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Today's News - June 26, 2006

ArcSpace brings us two happenings in Denmark and two tomes by Zumthor. -- Hollyrood may be in for some more rude awakenings. -- Another project in the U.K. calls into question the worth of publicly-funded buildings (magenta fish notwithstanding). -- It's a Nouvel day: for his Paris museum, Glancey glows, and Dyckhoff disses. -- The Guthrie dazzles; an interesting inside look at the selection process (Koolhaas was aloof, Viñoly was disdainful...). -- L.A. getting closer to having its own Times Square. -- Chicago's skyscraper boom. -- The "Kubla Khan of hotels." -- Cook talks about his green conversion. -- Koolhaas as "the architect's architect." -- Terry the traditionalist calls himself "the pastiche Michelangelo." -- Two thumbs-up for Washington, DC's Old Patent Office Building reborn as two Smithsonian's. -- Toronto's redesigned Gardiner Museum "a work of fine urban surgery." -- One-man architect show in Chicago perhaps a bit premature. -- Mori takes on Poe Park in the Bronx. -- Hollywood Bowl fountain gets a renewed splash from the past. -- "Oasis" in London is a soothing urban (video worth a look!). -- Winners announced in Living Steel sustainable housing competition: Warsaw and Kolkata, India, will benefit.

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-- Exhibition: Poul Kjærholm, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark
-- Competition winner: Rem Koolhaas OMA, Brewery Site, Copenhagen
-- Two Books: Peter Zumthor Thinking Architecture, and Atmospheres

Dewar broke the law over choice of Holyrood architect: ...paves the way for architectural firms that submitted unsuccessful bids to launch legal action... -- Enric Miralles/EMBT; RMJM- The Sunday Times (UK)

What looks like a magenta fish, cost £52m and closed before it opened? The fate of the Public arts centre in West Bromwich should make us re-evaluate the worth of publicly funded buildings. By Deyan Sudjic -- Will Alsop- Guardian (UK)

How does your gallery grow? Chirac's new museum of 'primitive art' [Musée du Quai Branly] may have caused controversy. But Jonathan Glancey finds himself seduced by a building with its own forest and 15,000 plants growing up the walls -- Jean Nouvel; Gilles Clement [image]- Guardian (UK)

Epitaph for a botched President: Jacques Chirac wanted to leave his mark on Paris, but his new museum is more like a blot...Musée du Quai Branly...It jolts, cumbersome and heavy...not fusion food, but a stew of rich, mismatched ingredients. By Tom Dyckhoff -- Jean Nouvel- The Times (UK)

New Guthrie is industrial on the outside, dazzling on the inside: Jean Nouvel has created a powerful play of illusion and reality. By Linda Mack [images]- Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Wishing on a 'starchitect': As the new Guthrie Theater opens on the Minneapolis riverfront, we take an inside look at the globetrotting process that led to architect Jean Nouvel. By Linda Mack -- Hardy; Norten; Viñoly; Koolhaas- Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

The Promise of a Three-Scoop Tower: Convention Center Hotel Will Go a Long Way Toward Enlivening Downtown...Yes, it looks like Los Angeles will get its Times Square, in time. By Sam Hall Kaplan -- Gensler; Lance Jay Brown- LA Downtown News

Chicago developers reach for the sky: Construction boom adds 40 buildings of 50 stories or more since 2000- Crain's Chicago Business

The Kubla Khan of Hotels: Four decades ago, the architect John Portman turned the hotel lobby into a soaring pleasure dome. Today, his influence can be seen in new hotels from Dubai to Shanghai. By Aric Chen [slide show]- New York Times

Green Giant: Rick Cook speaks with Andrew Blum about his own green conversion, the Bank of America tower, and choosing work that matters -- Cook+Fox [podcast]- BusinessWeek

Metropolis Now: Rem Koolhaas is the architect's architect. His inspirational designs are bold, daring and outrageously different...refashioning entire countries - yet still finding time to conceive this year's Serpentine pavilion. Tim Adams meets the man who is giving form to the way we live now. -- Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA); Cecil Balmond/Arup- Guardian (UK)

'What am I? A pastiche Michelangelo': Prince Charles's favourite architect, Quinlan Terry, shares his passions for classical beauty and eco-friendly buildings with Charles Clover- Telegraph (UK)

Museums Reborn: Patently Inspiring: ...the Old Patent Office Building, home now to two Smithsonian museums...Renovating this old masonry building...hundreds of little challenges, each of which had to be solved with ingenuity and skill. By Benjamin Forgey -- Hartman-Cox Architects; George Sexton [image, links]- Washington Post

New-look Gardiner a museum of our times: The redesign elevates building into city's consciousness ...a work of fine urban surgery... By Lisa Rochon -- Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg (KPMB); PS Design- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Fantastic promise, still being realized: Doug Garofalo's Art Institute show comes up short...when curators champion an architect's work, they risk going easy on their subjects...As this show demonstrates, Garofalo's got the tools that really count -- the mind and eyes. By Blair Kamin- Chicago Tribune

Of Rooflines and Ravens: When the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe is near, an architect's thoughts turn to the uncanny...current project...construction of a visitors' center for Poe Park in the Bronx. -- Toshiko Mori [image]- New York Times

Hollywood Bowl's fountain gets a splash from the past: Neglected for decades, refurbished Streamline Moderne-style fountain is greeting visitors -- George Stanley (1940); Rios Clementi Hale Studios [image]- Los Angeles Times

Urban 'Oasis' of clean energy lands in London: 35-foot-tall sculpture runs on wind, solar power to soothe passers-by -- Laurie Chetwood [images, links]- MSNBC

Living Steel’s International Competition for Sustainable Housing winners announced -- architectenbureau cepezed; Piercy Conner [images, links]- Living Steel

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