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Today's News - February 16, 2005

New Urbanists pen a rebuttal to Reason's recent rant about new urbanism. -- Koreans overlook local talent (name Gaudi #1 favorite architect). -- Editorial invokes Nobel's "16 Acres" in struggle over Berkeley project. -- WTC memorial becoming a "necropolis to grief." -- Boston developers allowed to pay their way out of including affordable housing. -- Danish firm takes on Albanian urban makeover. -- A "progressive" design for London Olympic Aquatic Centre. -- Big plans for St Edmundsbury, UK, called "repetitive and bland." -- Plans for Arizona bus maintenance facility are green. -- Exhibits for Lincoln Library perhaps a bit too Disney-fied? -- Why Olmsted would have vetoed "The Gates." -- Olmsted profiled as a business model. -- Origami mathematics may shape the future. -- An Irish architect's preoccupation with light. -- A designer changing the definition of furniture.

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Reason Mag's Bad Crime Tip: a rebuttal- Congress for the New Urbanism

Home talent neglected in design search: Sometimes...not even eligible to enter their designs in international design contests held here. The understanding of architecture and architects in Korea is meager. - Kim Gwang-su; Song Jae-ho; Yu Seok-yeon; Gaudi; Tadao Ando; Lee Chang-ha; Koolhass; Nouvel- JoongAng Daily (Korea)

Smoking Candy in the Back Room: Now “town meetings,” “charettes,” “scoping sessions,” “workshops” and “task forces” have become the soy milk of politics... The struggle over Berkeley’s Seagate Building is a good local example.- Berkeley Daily Planet (California)

Ground Zero Memorial Becomes Necropolis to Grief: It was inevitable the planned memorial would grow to a disturbingly large size...for political, not design reasons... By James S. Russell - Michael Arad; Peter Walker; Davis Brody Bond- Bloomberg News

Boston Tries Closing Gap in Affordable Housing Efforts: Boston Redevelopment Authority records show more than 20 projects where developers were allowed to pay rather than bear the cost of building affordable units. (Boston Globe)- RIS Media

Danish Firm Selected for Tirana [Albania] Makeover: An 85m-high white building in the shape of a tulip, a nine-floor urban complex, parks and a cinema complex are among the highlights - Henning Larsens Tegnestue [image]- Southeast European Times

North architect makes a splash...after submitting a "unique and progressive design" for the London Olympic Aquatic Centre. - FaulknerBrowns- icTeesside

D-Day looms for Cattle Market plan: Bury St Edmunds...campaigners have admitted they still have concerns over the £80 million scheme.- East Anglian Daily Times (UK)

Sustainable Design for East Valley Bus Maintenance Facility [Tempe, AZ] Will Make It the Largest and One of the First of Its Kind to Receive LEED™ Certification - RNL Design; Maintenance Design Group [links to images]- PR Web

Histrionics And History: Lincoln Library's High-Tech Exhibits Have Scholars Choosing Sides - BRC Imagination Arts- Washington Post

Olmsted vs. Christo: Why the architects of Central Park would have vetoed "The Gates." By Witold Rybczynski - Olmsted and Vaux; Christo and Jeanne-Claude- Slate

Leaders & Success: Planning For The Long Term - Frederick Law Olmsted- Investor's Business Daily

Origami as the Shape of Things to Come; Dr. Erik Demaine...applying insights from wrinkling and crinkling to questions in architecture, robotics and molecular biology. [images/links]- New York Times

Niall McLaughlin Architects: Dirk Cove, County Cork: Light has long been a preoccupation... [images]- Archiseek (Ireland)

The Flowering Of Tord Boontje: ...exquisite lighting, exotic chairs and fantasy textiles are expanding the definition of furniture... By Linda Hales- Washington Post

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

-- In design: Gehry Partners: Novartis Campus, Basel, Switzerland
-- Book: Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture By Indra Kagis McEwen
-- New in The Image Library: Foreign Office Architects; Richard Meier; Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen; Yoshio Taniguchi; Rafael Viñoly; MVRDV

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