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Today's News - November 22, 2005

Niemeyer could care less what critics say about his new museum and his control over Brasilia's skyline. -- Scandal continues in Japan over falsified earthquake resistance certificates. -- High hopes that new design center in Bangkok will inspire. -- A town center and the arts at the heart of a new urbanist community in Georgia. -- Life in Dublin's gated communities examined. -- A thumbs-up and a thumbs-down for two NYC East Village projects. -- Another thumbs-up for (and the paradox of) Piano's High Museum expansion. -- A renaissance for a 116-year-old Sacramento cathedral. -- Even with rising competition, India's architectural outsourcing services still holds the upper hand. -- Clancy Awards for Socially Responsible Housing hold many lessons. -- Winning designs for Western Australia's CenterStage and Denmark's Herning Center of the Arts. -- Call for entries: 2006 ULI Awards for Excellence in The Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. -- Book reviews: Rochon makes no bones about bad architecture in Canada; Friedman rethinks home and community design.

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Niemeyer, Architect of Brasilia, Riles Critics Anew at Age 97: Construction of the museum is also sparking debate over whether Niemeyer...still wields too much control over the city's skyline.- Bloomberg News

Scam-tied bldgs at risk in quake: Ministry says temblor of upper 5 could destroy 16 buildings- Daily Yomiuri (Japan)

Hidetsugu Aneha falsely listed as designer of 3 condos: Akiba Sekkei architecture firm...made a contract to design the buildings...asked Aneha to allow him to use his name...discovered to have approved falsified earthquake resistance certificates and other documents on most of the 21 buildings.- Daily Yomiuri (Japan)

Pushing the Envelope: Will the new Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) provide the necessary inspiration? ...houses Material ConneXion, the first materials library in Asia.- ThaiDay

Arts center headed for Serenbe [Georgia]: ...community being built 32 miles southwest of Atlanta...Combining select principles of new urbanism and conservation communities...intends to set the standard for the next generation of responsible development. -- Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects; Reed/Hilderbrand [image]- The Citizen (Georgia)

Safe: The Proliferation of Gated Communities in Dublin [images, link]- Urban Design Ireland (via Archeire)

Astor Place's Gleaming New Face: Gwathmey Siegel's silvery building arises confidently...quite good by the standards of most cities, and downright excellent by the standards of New York...I wish I could be more kindly disposed to the new academic center that Cooper Union is about to build...designed by Thom Mayne and his ohso-contemporary firm Morphosis.- New York Sun

A High Complement: Museum Wings Fit In Fine: Renzo Piano's expansion of Richard Meier's High Museum of Art is not an architectural triumph -- yet it is a grand success. How to explain the paradox? By Benjamin Forgey- Washington Post

Sacramento cathedral reopens after two years: Beyer Blinder Belle used a lone newspaper clipping from 1889, the year construction was completed, and some partial drawings from the 1930s to recreate the dome and install 16 panel murals...- Contra Costa Times (California)

World’s skyscrapers take shape here: Welcome to the world of architect design outsourcing!- Financial Express (India)

John M. Clancy Award for Socially Responsible Housing -- Durkee, Brown, Viveiros & Werenfels Architects; Farr Associates Architecture; Pyatok Architects/Y.H. Lee Associates; Weinstein A|U Architects + Urban Designers/Arellano/Christofides/September Design Group/Tom Lawrence AIA; CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares/CBA Landscape Architects; Studio E Architects/Spulock Poirier Landscape Architects [images, links]- Boston Society of Architects (BSA)

The winning concept design for Western Australia's CentreStage Performing Arts Venue unveiled: Kerry Hill Architects has beaten a field of 40 designs submitted by architects from around the world. [virtual exhibition of all entries]- CentreStage

Steven Holl winner of the architectural competition to design Herning Center of the Arts/Kunstens Hus Herning, Denmark [images]- Herning Center of the Arts

Call for entries: 2006 ULI Awards for Excellence: The Americas; Europe; Asia Pacific; deadline: January 10, 2006- Urban Land Institute (ULI)

In Search of Canadascapes: "Up North: Where Canada's Architecture Meets the Land" by Lisa Rochon...shows how much good architecture there is in Canada, but also makes no bones about finding a great deal of room for improvement.- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Homes for Henry and Hanna -- and for the rest of us: "Room for Thought: Rethinking Home and Community Design" by Avi Avi Friedman...shrugs an ironic shoulder, wondering, as always, how to design around our imperfect reality.- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Alsop Design/AMEC: Blizard Building, Queen Mary University, London, UK

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