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Gulf Coast recovery: A landscape architect takes on New Urbanists. -- ASLA takes on restoring the landscape. -- An architect takes on knotty issues of architecture, urbanism and race that New Orleans must address. -- Preservation groups issue a call to rethink WTC memorial and its affect on the towers' footprints. -- Should Rogers decide to support Israeli boycott, should he get plum Javits expansion job? -- British "architectural pranksters set out to shake up the received ideas of what constitutes social housing." -- Visioning sessions are starting point for U.S. towns to "take control of rampant and hodgepodge development." -- New Harley-Davidson museum will be "honest, rigorously disciplined urbanism." -- Toronto architect designs a refuge from a noisy world. -- A London conference will explore innovation and progress in building design for educational facilities. -- A company putting the "fab" in prefab. -- The last frontier: boomtowns in space.
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Design within reach: The director of LSU's landscape architecture school talks New Orleans, New Urbanism and urban planning in Louisiana. Q&A with Elizabeth Mossop- Greater Baton Rouge Business Report |
The Gulf Coast: Restoring the Landscape: ASLA and the National Building Museum convened a panel of landscape architects and planners -- Brown/EDAW; Rookwood/WRT; Shanley/SWA Group; James L. Sipes [links to podcasts]- American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) |
Rebuilding Black In New Orleans and Elsewhere: Architect, developer and Cornell University professor Milton Curry will discuss the knotty issues of architecture, urbanism and race that New Orleans must address...- University of Arkansas Daily Digest |
Preservation group: Delay WTC memorial...National Trust for Historic Preservation accuses [Port Authority] of "misleading" the public - and failing to address the "major ... adverse effects" the memorial will have on the towers' footprints and access to the solemn site.- NY Daily News |
Boycott of Israel Is Being Mulled By Javits Architect: The fact that Lord Rogers will be redesigning a building named for the late Republican Senator Jacob Javits has caused some concern among the American pro-Israel community.- New York Sun |
No more bleak houses: A visionary development aims to regenerate one of Manchester's most run-down areas...group's first venture into the messy world of housing associations...have set out to shake up the received ideas of what constitutes social housing. By Deyan Sudjic -- Sean Griffiths, Sam Jacob, Charles Holland/Fat; Urban Splash- Observer (UK) |
Farmingdale Looks to Public for Vision: Though visioning may sound like a post-New Age self-discovery ritual, it is increasingly the starting point for suburban towns, villages and hamlets to take control of rampant and hodgepodge development.- New York Times |
Industrial inspiration offers urban elegance for Harley-Davidson museum: ...honest, rigorously disciplined urbanism. Without trafficking in historicist design clichés, it's a coolly rational, industrial-strength presence... By Whitney Gould -- Pentagram Architecture; Hammel, Green and Abrahamson; Oslund and Associates [images]- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
New convent a refuge from a noisy world: Contemporary architects, focused on the corporate and commercial, don't often get themselves to a nunnery. But Terry Montgomery has created a restrained but decidedly modern space for the Sisters of St. John the Divine. By Christopher Hume -- Montgomery Sisam- Toronto Star |
Learning and Skills Council (LSC), is once again joining forces with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), to host a conference on innovation and progress in building design for the Further Education sector....March 21- CreativeMatch |
Putting the "Fab" in Prefab: Empyrean International is building a new business around hip modular homes. -- Charlie Lazor/FlatPak; Resolution: 4 Architecture- Business 2.0 |
Building zero-G boomtowns: There's money to be made in orbit. Research, energy, hotels, even sports arenas are coming -- a lot sooner than you think.- Business 2.0 |
Green Design as Great Design: The Architecture of Sustainability: A design competition and conference seek to merge technical ingenuity and compelling design. -- Bruder; Gang; Mazria; Timberlake; etc. [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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-- Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Woodruff Arts Center, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
-- Video: Santiago Calatrava: City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain |
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