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Is It Too Easy Being Green? Eco-Friendly Certification Is Big With Builders, Tenants; Critics See a "Broken" System. By Alex Frangos- Wall Street Journal |
Abu Dhabi to select airport terminal design: ...four US firms have entered into a competition and a jury comprising international architects and aviation experts will select the best design on December 5. -- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); Hellmuth, Obata+Kassabaum (HOK); Fentress Bradburn Architects; Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates- TradeArabia News Service |
Backers of Orlando Performing Arts Center think big on design: ...a handful of possible architects for the job... -- Barton Myers Associates; Pei Cobb Freed & Partners; Rafael Vinoly Architects; Robert AM Stern; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill- Orlando Sentinel |
Denver Justice Center field narrowed...short lists...for new courthouse and jail... By Mary Voelz Chandler -- David Owen Tryba; Foster & Partners; Kallman McKinnell & Wood; Koetter Kim & Associates; Richard Meier & Partners; Robert A.M. Stern Architects; Steven Holl Architects; Hartman-Cox Architects; HOK; TEN Arquitectos /RNL Design/Durrant; Valerio Dewalt Train Associates- Rocky Mountain News (Denver) |
Power tower: With or without Daley as a tenant, new skyscraper is an impact player on Loop skyline... The tower's primary urban design strength is that it forms a hinge, a visual transition between the two scales (and two eras) of skyscrapers... By Blair Kamin -- Solomon, Cordwell Buenz & Associates [image]- Chicago Tribune |
Isle of Wait: Manhattan's West Side stadium is dead, Ground Zero is in shambles. It must be time to take on scenic Governors Island...several scenarios for the redevelopment...But there's no rush.- The Slatin Report |
Ara Pacis Opens Doors: It split critics, some of whom hailed it as a welcome piece of understated modernism in a florid baroque city, and others as wholly out of step with its surroundings. -- Richard Meier- ANSA (Italy) |
The odd couple: There are two accepted modes of designing a building at the moment. And Caruso St John chooses to ignore both. By Giles Worsley- New Statesman (UK) |
'Oscars' of Design Awarded in New York: National Design Awards -- a kind of Oscars of design announced Thursday at Manhattan's Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design (AP) -- Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Gluckman Mayner Architects; Ned Kahn; Stefan Sagmeister; Katherine and Michael McCoy; Eva Zeisel; etc.- New York Times |
Past and present meet: The Mauritius Association of Architects provided a unique opportunity to consider the values of “good architecture” through a display of...new and ancient buildings, as subjects of two public contests.- L'Express.mu (Mauritius) |
National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting nominations for the 2006 America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places; deadline: January 18, 2006- National Trust for Historic Preservation |
Exhibit "pulls the curtain back" on nuts and bolts of [Denver Art Museum] addition: "Building out of the Box" By Kyle MacMillan -- Gio Ponti (1971); Daniel Libeskind- Denver Post |
Inventioneering Architecture: "Constructing Architecture. Materials, Processes and Structures," lecture by Andrea Deplazes, Professor of Architecture, Construction, and Design, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) [video/audio]- Architecture Radio |
Book Guides Urban Universities in Neighborhood Development: "The University as Urban Developer"- Newswise |
Endless city: British architect Lucy Peck's book on the buildings of Delhi captures a city that's forever on the move - "Delhi, a Thousand Years of Building"- Indian Express |
"In Search of a Soul - Building the Canadian War Museum" premieres November 6 on Bravo! -- Raymond Moriyama- Canada News Wire |
Talking trash cans keep Berlin clean: The talking bins, powered by solar cells, say thank you when you put rubbish in them.- CNN |
Second Look: Tracey Towers by Paul Rudolph, 1972: How did Rudolph, a restless and challenging architectural mind, end up doing subsidized housing in the Bronx? By Fred Bernstein [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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-- Antoine Predock: National Palace Museum Southern Branch, Taibo City, Taiwan
-- Exhibition: "Jean Prouvé: Three Nomadic Structures," MOCA, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
-- Book: "Architecture Now! 3" by By Philip Jodidio |
