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Today's News - December 6, 2005
WTC Memorial Foundation issues RFP for construction management/general contractor. -- Meanwhile, the power struggle over Ground Zero continues. -- In Beijing, a "gaggle" of starchitects inspire local talent to come up with their own mega-malls and "glitzy" office towers (never mind the demolition of parts of the Old City). -- Winners named in U.K.'s £60,000 affordable housing competition, not at the expense of good design (unfortunately, no architects named). -- Toronto finally gets its urban beach, complete with big yellow umbrellas; and the U.S. press is giddy over the city. -- MacMillan makes his pick for Denver's new justice center (we'll find out if he's right in a few weeks). -- In Johannesburg, a look at the bigger picture of the Beyers Naudé Square project that was much debated last week (see ANN 11/29/05). -- Connecticut's "architectural anomaly...an appealing water plant." -- Museum "wow's" them in Des Moines; next stop: Peoria. -- Historic inn trades blue Formica for green technology. -- Some high, some flighty aspirations for Chicago's water towers. -- Houses at Sagaponac: are they just a "different sort of suburban sprawl?" -- Turning Torsos to tower in Vegas? -- Cloepfil as museum-maker with charm and skill. -- Hadid dazzles (and makes them cower). -- A mega-merger: EDAW and AECOM.
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Request for Proposals (RFP): Construction Management/General Contractor Services for World Trade Center Memorial, Memorial Museum, and related facilities; deadline: January 10, 2006 (pdf)- WTC Memorial Foundation |
Power Struggle Heats Up While Development Moves Slowly at Ground Zero -- Calatrava; Pei Cobb Freed Partners- Architectural Record |
Economic warm-up for the Olympic main course...The gaggle of international architectural celebrities ...hired to create the new avant garde Beijing are inspiring...local architects...who have gone into creative over-drive...Large tracts of Beijing’s old city have been reduced to rubble... -- Foster; Koolhaas; Herzog and de Meuron; PTW- Financial Express (India) |
Prescott warns drive to build more homes must not be at expense of good design: ...announced the successful bidders for a further four sites in his Design for Manufacture competition to construct quality homes for £60,000.- 24dash.com (UK) |
It has taken time, but waterfront comes of age with urban beach: ...HtO has happily entered the realm of the possible. By Christopher Hume -- Janet Rosenberg; Claude Cormier- Toronto Star |
So long, Plague City: U.S. media are buzzing about Toronto again, and this time it's all good -- Gehry; Kuwabara Payne Blumberg McKenna; Libeskind- Globe and Mail (Canada) |
Who best to build upon our city? For justice center, a pick of architects. By Kyle MacMillan -- Foster and Partners/AR7/ HooverDesmondArchitects/HDR; Enrique Norten/TEN Arquitectos/RNL/Durrant; Hartman-Cox Architects; HOK; Valerio Dewalt Train Associates- Denver Post |
Reserve Bank: work almost complete: Bought for a buck in 2002, the Gauteng government is spending R38-million to restore Matlotlo House to its 1930s splendour...part of the plan for the creation of a square adjoining the present Beyers Naude Square... -- Gordon Leith (1938); JC Cook & Cowen (1935); Floris Smith & Meyer Pienaar Architects (1996); Fanuel Motsepe [images]- City of Johannesburg |
Connecticut Town Helps Create an Architectural Anomaly: An Appealing Water Plant...designed as a model of "sustainable" architecture... -- Steven Holl; Michael Van Valkenburgh [image]- New York Times |
Iowa's $62 million museum in Des Moines 'wowing' its visitors: Same architectural firm hired to design Peoria complex -- Zimmer Gunsul Frasca/ZGF; Brooks Bork Skiles Architecture; White Oak Associates- Peoria Journal Star |
At Bear Mountain Inn [NY], a Plunge Into Environmentalism: A 1960's attempt to update the [90-year-old] building left blue Formica "all over the place"... -- Hugh Hardy/H3 Hardy Collaboration [image]- New York Times |
Tanks for the Memory: Mayor Daley jump-starts a Chicago architectural competition that seeks to locate the city's soul in its historic water tanks. A new exhibition displays 167 of the entries and examines the water tank's history and future possibilities in a high-tech age. By Lynn Becker [images, links]- Repeat (Chicago) |
Mostly modern: Relatively restrained by Hamptons standards, the Houses at Sagaponac bring a different sort of suburban sprawl to the East End. By Justin Davidson -- Meier; Hadid; Lindy Roy; Hariri & Hariri; Annabelle Selldorf; Henry Cobb; Shigeru Ban; Stan Allen; Eric Owen Moss [images]- NY Newsday |
Calatrava Malmo tower planned for Las Vegas: ...two Turning Torsos...not yet confirmed...- Valencialife.net (Spain) |
Museum Maker: With charm and skill, an Oregon architect climbs the peak of modern design...So, how did a little-known West Coast architect garner such high-profile commissions in the first place? -- Brad Cloepfil/Allied Works Architecture [images]- Seattle Times |
Designing Woman: Zaha Hadid has become the most famous female architect in the world. It has not been an easy path.- CBS Sunday Morning |
AECOM Merges with EDAW- Business Wire |
INSIGHT: Condos Breathe New Life into Old Offices: Historic office buildings are increasingly being reinvented as condominiums in CBDs (central business districts) across the country. By Mark Harbick, AIA- ArchNewsNow |
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Competition winner: Coop Himmelb(l)au: Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea |
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