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Today's News - February 5, 2007

ArcSpace brings us another view of Abu Dhabi cultural projects and Alsop in London. -- Meanwhile, Burj Dubai skyscraper is all bones (new skin to arrive shortly). -- Fraser resigns from A+DS claiming PPP school designs are "catastrophically poor." -- de Botton's development plans are "put on ice." -- Stanford University suffers from some "mind-numbingly boring" (unattributed) architecture (but the good guys are named). -- The challenges in transforming old shopping malls require more than just a face-lift. -- India hosts a national seminar exploring the need to get shopping malls right. -- Traffic is a pain in L.A. - so what's new? -- Malaysian architects are making waves overseas. -- Two San Francisco projects are "green" on two different scales. -- It's a symbiotic relationship between landscape architect and developer that will make Orange County park truly great. -- A young architect wants to bring Kaliningrad's castle back (along with a new city center). -- Critics come to the defense of Libeskind's Denver museum. -- Not all are betting that the Uffizi expansion will begin. -- The New York architect behind some of the city's most polarizing projects. -- A master of Googie architecture celebrates his 90th. -- An interesting take on Moses: officials have learned that arrogance is a sin, so now "their modus operandi is to appear to care about communities and then go ahead with big development plans anyway." -- Another take on Lutyens' cathedral that never was.

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-- Ando, Gehry, Hadid, and Nouvel: Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE
-- SMC Alsop: Palestra, London, UK

Burj Dubai skyscraper missing its 'curtain wall' exterior: It's all bones and no skin....a new curtain wall provider...is on board... By Blair Kamin -- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)- Chicago Tribune

School PPP scheme a ‘catastrophe’ for pupils: Malcolm Fraser has resigned from a Scottish Executive advisory panel over concerns that schools built using private finance could be damaging children. -- Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS)- Sunday Herald (Scotland)

Channel 4 ditches de Botton’s development programme: Philosopher’s 2ha 50-home development with Feilden Clegg Bradley 'put on ice'...plans to set up a development company are to be scrapped. -- Praxis Development- Building (UK)

Editorial: A Corporate Beacon of Clapboard and Stucco: Granted, not every building...looks as though it were carelessly ordered from a catalog of innocuous buildings. When Stanford decides to take architectural risks, the results are often noteworthy. -- I.M. Pei; Norman Foster; James Polshek- Stanford Daily (California)

Old Shopping Malls Require Much More Than Cosmetic Surgery: ...two projects are emblematic of increasingly frequent real estate investment and design challenges that lie ahead. By Roger K. Lewis- Washington Post

Code for new shoppers’ stops: With [Calcutta] firmly in the grip of ‘mall-eria’...the need to get the planning, design and management of shopping centres right was never more imperative. -- Centre for Built Environment (CBE); Santosh Ghosh; Unmesh Kirtikar; Partha Ranjan Das- The Telegraph (India)

Rediscovering an Old Problem: Traffic Is a Pain, Just Like it Was in 1982...with revived calls by a perplexed public for an expanded mass transit system, more selective planning, less development... By San Hall Kaplan- LA Downtown News

Local architects making mark overseas: Malaysian architects are making waves overseas with a list of architectural masterpieces dotting various parts of the world. -- Tan Loke Mun/Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM); Teo A Khing Design Consultants (TAK Group); GDP Architects; Hin Tan Architect- The Star (Malaysia)

S.F. Joins the Green Trend: Two Bay Area projects run gamut from practicality to a grand statement. By John King -- Renzo Piano/Chong Partners; David Baker + Partners- San Francisco Chronicle

The Central Park of Southern California: Ken Smith is stretching out a bit, with a project measuring 1,347 acres...Orange County Great Park will cover a large swath of what had been El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. By Fred A. Bernstein- New York Times

Kaliningrad Wants Its Castle Back: For years Kaliningrad has been allowed to decay as a forgotten Russian enclave surrounded by Europe. But now a movement is afoot to rebuild the city center. The castle too may soon dominate the skyline once again. -- Alexander Bazhin [slide show]- Der Spiegel (Germany)

Pro-Libeskind forces fire back: Some critics were unimpressed with Daniel Libeskind's design for the Denver Art Museum addition when it opened in October, but others recently have come to its defense. By Kyle MacMillan- Denver Post

Uffizi Expansion Is Finally (Well, Maybe) to Begin: ...even with the ground broken, 10 years after the project was first announced, few are betting on it. -- Arata Isozaki [images]- New York Times

High-Rise Architect Sails Proudly in Mainstream: Costas Kondylis is a successful architect who also happens to be the designer of some of New York City's most polarizing projects.- New York Times

It's Googie à go-go: Architect Eldon Davis marks his 90th birthday with a tour of sites he helped put on the map...an architectural style that came to epitomize postwar American optimism...- Los Angeles Times

Moses vs. Jacobs plays again: Three simultaneous museum exhibitions...under the title Robert Moses and the Modern City...seek to re-evaluate and rehabilitate Moses, praising him for his unparalleled achievements. By Simon Houpt- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Lutyens Built New Delhi, Couldn't Get Cathedral Off the Ground: One of the finest architectural models in the world is on view in all its newly restored splendor in a special exhibition entitled "The Cathedral That Never Was"...remains a landmark in architectural history...- Bloomberg News

In Their Own Words: Abu Dhabi Cultural District: How Gehry, Hadid, Nouvel, and Ando envision their cultural venues on Saadiyat Island. [images]- ArchNewsNow

Curtain Up: Billy Wilder Theater at UCLA Hammer Museum: Los Angeles has a new cultural "living room." -- Michael Maltzan Architecture [images]- ArchNewsNow

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