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Today's News - January 19, 2006

We lose an architect with a civic heart, and an architectural critic whose words we will most certainly miss. -- Snøhetta redesigns for Ground Zero. -- Battles brew for Brooklyn waterfront. -- Highlights from the International Builders' Show with an emphasis on storm safety. -- "Storybook Spanish Revival" tweaks Santa Barbara tradition. -- New Bronx library is designed with optimism tempered by realism. -- Oklahoma City opens an architectural gem with hopes it will put the city on the international architectural map. -- High hopes that new museum in NYC will include "the kind of architecture shows we so desperately crave." High hopes for Ando high rise in Shanghai. -- Rising British starchitect making subtle waves. -- First American wins $100,000 Driehaus Prize.

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Obituary: Piero Patri, 76 -- influential architect strove to improve San Francisco. By John King -- Patri Merker Architects- San Francisco Chronicle

Obituary: Giles Worsley, 44, enjoyed a distinguished career as an architectural historian and critic...- Telegraph (UK)

Space at Ground Zero, and Better Views: Snohetta has radically redesigned what was once to have been the cultural center at ground zero.- New York Times

For Whom Will the Foghorn Blow? As more people eye Red Hook's renewed vigor, residents, developers and others are bracing for a battle in the peninsula.- New York Times

Smarter Homes: Battening Down and Wising Up: International Builders' Show...emphasized storm safety as a response to the toll of the hurricanes last year. [links]- New York Times

Pushing the city's limits: In restrained, restrictive Santa Barbara, Jeff Shelton's smart, playful homes tweak tradition -- gently... Call it Storybook Spanish Revival.- Los Angeles Times

New Bronx library has ambitious design: ...every detail carries a load of optimism tempered with realism...It's not easy to make a space this pretty and this tough. By Justin Davidson -- Dattner Architects [slide show]- NY Newsday

Leaders dedicate $3.5M Chesapeake Boathouse to rowing future...calling the building an architectural jewel that will bring international attention to Oklahoma. -- Elliott + Associates- The Oklahoman

Art and Architecture, Together Again: New Museum of Contemporary Art's new building is a remarkably sensitive exploration of the relationship between art, architecture...The question...is whether the museum will be willing to organize the kind of architecture shows we so desperately crave... By Nicolai Ouroussoff -- Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa/Sanaa [images]- New York Times

Environmental Aesthete: Tadao Ando...has come to China finally...What concepts and elements will be breathed into the Japanese architectural master's very first creation in China [Shanghai Design Center] which, also as his first commercial skyscraper [image]- Shanghai Daily

High riser: The Back Half: David Adjaye is the British media's favourite new architect...making waves with his "baroque modernist" creations...creations are subtle and fastidious rather than strident or attention-grabbing. By Jay Merrick- CreativeMatch

Allan Greenberg to Receive [$100,000] 2006 Driehaus Prize: Architect honored for commitment to progressive ideas that advance classical architecture...first American architect to receive the prize... [images]- University of Notre Dame School of Architecture

On View: "Santiago Calatrava: The Architect's Studio" at Santa Barbara University Art Museum: Buildings take wing and bulls stampede in an exhibit exploring the architect's design process [images]- ArchNewsNow

Zaha Hadid Architects: BMW Plant Central Building, Leipzig, Germany

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