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Today's News - Wednesday, May 14, 2008

EDITOR'S NOTE: We're off to Boston for the AIA convention in Boston…we'll be back Monday, May 19 (here's lots of news to keep you busy).
-- Case Study house tours redefined: Giovannini turns his new loft project into experimental exhibition spaces.
-- Architecture and fire don't mix: Delft architecture school (and priceless collections) lost; and Liverpool's oldest building afire only two months after it's transformation into the Bluecoat Arts Centre (fire, earthquakes, typhoons, tornados - is the universe trying to tell us something?).
-- Perth riverfront architects hit back at criticism: development doesn't mean wrecking the landscape.
-- Southampton is first outside London to launch a City Vision Centre to let the public help shape the city's future.
-- With plans to create a "zone of influence" around the $1 billion embassy, perhaps they should do the same for Baghdad's Green Zone ("you kind of want to know who your neighbors are").
-- One solution for population challenge: a 2-mile-high termite tower (great pix).
-- Tiny Welsh village draws big names to plan its green future.
-- Ouroussoff's take on Foster's Parke-Bernet redesign to preserve peace: "new version suggests an excessive desire not to offend…well mannered if complacent" (pix to prove it - and we had such high hopes).
-- Harvard passes on the glitz to warm up neighbors to Piano's museum plans. -- Hawthorne offers a cautionary tale re: Koolhaas's Guggenheim in Vegas.
-- Icons not necessarily the only buildings in line for inaugural World Architecture Festival Awards.
-- Foster gets mucho money for massive Mumbai project.
-- Big plans to get San Francisco's old international terminal to fly again.
-- Brits to design Spanish Antarctic Research Station.
-- An eyeful of notable retail projects.
-- Architects For Aid barred from Burma, and changes its name (they explain why, but we wonder - why???).
-- Vinoly ups the ante mightily for fellowship program.
-- Michigan firm designs its own building that pushes the box show people "you don't have to build a box."
-- A San Francisco architect puts a modern spin on classic forms.
-- Call for entries: EPA's Lifecycle Building Challenge 2.
-- Kaufmann House sells for only $15 million (last disappointment of the day).