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Today's News - July 19, 2002

It's a good thing it's Friday…you may need the weekend to get through all the news: Muschamp, Kamin, and feng shui experts give their takes on the WTC plans. Censorship raises its head for the World Congress of Architecture in Berlin next week. Airport architecture and anxiety take their toll. The Baltic continues to draw attention to (and hope for?) the revival of Britain's post-industrial northeast. It looks like Ellerbe Becket succeeded in finding local partners - and winning the bid to design Charlotte's new arena. Urban housing issues are heating up all over. There's advice for starting a career in architecture, and a study that shows it's a sector in a downward slide. For your weekend amusement, there's a review of "Sunshine State" that might be worth the price of admission…and much more.

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Obituary: Michael McCarthy, Architect, 68, a design partner in the New York office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill- New York Times

An Agency's Ideology Is Unsuited to Its Task: Except as a starting point for public discussion, the plans [for WTC site] have little to recommend them. By Herbert Muschamp- New York Times

Set of plans for ground zero are, at best, underwhelming: Thud. That was the sound accompanying the six plans... By Blair Kamin- Chicago Tribune

Feng Shui Experts Examine WTC Plans- NY Newsday

Israelis in Berlin censorship row: Israel Association of United Architects facing accusations of censorship after it blocked a controversial exhibition planned for the UIA World Congress of Architecture in Berlin next week.- The Architects' Journal (UK)

Plans to Redesign LAX: Architecture and Anxiety: If you want to peer into the future of post-Sept. 11 America, few projects offer a better lens than the renovation of LAX. By Nicolai Ouroussoff - Landrum & Brown- Los Angeles Times

The Baltic centre opens at last. Can an "art factory" revive Britain’s post-industrial North-East? By Hugh Pearman - Dominic Williams [images]- HughPearman.com

Science center holds sneak preview of makeover - Jean Nouvel [link to images]- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Arena process makes headway - Ellerbe Becket; Odell Associates; The Freelon Group- Charlotte Observer

Build castles in the sky: How do you ease the urban housing shortage...Could building over thin air be the answer? [images]- BBC News

Neighbors see an opportunity to fix a mistake: Moderate-income homes are being built on site of business' abandoned expansion By Whitney Gould- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Urban housing tries on new clothes: Architect points to 10 trends propelling city housing development into the front line - Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh- Inman News

Failing a Landmark: When a school district's building plan hinges on demolishing a historic site, something is amiss. - Perkins & Will; Stiles O. Clements [images]- Los Angeles Times

Shape of wins to come: Five Australian designs...shortlisted for the 2002 World Architecture Awards. [images]- Sydney Morning Herald

S333 Architects lands top Dutch building award- The Architects' Journal (UK)

"Sunshine State" proves movies really are about planning- Inman News

The other Japan 2002: Irish architects seize the stage at a cross-cultural exhibition: "New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Japan", an EU-Japan joint project- Irish Times

Build a sound career in architecture- Employment Review

PSMJ Survey Shows A/E Sector in Downward Slide, Stopping Point Unknown (Business Wire)- Northern Light

Who What When - 7/18/02: honors, firm news, on the boards, and people on the move- ArchNewsNow

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