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Today's News - September 30, 2005
A winning Friday: Ito takes home RIBA Royal Gold. -- Prizes for 22 preservation projects. -- Holcim Awards honor North American sustainable construction projects. -- Louvre Lens picks its design team. -- An impressive shortlist for Orange County Great Park. -- Designing disaster relief housing (but would anyone want to live there?). -- Public housing catching on with the middle class. -- Forget culture a Ground Zero? An in-depth look at how it became "a suspicious interloper." -- A half-million square feet of retail is really what is needed. -- Philadelphia grows more comfortable with modern. -- Google to team with NASA for a million-square-foot campus. -- Princeton picks a planning team. -- Restoration of National Portrait Gallery's new digs vindicates original architect. -- To close or not to close Berlin's Tempelhof Airport. -- Shipping containers as towering farms and gardens.
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The Royal Gold Medal for 2006 is to be awarded to influential Japanese architect Toyo Ito.- RIBA (UK) |
2005 National Preservation Award Winners announced [links to 22 winners/images]- National Trust for Historic Preservation |
Holcim Awards 2005 - North America: Prizes awarded to sustainable construction projects -- L'OEUF/ Pearl Poddubiuk et Associés, Architects; Renzo Piano/Chong Partners/Patrick Kociolek/Ove Arup and Partners; Mark West; etc. [links[- Holcim Foundation |
IMREY CULBERT and SANAA win Louvre Lens competition- Archinect |
Three Architectural Design Firms Picked as Semi-Finalists in Orange County Great Park Competition -- Mirrales Tagliabue EMBT; Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey; Ken Smith, Landscape Architect/TEN Arquitectos/Mary Miss Studio/Mia Lehrer and Associates- Yahoo News |
Shelter From The Storm: Disaster relief housing draws designers but do their ideas fit the people? -- Daniel Libeskind; Shigeru Ban; Nader Khalili; Deborah Gans/Matthew Jelacic; Dante Bini [images, links]- San Francisco Chronicle |
Cut-Rate Homes For Middle Class Are Catching On: Public housing is being stretched to include people who are more likely to have Starbucks cash cards than food stamps.- New York Times |
Is Culture Gone at Ground Zero? ...A lack of powerful, outspoken advocates seems to have been a significant ingredient in the erosion of culture at the site. -- Libeskind; Snohetta; Gehry- New York Times |
As Ground Zero Plans Shift, Focus Turns to Retail Space: ...cultural building designed by Snohetta... will effectively become an extension of the underground memorial museum devoted solely to 9/11. [images]- New York Times |
Two condos that hit the mark: Maybe Philadelphia is growing more comfortable with modern architecture, now that the initial shock of the condo boom has been absorbed. By Inga Saffron -- Solomon Cordwell Buenz; SHoP Architects [image]- Philadelphia Inquirer |
Google confirms Ames plan: Search engine plans offices, partnership with space agency: At 1 million square feet, the new campus would be larger than filmmaker George Lucas' new Presidio complex...- San Francisco Chronicle |
Planning initiative announced...to coordinate both in-progress construction and new projects. -- Beyer Blinder Belle Architects; Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates; Lynden B. Miller Public Garden Design; Two Twelve Associates- Daily Princetonian |
Restoration vindicates early architect: 169 years later, plan to fireproof gallery [U.S. Patent Office] was sound -- Robert Mills (1842)- Chicago Tribune |
Sun Is Setting on a Temple to Aviation: Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, once a grand reflection of Hitler's dreams, is on its way to becoming obsolete. -- Ernst Sagebiel (1930s)- Los Angeles Times |
No Green Acres? Try Skyscrapers: ...empty storage containers would be ideal housing for miniature farms stacked one upon another like an agricultural skyscraper...- Wired News |
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 |
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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