Today’s News - Thursday, May 21, 2020
EDITOR'S NOTE: Tomorrow and Monday will be no-newsletter days. We'll be back Tuesday, May 26. 'Til then: Stay well. Stay safe. Stay in!
● ANN feature: Katie Faulkner: The wickedly funny Michael Sorkin, known to many as Comrade, was a social justice warrior. He maintained perpetual outrage in the course of writing 20 books and hundreds of articles, honing his invectives for gentrification, Disneyfication, waste, and conspicuous consumption.
● Hickman reports that Mies's "Farnsworth House is (once again) besieged by floodwaters," and brings us the statement to AN by the National Trust for Preservation's chief preservationist Katherine Malone-France that details "the current situation - and what needs to be done moving forward" + May is NTHP Virtual Preservation Month - take a virtual tour!
● Block reports on protests in the streets of Tirana as the 1939 National Theatre of Albania is demolished to make way for BIG proposed new national theater, "with critics accusing the prime minister of a lack of transparency for not holding a design competition."
● Berlin's (bizarre!) Brutalist Mäusebunker, "known for its jutting blue tubes and triangular windows reminiscent of a grounded spaceship or submarine," is slated for demolition, "but there is an ongoing campaign to save the building by having it listed."
● Kimmelman's latest virtual tour is a few miles, and a few hundred years of history, from Brooklyn Heights to the Brooklyn Navy Yard with fourth-generation Brooklynite and historian Tom Campanella: "The Navy Yard is the story of Brooklyn in a nutshell." The symbol of renewal. "New York always finds a way to bounce back" ("AIA Guide to NYC" as weapon - who knew?).
● ICYMI: ANN feature: Jeffrey Paine & Turan Duda consider: What now, in designing for wellness: "Designers must be at the forefront of ensuring that the spaces of the future embrace the lessons of 2020 without sacrificing beauty, comfort, and our shared need to come together safely and to foster human wellbeing.
Deadlines + Winners all:
● Call for entries (no fee!): Sudbury 2050 Urban Design Competition: create a new vision for the urban core of the Canadian city; cash prizes; open to professionals and students.
● Call for entries: Re-thinking The Future/RTF Architecture, Construction & Design Awards 2020 for innovative and future-sensitive designs worldwide - special code for fee discount (and miles of categories).
● Pacheco reports that Henning Larsen, Studio Gang, and Snøhetta have been shortlisted for the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota's Badlands - but we won't see proposals until August 10th.
● Gerfen x 2 (with great presentations): 2020 AIA COTE Top Ten Awards honor "sustainable solutions for government, community, education, and commercial projects across the U.S."
● She brings us eyefuls of the 67th Annual Progressive Architecture/PA Awards - "six projects that exemplify progress by using design to draw connections between individual users and the communities around them."
● Yale School of Architecture students win the HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Design Competition for their design of a new mixed-use development for mixed-income residents in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A page-turner + Weekend diversions (on the rocks):
● Eric Wills gives thumbs-up to "Broken Glass" and Alex Beam's "rigorous reporting" of "the contentious relationship" between Mies and Edith Farnsworth that "gave rise to a Modernist masterpiece" and "a back-story alive with architectural intrigue."
● Chicago Public Radio offers some (really terrific!) virtual tours of buildings around the world designed by notable Chicago architects over the last few hundred years.
● Tomorrow, the Chicago Architecture Center kicks off Celluloid Skylines: An At-Home Architectural Film Festival that "explores how filmmakers use architecture to tell extraordinary stories" (bonus: themed cocktail recipes to pair with each film!).
● Some Getty Villa-inspired cocktail "recipes for virtual happy hours everywhere - check out our Antiquities collection and how to get a Getty Zoom background."
COVID-19 news continues:
● Alissa Walker's (impressive!) takedown of some urbanists who "are using the coronavirus" to perpetuate "the delusion that all cities need are denser neighborhoods, more parks, and open streets to magically become 'fairer'" - what cities need is the " dismantling the racial, economic, and environmental inequities."
● Ending the week on a lighter note, Davidson brings us Phil Kline's "Every Night at 7," a tribute to NYC's "evening ritual of shouting-and-pot-banging celebration of essential workers. You can hear a range of intense emotions - gratitude, terror, sadness, frustration, and bruised joy" (he contributed 30 seconds from his own UWS balcony).
