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Today's News - May 9, 2006

Green grumblings: National's ballpark doesn't include "even one symbolic square inch of green roof" (though it's being done elsewhere). -- A £300m Yorkshire leisure complex better suited to brownfield than green belt. -- On a brighter green note: Toronto Botanical Garden a growing work in progress. -- A London hospital made teen-friendly. -- A grand old Philadelphia hospital transformed to stylish senior housing. -- Demolition of Toronto landmarks: progress or vandalism? -- A reprieve for Bunshaft landmark in Connecticut. -- Celebrating the Met's façade restoration (with a few side-swipes at some other NYC cultural projects). -- Eminent domain sparks national property rights movement. -- Gated communities are going global. -- Toronto "trapped in a transit wasteland." -- London's new take on libraries offers lessons for U.S. -- A new skyscraper is a hint at a new Chicago architecture. -- Harvard will take you there to see it all in person. -- Why everyone wants a piece of Foster. -- Libeskind keeps moving (and can even be "a bit goofy"). -- AA students to build their own Serpentine pavilion in Bedford Square.

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Turf Battle: At the New Ballpark, Infield and Outfield but no Upfield: Despite a decree from the D.C. Council to incorporate the best environmental practices...HOK Sport and Devrouax & Purnell, failed to specify even one symbolic square inch of green roof. By Linda Hales -- Michael Van Valkenburgh; American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)- Washington Post

'Green' row on leisure complex: Build on brown-field site instead, say countryside campaigners: ...£300m Yorkshire Entertainment Sensation (Yes) project...the biggest indoor leisure and tourism development in Europe...will swallow up valuable green-belt land...- Yorkshire Post Today (UK)

Blot on the landscape: The biggest country house to be built in decades may be green but its looks will dismay traditionalists...Step forward Geoff Dyson: your new [40,000sq ft] home is going to receive a lot of attention, and you’d better get used to it. -- Feilden Clegg Bradle; Dan Pearson [image]- The Times (UK)

Toronto Botanical Garden a (green) work in progress: it's a hurry-up-and-wait kind of thing. By Christopher Hume -- Montgomery & Sisam; PMA Landscape Architects; Tom Sparling; Martin Wade; Oudolf- Toronto Star

Pioneering unit for teenage cancer care at University College London Hospital...a teenage-friendly environment for the delivery of state of the art clinical care, alongside sensitivity towards social and psychological needs. -- Llewelyn Davies Yeang- HD - The Journal for Healthcare Design and Development (UK)

Stylish senior homes in grand old hospital: Unlike the standardized, no-frills housing that HUD typically supports, Neumann is a wild-eyed eccentric...every unit is different...capture at least a few of the hospital's quirky architectural details. By Inga Saffron -- Ballinger & Perratt (1860); Cecil Baker & Associates [slide show]- Philadelphia Inquirer

No more rooms at this inn: In many cities, the destruction of a landmark would be seen as an act of vandalism. In Toronto, it's business as usual...Inn on the Park [1963]...designed by pioneering modernist architect Peter Dickinson...has been demolished to make way for a car dealership. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star

The Wilde Is Saved: ...an icon of modern architecture and a laboratory for the new American workplace when it was built in the 1950s, will continue as an insurance office in the 21st century. That is good news. -- Gordon Bunshaft/Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1957)- Hartford Courant (Connecticut)

Celebrating a Restoration: Metropolitan Museum of Art...restoration of its Fifth Avenue facade...God bless the Met for not falling prey to the delusion that Renzo Piano can improve upon McKim, Mead & White - or Richard Morris Hunt. By Francis Morrone- New York Sun

Op-Ed: States Take Action To Protect Property Rights: Oregon's Measure 37 has inspired a national property rights movement to restrict local regulatory takings and dramatically reduce eminent domain powers...galvanized by the Kelo decision and M37. By Leonard Gilroy, AICP- PLANetizen

Behind Closed Doors: The appeal of gated communities is spreading across the world.- Newsweek

The error of our subways: While the rest of the world gets it right, Toronto is trapped in a transit wasteland. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star

Branching out: Welcome to the Idea Store, London's answer to the fusty old public library--and maybe America's too...a retail approach to aspects of design, promotion, and even financing. -- David Adjaye; Dattner Architects- Boston Globe

The Third School: A new kind of skyscraper heralds a new kind of Chicago architecture...Aqua is going to be one of the most striking buildings in the city. By Lynn Becker -- Studio/Gang/Architects; Douglas Garofalo; John Ronan; James Goettsch; Pei Cobb Freed; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; DeStefano + Partners; Solomon Cordwell Buenz [slide show]- Chicago Reader

Architectural Tour of Chicago June 14-18: a fundraiser for Student Financial Aid at the Harvard Graduate School of Design- Harvard Graduate School of Design

At home in the world: Norman Foster pairs dynamic innovation with respect for history. No wonder everyone wants a piece of him.- Newsweek

While waiting and seeing, Libeskind keeps moving: ...an eclectic mix of more pedestrian if no less interesting buildings - shopping malls, student centers, condominiums, boys and girls clubs in places like Warsaw, London, Singapore and Sacramento...For architectural superpowers, Daniel and Nina Libeskind are earthy, likable, a bit goofy even.- International Herald Tribune

Branching out: For years the AA [Architectural Association] has been using the Serpentine pavilion as a teaching tool, but this summer a group of its students will build their own structure...outside the school in Bedford Square...the winning scheme and the runners-up [images]- BD/Building Design (UK)

-- Maya Lin: Confluence Project, Cape Disappointment State Park, Ilwaco, Washington
-- Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington

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