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Today's News - Friday, April 20, 2007

Sunday is Earth Day! -- McDonough issues a call for a "Revolution of Abundance." -- U.K. watchdog savages government's green record. -- But there is a carbon-neutral Liverpool school that is (hopefully) the wave of the future. -- NYC mayor to unveil ambitious and sometimes contentious proposals for the city's future. -- A green museum in Boston almost ready for its close-up. -- How Ottawa can become "swagger-worthy." -- Boddy finds a university neighborhood that could have been divine is not much more than Cowtown "due to some disastrous planning decisions." -- Saffron cheers a Balmond bridge that's "way beyond pedestrian." -- A Camp David for Kazakhstan will be more like "Kaz Vegas." -- A major mall makeover for Glasgow's showpiece Buchanan Galleries. -- Call for entries: Arquitectum 2nd Urban Architecture Competition: a Manhattan museum tower. -- Weekend diversions: "African Cities, A Photographic Survey by David Adjaye" at Harvard. -- More than Jeffersonian design is "Hidden in Plain Sight" in Charlottesville. -- Much of what's on the boards in St. Petersburg, Russia, is not "genuinely interesting design."

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Earth Day Voices: William McDonough: Cradle to Cradle: A Call for a Revolution of Abundance- WorldChanging

Spending watchdog savages government’s green record: National Audit Office lays into government’s management of its own buildings...highlights a continuing failure by departments to consider the long-term value of sustainability. [link]- Building (UK)

Education, education, conservation: Schools go carbon neutral: This week the Goverment has pledged that every new secondary will be carbon neutral. And there's one school in Liverpool that the rest can take a lesson from -- Capita Percy Thomas- Independent (UK)

Bloomberg to Unveil Long-Term Vision for New York City: ...ambitious and sometimes contentious proposals that are intended to ease traffic congestion, reduce air pollution, build housing, improve mass transit and develop abandoned industrial land.- New York Times

Boston Children's Museum Is First In State To Go Green: Finishing Touches Put On $47M Renovation -- Cambridge Seven Associates [image, video]- WCVB Boston

How Ottawa can become swagger-worthy, too: “If the arts were integrated in urban planning, it would really be a city that rocks"...Don’t try swagger, try style... -- George Dark- Ottawa Citizen (Canada)

New University of British Columbia theological neighbourhood is less than divine: Visitors to U.B.C. had previously been greeted by vast lawns and quaint colleges; now they get a strip of Cowtown, due to some disastrous planning decisions. By Trevor Boddy- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Bridge that's way beyond pedestrian: Weave Bridge...for the University of Pennsylvania, promises to be a full-blown adventure trek, with looping turns and whooshing slaloms...will be part sculpture, part mathematical puzzle, part thrill ride. By Inga Saffron -- Cecil Balmond; Sasaki Associates [image]- Philadelphia Inquirer

Bluewater architect designs a pleasure dome for Borat: ...a 21st-century version of the American presidential retreat, Camp David, for Kazakhstan...retreat will be surrounded by a racetrack, five luxury casinos, 45 holes of golf course and up to 70 bars...dubbed "Kaz Vegas"... -- Eric Kuhne- Independent (UK)

£100m new look for mall: ...project to transform Glasgow's showpiece Buchanan Galleries... -- BDP- Evening Times (Scotland)

Call for entries: Arquitectum 2nd Urban Architecture Competition: New York 2007...a museum tower at the tip of the island on a pier over Battery Park; deadline: July 31- Arquitectum

Disorienting Cityscapes: "African Cities, A Photographic Survey by David Adjaye" hovers between document and poem, chaos and order, microcosm and macrocosm...reveals how an architect “sees” architecture and urbanism, in the several senses of the verb.- The Harvard Crimson

Seeing past TJ: Exhibit challenges Thomas Jefferson's influence: When you think of the word "architecture" in Charlottesville, what do you see? ...red brick, white trim, and columned porticos... thanks to "Hidden in Plain Sight" there may be a cure for our design myopia.- The Hook (Virginia)

City of the future? "Architecture in St. Petersburg 2007"...The few genuinely interesting design ideas at the exhibit were difficult to spot in a sea of standard-issue glass constructions of fashionable office buildings and residential complexes. -- Union of Architectural Firms/OAM- St. Petersburg Times (Russia)

Hudson World Bridge: An architect's proposal to span the Hudson River would be a gathering place like no other. By Fred Bernstein -- Eytan Kaufman [images]- ArchNewsNow

-- Jinhua Architecture Park, Jinhua, China
-- The Camera: Iwan Ban: ICA Boston by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

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