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Today's News - August 1, 2005
ArcSpace takes us to Chicago, Jerusalem, and Venice (California). -- As expected, several more bon mots for Calatrava's Chicago spire. -- Towering plans in London begs the question: Is bigger really better? -- Questions re: towering plans for L.A.'s Grand Avenue: will Gehry be the answer? -- Move over Gehry: Norten's star is rising. -- A Brit is winning the heart of America's heartland in Davenport and Des Moines. -- China's rush to develop is causing major environmental - and social - woes. -- No need to go to Disneyland...we live there already (perhaps that's not such a good thing). -- Green with pride in Orange County, CA. -- Why starchitects are lining up to design homes "on flooded Cotswolds gravel pits." -- A campus building may be difficult to love, but is worth saving. -- A Miami Art Deco masterpiece is brilliantly restored. -- How Henry Hope Reed saved architecture. -- A comic book gives us Cinderella City, a New York "laced with architectural marvels that were proposed but never actually constructed."
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-- Santiago Calatrava: Fordham Spire, Chicago
-- Moshe Safdie: Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum, Jerusalem
-- Pugh + Scarpa: Solar Umbrella, Venice, California |
Scaling aesthetic heights: Skyscraper [Fordham Spire] adapts to our world in a stunning new way. By Blair Kamin -- Santiago Calatrava [images]- Chicago Tribune |
Chicago spire's beauty may be its flaw: Since most of us experience these buildings from the street, not from the 80th floor, how to ensure that tall also means humane? Over to you, Mr. Calatrava. By Whitney Gould- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
The roots of a tall dream: It's the tale of two men -- one a world-famous Spanish architect, the other a relatively anonymous Chicago developer named Chris Carley -- engaged in a romance, of sorts. You could call it the courtship of Santiago Calatrava, except that it isn't always clear who is courting whom. By Kevin Nance- Chicago Sun-Times |
Dizzy heights: Over the next few years London's skyline will change dramatically with ever-taller high-rises planned in Canary Wharf and Bishopsgate. But is bigger really always best, asks Deyan Sudjic -- KPF (Kohn Pedersen Fox); Richard Rogers; SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill); Pelli; Alsop; Vinoly; Foster; Nouvel; Koolhaas [images]- Observer (UK) |
Grand Concerns: Arrival of Gehry Raises Questions of Cost and Ties to the Street: ...for Grand Avenue to succeed as an urban cultural and community nexus, the prime focus must be on public spaces... By Sam Hall Kaplan- LA Downtown News |
A Rising Starchitect: Will Enrique Norten be the next Frank Gehry? By Witold Rybczynski [images]- Slate |
A Briton's Vision Takes Hold in the Heartland: Davenport officials see the Figge Art Museum...as the linchpin of a revival of the historic downtown. -- David Chipperfield; Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck [images]- New York Times |
Q&A: Reflecting the light of the river: David Chipperfield wanted the Figge museum to reflect the light of the river.- The Des Moines Register (Iowa) |
In China's dash to develop, environment suffers severely: environmental woes are so large that they've begun to generate social instability.- Knight Ridder Real Cities Network |
Disneyland has given us unreal reality: You can't go to Disneyland because you're already there...began as a harmless diversion, but its legacy is a culture that despises and fears authentic experience.- San Antonio Express-News |
Green with pride: Once disparaged as too expensive, impractical or just plain ugly, green architecture has moved from the utopian fringes to the mainstream. -- LPA; Taylor and Associates Architecture; Foster; Murcutt; Rogers; Fox; Fowle; Dougherty & Dougherty- Orange County Register (California) |
On the waterfront: Why are some of the biggest names in architecture queueing up to build on flooded Cotswolds gravel pits? ...Lower Mill Estate will be a pilgrimage site for Britain's architecture fans, as well as its birdwatchers. -- Meier; Alsop; Gough; Jiricna; Sherman; Wigglesworth; Featherstone [image]- Guardian (UK) |
Oh, the Humanities! Building on UW-Madison campus is difficult to love but is worthy of saving. So why am I feeling a twinge of sadness about the planned demolition of the George L. Mosse Humanities Building...? By Whitney Gould -- Harry Weese (1966-69) [image]- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
Moderation in excess at restoration of the Hotel Victor: ...Art Deco masterwork...is restored and refinished, with an addition that shows it is possible to connect old and new without sacrificing the architecture of either. By Beth Dunlop -- L. Murray Dixon (1937); Perkins & Will- Miami Herald |
How Henry Hope Reed Saved Architecture: ...basically invented the New York City architectural or historical walking tour, in 1956...helped build the constituency for the preservation movement, which led to the Landmarks Law of 1965, and to a general revolution in urban consciousness...- New York Sun |
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Architecture! Cinderella City, the setting for the comic book series Manhattan Guardian...is unmistakably New York...laced with architectural marvels that were proposed but never actually constructed. -- Gaudí; Hans Hollein; Frank Lloyd Wright [slide show]- New York Times |
Rethinking Form and Function: Swarthmore College Unified Science Center becomes an intellectual and social magnet for an entire campus. -- Einhorn Yaffee Prescott; Helfand Architecture [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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