● Stinson: "Leave it to Ikea to provide assembly instructions for living room forts - the king of simply illustrated furniture assembly manuals details how to construct six different play forts using basic furnishings" (IKEA products preferred, but not required).
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ANN feature: Katie Faulkner, FAIA: Remembering Michael Sorkin, Critic and Activist: The wickedly funny Sorkin, known to many as Comrade, was a social justice warrior. He maintained perpetual outrage in the course of writing 20 books and hundreds of articles, honing his invectives for gentrification, Disneyfication, waste, and conspicuous consumption.- ArchNewsNow.com |
Matt Hickman: Farnsworth House is (once again) besieged by floodwaters: ...certainly the most flood-prone site in the National Trust for Preservation’s storied portfolio...60-acre site in the Fox River floodplain near the Plano, Illinois, precariously rising water is certainly nothing new...[NTHP's] Katherine Malone-France..detailed the current situation - and what needs to be done moving forward - in a statement provided to AN. -- Mies van der Rohe- The Architect's Newspaper |
India Block: Protests in Tirana as Albanian national theatre demolished to make way for BIG project: ...[its] proposed new national theatre...mechanical diggers were used to knock down the [1939] Teatri Kombëtar building [designed by Italian architect Giulio Bertè]...prime minister Edi Rama...shared the pictures of BIG's designs on his Facebook page...project has been contentious from its inception, with critics accusing the prime minister of a lack of transparency for not holding a design competition...Tirana is currently undergoing rapid architectural transformation. -- BIG - Bjarke Inels Group- Dezeen |
Berlin’s Brutalist ‘Mouse Bunker’ is set for the wrecking ball: ...Mäusebunker building...has been under threat for years...brutalist building [by Gerd Hänska] is known for its jutting blue tubes and triangular windows...austere exterior...reminiscent of a grounded spaceship or submarine and is inspired by futurism and Cold War militarism...demolition has been on the cards for the last 10 years, but there is an ongoing campaign to save the building by having it listed.- The Spaces (UK) |
Michael Kimmelman: Brooklyn, Before It Was a Global Brand: Walk Its History: A few hundred years in the borough, from the brownstones to the shipyards. Our critic chats with a fourth-generation Brooklynite and historian: Thomas J. Campanella teaches city planning and directs the [Cornell] Urban and Regional Studies program...Historian-in-residence for the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation...author of “Brooklyn: The Once and Future City"...a stroll from Brooklyn Heights to the gates of the Brooklyn Navy Yard..."Brooklyn Heights was America’s first commuter suburb...Navy Yard is the story of Brooklyn in a nutshell"...The symbol of renewal. "New York always finds a way to bounce back." -- George L. Morse; Gilmore D. Clarke; Michael Rapuano; Mifflin E. Bell; William Thomas McCarthy; Rosario Candela- New York Times |
Call for entries (no fee!): Sudbury 2050 Urban Design Competition: create a new vision for the urban core of the City of Greater Sudbury, Canada; cash prizes; open to professionals and students; deadline: August 28- McEwen School of Architecture (MSoA) |
Call for entries: Re-thinking The Future/RTF Architecture, Construction & Design Awards 2020: recognizing and acknowledging innovative and future-sensitive designs worldwide; special code for fee discount; registration deadline: June 15; final registration deadline: July 31 (submissions due August 15)- ArchDaily |
Antonio Pacheco: Henning Larsen, Studio Gang, and Snøhetta shortlisted for Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota: ...finalists for a forthcoming $100 million research and interpretive center...Slated for a 60-acre site located in the Badlands...beat out nine other firms, including Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Ennead, and MASS Design Group...designs will go on view to the public August 10th and a final, winning design will be selected in September. -- Michael Sørensen; Jeanne Gang; Craig Dykers; Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects; OLIN- Archinect |
Katie Gerfen: AIA Announces the Winners of the 2020 AIA COTE Top Ten Awards: ...projects showcase sustainable solutions for government, community, education, and commercial projects across the United States...Gensler received three awards; LPA wins COTE Top Ten Plus Award -- Lake|Flato Architects + Shepley Bulfinch; Richter Architects; Leers Weinzapfel Associates; Farr Associates & Woodhouse Tinucci Architects; Unabridged Architecture; Brooks + Scarpa- Architect Magazine |
Katie Gerfen: The Winners of the 67th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards: ...six projects that exemplify progress by using design to draw connections between individual users and the communities around them. -- Studio Gang Architects; Stoss Landscape Urbanism; WOJR; Brooks + Scarpa; French 2D; Marc Boutin Architectural Collaborative- Architect Magazine |
