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Today's News - December 20, 2005
As the first anniversary nears, an international shortlist announced for tsunami memorial. -- Other architects express concern about its environmental impact. -- A shortlist of three for Cultural Center of the Philippines. -- What went wrong with the BBC's grand architectural plans? (value engineering, anyone?) -- Can a team of three work together on Orange County Great Park? A cautious yes. -- Seattle's Koolhaas cool house may dazzle critics, but does it really work as a library? -- Developers and starchitects descend on Manhattan's High Line (not mentioned are Diller, Scofidio + Renfro and Field Operations, who are actually designing the park). -- Several notable takes on vision, optimism, and activism (or lack thereof). -- Singapore's newest addition to skyline will be world's 10th tallest (residential tower, that is). -- Another thumbs-up for new Royal Ontario Museum galleries. -- A German (woman) architect researches architecture and women in Yemen. -- Peter Hall finds a unicorn in the garden (and hits and misses in sustainable urbanism). -- Calatrava exhibit at the Met both supports and undermines his celebrity. -- A company that bends the rules so architects can bend their buildings. -- Confessions of an FLW groupie. -- Editor's note: Yes, Virignia, there is a grinch (or grinches) who can steal Christmas...our sympathy to colleagues and friends suffering a transit strike in NYC.
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Five tsunami memorial designs shortlisted...from 379 entries received from 43 countries...[winners] from China, the United States, Finland, Spain and Australia -- Avanto Architects; VeeV Design; Ana Somoza Jimenez/Angel Martines/Eva Sebastian Penin/Raquel Lozano; Liang Hou; Richard Weller/Gary Marinko- The Nation (Thailand) |
Environmental impact sparks fears: Prominent foreign architects and designers have expressed concern about the environmental impact of the tsunami memorial project...- Bangkok Post |
3 architect groups win Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) design contest -- Syndicated Architects; Manalang-Tayag-Ilano Architects; JPA Buensalido Design Team- ABS-CBN (Philippines) |
Did the Beeb bottle it? When the BBC commissioned three landmark new buildings it was praised as a patron of cutting edge architecture. But now the architects of two of the projects have been dropped and the third may not even happen. What went wrong? -- MacCormac Jamieson Prichard; David Chipperfield; Foreign Office Architects; Sheppard Robson; Norman Foster; Allies and Morrison- Guardian (UK) |
Great Park's design will be a balancing act: A clash of egos and cultures could undermine board's vision of collaboration...can three big, experienced architectural firms work together on a big, signature project? ...all answered with a cautious yes. -- EMBT; Ken Smith; Royston Hanamoto- Orange County Register (California) |
A cool house: Yes, but have you tried to use it as a library? Seattle's new signature building...still has the power to dazzle susceptible visitors, especially architecture critics....please, spare the "perfect city library" hype until you've actually tried to use it as a library. -- Rem Koolhaas- Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
Turning the High Line Into ... the High Life: ...derelict but irresistibly charming dinosaur of an elevated railroad...Say hello to designer buildings, valet parking, concierges, meditation gardens and, oh yes, lines of limos... -- Gwathmey Siegel; Robert A. M. Stern; Frank Gehry; Annabelle Seldorf; Jean Nouvel; Tamarkin Architects [images]- New York Times |
Visionaries: Visionary thinking requires optimism...These days genuine optimism is in short supply for a very good reason. Pliny Fisk III/Gail Vittori Architecture; Ada Louise Huxtable; John Thackara; etc.- Metropolis Magazine |
Local Focus: A new twenty-first-century style of activism is thinking close to home. By Susan S. Szenasy- Metropolis Magazine |
University of Kansas Architecture Prof Designs World's 10th Tallest Residential Complex: ...vision is going to change the skyline of Singapore. -- Peter Pran/NBBJ [image]- Kansas City InfoZine |
Rebuilt ROM is wondrous: ...new galleries are a dramatic indication of the vision of enlightenment that lies at the heart of the massive rebuilding program. By Christopher Hume -- Daniel Libeskind- Toronto Star |
Q&A with Prof. Gabriele Weck: "If you don’t know enough about your own culture and architecture, you might land up losing it."- Yemen Times |
Sir Peter Hall Spots the Unicorn in the Garden: Celebrated planner holds forth on sustainable urbanism at the National Building Museum: The European Model; Success in South America; A Challenge for New Urbanism; Hope for America- LAND Online (ASLA) |
Body of work: Santiago Calatrava's biomorphic "blob" structures, communicating in easily grasped language, are the subject of a New York retrospective...The Met show manages both to support and undermine the case for Calatrava's celebrity. By Inga Saffron- Philadelphia Inquirer |
How 3form Is Bending the Rules of Design: It makes an architectural plastic so revolutionary that at first, firms weren't sure what to do with it -- but they're catching on fast. By Andrew Blum -- Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Marnell Corrao Associates; SHoP Architects- Business Week |
Confessions of a former Frank Lloyd Wright groupie. By Dave LeBlanc- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
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-- SANAA/Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: Glass Pavilion, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
-- Under construction: Gehry & Partners: IAC Headquarters, New York City |
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