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Today's News - September 27, 2005
The world's tallest: Q&A with the chairman of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. -- Will grand plans for urban renewal in today's New Haven heed lessons from its past? -- Architects and developers: a love/hate relationship. -- Developers devouring old Russia. -- Comment (thumbs-down) and response (thumbs-up) to Gehry's "delirious designs" for Hove. -- New York's "island of dreams" remains just that. -- In China (of all places), questions raised about teaching feng shui. -- Raising the bar in retail design in India: "The problem with many Indian retail designs is that they have been done by interior designers or architects" (h-m-m-m). -- Finally - a British architect theater directors can love. -- Despite doubters, Cleveland museum expansion is a good idea. -- A Masonic Temple transformed into a temple for art in Portland, OR. -- Malaysia has big plans for a 72-acre information and communications technology urban center. -- A faded L.A. gem to sparkle as chic hotel. -- McDonough asked to bring his Cradle to Cradle approach to hybrid cars. -- A long-overdue spotlight on Eileen Gray.
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The Rise of the Few: Key Ingredients for the World's Tallest Skyscrapers: Q&A with Ron Klemencic, Chairman, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat [images]- ArchNewsNow |
New Haven's redevelopment recalls Lee: DeStefano's renewal plans confront legacy of late mayor -- and face similar pitfalls...much of the community's criticism of Lee, such as his undemocratic process of urban planning and inattention to the maintenance of low-income neighborhoods, remain the same.- Yale Daily News |
Our love-hate relationship with developers: A century ago, architects were the most dynamic interpreters of the American dream...Today, the architect's stature has been dwarfed.- San Diego Union-Tribune |
A New Russia Leaves the Old in the Dust: ...well-connected developers...are devouring old buildings...using force and arson if payoffs and legal sleight of hand fail them...torn down scores of buildings in the city center, ripping the soul out of much of this stolid, quirky city.- New York Times |
Comment: Give these people an inch and they take a city: Frank Gehry should be told to scale down his two 'Prescott' towers, or Hove will suffer the fate facing London's skyline. By Simon Jenkins- Guardian (UK) |
Response: Nimbys can't see the beauty of new architecture: Frank Gehry's delirious designs for the seafront at Hove are in keeping with its history. By Piers Gough- Guardian (UK) |
Island of Dreams: Will Governors Island be the new UN? A CUNY campus? Site of the Olympics? Or will it remain just another illustration of the difficulties of getting anything built in New York?- Gotham Gazette |
Even in China, Feng Shui Disharmony: A university's plans for a training program in the ancient practice raise scorn for 'a fake science.'- Los Angeles Times |
Raising the bar: “The problem with many Indian retail designs is that they have been done by interior designers or architects”...co-operative, multi-disciplinary approach takes root...we should be seeing stores that as well as looking good, really meet the needs of both the brands they display and the customers they serve.- The Economic Times (India) |
Stage manager: If they could, theatre directors would ban architects from coming anywhere near their buildings. Steve Rose meets the one man who has won them over -- Haworth Tompkins- Guardian (UK) |
On the rise: Despite some doubts, art-museum expansion should work in Cleveland...expansion makes excellent sense from every angle...the art-museum construction boom is broad and deep... By Steve Litt -- Rafael Viñoly; Eisenman; Sejima & Nishizawa; Coop Himmelb(l)au; Hadid; Gehry; UN Studio; Calatrava- Cleveland Plain Dealer |
A temple to art: The newly christened Mark Building, formerly the Masonic Temple...completes a 10-year fundamental and essential makeover of the [Portland] museum campus... -- Ann Beha Architects [link to images]- The Oregonian |
I-Bhd: Jerde Partnership input in ICT hub set to draw attention from afar: ...72-acre freehold development site in Section 7, Shah Alam, into a state-of-the-art information and communications technology (ICT) urban centre.- The Star (Malaysia) |
A Baroque Boutique: Faded South Park Property To Become Chic Hotel...Gansevoort West -- Thornton Fitzhugh (1914); Stephen B. Jacobs- LA Downtown News |
CalCars Engages Visionary Designer William McDonough: California Cars Initiative (CalCars.org) efforts to motivate auto makers to build plug-in hybrid vehicles will expand to incorporate a broader Cradle to Cradle approach.- EV World |
Better fashionably late than never: For years, Eileen Gray's work has languished in obscurity but a new retrospective will change that. By Deyan Sudjic- Observer (UK) |
INSIGHT: Vancouverism vs. Lower Manhattanism: Shaping the High Density City. By Trevor Boddy [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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-- Competition winner: Henning Larsens Tegnestue (with Olafur Eliasson): Concert and Congress Centre, Reykjavik, Iceland
-- Design Hotels: Hospes Ámerigo, Alicante, Spain; Palau de la Mar. Valencia, Spain
-- kk Letter: Exploring Alicante and Valencia, Spain |
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