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Today's News - November 18, 2005

APA issues report on rebuilding New Orleans. -- Manchester, U.K. rebuilt with bold, thoughtful design. -- A Michigan study of pollution and sprawl offers a cautionary tale for all. -- Tough measures against McMansions in northern Virginia (even vinyl-sided ones - take a look at the pix). -- If Shuttleworth had the money, he'd use "every trick in the architect's book" to build a zero-CO2-emissions city. -- A new urban village for Kent, Washington. -- Traffic and parking woes in NYC and Philadelphia. -- City of big shoulders has aspirations to go every higher. -- Would Hollywood-style walk of stars really help a Chicago park? -- Arizona's 9/11 memorial uses sunlight to get its message across. -- Albany firm tapped for Radio Free Europe HQ in Prague. -- Architect connects architecture, education, and democracy for L.A.'s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy. -- Pesce doesn't want to be a design dictator - we have enough of them already.

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American Planning Association Report: New Orleans' Planning Operations Must Be Expanded; Changes needed to ensure everyone benefits from billions to be spent rebuilding city [pdf]- American Planning Association (APA)

Bold, Thoughtful Design Helps Rebuild Manchester, England -- Jason Prior/EDAW- The Planning Report

Study: Water quality suffers with sprawl: If you build it, more pollution will come.- Macomb Daily News (Michigan)

Board Votes to Limit Arlington Home Sizes: The restrictions will be Northern Virginia's toughest measures aimed at so-called McMansions. [image]- Washington Post

What I'd do if I had the money: I would build a totally zero-CO2-emissions city, using every trick in the architect's book. By Ken Shuttleworth- Guardian (UK)

Kent Station Now Open: $100 million, 470,000 square-foot retail, education, entertainment and residential project [in in downtown Kent, WA] strategically located adjacent to Sound Transit's Sounder Commuter Rail Station and free public parking garage... -- Hewitt Architects; Callison Architecture [link]- dBusinessNews

Business Groups Hear Plea: Do Something to Cut Traffic: Jan Gehl, a Danish architect...renowned among urban planners, addressed leaders of the districts, and several [NYC] officials, on the need to reduce the automobile's dominance of public spaces.- New York Times

Long-awaited parking study hems and haws: ...city planners...oversee a $100,000 parking study. Now, folks, the results are in. And the recommendations are...More discussion! By Inga Saffron- Philadelphia Inquirer

Chicago Skyscraper Would Surpass Sears Tower: the city of big shoulders may become known for even larger architectural aspirations...Fordham plan has received a positive initial reaction from residents... -- Calatrava- Bloomberg

Seeing MacStars: Is a franchised Hollywood-style Walk of Fame just the ticket for an underutilized portion of [Chicago] Grant Park? By Lynn Becker- Repeat (Chicago)

9/11 memorial to use sunlight to get message across: "...a simple but sophisticated use of the sunlight to tell this complex story of the Arizona experience in relationship to 9/11" -- coLAB Designs; Jones Studio [image]- Arizona Republic

Albany firm to design broadcasters Czech headquarters: ...new Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty headquarters in Prague... -- Einhorn Yaffee Prescott- Business Review (Albany, NY)

Brenda Levin Commemorates the Opening of National Center for the Preservation of Democracy ...one of L.A.'s great cultural institutions. ...architect explains the crucial connection between architecture, education, and democracy.- The Planning Report

If looks could liberate: Gaetano Pesce... flaunts the "freedom" in freedom of expression...not interested in being a design dictator...sees the field of architecture as frozen, attached to old ideas of modernism that are no longer useful, and too prone to repeating itself.- Philadelphia Inquirer

High Tech High - Los Angeles: A new charter school is an incubator for new ideas and new approaches to learning - and teaching - technology. -- Berliner and Associates, Architecture [images]- ArchNewsNow

Herzog & de Meuron: de Young Museum, San Francisco

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