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Today's News - December 17, 2004

"If it's not LEED, it's not green" raises hackles. -- Green building changes NYC skyline. -- Changing neighborhoods need time, not just design guidelines. -- New mixed-use project in L.A. will have a Vancouver accent. -- An industrial relic to become a tourist destination (with slot machines) in Pennsylvania. -- Light-rail systems gaining speed. -- WTC memorial plans refined. -- Berlin's Holocaust monument finally nearing completion. -- A starchitect without the glitz. -- Canadian architects building a national vision. -- Ten Chicago architects in one room. -- Mayan pyramid designed for sound? -- Giving green.

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If It's Not LEED, Can It Still Be Green?- Environmental Building News

Transforming the Skyline and the Green Building Market: Bank Of America and The Durst Organization Break Ground at One Bryant Park in New York City - Cook+Fox Architects [images]- Environmental Design + Construction

Mission Bay's time will come -- but be patient: It is living, growing proof that neighborhoods need more than design standards and development controls. They also need time. By John King- San Francisco Chronicle

LA City Council Approves California Landmark's Mixed-Use Project: New Brentwood-Area Building, Inspired by Vancouver Architecture, Will Combine Residences, Offices and Ground-Floor Retail - Hancock Bruckner Eng + Wright- Business Wire

Investors forging big plans for Steel: 120-acre heart of the former Bethlehem Steel plant...industrial relic into a tourist destination. - Judith Saltzman- The Express-Times (Pennsylvania)

New Tram Line in Geneva is Part of Global Rebirth of Light-Rail Networks (AP)- Environmental News Network

Landscape adds a refinement: The World Trade Center memorial nudged a little closer to reality with the unveiling yesterday of its schematic design... By Justin Davidson - Michael Arad; Peter Walker; Davis Brody Bond- NY Newsday

After years of delay, last slab of Holocaust monument [Berlin] put in place - Peter Eisenman- Guardian (UK)

Renzo Piano: A celebrity architect without all the glitz. By Christopher Hawthorne [images/links]- Slate

Local Architects Build National Vision - Patkau Architects; LM Architectural Group- Straight (Vancouver)

Exhibition: "Chicago Architecture: Ten Visions." Too Hip for the Room: What good is an architect's vision when it's trapped in a 21-foot square box? By Lynn Becker - Stanely Tigerman; Jeanne Gang; Douglas Garofalo; Ralph Johnson; Ron Krueck; Eva Maddox; Margaret McCurry; Elva Rubio; Katerina Rüedi Ray; Joe Valerio [images/links]
Xavier Vendrell- Repeat

Mystery of 'chirping' pyramid decoded: Acoustic analysis shows how temple transforms echoes into sounds of nature.- Nature News Service

Turning the Holidays Green: Green gifts aren't just for hippies anymore.- Wired magazine

Zaha Hadid: Topping Out Ceremony, Ordrupgaard Extension, Ordrup, Denmark

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