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Today's News - May 5, 2006
Leeds leads the way in urban revival. -- German cities balancing budgets by selling public housing to private (foreign) enterprises - not all are pleased. -- The pro's and con's of building an architectural brand. -- Foster wows the crowds in Moscow. -- Muscovites getting another "lavish" skyscraper the Edinburgh architects call "sexy" (others call the "drill bit". -- U.S. embassy in Iraq so large it will be seen from space (locals are not impressed). -- WTC memorial costs soar; will it be back to the drawing board (again)? -- Chicago's "edifice complex is back": Trump calls Calatrava spire a "pipe dream." -- Fort Worth to add another architectural icon to its growing collection. -- Iconic Hadid to rise in Barcelona. -- An amusing (but not complimentary) commentary on a "sprawling skillfully designed orgiastically moneyed complex" in California. -- Weekend diversions: Turrell's "Skyspace" opens in Chicago. -- Gehry documentary "gives insight to the man, the myth, and his methodology." -- In Paoli, PA, two master craftsmen's homes that will "shiver your timbers." -- Not a light read: "Planet Of Slums" and the urban apocalypse now under way. -- A global call for images: Architecture and the Mail. -- Happy Cinco de Mayo!
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Adapt, don't destroy: Leeds is the template to revive our scarred cities: The philosopher Jane Jacobs was a fierce critic of urban planners, convinced they create toys for totalitarians...Thanks in part to an inspired civic architect, John Thorp, Leeds seems to understand itself. By Simon Jenkins- Guardian (UK) |
Public Housing in Private Hands: German cities are lining up for a mammoth wave of foreign investment in their property, though not always to the approval of their residents.- New York Times |
Building Brands: How architects market themselves...There is nothing wrong with architects being given the opportunity to branch out...and greater public awareness of design is a good thing, but branding may turn out to have adverse effects. By Witold Rybczynski -- Meier; Stern; Gwathmey; Libeskind; Tschumi; Gehry; Herzog & De Meuron; Foster; Calatrava- Slate |
Sir Norman Foster: a brilliant couturier to dress Moscow: The pillar of avant-garde architecture turns out to revere the past...came to Moscow with the call for radicalism to kneel to tradition. His idea deserves to develop into a public motto...- RIA Novosti (Russia) |
Moscow contract for Edinburgh firm: City Palace, a 46-storey...lavish skyscraper...metres away from another British-designed skyscraper, the Moscow City Tower... -- RMJM; Foster [image]- Guardian (UK) |
In the chaos of Iraq, one project is on target: a giant US embassy...people...are not impressed by the architects’ claims that the diplomatic outpost will be visible from space...- The Times (UK) |
[WTC] Memorial Cost at Ground Zero Nears $1 Billion: Rebuilding officials concede that the new price tag is breathtaking and is sure to set off another bruising battle over development at the site. -- Michael Arad; Peter Walker; Davis Brody Bond- New York Times |
Trump Loses Bragging Rights as Chicago Tower Grabs Design Buzz: "I don't look at [Fordham Spire] as a competition because I think it's a pipe dream..." -- Calatrava; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill- Bloomberg News |
World-renowned architect promises lots of bold color: Ricardo Legorreta is still dreaming of what the new Fort Worth Museum of Science and History will look like.- Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas) |
A New Zaha Hadid in Barcelona: Campus Interuniversitari del Besòs [image, links]- Archinect |
My Life Above Pottery Barn: Forget tract homes and gated living. The new American dream is a condo right inside the mall...Santana Row...combines all the best/worst/most cliched aspects of the American nouveau rich-wannabe yuppie life into one massive sprawling skillfully designed orgiastically moneyed complex... By Mark Morford- San Francisco Chronicle |
"Skyspace" Opens to Public: University of Illinois at Chicago has completed construction of the first fully public "skyspace," designed by James Turrell to offer rare perceptions of the sky. [images]- Newswise |
Franklin Mint: A new documentary on Frank Gehry gives insight to the man, the myth, and his methodology. [images]- Metropolis Magazine |
Wood That Could: Near Philadelphia, Two Master Craftsmen Homes Will Shiver Your Timbers -- Wharton Esherick; George Nakashima [images]- Washington Post |
Mike Davis: "Planet Of Slums": The scale of modern squalor revealed in his brilliant survey dwarfs its predecessors. They are but sepia-tinted melodramas measured against the urban apocalypse now under way.- New Zealand Herald |
A Global Call for Images: Architecture and the Mail: ...a collaboration between Jeannie Kim and Hunter Tura, The Architectural League of New York and 1000 designers and 1000 thinkers.- Architectural League of New York |
INSIGHT: Public/Private Space & Yonge-Dundas Square: Pubic/private-sector collaboration and a shared vision deliver CPR to a once-blighted square in Toronto. Effie Bouras, Assoc. AIA- ArchNewsNow |
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Richard Meier & Partners: Hans Arp Museum, Rolandseck, Germany |
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