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Today's News - October 25, 2004
ArcSpace shows us Koolhaas in Korea. -- We lose a master of university design. -- In China, "urban renewal is a Richter-scale event, utterly destroying the past and heaving up proud, sometimes bizarre skylines …" -- Lessons learned from Lower Manhattan. -- 15 seconds that changed San Francisco: the complete 6-part series. -- Two U.K. hospital projects show the wrong - and right - way to design for healthcare. -- Insightful design for a school for the blind in Canada. -- No more "neo": Chicago returns to its Modernist roots. An apartment building in Washington, DC, is "an exception to an unhappy rule." -- MoMA's architect shows some restraint (a rarity these days?). -- Solar panels strive to be less unsightly. -- Study finds the best cities for sleep. -- IIDA launches new online Knowledge Center. -- Exhibition reviews: Mau says design can save the world; Newson takes on just about everything; designs for Chicago bridges span everything from banal to brilliant. -- A Frank Lloyd Wright celebration in Pittsburgh. -- New book spans centuries of U.S. embassy design.
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-- Rem Koolhaas/OMA: Samsung Museum of Art (Leeum), Seoul, South Korea -- The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture |
Obituary: Alexander Kouzmanoff, 89, Designer of College Buildings- New York Times |
Instant Modernity: China's transformation isn't just political and economic -- it's physical...the country has become a laboratory for freewheeling architecture on a scale unseen since the Bauhaus. - Kohn Pedersen Fox; Koolhaas; Bregman + Hamann; Adam Robarts; Alfred Peng; Riken Yamamoto; Hadid; Lab Architecture Studio; Andreu; Herzog + de Meuron; Atelier Feichang Jianzhu; etc.- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Lessons Learned from Lower Manhattan. By Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, and Kite Singleton, FAIA [images]- AIArchitect |
15 Seconds that Changed San Francisco: complete 6-part series by John King [images]- San Francisco Chronicle |
A tale of two hospitals: One is a Kafkaesque monolith with endless echoing corridors. The other is a bright, airy child-friendly haven. Robert Booth on the right and wrong ways to design a hospital - HOK International; Michael Hopkins & Partners- Guardian (UK) |
Touch, sound and a school for the blind: The results are attractive, even compelling. By Christopher Hume - Bruce Stratton [image- Toronto Star |
In Downtown Chicago, Architects Return to 'Less Is More': After a decade-long stretch of neo-this and neo-that apartment buildings, the city is returning to its modernist roots. - Lucien Lagrange; Ralph Johnson/Perkins & Will [images]- New York Times |
Throwing the Skyline a Curve: A New Residential Building on Massachusetts Avenue Uses Waves to Stir Up a Sea of Concrete...an exception to an unhappy rule... By Benjamin Forgey - Philip Esocoff & Associates [image]- Washington Post |
Finally, an architect shows some restraint: MoMA: It's what's inside that counts. By Christopher Hume - Yoshio Taniguchi- Toronto Star |
Raise the Roof: Power Source: Solar panels...can be an eyesore. Manufacturers want to make solar more popular by gussying up panels and integrating them into roofing materials...- Wired magazine |
New Study Pulls the Blanket Off America's Best and Worst Cities for Sleep: higher scores for overall happiness and low unemployment...Best: Minneapolis; Worst: Detroit- RIS Media |
IIDA launches Knowledge Center: online tool...in accessing current research and professional development resources.- International Interior Design Association (IIDA) |
Design for (Better) Living: Bruce Mau wants you to know that designers are going to save the world. "Massive Change"...at the Vancouver Art Gallery... By Christopher Hawthorne [images]- New York Times |
Holistic designer's poppy aesthetic: Design Museum in London...retrospective of Australian Marc Newson shows how broad a practice design can be.- Guardian (UK) |
"Bridging The Drive: Pedestrian Bridge Design for Lake Shore Drive" an exhibit in progress ...manages to be significant. By Blair Kamin - OWP/P; Richard Rogers Partnership; Helmut Jahn; WilkinsonEyre; Ross Barney + Jankowski; Annex/5; Lohan Caprile Goettsch- Chicago Tribune |
Pittsburgh hosts special Frank Lloyd Wright weekend November 19-20 to benefit Taliesin Preservation- Taliesin Preservation, Inc. |
Book Review: "Building Diplomacy: The Architecture of American Embassies": ...strikingly diverse buildings, mirroring the changes in America's status and aspirations over the centuries.- New York Times |
Healing Stories: Renovating San Francisco's Ronald McDonald House - ADD, Inc.; Babey Moulton Jue & Booth; Chong Partners Architecture; Huntsman Architectural Group; IA Interior Architects; RMW; SmithGroup; SMWM; TSAO Design Group [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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