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Today's News - January 11, 2005
Architects continue to ask "What can we do?" to help tsunami victims. -- Architecture for Humanity puts out a call for photography to benefit Southeast Asia. -- Deadline draws near for Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Awards. -- Green roofs for Beijing. -- A stellar shortlist for a quilt center in Nebraska. -- Austin gets a "quirky" city hall "brimming with urban vitality" (great pix). -- In Houston, good design wins out in "tug-of-war between good architecture and the bottom line." -- A library center in Korea as a place for reconciliation. -- Don't count Will Alsop out. -- An American architect builds a dream house in China. -- There's a battle brewing to save the bungalows of Santa Monica. -- Survey shows it's a good time to be a landscape architect. -- SCUP offers web cast on design and project delivery for non-architects. -- A conference in Egypt will explore the impact of the digital revolution on architecture and urban planning. -- Exhibition in Edinburgh shows off Spence. -- A new book shows off designs that will never be built.
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'What can we do?' Rebuilding has begun on the south Asian shores. The world's architects are desperate to help, says Jonathan Glancey - Architecture for Humanity; Society of Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics; Register of Engineers for Disaster Relief- Guardian (UK) |
Call for submissions: "Spice": A photography show and anonymous silent auction to benefit Architecture for Humanity's rebuilding effort in South East Asia- Architecture for Humanity |
Reminder: Congress for the New Urbanism 2005 Charter Awards Deadline: February 1- Congress for the New Urbanism |
Beijing to Plant Rooftop Grass to Clean Away Smog (Reuters)- Environment News Service |
Companies compete to design University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s International Quilt Study Center - Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates; Robert A.M. Stern Architects; Studio Daniel Libeskind- Daily Nebraskan |
Quirky, striking — it's pure Austin: The new $56.7 million Austin City Hall is a dramatic building in the proper sense — drama, not spectacle...brimming with urban vitality... - Antoine Predock; Cotera, Kolar, Negrete & Reed Architects; Lars Stanley [images]- San Antonio Express-News |
New building stands out amidst the Texas Medical Center's sterile architecture: The tug-of-war between good architecture and the bottom line makes the new...Center special. - Lake/Flato Architects/Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell Architects (BNIM) [images]- Houston Chronicle |
Literary center as place of reconciliation...dedicated to epic bestseller "Taebaek Mountains"...an architectural version of a "gutpan," or the traditional site of an exorcism. - Kim Won- Korea Herald |
Will Alsop: there's more to architecture than accountancy: So is it all up for our Will? Happily not. By Hugh Pearman [images]- HughPeaman.com |
China ironies: In the midst of frenzied copying of Western architecture, an American builds a home with traditional design - Arrol Gellner [images]- San Francisco Chronicle |
Chips off the old block: Santa Monica preservationists rally as more vintage residences face the wrecking ball.- Los Angeles Times |
ASLA Business Indicators Survey Released: Results Indicate Significant Growth in Demand for Landscape Architecture Services.- American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) |
Webcast January 19: Capital Projects for Non-Architects — Design and Project Delivery- Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) |
6th International Architectural Conference in Assiut University, Egypt, March 15-16: impact of digital revolution on architecture, urban environments, and current and future cities.- Assiut University |
Gallery designs show on top Scots architect: Exhibition marking centenary of birth to include original sketches - Sir Basil Spence- The Scotsman |
"Proposal": The unseen side of architecture...[book] features architectural ideas that never materialized- Kathimerini (Greece) |
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-- Richard Meier: Jesolo Lido Village, Jesolo Lido, Italy -- Rojkind Arquitectos: casa pR34, Tecamachalco, Mexico -- Travel: Design Hotel, Great Eastern Hotel, London -- Book: Eating Architecture, Edited by Jamie Horwitz & Paulette Singley |
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