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Today's News - December 30, 2004
We offer two articles as guides to those of you who would like to help in the tsunami disaster. -- Architecture students help the disabled. -- Two more year-in-reviews. -- Alaska looks forward to its own Bilbao effect. -- One architect takes on three Florida museums. -- L.A. likes its newest library. -- Cheaper may be better for Bay Bridge design. -- Whatever happened to "awesome grandeur" in church design in Australia? -- One little church in California gets it right. -- San Antonio unsure if new hotel will be eye-catching or an eyesore. -- An award-winning architect in India bemoans popular fads, imitations of traditions, and the lack of serious writing about architecture in the media. -- Reading list: thumbs up (mostly) for books about the WTC and FLW. -- Gehry exhibition lacks explanation, unfortunately.
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Architects Offer Help After Tsunami - Architects Without Borders; Architecture for Humanity; Shelter for Life- New York Times |
Want to Help Aid Victims of the Tsunami? Here's a list of to humanitarian organizations that are conducting relief operations.- RIS Media |
Student team of architects help disabled: Freedom by Design- Arizona Republic |
While some throw curves, a light motif stands out: Free-form shapes and bright, open spaces are significant trends...My picks for best of the year... By Robert Campbell - Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner; Gehry; Rawn; Taniguchi; Ken Greenberg; Huxtable; Goldberger; 'My Architect"/Nathaniel Kahn- Boston Globe |
As museums rise, culture wins at polls: But the face of Denver changed in other ways, too, including two amazing disappearing/reappearing acts that proved this is not yet an architectural mecca. By Mary Voelz-Chandler - Libeskind; Adjaye; Fentress Bradburn; Thomas Balsley; Lawrence Halprin- Rocky Mountain News (Denver) |
Alaska's Bilbao: University museum addition meant to be an experience - GDM/Hammel, Green and Abrahamson [images/link]- Anchorage Daily News |
Yann Weymouth has the distinction of designing expansions for the three largest museums in west-central Florida, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, and the Salvador Dali Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, both in St. Petersburg. - Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK)- St. Petersburg Times (Florida) |
Library Gets a Warm Welcome: Hundreds crowd the opening of the Hyde Park branch, the latest product of the city's $278-million improvement plan. - Hodgetts+Fung- Los Angeles Times |
Cheaper version of Bay Bridge is a cleaner vision: The fact is that San Francisco Bay does not need another eye-grabbing, neck-snapping wonder. By Alan Hess- Mercury News (California) |
How great thou aren't: Whatever happened to inspiring spirituality via awesome grandeur? ...the New Church and the McMansion: both revolve around home entertainment technology. By Elizabeth Farrelly- Sydney Morning Herald |
New church building demonstrates how an addition can really add to community: ...this little local project...makes a universal point: Sometimes the best way to show respect is to be different. By John King - Ernest Winkler (1955); Goring & Straja Architects [images]- San Francisco Chronicle |
The apple of San Antonio's eye or an eyesore? Some are calling [proposed Convention Center hotel] bold, while others fear it could be too much... - Arquitectonica- San Antonio Express-News |
Exploring a new geometry of design: B. Sashi Bhooshan...feels there is too much of imitation taking place in architecture- The Hindu (India) |
Book Casts WTC Redevelopment as Modern-Day Epic: Philip Nobel's "Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero"...both a smart piece of critical writing and a good read. By Martin C. Pedersen- Metropolis Magazine |
The word on ground zero: Three radically different books explore the rebuilding of the World Trade Center. By John King - Paul Goldberger; Daniel Libeskind; Suzanne Stephens/Ian Luna/Ron Broadhurst- San Francisco Chronicle |
Book Review: "Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architecture": Libeskind should stick to building- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Book Review: "Frank Lloyd Wright" By Ada Louise Huxtable: Wright's greatest edifice: himself. By Ken Greenberg- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Exhibition Review: "Frank Gehry, Architect: Designs for Museums": As a result of its superficiality this [Corcoran Museum of Art] exhibit unintentionally reinforces the stereotype of Mr. Gehry as a capricious collage-maker. By Deborah K. Deitsch- Washington Times |
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Zaha Hadid: Topping Out Ceremony, Ordrupgaard Extension, Ordrup, Denmark |
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