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Today's News - August 22, 2006

Iconicity in design can win consumers. -- LMDC exits, leaving a mixed legacy and loose ends at Ground Zero, but there's still "a chance to yet win the game." -- Reston Town Center is a history lesson for today's urban planners. -- Trying to "tame the parking beast." -- In Newfoundland can be found "one of the world's great small museums." -- Toledo's new Glass Pavilion ready for its close-up. -- Yale: the "new Athens of America." -- A new geriatric center is a "radical departure" from typical (ward-like) nursing homes. -- Richard Rogers roars with Venice Biennale's Golden Lion award. -- BusinessWeek/Architectural Record and Brick in Architecture winners announced. -- Call for entries for international skyscraper competition. -- Architecture and the City: a good reason to be in San Francisco in September. -- One we couldn't resist: drug tunnel architect gets 18 years.

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INSIGHT: Iconicity: Finding Your Voice in a Changing World. By Kenneth Nisch/JGA- ArchNewsNow

Editorial: A Lot of Loose Ends at Ground Zero: Lower Manhattan Development Corp.'s exit means city, state, developers need to carry on together: ...LMDC has had a number of successes, although each silver lining has had its cloud...has left us with a mixed legacy... By Ernest W. Hutton, Jr. -- New York New Visions; Daniel Libeskind; Michael Arad- NY Newsday

Reston Town Center: The Upside Of A Suburban Downtown: ...the first suburban downtown in America, is a remarkable history lesson for modern day planners...some suggestions for the community's future. By Tom Grubisich -- Robert A. M. Stern; Robert Simon [images]- PLANetizen

No Matter How They Are Pitched, Parking Solutions Often Fall Short: Architects and planners have tried for decades to tame the parking beast... By Roger K. Lewis- Washington Post

Museum shakes off its own troubled history: Despite furor over location, look and staff, its sense of mission just may make Newfoundland's The Rooms one of the world's great small museums. -- Philip Pratt/PHB Group [image]- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Toledo Museum of Art polishes newest gem: Glass Pavilion prepares for opening -- SANAA [image, links]- Toledo Blade

The New Athens of America? Yale's $600 million plan to upgrade its arts-and-culture infrastructure will transform the center city. -- Louis I. Kahn (1953); Paul Rudolph (1963); Polshek Partnership; Gwathmey Siegel- Business New Haven (Connecticut)

A Radical Departure to Preserve Dignity: A geriatric center is attempting to alter the institutional, wardlike setting often associated with nursing homes that rely heavily on federal payments. -- Perkins Eastman Architects- New York Times

Richard Rogers awarded Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by La Biennale di Venezia- La Biennale di Venezia/Venice Biennial

BusinessWeek/Architectural Record Winners Announced -- Juan Antonio Garduno Tirado; Bohlin Cywinski Jackson; Studios Architecture; Luce et Studio Architects; THS/PASD; The Stubbins Associates; architectsAlliance; Behnisch Architekten; etc.- Architectural Record

2006 Brick In Architecture Award Winners -- Richter Architects; TRO/The Ritchie Organization; Diamond and Schmitt; Bentel & Bentel; Clark Enersen Partners; Harding Partners; Rundell Ernstberger; etc. [images]- Brick Industry Association

Call for entries: 07 Skyscraper International Competition; registration deadline: January 8, 2007- eVolo Architecture

Architecture and the City: Celebrate San Francisco's unique built environment and design community September 1-30- AIA San Francisco

Architect of tunnel for smuggling drugs sentenced to 18 years: It took 17 years, but Mexican architect Felipe de Jesus Corona-Verbera is finally going to prison...- Arizona Republic

Inflatable Architecture (and more!) On View in Anaheim August 19-27 [images]- ArchNewsNow

-- Masterplan: Daniel Libeskind: Ørestaden, Copenhagen
-- PLOT: JDS + BIG: VM Houses, Ørestaden, Copenhagen
-- Lundgaard & Tranberg: The Wedge, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen

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