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Today's News - June 28, 2006

We lose a "force in post-modern Italian design." -- Smart planning produces healthy communities. -- The Slow Movement offers lessons for speed-crazed Sydney. -- A conversation with Leon Krier, the "godfather of urban soul." -- Melbourne's Federation Square finally winning hearts as a post-modern village green. -- Epic plans for Philadelphia riverfront. -- Olympic plans: EDAW as master of the "art of designing winning urban schemes." -- 7WTC "a marvel of craftsmanship - craves no limelight." -- Objections to a new Philadelphia tower shouldn't be about its height. -- Confusion in Dubai over Dancing Towers, Dancing Bay, and Legs. -- A Wright house in disrepair offers "an only-in-Detroit experience." -- A private Vancouver high school offers lessons that should be taken public. -- Young Canadian firms win big.

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Obituary: Anna Castelli Ferrieri, 87, Force in Postwar Modern Italian Design- New York Times

Unhealthy By Design? Not If Cities Plan Liveable, Dense, Walkable Neighborhoods: L.A. Planning Director Gail Goldberg and California Endowment head Dr. Robert Ross encourage healthy communities through smart planning.- The Planning Report

Hurry up and slow down: So what can the slow movement offer architecture, and are we, in acceleration-addicted Sydney, up to it? Tullimbar Village...Call it nostalgic, even twee, but it's also intelligent, thoughtful and, above all, slow. By Elizabeth Farrelly- Sydney Morning Herald

The godfather of urban soul: He is the designer of Poundbury, Prince Charles's 'traditional' new town - but it wasn't always this way. The architect who was once an enthusiastic modernist tells Peter Hetherington why he converted to classicism -- Leon Krier [slide show]- Guardian (UK)

Cheers to the square: After a contentious birth, Federation Square during the World Cup rightfully took its place as a post-modern village green -- Bates/Smart; Lab Studio- The Age (Australia)

Penn's epic plans for riverfront: The university's 20-year, $1.94 billion project will bring open space, office buildings and residences to land purchased from the Postal Service. -- Sasaki Associates [images]- Philadelphia Inquirer

Olympic Champions: EDAW, the firm that got the bid for the 2012 games in London, has mastered the art of designing winning urban schemes...Q&A with Jason Prior. By Martin C. Pedersen [images]- Metropolis Magazine

'Seven' knows its place: Ground Zero's $700M tower - a marvel of craftsmanship - craves no limelight. By Justin Davidson -- David Childs/Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Foster; Rogers; Maki; Arad [slide show]- NY Newsday

Tower has flaws; height isn't one: The fight against the Barnes Tower...has become an obsessive, one-issue cause...Rather than keep fighting over what's happening in the sky, both sides would achieve more for Philadelphia by keeping their eyes firmly on the ground. By Inga Saffron -- Burt Hill Kosar; Wallace Roberts & Todd [images]- Philadelphia Inquirer

Legs project akimbo as client rethinks designs: ...design by Zaha Hadid [for] Dancing Bay...incorporates elements of both Aedas’ Dancing Towers and The Legs projects, has left the client considering its options.- ITP (Dubai)

Wright or wrong? Turkel house drips with history: Walking through this place is another only-in-Detroit experience. Where else can you find spiders' eggs and the faint beginnings of stalactites in what should be a prized specimen of modernist architecture? [images]- Detroit Metro Times

Biblical Proportions: ...Vancouver King David High School Locates Its Main Entrance on a Quiet Side Street With Landscape Architecture That Creates Opportunities for Both Learning and Recreation. -- Acton Ostry Architects; Cornelia Hahn Oberlander/Durante Kreuk Landscape Architects [images]- Canadian Architect

Whitehorse, Vancouver firms win architecture honours: Kobayashi + Zedda Architects won Canada Council for the Arts 2006 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture worth $50,000...BattersbyHowat Inc. has won its $10,000 Ronald J. Thom Award for Early Design Achievement.- CBC (Canada)

Reference This: Two views on trends in public and academic libraries -- Field Paoli; Chong Partners [images]- ArchNewsNow

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

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