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Today’s News - Wednesday, January 27, 2021

●  Sad news x 2: Nadine Post reports the passing of architect George Heery, 93, a "pioneer of bridging design-build," and "a powerhouse who co-founded Heery & Heery in 1952. He and his colleagues at Heery International honed their project management procedures, still used by other firms."

●  Marylynne Pitz pays tribute to Christopher Monkhouse, 73, founding curator of Heinz Architectural Galleries at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh: "A visionary scholar and an ebullient, tea-drinking storyteller, he enjoyed an international reputation" (with stints at the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago).

●  Kim Slowey delves into "how COVID-19 will change office, hotel, and mixed-use design" by talking to a number of knowledgeable architects (one suggestion: offer "coronavirus retrofit packages").

●  Mark Alan Hewitt on "teaching the subtle and difficult art of adaptive reuse. The resistance to educating future architects on this important art must end - if our profession hopes to address some of the most urgent and socially critical issues facing the planet today."

●  Richard Buday on Classicism being "shaken off its foundation," while Modernism crumbles beside it. "Both architectures may have been so stripped of legitimacy and authenticity that they're beyond redemption" - as politics continues "eating away at both isms."

●  Sisson looks into "why tech moguls are obsessed with building utopian cities," but "they lack a certain perspective. Cities are messy, not a video game to master."

●  Baltimore's Center for Architecture and Design, designed by Quinn Evans, is "a new design gem" in One Charles Center - "already an architectural landmark - our own small piece of Mies van der Rohe's massive legacy."

●  Deane Madsen reports on the oldest university for the deaf and hard of hearing in the U.S., Gallaudet University's "massive new development" in Washington, DC, using DeafSpace, "a novel concept for space planning" intended to reconnect the school to the city.

●  Snøhetta is heading "a dramatic" $35 million revamp of the grounds of Austin's Blanton Museum of Art "with refreshed landscaping and architectural features including a new central outdoor space framed by a cluster of 15 petal-shaped shading structures."

●  In the U.K., the Scott Brownrigg-designed Museum of Military Medicine - a "jewel box" on Cardiff Bay - is given planning approval.

●  Toronto's Winter Stations 2021 announces winning designs "to inspire Torontonians to visit the beach in the winter - once lockdown restrictions are lifted" - teams hail from Austria, the U.K., Iran, and Germany.

●  Design Indaba Conference and Festival will use 2021 as a year to plan for 2022 - "social distancing requirements and the physical limitations of Artscape Theatre Centre in Cape Town made the event unfeasible" this year.


  


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