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Today's News - December 22, 2005
A call for "passive survivability" measures to be included in building codes. -- A lesson from New Orleans for Philadelphia (and other cities) looking to build downtown casinos. -- Rust belts the new suburban America. -- Scandal in Japan grows from dangerous to "catastrophic" defects (and architects raided on TV). -- Liverpool's futuristic Fifth Grace under fire (and a showcase of images). -- Hadid's Roman museum delayed by budget. -- It's back to the drawing board for Sligo project that has been a three-year "exhausting process." -- Viñoly's University of Arizona science center costs rise, but return on investment may make it worthwhile. -- Hawthorne's review of 2005 (only slightly depressing). -- Tibet to restore a 600-year-old treasure (we needed some good news!).
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Editorial: Passive Survivability: ...measures that protect inhabitants during disasters...it may make sense to incorporate them into building codes. By Alex Wilson- Environmental Building News |
Is a downtown casino in the cards? Philadelphia is now struggling with the same question that New Orleans faced in the early '90s: Should it locate one of its two, state-mandated slots parlors downtown... By Inga Saffron- Philadelphia Inquirer |
Shaking Off the Rust, New Suburbs Are Born: America's newest suburbs...are aging industrial cities and their environs, on the far periphery of the most expensive metropolitan areas...- New York Times |
Japan raid widens probe of falsified quake data: Catastrophic defects in buildings, caused by cost-cutting, were covered up...Police raid construction and architecture firms in building probe... (AP)- MSNBC |
X-shaped 'Fifth Grace': a threat to heritage site: A museum on Liverpool's waterfront has caused a furore...Council on Monuments and Sites (Icomos)/Unesco on World Heritage Sites raised serious concerns about the futuristic plans. -- 3XN; BRC Imagination Arts- icLiverpool (UK) |
£65m Museum of Liverpool will be city showcase [images]- icLiverpool (UK) |
Budget Cuts Delay Rome's National Centre of Contemporary Arts...deadline has slipped to mid-2007... -- Zaha Hadid- AKI (Italy) |
If at first.... Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop back into Sligo: The architects have been working on proposals for the same site for three years and it has been an exhausting process. [images]- Archiseek (Ireland) |
Science center would cost $350M, University of Arizona says: ...but released a study saying it would generate about $362 million in annual economic activity. -- Rafael Viñoly [image, fly-through]- Tucson Citizen |
Learning powerful lessons: A look back at architecture in 2005: When Philip Johnson died early this year...a certain alluring but ultimately damaging definition of architecture may well have gone with him. By Christopher Hawthorne -- Gehry; Mayne; Koolhaas; Calatrava; Snøhetta; Murdoch- Los Angeles Times |
Tibet restores "Mini-Potala Palace": ...a series of 600-year-old buildings at Sangtsu Tsezung Palace, the oldest building in Xigaze... -- Architecture School of Shanghai Tongji University; Qoi'gyi Gyaincain- Xinhua News (China) |
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-- SANAA/Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: Glass Pavilion, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
-- Under construction: Gehry & Partners: IAC Headquarters, New York City |
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