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Today's News - September 16, 2005
A British take on New York's architectural renaissance and adventurous design. -- Chicago's endangered architectural treasures. -- "Politics has triumphed, and Sydney is the loser" in decision to dump green belt strategy. -- Australia plagued by a "lawless" building industry. -- Bold designs to choose from for Edmonton museum expansion. -- A call to let architects be bold. -- Flight 93 memorial designer is disappointed with "misinterpretation and a simplistic distortion," but "somewhat optimistic" about changes. -- New ballpark is a "dollop of real design innovation into baseball's wrongheaded fixation with nostalgia." -- Taliesin teardown creates "anxiety and confusion" for Toronto fellowship arrangement. -- London dance troupe gets a new HQ. -- Getty Villa (finally) ready for its close-up. -- Lahore establishes city museum in historic building. -- California Academy of Sciences dons a 2.5-cacre undulating green roof. -- Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction's European winners announced (the rest of the world later). -- Swiss architectural teaching to be explored in San Francisco. -- Marcel Janko (the architect) Bauhaus Center gallery in Tel Aviv.
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High hopes: Four years on, there is an architectural renaissance in New York that would have been difficult to imagine in the weeks that followed 9/11...once again becoming a city where adventurous architecture can happen. -- Forster; Gehry; Calatrava; Meier; Pelli; Libeskind; Childs, High Line; etc.- Financial Times (UK) |
Preservation's call to arms: Some of the Chicago area's most important architectural treasures are in danger...they may soon be altered beyond all recognition or completely demolished. By Kevin Nance- Chicago Sun-Times |
Editorial: Urban planning goes awry again: State Government's decision to dump...its green belt strategy for two big suburban regions...is a setback for attempts to manage the way the metropolitan area develops. Politics has triumphed, and Sydney is the loser.- Sydney Morning Herald |
Building industry 'lawless': ...plagued by a culture of civil disobedience, coercion, intimidation, threatening behaviour and contempt for the law...Building Industry Taskforce...will be replaced by a new Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)- Sydney Morning Herald |
Jury weighs four bold designs: Which of world's top architects is about to change the face of downtown Edmonton? ...[with] $40-million expansion to the Edmonton Art Gallery -- Randall Stout; Will Alsop; Zaha Hadid; Arthur Erickson- The Edmonton Journal (Canada) |
Opinion: We must let architects be bold: ...a decidedly urban, unabashedly European feel...Pratt Hill is a model to which other new developments should aspire. By William Morgan -- Friedrich St. Florian- Providence Journal (Rhode Island) |
Architect Offers Changes to 9/11 Flight 93 Memorial "Crescent of Embrace": Paul Murdoch said he is "somewhat optimistic" that the spirit of the design could be maintained. "It's a disappointment there is a misinterpretation and a simplistic distortion of this..."- Los Angeles Times |
Ballpark of a Future Past: The new A's ballpark in Oakland may inject a dollop of real design innovation into baseball's wrongheaded fixation with nostalgia. -- Brad Schrock/360 Architecture- SF Weekly (San Francisco) |
Taliesin teardown ruffles feathers: Toronto student's project at center of controversy: ...has brought anxiety and confusion to the Toronto fellowship arrangement, but has not ended it. -- Joy Charbonneau [image]- Arizona Republic |
Rambert Dance Company to build new HQ in Upper Ground -- Allies and Morrison [image]- London SE1 |
Getty Villa's renovations nearly done: Eight years after closing for [$275-million] renovation and five years later than planned...almost ready to meet the public. -- Machado and Silvetti Associates; Denis L. Kurutz; kornrandolph- Los Angeles Times |
Lahore City Museum to be established in Tollington Market: The historic 141-year-old building has been restored completely -- Sajjad Kausar; Kamil Khan Mumtaz; Nayyer Ali Dada [image]- Daily Times (Pakistan) |
Green roof for a green museum: California Academy of Sciences will be a growing concern in more ways than one; ...hearty plants will make up the new building's entire roof, a 2.5-acre undulating, self-sustaining cover. -- Renzo Piano; Gordon Chong [image]- San Francisco Chronicle |
Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction - Europe competition winners anounced -- Centola & Associati; Ingenhoven Architekten; J. Mayer H. [links to images]- Holcim Foundation |
"Inventioneering Architecture" exhibition and lecture series on Swiss architectural teaching at California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco, October 3-27 -- swissnex- Architecture Radio |
Janko the architect: "Marcel Janko - Inter-Disciplinary Artist: His Planning and Architectural Work" at the Bauhaus Center gallery in Tel Aviv...a presentation of architectural works known only to a few, even in art and architecture circles. By Esther Zandberg- Ha`aretz (Israel) |
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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