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Today's News - Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Green Index Report: going green makes green. -- Saffron is hopeful re: PennPraxis vision for Philadelphia waterfront: "a plea for a thoughtful, preemptive approach to planning" (of course developers are grousing). -- NYC has big plans for city schoolyards, but will short-term stopgap measures going to play into the future? -- An eyeful of Chicago's super-sized green buildings. -- Pearman's take on Beijing: it has "a hell of a swagger to it" (and London 2012? "It's time to start promoting the virtues of modesty"). -- Alsop's big plans for a South London suburb include a vertical Eden Project and unburying a river. -- Not all are pleased with demolition plans to make way for housing in North London. -- Goldberger on SANAA's new Manhattan museum: "like a thunderbolt from another world." -- Shortlist announced for design of 2012 Eton Manor sporting hub. -- Davidson muses on new old-style designs. -- Rybczynski's amusing take on how architecture firms name themselves. -- Canada to post RFP for national portrait gallery (but not all are pleased). -- Vintage future back in vogue at re-done LAX eaterie. -- Construction barriers transformed into art (let's hope it's a sign of the times). -- Call for entries: 2nd Biannual Business Week / Architectural Record China Awards. -- An op-ed takes on the "problem with modern memorials."

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Going Green To Save The Green: 2007 Green Index Report: Spiraling energy costs are a major factor driving demand to build and occupy sustainable green buildings, based on a recent survey of architects.- National Real Estate Investor (NREI)

A walkable waterfront? PennPraxis will urge the city to reshape 7 miles along the Delaware as a pedestrian-friendly zone...developers are already lobbying against it...blueprint...is also a plea for a thoughtful, preemptive approach to planning. By Inga Saffron -- Harris Steinberg [images, links]- Philadelphia Inquirer

Greening City Schoolyards: ...long-term sustainability plan calls for opening up school playgrounds for community use...But is the city using short-term stopgap measures instead of long-term strategies, creating play areas that may not last for even a decade? And will these areas really meet the needs of their communities? By Tom Angotti -- PlaNYC2030; Trust for Public Land- Gotham Gazette (NYC)

Chicago's super-sized green buildings [slide show]- C/Net

Rebuilding Beijing: pure geometry versus the awkward squad: Beijing has a hell of a swagger to it. And this is one reason why it's such a joke that London is doing the Olympics in 2012. Because when you see what Beijing is doing for 2008, you wonder why we bother. By Hugh Pearman -- Foster + Partners; Jean-Michel Wilmotte; Herzog & de Meuron; Paul Andreu; Arup/Balmond; Koolhaas [images]- HughPearman.com (UK)

Alsop reveals plans for £3.5bn regeneration of Croydon: ...Third City, boasts as its centrepiece a 30-storey ‘vertical Eden Project’ with rainforest vegetation...will also bring the River Wandle, long buried underground, to the surface as a series of waterways and lagoons. [images]- Building (UK)

Row erupts over Pollard Thomas Edward's Seven Sisters masterplan: Residents protest against demolition of Edwardian department store to make way for housing scheme...for 200 homes. [image]- BD/Building Design (UK)

Bowery Dreams: A new home for the New Museum of Contemporary Art: Sejima and Nishizawa have designed a building that is just right for this moment of the Bowery’s existence...like a thunderbolt from another world, but, as the spread of condos and boutique hotels across the Lower East Side continues, it is at risk of becoming a victim of its own success. By Paul Goldberger -- SANAA [image]- New Yorker

Architects shortlisted for 2012 Eton Manor sporting hub -- Adjaye Associates; Bennetts Associates; David Morley Architects; Opus International Consultants; S&P; Sports Concepts; Stanton Williams- Building (UK)

The New Prewar: Old-style luxury returns (or does it?) at 15 Central Park West and the Plaza...“Thus would the rich of old have lived, had they been as rich as we.” By Justin Davidson -- Henry Hardenbergh (1907); Robert A.M. Stern; Richard Meier; Costas Kondylis; Gal Nauer- New York Magazine

Building a Brand: How architecture firms name themselves: What's going on? Another shift. Not satisfied with being perceived as respectable or corporate professionals, these architects want to be seen as subversive artists, bad boys—and girls—with laser cutters. By Witold Rybczynski- Slate

Opposition lashes out at national portrait gallery plan: ...cancelled a plan to house the Portrait Gallery of Canada in the former U.S. embassy...announced it was seeking proposals from private developers to build it in one of nine Canadian cities...[will post] request for proposals on its electronic bidding website this week.- Globe and Mail (Canada)

George Jetson, party of 4, your table is ready: Space-age dining returns to LAX...Encounter is housed in the Theme Building...designated a historic-cultural monument... -- Pereira & Luckman/Paul R. Williams/Welton Becket (1961); Gin Wong Associates [images]- Los Angeles Times

Dressing Up Those Bleak Downtown Construction Sites: Trying to convert an environmental liability into an artistic asset, the Alliance for Downtown New York and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council have transformed three commonplace street impediments into objects that are meant to be more aesthetically appealing. They are certainly more whimsical. [image]- New York Times

Call for entries: 2nd Biannual Business Week / Architectural Record China Awards: Good Design is Good Business; Projects completed in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan since January 2004 deadline: November 30- Architectural Record

Op-Ed: The Problem with Modern Memorials: ...to offer voids to the memory of our heroes, and to list their deaths without comment about what they did in life, is to assert meaninglessness, pointlessness. ...let's put some real sculptors to work. By Duncan Maxwell Anderson -- Maya Lin; Michael Arad- American Thinker

-- Coop Himmelb(l)au: BMW Welt, Munich, Germany
-- Pascal Arquitectos: Mourning House, Mexico City

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