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Today's News - February 17, 2006
Foster to tower over Mies Manhattan tower. -- Libeskind building towers everywhere (except Ground Zero). -- A Stern to soar in Baltimore. -- A new canvas for architecture: urban-friendly freight villages - they're really catching on Europe. -- New study shows sprawl doesn't cause obesity. -- Ito wow's the crowd in London. -- Martha Schwartz has them snickering in Sydney. -- A Times- Square-like monolithic "sculpture" doesn't fit Chicago. -- New technology changing the industry, but seminar with "clever people speaking like dolphins, i.e. intelligently but unintelligibly" leaves architects speechless. -- Modernist architect in the desert astounded he's a "collectable." -- On view in London: Barbieri photos present cities in toy-like innocence.
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Towering over Mies: A proposed office tower by Norman Foster, 610 Lexington Avenue, would rise adjacent to the iconic Mies van der Rohe–designed Seagram Building. [image]- The Architect's Newspaper (NYC) |
Despite Freedom Tower Setback, Libeskind Building Skyscrapers Around the World [images]- Architectural Record |
A tall order for city skyline: 59-story tower OK'd by design panel would be highest building in Baltimore...$300 million project...latest example of a surge of redevelopment that has begun transforming downtown into a residential and entertainment hub... -- Robert A.M. Stern- Baltimore Sun |
It Takes a Freight Village: ...new approach to industrial development...freight villages...can become amenities for the urban area landscaped, well maintained, and a potential canvas for architecture. -- Ricardo Bofill; Partnership for Sustainable Ports [images]- The Slatin Report |
Sprawl Doesn't Cause Obesity: Obesity is not directly associated with urban sprawl, according to a Chicago-area study...findings contradict the conventional wisdom that city dwellers are thinner...- Newswise |
The lightness of being Ito: RIBA Gold Medal winner Toyo Ito is architecture's impossible dreamer who takes every project in a new direction.- BD/Building Design (UK) |
The world framed by a bagel: Martha Schwartz, who is credited, perhaps rightly, with revolutionising the [landscape architecture] profession, took time out from working on her East Darling Harbour proposal (with Richard Rogers, Ed Lippmann and Lend Lease Development) in Sydney...to speak...she didn't disappoint. By Elizabeth Farrelly- Sydney Morning Herald |
WLS-Ch. 7's monolith -- maximum visibility, minimum aesthetic value: Entertainment, irritation or avoidance. A 40-year tradition of sculpture in downtown Chicago has come to this? -- Legat Architects- Chicago Tribune |
Stunned into silence: Hundreds of architects assembled at the British Museum to hear what emerged from the latest Smartgeometry workshop in Cambridge. Yet an opportunity to ask questions was met with a polite silence...clever people speaking like dolphins, ie intelligently but unintelligibly.- BD/Building Design (UK) |
Desert homeowners cherish their Wexlers: No one's more astounded that it takes more than a half-million dollars to buy a small steel Wexler than Don Wexler himself. [images]- Press-Enterprise (California) |
The miniature world of Olivo Barbieri: Through his lens, the primary elements of cities as different as Rome and Las Vegas become toy-like and innocent...Cities, devoid of danger, in the palms of our hands. By Jonathan Glancey- Guardian (UK) |
Symbol and Celebration: Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture: Modern design, vibrant colors, and symbolic interior elements help create a new cultural destination in Baltimor's Inner Harbor and museum district. -- The Freelon Group/RTKL [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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