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Today's News - April 12, 2006

Pritzker winner offers lessons for mega-cities. -- Only shades of Burnham's grand plan for San Francisco survive (in some cases, a good thing). -- L.A. River slowly wending its way to renewal. -- A landscape architect's artful security features for the Washington Monument. -- A funky pedestrian bridge by an "architectural bad boy" could "put Toronto at the centre of a global trend that's placing pedestrians at the forefront of urban development" (what a concept!). -- Clean air and good manners: Beijing to ban cars and offer lessons in etiquette in time for Olympics. -- Boutique hotels are so yesterday: Sudjic charts the rise of the "statement" hotel. -- Gehry charms the foreign press at Tiffany launch. -- Call for entries for Silk Road Cultural Park in Xi'an. -- Another take on Bruegmann's tome about sprawl.

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Humaniser of the modern megalopolis: Paulo Mendes da Rocha...has taught, campaigned, built and contributed to the public realm and the results should encourage us that the megalopolis does not have to be entirely dystopian. By Edwin Heathcote- Financial Times (UK)

The Great Quake: 1906-2006: Grand San Francisco plans that never came to be...Daniel Burnham envisioned grandeur — only shades of his plan survive. By John King [image]- San Francisco Chronicle

Los Angeles River Plan Slowly Moving Forward: ...master plan focused on a 32-mile stretch of the waterway... -- Tetra Tech; Civitas; Wenk Associates; HNTB; Mia Lehrer + Associates- Architectural Record

Monumental Security: ...newly redesigned Washington Monument grounds incorporates innovative security features and new amenities for visitors...a virtual tour -- Laurie Olin, FASLA [images]- LAND Online (ASLA)

Right foot forward: Will Aslop's plans for a funky downtown pedestrian bridge have even got the anti-development activists excited. Literally and politically, architectural bad boy...wants to go where no developer has gone before: all the way over the broad, leafy railway corridor downtown. [image]- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Beijing to ban drivers for blue sky Olympics: Building sites and factories to close for two months. Attempt to clear pollution haze that covers city- Guardian (UK)

The hotel wonders of the world: Forget low-key boutique hotels, architects are upping the ante with a new breed of mega-hotels destined to become landmarks in their own right. Deyan Sudjic charts the rise of the 'statement' hotel -- Gropius; Geoffrey Bawa; Lapidus; John Portman; SOM; Philippe Starck; John Pawson- Observer (UK)

The genius in Gehry: Tiffany & Co...finds a startlingly impulsive creator in award-winning architect who sculpts its latest collection of jewellery and table-top items...the star-studded launch at Los Angeles.- New Straits Times (Malaysia)

Call for entries: New Silk Road Cultural Park Ideas Competitions in Xi'an, China; registration deadline:
May 1 [pdf]- Xi’an Qu Jiang New District Administration Committee

A contrarian look at the bane of urban reformers: Anti-sprawl activists portrayed as alarmist, elitist and pessimistic - "Sprawl: A Compact History" by Robert Bruegmann- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Northwestern University Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center: Engineering and design education now cross traditional departmental boundaries in a light-filled, LEED Silver campus building. -- Davis Brody Bond [images]- ArchNewsNow

-- Exhibition: Santiago Calatrava: World Architecture, DAC (Danish Architecture Centre), Copenhagen
-- Book: Architecture Now! 4 By Philip Jodidio
-- Book: Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design By Paola Antonelli

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