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Thursday, July 3, 2008
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Tomorrow we'll be celebrating the 4th of July with family and friends...we'll be back Monday, July 7. ----- A stellar shortlist going for the "soul of Seoul" (and getting a pretty penny to do so). -- For Gardner, new Stern on East 86th St. brings pre-war elegance to "one of the more dispiriting stretches of Manhattan" - a bit like "Lady Astor among a bevy of scullery maids." -- Foster takes on the Rimini waterfront. -- H&deM takes on cricket. -- Rios Clementi Hale transforms a strip mall into their own "little bit of an odd office." -- In Wales, a new visitors center on Snowden mountain to be eco-friendly - sort of. -- Princeton wins big donation for new energy and environment research center. -- Simon Jenkins to chair U.K.'s National Trust; Stonehenge will be on his plate of contentious issues. -- Weekend diversions: Viñoly's Cleveland Museum of Art ready for its close-up, and Litt likes what he sees. -- NYC's P.S.1 urban farm by WORK opens for the summer (veggies for sale). -- Rybczynski and McGuigan on Bucky at the Whitney: "something of a flimflammer" and even a bit "nutty," but inspiring nonetheless. -- Lots from London: Glancey is quite amusing in a video where he explores "whether the capital's waterlogged past holds the key to its future." -- Londoners explore Vancouverism: it may be a model for the future city, but its "progressive planning is not well served by its often dull, cookie-cutter towers of glass." -- We couldn't resist: the sound of jelly wobbling will be the soundtrack for tomorrow's "bizarre architectural jelly banquet" in London; and a video of sonic architecture in Lower Manhattan. -- Page turners: Heathcote finds "Architectural Voices: Listening to Old Buildings" an "architecture book of rare depth and a delight." -- "Exit-Architecture - Design between War and Peace" examines how paranoia, as a cultural force, shapes architecture. -- Brussat says Kunstler's fiction "World Made by Hand" could "be the New Urbanism on steroids."
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