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Today’s News - Wednesday, February 3, 2021

●  Daalder, Johnson & Kling parse a new survey by The Harris Poll and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs that "presents an image not of cities teetering on the edge, but of urban strength in crisis. Rather than decamping for the suburbs city residents remain committed to cities."

●  An impressive "consortium of architects, activists, and thought leaders" (including Mazria & Hartke) explains that if we really want to fix the environment, "we must decarbonize our buildings; our future depends on it - policies can help us respond to the twin crises of climate and health."

●  Saffron finds NYC's new Moynihan Train Hall "dazzling but flawed - a simulacrum, a romanticized stage-set version of what we think a train station should look like - a template for what is possible" for Philly's 30th Street Station - "and what to avoid."

●  Amazon's HQ2 redevelopment in Arlington, Virginia, includes The Helix, an office tower that "can be climbed from the outside like a mountain hike" with "trees and green space spiraling along the exterior" (and resembles "a soft-serve ice cream cone" or "less flattering - a poop emoji").

●  A $15 million fundraising campaign is underway to finance a major modernization of a trio of I.M. Pei's 1960s Brutalist-style dorms at Sarasota's New College of Florida (international outcry worked in saving Louis Kahn's dorms at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad).

●  A competition open to licensed and aspiring Black architects results in four winners selected to design facades for new retail pavilions in "Keswick Platform" in Charlotte, North Carolina, to be "leased to local small businesses and food and beverage concepts."

●  Anne Bordeleau, O'Donovan Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, addresses "systemic racism in Canada's architecture schools. What needs to be done to implement meaningful changes in our education, discipline and profession?" (applies not only to Canada).

●  NOMA partners with Black Spectacles "to help increase equity in the architecture field - with NCARB-approved test prep software subscriptions for all six divisions of the ARE 5.0 exam."

●  One we couldn't resist: Simon Henriques' "artist's statement" as the designer of a restaurant's outdoor dining space: "I imagined my ideal restaurant. Then, I built a smaller, more ramshackle version - and put it in the street. That was pretty much it. Unless you consider writing this statement - the elaborate act of justifying why all of this is okay takes about as much energy as the rest of it" (some of the best archi-babble we've seen in ages!).

●  ICYMI: ANN feature: Samuel G. White: The Architecture of Public Buildings: …good design should not be expressed in terms of style. The key difference between good and bad architecture is quality, not whether the cladding is rusticated limestone or perforated titanium.

Winners all:

●  Eyefuls of the winning team of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Gustafson Bowman + Porter, and b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos and the 4 finalists in the competition to "create a biodiverse urban ecosystem" with 15 "Urban Rooms" in Madrid's Azca Financial District.

●  The Architectural Review and The Architect's Journal announce the 2021 Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable Prizes awarded to Kate Macintosh and Lesley Lokko:, recipients of the W Awards (formerly the Women in Architecture Awards).

●  Paul Keskeys brings us eyefuls of the two winners and 10 "striking runners-up" in Architizer's One Rendering Challenge 2021 selected from "a stunning shortlist of 100 architectural renderings" (stunning, indeed!).


  


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