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Today's News - November 18, 2004
British tributes to Barnes and Stoller. -- More MoMA musings. -- A light-hearted look from Little Rock: Clinton Library not designed on a napkin, and Polshek pays retail. -- Akron's new library is a "complete delight." -- The man who can write a big check not at all happy with building plans. -- A ship in an architectural bottle. -- U.K. healthcare suffering from lack of design expertise. -- Two more takes on Washington, DC's newest museum. -- A stellar shortlist for London's first center for architecture. -- ASLA inducts new president. -- Utzon on view in Sydney. -- Manhattan's glittering snowflake.
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Obituary: Edward Larrabee Barnes 1915-2004: Architect with a flair for museums of art whose buildings have been likened to sculpture- The Times (UK) |
Obituary: Ezra Stoller 1915-2004: Photographer who captured the best of 20th-centruy architecture with sympathy and understanding of the built environment- The Times (UK) |
The new MoMA: The understated allure of the renovated Museum of Modern Art: ...exquisitely refined architecture of Yoshio Taniguchi rescues gridded glass and steel from corporate cliché... By Justin Davidson and Ariella Budick - Yoshio Taniguchi [images]- NY Newsday |
Revamped art museum 'like teacup': The architect behind the $425m (£228.7m) face-lift of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has spoken about the project. - Yoshio Taniguchi- BBC News |
The naked truth from Little Rock: ...the Clinton library was not designed on a White House cocktail napkin. - Polshek Partnership- Chicago Tribune |
Read Akron's lips: City's new public library speaks volumes on future path...the building is a complete delight. in several years, Akron will possess a cluster of sophisticated contemporary buildings worthy of national attention. By Steven Litt - Gwathmey Siegel Associates/Richard Fleischman Architects; Polshek Partnership; Coop Himmelb(l)au- Cleveland Plain Dealer |
Peter Lewis unhappy with [Case Western] University Circle: Says plans inadequate and it is floundering: ...did not look favorably on designs that "put fancy, nonprofit buildings on the street."- Cleveland Plain Dealer |
Ship in an architectural bottle: Grimshaw plans to enclose the Cutty Sark. And then reveal her afresh. By Hugh Pearman [images]- HughPearman.com (UK) |
Primary care trusts suffering from lack of design expertise: Architects for Health...argued that decisions are often made by “non-construction people” and as a result “certain groups are suffering.”- HD - The Journal for Healthcare Design and Development (UK) |
The Architecture of Washington's Newest Museum: The new American Indian museum is a powerful achievement. By Carol Krinsky - Venturi Scott Brown; GBQC; Douglas Cardinal; Polshek Partnership; Johnpaul Jones; Ramona Sakiestewa; Donna House; Lou Weller/Native American Design Collaborative; Duane Blue Spruce- Wall Street Journal |
American Indian Spirit Lives in the Objects: Why the Smithsonian's new American Indian museum is a failure. But as a museum limning the lives, beliefs and histories of diverse Native American tribes ...NMAI is a substantial success.- Wall Street Journal |
The shortlist has been announced in a competition to design the Architecture Foundation's new £2.25 million Architecture Foundation centre in Southwark Street. - AOC; Caruso St John; Foreign Office Architects; Graft; Zaha Hadid; Lacaton and Vassal; MVRDV; Bernard Tschumi.- London SE1 |
ASLA Inducts 2005 President: Patrick A. Miller, Ph.D., FASLA- American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) |
Exhibition: "The studio of Jørn Utzon" at Museum of Sydney [images]- Infolink (Australia) |
Snowflake Lands in City, Unique at 1,433 Pounds: ...the jumbo flake that is to be floating over Fifth Avenue and 57th Street...12,000 five-faceted prismatic Baccarat crystals... - Ingo Maurer; Tobias Reischle [image]- New York Times |
In His Own Words: Luxembourg's New Concert Hall by Christian de Portzamparc [images]- ArchNewsNow |
Beauty in Garbage: Naka Incineration Plant...real-time science museum and tourist destination. By Fred A. Bernstein - Yoshio Taniguchi [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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Archline design: Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool, UK [images] |
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