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ArcSpace brings us an exhibition of aerospace design in Manhattan, Norten in Brooklyn, and Koolhaas in Portugal. -- Rebuilding the Gulf Coast: "traditionalism can be progressive" and Biloxi moxie. -- International experts called on to figure out how to develop - without destroying - Ho Chi Minh City's "green lung." -- Californians build bigger after Cedar fire (what will they want to build after the next inferno?). -- Lessons from Vancouver on what Seattle should not do. -- New York's inclusionary zoning has the luxury real estate market building affordable housing. -- Foster builds them taller, higher, bigger. -- Move over Foster - Hadid is catching up. -- Goldberger on Calatrava: redefining the apartment tower. -- Graves's Minneapolis Children's Theatre disappoints (if you're over 5). -- The making of a Malaysian icon. -- Big plans for broadcast center in Winnipeg. -- Mayne, in Sydney, is out to stimulate, not to make people happy. -- High praise for Naval Academy's soaring Jewish Chapel. -- An Australian duo means serious business with their playful designs. -- Holcim Awards to sustainable construction projects in Latin America. -- Two more takes on MoMA's "Safe" show.
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-- Exhibition: Aerospace Design, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York City
-- TEN Arquitectos/Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos: Visual & Performing Arts Library, Brooklyn, New York
-- Rem Koolhaas/OMA: Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal |
Big plans, grand dreams in Mississippi: ...the plans for rebuilding the Mississippi coastline that a team of sleep-deprived architects unveiled last week stand out as singularly impressive...They empowered people here with alternatives to placeless suburban sprawl...This may come as a shock to modernists, but traditionalism can be progressive. By Blair Kamin -- Duany; Polyzoides; Congress for the New Urbanism- Chicago Tribune |
Biloxi Moxie: Rebuilding It Better: Katrina, for all its fury, may have helped Biloxi and its neighbors find a better future. By Philip Langdon -- Congress for New Urbanism; Andres Duany; Moule & Polyzoides; Daria Pizzetta- Hartford Courant (Connecticut) |
International experts pitch in on planning for Can Gio: ...District covers a third of Ho Chi Minh City’s area...a big biosphere reserve recognised as "the green lung"...must by all means be preserved... -- Les Artleliers Internationaux de Maitrise d’Oeuvre Urbaine Cergy-Pontoise; Jean Dellus; Dita Leyh; Francis Ampe- Viet Nam News |
Some rebuild, others wait: Scripps Ranch owners see benefits in building bigger...the 2003 Cedar fire has turned a neighborhood of medium to large tract homes into a collection of mini-mansions.- San Diego Union-Tribune |
Trouble in paradise: ...before Seattle follows...Vancouver recipe for remaking the shores of Elliott Bay, listen up...because the city we are shaping in the current boom is something quite different from any notion of what a "downtown" is, was, or will be. By Trevor Boddy- Seattle Times |
The Benefits of the Boom: It seems counterintuitive, but the luxury real estate market is helping to build housing for low- and moderate-income people...inclusionary zoning, one of several city programs that provide incentives for market-rate developers to contribute to the inventory of affordable housing.- New York Times |
Taller, higher, bigger, Foster: Norman Foster may be 70, but he shows no sign of flagging. Jonathan Glancey meets the world's most prolific - and ambitious - architect- Guardian (UK) |
Zhivopisnaya Tower by Zaha Hadid: Giles Worsley on an architect to rival Norman Foster [image]- Telegraph (UK) |
The Sculptor: Santiago Calatrava redefines the apartment tower. By Paul Goldberger- New Yorker |
Children's Theatre design fails to soar...is neither masterful nor iconic. By Linda Mack -- McKim, Mead and White (1915); Kenzo Tange (1974); Michael Graves & Associates/RSP [images]- Minneapolis Star Tribune |
I-City Selangor – the making of an icon: Excerpts from an interview with I-Bhd's CEO Eu Hong Chew and American architect Jon A. Jerde- The Star (Malaysia) |
$40-M broadcast centre planned for Winnipeg downtown...CanWest Global Communications Corporation... -- Raymond S.C. Wan Architect [images]- Archiseek (Canada) |
Out to stimulate, so forget public happiness: Thom Mayne isn't interested in pleasing anyone...visiting Sydney to work on his submission to the East Darling Habour design competition..."I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role." -- Morphosis- Sydney Morning Herald |
A Trim Vessel of Worship: Naval Academy's Jewish Chapel Rises to Its Challenge. By Benjamin Forgey -- Joseph A. Boggs/Boggs & Partners Architects- Washington Post |
Out of the box: With vision and a sense of play, the duo of Durbach Block make their business an adventure. By Elizabeth Farrelly [image]- Sydney Morning Herald |
Holcim Awards 2005: Sustainable construction projects awarded in Latin America- Holcim Foundation |
Addressing the risky business of life: An ambitious show at MoMA displays items that make us safer, or that make us feel safer, and probes the difference between the two..."SAFE: Design Takes On Risk" By Christopher Hawthorne [images]- Los Angeles Times |
Creative Boom: At MoMA, Fear Meets Art In an Inventive Display Of the Survival Instinct :"SAFE: Design Takes On Risk"...designers come across as professional optimists. By Linda Hales- Washington Post |
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