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Today's News - October 12, 2005
AIA issues a post-Katrina economic and construction report. -- Deadline looms for sustainable building awards. -- A New Mexico town wants its Main Street back. -- Dublin firm wins big in Ireland, and U.S. firm wins big in China. -- Another take on San Francisco's De Young Museum: both claustrophobic and powerful (and a field day for a psychoanalyst). -- Plans for another starchitect-studded Las Vegas project moves ahead. -- Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre underway. -- Architecture and design needs to be more sensual. -- Alsop sets up shop in Toronto. -- Architecture foundations combine forces to bring design education to schools. -- Harvard Design Magazine benefit seminar on site at two new sites. -- The visions of Barragan on view in Athens.
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Report: Economic & Construction Outlook in the Gulf States After Hurricane Katrina: addresses the effect of the broader economy on rebuilding as well as a likely timetable for the construction.- American Institute of Architects (AIA) |
Call for Entries: Sustainable Buildings Industry Council 2005 Exemplary Sustainable Buildings Awards; deadline: October 21- Sustainable Buildings Industry Council (SBIC) |
Wanting the Old Main Street Back: Las Cruces, N.M., is trying to undo a makeover of its central business district that was done 30 years ago and has made it all but a ghost town.- New York Times |
[Secretary of State] Hain unveils winning design for New Giant’s Causeway Visitor Centre -- Heneghan Peng Architects [image]- Archiseek (Ireland) |
Johnson Fain Wins International Urban Planning Competition for Chengdu, China: 215 square-mile Longquan Yi District- dBusinessNews |
A gift, wrapped: San Francisco opens the copper-clad De Young Museum...reflects the architects' ruthless curiosity about the role of architecture in defining contemporary cities...A psychoanalyst... could have a field day with this design. By Christopher Hawthorne -- Herzog & De Meuron; Fong & Chan; Walter Hood [images]- Los Angeles Times |
Perini Building Company Selected to Build [$1.8 billion] Las Vegas Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino -- Arquitectonica; Martha Schwartz Partners; Dougall Design; Paul Duesing Partners; Friedmutter Group [image]- Business Wire |
£146m Kings Dock vision starts to become reality: Construction work on the Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre at Kings Waterfront starts today... -- Wilkinson Eyre- icLiverpool (UK) |
The importance of sensual space: Design and architecture should be about the gratification of the senses but rarely are. By Edwin Heathcote- Financial Times (UK) |
OCAD architect has designs on T.O.: Will Alsop threw himself a coming-out party last week...has decided to set up shop here...If they’re lucky...will also work on the Edmonton Art Gallery addition. By Christopher Hume -- Quadrangle Architects- Toronto Star |
Architecture Foundations Create New National Network to Foster Growth of K-12 Design Education Programs- Business Wire |
Harvard Design Magazine Benefit Seminar October 28: Mack Scogin, Merrill Elam, Michael Van Valkenburgh at and about Wellesley College's Wang Campus Center and Alumnae Valley Landscape Renewal- Harvard Design Magazine |
Capturing the spiritual effects: An exhibition on the work of Luis Barragan shows his vision for blending architecture with nature: “Luis Barragan: Light, Water and Color in Architecture” ...designed by architects Antonis Daglidis and Liana Hlepa...at the Benaki Museum through Nov. 6.- Kathimerini (Greece) |
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 |
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-- Antoine Predock: National Palace Museum Southern Branch, Taibo City, Taiwan
-- Exhibition: "Jean Prouvé: Three Nomadic Structures," MOCA, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
-- Book: "Architecture Now! 3" by By Philip Jodidio |
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