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Today's News - February 14, 2007

Grand Avenue passes go. -- A peach of a plan for Atlanta's Peachtree Street. -- Plan to slow sprawl in an Alabama county will reward developers with a new urbanist bent. -- Dublin in danger of L.A.-like sprawl. -- Shanghai's struggle to be a livable city. -- Duany hot for light rail in Newburgh, NY, waterfront plans. -- Innovative infill in Toronto. -- A call to keep Ohr-O'Keefe Museum where it is in Gehry's "fanciful architecture." -- Design for London challenges 6 young guns. -- Blackpool's Peoples Park will be an "incredible surreal dunescape." -- Four compete to design a "charm bracelet" of culture for Pittsburgh's North Side. -- Singapore wants its own Louvre; will launch international competition shortly (we'll keep an eye on this). -- Caro revisits Moses. -- A new book about the sad state of British housing estates is a "myopic view of architecture" that invests it "with more power than it possesses on its own to transform society." -- Save the Earth and win $25 million.

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Grand Avenue project passes go: City and county OK the $2.05-billion plan to reshape downtown L.A....some consider the project a model for "smart growth" aimed at encouraging people to walk and use mass transit rather than drive, others see it as a tax giveaway... -- Frank Gehry [images, slide show]- Los Angeles Times

A new Peachtree for $1 billion: Details emerge on proposed overhaul to add streetcars, parks- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Shelby County OKs plan to slow sprawl: The regulations create three types of subdivisions in an attempt to reward developers who build neighborhoods that are walkable and include amenities such as neighborhood business districts and green space. -- Gould-Evans- Birmingham News (Alabama)

Think tank predicts LA-style sprawl: Dublin will soon have a footprint the same size as Los Angeles with less than a quarter of its population... -- Urban Forum- Irish Times

Shanghai Rising: China struggles to build a livable city inside a world-class business capital...Ben Wood's work at Xintiandi has become a symbol of the changing aspirations China has for Shanghai.- BusinessWeek

Newburgh waterfront designer beats drum for light-rail connection between Stewart International Airport and the city's Broadway -- Andres Duany; Leyland Alliance- Times Herald-Record (NY)

Innovative Infill: Breathing Life Into Toronto's Nooks and Crannies -- Shim-Sutcliffe Architects; John Lorinc- Maisonneuve (Montreal)

Beachfront needs the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art to help rouse its recovery: Katrina must not be permitted to divorce George E. Ohr's fantastic pottery from Frank O. Gehry's fanciful architecture...- Biloxi Sun Herald (Mississippi)

Young guns go head to head in London design competition...run by Mayor’s new design body [Design for London] will see six hot architects design plans for one-acre site -- FAT; Urban Salon; S333; 6a architects; Brisac Gonzalez; de Rijke Marsh Morgan- Building (UK)

Lights win Promenade design: People's Playground...Blackpool's multi-million pound new seafront..."Inspired by the otherworldiness of Gulliver's travels and the strange landscapes of Japanese animated film..." -- LDA Design; Speirs and Major Associates; Chris Levine; Gardiner and Theobald [image]- Blackpool Gazette

Four design teams offer proposals to revitalize North Side: Plans would link cultural, sports venues...into a "charm bracelet" that will attract families to the area. -- Suisman Urban Design; Paula Sher/Pentagram Design; Colab Architecture; Muf Architecture Art- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Contest for the Louvre of art: The design of the proposed National Art Gallery [in Singapore]...will be decided through an Architectural Design Competition that will be launched later this month.- ChannelNewsAsia

It was his way or the highway: "Robert Moses & the Modern City"...a commentary not only on the figure in their title but on Robert Caro...he termed the exhibit "even-handed" and said it was "thrilling" to have people still debating Moses, and "The Power Broker."- Los Angeles Times

Building hopes too high: "Estates: An Intimate History" by Lynsey Hanley...The real bogeyman ...architects, especially those in thrall to Le Corbusier, the evil genius of Modernism...hapless working-class families were 'thrust' up in the air by 'arrogant' architects and planners...myopic view of architecture...- Telegraph (UK)

Billionaire Offers $25 Million to Save Earth! As governments dither about greenhouse gases, billionaire Richard Branson offers a reward for removing excess carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere.- MIT Technology Review

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

-- 3XN: Music Building / BIMhuis, Amsterdam
-- Eric Owen Moss Architects: The Stealth, Culver City, California

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