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Today's News - January 12, 2006

Sprawl blossoms - sometimes a good thing? -- A New York county, and elsewhere, trying to solve the problems of an aging suburban community. -- Corporate partnership taking on urban ghettos. -- Transit and pollution woes still dog Boston's Big Dig. -- Contextual architecture sometimes a bit too contextual. -- Miami giddy about its new performing arts center - despite it being costly and late (let's hope this honeymoon lasts). -- Darwin's home nominated as World Heritage Site. -- Canadian college takes teaching green technology seriously. -- Call for entries for traveling fellowship. -- Ariel Sharon as Pritzker candidate (not really, but seriously).

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Sprawl blossoms: Advocates say suburban growth is good -- Bob Bruegmann; John Norquist/Congress for New Urbanism- Chicago Tribune

Trying to Redesign the Paved and Low-Rise Core of Nassau [County]: ...one of New York's oldest suburbs joins a raft of others in trying to figure out how to solve what planners consider a cluster of fundamental problems facing every aging suburban community in the United States.- New York Times

Corporate retailers and the American ghetto: How Starbucks May Help Save South Central [Los Angeles]...one of almost seventy "Urban Coffee Opportunities" (or "UCOs")...unique partnership between Starbucks and the Johnson Development Corporation...- The Next American City

T-easing pollution: A series of air-clearing public-transit projects, mapped out in the early 90s, remain controversial and incomplete...Big Dig transit-system upgrades are still the source of public consternation...- Boston Phoenix

New buildings need to fit in with the future, not just the past: "Contextual architecture" has been a hallowed goal for a generation now...a pair of modest but very different buildings...demonstrate that imitating the past isn't nearly as effective as studying it for cues -- and then pushing on ahead. By John King -- Jim Jennings Architecture; Kinya Tsuruta- San Francisco Chronicle

After huge cost overruns and delays, the Performing Arts Center's architect gave VIPs a tour that impressed them...No tragic opera ending here; the atmosphere was no less than giddy. -- Cesar Pelli- Miami Herald

Charles Darwin's former home in Bromley, south-east London, has been nominated as a World Heritage Site. [image]- BBC News

Centennial College new architectural technology program emphasizes 'green' building design: ...will be located at the Centennial HP Science and Technology Centre, itself a building with many sustainable features...designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects- Canada NewsWire (CNW)

Steedman International Design Competition: $30,000 Traveling Fellowship for graduates of accredited professional degree programs in architecture around the world to travel for architectural research and study in foreign countries; registration deadline: February 1; submission deadline: March 13- Washington University School of Architecture (St. Louis)

London-based Israeli architect Eyal Weizman wonders why Ariel Sharon was not given the Pritzker Prize in architecture- Sign and Sight (Germany)

-- Exhibition: ArchiSculpture, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
-- Book: The Singular Objects of Architecture, by Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel (University of Minnesota Press)

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