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Today's News - February 17, 2005
Big prize for sustainable building projects; deadline draws near. -- Big plans for Cooper-Hewitt. -- Future mall as classic Main Streets. -- University of Miami plans a new urbanist village. -- New Jersey gets an eco-friendly development. -- New condos face earsplitting challenges. -- New York's MoMA offers San Francisco's de Young museum a cautionary tale. -- An interview with Calatrava. -- Cloepfil brings "hunting-lodge chic on steroids" to Sun Valley. -- Two landscape architects 'operate at opposite ends of the landscape spectrum." -- Starck gives Tokyo a "Flame d'Or" ("The Golden Flame") - others have a very different name for it. -- Report from the Verdopolis confab. -- High-tech for virtual bricks and some far out furniture. -- Just for fun: Tasmanian roo-doo makes eco-friendly paper.
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Sustainable Building Projects Vie for Holcim Foundation $2 Million Purse; deadline: March 31- EarthVision Environmental News |
Cooper-Hewitt Proposes $75 Million Expansion: ...would create three new floors beneath the spacious gated garden of its home, the landmark Carnegie Mansion... - Beyer Blinder Belle- New York Times |
A trip to Future Mall: The malls of the past...being knocked down to be replaced by open-air lifestyle centers...resemble a neighborhood main street...- NorthJersey.com |
University of Miami plans a 'model' village: hopes to develop an old-fashioned, pedestrian-oriented village of homes next to Miami Metrozoo as an alternative to car-choked suburban sprawl. - Duany Plater-Zyberk [image]- Miami Herald |
Green homes an N.J. first: Eco-friendly residential development in Tewksbury...the lifelong dream of landscape architect Anthony Sblendorio/Back to Nature Landscape Associates...- Asbury Park Press |
Condos Break Sound Barrier: ...new condominiums and rental apartments are going up in some earsplitting places. - Cetra/Ruddy; Shen Milsom & Wilke; Charles Salter; Shiner & Associates; Carl Moskus/DeStefano + Partners- New York Times |
N.Y.'s MoMA offers insight into de Young: ...a cautionary tale reminding us that sometimes a building is just a building -- even when it costs $425 million. By John King - Yoshio Taniguchi/Kohn Pedersen Fox; Herzog + de Meuron/Fong & Chan Architects- San Francisco Chronicle |
Santiago Calatrava's Favorite Bridges: Martin C. Pedersen...spoke with him about his New York work and love of bridges, as well as the importance drawing plays in his creative process. [images]- Metropolis Magazine |
Sun Valley Surprise: Chalet So Spare: Allied Works managed to sneak an aggressively contemporary house into Sun Valley, Idaho, where the architectural style might be called hunting-lodge chic on steroids. By Christopher Hawthorne - Brad Cloepfil/Allied Works Architecture [slide show]- New York Times |
Landscapers masters of their terrain: Janet Rosenberg and Randy Tumber...the difference between designing to create connections versus barriers. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star |
So, what the heck is that? I raise my glass to the Asahi Beer Co. for bringing interesting and provocative modern architecture to Tokyo. Vision and guts, indeed. - Nikken Seikei; Philippe Starck [image]- Japan Times |
Chillin' Verde: dispatches from Verdopolis, a confab on future green cities; Next and the City: how to make cities more like zoos; The Three Marketeers: the suits pitch to the T-shirt crowd- Grist Magazine |
Augmented Reality: Another (Virtual) Brick in the Wall- Technology Review (MIT) |
Design goes high-tech - Tord Boontje; Artecnica; Vitra; Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec; Karim Rashid; etc.- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Tasmanian paper made from 'roo poo: Visitors will soon be able to buy a new souvenir of their Australian experience - paper made from kangaroo manure.- BBC News |
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-- 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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