Thursday, July 2, 2009

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EDITOR'S NOTE: We're taking a short (hopefully not-too-soggy) 4th of July break...we'll be back Monday, July 6.

Huxtable hails Lincoln Center re-do: "What was exclusive, forbidding and opaque will become inclusive, inviting and open." -- Kozinn has a very different take, starting with Tully Hall (he "hates" it) to wondering whether making "open-to-all outdoor space into the exclusive preserve of its restaurant patrons will actually make the center more open and street friendly." -- Hadid's "light-as-egg-white, oddly comforting" Bach salon for Manchester International Festival "could point the way forward to more imaginative ways of experiencing classical music," yet it "has a lot to prove." -- An eyeful of 14 new designs for Pitt's "Make It Right" project in New Orleans. -- Architect Cruz and artist Reyes may "put ethics above architecture" - but "however valuable the ground work was, an architectural result was lacking." -- King on Fisher giving up on Presidio museum plan; the big question: will the collection stay in San Francisco or go elsewhere? -- Brussat calls it re: Chelsea Barracks brouhaha: "Game, set, match: Prince Charles," despite Rogers' "thundering petulance" that was "a joy to behold." -- Moore on possibility of a new "corona" for Westminster Abbey: "It ain't broke...so don't fix it." -- SOM wins big in Saudi Arabia. -- Javits Convention Center makeover "will not only repair the building but revolutionize it." -- Denver airport redesign could put the Great Hall off-limits to the non-traveling public, and not all are pleased (even though Calatrava will have a hand in it). -- An eyeful of some of the architecturally striking projects revamping tourist highways across Norway. -- Could the future of suburbia include organic farms? -- An architecture student's take in the effects of the economic crisis in the construction industry: it "leaves much of the working class and in particular young people with a bleak future." -- Weekend diversions: "Remembering Jan Kaplicky - Architect of the Future" at London's Design Museum. -- Two amusing takes (and lots of pix) of MOS's "afterparty" at P.S.1: "Snuffleupagus Lives!" and a "weird furry factory of sorts." -- The premise of Till's tome "Architecture Depends" is "so inchoate and oblique that it's easy to forget, for pages at a time, what the original question was." -- We couldn't resist: lost of pix and videos of Sears Tower's new Ledge ("it takes a certain trust in unseen architects, engineers and construction workers to take that first step overlooking perdition"); and Hoberman's "insane" U2 360 World Tour stage.

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St. Louis, Missouri: Two formerly vacant downtown blocks have been given new life as a serene urban oasis in the heart of the city.

 
by ArchNewsNow

June 30, 2009

 
by ArchNewsNow

June 25, 2009

#1 - Now More Than Ever: Why market research is so critical to a firm's success.

 
by Frances Gretes

June 24, 2009

An Interview with Joe Valerio of Valerio Dewalt Train

 
by ArchNewsNow

June 23, 2009

Chicago: Performance-calibrated building design and student-centric spaces will give students control over their environment and generate performance data to be shared with university and architectural communities beyond the IIT campus.

 
by ArchNewsNow

June 11, 2009

Supposedly architects don't need negotiating skills along with other communication skills because great design "sells itself." How lovely that an AIA legal counsel created this definitive book to shatter that thin myth.

 
by Norman Weinstein

June 5, 2009