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Today's News - October 6, 2006

A light-filled vision for North Carolina museum expansion. -- Report card for Vancouver: a nice place to live (as long as you're not poor). -- Vancouver's resident critic laments lip service that passes as public participation. -- Making the connection between aesthetics and affordability. -- Swoops and swirls make a splash in shortlisted designs for NYC aquarium. -- Ourooussoff pleased that Arquitectonica finally comes through with a decent building for NYC. -- Libeskind's take on his Denver Art Museum (it really is about the art). -- USC's new architecture dean hails from Shanghai. -- Glancey's take on Herzog & de Meuron's royal RIBA Gold. -- NYC's Architecture Week starts today; openhousnewyork opens doors. ----- EDITOR'S NOTE: The daily ANN newsletter will return on Tuesday, October 10.

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North Carolina Museum of Art Expansion: Skylights and garden galleries create a firmly grounded museum expansion that sits softly on the land. -- homas Phifer and Partners; Peter Walker and Partners [images]- ArchNewsNow

Making the grade: A critical look at our city: Your grades are in, Vancouver, and you've got a few things to work on...Vital Signs 2006, a report card...finds us wanting in our treatment of our poor, our new immigrants, and the affordability of our housing.- Vancouver Sun

Public relations or public participation? My experience of CityPlan for my neighbourhood...We citizens get balloons and pencils, instead of a meaningful role in the urban decisions that shape our lives. By Trevor Boddy- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Beauty and the affordability crisis: Gentrification and the broader housing market signal that aesthetic standards are more, not less, important...New Urbanist and the Smart Growth movements understand the connection. -- Armory Revival; Durkee Brown Viveiros & Werenfels; Donald Powers Architects; Marianne Cusato; Andres Duany- Providence Journal (Rhode Island)

From 3 Finalists in New York Aquarium’s Redesign, Swoops, Swirls and Great Water Views -- WRT; Smith-Miller & Hawkinson Architects; West 8/Weisz & Yoes Architecture [images]- New York Times

Art to the People, and Vice Versa, in the Bronx: Arquitectonica owed New York a decent building, and it finally came through with the Bronx Museum of the Arts...the addition is a reminder of how architecture can have a profound public impact when its values are in the right place. By Nicolai Ouroussoff [images]- New York Times

Libeskind on the [Denver Art Museum] Hamilton Building: "The whole point is to make the art live." By Mary Voelz Chandler [slide show, links]- Rocky Mountain News (Denver)

University of Southern California (USC) names architecture dean with 'global' view: ...Qingyun Ma, 41, is based in Shangai and is founder of the firm MADA s.p.a.m.- Los Angeles Times

Innovative architects of Tate Modern take top prize: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are the recipients of this year's Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, a gift of the Queen made on her behalf by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). By Jonathan Glancey- Guardian (UK)

Architecture Week in New York City October 6-12- Center for Architecture (NYC)

U-R-E is O-U-T: Hanley Wood buys Architecture and Architectural Lighting magazines as it readies for launch of Architect- ArchNewsNow

-- Extension: Rem Koolhaas/OMA: Milstein Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
-- Renzo Piano Building Workshop/Beyer Blinder Belle: Morgan Library & Museum, New YorkCity

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