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Today's News - May 11, 2005
We lose a master who left his mark on social history as well as its skyline. -- The "greening" of General Electric is "the most dramatic example yet of a green revolution that is quietly transforming global business." -- Call for entries for socially responsible housing competition. -- Waterfront dreams in Miami (with hopes they don't turn into nightmares). -- Towns are beginning to put their feet down on Bigfoot bash-and-build McMansions. -- Retail revolution in India has teething problems (air conditioning, not shopping, a big draw). -- We're happy to report that the Los Angeles Times has lifted its pay-to-view policy and we can all once again enjoy Hawthorne's wit and wisdom: Wynn Las Vegas themed "midrise office tower in Houston, circa 1983"; and Koolhaas's "severely hip concert hall" in Portugal. -- Grand Rapids museum design gets "tweaked" (and not by the original architect). -- Another (mostly) rousing thumbs-up for Walker Art Center addition. -- A U.K. sculpture park takes on national importance "almost by stealth." -- The 2nd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam will take on water; gathers over one hundred models of water cities. -- A deftly designed WW II architecture show at the Chicago Art Institute "captures energy of the era." -- International winners who design and protect the landscape.
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Obituary: Vernon DeMars, 97: an architect and UC Berkeley professor who left his mark on the Bay Area's social history as well as its skyline. By John King- San Francisco Chronicle |
Editorial: Corporate Green: The greening of General Electric...would double its research spending on cleaner technologies to $1.5 billion annually...the most dramatic example yet of a green revolution that is quietly transforming global business.- Washington Post |
Call for Entries: First John M. Clancy Award for Socially Responsible Housing; deadline: June 13- Boston Society of Architects/AIA |
Waterfront dreams: With four areas being replanned, we can restore, preserve and celebrate the coastal environment...it is the landscape that ultimately defines and differentiates us, Rome to Rio. By Beth Dunlop -- Hargreaves & Associates; Cooper Robertson & Partners; WRT; EDSA- Miami Herald |
McMansions or Bash-and-Builds, Bigfoots: Call them what you will, more and more towns have had enough of oversize houses. [images]- New York Times |
India's malls pull in people who aren't buying: ...retail revolution, which began with the arrival of the first shopping mall less than six years ago, is having teething troubles.- International Herald Tribune |
A glitch in the glitz: The price tag is over the top, but Wynn Las Vegas' exterior isn't...The theme is midrise office tower in Houston, circa 1983. By Christopher Hawthorne -- Jerde Partnership; DeRuyter Butler; Cesar Pelli; Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & KuhnBergman, Walls & Associates- Los Angeles Times |
A severely hip concert hall: Rem Koolhaas can be bold and exciting in his disregard for the norm. But in Portugal he may have gotten boxed in. By Christopher Hawthorne -- Office for Metropolitan Architecture/OMA; Renz van Luxemburg [images]- Los Angeles Times |
Grand Rapids Art Museum gets new architects; opening date pushed back: ...original work by London-based architects Munkenbeck and Marshall...tweaked by the Los Angeles-based firm Workshop Hakomori Yantrasast.- Grand Rapids Press |
A Museum Addition That Refuses to Be Boxed In: Walker Art Center...Smart. Deadpan. With it. Edgy. Elegant. Evanescent. Over-the-top. By Benjamin Forgey -- Herzog & de Meuron; Hammel, Green and Abrahamson; Edward Larrabee Barnes (1971)- Washington Post |
Town in country: the new galleries at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park...Almost by stealth, it has become a nationally important contemporary art gallery. By Hugh Pearman -- Feilden Clegg Bradley [images]- HughPearman.com (UK) |
The Flood: 2nd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, May 26 - June 26: will spotlight the relation between water and architecture...Adriaan Geuze/West 8 is curator- Biennale Rotterdam |
Exhibition Review: "1945: Creativity and Crisis: Chicago Architecture and Design of the World War II Era": a perfect-pitch exhibition design by Stanley Tigerman...deftly captures both the austerity and the energy of the decade. By Blair Kamin -- Wright; Mies van der Rohe; Goldberg; Goff; Ferriss; etc.- Chicago Tribune |
Design and Protection of the Landscape: Torsanlorenzo Nurseries International Prize Winners Announced [images/links]- Vivai Torsanlorenzo |
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-- Inauguration: Gehry Partners: MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany; Photos:Thomas Mayer
-- Construction start: UN Studio: Lelystad Theater, Lelystad, The Netherlands |
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