ArchNewsNow


Today’s News - Tuesday, December 11, 2018

●  World Resources Institute proffers "ground-breaking" research by the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate offering a "$26 trillion opportunity. The world is vastly underestimating the benefits of acting on climate change - in energy, cities, food and land use, water, and industry" ("cities can save $17 trillion by preventing urban sprawl").

●  Mun-Delsalle's 3-parter re: architects who are inventing "groundbreaking floating and flood-resistant solutions to climate change" - Part 1: "water-based architecture is redefining urbanism."

●  Part 2: "To plan for the future, a resilient city should concentrate on which areas should be kept dry, which can be changed from dry to wet, and which existing waters can be expanded."

●  Part 3: "Large-scale floating developments could be invested in - as global, mobile and flexible real estate" (for smart investors).

●  Guerin delves into how "California's wildfire building codes weren't designed for the modern mega-fire era - houses built in risky places are impossible to fire-proof" (even worse: insurance companies are paying out more money to rebuild in the same place than if owners "walked away and built a new house somewhere else" - huh?!!?).

●  King, on a brighter note, cheers Piano's new Bay Area shopping center: "The complex is a meticulous pleasure, an open-air enclave that offers star architecture for the masses but also has lessons for suburban projects lacking the big-name budget or cachet. If this is hubris, we could do a lot worse - the architecture has integrity. People will take notice, even if they're not sure why."

●  McGuigan cheers Gensler's "sensitively undertaken facelift" of Roche and Dinkeloo's 1968 Ford Foundation in NYC: "We can say to those who feared this architectural icon would be ruined: you can relax" ("the overgrown garden has been de-jungled by Raymond Jungles").

●  Moore talks to Villareal (of San Francisco Bay Bridge illumination fame) about his "Illuminated River" light installation of 15 historic bridges on the Thames, and ponders: It's "a magnificent idea," but "will a swath of London be subtly uplifted, or will Lord Rothschild's patrician benevolence be expended on the largest screensaver in the world?" - ICYMI: Weinstein at his eloquent best with his pick of the 10 Best Architecture and Design Books of 2018, which he describes as "invaluable and impeccably designed"; "quirkily inclusive"; "charmingly loopy"; "enthralling"; "produced with panache" (and then some!).

●  ICYMI: ANN feature: rise Up: Sponsors are cheering on their student/architect teams working to find low-cost, sustainable housing solutions in the rise in the city 2018 design competition - but there are still teams that need sponsorship. Join those who are already reaping the rewards of the partnerships!

It's that time of year for "Best of 2018" round-ups (more to come, f'er sure):

●  Kamin: "It was a vital year, just not in the usual places - much of the best work in Chicago and the Midwest was tucked away in settings far from the high-rise commercial maelstrom."

●  Ravenscroft offers Dezeen's "top 10 architecture and interiors trends of 2018," including "action to address gender imbalance, the rise of hyperloop, unfinished interiors back in vogue, and 3D-printed buildings finally here" ("spy museums opening everywhere").

Winners all (or almost):

●  Eyefuls of Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence - including the inaugural Photo Award of Excellence.

●  E. Webb takes a deep dive into Aleph Zero & Rosenbaum's Children Village, the RIBA International Prize for Best New Building of 2018 - "an unlikely accolade to bestow on the remote Canuanã school - a reclaimed modernity that didn't abandon its roots," and that "celebrated a dialogue between vernacular techniques and a positive model for sustainable housing."

●  Van Alen/AIANY/IDSA/etc. announce the BetterBin Design Competition finalists who "will refine their designs, and produce 12 full-size prototypes that will be tested in New York City neighborhoods" next summer.

Housing ups (and one downer):

●  Budds parses "the rise of the architect-developer. The marriage of design and development is creating some of the most exciting built work today" (and a few architecture schools are (finally) catching on).

●  Bucknell brings us Hamonic + Masson's affordable housing complex in Paris that "refutes the misconception that affordable housing need be dull - one of the most notable examples of new affordable housing in Europe."

●  Crook parses Lendage Group & Årstiderne Arkitekter's 400-home UN17 Village, a new eco-village in Copenhagen built using recycled concrete, wood and glass, and offering 37 different housing typologies that meet "all of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals - forming a sustainable building model that can be applied at any scale."

●  Campbell-Dollaghan looks at modular construction and "an ambitious plan to change how we build housing. Skender Manufacturing is banking on a strategy of bringing design itself in-house."

●  Sisson, on a more sour/dour note, ponders why "all new apartment buildings look the same" (deemed "developer modern, McUrbanism, contemporary contempt, blandmarks, and Spongebuild Squareparts") or "best described as a symbol of today's housing problems. It boils down to code, costs, and craft."

  


Showcase your product on ANN!


Rise In The City

Book online now!


NC Modernist Houses

 

 

 

Note: Pages will open in a new browser window.
External news links are not endorsed by ArchNewsNow.com.
Free registration may be required on some sites.
Some pages may expire after a few days.

Yesterday's News

© 2018 ArchNewsNow.com