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Today's News - January 10, 2007

Dyckhoff proposes a "Carbuncle Cup" for architecture "so hideous that it could curdle milk." -- A cautionary tale: Canadian flavor sapped out of China's Maple Town (palm trees anyone?). -- Green building renovations starting to take root. -- Rome juggles between its past and future. -- Another troubled stadium, this time in New Zealand, but heading for a happy ending (they hope). -- Inaugural IIDA/Metropolis Smart Environments Award winners are "kind to their occupants and the earth equally, in addition to being beautiful." -- Rockwell's playground revolution. -- Big plans for a casino complex in "small" Bethlehem, PA, to include a lotta culture. -- An amusing analysis of Tom Wolfe's attack on the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission ("I'm not even really a preservationist"). -- Kamin offers Chicago architecture news and forecast. -- King as a "rambling rube" waxes ever so poetic about winter light on San Francisco's architecture (even the bad stuff looks good). -- Hugh Ferriss' iconic Chrysler Building print goes on the block.

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The malling of our cities: Britain's city centres are facing their biggest threat since the hideous crimes of the Sixties. Will no-one protect us from the relentless march of this foul new breed of shopping malls? By Tom Dyckhoff -- Chapman Taylor; Wilkinson Eyre; Panter Hudspith- The Times (UK)

China saps Maple Town of Canadian style: A new suburb's look was meant to evoke Canada's spirit, but the grind of local politics crushed most concepts away...The sad fate of Maple Town is a cautionary tale for Canadian architects who venture into Chinese territory. -- Lisa Bate/Six Degrees Architecture and Design (formerly DesignArc Architects)- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Finding the Green in Building Renovation: Why have existing buildings been overlooked? According to the U.S.Green Building Council [USGBC], it is largely because new construction and high-tech systems have attracted all the attention...that is starting to change. -- LEED- New York Times

Rome wasn’t built in a day: How does the ‘Eternal City’ juggle the need to preserve its past with the equally important need to construct its future? -- Richard Meier; Renzo Piano; Zaha Hadid- CafeBabel.com (Paris)

Troubled stadium tipped to open in March: A year after it was due to open, contractors on Auckland's troubled $80 million Vector Arena have revealed the exact nature of problems they had to overcome with the complicated roof. -- Peddle Thorp Architects [image, links]- New Zealand Herald

Design from the Inside Out: Winners of the inaugural IIDA/Metropolis Smart Environments Awards -- Winka Dubbeldam//Archi-Tectonics; Cass Calder Smith; HOK; TVS Interiors; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); Mahlum Architects [links, images]- Metropolis Magazine

New York Tries to Think Outside the Sandbox: ...with its rich history of public playgrounds...on the verge of a bold experiment in the way children play... -- Rockwell Group [image]- New York Times

Slot Machines May Ring Where Steel Was Once Forged: A former steel plant in a small Pennsylvania town is now the site of a proposed $600 million casino, hotel and mall complex. -- Sands BethWorks- New York Times

Has Tom Wolfe Blown It? In the author's latest foray into combat, it's his fame he's fighting to preserve...successful in books like The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities—doesn't dovetail with an attack on something as small as the Landmarks Preservation Commission..."I'm not even really a preservationist"... -- Edward Durell Stone; Norman Foster- Village Voice (NYC)

New executive at Architecture Foundation; Columbia College Chicago has picked four finalists for the college's proposed media production center; Now you see it, now you don't. By Blair Kamin -- Gregory K. Dreicer; Mayne/Morphosis; Studio Gang; Brininstool + Lynch; Helfand Architecture; Calatrava- Chicago Tribune

Excitement is building for new high-rises: In the world of architecture, the coming months promise to be anything but dull. By Blair Kamin -- Calatrava; Louis Sullivan; Frank Lloyd Wright; Myron Goldsmith; Studio Gang; Helmut Jahn; Booth-Hansen; Steven Holl; Coop Himmelb(l)au- Chicago Tribune

Cool sunlight of winter transmutes city's views: Winter light flatters a city, especially one like San Francisco. By John King [images]- San Francisco Chronicle

Piece of New York City history heads to auction: An autographed print of artist/architect Hugh Ferriss' rendering of the Chrysler Building...will fall to the highest bidder on January 27 -- William Van Alen [image]- Joplin Independent

Celebrating Green: The decade-long history of the AIA/COTE's Top Ten Green Projects program is a portrait of evolution in the field. By Kira Gould [images]- ArchNewsNow

-- Gehry Partners, LLP: Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris
-- Oppenheim architecture + design: COR, Miami
-- Exhibition: Skin + Bones, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles

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