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Today's News - January 15, 2007

ArcSpace brings us Meier in L.A. and Holl in Copenhagen. -- New Jersey as poster child for sprawling cities and suburbs gobbling up land. -- Liverpool as "an unprecedented experiment in city building." -- Atlanta's makeover creates swanky neighborhoods. -- A U.K. housing development is model of green living. -- Farrelly bemoans featureless buildings that "steal our humanity." -- It's the "backdrop buildings" going on around L.A.'s star-studded developments that are really building neighborhoods. -- A "colorful" British mayor wants to transform his city's post-industrial landscape into a "designer label town." -- Another piece of "urban splendor" for Shanghai. -- The Louvre out-guggenheims the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi deal. -- Praise, praise, and more praise for Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park. -- A Rudolph is razed in Connecticut, while plans to raze his Riverview High are called "barbaric." -- The fate of crumbling modernist classic in Glasgow to finally be decided. -- Mayne and the judge - friends forever, as it turns out. -- An impressive list of winners in 2007 AIA Honor Awards. -- National Building Museum presents proposals for a new Globe Theatre that are "smart, fresh and idiosyncratic" and "striking and whimsical and sometimes just a little bit weird."

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-- Richard Meier & Partners: Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, UCLA, Los Angeles
-- Steven Holl Architects: T-Houses, Copenhagen

In New Jersey, Development Conflicts With a Watershed: Preservation debates like this one are raging across the country as sprawling cities and suburbs gobble up more farmland, woodlands and water basins.- New York Times

Imagine there's a heaven...: As it prepares for its reign as Capital of Culture 2008 in a frenzy of regeneration, Stephen Bayley marvels at how the city of nightmares has become the city of dreams ...the emerging Liverpool is an unprecedented experiment in city building. -- Wilkinson Eyre; John McAslan; Allies and Morrison; CZWG; Jeremy Dixon; Marks Barfield; FAT; Edward Bloomfield (1937); 3XNielsen; Jesse Hartley (1845); Cesar Pelli; Piers Gough; etc.- Observer (UK)

Atlanta Gets a Makeover: More Up, Less Out: ...several huge mixed-use construction projects...aim to create neighborhoods in Atlanta as swank and walkable as some sections of New York and Chicago...- Wall Street Journal

Shiver me timbers: Could a new housing development in picturesque Cornwall be the greenest place to live in Britain? Let's hope for more developments with the intelligence...of Jubilee Wharf. By Jonathan Glancey -- Bill Dunster/ZEDfactory [images]- Guardian (UK)

The featureless buildings that stole our humanity: Most offensive is the burqa-clad, full-face-and-body blankness of buildings such as supermarkets and telephone exchanges. Maskless, featureless, these are the buildings of total erasure. By Elizabeth Farrelly- Sydney Morning Herald

Building a Neighborhood, a Block at a Time: The Mega-Projects Are Not the Only Ones Important to Downtown's Future...These are what you might call backdrop buildings, designed first and foremost to maximize developable square footage... By Sam Hall Kaplan -- Togawa & Smith; Nakada & Associates- LA Downtown News

Shine on: Middlesbrough used to house its art collection in an old doctor's surgery. Not any more...colourful mayor wants to transform the city's post-industrial landscape into a "designer label town"...Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Mima)... By Steve Rose -- Erick van Egeraat; Gijs Bakker/Droog; West 8 [image]- Guardian (UK)

A new place to socialize: Shanghai planners are considering yet another urban splendor aimed at Chinese socializing. Cinepanorama — a semi-outdoor complex of a cinema-theater, restaurant and shopping... -- Jean Pierre Heim [image]- Shanghai Daily

Abu Dhabi Is to Gain a Louvre of Its Own: French operation in the United Arab Emirates is to be far more lucrative than anything the Guggenheim has conceived to date.- New York Times

Where Money’s No Object, Space Is No Problem: Seattle’s good fortune spawns a sculpture park and a museum expansion...Olympic Sculpture Park, a lush panoramic space for public art... -- Weiss/Manfredi Architects; Cloepfi/Allied Works Architecture; Venturi Denise Scott Brown [images]- New York Times

A free park rises from fouled land: Seattle Art Museum's splendid Olympic Sculpture Park overcomes long odds to flower into being. By Randy Gragg -- Weiss Manfredi Architects- The Oregonian

Stunning Olympic Sculpture Park could redefine waterfront: The park has already captured the attention of city planners in New York and Paris for the innovative way it reunites the city and shore... -- Weiss/Manfredi Architects [images]- Seattle Times

Modernist No More: Home by Famous Architect Is Razed: ...despite a last-minute effort by the state attorney general to save it. -- Paul Rudolph (1972)- New York Times

Endangered: Local architects are trying to dub Riverview High school one of "America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places of 2007"...Andres Duany called the demolition plans "barbaric" at a City Hall meeting... -- Paul Rudolph- Herald- Tribune (Florida)

Fate of crumbling modernist classic to finally be decided: After decades of arguments and a power struggle between architects, the Catholic church and Historic Scotland, it seems a solution may finally be at hand for the controversial St Peter's seminary site. -- Gillespie Kidd and Coia (1966); Avanti Architects- Sunday Herald (Scotland)

The Education of Thom Mayne: How the uncompromising L.A. architect learned to build on common ground -- Morphosis- Los Angeles Times

2007 AIA Honor Awards Recognize Excellence in Architecture, Interiors, and Urban Design -- Eisenman; Phifer; Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg/Goldsmith Borgal; richärd + bauer; Lake|Flato; Polshek; Gould Evans; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Pugh + Scarpa; Morphosis; Holl; Rand Elliott; KieranTimberlake; Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penney; Leddy Maytum Stacy; Marino/dcmstudios; NMDA/Interior Architects; Gabellini Sheppard/SLCE; Randy Brown; Perkins + Will; STUDIOS; Bentel & Bentel; etc. [links]- American Institute of Architects (AIA)

All the World's His Stage: The Globe, Yesterday and Tomorrow: "Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century"...is smart, fresh and idiosyncratic. By Philip Kennicott -- John Cranford Adams (1950); John Coyne; H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture; Michele Saee; Jennifer Siegal/Office of Mobile Design- Washington Post

Imagining, and Reimagining, the Globe: “Reinventing the Globe..."...proposals are striking and whimsical and sometimes just a little bit weird... -- Foster & Partners; John Coyne; H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture; Siegal/Office of Mobile Design; Michele Saee; David Rockwell [images]- New York Times

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