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Today's News - February 21, 2007

Herzog & de Meuron win RIBA gold. -- Three takes on four finalists in Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square competition - with lots of pix (Hume: they're "a bit too respectful"). -- Green working-class housing project in the Bronx hopes to inspire imaginative design for affordable housing everywhere. -- ECB HQ design gets tweaked. -- Britain's new planetarium is otherworldly with "sculpted beauty." -- Contemporary fits nicely in 19th century San Francisco neighborhood. -- Q&A's with NYC's "sheriff of landmarks" about Foster tower controversy, and Diller talks about bricks and Boston. -- Olin wants you to love Atlantic Yards. -- Call for EOI: U.K. pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010.

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Herzog & de Meuron win gold for architecture: awarded the Royal Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) [images, links]- SwissInfo

Four visions for reshaping Nathan Phillips Square: Finalists in the competition to remake Toronto's iconic square take a green, respectful – maybe too respectful – approach. By Christopher Hume -- Viljo Revell (1965); Plant Architects; Baird Sampson Neuert; Rogers Marvel; Zeidler Partnership [slide show]- Toronto Star

Making it hip to be square: The proposals for redesigning Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square are in and all you people who hate change don't need to throw yourselves in front of a bus. -- Viljo Revell (1965); Rogers Marvel; Zeidler Partnership; Baird Sampson Neuert; Plant Architects- Toronto Sun

Nathan Phillips Square Design Finalists Unveiled: ...extensive take on the four finalists, and why the redesign is so important. -- Viljo Revell (1965); Plant Architects; Baird Sampson Neuert; Rogers Marvel; Zeidler Partnership [lots of images]- Torontoist

Working-Class Housing Complex Will Rise as Part of the Greenery: Hoping to inspire more imaginative design in working-class housing, the city will turn over a 60,000-square-foot lot in the South Bronx. -- Grimshaw; Dattner Architects- New York Times

Euro glass palace in Frankfurt: architect alters plans for European Central Bank (ECB)...unveiled fresh details of its landmark new headquarters...a slanted skyscraper in glass built above an old fruit and vegetable market. -- Coop Himmelb(l)au [links]- Jurnalo (Berlin)

Britain's new planetarium: London lost one planetarium last year, but soon a spectacular new one will open at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich...a sense of other-worldliness about it and an abstract, sculpted beauty...impression that somehow it has always been there. -- Allies and Morrison- Telegraph (UK)

Sleek and chic finds a place among the stately 19th century homes of Jackson Street: ...makes an elegant point about cities like San Francisco...Neighborhoods can absorb architectural changes... despite what would-be arbiters of taste might fear. By John King -- Olle Lundberg/Lundberg Design [images]- San Francisco Chronicle

The Sheriff of Landmarks: Robert Tierney, chairman of NYC’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, talks about 980 Madison and the controversy that pit author Tom Wolfe against developer Aby Rosen. -- Foster + Partners- New York Observer

Q&A with Elizabeth Diller: ...Boston -- "a traditional city, a brick city" -- struck her from the first as "hungry for a piece of contemporary architecture." -- Diller, Scofidio + Renfro- Boston Globe

This Guy Wants You to Love Atlantic Yards: Laurie Olin, the landscape architect behind Battery Park City and Bryant Park, faces a tough challenge in central Brooklyn. Not that he’s worried. -- Olin Partnership; Frank Gehry- New York Observer

Call for expressions of interest: British pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010, 'Better City – Better Life'; EOI deadline: March 30- Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)

-- UNStudio: Tea House on bunker, Vreeland, The Netherlands
-- Gonzalo Mardones Viviani: 18th Fire Station, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile

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