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Today's News - December 14, 2004
Congress for the New Urbanism issues call for entries for Charter Awards 2005. -- Move over Freedom Tower - Burj Dubai will be taller (and finished sooner). -- World's tallest bridge is a stunner. -- The public is eager for good design (no doubt not just in Australia). -- Bad-news day in U.K.: a look at the current status of the Dome. -- Will another iconic building (and another museum) really help Liverpool? -- Alsop axed (again) - but they get to keep his design. -- What's with the alien art invading Holyrood? -- Hopes for Toronto's waterfront being chipped away. -- Detailing on a residential tower in South San Francisco is "fine and dandy," but as "futile as draping lace on a smokestack...a 180-foot-high slab where no tower ought to be." -- No street signs - no accidents: cars and pedestrians actually look out for each other (what a concept!). -- How to work parking in - and when and why to leave it out. -- Streets and skylines changing in Houston, Shanghai, Korea, and Kuwait City. -- HQ for Institute of Peace gets go-ahead (and big bucks) from Congress. -- CNN explores Beirut's architectural renaissance. -- AIA Minnesota announces 2004 award winners.
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Call for entries: Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Awards 2005; deadline: February 1- Congress for the New Urbanism |
Construction of world's tallest tower to begin: Burj Dubai will be nearly half a mile high, at 800 metres tall...and boast a total of 160 floors - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill [image]- New Scientist |
World's Tallest Bridge Soars Above French Valley: opens to traffic Thursday - Norman Foster [image]- New York Times |
Everyone deserves a well-designed house: The critics of suburban sprawl are missing the public's eagerness for new ideas...The big message from the metropolitan strategy is that design matters. By Chris Johnson/NSW Government Architect - Murcutt- Sydney Morning Herald |
That was then, this is now: The Dome was to be a icon of Cool Britannia blazing us into the new millennium - but it was a disaster. Five years on, Grant Gibson asks what became of the key players in this national embarrassment - Richard Rogers Partnership; Mark Fisher; Landesign; Tim Pyne; etc.- Observer (UK) |
Mission of Mersey: After the Fourth Grace fiasco, Liverpool still wants an architectural icon on the waterfront. But it should make more of its magnificent heart. By Deyan Sudjic - Alsop; Hadid; Chipperfield; Simpson- Observer (UK) |
Rail plan safe as architect is axed: Will Alsop...will not be leading the design and development phase, despite the [£350 million] project going ahead with his design.- icBirmingham (UK) |
No place for a public hanging: [Holyrood] is the only building in Scotland for years...that might justifiably be called a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art. So why is it necessary to fill it with quite alien wall-hangings, photographs, sculptures and paintings... By Stuart MacDonald/Lighthouse - Enric Miralles- The Scotsman (UK) |
Chipping away at waterfront hopes: Toronto is the cruellest city, constantly raising hopes only to dash them, again and again. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star |
If you build it, they will cringe: Slablike tower doesn't fit in on slopes of San Bruno Mountain. If ever a building showed that architecture can be irrelevant... By John King - MBH Architects [images]- San Francisco Chronicle |
Roads Gone Wild: No street signs. No crosswalks. No accidents. Surprise: Making driving seem more dangerous could make it safer.- Wired |
To park or not to park? Parking myths, how to work parking in -- and when and why to leave it out- LINEonline (AIA/SF) |
ORION Emerges: New Luxury Vertical Residences to Change the Face of Houston Skyline - Ede I. Nemeti/Architectural Services International; Keiji Asakura/ASLA Landscaping- Business Wire |
Nostalgia is now up-to-date: One Day Living...a block of gentrified colonial-era buildings exuding the nostalgic charm of old Shanghai. - Chen Lianzhong- Shanghai Daily |
Architect's new project is ‘extension of the street': The mutual trust and collaboration between the progressive client and the then-unknown architect had resulted in another project. - Choi Moon-gyu/GaA Architects; Mass Studies; Slade Architects- JoongAng Daily (Korea) |
Kuwait City is latest Arab capital to get an American University: Beyond the architecture of individual buildings, the AUK campus is unusual on an urban level as well. - Chadi Rachid Chamoun [image]- The Daily Star (Lebanon) |
Congress Supports Institute of Peace Headquarters Project with $100 Million Appropriation - Moshe Safdie and Associates [link to images]- U.S. Institute of Peace |
CNN's Design 360 visits Beirut, to find out about the architectural and cultural renaissance which has been taking place there since the civil war ended fifteen years ago. - Bernard Khouri- AME Info (United Arab Emirates) |
AIA Minnesota Announces 2004 Honor and Divine Detail Awards [images]- AIA Minnesota |
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Zaha Hadid: Topping Out Ceremony, Ordrupgaard Extension, Ordrup, Denmark |
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