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Today's News - April 15, 2005

The first trilling words for Walker Art Center expansion: "...subtle design details that make curators swoon..." (there will be more for sure next week). -- Spain honors Miralles for Holyrood. -- Toronto's ugly Pugly Award winners announced: blame them on lax planning rules and lazy developers. -- U.K. mid-century Modernist houses making the grade. -- Stern news: Quilt Study Center in Nebraska has some people in stitches (one report has image and politics, the other actually talks about the design); School of Business design has Ithaca College feeling like it's "ready for prime time." -- A Chicago McDonald's "with a glandular problem" could have had some Chi-town panache from Murphy Jahn or Martin Wolf. -- Life inside Yale's Art and Architecture building. -- Ellerbe Becket regroups after defections. -- NYC High Line goes high profile at MoMA, and intense textiles get extreme showing at the Cooper-Hewitt.

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An Expansion Gives New Life to an Old Box; The Walker Art Center's new home is a masterly example of how exhausted motifs can acquire new meaning when reworked in a fresh setting. By Nicolai Ouroussoff -- Edward Larabee Barnes (1971); Herzog & de Meuron [images]- New York Times

Spain honours Miralles Holyrood vision: Manuel de la Dehesa Premio de Arquitectura is recognised as Spain's equivalent of the Royal Incorporation of British Architects' Stirling Prize. -- EMBT- The Herald (UK)

Pugly Awards: Arresting design wins accolades: But ugly condo indicts developers...Ugliness requires as much time, effort and money as beauty. Toronto is ugly because it chooses to be ugly. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star

Grade expectations: Five buildings built in the 1960s and 1970s could soon be listed -- Twentieth Century Society; Richard Horden; Philip Pank; Peter and Alison Smithson; Robert Harvey; Albert Richardson- The Times (UK)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln unveils plans for Quilt Study Center -- Robert A.M. Stern Architects; Alley Poyner Architecture [image]- Lincoln Journal Star (Nebraska)

UNL to Build First International Quilt Museum and Study Center -- Robert A.M. Stern Architects; Alley Poyner Architecture- Newswise

Ithaca College School of Business designer selected: building will be designed around sustainable principles -- Robert A.M. Stern Architects [image]- The Ithacan

Schlock Corridor: A new McDonald's with a glandular problem ups the ante for kitsch architecture on Chicago's Avenue of the Absurd. By Lynn Becker [images]- Repeat (Chicago)

The Art and Architecture building: love it, leave it or live in it -- Paul Rudolph- Yale Daily News

Ellerbe Becket fills six top posts: Recent departures prompt changes in leadership team- Kansas City Star

Rail Revival: Designs for New York's High Line Unveiled: "The High Line" at MoMA -- Field Operations/Diller Scofidio + Renfro [images]- Interior Design Newswire

"Extreme Textiles": Finding a Flair in the Smartest Fabrics of Our Lives: The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum offers a visually exciting, intensely tech-y show of industrial fibers and fabrics.- New York Times

Discovery and Collaboration = Chemical Reaction: University of Missouri-Columbia Life Sciences Center. By Gregory Blackburn, AIA - Anshen+Allen Architects/BNIM Architects [images]- ArchNewsNow

April '05 Build Business: Generating the Most Profitable Fees. By Eric P. Mott

-- Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Field Operations: The High Line, New York City
-- Book: Nanoarchitecture: A New Species of Architecture By John M. Johansen; photographed by Michael Moran

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