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Today’s News - Tuesday, December 15, 2020

EDITOR'S NOTE: Just a heads-up that this will be the final week of news for the year - hopefully the Nor'easter heading our way tomorrow won't affect the last newsletter of 2020 on Thursday.

●  ANN feature: Turan Duda & Jeffrey Paine: Predicting the Unpredictable - 2021 Workplace Trends: Several emerging trends will improve our ability to navigate the future with employee health and wellness in mind.

●  A tribute to and in-depth profile of Carol R. Johnson, 91, "founder of what became one of the largest woman-owned landscape architecture practices in the U.S., and a role model for women in the profession - in 1998 she was the first American woman to receive the ASLA Medal."

●  Betsky makes the case for "why we should cancel Philip Johnson" - but that doesn't mean we should "pretend that he never existed. His life, after all, has many lessons to teach us. He was a cultured, rich cad who made us forget our own failings as a country and as a profession."

●  Lamster minces no words re: plans for a "garish" fountain in Dallas's Klyde Warren Park - "an unsustainable gusher of civic hubris. Is it really necessary to say that the presentation of such an extravagant folly at a moment when food lines stretch for a mile is grotesque, not to mention utterly tone deaf?"

●  Pedersen, on a brighter note, has a great Q&A with Christopher Hawthorne re: the Low-Rise: Housing Ideas for Los Angeles design challenge, and his 2+ years as the city's chief design officer (registration for Low-Rise challenge: December 18!).

●  William Morgan mulls the post-COVID office: "Nothing will be normal ever again - despite our national yearning for a return to normalcy - the long evolution to gigantic and often remote office buildings was the abnormal. The office isn't going away," but it will require "some radical and creative rethinking."

●  Hickman reports on a dead mall in Columbus, Indiana, "getting a new lease on life as a health-focused community hub - in a refreshing deviation from the norm" (becoming a private mixed-use development), a non-profit now owns the property and plans to transform it into a public asset."

●  Studio Gang's first Colorado project is a 13-story building that "won't look anything like the rest of the historic buildings that surround Denver's Civic Center Park" - hosting a hotel, micro-apartments, a public rooftop bar - and more.

●  Ravenscroft brings us eyefuls of Tehran-based ZAV Architects' multi-colored domed cultural retreat on the Iranian island of Hormuz, constructed using a low-tech method so that "the buildings could be largely completed by people in the local community" (we want one!).

●  Shafaieh reports on Toshiko Mori's Harvard GSD studio that took students to Hokkaido, Japan, to "focus on the ecology, and economy, of creating and designing with wood in communities where forests are abundant or special" (fab photos by Maggie Janik!).

●  GSD's Alex Krieger takes us on his "iconic tour of Boston - a city in constant need to create land'" (fab video by Janik).

●  A who's who of nearly 70 architects and designers have donated art to ARCH (Architecture for Change)'s just-launched one-week auction "to raise funds for a scholarship program for Black women" established by the Architects Foundation (some stunners with starting bids $50!).

●  In the "AIA's ongoing effort to meaningfully address structural racism in the built environment and to uphold our professional values," its Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is revised "to prohibit the design of spaces intended for execution, torture and prolonged solitary confinement."

●  The Graham Foundation awards grants to 36 international organizations - "all committed to expanding on the ways we interact with architecture. It's quite a varied list, too" (with link to details).

●  Not again! Venice is "hit by high tides of up to 5 feet after its MOSE flood barrier system was not activated as a result of mistaken forecasts."


  


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