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Today's News - March 20, 2006
ArcSpace takes us to The Netherlands. -- A chance for a New Suburbia in New York to not look like Old Anywhere. -- The barriers keeping a Canadian suburb from embracing New Urbanism. -- Chicago towers "are rising in a new kind of city, a post-industrial city, which manufactures culture instead of widgets." -- A new landmark tower for Kuala Lumpur. -- Cleveland Museum hopes for another stunning piece of architecture. -- An interesting take on America's lagging behind in the skyscraper race. -- According to sports economists, spending public money on stadiums doesn't really pay off, but we're still doing it. -- An international shortlist vies to make Toronto a world-class waterfront city. -- Modernism and Modernists making their mark in the U.K. -- Young architects get a chance to make their mark. -- NYC's newest waterfall made of glass. -- A treasure trove of long-lost vintage NYC photos found. -- A "Bucky dome" gets its due.
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René van Zuuk Architekten: Block 16 and Almere Bridge, Almere, The Netherlands |
Out of this wilderness: If done right, Coliseum area redevelopment could be a model for revitalizing suburbs: For now, the version of the New Suburbia on offer looks more like the Old Anywhere....The Nassau Hub has yet to be designed, which means it can still aspire to be better. By Justin Davidson- NY Newsday |
London reshapes the cookie cutter: A tale of two suburbs: ...all the barriers keeping London from embracing new urbanism, or...placemaking.- The London Free Press (Canada) |
A new twist on Calatrava's tower: This version full of subtle, crucial improvements...If this tower and Jeanne Gang's sensuous Aqua high-rise both get built, Chicago will be running a clinic in the new aesthetic possibilities offered by skyscrapers that are places to live rather than work. By Blair Kamin -- DeStefano + Partners- Chicago Tribune |
Troika set to be a new landmark in Kuala Lumpur: If there was a building...that could complement Caesar Pelli’s majestic Petronas Twin Towers, it could well be the proposed Troika condominium designed by Foster and Partners. [image]- The Star (Malaysia) |
Art institute's board weighs luxury condos: Whatever gets built...want it to be worthy of a site sandwiched between...Gehry's Peter B. Lewis Building...and the Cleveland Museum of Art, where a $258 million expansion designed by Rafael Viñoly is under way. "This will need to be an equally stunning piece of architecture"... By Steven Litt- Cleveland Plain Dealer |
The World's Tallest Buildings - America's latest Outsourcing: What's behind the U.S. falling behind in the race for height, and could it have anything to do with the sapping of our precious bodily fluids? By Lynn Becker -- Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH); Pelli; Calatrava; Childs/SOM; Foster [images]- Repeat (Chicago) |
Ballpark figures: Sports economists agree that cities--and taxpayers--get close to nothing from spending public money on sports teams. What they haven't figured out is why we're still doing it.- Boston Globe |
Seeking design on the edge: Five teams compete for chance to put Toronto on the map as a waterfront city -- Foster and Partners/Atelier Dreiseitl; Stan Allen Architects/Sarah Whiting/Ron Witte Architects; Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects/Martinez Lapena-Torres Architects; West 8/du Toit; Allsopp Hillier; Snøhetta/Sasaki/nARCHITECTS/Weisz + Yoes Architecture/H3, Balmori Associates/Halcrow Yolles HPA- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Paradise Now: Robert Hughes introduces the key players of modernism - and discovers how many of their dreams still survive- Guardian (UK) |
A handful of dust: The modernists wanted to strip the world of mystery and emotion. No wonder they excelled at the architecture of death- Guardian (UK) |
Modernism: As a new blockbuster exhibition of modernist art, architecture and design opens at the V&A, we present a special report celebrating the movement.- Guardian (UK) |
Building the future of design: The 2006 Young Architects award by the Architectural League of New York offers sweet reprieve from a building establishment that typically ignores young studios. By Lisa Rochon -- Williamson.Williamson; PLY Architecture; Forsythe + MacAllen Design Associates; nARCHITECTS; Lateral Architecture; Julio Salcedo- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Because Niagara Wouldn't Fit Inside a Lobby: New York's shimmering new three-story, $6.9-million glass waterfall is tantalizingly visible above the plywood construction barriers shielding the lobby of the $500 million Hearst Tower. -- Foster & Partners; Fluidity Design Consultants; James F. Carpenter- New York Times |
Riveting venture: Love for steel, clarity of design and rescued photographs bring gallery to Bethlehem: ...astonished to find he had purchased 500 images of New York in the years between 1928 and 1945...real finds were pictures detailing the construction of the Chrysler Building.- The Morning Call (Pennsylvania) |
'Bucky dome' finds new home on National Register of Historic Places -- R. Buckminster Fuller- The Southern Illinoisan |
Second Look: Pavilion and Colonnade Apartments by Mies van der Rohe, 1960: Current news about "starchitects" designing high-rise housing in New York is at an all-time high, but Mies did it across the Hudson River 46 years ago. By Fred Bernstein [image]- ArchNewsNow |
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