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Today's News - March 7, 2007

How could we resist Gehry musing on his Abu Dhabi adventure? (It "won't be is Bilbao-lite.") -- How much the Louvre name is really worth. -- Another Rudolph under threat. -- Hawthorne applauds Maltzan's optimistic architecture for homeless housing. -- Dyckhoff applauds hip British architects showing how "the homely virtues of the past can improve the way we live today" at London's Ideal Home. -- A dilapidated Vermont waterfront now a civic jewel. -- A new campus jewel by Legorreta for Texas A&M in Qatar. -- Another Chicago tower for Gang? -- A look at Kansas City's new glittering curtain wall. -- Jan Gehl's spaces between spaces. -- Architecture for Humanity wows them in Doha. -- For Ouroussoff, Matta-Clark retrospective in NYC "should be required viewing for any architect born in the age of the computer screen." -- Australian architecture on view in San Francisco. -- And yet another take on "Architecture of Happiness." -- Colorful winners in Dulux Colour Awards. -- Call for abstracts: "Sustainable Solutions, Focus on Africa" for November conference.

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My Abu Dhabi adventure: I've just turned 78 and am about to design the biggest Guggenheim yet. Can I pull it off? One thing the Abu Dhabi museum won't be is Bilbao-lite. By Frank Gehry- Guardian (UK)

The Louvre’s Art: Priceless. The Louvre’s Name: Expensive: The United Arab Emirates will pay a cool $520 million for naming rights to the “Louvre Abu Dhabi.”...the full details of the nearly $1.3 billion package... -- Jean Nouvel [images]- New York Times

Another Building by a Noted Modernist Comes Under Threat, This Time in Boston: Paul Rudolph’s 1960 Blue Cross/Blue Shield Building could be demolished to make way for an 80-story tower designed by Renzo Piano. [image]- New York Times

Homeless housing: Creative solutions: Skid Row Housing Trust and Michael Maltzan's firm have brought a measure of optimism to the relationship between architecture and the city's homeless problem. By By Christopher Hawthorne [image]- Los Angeles Times

Bringing it all back Home: Forget the Utopian future. This year the Ideal Home Show has drafted in an architectural couple to demonstrate how the homely virtues of the past can improve the way we live today. By Tom Dyckhoff -- Lynch Architects- The Times (UK)

A Waterfront That Has Left Its Wasteland Days Behind: Public and private investments have turned Burlington, Vermont’s once-dilapidated waterfront into the city’s jewel.- New York Times

New TAMUQ campus another jewel in QF crown: Qatar Foundation's Education City is set to cross yet another milestone with the opening celebration of the QR520mn Engineering Building for Texas A&M University at Qatar -- Ricardo Legorreta/Victor Legorreta- AME Info (United Arab Emirates)

Development firm wants to build condo tower in Hyde Park -- Jeanne Gang/Studio Gang Architects- Crain's Chicago Business

A glittering curtain rises in Kansas City: The Sprint Center's skin: Pane by pane, the downtown arena’s wall of glass comes together -- Downtown Arena Design Team (HOK Sport; Ellerbe Becket; 360 Architecture; Rafael Architects)- Kansas City Star

Recognising his spaces between spaces: While most consider the building as the most important element of architecture, Jan Gehl's works are appreciated by millions for emphasising what isn't there- Denmark.dk

Charity group chief calls for architectural revolution: Architecture for Humanity’s Cameron Sinclair addressesTasmeem Doha 2007 design conference- Gulf Times (Qatar)

Timely Lessons From a Rebel, Who Often Created by Destroying: The Gordon Matta-Clark retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art should be required viewing for any architect born in the age of the computer screen. By Nicolai Ouroussoff- New York Times

Out From Under: Australian Architecture Now, AIA San Francisco Gallery March 8-April 27 -- Terroir/NSW and TAS; Tony Owen; Dale Jones Evans; McBride Charles Ryan (MCR); Neeson Murcutt Architects; Chenchow Little Architects; Sean Godsell; John Wardle Architects; Kerstin Thompson Architects; Chris Bosse/PTW Architects; Gary Marinko; Staughton Architects; m3architecture; Offshorestudio; Andrew Burges Architects; Minifie Nixon Architects- AIA San Francisco

The 'Architecture of Happiness': Where Beauty, History Meet: ...Equating architectural values with psychological, behavioral and social values...the analogy lacks credibility as a predictor of how most people will actually respond to architecture. By Roger K. Lewis- Washington Post

21st Annual Dulux Colour Awards winners announced -- Liberati Colour; Cox Architects; Marsh Cashman Koolloos Architects; David Boyle Architects [images]- Dulux

Call for Abstracts: “Sustainable Solutions, Focus on Africa” International Lustrum Symposium at Delft University of Technology in November; deadline: April 15- TU Delft

Urban Oasis: Gardner 1050: Simple forms and refined materials add high style to a speculative urban infill housing project. -- Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects (LOHA)- ArchNewsNow

-- Alvar Aalto: North Jutland Art Museum, Ålborg, Denmark
-- Santiago Calatrava: Three Bridges over the Hoofdvaart, Haarlemmermeer, the Netherlands

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