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Today's News - Thursday, April 12, 2007

Cities are the answer for a sustainable future. -- Vision of a wind-powered London. -- Is there hope for 22 acres empty civic space in Milwaukee? -- Big plans for a historic British airfield. -- A Wilshire Boulevard landmark is a fixer-upper of a most unusual sort (and hopes that someone takes it on). -- Legorreta's Fort Worth museum will be a good neighbor. -- An interesting conversation with Ando: boxing, earthquakes, and architecture. -- Saia takes RAIC Gold. -- Call for entries: Land Development Visionary Project Awards. -- An "APA lifer" sees room for improvement. -- Two we couldn't resist: Museum Plagiarius honors the world's greatest knock-offs. -- Adult treehouses (they don't come cheap!).

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Op-Ed: Cities are the answer: ...will be the pivotal players in fashioning solutions to the growing problem of climate change.,,best hope to realize our need for a bright, sustainable, and promising future. By Douglas Foy and Robert Healy- International Herald Tribune

Marks Barfield reveals vision of wind-powered London: ...could meet half of energy needs by installing thousands of wind turbines alongside rivers and roads [image]- Building (UK)

Envisioning out-of-the-box MacArthur Square: ...why should such a strategically located civic space be so toxic? ...there's the sheer inhuman scale of the city-owned square: five football fields' worth of empty, unarticulated space... By Whitney Gould -- Larry Witzling/Planning and Design Institute [slide show]- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

'Airship park' at heart of new community planned for historic Cardington Airfield: An airship-shaped park is at the heart of a major new residential development...Up to 425 dwellings are planned...30% of the new dwellings are earmarked for affordable housing. -- PRP Architects [image]- 24dash.com (UK)

Chapel looks for a saving grace: Landmark structure on West L.A. VA [Veterans Affairs] campus is dilapidated, but there's little money to fix it. The oldest building on Wilshire Boulevard is a fixerupper duplex of a most unusual sort. -- J. Lee Burton [1900]; Taylor Louden/Leo A Daly- Los Angeles Times

Museum plans will mesh with neighbors: New Fort Worth Museum of Science & History connects internally, externally...a dazzlingly varied array of volumes... -- Ricardo Legorreta/Legorreta+Legorreta [image]- Dallas Morning News

Tadao Ando Talk Asia Interview- CNN

Mario Saia is golden with Institute: Montreal architect...is the recipient of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s prestigious Gold Medal for 2007. -- Saia Barbarese Topouzanov Architectes- Daily Commercial News (Canada)

Call for entries: Land Development Visionary Project Award...recognizes the creativity, vision, and the implementation of best practices in land development (no entry fee); deadline: May 4 [pdf]- Land Development Today

Op-Ed: Improving The Purpose And Accountability Of The American Planning Association: When membership is not much more than a subscription and decisions are made with little group input, the APA needs to adjust the way it interacts with its members, according to self-proclaimed "APA lifer" Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP.- PLANetizen

The World's Greatest Knock-offs: Museum Plagiarius near Cologne houses a collection of the most egregious examples of counterfeit goods -- Reinhard Angelis, Planung Architektur Gestaltung [images]- BusinessWeek

Reinventing the Clubhouse in the Sky: Adult treehouses are now more stable, longer lasting and have become almost faddish. [slide show]- New York Times

Water = Life: Diamond Valley Water + Life Museums Campus: Two museums in the desert offer engaging environmental lessons, both inside and out. -- Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build [images]- ArchNewsNow

River Tune: Elbe Philharmonic Hall: The cultural centerpiece of HafenCity, Hamburg, will be a crystalline ice sculpture atop an earthy warehouse - with beautiful music, luxury living, and a spectacular public plaza high above the River Elbe. -- Herzog & de Meuron [images]- ArchNewsNow

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