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Today's News - December 9, 2005
A report on Katrina's impact on historic buildings on the Gulf Coast. -- Will hurricane's wrath render moot whether bungalows were designed by FLW and Sullivan? -- Poster child of New Urbanism showing its age. -- In Sydney, landscape architects are unsung heros: on bureaucratic "gentrificatory" and "doctordolittling": "Oh, for anything tasty, wacky, intelligent, unexpected or grand." -- Preservationists may grumble about what's going on with Saarinen's TWA terminal, but there's "something very good about the whole affair." -- In Bellevue, Washington, retail development may be sleek and contemporary, but what the city needs is more "quirkiness." -- Rutgers shortlist down to five. -- AIA names 2006 Gold Medal and Firm Award winners. -- An architect's take on Europe's new keenness for non-box buildings. -- Competition launches for a new apartment tower in Mississauga, Canada. -- Research honing in on "intelligent" heating and cooling systems.
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Hurricane Katrina’s Impact on Nineteenth-Century Cultural Landmarks [pdf]- Society of Architectural Historians |
Historic Homes with Controversial Pasts and Questionable Futures: A long-standing debate as to whether Frank Lloyd Wright or...Louis Sullivan designed two beachfront bungalows in Ocean Springs, Mississippi may have been rendered moot by the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. [images]- Metropolis Magazine |
Seaside at 25: Troubles in Paradise: ...it has influenced hundreds of similarly quaint communities cast in the New Urbanism mold. But at 25, Seaside, Fla. is beginning to show its age. By Fred A. Bernstein -- Duany Plater-Zyberk [images]- New York Times |
Heed the call of nature: Landscape architecture is an old and noble art and not to be used as a verb. By Elizabeth Farrelly -- Bruce Mackenzie; Frederick Law Olmsted; Aspect; McGregor + Partners; Turf Design- Sydney Morning Herald |
Something Old, Something Blue: The preservationists are grumbling, as they always will....There is something very good about the whole affair: An icon of the Mod strain of Modern architecture is preserved and reanimated, while JetBlue...has gained a signature building...TWA terminal... -- Eero Saarinen (1962); Gensler; David Rockwell- New York Sun |
Sleek new Lincoln Square was not what Bellevue needed: While crisply contemporary with many nice touches, it reflects a Bellevue shortcoming: a lack of quirkiness... By Lawrence W. Cheek -- Sclater Partners [images]- Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
Rutgers picks final 5 for redesign: 'World-class' firms compete for rights to redo College Avenue campus -- Beyer Blinder Belle/Jean Nouvel; Eisenman Architects/Field Operations; Morphosis-Thom Mayne; Antoine Predock/Olin Partnership; Ten Arquitectos-Enrique Norten- The Star-Ledger (New Jersey) |
AIA Names 2006 Gold Medal and Firm Award Winners -- Antoine Predock, FAIA; Moore Ruble Yudell [images]- Architectural Record |
Architecture's Natural Winner: Earthy Designer Antoine Predock Takes This Year's AIA Gold Medal. By Linda Hales- Washington Post |
The Shape Of Things To Come: Architect Jan Kaplicky on Europe's new keenness for exciting solutions to building designs... "Where is it written that buildings have to be boxes?" -- Future Systems [images]- Business Week |
Design Ideas Competition for Absolute Residential Tower in the City of Mississauga, Canada; deadline: January 16, 2006- Fernbrook Homes/Cityzen Development Group |
Harnessing the Heating – and Cooling – Powers of the Sun: Rensselaer researcher awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study solar-powered heating and cooling systems operating at the micrometer scale- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
INSIGHT: Condos Breathe New Life into Old Offices: Historic office buildings are increasingly being reinvented as condominiums in CBDs (central business districts) across the country. By Mark Harbick, AIA- ArchNewsNow |
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Competition winner: Coop Himmelb(l)au: Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea |
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