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Today's News - October 18, 2006

The History Channel launches a design competition for the city of the future. -- Farrelly minces no words about why architecture usually flies under the public radar (Venice Biennale and young architects show don't help). -- Even critics of Denver's new museum don't think bad press will have much impact. -- Rybczynski on why good cities have bad architecture. -- Reflections on the Arts & Crafts movement and its "implications for humanity's aesthetic past, present, and future." -- Why Rogers deserves the Stirling. -- A "cultural jewel" reopens in Berlin. -- Masters of design and their design ethos. -- A landmarked Harlem pumping station's second act as a theater. -- An energy-efficient TOD for Denver's T-REX terminus. -- Britain's love affair with mock-Victorian. -- Pesce inspires them in Manila. -- Jacobs's "The Perfect $100,000 House" is a "quirky, important book." -- de Botton's "The Architecture of Happiness" is timeless (and beautiful). -- A new tome looks at why we feel comfortable in certain places. -- Mississauga celebrates urban design.

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Call for entries: The City of the Future: A Design and Engineering Challenge; $20,000 in prizes; deadlines: New York (Northeast): October 20; Chicago (Midwest): October 27; Los Angeles West Coast): November 17 (open to teams from any geographic location)- The History Channel

Herpes gets more headlines than architecture: It's partly that architecture is something we don't generally get...But there's also this; architecture doesn't get us. Which is more serious, since we, one way or another, wind up paying for it...10th Venice Architecture Biennale and "Young Architects Take 2"... By Elizabeth Farrelly- Sydney Morning Herald

Museum hopes shellacking won't stick: Regardless of how one interprets the reviews the building has received, nearly everyone agrees that they will have little or no impact on how posterity views the building. By Kyle MacMillan -- Daniel Libeskind- Denver Post

The San Francisco Paradox: When good cities have bad architecture. It's hard to know exactly why some cities develop an architectural sensibility...San Francisco has not inspired its hired guns to do their best work. By Witold Rybczynski -- Mario Botta; Pei Cobb Freed; Fumihiko Maki; Polshek Partnership; Herzog & de Meuron- Slate

(post-)Hydrocarbon Aesthetics: As I walked through the exhibition [“International Arts and Crafts: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright” at the de Young Museum] I couldn’t help but reflect on its implications for humanity’s aesthetic past, present, and future. By Richard Heinberg- EnergyBulletin.net

With Wavy Airport, Rogers Merits Stirling Prize: Madrid's Barajas Airport...is clarity and elegance and structural vigor. By Colin Amery -- Richard Rogers Partnership; Lamela Studios- Bloomberg News

After Expensive Facelift, Berlin Reopens Kaiser-Era Museum: ...Bode Museum is to reopen its doors after a six-year makeover...a work of art in itself...on the tip of Berlin's famous Museum Island... -- Ernst von Ihne (1898); Heinz Tesar/Christoph Fischer [images]- Deutsche Welle (Germany)

A Cultural Jewel Reawakens in Berlin: ...newly renovated Bode Museum on the city's Museum Island. The opening serves as a reminder that Berlin has the potential to become Europe's cultural capital -- if it chooses to accept the challenge. [images]- Der Spiegel (Germany)

Design Ethos: Paula Scher/Pentagram; Steve McCallion/Ziba Design; Clive Wilkinson; David Adjaye; Jennifer Siegal/Office of Mobile Design; etc. [slide shows, articles]- Fast Company

Gatehouse Ushers in a Second Act as a Theater: ...pumping station...first new performance space to open in Harlem in a generation. -- Frederick S. Cook (1890); Ohlhausen DuBois; Wank Adams Slavin Associates [images]- New York Times

The end of the line was project's beginning: $700 million , energy-efficient, transit-oriented development to rise at T-REX's terminus...could serve as a model...anchored by offices rather than by residential or retail, as with other TODs. -- klipp; EDAW- Rocky Mountain News (Denver)

Living in the past (with all mod cons): We love old houses - we just don't love living in them...why mock-Victorian has become Britain's favourite style of property -- Robert Adam [images]- Telegraph (UK)

The logic of construction: Inspiration from everyday life: Pesce said that for him, design is a "great art expression and has something to do with being ‘useful.’"- Manila Bulletin

Little House on the Drawing Board: Whether Karrie Jacobs could find an architect to create well and cheaply is the driving dynamic of her quirky, important book, "The Perfect $100,000 House: A Trip Across America and Back in Pursuit of a Place to Call Home." By Linda Hales- Washington Post

Buying Happiness: Alain de Botton's "The Architecture of Happiness"...Though flawed like everything else ever designed and made, it is a book of timeless ideas that help us to better understand how and why we judge one thing to be more beautiful than another. By Henry Petroski- New York Sun

New Title From Former Head of Architecture at MIT Explains Why We Are Drawn to and Comfortable in Certain Places: "People & Places: Connections Between the Inner and Outer Landscape" by John R. Myer FAIA, and Margaret H. Myer- PR Web

2006 Mississauga Urban Design Awards Celebrate a Quarter Century of Excellence -- Kirkor Architects & Planners/Starr Landscape; John D. Rogers & Associates/Farrow Partnership Architects/EDA Collaborative; du Toit Allsopp Hillier Architects/ENVision – The Hough Group- City of Mississauga (Canada)

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

-- Exhibition: CO-EVOLUTION, Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
-- Foster and Partners: Hearst Tower, New York, NY

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