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Today's News - June 20, 2005
ArcSpace takes us to a performing arts center in the Arizona desert. -- L.A.'s downtown building boom offers lessons for downtowns everywhere. -- A "merry band of architectural pranksters" in Philadelphia redefine the rowhouse. -- An office tower planned to meet Vedic and LEED standards. -- Ove Arup's 1946 visionary business model still works wonders. -- Ground Zero: memorial revisions "threatening to transform the site into a theme park haunted by death;" Deutsche Bank building lingers on; the photographer who documented Lower Manhattan's demolition decades ago. -- Classic American hotels threatened by demolition or conversion. -- Chicago's Wrigley Building not protected, either (could there be balconies in its future?). -- National Design Awards are all well and good - or are they if no one gets to actually see the designs? -- Alsop pays tribute to Cedric Price. -- Efforts to save Louis Kahn's Trenton Bath House include an upcoming exhibition.
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Antoine Predock: Community Performing Arts & Learning Center, Pima Community College. Green Valley, Arizona |
South Park Surprise Continues: Questions of Whether Downtown Matters Fall Flat When the Area Is Exploding. By Sam Hall Kaplan -- Nadel Architects; Johnson Fain Partners [image]- LA Downtown News |
Capitalizing on the Grand Opportunity: A Heart for Downtown Needs Successful Arteries, In the Form of Vibrant Streets...can be our new parade routes, our new places of celebration in a setting of genuine civic meaning. By Robert S. Harris, FAIA- LA Downtown News |
Redefining the rowhouse: Tim McDonald and his merry band of architectural pranksters have moved north to Fishtown, and they've taken their guerrilla design-and-build tactics with them. By Inga Saffron [image, link]- Philadelphia Inquirer |
Tower II Planned With The Maharishi in Mind: Developer Aims to Build Healthful Workplace...the world's largest office building that meets the Vedic standards... -- Kishimoto, Gordon, Dalaya; Maharishi Global Construction- Washinton Post |
"We're not arrogant, we're confident. But it's a fine line ...": Ove Arup created an architectural firm that is as much a belief system as it is a cutting-edge company. Steve Rose meets the men who have carried his vision into the 21st century -- Terry Hill; Cecil Balmond; Tristram Carfrae; Utzon; Stirling; Foster; Libeskind; Koolhaas; Herzog & de Meuron- Guardian (UK) |
For the Ground Zero Memorial, Death by Committee...the city is likely to end up with a memorial geared to tourists with short attention spans rather than to the serious contemplation of human loss. By Nicolai Ourossoff -- Michael Arad; Peter Walker; Davis Brody Bond [images]- New York Times |
Where Time Is Stopped at Sept. 11: The Deutsche Bank building's life effectively ended when the World Trade Center collapsed across Liberty Street. By David Dunlap [images]- New York Times |
When a Neighborhood Fell, and Barely Made a Sound: In 1966, a swath of Lower Manhattan faced a demolition job of staggering magnitude..."Danny Lyon: The Destruction of Lower Manhattan" at the Museum of the City of New York [images]- New York Times |
Our homes away from home at risk: Hotels have long touched the American imagination in reality and in fiction...But far too many are in jeopardy -- threatened by forces ranging from demolition...to condo conversion... By Beth Dunlop -- Schultze & Weaver; Dorothy Draper; Morris Lapidus- Miami Herald |
Beloved building vulnerable because it is not a landmark: No skyscraper in Chicago is more beloved than the Wrigley Building... By Blair Kamin -- Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (1921) [image, links]- Chicago Tribune |
A Function in Need Of a Better Form At the Smithsonian: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum announced the latest winners of the National Design Awards. Too bad nobody gets to see the collected works. By Linda Hales- Washington Post |
Flight of fancy: Cedric Price had no time for style or materials, and his best designs were never built - but he was a true visionary, says architect Will Alsop- Guardian (UK) |
Architects, historians and swimmers reimagine the Trenton Bath House: "If I Owned the Trenton Bath House," an exhibition of thoughts and images on the future of Louis Kahn's pivotal design... [images]- Princeton Packet |
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