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Today’s News - Wednesday, February 20, 2019

●  Shaw takes a deep dive into what's happening in Detroit five years after it declared bankruptcy: With Cox leading the planning department, "design fuels recovery," and the city is "set to become a laboratory of ideas that will redefine gentrification" and "provoke a new kind of urban revitalization."

●  Kamin x 2: He has high hopes for a proposed Chicago ordinance that would keep the city's "spectacular" skyline from being a bird killer - "encouraging - and, in some cases, mandating - bird-friendly design" (look for opposition from real estate developers).

●  He opines that a judge's "decision not to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the location of the Obama Presidential Center" in Jackson Park "doesn't doom the promising plans. Will Obama be forced to go to Plan B? Not yet" (i.e., no George Lucas "my way or the highway" attitude).

●  To follow up, a more technically detailed report on why the judge's ruling that Protect Our Parks' lawsuit can go forward is a "significant" setback to the Obama Presidential Center plans to build on public parkland. The project "has also revealed deep, sensitive community divisions along racial and class lines."

●  Spivack takes a deep dive into what NYC stands to lose now that the Amazon HQ2 deal is dead: "The e-commerce giant has decided it's had its fill of the tongue-lashing the company has taken" (comments worth a look, too).

●  A Filipino senator running for re-election "reminded Filipino architects and designers of their crucial role in urban planning, noting that most of them have overlooked the social dimension of their roles in society" (she had some positive things to say, too).

●  Green spaces Down Under underway: Hassell and SO-IL are designing public spaces for Melbourne's arts precinct redevelopment that includes an elevated inner-city park with "a strong focus on nature."

●  Sydney's CBD to get an experiential children's playground in the existing Cook and Phillip Park, designed by Aspect Studios and Aileen Sage Architects.

●  Eyefuls of Istanbul-based Melike Altinisik Architects' spherical Robot Science Museum in Seoul that will be constructed by robots - for robots.

●  Schwab cheers a tiny Snøhetta project in a Norwegian wood that presents a "radical future of hospitals" - it's "a small cabin where children and their families can meet outside the dreary, depressing hospital setting."

●  Meanwhile, P+W is tackling "the first public mental health facility in Houston in more than 30 years" that - along with a psychiatric center - "will assume the title of largest academic psychiatric hospital in the country."

●  Eyefuls of the TWA Hotel inside Saarinen's JFK terminal, now ready for its close-up after being shut for 16 years (we want a room - and a cocktail in the retrofitted 1956 plane on the tarmac!).

●  Betsky pays eloquent tribute to "the modern furniture maven" Florence Knoll: "If there is such a thing as a modernist vernacular, she created it."

●  A Scottish laird wants to resurrect a rescue plan for Gillespie Kidd & Coia's 1966 St. Peter's Seminary - closed for nearly 40 years. Alan Dunlop sees "the potential to be transformed into a Bauhaus-inspired centre."

●  Elshahed and El Kordy discuss "the forgotten legacy" of "visionary Egyptian architect" Sayed Karim: "Despite his best efforts, Egyptian modernism - a hybrid of the International Style and local practices - did not translate into a fully developed 'movement.'"

●  Crosbie writes in praise of the documentary film "Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect" that "reveals a man compelled by the human element of designing buildings" ("Stern describes Roche's as a 'leprechaun's version of an ego'").

●  Eyefuls of the 18 winners of the AIA|LA 2019 Architectural Photography Awards.


  


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