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Today's News - Thursday, May 17, 2007

A very green day: Green market growing exponentially. -- 16 international cities sign up to make buildings energy-efficient - a.k.a. the Clinton Plan. -- CNU's Norquist wants us to live closer together. -- Powell claims "green building" is an oxymoron. -- Though Stanford University's new ecology center is green to it bones, it saw no need to seek "a semi-official stamp of approval" (a.k.a. LEED rating). -- Doors Open Toronto opens doors to stellar green projects. -- Young Chinese architects taking an "increasingly important role in preventing Beijing from becoming just another Western-inspired architectural playground." -- Rybczynski shows off Seattle's best (and worst). -- The struggle to save our diminishing Modernist heritage continues. -- Hume x 2 re: Toronto's waterfront: he hopes for waterfront revitalization, but fears a waterfront handover. -- For sale: 26 acres on Manhattan's Far West Side. -- Dublin architects' office is a breath of fresh air. -- A Prague architect wears many hats. -- Call for entries: 2nd International Advanced Architecture Contest: Self-Sufficient Housing/The Self-Fab House. -- Re:Vision's Re:Volt competition results. -- Congratulations to one our faves: Lisa Rochon of Canada's Globe and Mail has won her second National Newspaper Award for her reporting on architecture and urban issues.

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Membership in Green Building Council [USGBC] Growing Exponentially: Market for Sustainable Products, Services Expected to Reach $12B in 2007- San Diego Business Journal

Coalition to Make Buildings Energy-Efficient: A coalition of 16 of the world’s biggest cities, five banks, one former president and companies and groups that modernize aging buildings...pledged investments of billions of dollars to cut urban energy use and releases of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming.
-- C40 Large Cities Climate Summit- New York Times

Op-Ed: We would use less energy living closer together: Cities have powerful environmental advantages: They make it easier to walk and use public transit...livable, walkable traditional neighborhoods is one of the most convenient - and effective - remedies for the inconvenient truth. By John Norquist/Congress for the New Urbanism- Philadelphia Inquirer

Op-Ed: Green Envy: What are the true environmental benefits of the "green" house movement? Green building is a good idea...but don't fool yourself that it's going to save the planet. By Jane Powell- San Francisco Chronicle

Setting a Higher Green Standard: Stanford's ecology center earns kudos for its low impact. The only surprise is what's missing: LEED certification...researchers at the Global Ecology Center didn't see the need for a semi-official stamp of approval, so they didn't even apply. By John King -- EHDD [images]- San Francisco Chronicle

It's easier being green: Given that this year's Doors Open Toronto theme is sustainability...St. Gabriel's Passionist Church...a building to be missed. Neither are the SAS Buildin, Toronto Botanical Garden, Thomas L. Wells Public School, or Bloorview Kids Rehab. By Christopher Hume -- Roberto Chiotti/Larkin Architects; NORR; Montgomery Sisam; Diamond + Schmitt- Toronto Star

China chasing an urban utopia: Original architecture in China is far from dead...some home-grown architects are pushing innovation in a different direction...contributing to something huge - a radical new identity for Chinese architecture. -- Eduard Koegel; Chang Yung Ho/Atelier FCJZ; Ma Yansong; Xu Tiantian/DnA: Design & Architecture; Ma Yansong/MAD- Asia Times

Seattle's Best (and Worst): What happens when architecture pays attention to its surroundings (and when it doesn't). By Witold Rybczynski -- Chester L. Lindsey Architects; Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF); Minoru Yamasaki; Gehry; LMN Architects; Koolhaas/Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA); Joshua Prince-Ramus; Weiss/Manfredi [slide show essay]- Slate

Going, going, gone: our diminishing Modernist heritage: Philip Johnson’s Glass House in Connecticut is opening to the public, but many 20th-century buildings are slated for demolition...prized more for their land than their architecture... -- Eero Saarinen; Richard Neutra; Paul Rudolph; Rudolf M. Schindler; John Lautner- The Art Newspaper (UK)

Waterfront plan from a different era: Some days, the Toronto waterfront is a symbol of the city that could be. Others, it's a monument to civic dysfunction. Most days, it's a bit of both. By Christopher Hume -- Peter Clewes/architectsAlliance- Toronto Star

Waterfront revival at a turning point: HtO could well turn out to be one of the projects whose appearance marks a turning point in the waterfront's fortunes...but the big fear now is waterfront revitalization will turn out to be the waterfront handover. By Christopher Hume -- Janet Rosenberg; Claude Cormier; Siamak Hariri; Adriaan Geuze/West 8; Peter Clewes/architectsAlliance- Toronto Star

Biggest Building Site in Manhattan Up for Auction...for the rights to build office towers, apartments and parks over the Long Island Rail Road yards on the Far West Side.- New York Times

Natural clarity shines through in architects' offices: de Blacam and Meagher couldn't be happier in their purpose-built naturally ventilated offices in the Liberties. By Frank McDonald- The Irish Times

One man, multiple stylish enterprises: Mojmír Rannı heads several design and architecture ventures in Prague- The Prague Post

Call for entries: 2nd International Advanced Architecture Contest: Self-Sufficient Housing/The Self-Fab House; free registration; total prizes: € 39.500; deadline: September 17- Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (Spain)

Re:Volt competition results: Electrifying Ideas... How would you power a city block? [images]- Re:Vision

Under Construction: Zaha Hadid Architects: Cagliari Contemporary Arts Centre, Cagliari, Italy

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