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Today's News - January 10, 2006

We lose an architect and patron of the arts. -- Official blueprint for rebuilding New Orleans leaves some hopeful and other very skeptical. -- 72-page Gulf Coast pattern book (pictures and all). -- An ec-metropolis planned for Shanghai's mudflats. -- 2006 marks the beginning of upgraded evaluation process for transit projects, smart growth, and TOD's. -- Architects are key to stemming global warming. -- Battle brewing over new development and historic buildings in Edinburgh's south side. -- San Jose not ready for a high-rise downtown (unless the architecture gets better). -- Urban colleges investing in neighborhoods and winning new friends. -- Shortlist for Design Museum's Designer of the Year includes Architecture for Humanity. -- U.K. on a quest to name its cultural treasures (long live the Routemaster!).

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Obituary: Armand P. Bartos, 95, Architect and Donor: ...most significant work of architecture is the Shrine of the Book...at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem built to house the Dead Sea Scrolls...Designed with his partner, Frederick Kiesler...- New York Times

All Parts of City in Rebuild Plan of New Orleans: ...official blueprint for redevelopment...to be released on Wednesday, will recommend that residents be allowed to return and rebuild anywhere they like- New York Times

A Pattern Book for Gulf Coast Neighborhoods: Details and techniques for building and renovating Gulf Coast houses -- Urban Design Associates; CNU; Andres Duany/DPZ [PDF]- Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal (Mississippi)

Shanghai plans eco-metropolis on its mudflats: The project to transform the mouth of the Yangtse river is the world's biggest single development...unspoilt wildlife sanctuary that international finance will turn into the planet's first 'eco-city' -- Peter Head/Arup- Guardian (UK)

Why 2006 Matters for Smart Growth, Transit, and Transit-Oriented Development: ...why the views, experience, and opinions of smart growth practitioners are critical...- Smart Growth Network

Meeting Humanity's Greatest Challenge: "...it's the architects who hold the key to turning down the global thermostat." -- Edward Mazria, AIA, at Tufts Climate Initiative, Boston Society of Architects [audio]- Architecture Radio

Battle for a city's skyline: Quartermile [Edinburgh] has been courting controversy ever since Foster and Partners submitted their plans...recent planning application to demolish yet another key historic building... -- Sydney Mitchell (1880s) [image]- The Scotsman (UK)

North First Street won't work as a high-rise downtown: ...Meier's San Jose City Hall and Herzog & de Meuron's de Young Museum...are only the tip of the architectural iceberg...But the big trends reshaping our region -- and our quality of life -- have hardly been touched yet by this level of design.- Mercury News (California)

Urban Colleges Learn to Be Good Neighbors: Universities Also Reap Benefits From Investing in Their Communities- Washington Post

Caught between rock group and typeface: The breadth of Britain's design talent is celebrated in the Design Museum's shortlist for Designer of the Year -- Cameron Sinclair/Architecture for Humanity- Financial Times (UK)

Henry, Routemaster, Punch: are these England's treasures? ...a quest begins to find and celebrate the nation's cultural treasures..."Icons - a portrait of England"- Guardian (UK)

-- Exhibition: ArchiSculpture, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
-- Book: The Singular Objects of Architecture, by Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel (University of Minnesota Press)

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