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Today's News - January 18, 2005

The architecture and engineering industry at the forefront of tsunami relief - but a call for careful steps. - A campaign (and charter) to get more women into architecture. - A panel explores the museum of the 21st century. - The Rijksmuseum offers hard hat tours. - New Architecture Foundation HQ in London: "All hail the intelligent icon." - A welcome addition to Harvard's Science Center. - A Danish accent for London's Fourth Grace. - "Swanky" new digs for British Council Malaysia. - New mixed-use life for Art Deco tower in Minneapolis. - UCLA benefits from billionaire's beneficence. - A MoMA review: its restaurant, for a change. - Gift of a Modernist classic has Nebraska looking gift horse in the mouth. - Millennium Park is wintering fairly well. - An architect re-envisions Kansas vernacular. - I.D. magazine's Top 40 list topped by MoMA (and a few other familiar names). - Book review: "Sixteen Acres" offers "a devastating look at the pettier, narcissistic reactions to ground zero..."

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Tsunami Update: Lend an ear before lending a hand: Many are worried about the prospect of the temporary soon becoming permanent, the emergency tent and prefab cities of today the shanty towns of the future. - Architecture for Humanity; Architects without Borders; RedR (Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief); Arup; Shigeru Ban- The Times (UK)

50/50 Campaign for More Women in Architecture- BD/Building Design (UK)

The Museum as Sculpture, Statement, Economic Engine - Oh Yes, and Home for Art: "Beyond Bilbao: Museum Architecture in the 21st Century" - Foster; Gehry; Libeskind; Taniguchi; Goldberger; Lowry; etc.- New York Sun

Put on a hard hat for the Rijksmuseum: With the exception of New York's MoMA, no other museum of this stature has ever allowed the public to watch a renovation unfold. - Cruz y Ortiz arquitectos- Mail & Guardian (South Africa)

The Architecture Foundation will add to the capital’s store of modern masterpieces: More thrilling still, perhaps, would have been...one of the more obscure architects on the shortlist of both the stellar avant-garde...only Hadid’s design fulfils both briefs...All hail, the intelligent icon. - Zaha Hadid; MVRDV; Foreign Office Architects; Caruso St John; Tschumi; Lacaton & Vassal; a-Graft; AOC- The Times (UK)

At Harvard's Science Center, additions are part of the equation. By Robert Campbell - Josep Lluis Sert (1972); Leers Weinzapfel Associates- Boston Globe

Danish firm wins 4th Grace site: 3xnielsen selected to work up concept designs for a £65 million Museum of Liverpool...competition...was boycotted by Will Alsop - Libeskind; Chipperfield; CF Møller; Hadid- BD/Building Design (UK)

Balancing beauty and function: Cutting-edge. Swanky. Not the sort of word or phrases you'd associate with a government agency, are they? But the new British Council Malaysia building is all that and more. - Hugh Broughton Architects [images]- The Star (Malaysia)

Old Sears being reborn for urban living, working: ...redevelopment ends years of concern that the historic [Art Deco] building would be razed and replaced with big-box retail businesses. By Linda Mack - Collaborative Design Group; Cuningham Group; ESG (Elness Swenson Graham); Shea- Minneapolis Star Tribune

Billionaire's gift builds all-purpose art center: Eli Broad has a penchant for giving his money away. And this fall, UCLA art students will reap the benefits...School of the Arts and Architecture - Richard Meier- UCLA Daily Bruin

A family and a vision: ...when Bentel & Bentel, Architects/Planners was awarded the job to design MoMA's new restaurant and a cafe, it was like coming home...- NY Newsday

Gift caught in state agency crossfire: ...offered her family's unique home to the Nebraska State Historical Society...considered an outstanding example of modern architecture. - Leo A Daly [image]- Lincoln Journal Star (Nebraska)

Millennium Park's winter personality: In this, the first winter...we're finding out that the splashy collection of art and architecture looks (and works) very differently... By Blair Kamin- Chicago Tribune

Contemporary on the prairie: Architect re-envisions vernacular in steel, concrete and glass - Rockhill & Associates [images/slide show]- Lawrence Journal-World (Kansas)

I.D. Forty: MoMA's Architecture and Design Department tops this year's list of design's 40 biggest influencers. - Koolhaas; Starck; Foster; Gehry; McDonough; etc.- I.D. magazine

I.D. Forty: Living Legends: Idols who refuse to rest on their laurels - Jane Jacobs; Ettore Sottsass, Jr.; Ada Louise Huxtable; Andrée Putman; etc.- I.D. magazine

Book Review: After a Day of Terror, a Long Architectural Tug of War: "Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero" by Philip Nobel- New York Times

Castle Keep: Boston Smith & Wollensky: Elegance and Americana make a perfect recipe for a classic steakhouse. - Haverson Architecture and Design [images]- ArchNewsNow

-- TEN Arquitectos/Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos, SC: Harlem Park, New York
-- Herzog & de Meuron: Laban Dance Centre, Deptford, London

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