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Today's News - May 16, 2005
This week, ArcSpace introduces a Danish firm winning big in the U.K., and a new book about Bauhaus. -- Three magazines take on the preservation of Modernism, the cutting edge, and Masters of Design in round-ups and reviews. -- A "California architect and political naif" presents an "elegant plan" for a new Palestinian state - and people are listening. -- Time to deal with the "800-pound gorilla" in affordable housing. -- Study says U.S. housing, transportation, and services not ready to handle the aging population. -- Syracuse has high hopes for an architectural makeover at the edge of town. -- Another serious look at plunking high rises (and "facade-echtomies") in historic districts. -- Cladding: are we seeing the "architectural equivalent of a dress-down Friday?" -- Beauty often runs only budget-deep in school design. -- The new Canadian National Institute for the Blind headquarters "is extraordinary for its ordinariness." -- New stem cell research building like its new neighborhood (and industry): just trying to fit in. -- Washington, DC's newest theater "quietly dramatic, elegantly inelegant." -- Buckminster Fuller's Oklahoma City Gold Dome shines again. - Architecture for Humanity continues to inspire. -- New postage stamps honor great architecture (architects included -- sort of).
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-- 2X Winners: 3XNielsen: Museum of Liverpool, and Salford Arts and Media Centre, Manchester, UK
-- Book: Bauhaus: 1919-1933 By Magdalena Droste (Taschen) |
Architecture 2005: Is it Time for the Preservation of Modernism? "Russian Icons" By Nicolai Ouroussoff; "The Towering Problem: It's hard to preserve what you do not love." By James Traub; The Last of the Moderns: Oscar Niemeyer"; "The City He Built: After Cambodia's independence, Vann Molyvann set out to give the country's capital a new face."; "Saving the Tract House"; Q&A's with Brad Cloepfil & Terence Riley [images & slide shows]- New York Times Magazine |
Design 2005: The Cutting Edge; "A Problem With Authority: Thom Mayne hates playing by the rules. So what's he doing designing government buildings?"; "Pre-Fab Houses Get Fabulous"; "Design Dozen: People, Products, Places"; etc. -- Bentel & Bentel; Studio Dror; Bernhardt; James Cutler; Charlie Lazor; Michelle Kaufmann; Resolution: 4 Architecture; etc.- Newsweek |
The Power of Design: ...second annual report on the Masters of Design...are rewriting the rules for design and for business. -- Joshua Prince-Ramus/Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA); Bruce Mau; Zaha Hadid- Fast Company |
The Day After Peace: Designing Palestine: A California architect and political naif has proposed an elegant plan for a new state. Against all odds, people are listening. -- Suisman Urban Design/Rand [slide show]- New York Times |
It's a Nice Place to Work, but You Probably Can't Live There: The often unacknowledged 800-pound gorilla at every affordable housing conference and seminar...is the inescapable need for subsidies to close the money gap. By Roger K. Lewis- Washington Post |
Towns Aren't Suited For Aging Populations: America's cities and neighborhoods aren't ready to handle the aging population with adequate housing, community services or transportation, AARP study finds.- Wall Street Journal |
Architectural makeover to shape edge of town: ...a landmark whose rehabilitation could throw life into an entire district. -- Gluckman Mayner Architects- Syracuse Post-Standard |
The lofty stakes of putting high-rises in historic districts: Building in landmark areas presents far-reaching issues. By Blair Kamin -- Dankmar Adler/Louis Sullivan (1882); Holabird & Roche (1900); Solomon Cordwell Buenz & Associates- Chicago Tribune |
Cladding: the comeback: Minimalist glass and steel exteriors are so over. Now fashionable building designers are dressing their works in the architectural equivalent of flared trousers...could we be seeing the architectural equivalent of a dress-down Friday? -- Moneo; Ritchie; Holl; Taha; Legoretta; Alsop; Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT); Graves; Moore; Bofill; Gehry; Scape Architects; Foreign Office Architects; Nouvel; Piano- Guardian (UK) |
For schools, beauty runs budget-deep: Forced to balance the pressing need for new buildings with a desire for high-quality architecture, campus planners and architects say the task can be frustrating. -- Stefanos Polyzoides; NBBJ- Contra Costa Times (California) |
Architectural vision: The new headquarters of the CNIB is extraordinary for its ordinariness. Design gives dignity to everyday lives of the blind. By Christopher Hume -- Sweeny Sterling Finlayson- Toronto Star |
The shape of things to come: Stem cell building, like the industry, just trying to fit in. By John King -- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill [images]- San Francisco Chronicle |
On D St. NW, A Theater That Wins Applause: Welcome, Woolly Mammoth, to downtown D.C... subtly unsettling, quietly dramatic, elegantly inelegant. Somehow, it works. By Benjamin Forgey -- McInturff Architects; Theater Projects Consultants [image]- Washington Post |
Gold Dome to Reopen: ...historic geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller...saved from demolition...to make way for a Walgreens.- The Oklahoman |
Architecture professor wants students to 'Design Like They Give a Damn' -- Cameron Sinclair/Architecture for Humanity- Bozeman Daily Chronicle (Montana) |
Buildings Stamped Into Memory: 37-cent stamps debut as "Masterworks of Modern American Architecture" on Thursday in Las Vegas, [during] the annual convention of the AIA. By Linda Hales -- Wright; Van Alen; Mies van der Rohe; Kahn; Johnson; Saarinen; Rudolph; Pei; Venturi; Gehry; Meier; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill- Washington Post |
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