who owns Sept. 11...We need that structure, in that spot, because building for culture is the best response to an attack on civilization. By Justin Davidson -- Snøhetta; Libeskind; Childs; Calatrava; Arad; Walker- NY Newsday |
British Architect Is Chosen to Design Javits Convention Center Expansion -- Richard Rogers Partnership; FX Fowle (formerly Fox & Fowle); A. Epstein & Sons- New York Times |
Peripheral vision: Over-emphasis on inner-city regeneration has left suburban areas badly neglected.- Guardian (UK) |
Ideal homes and petty snobberies: Suburbia has suddenly become a serious subject. It was once endlessly teased in and lovingly mocked, but the suburbs are no longer a laughing matter..."In Search of Suburbia" opens October 11...[slide show]- Guardian (UK) |
What’s Charlotte got that we don’t? ...it has aggressively, successfully and dynamically zoomed past Nashville in redefining its urban core. -- David Furman Architecture- Nashville City Paper |
Riverfront revival: Inspired by Chicago's plan, Davenport [Iowa] tries to right its urban planning wrongs. By Blair Kamin -- David Chipperfield; Holabird & Root- Chicago Tribune |
Germany's Pink Powder Room Problem: An architectural project in the eastern city of Magdeburg faces a few last minute hurdles before its grand opening... -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser [images, links]- Deutsche Welle (Germany) |
Building to offer breath of fresh air: For its new, 40,000-square-foot headquarters in the South Lake Union area, Weber + Thompson architecture...is planning the city's first significant new office building in decades designed for "passive cooling." [slide show]- Seattle Times |
Building buffs come calling: National Preservation Conference puts city structures in limelight- Portland Tribune (Oregon) |
The beauty of curves: At 97, architect Oscar Niemeyer is still building his legacy- Chicago Tribune |
The Rise of the Few: Key Ingredients for the World's Tallest Skyscrapers: Q&A with Ron Klemencic, Chairman, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat [images]- ArchNewsNow |
INSIGHT: Vancouverism vs. Lower Manhattanism: Shaping the High Density City. By Trevor Boddy [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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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 |
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