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Today's News - November 21, 2005
ArcSpace brings us Alsop/AMEC medical research building that is anything but a sanitized environment. -- Playing the fame game: good for New York; questionable for Los Angeles; a call to save Kyiv, Ukraine, from "provincial local boys"; and Chipperfield bemoans U.K.'s focus on money and marketing. -- Kelo eminent domain decision in Connecticut has development plans going nowhere fast. -- AIA survey shows mixed-use development is the way to grow communities. -- Piano ponders the problems - and solutions - for Parisian (and most cities') suburbs. -- Pearman treasures pockets of urban dereliction. -- Controversy continues to swirl around Clemson Architecture Center. -- Falsified structural reports leave buildings in jeopardy in Japan. -- Two very different takes on new Getty Villa expansion. -- Omaha's new concert hall "an essay in crisp, urban modernism." -- University of Sydney's new dean of architecture heads into a fray of faculty feuding (and he's ready for it). -- Rashid and Aalto but the spotlight on design in Manila.
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Alsop Design/AMEC: Blizard Building, Queen Mary University, London, UK |
Delirious New York: Our long architectural snooze is over, thanks to neomodernist mania and the arrival—finally—of Gehry. Brooklyn should embrace him. By Kurt Andersen -- Calatrava; Meier; Piano; Nouvel; Foster; Gluckman; Holl; Polshek; SANAA; Asymptote; Pawson; Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Norten- New York Magazine |
Playing the Fame Game: How Celebrity Architecture Is Pervading Design and Development. By Sam Hall Kaplan -- Meier; Calatrava; Nouvel; Gehry; Gwathmey-Siegel; Mayne- LA Downtown News |
Op-Ed: Save Kyiv from the local architects! The incompetents designing Kyiv's high-profile buildings are dangerous to the city's urban fabric...If you’re going to be forward-looking and “European,” then at least work with the same architects that Europeans work with, and stop letting the provincial local boys handle things and botch them up.- Kyiv Post (Ukraine) |
'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most': David Chipperfield is one of the UK's best architects - yet he may never build here again. Jonathan Glancey finds out why- Guardian (UK) |
After Eminent Domain Victory, Disputed Project Goes Nowhere: "What developer is going to want to build on land that was received through probably the most universally despised Supreme Court decision in decades?"- New York Times |
Mixed-use Development Strategy Key to Community and Neighborhood Planning as Reported in AIA Home Design Trends Survey- American Institute of Architects (AIA) |
Q: What can be done to improve the suburbs of Paris? A: People are starting to understand that the real challenge is to turn peripheries into cities: Renzo Piano...tells Emma Brockes why cities have been betrayed- Guardian (UK) |
Not building: the lure of desolation. Living in a city of ever-present ghosts, as London is...why I have come to treasure the most potent and necessary part of any urban process: dereliction, desolation. By Hugh Pearman [images]- HughPearman.com (UK) |
Clemson Architecture Center faces tough battle to win public support for building's design. By Robert Behre -- Kennedy & Violich Architects- Charleston Post and Courier |
Faked building reports stir safety fears in Japan: ...a dozen buildings, including apartments and a hotel, might collapse in a strong earthquake because an architect falsified structural reports.- Reuters |
A felicitous blend of old, new: Open, airy Getty Villa expansion is restrained and refined but still embraces the present...a heartening turn toward a new kind of architectural engagement... By Christopher Hawthorne -- Machado & Silvetti Associates [image]- Los Angeles Times |
Last Exit to Los Angeles: How the Getty's exquisite new villa turns its back on the spirit that made the city great. By Nicolai Ouroussoff -- Machado & Silvetti Associates [slide show]- New York Times |
Making some noise: Omaha's new concert hall - modern and masculine...Holland Performing Arts Center is an essay in crisp, urban modernism. -- Polshek Partnership; HDR; Kirkegaard Associates; Fisher Dachs Associates [images]- Dallas Morning News |
Into the feuding faculty: Tom Kvan faces a longstanding technology v design stoush at the University of Sydney, but the new dean of architecture is armed. By Elizabeth Farrelly- Sydney Morning Herald |
He wants to change the world: Karim Rashid...isn’t content to design a sofa that only 100 people can afford.- Philippine Daily Inquirer |
Alvar Aalto: Nordic tranquility and timelessness. By Augusto Villalon- Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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