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Today's News - Wednesday, June 18, 2008

-- Sad news day (to us, anyway): It looks like Rudolph's Riverview High is destined to be paved over for parking (a most pathetic fate).
-- A grumpy news day: Architects pitted against architects re: Piano's plan for Corbu's Rochamp chapel ("I'm not new to this sort of battle," he says).
-- Russell has some good things to say (and a few disappointments) re: Piano's Whitney project on the High Line.
-- Tom Wolfe is displeased with Foster's revised plan for Parke-Bernet addition (why are we not surprised?).
-- Dyckhoff can't say enough about Beijing's Bird's Nest, but the rest of the Beijing Olympics buildings are a total "flop."
-- A new documentary about the H&deM stadium is "thought-provoking discourse on the nature of urban architecture," but "light on visual human drama."
-- A first look at H&deM's redesign of Portsmouth stadium: an "urban park" with low-carbon waterside housing.
-- The mile-high tower wars: "You don't need a lot of technology...Just a lot of money."
-- Suburbs a mile too far, making New Urbanism and other "smart-growth" concepts harder to execute.
-- Norten's Brooklyn library to morph into mixed-use project.
-- Manhattan's South Street Seaport's failed "festival marketplace" to morph as well.
-- Merrick finds Hadid's Zaragoza bridge "a bundle of trajectories that are pure virtuosity."
-- "Madagascar!" migrates to the Bronx (and NYC's newest must-see in our book).
-- Jeanne Gang does "what young architects rarely and female architects almost never have done."
-- Q&A with RISD's Mandle, who's off "to build a new breed of cultural institutions in Qatar."
-- Arieff ponders: "How green is your brand?"
-- An eyeful of ASLA 2008 Professional Awards winners.
-- In case you were wondering, Shigeru Ban's pavilion sale is yet another architecture-as-art disappointment.