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Today's News - July 14, 2005
Call for EOI for steely sustainable housing competition. -- Imagining future cities: Hollywood visions miss the mark. -- A spotlight on African American design innovators. -- Building codes challenge adaptive re-use and historic preservation. -- Boca Raton debates creative reinterpretation of Mizner's Mediterranean revival style. -- Gehry gets the go-ahead for L.A.'s Grand Avenue redevelopment. -- But grumblings about Gehry in Brooklyn grow louder. -- The Pritzkers' new Hyatt Center "takes the edge off Chicago's relentless right angles." -- MoMA/PS 1's Young Architect winner "clearly has talent" but will a "status-obsessed culture give him the time to develop it." -- Design for a new hospital in Milwaukee needs some doctoring. -- A retreat in Ireland creates "the right environment for contemplation." -- A Minneapolis music school to get a new home with high-profile neighbors. -- Icy architecture that warms the heart. -- Target misses the mark with knockoffs.
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Call for Expressions of Interest: Living Steel International Competition for Sustainable Housing; EOI deadline: December 1- International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) |
Eco-designs on future cities: Imagining what our cities will look like in the future has long been a favourite pastime of the Hollywood movie industry...Ask a gathering of leading thinkers in the worlds of architecture and design, and you get a rather different picture. -- TEDGlobal; Robert Neuwirth; William McDonough- BBC News |
Form & Function Design 2005: From industrial pioneers to industry innovators, these designers create the world's hottest products: ... African American designers have made significant inroads in interior, architectural, automotive, and industrial design. -- Steve McLeod/SCM Design; Cheryl R. Riley; J. Max Bond Jr./Davis Brody Bond; Courtney Sloane/Alternative Design; Allison G. Williams/Ai; etc.- Black Enterprise Magazine |
Window Pains: New wind-resistance codes find Ritz-Carlton replacing the former Maison-Blanche's glass...illustrates how difficult it can be for buildings restored using historic tax credits to comply with the new code...1910 Audubon Building must comply... -- Williams Architects; Trapolin Architects- The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) |
Plans for lofts in Boca Raton revive downtown architecture debate: ...city code requires new downtown buildings to "creatively reinterpret" the work of by Addison Mizner...On this point, city leaders and architects part ways. -- Philip Johnson; Retszch Lanao Caycedo Architects- Palm Beach Post |
Neighborhood Architect: Frank O. Gehry doesn't have to worry about what gets built next to his landmark Walt Disney Concert Hall...Related Cos. has asked Gehry to design the entire $1.8 billion Grand Avenue redevelopment...- Wall Street Journal |
Grumbles About Gehry: Ratner’s Atlantic Yards plan finally gets the attention in deserves.- New York Press |
Throwing tradition a curve: The Pritzkers' new Hyatt Center takes the edge off Chicago's relentless right angles...cleverly accepts the constraints of tight budget and security features and, in the manner of a skilled practitioner of judo, turns them to the advantage of the cityscape. By Blair Kamin -- Henry Cobb/Pei Cobb Freed; Peter Schaud; Lohan Caprile Goettsch [images]- Chicago Tribune |
At P.S. 1 [Young Architects Program], an Illusion of Tents Billowing in the Breeze: ...clearly has talent. The issue is whether our restless and status-obsessed culture will give him the time to develop it. By Nicolai Ouroussoff -- Hernan Diaz Alonso/Xefirotarch [images]- New York Times |
Hospital plan needs some doctoring: If the architecture overall falls short of exciting, the urban planning is progressive. By Whitney Gould -- Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum [image]- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
Retreat boxes create the right mood for reflection: A striking retreat centre in Co Tipperary has chosen contemporary design to create the right environment for contemplation -- Bates Maher Architects- Irish Times |
MacPhail Center for Music unveils plans for new home: ...an urbane $12.5 million tin, steel and glass headquarters...near Nouvel's Guthrie Theater and Tom Meyer's Mill City Museum. -- James Dayton Design [image]- Minneapolis Star Tribune |
"The Snow Show": Eerie, thrilling Lapland show of ice buildings sends a chill up the spine of an architecture fan. By John King -- Isozaki; Hadid; Tod Williams Billie Tsien; Norten- San Francisco Chronicle |
Not Exactly a Stand-Up Move: Knockoff of Classic Chair Just Doesn't Sit Right: ...what Target has done to the venerable Navy chair shows disrespect. By Linda Hales -- Emeco; Foundation for Design Integrity; Starck; Gehry; Foster- Washington Post |
Op-Ed: The 2012 New York Olympics is lost. Long live the 2014 New York World's Fair. By Fred Bernstein- ArchNewsNow |
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-- Under construction: Raimund Abraham: JingYa Ocean Entertainment Center, Beijing, China
-- Randall Stout: Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia
-- Design Hotel: Niall D Brennan & Associates: The Morgan, Dublin, Ireland |
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