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Today's News - September 19, 2006

A fitting tribute to a landscape architect who left his mark on every corner of Israel. -- It's a Miami kind of day: H&deM win museum project. -- Norten's 3 projects are "brothers from different fathers." -- A look at who else is shaping starchitect-struck Miami (more like who isn't?). -- A look at India's modern architectural wonders (and a warning to avoid kitsch). -- Cleveland's Breuer tower may bite the dust because debate "has been absolutely anemic." -- Koolhaas takes on Jersey City and his alma mater. -- Speaking of schools: Praise for Harvard's "final split with its old flame: red brick." -- Princeton's arts neighborhood taking shape. -- Carnegie Mellon's Gates Center sees lots of zinc and LEED Gold in its future. -- The Netherlands goes with the flow with floating buildings. -- EDAW Melbourne wins big in Abu Dhabi. -- Washington, DC's new Swiss Residence is "worth a celebratory yodel or two." -- Calthorpe wins big for "redefining the models of urban and suburban growth in America." -- Hadid is "chatty and open, if not particularly warm." -- We couldn't resist this headline: "Appetite showing as investors relish offer of Gherkin."

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Obituary: Spreading a carpet of gardens: Lipa Yahalom, 1911-2006...Israeli landscape planner, one of the last giants in his field and an Israel Architecture Prize laureate...left his mark on every corner of the country. By Esther Zandberg- Ha`aretz (Israel)

Herzog & de Meuron To Design New Miami Art Museum: ...a central element of the City of Miami’s master plan for the refurbishment and renovation of the Park and the re-vitalization of Miami’s downtown area. -- Terence Riley- Art Daily

"We were trying to anticipate the future": All three of Enrique Norten's planned buildings are, stylistically, like 'brothers from different fathers' -- but the architect eschews a single signature look. -- TEN Arquitectos- Miami Herald

Reaching for the stars: Celebrity architects -- 'starchitects' -- are increasingly interested in working in Miami, knowing their buildings will likely be noticed by the world. -- Pelli; Gehry; Meier; Graves; Stern; Norten/TEN Arquitectos; Herzog & De Meuron; Leon Krier; Peil; Johnson; Stubbins; Yamasaki; Isozaki; Gelabert-Navia/Perkins + Will; Gwathmey; Arquitectonica- Miami Herald

India's Modern Architectural Wonders: The country's forthcoming wave of slick contemporary architecture is a potent symbol of its rocketing economy -- Vidur Bhardwaj; Carlos Ott; Tod Williams Billie Tsien [slide show]- BusinessWeek

Public should speak up before tower comes down: ...Commissioners soon could decide to pull down a 29-story downtown office tower by Marcel Breuer...apathy over mid-20th-century Modernist architecture is playing a huge role...of six design teams vying for the job...only one...has proposed renovating the tower. By Steven Litt -- Davis Brody Bond/Weber Murphy Fox- Cleveland Plain Dealer

Loft Project in Jersey City Attracts a Big Name: Rem Koolhaas...will transform a warehouse, once an artist enclave, into luxury lofts... Of Jersey City, he said, "It is clearly emerging into a new future, though it’s not clear what."- New York Times

A World-Famous Architect Goes Home to Cornell: College of Architecture, Art and Planning Milstein Hall "...definitely an exercise in modest, discreet intervention" -- Rem Koolhaas/Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) [image]- New York Times

Opinion: Allston's Concrete Future: ...it appears that Harvard is at last ready to make the final split with its old flame: red brick...The Allston project is Harvard’s march to the future, and architecture is its landing party. -- Behnisch Architekten- The Harvard Crimson

Campus Planning: Plans for arts neighborhood take shape...a far-reaching initiative that will create a center of academics, entertainment and retail... -- Renzo Piano- Daily Princetonian

Newest $88.6 million Gates Center for Computer Science designs released...confidence that the Gates building will achieve a U.S. Green Building LEED gold rating. -- Mack Scogin Merrill Elam; Michael Van Valkenburgh [image, link]- The Tartan (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

Dutch going with the flow: Rather than building higher dikes to battle floods, the Netherlands turns to floating buildings. -- Koen Olthuis/Waterstudio- Austin American-Statesman (Texas)

Melbourne office of EDAW to fore in $36bn project...overseeing the design of the [Abu Dhabi] Saadiyat Island "mega development" [includes Gehry's Guggenheim]- The Australian

Plane brilliance of luminous new Swiss Residence: Washington finally has a new building worth a celebratory yodel or two. By Deborah K. Dietsch -- Steven Holl; Justin Russli- Washington Times

The man had a plan long ago -- now it's reaping rewards: Peter Calthorpe and his fellow crusaders fashion themselves as "new urbanists," and they've made remarkable headway...Real life isn't as fetching as the plans. By John King -- Urban Land Institute (ULI)- San Francisco Chronicle

Celeb architect: Once upon a time, Zaha Hadid was called the "paper architect"...But all that has changed...the Zaha I encountered was chatty and open...- The Star (Malaysia)

Appetite showing as investors relish offer of Gherkin: ...Swiss Re iconic London skyscraper...put up for sale for an estimated £600 million...would represent a sharp turnaround in the fortunes of the building... -- Foster & Partners- The Times (UK)

Sex and the City Part 2: Field Notes from the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale: The message seems to be that...we might have half a chance to thrive as a species several generations hence. By Margaret Helfand, FAIA [images]- ArchNewsNow

Sex and the City Part 1: Field Notes from the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale - Part 1: Libidos on fire in Venice: Urbanism may not be sexy, but our lives may depend on it. By Margaret Helfand, FAIA [images]- ArchNewsNow

-- Rafael Viñoly: HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia
-- Inauguration: Bjørn Nørgaard: Paradise Genetically Altered (link herfra), Copenhagen, Denmark

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