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Today's News - July 28, 2006

Melbourne in search of a vision for its Docklands. -- Sydney in search of a museum to preserve its design heritage. -- A call for architects and building owners to "fully embrace" sustainable design principles. -- Green rooftops taking root -- slowly - in Toronto. -- Architectural imagination isn't always expensive. -- A Canadian venture in new suburbansim; hopes that its architecture will match its boldness. -- It's a fight over height for a big U.K. project. -- Chipperfield wins yet another museum competition. -- German architects take on stadiums in South Africa for 2010 World Cup (but concerns about the country's less than timely preparation schedule). -- Alberta's new children's hospital "the most beautiful place you could ever hope to never have the misfortune to visit." -- O'Donnell + Tuomey win regional museum in Northern Ireland. -- Philadelphia losing its grand interior spaces to faceless chains. -- Docomomo US launches online forum re: Aalto's poetry room at Harvard. -- A Spanish architect wows them in Sydney. -- A new memorial at the Tower of London is both sad and funny, and a sign of the times.

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A question to fire the imagination: There are almost as many ideas for this stretch of Docklands as there are architects. But who can capture the imagination of Melburnians? ...in search of a vision. -- Michael Lindell; Bates Smart; Lab Architecture; Elenberg Fraser; Cox Architects; Ashton Raggatt McDougall; Dimity Reed- The Age (Australia)

Just the place for homegrown ecological museum park: Central Pier at Docklands...a rare opportunity and should reflect our values and celebrate our culture. By Norman Day -- MVRDV; Toyo Ito; Terunobu Fujimori- The Age (Australia)

Saving Sydney's design heritage: It's high time for a national design museum, writes Helen O'Neill- Sydney Morning Herald

Going Green: Unlike many other aspects of the environmental movement, sustainable design is a real, practical and long-term practice that could make a huge contribution -- if only architects and building owners would fully embrace its principles. By Phillip G. Bernstein -- Steven Holl; Hellmuth, Obata, & Kassabaum (HOK); LPA; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); Foster; Fox & Fowle (FXFOWLE) [slide show]- Forbes

Toronto Buildings Going Green on Top, But Very Slowly: ...city admits its plan for high-rise gardens has barely taken root...a grant of up to C$20,000 ($18,000) for every roof that's planted...in an effort to encourage people to adopt the energy-saving technology...But the city says it has had no applications so far for the project announced in February. (Reuters)- Environmental News Network

How to Create Great Buildings: Developers and governments must recognize that imagination isn't always expensive. By Helena Grdadolnik -- BattersbyHowat and Molo Design; mcfarlaneGreen; Killick Metz Bowen Rose; Patkau Architects; LWPAC Lang Wilson; Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden; Florian Maurer; Neale Staniszkas Doll Adams; AA Robins; Henriquez Partners/IBI Group [slide show]- The Tyee (Vancouver)

A project's bow to the new suburbanism: Goodbye, suburban sprawl, and hello to... the new village...243-acre Downtown Markham development...is striking and very ambitious, while not being too futuristic...[will] vast project's architectural expressions ever match the boldness of its overall conception. By John Bentley Mays -- Quadrangle Architects [image]- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Conflict over height delays Ł350m Chanel plans: ...development is the cornerstone of Will Alsop's city centre Masterplan. -- Robinson Architects- This is Brandford (UK)

Top architect appointed to design Margate's Turner Contemporary gallery -- David Chipperfield- 24dash.com (UK)

German Architects Design World Cup Stadiums in South Africa: ...firm is working hard to remodel three stadiums in time for the next soccer world championship in 2010. -- Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp)- Deutsche Welle (Germany)

Alberta's new Lego Hospital definitely not just for kids: It is the most beautiful place you could ever hope to never have the misfortune to visit. -- Kasian Kennedy/Zeidler Roberts/Anshen & Allen- Globe and Mail (Canada)

O'Donnell + Tuomey win Coleraine Regional Museum [Northern Ireland] competition- Archiseek (Ireland)

City's grand spaces are going, going...: The assault on Philadelphia's retail architecture isn't a new trend, but it has accelerated with Center City's growing desirability...What the city can do is demand that these arrivistes work with the existing architecture and street patterns, rather than trample the past. By Inga Saffron [images]- Philadelphia Inquirer

DOCOMOMO US hosts online forum on the contested renovation of Aalto's "total design" at Harvard -- Einhorn Yaffe Prescott; Toshiko Mori; Frederic Schwartz; etc.- DOCOMOMO US

Rhythm and restraint: This Spanish architect flows between styles...Murcutt says he is among the most remarkable architects living today. -- Elias Torres/Martinez Lapena-Torres- Sydney Morning Herald

Raising the dead: The Tower of London is getting a memorial to those executed within its walls. How sad - and how funny...Memory has become the most sacred and at the same time the most empty value of our culture. By Jonathan Jones -- Brian Catling; Maya Lin; Michael Arad/Peter Walker- Guardian (UK)

"G" is for Genome (and Green): Terrence Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research: A new campus building is a symbolic and physical bridge between an academic community the city -- architectsAlliance; Behnisch Architekten [images]- ArchNewsNow

-- Competition winner: LAB architecture studio, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW Australia
-- Schwartz/Silver Architects: Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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