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Today's News - Friday, November 2, 2007

Hume fears lessons are not being learned from the past in building communities of the future. -- Claims made that Glasgow's waterfront is being "raped" by developers. -- Nouvel and Foster team up once again for a new town near Milan. -- 'Vancouver's Olympic athlete's village to sparkle gold and platinum. -- University of Arizona's new College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture building walks the green walk. -- Plans afoot to plant a verticle acre of farm and forest land into a slice of downtown Seattle. -- Plans afoot to bury a new museum atop a hill at Harpers Ferry. -- Moneo on his Prado adventure. -- Viñoly adds to Bard College's architectural repertoire. -- A call to transform cemeteries into public parks. -- Union of Architects in Bulgaria claim redo of historic hotel in Sofia is in violation of preservation regulations. -- 10th annual BD Architect of the Year Awards winners announced. -- Inaugural Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award goes to two Mumbai-based community projects. -- An eyeful of images from "The Architecture of Parking." -- In NYC, "Water: H2O = Life" hits - and misses. -- In Tokyo, Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration is not looking for generic solutions or slogans. -- We couldn't resist: top five architectural pet peeves

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Regent Park redesign sign of lessons learned: Are we making mistakes now that in their turn will make future generations shake their heads and ask, "What were they thinking?" Or are we growing closer to the truth, to an understanding of how to build communities that work and housing that won't need to be razed? By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star

Architects hit out at 'rape' of waterfront development: Two of Scotland's leading architects have claimed that Glasgow's riverside is being "raped" by developers and that the city's planning policy is still destroying its built heritage. -- Andy Macmillan; Isi Metzstein; Alan Dunlop/GM+AD- The Scotsman (UK)

Nouvel joins Foster team planning Italian new town of Santa Giulia on the outskirts of Milan....for up to 12,000 residents...also revealed information about their collaboration at Walbrook Square.- Building (UK)

Vancouver builds Olympic athlete’s village to LEED standards: ...the first neighbourhood of this size to be designed to LEED Gold standard and the community centre will be designed to LEED Platinum -- Arthur Erickson; Nick Milkovich Architects; Gomberoff Bell Lyon Architect Group; Lawrence Doyle Young Wright Architects; Walter Francl Architect- Journal of Commerce (Vancouver)

Advances for Earth: Advances for Earth: New architecture building touts structures that help UA to become more 'eco-friendly' -- Jones Studio; Ten Eyck Landscape Architects- Arizona Daily Wildcat (University of Arizona)

From Farm to Market, Down the Stairs, Around the Block: Mithun’s Center for Urban Agriculture packs over an acre of farm and forest land into a slice of downtown Seattle. [images]- AIArchitect

Architects propose burying museum to reduce its impact on historic Harpers Ferry: ...scrape the top of the hill off, build the components and then put the hill back over the building... -- Davis Carter Scott Architecture- The Herald-Mail (West Virginia)

Moneo’s Prado extension hedges its bets: Ellis Woodman speaks to its architect Rafael Moneo about the project...It is a work of unimpeachable professionalism, but hardly [his] most personal work. [images]- BD/Building Design (UK)

Small Liberal Arts College Quietly Amassing Superlative Design: Rafael Viñoly Architects adds to Bard College’s architectural repertoire [images]- AIArchitect

Graveyard shift: British report says views toward cemeteries should change and they should be used more like public parks- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Grand Hotel Bulgaria Revamp Project in Violation of Cultural Monument Preservation Regulations - UAB -- Stancho Belkovski (1936); Pavel Ivanov; Docomomo- Sofia Echo (Bulgaria)

Winners raise the bar: 10th BD Architect of the Year Awards 2007 -- Carmody Groarke; Arup; Peter Barber Architects; Seth Stein Architects; BDP; Allies & Morrison; van Heyningen & Haward; 3D Reid; John McAslan & Partners; Penoyre & Prasad; Foster & Partners; Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands [images, links]- BD/Building Design (UK)

Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award for two projects that transform lives: Two city-based community projects were unanimously selected joint winners of $100,000 -- Triratana Prerana Mandal (TPM); Mumbai Waterfronts Development Centre; Urban Design Research Institute's (UDRI) Fort Management Project- Earthtimes.org

Parking spaces: Simon Henley's new book, "The Architecture of Parking," casts an objective eye over car parks, one of the most important but most neglected building types of the modern era, and finds a strange and haunting beauty. -- Kengo Kuma; Owen Luder Partnership; Tigerman Fugman McCurry; Von Gerkan, Marg & Partner; Michael Blampied [slide show]- Guardian (UK)

The Blue Planet’s Lifeblood: A Finite Flow: "Water: H2O = Life"...at the American Museum of Natural History...By stripping these events of context, the exhibition also makes it seem as if environmental issues existed apart from history...make it too easy to dismiss valid environmental concerns. [slide show]- New York Times

Toward Sustainable Urban Regeneration: Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration Exhibition: "Urban Spaces of the World -- Experiments in Sustainability and Regeneration"...To cSUR's credit, they are clearly not looking for generic solutions or slogans. By Thomas Daniell [images]- Artscape (Japan)

My top five architectural pet hates: With exciting buildings being built every day, why do so many architects still cling on to these ugly, impractical or outdated features? By Jonathan Morrison [links]- Guardian (UK)

Modern Focus on the Patient: Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, gives form to a parallel shift in medicine that emphasizes the art of healing rather than the mere administration of scientific procedures. -- Anshen+Allen [images]- ArchNewsNow

-- Morphosis/Thom Mayne: Phare Tower, Paris
-- The Camera: Paul Raftery: Church of Saint-Pierre de Firminy by Le Corbusier 1954-67

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