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Today's News - September 29, 2005
It's final: it's a no-go for museum at Ground Zero. -- Team of five tapped to guide New Orleans rebuilding plans. -- Mayors from around the world gather in Seoul to discuss urban sustainability. -- Chicago mayor tapped as 2005 National Design Awards Design Patron. -- High hopes as San Francisco's newest neighborhood rises. -- Who will save Moscow's avant garde masterpieces? -- Not all are pleased with plans to demolish a Gehry university building. -- Some not-so-kind words about Libeskind's condo tower in Toronto. -- The architect is "perplexed by reaction." -- Some kind words for Art Gallery of Ontario's audience-friendly attitude by Gehry. -- Some Romans still riled about monument by Meier. -- A university for the deaf and hard of hearing taps an expert for new building. -- Word has it that Toyo Ito has garnered the RIBA Royal Gold Medal; there's sure to be news about by tomorrow.
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Governor Bars Museum at Ground Zero: Minutes later, the International Freedom Center declared itself out of business, saying no other site was appropriate. -- Snohetta [images]- New York Times |
Pataki Solution on Museum Flies in Face of Planning: Now the question is what else in the master plan is open for revision. If ground zero is too hallowed for a freedom museum, how much longer will a performing arts center be considered appropriate? Or a million square feet of retail space? Or four office towers? Especially if one of them is named Freedom.- New York Times |
[Fort Worth] City planner...has been tapped to lead a team of five planners in advising New Orleans' city staff as they regroup after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. -- Fernando Costa; Bob Lurcot (Pittsburgh); Chandra Foreman (Tampa); Rich Roths (URS Corp.); Grover Mouton (Tulane Univ. School of Architecture)- Star-Telegram (Dallas/Ft. Worth) |
World Mayors to Discuss Urban Sustainability: ...Seoul Mayors Forum...will coincide with the celebration of the re-establishment of Seoul's Chonggyechon stream, the restored downtown waterway...- The Korea Times |
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has named Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, as the Design Patron for the 2005 National Design Awards.- Cooper-Hewitt |
The city has a chance to create a great neighborhood on Rincon Hill: ...the design by Solomon Cordwell Buenz is head and shoulders above any of the towers now in the area...if developer ...doesn't skimp on the details, the result should be a striking accent on the skyline. By John King- San Francisco Chronicle |
Eastern blocks: Moscow has one solution for its decaying constructivist housing: demolition. But who will save these avant garde masterpieces? Tom Parfitt tracks down the city's last utopian architecture. -- Konstantin Melnikov; Moisei Ginzburg [link to images]- Guardian (UK) |
Planned Demolition of Gehry Building Sparks Controversy: The 17,800 square-foot Information and Computer Sciences Engineering Research Facility (1986) will be torn down to make room for the 150,000 square-foot Engineering 3 Building.- New University (U.C. Irvine) |
Edifice retch: What is Libeskind thinking? To say [condo tower beside the Hummingbird Centre] is outlandish is to put it mildly. To say it's wildly inappropriate, overblown and verging on kitsch might be more to the point. By Christopher Hume [image]- Toronto Star |
Too tall an order for T.O.? Daniel Libeskind is perplexed by the reaction to his towering design for the Hummingbird Centre [image]- Toronto Star |
Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) ready to let the light in on new era: ...The return of colour to most if not all the galleries is another sign of changing institutional values...given way to a more audience-friendly attitude. By Christopher Hume -- Frank Gehry- Toronto Star |
Discord reigns at Augustus peace monument: "If you make a great machine that's 10 times [the size] of the Ara Pacis, you make a monument to Meier, not a monument for Augustus"- The Australian |
SmithGroup Selected to Design Center for Language and Communication at Gallaudet University: ...George Balsley, a deaf architect from Amherst, MA, who will offer special expertise...- Business Wire |
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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