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Today's News - August 29, 2006

On the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, two in-depth round-ups. -- Mayne has high hopes that New Orleanians are open to new architecture. -- A new Gulf Coast town inspired by the Wright way. -- Architects and engineers conspire with nature to develop new green technology. -- Mercer Island, Washington, has big plans, but does its design commission lack vision? -- Perhaps there are lessons to be learned from a town in Malaysia. -- Who actually designed Toronto's famous City Hall? -- Holl's "hybrid instrument" for the University of Iowa. -- Another move for Betsky. -- The World's Top 10 Cities; Toronto still waiting to join the list. -- King looks forward to September in San Francisco, and sticks to his conclusions about his city's new type of urban neighborhood.

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Remembering Katrina [round-up]- The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

The Katrina Year: A Slow and Uneven Return [special section]- New York Times

Rebuild New Orleans wetlands, architect suggests: Thom Mayne...urged New Orleans to treat the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina last year as a chance to re-imagine the city...New Orleanians may be open to newer architecture. -- Morphosis- Reuters

Frank Lloyd Wright School architects help Gulf Coast town: ...plans for "Lily Valley" stay true to Wright's design concept of nature, balance, diversity and environmental compatibility. -- James Ray Polk- Phoenix Business Journal

Engineers race to steal nature's secrets: Giant wind turbines based on a seed, and desalination plant that mimics a beetle...and can double up as an open-air theatre. -- Martin Pawlyn/Grimshaw; Charlie Paton- Guardian (UK)

Mercer Island's downtown development is lacking a vision: It's hard to blame architecture...but something is going on here, and it's not all to the good...developer blames the Design Commission's vision. By Lawrence W. Cheek -- Mithun Partners; MVE & Partners; Mulvanny G2 [images]- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Has PJ stood the test of time? The new town of Petaling Jaya was part of a scheme conceived and designed by the Federal Town Planning Department in 1951...Is there a lesson to be learnt here... -- Fong Ying Leong; Kington Loo; N.G. Lehey- New Straits Times (Malaysia)

Cincinnati Museum of Art hires director: Aaron Betsky...comes to the museum after six years as director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute...- Cincinnati Enquirer

City Hall's Finnish Design: ...the secret: Who actually designed Toronto’s famous City Hall. “We agreed never to tell”... -- Viljo Revell; Bengt Lundsten; Heikki Castren ; Seppo Valjus- Toronto Sun

Steven Holl Architects University of Iowa School of Art & Art History Building: A hybrid instrument for the practice and analysis of art [images]- Archinect

World's Top 10 Cities: Florence tops the list of World’s Best Cities for a second time this year...- Travel + Leisure

Toronto left off great cities list: ...noticeably absent from Best Cities list in annual readers' travel survey. World-class status may come next year, but `nothing personal,' says editor- Toronto Star

Architects, design mavens plan monthlong get-together: ...third annual Architecture and the City festival will jam the calendar; responses to my amble through the marketing centers for two condo projects rising near the Bay Bridge... By John King- San Francisco Chronicle

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