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Today's News - February 9, 2005

We lose a master architect and educator. - Calatrava takes center stage in Atlanta and New York. - "Unsympathetic developments" threatening Thames waterfront. - FLW's Westcott House to be restored and expanded. - A picture-perfect museum plan for Tampa. - A call to bring the public (not just a "small elite") into the debate about what makes good design good. - Are landscape architects "brickoholics?" - A British architect accused of negligence in legionnaires' deaths. - A U.S. architect remembers to include state sales tax this time.

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Obituary: Architect George Dudley, 90, helped design Empire State Plaza, United Nations...dean of architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...established the school of architecture and urban planning at the University of California at Los Angeles- Albany Times Union

Atlanta Symphony Center: A grace note for city: 'Wows' greet architect's plan for landmark-to-be - Santiago Calatrava; Cesar Pelli; Kirkegaard Associates; Auerbach Pollock Friedlander [images]- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Seaport Skycubes Get OK - Santiago Calatrava; Schuman Lichtenstein Claman Efron [image]- New York Post

Call to turn tide on building beside London waterways: Blue Ribbon Network policies...are being applied so haphazardly that swaths of the river and some of London's most picturesque canals are being blighted by unsympathetic developments.- Guardian (UK)

Springfield foundation selects architects: ...educational and entertainment development as part of the restoration of the Frank Lloyd Wright Westcott House in Springfield. - Stanley Tigerman; Jonathan Barnes Architecture and Design; Cadwell Murphy Architecture; Rogero Buckman Architects- Dayton Business Journal (Ohio)

Arts Community Sees Tampa Museum of Art Project As Picture-Perfect Plan for Downtown - Rafael Vinoly- Tampa Tribune (Florida)

Platform: Good design is a matter for public debate: ...a small elite have for too long dominated the agenda... By Peter Bruce/Atkins- The Scotsman (UK)

Landscaping Fails When it Disregards the Real World By: Landscape architects who concentrate on “hardscape”— walls, walks, accessory buildings, garden stuff that doesn’t grow — to the detriment of actual plants might be doing architecture, but aren’t landscaping.- Berkekey Daily Planet (California)

Architect accused of legionnaires' deaths: so negligent that she caused Britain's biggest outbreak of legionnaires' disease which killed seven people.- Guardian (UK)

Aquatic designer stands by estimate - Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture- The Olympian (Washington)

Marketing Technology: Connecting, Communicating, and Collaborating by Craig Park, FSMPS, Chief Marketing Officer, Fields Devereaux

-- MVRDV: Silodam Housing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-- Mark Fisher: KÀ/Cirque du Soleil, Las Vegas, Nevada

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