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Today’s News - Tuesday, August 25, 2020

●  Sisson delves into how "Covid-19 has exposed the lethal vulnerabilities of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities - exposing a deadly dilemma at a challenging time," and talks to architects about how they're dealing with it.

●  Darran Anderson delves into "why every city feels the same now. A return to vernacular architecture is overdue. If there is to be a habitable future, it will need to be vernacular" - not "monumental follies."

●  Lamster bemoans the selection process for the team (led by Weiss/Manfredi) tasked with the transforming "the ugliest building in Dallas - the dreary" Dawson State Jail - into a gateway to a new park; by not including the public - "the result has the unfortunate appearance of a preordained outcome."

●  Wainwright, on a brighter note, cheers "an astonishing variety of 20 postwar living landscapes and buildings being awarded protection" that includes factory ponds and a car park near Heathrow - "an eye-opening move that might make you look again at an innocuous bit of verge or a concrete bench."

●  Luo Jingmei parses how architects are using biophilic design to "bring more greenery to Singapore - already a poster child for biophilic architecture" because of long-standing "astute directives and incentives that have supported the creation of a lush urbanscape, which has become part of our collective psyche."

●  Edwin Slipek uses "a sublime and mind-bending" show at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as the jumping-off point to explore the Egyptian Revival treasures in Richmond.

●  Poet, activist, journalist, and essayist Claire Schwartz brings us the fascinating tale of how (the mostly unsung) June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller "tried to redesign Harlem" with "a plan for public housing without displacing any of its existing residents, who often became the collateral damage of 'urban renewal.' Though 'Skyrise for Harlem' wasn't built, it wasn't a failure."

●  Speaking of Harlem, Kimmelman takes us on another of his wonderful walkabouts - this time in "New York's most storied neighborhood" - with David Adjaye, who moved to Harlem with his family in 2015, when he was tapped to design a new home for the Studio Museum.

●  Speaking of Kimmelman: Spencer Bailey's great Q&A with the critic re: "his lesser-known talents as a pianist, his three-plus-decade path at The New York Times, and his goal as architecture critic to build a greater discourse around designing cities that are better, healthier, and simply fairer for all": "As with all architecture, intent and result are very often not the same thing."

●  Meghan Edwards' great Q&A with S9 Architecture's Pascale Sablan, "a deeply committed and passionate advocate for the marginalized and underserved" - and "the 315th living female Black registered architect in the U.S." (September 1 is deadline to submit to her SAY IT LOUD initiative that is elevating the voices and work of women and diverse architects and designers).

●  NCARB launches its Destination Architect campaign, a new educational STEAM resource for aspiring architects and mentors, that includes a guide to earning and helps shorten the path to licensure.

●  Sarah Holder talks to Brad Hargreaves, founder and CEO of Common, the largest co-living company in the U.S., re: his intentions in launching Remote Work Hub, "a public competition in the hopes that under-the-radar, more affordable cities will apply to host a housing and office project purpose-built to capture remote workers."

●  Request for Proposals/RFP: Common's Remote Work Hub site selection competition. Stage 1 Expression of Interest/EOI deadline: October 16.

●  ICYMI: ANN feature: Mary Ann Lazarus & Joyce Lee explain why they and a group of industry leaders launched a petition to the World Health Organization to work with industry experts to develop much-needed indoor environment guidance that is currently hard to find, contradictory, and minimal at best.

Winners all!

●  Robert Booth talks to some of the six shortlisted architects in the U.K.'s Home of 2030 design competition, many who "hope to tear down garden fences of England's future homes. But entrants fear their designs will be resisted by builders determined to stick with existing blueprints."

●  Egyptian Architect Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim, founder of Community Design Collaborative Abdelhalim, takes home the 2020 Tamayouz Lifetime Achievement Award - and eyefuls of some of his stunning projects!

●  One of the Deborah J. Norden Fund 2020 travel grant winners "will explore placemaking tactics used in Brooklyn, Illinois, the first Black incorporated village in the U.S."; the other "will visit and study enclave communities for adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the country."

●  The International Committee of Architectural Critics announced its 2020 shortlist for the Dennis Sharp CICA Awards for Architectural Criticism - Kamin & Kimmelman (two of our faves) are in the running.


  


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