Yale School of Architecture students win HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Design Competition: The brief asked to design a new mixed-use development for mixed-income residents on a site in Santa Fe, New Mexico...entry from the University of Maryland, College Park as the Runner-Up. The two other finalists were University of California, Berkeley and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor...watch the online presentation of all four student finalist teams.- Archinect |
Eric Wills: The Farnsworth House on Trial: In “Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece,” Alex Beam recounts how the contentious relationship...gave rise to a Modernist masterpiece: Together they aspired to create an enduring work of architecture...In 1951, when the house was completed...By then the dream was over...their private falling out becoming an ugly public feud...Beam has been rigorous in his reporting...an intimate portrait of the dynamic between architect and client...a backstory alive with architectural intrigue...becoming a pioneering case study in preservation. -- Myron Goldsmith; Peter Palumbo; Dirk Lohan; National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP); Silman- Architect Magazine |
What’s That Building? Virtual World Tour Edition: During the stay-at-home era, many historic buildings are offering virtual architecture tours...the opportunity to explore some of the buildings that Chicago’s culture has influenced around the world. -- Adrain Smith (Burj Khalifa); Louis Sullivan (National Farmers’ Bank); Walter Netsch/Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) (U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel); Jeanne Gang/Studio Gang (Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership); Daniel Burnham & Harry Weese (Washington D.C.’s Union Station and Metro lines)- WBEZ Chicago Public Radio |
Celluloid Skylines: An At-Home Architectural Film Festival, May 22-25: Spend your Memorial Day Weekend watching movies with Chicago Architecture Center! ...in partnership with the Music Box Theatre, this four-day...festival explores how filmmakers use architecture to tell extraordinary stories. -- Christopher Hawthorne/Blade Runner; Anne Surak, Director, Exhibit Columbus/Columbus; Aaron Mazeika/Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)/An Engineer Imagines [homage to Peter Rice]; Jean L. Guarino, Ph.D./The Hudsucker Proxy- Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) |
Getty Villa-Inspired Cocktails, Spirits, and Spritzes: Drink recipes for virtual happy hours everywhere: In 2020 our happy hours, like many other parts of our lives, have moved over to Zoom...We are delighted to share three Villa-inspired wines, cocktails, and alcohol-optional beverages to mix-up the post-work activities...And if you want to commit to the virtual happy hour theme, check out our Antiquities collection and...how to get a Getty Zoom background.- The Iris / J. Paul Getty Trust |
Alissa Walker: Coronavirus is not fuel for urbanist fantasies: This moment should be about reassessing our broken cities: ...many urbanists are using the coronavirus as an opportunity to accelerate their pre-pandemic agendas...As the density discourse eventually devolved into a debate about whether [NYC] was safer than San Francisco, one critical component seems to have been missed...[SF]...purged most of the people who were most at risk from dying from COVID-19...long before the pandemic arrived...cities cannot be fixed if we do not insist on dismantling the racial, economic, and environmental inequities...many prominent urbanists have simply tweaked the language from their January 2020 tweets...to crank out COVID-tagged content, perpetuating the delusion that all cities need are denser neighborhoods, more parks, and open streets to magically become “fairer.”- Curbed |
Justin Davidson: Listen to Phil Kline’s "Every Night at 7," a Tribute to Our Evening Ritual: New Yorkers’ shouting-and-pot-banging celebration of essential workers, turned into music: You can hear a range of intense emotions threaded through the piece’s brief arc: gratitude, terror, sadness, frustration, and bruised joy...I contributed 30 seconds from my balcony on the Upper West Side.- New York Magazine |
Liz Stinson: How to build a play fort, according to Ikea: Leave it to Ikea to provide assembly instructions for living room forts: ...king of simply illustrated furniture assembly manuals...details how to construct six different play forts using basic furnishings...Höuse; Förtress; Cåmpintent; etc.- Curbed |
ANN feature: Jeffrey Paine, FAIA & Turan Duda, FAIA: INSIGHT: Design for Wellness: What Now? Designers must be at the forefront of ensuring that the spaces of the future embrace the lessons of 2020 without sacrificing beauty, comfort, and our shared need to come together safely and to foster human wellbeing.- ArchNewsNow.com |
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