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Today's News - September 14, 2005
Debate about the fate of New Orleans continues. -- European cities already building with global warming in mind. -- A mixed shortlist for the best Scottish building. -- Big plans for Glasgow's River Clyde neighborhood. -- Cleveland museum expansion is a go. -- RIBA chief calls architecture shows "crap" (and has a not-so-polite title for an exhibition). -- Upcoming AIA San Francisco Home Tours "make a case for letting architects rule the world." -- Hadid makes jaws drop in Copenhagen. -- Libeskind says architecture is about communication. -- Eisenman says architects must rethink how architecture communicates. -- Rios on a California roll. -- Rapson at 91 still hard at work.
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Plans afoot to rebuild New Orleans: They say New Orleans will never be same again. And they mean it, too...Now property developers, urban conservationists and city planners are expecting schemes that once competed for funding to find a new lease of life.- BBC (UK) |
Reviving a City: The Design Perspective: Architects and planners worry that developers might try to recreate some fairy-tale version of the city,,,urged a rethinking of New Orleans's sprawl, arguing that the city should be consolidated.- New York Times |
Why New Orleans must be rebuilt: Cities are collective works of art, and this is one of America's masterpieces. How it should rise from the floodwaters is a tougher decision. By Blair Kamin- Chicago Tribune |
Should we even rebuild New Orleans? For a long time, New Orleans has been fighting a war with nature, and it finally lost. Why fight that war again?- Chicago Tribune |
Global warming: Adapting to a new reality: ...subway structures raised to allow for a half-meter, or 1.5-foot, rise in sea level...plant new species of trees that grow better in a slightly warmer climate...new docks are being built to accommodate the likelihood of rising sea levels.- International Herald Tribune |
Best building finalists unveiled...for Scotland's biggest architecture prize: 2005 RIAS Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture winner will receive £25,000 -- Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects; Michael Laird Architects; Rothesay. G Deveci, Architect; EMBT/RMJM; Gareth Hoskins Architects [link to images]- BBC News |
£300m Clyde scheme set for green light: ...development of homes, shops and restaurants on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow -- John McAslan & Partners; Anderson Bell & Christie; OMS Architects [image]- Evening Times (Scotland) |
Cleveland Museum of Art OKs construction bids with cost guarantee...for building the first part of a $258 million expansion and renovation... By Steven Litt -- Rafael Vinoly- Cleveland Plain Dealer |
Architecture shows 'crap', says Riba chief: ...perhaps his strangest idea is an exhibition that he calls simply "Shit Architecture" -- Graeme Russell- Guardian (UK) |
Design magicians: The best contemporary projects -- having defeated bureaucracy and thrilled even the neighbors -- strut their stuff on AIA SF tour...make a case for letting architects rule the world. [images]- San Francisco Chronicle |
Scandinavia embraces Zaha Hadid: or is it vice-versa? ...at some point - usually sooner rather than later - she will say or do something jaw-dropping. In Copenhagen last week she was over to launch her latest building...Ordrupgaard Museum extension... By Hugh Pearman [images]- HughPearman.com (UK) |
A twinkle in the eye of the storm: Our critic spends a day in the wild whirlwind of Daniel Libeskind’s world...“Architecture is about communication”... By Tom Dyckhoff- The Times (UK) |
Eisenman Urges New Language of Architecture: "...we must rethink how architecture communicates”- Cornell Daily Sun |
Mark Rios on a roll: The architect and his L.A. firm, best known for its landscape design projects, use Southern California as a muse for everything from dishes to government buildings. -- Rios Clementi Hale Studios [slide show]- Los Angeles Times |
Architect Ralph Rapson at 91...is still hard at work. [images]- Minnesota Public Radio |
Op-Ed: Modern Ironies: Notes on Losing the Bunshaft's Travertine House (1963). By Kenneth Caldwell [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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-- Under construction: Gehry & Partners: Marques de Riscal Winery, Elciego, Spain
-- Book: "NOX: Machining Architecture," by Lars Spuybroek |
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