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Today's News - June 5, 2006

ArcSpace takes us to Seattle. -- A study finds Seattle among the most sustainable U.S. cities. -- Is it time to scrap WTC memorial plans and start all over? -- A bold Dutch plan is selected to transform Toronto's waterfront. -- Hadid wins big in Dubai. -- Pearman offers one of the more interesting/insightful/amusing takes on the "Zaha legend." -- Move over Dubai: Qatar and a "Fab Four" of architects (along with Oman and Bahrain) are hot on its heels. -- Starchitects making stylish - and saleable - skyline for NYC (or are they making a pact with the Devil?). -- Piano may sign on for San Francisco tower: would be the city's "first glamorous project" in a "new era of architectural distinction." - Piano's Morgan is the best and worst of modernism: "exquisite inside, and as attractive as an industrial shipping container outside." -- The future of suburban cul-de-sacs in doubt: homeowners love 'em; planners call them a failed experiment. -- Turrell's Skyspace only part of the "refabrication" of a Chicago neighborhood into "a new and very different urban reality." -- An Alsop master plan for a rundown site in Bradford, U.K. -- Not everyone is thrilled with his "creative prison" design. -- London's Roundhouse reborn - and ready to rock. -- Michigan's governor puts design on the front burner. -- A new youth center demonstrates why a young Chicago designer "deserves a spot on the design map." -- O'Herlihy brings Dublin lessons from L.A. -- The AIA descends on L.A. this week: "Visiting a multi-cultural, egalitarian L.A. should serve the cliquish AIA well, if only for a few days."

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-- Allied Works: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
-- Weiss/Manfredi Architects: Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington

Big Northwest cities are 'most sustainable': Portland, San Francisco, Seattle tops for self-sufficiency: study- MarketWatch

Time to Scrap Arad's Bloated, Billion-Dollar WTC Memorial: ...conceived a compelling image of loss for the memorial at Ground Zero...has already been heavily doctored...Instead of gutting the original, it's time to drop the design and start over. By James S. Russell- Bloomberg News

West 8 waterfront winner: Meet your new waterfront: And say goodbye to the Gardiner, according to a bold Dutch plan for introducing us to our lake. By Christopher Hume -- du Toit Allsopp Hiller; Diamond + Schmitt Architects; Schollen & Company; Halsall Associates; David Dennis Designs; Arup [images, links]- Toronto Star

UK-based Zaha Hadid Architects win [Dubai] 'Business Bay' tower design competition...three iconic towers at...one of the region's most ambitious real estate projects [image]- AME Info (United Arab Emirates)

Iraqitect: Zaha Hadid commands the Guggenheim, but remembers her roots: Whatever you think an architect looks like...does...comes from...consider instead...the most extraordinary success story that this notoriously volatile profession has ever produced. By Hugh Pearman [images]- HughPearman.com (UK)

Is Qatar the Next Dubai? ...by decade's end, a quartet of cutting-edge sites from a veritable Fab Four of international architects will elevate the four-mile corniche into the museum mecca of the Middle East. -- Pei; Calatrava; Isozaki; Nouvel- New York Times

Skyline for Sale: Frank Gehry and Bruce Ratner are proving how much influence architects have with developers, and how troublingly little. By Nicolai Ouroussoff -- Renzo Pian; Sanaa; Tschumi; Herzog and de Meuron; Meier; Norten/TEN Arquitectos [images, slide show]- New York Times

Famed architect in line to design new S.F. tower: Renzo Piano has tentatively agreed to design an 850-foot tower... it could be the first glamorous project in what city officials hope will be a new era of architectural distinction.- San Francisco Business Times

Modernism at its best and worst: N.Y. reno's exterior "a kick in the crotch": Rarely have the strengths and weaknesses of modernism been so neatly summed up in a single project...Morgan Library and Museum...is exquisite inside, and as attractive as an industrial shipping container outside. By Christopher Hume -- Renzo Piano; Beyer Blinder Belle- Toronto Star

The Suburbs Under Siege: Homeowners Love Cul-de-Sacs, Planners Say They're Perils...to some...cul-de-sacs have come to represent a failed experiment that has produced more isolation and more traffic...- Wall Street Journal

A James Turrell Skyspace Comes to a Very Different Maxwell Street: The University of Illinois at Chicago refabricates the neighborhood formerly known as Maxwell Street as a new and very different urban reality. By Lynn Becker [images]- Repeat (Chicago)

£90m 'village' planned for run-down [Bradford] site: Plans for a student village at Listerhills would see a hotel, shops, restaurants and live-work units being created...one of the four distinct regeneration zones outlined in architect Will Alsop's masterplan. -- Evo Architects; Urbed- This is Brandford (UK)

Revealed: Will Alsop's 'creative prison': ...has had to endure jokes about the pitfalls of jails designed by prisoners, but he was more shocked by the opposition from his own profession.- Guardian (UK)

What goes around ... It's been a home to steam trains, gin barrels and rock's biggest stars. Now, after some serious surgery, the Roundhouse is ready for the 21st century. By Steve Rose -- Robert Dockray (1846); John McAslan and Partners [image, link]- Guardian (UK)

New youth center in Grand Crossing a beacon of optimism: Lands' End founder Gary Comer taps architect John Ronan to craft an innovative new space...despite a sometimes-garish exterior winningly stitches together social conscience and striking aesthetics...demonstrate why Ronan deserves a spot on the design map... By Blair Kamin [image]- Chicago Tribune

Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm on Design: ...why she has placed design at the forefront of her program to make the State of Michigan the innovation capital of the United States.- Corproate Design Foundation

California theming: Lorcan O’Herlihy, a radical architect born in Ireland, tells Dara Flynn how Dublin can learn a lot from Los Angeles- The Times (UK)

Stars in Their Eyes, and on Their Panels: The American Institute of Architects Convention Arrives, And Takes a Close Look at Downtown...As if Los Angeles didn't have enough local dilettantes... By Sam Hall Kaplan- LA Downtown News

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