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Today's News - September 27, 2006

Legacy of Berlin's master builder: "He saved us from the worst."; "Yes, but he also saved us from the best." -- Heathcote on memorials: "The architecture of death...has in recent years descended into farce." -- New Kansas City Sculpture Park now puts people "up close and personal with the big glass boxes" of Nelson-Atkins Museum. -- Green building growing slowly in Baton Rouge. -- MIT Media Lab merits a Maki. -- Plans move forward for Guggenheim restoration. -- Chicago's Marina City is "undergoing a bit of renovative vandalism." -- Ouroussoff finds much to ponder at Yale's "Team 10" show. - Call for entries: Metropolis magazine's Next Generation Design Competition. -- DesignShare awards honor innovative school design around the world. -- Architects most welcome at the upcoming 9th International Commercial Property Exposition in Munich.

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Berlin’s Post-Wall Master Builder Retires: Hans Stimmann is an advocate for architectural tradition who has frustrated Modernists...forthrightly rejected grand architectural visions in favor of pragmatic city planning. -- Gehry; Sauerbruch Hutton; Helmut Jahn; Hans Kollhoff; Josef P. Kleihues; Koolhaas; Libeskind; Christoph Kohlbecker/Renzo Piano- New York Times

No thanks for the memories: The architecture of death, once the highest expression of tragedy, has in recent years descended into farce...Regrettably, the range and quantity of this surge in memorial building outweigh its aesthetic achievements. By Edwin Heathcote -- Adolf Loos; Edwin Lutyens; Libeskind; Arad; Maya Lin; Eisenman; Zumthor- Financial Times (UK)

Close up, the building changes: Sculpture park brings new opportunity to experience the Nelson’s bold, glassy addition. By Steve Paul -- Steven Holl [images]- Kansas City Star

Seeing green: Green building in Baton Rouge is incipient at best, but a few examples of eco-friendly design exist. -- Kelly Kerr; Robert M. Coleman & Partners; Chenevert Architects- Greater Baton Rouge Business Report

Fumihiko Maki building launches new era for MIT Media Lab -- Leers Weinzapfel Associates [images]- Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Guggenheim Comes Up With Plans for Restoring Structure: There is good news and bad news... -- Frank Lloyd Wright; Wank Adams Slavin Associates (WASA)- New York Sun

Slumming Up Marina City: One of Chicago's greatest architectural complexes is undergoing a bit of renovative vandalism...being smothered in the kind of battleship gray paint usually reserved for back-alley loading docks. By Lynn Becker -- Bertrand Goldberg [images]- Repeat (Chicago)

New Ideals for Building in the Face of Modernism: "Team 10: A Utopia of the Present," a small but provocative show...weaves a portrait of the Modern movement that suggests it was wider-ranging in its ideals than most people think. By Nicolai Ouroussoff -- Peter and Alison Smithson; Aldo van Eyck; Giancarlo De Carlo; Georges Candilis; Alexis Josic; Shadrach Woods; Superstudio; Archigram [images]- New York Times

Call for entries: Metropolis magazine's Next Generation Design Competition; deadline: January 5, 2007- Metropolis Magazine

DesignShare announces the winning 2006 Awards: ... each project represents best practice innovation from around the world in designing for the future of leraning. -- Ana Ines Bajcura; Architecture for Education Incorporated; CPG Consultants; McCool Carlson Green Architects; etc. [links]- DesignShare

Architecture is an important theme at Expo Real 2006, 9th International Commercial Property Exposition at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre October 23-25- Construction & Maintenance News (Belarus)

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

Newly opened: Gehry Partners: Hotel Marques de Riscal, Elciego, (Alava) Spain

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