Friday, July 30, 2010

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Rinaldi raves about Calatrava's Denver airport design: "This is not architecture for amateurs" - and it's "a kind neighbor to Curt Fentress' 1995 terminal...sophisticated, hyper-urban" (and expensive) + plus details and great pix. -- Hart [hearts] Phifer's North Carolina museum, "borne of steadfast logic and disciplined execution, which translates complexity into sublime simplicity." -- A-List vs. G-List as Hosey takes issue with Hawthorne's taking issue with green building survey (blind spots included). -- If bamboo houses "combat climate change, encourage economic growth and protect the poor from natural disaster, why aren't there more of them?" (it all boils down to profits, of course) -- How could we resist an eyeful of a totally new (and amazing looking) type of offshore wind turbine - with the Grimshaw touch. -- New Haven's 32-story high-rise gamble: its success looks promising, but not all are convinced. -- Merkel on some of the most interesting designs to come out of the postmodern movement by once "ground-breaking young architects" (now starchitects): "it made architecture fun again, and it gave the next generation of architects something to react against." -- Kappe pays tribute to Kanner, the "big-hearted LA architect he considered a son...we can only imagine what he might have accomplished in the next 30 years." -- ASLA bestows FASLA on 41 members (our congrats to all!). -- Weekend diversions: -- Jacobs is more than a little disappointed in Cooper-Hewitt's Triennial "Why Design Now?": "As much as this show embodies au-courant goodness, there is something wrong about a design exhibition in which there is so little pleasure" (and a touch of eye candy wouldn't hurt). -- In L.A., railLA's "LA Beyond Cars" offers eyefuls of creative visions of a more sustainable, pedestrian-friendly, and transit-oriented future. -- Gruber on Krieger/Saunders's "Urban Design" (Part deux): he argues that "instead of providing justification for the field of urban design, the works...identified illustrate why the field is unnecessary or even counterproductive." -- "Spatial Intelligence" argues for "a field informed not only by formal and constructional vocabularies but also by...an acknowledgement that buildings have the ability to make people happy." -- Hill finds Games's Pevsner biography "carries its own controversy" by making "grave insinuations knowing that much of the evidence is missing." -- Games responds: his biography "is still reliable," and Hill "has fallen back lazily on the very canards my research has challenged." -- "The Tower Restored" is "an intriguing 1,000-page account" of every step taken to save the "marble cylinder" also known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa. -- The desire to fight the cold with a modernist design vocabulary ties together the buildings in "Modern North: Architecture on the Frozen Edge."

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The architect known for plans and buildings that revitalized American cities passed away last week at 69.

 
by Kenneth Caldwell

July 9, 2010

What in the Sam Hill are lippings, we beseeched? Answer: trim. Conversely, our colleagues from across the pond were anxious to know who, precisely, Mr. Sam Hill would be.

 
by Jim Coan

July 2, 2010