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Today's News - November 8, 2005

New Orleans: politics undermining New Orleans rebuilding efforts? -- Two locals offer 20 suggestions. -- U.K. "Attitudes to the City" survey might offer the Gulf Coast - and elsewhere - some useful insights. -- Farrelly lays it on the line: "Are architects dickheads?" -- Vietnamese architects struggling to find their place as foreigners take on the big contracts. -- In Russia, it's taken more than a decade to finally see big plans by foreign architects beginning to take shape. -- A look at one Russian city's Post-Soviet architectural flowering (and nary a foreign name on the list). -- Big - and sustainable - plans for San Francisco's Treasure Island. -- Ohio State University gateway project "epitomizes a sweeping national trend in city planning and urban real estate." -- A review of the three winners in the U.K.'s £60k homes competition. -- A study of light "could serve as a prototype for much cheaper homes in tight, city centre sites." -- "Micro-compact houses" on Munich campus offer another solution to housing needs. -- Atlanta's High Museum expansion is user-friendly post-modern. -- Chicago's newest waterfront park, including Vietnam Veterans memorial, could be the city's next great space. -- Another report on Correa's MIT building (this time with images). -- Is Adjaye ready to take on a public library? -- A new twist to housing: recycle decommissioned 747 jets.

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New Orleans Is Still Grappling With the Basics of Rebuilding: Fear of political consequences, though, have begun to undermine the process of actually getting anything done.- New York Times

Rebuilding New Orleans: Twenty Big Ideas and a Postscript...Two local citizens suggest twenty points of entry. By Gary Esolen and Valeri LeBlanc- Metropolis Magazine

The National 'Attitudes to the City' survey: 'Bingeing on Anti-Social Behaviour'...explores issues that are often regarded as 'problems' for cities and society. [link]- Future Cities Project (U.K.)

Brickbats and mortals: If architects want to change the world, should we give them their heads? The answer goes to the character of their profession. Are architects dickheads? By Elizabeth Farrelly -- Bob Bow; Piranesi; Mayne; Rotundi; Morphosis; Madigan; Aldo Giurgola; etc.- Sydney Morning Herald

Vietnamese architects find few chances to show their talents: With the majority of local construction contracts going to international architects, Vietnamese architects struggle to find their rightful place. -- Viet Nam Architects’ Association; Hoang Dao Kinh; Nguyen Truc Luyen; Do Van Tien; Nguyen Truong Quy- Viet Nam News

The Americans Were Coming: In 1994, the headline on the cover of...Progressive Architecture was entitled “The Americans are Coming.”...More than a decade later, not a single important project by a foreigner has been completed...situation has finally started to change. -- Eric Owen Moss; Dominique Perrault; Erick van Egeraat; Norman Foster; Zaha Hadid [images]- Russia Profile

The Nizhny Novgorod School: One City’s Post-Soviet Architectural Flowering -- Viktor Bykov; Alexander Kharitonov; Oleg Rybin; Evgeny Pestov [images]- Russia Profile

Towers, farm seen for Treasure Island: Self-sustaining neighborhood of 5,500 residences proposed: ...would-be developers...unveiled a startling new image for the island...as part of a larger push for a project shaped by environmental principles. By John King [image]- San Francisco Chronicle

Altered state: Ohio State University...putting the finishing touches on South Campus Gateway, a $150 million real estate development...at the university's doorstep...epitomizes a sweeping national trend in city planning and urban real estate. By Steven Litt -- Elkus/Manfredi Architects- Cleveland Plain Dealer

‘Ground-breaking improvements’ in Stage 3 of £60k homes competition: review of the basic designs submitted by the three preferred developers... -- HTA; Sheppard Robson; Richard Rogers [images]- Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB - UK)

Bright fantastic: Gianni Botsford spent months studying the fall of light on a building plot. Then he set about designing the house that would sit on it...could serve as a prototype for much cheaper homes in tight, city centre sites. By Jonathan Glancey [image]- Guardian (UK)

One bedroom en suite available to students looking for square deal: Six students...woke up for the first time last week in the micro-compact houses which have been erected in a leafy corner of Munich University... -- Richard Horden/Horden Cherry Lee Architects- Guardian (UK)

Atlanta's new High Museum shows postmodern can be user-friendly: ...the buildings are everything but the often overwhelming exercises in postmodern ugliness such as, some critics say, the newly opened de Young Museum... (AP) -- Richard Meier (1983); Renzo Piano- The Telegraph (Macon, GA)

Wabash Plaza could be start of great space: ...includes one of the nation's largest Vietnam Veterans memorials...infusing what might have been a mindlessly cheery waterfront park with the potent themes of tragedy and reconciliation. By Blair Kamin -- DLK Civic Design; Ross Barney + Jankowski- Chicago Tribune

Mind Space: A Haveli At MIT: For the world's top brain bank, architect Charles Correa blends the 'factory' with an Indian prototype -- Goody Clancy and Associates [images]- Outlook India

Just give him some space: With celebrity clients, a collaboration with Chris Ofili and a run-in with Janet Street-Porter, no wonder David Adjaye has such a high profile, and so many critics. So what will they say about his latest project - a public library? By Deyan Sudjic- Observer (UK)

West Coast Woman To Build Crash Pad Out of an Old 747: Asked Architect For Curvy, Eco-Friendly; Meditating in the Cockpit. By Alex Frangos -- David Hertz [images]- Wall Street Journal

High Tech High - Los Angeles: A new charter school is an incubator for new ideas and new approaches to learning - and teaching - technology. -- Berliner and Associates, Architecture [images]- ArchNewsNow

Groundbreaking: Dallas Center for the Performing Arts:
-- Foster & Partners: Winspear Opera House
-- Rem Koolhaas/OMA: Dee and Charles Wyly Theater

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