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Today's News - May 19, 2005
Editor's note: Greetings from Las Vegas! ANN comes to you from AIA convention (travel yesterday did not allow posting). ----- We lose an engineer in the forefront of "green" building. -- Trump pans WTC plans (with such eloquence - not); his WTC II plans mostly panned. -- Good news for Toronto's historic buildings. -- Holyrood still suffering with a punch list that never ends. -- Will the Shanghai Kiss really spin? -- Buffalo's newest building carries high hopes for city's revival. -- Montreal's new library is a gem - on the inside. -- Herzog gets emotional (about soccer). -- Straw bales and stucco unite tribal and academic communities. -- Multiple military base closings may reshape many U.S. communities. -- Design grows up at ICFF. -- Bunshaft house heading for demolition? -- Mapping E. Fay Jones. -- Young architects on show in Jaffa. -- In Minneapolis, Gehry curates show of California pals.
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Obituary: Norman D. Kurtz, 69, Founder of Skyscraper Outfitting Firm Flack + Kurtz- New York Times |
Trump pushes own Ground Zero plan: ...calls current plan "the worst pile of crap architecture I've ever seen in my life."...Goldberger said Trump's proposal was technically achievable but ill-advised. -- Ken Gardner/Herbert Belton; Childs; Libeskind [image]- CNN |
Score one for our new heritage rules: Bill 60, which received royal assent recently, alters the Ontario Heritage Act to extend preservation rules...This is good news for Toronto's historic buildings.- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
2,000 faults still plague Scottish Parliament: The litany of problems which still have to be fixed include leaky windows, jamming doors, peeling plaster, and wall panels that keep falling off.- The Scotsman (UK) |
1.46 Billion Yuan (US$176 million) Buys a 'Kiss' a Home: If built, the twisting Shanghai Kiss will unseat London Eye as the world's tallest ferris wheel. -- Alsop; Arup- China.org |
Building's design and purpose embody hope for city's revival: Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute a first step in area's bid to boost life sciences here --Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design [image]- Buffalo News |
Definitely one for the books: It shows little love for the street, but the new Grande Bibliothèque du Québec offers an exquisitely detailed salon in which to luxuriate over the printed word. By Lisa Rochon -- Patkau Architects; Menkes Shooner Dagenais; Michel Dallaire- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
The ceilings of Jacques Herzog. Or: Swiss architects get emotional. By Hugh Pearman -- Herzog and de Meuron [images]- HughPearman.com (UK) |
American Indian housing project will link tribal, academic communities: ...a building made of straw bales and stucco...equally an exercise in green construction...cultural partnership and immersion experience for undergraduate students.- University of Wisconsin/Madison |
Pentagon Seeks to Shut Dozens of Bases Across Nation: ...from tiny Army Reserve centers to sprawling Air Force bases that have been the economic anchors of their communities for generations- New York Times |
EDAW Launches Online Information Resource for New Round of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)- Business Wire |
Are Designers Sheathing the Cutting Edge? At the 17th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair [ICFF] the look was grown-up high design. [images]- New York Times |
Un-Thoroughly Modern Martha: How her Gordon Bunshaft house got the shaft. Textiles magnate Donald Maharam...wants to make it very clear that he’s sorry, but he has to tear it down...modern-architecture preservationists are up in arms.- New York Magazine |
University School of Architecture Creates E. Fay Jones Map- The Morning News (Arkansas) |
Young architects on show: The third biennale "40/40"...in the gallery of the Architects House in Jaffa. By Esther Zandberg -- Architects Association; Hanan Pomagrin; Orit Edrei Nezer; Ronit Biton; Eran Kaftan; Shai Yeshayahu/Maria Vara; Iris Horowitz Chelouche; Ori Ronen/Shani Hai; etc.- Ha`aretz (Israel) |
Frank Gehry assembles a show of work by his southern-California pals: "West! Frank Gehry and the Artists of Venice Beach, 1962-1978" at Weisman Art Museum- Minneapolis Star Tribune |
Exhibition Review: "The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big": The 1960s: just long enough ago to be familiar, yet far enough in the past to look back at this time of radical urban redevelopment with some degree of objectivity. By Terri Whitehead [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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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) |
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