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Today's News - Friday, June 22, 2007

Tower of London under siege by skyscrapers (not all agree). - Another mid-century modern building (this time by Pei) might be preserved, might end up with a façadectomy. - Kennicott coos over Johnson's Glass House. - Who isn't designing with glass these days? - University of Calgary plans: a college town or too much density? - Local firm beats out international crowd for new Belfast arts center. - In Canberra, grand and sustainable plan for central parklands wins. - Hume's homage to Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music transformation. - New kicks on Route 66 about to pop. - A Shanghai bookstore is a showpiece of homegrown talent. - Another take on children and playspaces. - Call for entries: Muji Award International Competition: Re-think, Re-design, Re-use, Re-fuse. - An amusing conversation with Gehry and Pollack. - Cloepfil on the walls at Portland's PDX.

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Tower of London under siege from skyscrapers: UNESCO may add the 900-year old fortress to its list of endangered world heritage sites unless planners ensure the site's skyline remains unspoiled.- The Age (Australia)

Will Pei's Midtown building survive? ...believed to be the first solo effort of Pei's career, and experts say it is an important example of midcentury modernism...intend to save the historic structure by either building around it or on top of it, though they acknowledge it's possible only the façade will survive. -- Lord, Aeck & Sargent- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

In Philip Johnson's Glass House, His Masterly Vision Is Crystal Clear: ...seems a moralistic exercise -- exposing, refining, revealing -- a prescription for rigorous and reductive living. By Philip Kennicott- Washington Post

Glass is performing in ways that were inconceivable even a decade ago: The Unprivate House; Mr. Glass; The Edges of Glass; Through a Glass Less Darkly -- Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF); Norten/TEN Arquitectos; Meier; Heintges; Smith-Miller + Hawkinson; Marino; Weiss/Manfredi; Holl; Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man; Maki; Polshek; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); Viñoly; Rogers Marvel; Todd Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA); Philip Johnson [images]- The Architect's Newspaper (NYC)

University of Calgary West Campus plans unveiled: "It will be very mixed-use--everything will be there and it will have the flavour of a university town." -- Sasaki Associates; Kasian Architecture- Gauntlet (University of Calgary)

Plan for arts centre drawn up in Belfast: A Belfast firm of architects has beaten off worldwide competition to design a brand new arts centre for the city. -- Hackett & Hall- Belfast Telegraph (Ireland)

Second site for Walter Burley Griffin's vision: ...master plan for Canberra's central parklands...beating 44 other contestants from eight countries..."shows the landscape as a contributor to environmental sustainability at all levels an energy producer, rather than a consumer." -- Oxigen Urban Design- Canberra Times (Australia)

Homage to a grand old heap: ...Royal Conservatory of Music, now being transformed by...KPMB, into a model of harmonious contrast. Contemporary design has never been more approachable, accommodating or resolved. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star

What goes 'Round: POPS is no ordinary pit stop...a new Route 66 icon... -- Rand Elliott [links]- The Oklahoman

Tweaking Tradition: Timezone bookstore installation in Shanghai playfully updates old-school Chinese building methods...among a generation of young Chinese designers who are shaping an emerging homegrown architecture that demonstrates a native sensibility without resorting to cliché. By Aric Chen [images]- Metropolis Magazine

The Paradox of Play: Are kids today having enough fun? -- David Rockwell- Slate

Call for entries: Muji Award International Competition: Re-think, Re-design, Re-use, Re-fuse...
Show us how you can discover and conceptualize RE in a familiar, everyday things; cash prizes; deadline: July 31- Ryohin Keikaku Co.

'I'm a control freak. I drive people nuts': Gehry and Pollack discuss "Sketches of Frank Gehry"- Telegraph (UK)

On view: Brad Cloepfil: Alive drawings, alive buildings: "Drawing/Making -- Projects of Allied Works Architecture (1997-2007)" at PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, through June 30- The Oregonian

kk Letter: Stopover in Beijing: The "egg," the "twisted doughnut," the "watercube," the "bird's nest," and many other constuction sites are buzzing with workers to be ready for the 2008 Olympics... -- Pei; Scheeren/OMA; PTW; Herzog & de Meuron; Holl; Lab Architecture Studio; Andreu

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