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Today's News - September 20, 2006

Design and technology merge in Arizona State University's new Biodesign Institute. -- How bad leadership can ruin good planning. -- Signs that Buffalo's losing streak is coming to an end. -- A Welsh village built in 1926 (made famous by "The Prisoner") "holds the key for the future of successful urban design." -- Working in Scotland, Duany says Britain's suburban sprawl is wrong but redeemable. -- Belfast seeing the "dawn of a new architectural era." -- But then there are those developers who are buying their way out of having to include social housing in their projects. -- Some may see facadism as an insult to history, but sometimes it's better than the alternative. -- In Johannesburg, 5 landmarks saved, 5 others to bite the dust. -- Scientists to the rescue of Saarinen's Bell Labs. -- Preservationists in Canada and Britain up in arms about bulldozers in Bath. -- Ito on Singapore's waterfront (please don't call it a mall). -- Plans for Liverpool waterfront tower called "joyless and weak." -- Rising building costs sends Gehry back to the drawing board for Grand Avenue plans. -- Koolhaas at Cornell: cool pix; students have praise and questions; the dean explains it all. -- Ito on Singapore's waterfront (please don't call it a mall). -- A professor of art and archaeology digs deep into Hadid.

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New Frontiers in Science and Design: ASU Biodesign Institute by Gould Evans and Lord, Aeck & Sargent (images)- ArchNewsNow

How Bad Leadership Spoils Good Planning: A lot of planners don't see themselves as leaders, nor do they want to be... By Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP- PLANetizen

After a Half-Century of Decline, Signs of Better Times for Buffalo: ...a sense that just maybe losing streak is coming to an end...tangible movement on long-awaited plans to reclaim the waterfront, along with dozens of private and public real-estate projects downtown... -- Frank Lloyd Wright; Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn- New York Times

Portmeirion's big success in space travel: Welsh village has been held up as a template for new towns around the UK...holds the key for the future of successful urban design. -- Clough Williams-Ellis (1926)- icWales

Urban legend Andres Duany: The designer of Florida's much admired town Seaside...is now at work in Scotland...[says] Britain's suburban sprawl is wrong but redeemable- Guardian (UK)

Design? Belfast is no longer a fish out of water: ...the dawn of a new architectural era for Northern Ireland's capital. -- Michael Hopkins; Sunand Prasad; Trevor Leaker- Belfast Telegraph (Ireland)

Developers pay out €32m to avoid social housing deal: Government's blueprint for a social housing utopia now lies in tatters because developers have been able to exploit a loophole in the rules.- Irish Independent

Classics preserved -- or are they? In a changing city, vintage buildings often must adapt or get out of the way. Gutting them while leaving the facades intact at least allows for partial preservation. By John King -- SMWM Architects; Page & Turnbull; MBH Architects [images]- San Francisco Chronicle

Five Johannesburg landmarks saved: But five others will bite the dust to make way for the Gauteng Government Precinct (GGP).- The Star (South Africa)

An Inventive Solution to Save Home of Bell Labs: As soon as word got out that the 44-year-old building in Holmdel, N.J...would be demolished, scientists around the country — and the world — set the Internet humming with anguished reaction...new plan has been greeted joyfully... -- Eero Saarinen- New York Times

Heritage buffs [in Canada and Britain] oppose razing of Parliament Buildings' British ancestor: Bulldozers in Bath are poised to raze the Newark Works designed by British-born Thomas Fuller the leading 19th-century Canadian architect...- Canada.com

VivoCity to revolutionize Singapore's shopping, lifestyle experience: Just as the name is a departure from the norm, so too is the architecture...based on a "Surfing" theme...centerpiece of the entire HarbourFront precinct... -- Toyo Ito- SunStar (Philippines)

Waterfront tower 'joyless and weak': Plans for Liverpool's tallest waterfront tower appeared in tatters after a government review condemned them...CABE has found little to be impressed with in the proposals for the land... -- RMJM [image]- icLiverpool (UK)

Rising Building Costs Send Gehry Grand Avenue Project in Downtown Los Angeles Over Budget: ...price of the first phase, budgeted three years ago at $750 million, has risen about 40%..."we are working with our architect to try and refine the design of the large tower." [image]- New York Times

Cornell Unveils OMA Design for Milstein Hall: Koolhaas and Mostafavi reveals school’s new facility for architecture school -- Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) [images]- The Architect's Newspaper (NYC)

Students Praise Milstein Design But Question Practicality -- Koolhaas/OMA- Cornell Daily Sun

Q&A with AAP Dean Mostafavi About Milstein Plans -- Koolhaas/OMA- Cornell Daily Sun

New Fields of Architecture: Hal Foster on Zaha Hadid...perhaps even more so than art today, architecture focuses urgent questions about new kinds of representations and media, materials and technologies. [images]- Artforum

-- Rafael Viñoly: HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia
-- Inauguration: Bjørn Nørgaard: Paradise Genetically Altered (link herfra), Copenhagen, Denmark

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