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Today's News - October 13, 2006

Calgary's billion-dollar skyscraper will be Foster green. -- Rothschild hires Rem for new London HQ. -- Saffron goes to Denver to find Libeskind is at his master planning best (though he falls short as museum designer). -- Museum addition is exciting and exasperating for curators. -- A Toronto symposium will explore the future of tall buildings in the city: "Are we building vibrant places, or high-rise ghettos?" -- Big plans and new life for old Memphis brewery (dog walk included). -- Children's hospitals in Denver and Chicago share ZGF DNA. -- Ambitious plans for Brown University. -- Jakarta towers and runway models: both are nice to look at but expensive to maintain. -- Art and architecture education converge in collaborations. -- A winning master plan for post-Katrina Mississippi town. -- Winning student designs for Penn Center. -- Weekend diversions: the zero-yen house in Vancouver. -- Two more takes on "The Architecture of Happiness." ----- Happy Friday the 13th!

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A $1-billion reach into Calgary's sky: EnCana tower to be tallest west of Toronto...59-storey crescent-shaped tower -- dubbed The Bow... -- Foster + Partners- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Skyscraper unveiled: The 1.7 million sq. ft. headquarters for EnCana, along with a smaller building to the north that will house cultural and retail space..."The Bow" that will fill two city blocks. -- Foster and Partners [images]- Calogary Sun (Canada)

Rothschild Hires Rem Koolhaas to Design New London Headquarters -- Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)- Bloomberg News

Rising in the Rockies: Daniel Libeskind, unappreciated at New York's ground zero, creates a bold, brilliantly planned Denver Art Museum addition...exudes the swaggering confidence of a city on the rise...Even if Libeskind, the museum designer, wasn't at his best, Libeskind, the master planner, was. By Inga Saffron -- Davis Partnership- Philadelphia Inquirer

New Museum Alters the Denver Skyline: While the construction went smoothly, using the new building for art has proven exciting and exasperating...Critics say it's enough to make curators want to hang themselves, instead of the art...expect to regularly tinker with the configurations of gallery spaces to meet the needs of the artwork displayed. -- Daniel Libeskind- Voice of America

Will Toronto rise to the skyscraper challenge? The all-day Higher Learning Symposium (as this promising event is called)...will feature a wide variety of expert and lay opinion, from across Canada and abroad, about the place of skyscrapers in our city, our lives, our imaginations...Are we building vibrant places, or high-rise ghettos? By John Bentley Mays- Globe and Mail (Canada)

If Plans Pass Final Muster, Big Changes on Tap at Tennessee Brewery: What a difference a PR team, higher elevation, more condos, a bigger price tag, a new dog walk, fresh landscaping, restaurant and retail space make. -- Habiterra- Memphis Daily News

Children's Hospital reveals dazzling vision: features flair for the dramatic -- Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership; H+L Architecture.- Rocky Mountain News (Denver)

Children's Memorial Hospital selects 3 architects...the latest step in the plan to relocate and build a new facility, -- Zimmer Gunsal Frasca Partnership; Solomon Cordwell Buenz; Anderson Mikos Architects- Chicago Tribune

Ambitious academic goals spark growth on and off the Hill: The Changing Face of [Brown Univseristy] Campus -- R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband- The Brown Daily Herald (Providence, RI)

Architecture takes on climate control: What do Jakarta office towers and catwalk models have in common? Here is a hint: They are nice to look at but expensive to maintain. -- Jimmy Priatman; Ken Yeang- The Jakarta Post

Convergence and collaboration characterize the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts: ...reflects larger developments within art and architecture education... -- Fumihiko Maki- Washington University in St. Louis

Long Beach master plan to be awarded: D.C. architect leads winning design team...plan for the city as part of the Mississippi Renewal Forum, launched to help counties along the Coast overcome the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. -- Ayers/Saint/Gross- SunHerald (Mississippi)

Ed Bacon Foundation announces winners of "Imagining Penn Center," its first national student design competition [links to images]- Ed Bacon Foundation

Kyohei Sakaguchi: Zero Yen House [at Vancouver Art Gallery]: ...he appears to be obsessed with this peculiar and transient form of “vernacular architecture”...makes the point repeatedly that these zero-yen houses can be models for future architectural thinking.- Straight (Vancouver)

"The Architecture of Happiness": The architecture and sense of style around us can change affect moods and explain something about ourselves. That's the crux of Alain de Botton's argument in his new book [audio]- National Public Radio (NPR)

Building on a pleasure principle: "The Architecture of Happiness": Alain de Botton delves into the relationship between a structure's looks and our feelings.- Los Angeles Times

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

Studio Daniel Libeskind with Davis Partnership: Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum; photographed by John Boak/Cubistro

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