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Today's News - January 23, 2006

ArcSpace brings us a construction update on Eisenman's City of Culture. -- New Orleans and Gulf Coast rebuilding: Is smart growth really smart? Is New Urbanism not new enough? -- Lessons for Texas island in Florida New Urbanist resort developments. -- Architects working faster are changing the way they work. -- Adjaye claims too many public buildings alienate the public. -- Kamin claims Chicago's Navy Pier makeover plans by a Canadian firm "suffer an advanced case of tackiness, with lethal doses of future schlock" (McPier couldn't find a good enough architect in Chicago?). -- Foster's Hearst tower brings New York some much-needed "architectural chutzpah." -- Meanwhile, he has to tighten his belt at home. -- Koolhaas snags commission for Cornell College of Architecture, Art and Planning. -- Modifications made to Calatrava's Chicago spire might get it moving faster. -- Getty Villa makeover is "misguidedly slathered still more artifice." -- New York's former lunatic asylum made over for luxury living. -- Chipperfield's attention to the bottom line has Anchorage museum moving along smoothly.

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Under construction: Eisenman Architects: City of Culture of Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Planners anticipate a better New Orleans: But residents must guide rebuilding -- Reed Kroloff; Ray Manning- The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Team dreams up new model for cities: Towns may turn backs on ambitious plans: ...tackling the entire coast of Mississippi will give the country the best example yet of how well New Urbanism works...It's also stirred up a simmering backlash among other architects, who say New Urbanists...produce a "one-size-fits-all" model... -- Andres Duany; Laura Hall; Reed Kroloff- SunHerald (Mississippi)

Q&A: Architect draws on principles as his profile grows: Steven J. Oubre on what the state needs to do to rebuild...a champion of "smart growth" and traditional neighborhood developments. -- Architects Southwest- The Daily Advertiser (Louisiana)

ASLA Supprts Urban Planning Reprot from the Bring New Orleans Back Commission -- Wallace Roberts & Todd- American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

The Florida model: Two resorts hint at Padre Island's future. Could they provide a glimpse into our future? It's as if you've driven onto the set of "The Truman Show," and in a way, you have. -- Cooper, Roberston & Partners [images]- Corpus Christi Caller-Times (Texas)

Architects' pace rapidly builds: Under pressure to get buildings developed 15 to 30 percent faster than just a few years ago, architects are dramatically changing how they work. -- Gensler; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Perkins + Will; Destefano Keating & Partners (now DeStefano + Partners); OWP&P- Chicago Tribune

'Design flaw' haunts public buildings: Most of Britain’s public buildings alienate people as much as they support them, David Adjaye...has declared...threaten to isolate Britons rather than embrace them.- Freelance UK

Navy Pier's cheesy makeover plan is full of holes: ...plan for the lakefront landmark is riddled with faults both practical and aesthetic. Some would inject the 90-year-old public space, already suffering an advanced case of tackiness, with lethal doses of future schlock. By Blair Kamin -- Benjamin Thompson & Associates/VOA Associates (1995); Forrec [slide show]- Chicago Tribune

A London architect brings his vision to New York with a Hearst tower that prances toward the sky: This is a show-off skyscraper for a town that could use some architectural chutzpah. By Justin Davidson -- Foster & Partners- NY Newsday

Perfectionist Foster forced to tighten belt: Tax bill and rival attraction could be double trouble for top designer- Guardian (UK)

Rem Koolhaas chosen to design 'building of international significance' [for] Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning... -- Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)- Cornell Chronicle

Progress and changes reported in TV spire plan: The developer of a planned 2,000-foot-tall building near Navy Pier has modified its design... -- Santiago Calatrava [image]- Chicago Sun-Times

They tried 'to respect and preserve the best aspect,' but the museum clashes with its surroundings: Getty Villa...has been born again...misguidedly slathered still more artifice: layers and layers of it... By Ann Jarmusch -- Machado and Silvetti; SPF Architects [images]- San Diego Union-Tribune

Former Lunatic Asylum Goes Luxury Rental: The Octagon (transcript) -- Becker + Becker [slide show, links]- WNYC (public radio)

Final touches: Design changes agreed on as [Anchorage Museum of History and Art's] construction start approaches...smoothness with which it appears to be proceeding may owe a lot more to David Chipperfield's careful attention to the bottom line than to his skill with drafting tools. [slide show]- Anchorage Daily News (Alaska)

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