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Today's News - September 28, 2006

Huxtable minces no words in her assessment of current plans for Ground Zero. -- Meanwhile, the debate over Ground Zero has taken architecture out of its elitist tower and pushed it "into the 'conversation of the city'." -- Let's not forget the birds. -- Starchitects invited to reinvent New Orleans riverfront (pralines and "Da Mayor in Your Pocket" included). -- RFQ/P for New Orleans riverfront reinvention (you don't have to be a star). -- San Francisco's "tall mall" a model for us all? -- Hawthorne digs the idea for a new LA subway. -- Viñoly's Janelia Farm Research Campus is the perfect ivory (non)tower for "blue-sky, long-range research." -- Ito to deliver the arts for Berkeley. -- New museum is a nice surprise for Surprise, AZ. -- Hadid gets her due at the Guggenheim in a chronicle of her "30-year pursuit of the impossible." -- Hong Kong makes its first appearance at Venice Biennale showing the city's essence in its details. -- Canstruction makes its LA debut. -- Call for entries: design excellence in the classical tradition; and the meaning of color (as long as it's in Australia).

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The Disaster That Has Followed the Tragedy: A bad plan for Ground Zero...Call it irony or destiny, the architecture once rejected as a costly "frill" is now embraced for its dollar value. By Ada Louise Huxtable -- Foster; Rogers; Maki; Libeskind- Wall Street Journal

Boom time for architecture of Manhattan: The Ground Zero plan is just one of many big-name projects changing the New York skyline...debate over Ground Zero pushed architecture into the "conversation of the city"... -- Calatrava; SOM/David Childs; Foster; Rogers; Maki; Gehry; Pelli; Meier; Vinoly- Financial Times Deutschland

Birds, Beware Of Glass: ...bird conservationists want to raise awareness among architects...that glass can kill birds...have criticized architects for their building designs. But bridges are being built between the two sides. -- Jeanne Gang; Bruce Fowle; Margaret Helfand- New York Resident

Architects asked for riverfront inspiration: ...architects, from Frank Gehry and Rafael Viñoly to Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster, could have been forgiven a look of puzzlement when they opened their mail...New Orleans' invitation to get involved in planning a major redevelopment of parts of the riverfront.- The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Request for Qualifications and Proposals: New Orleans Riverfront: Reinventing the Crescent; Part One Submission Deadline: October 25- New Orleans Building Corporation (NOBC)

San Francisco Centre May Supply Concept for L.A.: A tall mall must draw shoppers in and up. It could serve as a model for other cities. -- RTKL- Los Angeles Times

Finally, on the right track: Maybe it's time to redefine exactly what cost-efficiency means in a city such as Los Angeles...Wilshire subway...could trace a new urban blueprint...for an age of density and knitting the idea of Los Angeles — the city, not the collection of retail centers and red carpets — back together. By Christopher Hawthorne- Los Angeles Times

Behind Glass and Steel, a World of Discovery: Brainpower at Work At Janelia Farm Campus...an experiment in itself. A museum-like structure, it contains one of the largest installations of structural glass in the country. -- Rafael Viñoly- Washington Post

UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) selects Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects has been selected to design a new center for the visual arts in downtown Berkeley.- University of California, Berkeley

Museum designed with future in mind: New Heard Museum West is just part of larger plan -- Holly Street Studios- Arizona Business Gazette

Experimentation is the only option: Zaha Hadid gets her due in Guggenheim retrospective. New York exhibition chronicles Pritkzer Prize-winning architect's 30-year pursuit of the impossible- The Daily Star (Lebanon)

Revealing the architectual essence of Hong Kong: ...three young architects decided to present a very different side of Hong Kong at the city's first appearance at the Venice Architecture Biennale. -- Alvin Yip; Billy Tam; Joshua Lau; Laurence Liauw Wie Wu; Rocco Yim- International Herald Tribune

Cannily built structures pit local teams: Architects and others vie in Canstruction, and the hungry are helped...makes its L.A. area debut this week. [images]- Los Angeles Times

Call for submissions: 2007 Arthur Ross Awards for Excellence in the Classical Tradition...for a career or body of work (U.S. & abroad); deadline: December 15- Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America (ICA&CA)

Call for entries: 2007 Dulux Colour Awards; open to projects in Australia; cash prizes; deadline: January 31, 2007- Dulux

New Frontiers in Science and Design: ASU Biodesign Institute by Gould Evans and Lord, Aeck & Sargent (images)- ArchNewsNow

Newly opened: Gehry Partners: Hotel Marques de Riscal, Elciego, (Alava) Spain

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