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Today's News - Wednesday, September 19, 2007

A serious effort underway to make cities more livable for kids. -- Fireworks galore re: Chicago Children's Museum: for Kamin, it's "much more than an entertaining political spectacle"; and the politics get more than a bit nasty. -- Honky-tonk Coney Island could be a model of sustainable development (if all the players can play nice). -- How could we resist images and video of China's National Grand Theater? -- Polshek + media buildings x 3 = communication. -- The starchitects came out for France's new architecture museum (would've been nice if they'd mentioned who designed $114 million project). -- Bernstein waxes poetic about the loss of Starck's "miracle on 44th Street." -- Nobel's list of favorite architects (a list of one). -- CABE's Building for Life winners (would that they were the norm rather than the exception). -- Jozi Style winners to design a Johannesburg housing estate with Joburg style. -- Mayne hands over his big Zumtobel prize for sustainable design to Global Green. -- Ada Louise Huxtable on criticism, inspiration, and using her thumbs. -- Kroloff on Cranbrook. -- A new book details the suburbanization of America's military bases where "conformity, consumption and golf dominate the lives of troops overseas." -- Hadid's sculptural experiment at Royal Festival Hall.

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Kids in Cities report will help urban leaders understand, support and scale the behaviors of pioneering urban families...IIT Institute of Design...developing concepts to counter [parents' concerns] through density, public space and using the city as a classroom...CEOs for Cities will develop and test these strategies by launching a Learning Network of four cities. [pdf]- CEOs for Cities

Grant Park fireworks over kids museum: 'Clear and Free' depends on how you look at it...ongoing debate about the Children's Museum [is] much more than an entertaining political spectacle...It is, in reality, a significant argument over the future of Chicago's front yard... By Blair Kamin- Chicago Tribune

Grant Park fireworks over kids museum: Daley lights into alderman who opposes building on open space- Chicago Tribune

Making Coney Island Green: As incongruous as it might seem, Coney Island, with its honky-tonk image, could become a model of sustainable development. By Tom Angotti- Gotham Gazette (NYC)

Curtain to be parted at National Grand Theater: The egg-shaped edifice is one of the most talked-about architectural projects in years...audacious and innovative design... -- Paul Andreu [images, video]- CCTV (China)

Three New Buildings About Communication Are Also Designed to Communicate: Polshek Partnership Architects does not specialize in media buildings. But in an odd confluence, three such projects by this firm are opening in succession....Newhouse School, WGBH, Newseum- New York Times

New French Museum Embraces Architecture...La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, (the City of Architecture and Heritage) in Paris... -- Foster; Rogers; Hadid; Le Corbusier; Piano; Nouvel [slide show]- New York Times

In Memoriam: Philippe Starck's Royalton Hotel lobby, gone from Midtown, will always remain a landmark in our minds...A truly public company might have considered the value of saving Starck's miracle on 44th Street. By Fred A. Bernstein -- Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors- Interior Design magazine

Model SHoP: Our columnist’s favorite architects? His list of one begins here...a list—of one: SHoP Architects. By Philip Nobel- Metropolis Magazine

Building for Life winners announced: ...one thing in common - a commitment to high design standards and good place making....Yet more remains to be done to ensure that the schemes celebrated this year become the norm rather than the exception. -- Lapworth Partnership; Stride Treglown; Rolfe Judd Architects; Gardner Stewart Architects; S&P Architects/Terry Farrell & Partners; John Thompson & Partners; PRP Architects; EDAW [links to images]- CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, UK)

Palace Architects plots Jozi Style: The Johannesburg Property Company has announced the winner of its Jozi Style competition to design a housing estate that defines Joburg's unique style. -- Thinus Venter/Werner Lotz; Caron Schnaid [link to images]- City of Johannesburg

Zumtobel Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment Winners: Solar Updraft Tower by Schlaich Bergermann Solar and the San Francisco Federal Building by Morphosis; Mayne donates EUR 80,000 purse to Global Green. -- Sauerbruch Hutton; KieranTimberlake; Anna Heringer/Eike Roswag [links to images]- Zumtobel Group

Ada Louise Huxtable answers a few questions on criticism, inspiration, and process—using her thumbs.- Metropolis Magazine

Reed Kroloff charged up about Cranbrook: "It's a little sobering."- Detroit News

Book review: Chain Stores, Picket Fences and Tanks: "America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire" by Mark L. Gillem...details the suburbanization of America’s military bases..."combine the sprawling and segregated patterns of suburbs"...conformity, consumption and golf dominate the lives of troops overseas, just as they do for their stateside suburban counterparts.- In These Times

Zaha Hadid at the Royal Festival Hall: Architect experiments with pre-cast concrete moulding techniques in Urban Nebula sculpture [images]- Building (UK)

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