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Today's News - October 25, 2006

A growing alphabet soup of green building guidelines: LEED, 189P, and GRI. -- One architect out, another in for Kansas African American Museum. -- Kennicott finds himself in Yesterdayland at Mount Vernon. -- New York news: High hopes to turn 42nd Street into a pedestrian mall. -- Dia leaves the High Line; will the Whitney step in? -- Foster defends his Madison Ave. tower. -- Another Adjaye for the U.K. -- Nashville skyline to sport the tallest office tower outside of Chicago and New York (artistic, 200-foot spire included). -- No billy goats for green roof on Des Moines library. -- Shark tanks and lattes with while shopping for your Audi. -- Q&A with Will Alsop: "I've learned never to trust anyone with big feet and a small head." -- Second Adler & Sullivan Chicago landmark goes up in smoke. -- More on the demise of Architecture magazine. -- Architects, engineers and Feng Shui researchers attempt to make the system less mystical. -- An 8-week carbon diet challenge.

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Committee to draft green building standards: LEED will continue to evolve as a goal for the top 25% of building practices, while Standard 189P is intended to serve the entire construction industry. -- U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC); American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE); Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA)- National Real Estate Investor (NREI)

Third Time's the Charm: Will the latest corporate sustainability reporting guidelines herald a brave new world? ...perhaps counter-intuitively, leading global companies are finding value in reporting far more information on their sustainability performance than the GRI currently demands. -- Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Reporting Guidelines- Grist Magazine

African American Museum hires designer: After a controversial split between the Kansas African American Museum and local architect Charles McAfee...museum has hired a firm to design its new riverfront building. -- Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey Architecture- Wichita Eagle (Kansas)

Additions Give Mount Vernon The Feel of Yesterdayland: New museum space struggles with the fine balance between education and entertainment...It all feels very familiar, very something . . . Very Disney. By Philip Kennicott -- GWWO Inc./Architects [images, podcast, etc.]- Washington Post

Group pushes to transform 42nd Street into pedestrian mall: ...advocates say would turn the clogged streets into a narrower version of an Italian piazza, would boost business on the strip by up to $500 million a year while cutting crosstown travel time in half. -- Vision42- AM New York

Dia Art Foundation Calls Off Museum Project: ...at the entrance to the High Line...Asked whether the Whitney was considering backing out of the Piano expansion in favor of a site at the High Line, a museum spokeswoman...said yesterday, “The Whitney is keeping its expansion options open”...- New York Times

Norman Foster Lauds East Side's ‘Tradition of Radicalism': ...residents who have been arguing over a proposed 22-story apartment building on Madison Avenue in a historic district brought their fight downtown yesterday for a four-hour public hearing before the Landmarks Preservation Commission.- New York Sun

Market hall plans go on show: Members of public get chance to view major component of multi-million pound Marsh Way development...a new £5m market hall in Wakefield... -- David Adjaye [image]- Yorkshire Post Today (UK)

Soaring New [65-story] CBD Tower Planned For Nashville: The nation's tallest office tower outside of Chicago and New York...plans incorporate more glass, a thinner footprint and an artistic, 200-foot spire. -- Smallwood Reynolds Stewart Stewart- National Real Estate Investor (NREI)

'Green' roof shows its stuff: The downtown library is covered in sturdy sedum, not the rumored grass that drew the billy goat jokes...The library didn't spend an extra $750,000 on a planted roof simply for aesthetic reasons. It was part of an overall focus on energy efficiency... -- David Chipperfield [images]- Des Moines Register

Rethinking Auto Showrooms: Shark Tanks, Anyone? Automobile companies are experimenting with new ways of selling, trying to replace the image of standardized buildings and high-pressure salesmen. -- Eddie Sotto/Sotto Studios [audio slide show]- New York Times

Portrait of the artist: Will Alsop, architect: 'I've learned never to trust anyone with big feet and a small head'- Guardian (UK)

Massive Fire Claims Adler & Sullivan's landmark Wirt Dexter Building in Chicago: The loss to fire of two Adler and Sullivan's landmarks, Pilgrim Baptist Church and now the Wirt Dexter Building, in less than a year raises questions about the effectiveness of the Chicago's landmark protection. By Lynn Becker [images]- Repeat (Chicago)

Death to Architecture: Architecture Magazine sold and merged with new title [Architect]- The Architect's Newspaper (NYC)

Hong Kong Conference Aims to Make Feng Shui More Scientific: Architects, engineers and Feng Shui researchers from around the globe met in an attempt to make the system less mystical... -- Albert So; Michael Mak; Howard Choy; Lilian Too- Voice of America

Welcome to the Slate Green Challenge: Your eight-week carbon diet.- Slate

(Product) Red "Pop-Up" Store: A temporary retail store in the heart of Chicago is all heart for a good cause. -- WalkerGroup with Motorola [images]- ArchNewsNow

-- Expansion: Allied Works Architecture: Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
-- SMC ALSOP: Clarke Quay, Singapore

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