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Today's News - January 19, 2007

A reappraisal of Robert Moses. -- Seattle's sculpture park is "an affirmation of civilization." -- Hume can only hope that Canada will learn from Sweden. -- Safdie is "seething with anger and a sense of affront" over what was done to his development plan for Jerusalem. -- Meanwhile, you'll "see the soul of a visionary" in a Safdie documentary. -- Glancey on the debate of closeness and detachment between architect and critic. -- In Minneapolis, "a grand act of urban design and renewal." -- A new landmark tower on the horizon for San Diego skyline - maybe. -- The first completed step in Lincoln Center redevelopment is a milestone. -- Brussels brewery reborn as the city's largest contemporary art center. -- L.A. vs. Chicago in 2016: "Give us the Summer Games; Chicago can have the Olympic pie-eating contest." -- A dissolvable dress is "a profound artistic statement about how plastics can be made to be kinder to our polluted planet." -- A "brilliantly written" tome about Mumbai's delectable Art Deco architecture. -- Take a look at (and cast a vote for) finalists in Architecture for Humanity logo competition.

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Great Cities Need Great Builders: Robert Moses still bestrides New York like a colossus...a three-part exhibition on Moses...gives us a chance to reappraise his achievements. -- Jane Jacobs; Robert Caro- New York Sun

Welcome to the best public space in Seattle: Olympic Sculpture Park...enrichment of Seattle's urbanity, more far-reaching than anything else built here in the past half-century...an affirmation of civilization. By Lawrence W. Cheek -- Weiss Manfredi- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Red tape in T.O., profitable sustainability in Sweden: One can only imagine what the Honourable John Baird, Canada's Minister of the Environment, made of his Swedish counterpart, Andreas Carlgren, when the two met this week in Ottawa. The latter represents one of the most progressive nations on Earth, the former, a dinosaur. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star

Master builder: Beneath the calm exterior and the polished manners, Safdie is seething with anger and a sense of affront over what was done to the "Safdie plan" for Jerusalem's future development.- Ha`aretz (Israel)

Film review: You'll see the soul of a visionary: "Moshe Safdie: The Power of Architecture"...besides being a world-class architect, Safdie has the heart of a socialist and the soul of a pacifist.- Miami Herald

A fine line: The debate: there is a need for some closeness and much detachment between architect and critic. By Jonathan Glancey- Guardian (UK)

Midtown Exchange a city blockbuster: In a grand act of urban design and renewal, the historic 1927 Sears building is reborn...To redevelop a million square feet in the inner city in a two-year period is a feat. To do it so well is extraordinary. By Linda Mack -- Hess Roise; Collaborative Design Group; Elness Swenson Graham; Shea Architects; Close Landscape Architecture; Perkins and Will; UrbanWorks Architecture- Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top architect may design San Diego tower: The Irvine Co. talking to Pei Cobb Freed on high-rise- San Diego Union-Tribune

More Room to Pirouette at Lincoln Center Studios: a milestone in Lincoln Center's ambitious redevelopment project...part of the School of American Ballet’s new Lincoln Kirstein Studio Wing... -- Diller Scofidio + Renfro- New York Times

Wiels: artful brewing: On May 25, Brussels’ largest contemporary art centre will open its doors in what was once the Wielemans-Ceuppen Brewery -- Adrien Blomme (1930); Art & Build Architects [links]- CafeBabel.com (Paris)

Op-Ed: Who wants a deep-dish Olympics? The L.A.-Chicago rivalry goes athletic as the two cities compete for the U.S. bid to host the 2016 Olympics.- Los Angeles Times

Dissolvable dress at the height of fashion: ...to the [University of Sheffield] professors who designed this disappearing dress, it is a profound artistic statement about how plastics can be made to be kinder to our polluted planet...show off new materials that can make consumer products less environmentally harmful.- Telegraph (UK)

Book review: Understanding art deco architecture in Mumbai! "Bombay Art Deco Architecture – A Visual Journey 1930-1953" brilliantly written by Navin Ramani tells the story...provides contrasting examples of buildings in the city and in Miami...the two can easily be defined as twin-cities.- Afternoon Despatch & Courier (Bombay)

Architecture for Humanity Logo Competition - Final Round [images]- Architecture for Humanity

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

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