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Two new museums in the desert offer engaging environmental lessons, both inside and out. -- Architects in India call for less "builder-centric" developments "turning housing projects into faceless, look-alike boxes." -- Israel starting to pay attention to revitalizing its urban centers. -- NYC's buildings are key source of greenhouse gasses. -- London's Chelsea Barracks in for a big (and green) makeover. -- Beverly Hills ultimate teardown to get the Meier touch. -- British embassies show of British architectural talent. -- Starck condos in Boston are a hit. -- A call for a Boston Greenway project with the "look and feel of an off-ramp outside Dallas" to go back to the drawing board. -- Laurie Baker on Laurie Baker. -- Call for abstracts: Tectonics Making Meaning in Eindhoven.

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Water = Life: Diamond Valley Water + Life Museums Campus: Two museums in the desert offer engaging environmental lessons, both inside and out. -- Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build [images]- ArchNewsNow

Design, building and urbanscape: Should real estate development be dictated by gross dividend or by good design? Builder-centric development is turning housing projects into faceless, lookalike boxes, say architects. -- S.L. Chitale; Uttam C. Jain; Partha Ranjan Das- The Telegraph (India)

Downtown returns to center stage: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa are joined by many other cities that are working hard on developing their city centers. -- Safdie; Irit Solzi/Merhav (MIU - The Movement for Israeli Urbanism)- Ha`aretz (Israel)

Buildings Called Key Source of New York City’s Greenhouse Gases: ...roughly 950,000 buildings are responsible for a vast majority of the city’s carbon dioxide emissions.- New York Times

Qatari Diar buys prime property in London: ...Chelsea Barracks, a 13 acre site...proposed scheme will transform the current concrete parade ground and army buildings into a sustainable mix of luxury apartments and affordable units in a verdant setting...low carbon footprint... -- Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (formerly Richard Rogers Partnership)- The Peninsula (Qatar)

In Beverly Hills, high end indeed: The former Rob-May site sells for a cool $500 million. British developers envision ultra-luxury condos. It may be the ultimate Beverly Hills teardown. -- Richard Meier & Partners- Los Angeles Times

With these embassies, you spoil us! British diplomacy is embracing thrilling new architecture. By Dominic Bradbury -- Design Engine Architects; Richard Murphy Architects; Tony Fretton Architects; John McAslan + Partners; Manser Practice; Cullum and Nightingale [image]- Telegraph (UK)

Starck's Downscale Delight: midprice condos by the French designer sell out in Boston. -- Philippe Starck/Yoo [images]- The Slatin Report

Alien on the park: Russia Wharf needs to go back to the drawing board for a major overhaul...instead of building upon Boston...developers and the city are conspiring to give us the look and feel of an off-ramp outside Dallas. Or is it Houston?...Can we not aim higher on the Greenway? -- CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares- Boston Globe

"Call a brick wall a brick wall": A collection of responses that Laurie Baker made to questions on himself and his philosophy and architecture. [images]- Frontline magazine (India)

Call for abstracts: "Tectonics Making Meaning" international conference and student design competition in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in December; deadline: May 15- University of Technology Dept. of Architecture, Building and Planning (Eindhoven)

River Tune: Elbe Philharmonic Hall: The cultural centerpiece of HafenCity, Hamburg, will be a crystalline ice sculpture atop an earthy warehouse - with beautiful music, luxury living, and a spectacular public plaza high above the River Elbe. -- Herzog & de Meuron [images]- ArchNewsNow

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