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Today's News - Monday, May 7, 2007

ArcSpace takes us to Alberta and Beverly Hills. -- A look at a futuristic development in Paris. -- A rival perspective to Caro's take on NYC's power broker. -- Preservation in a time of growth and change. -- Gragg gives a (mostly) thumbs--up to Seattle Art Museum expansion. -- An interesting take on Rogers' "monumental cathedral to flight" and the future of air travel. -- Kamin x 2 on possibility of a spinning tower in Chicago. -- Gould on Calatrava's twisting tower. -- Why multi--family housing doesn't win awards: "architects are not paid enough to do it well," says Boddy. -- What architects and marketers can learn from a day at the ballpark. -- Pei still "following the sun and an inner light." -- Hume on Toronto's Jane Jacobs Day. -- Public Architecture's Peterson takes the Jefferson Award. -- Call for papers: "Tectonics: Making Meaning." -- Glancey visits an exhibition of Norwegian architecture and finds there's much Britain could learn. -- An architecture and design festival coming to Copenhagen. -- Doors Open Toronto about to open doors.

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-- Saucier + Perrotte & Marc Boutin Architects: The National Mountain Centre, Canmore Alberta, Canada
-- OMA / Rem Koolhaas: Prada Epicenter, Beverly Hills

Paris Gives Itself a Futuristic Transplant: In a city whose boundaries have been filled, a debate over one of the last major zones for new development...321-acre Paris Rive Gauche... -- Christian de Portzamparc; Paul Andreu; Bruno Fortier; Norman Foster; Ricardo Bofill; Valode & Pistre; Chaix et Morel; Arte Charpentier; Jakob & MacFarlane; Rudy Ricciotti; Nicholas Michelin; Francis Soler; François Chochon; Beckmann N’Thépé; Dietmar Feichtinger- New York Times

A Tale of Two Cities: For three decades, Robert Caro’s biography of Robert Moses was a bible among students of the city. But a rival perspective on the power broker shows how quickly the winds of history can shift.- New York Times

Op-Ed: Preservation in a time of growth and change: ...preservationists...can no longer insist on retaining the status quo. We must adapt, as buildings must be adapted, to new generations of users and often to new uses. By Jay Turnbull/Page & Turnbull- San Francisco Chronicle

A convoluted real estate deal results in a remodel of SAM [Seattle Art Museum] into order and elegance...a brilliantly simple, flexible system...works better generally than specifically...the duet of the old and new SAMs winds up being a fascinating song. By Randy Gragg -- Venturi Scott Brown (1991); Cooper Robertson & Partners; Cloepfil/Allied Works- The Oregonian

Britain's new gateway to the skies: ...stunning new Terminal 5 opens next year...But is Richard Rogers' monumental cathedral to flight the start of a better deal for the travelling public, or does a green age need a different approach? By Stephen Bayley -- Foster; Grimshaw; Yorke Rosenberg and Mardall (YRM); Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum (HOK); Pascal and Watson- Observer (UK)

Tower twirls and debate starts to swirl: It sounds, at first blush, like an oversize architectural joke... The spinning skyscraper! But don't laugh. By Blair Kamin -- David Fisher- Chicago Tribune

Extreme is no equal for excellence: ...extreme expression, the ceaseless quest for aesthetic novelty powered by new technologies...which are always interesting but not so often good...I have far more faith in Calatrava's plan for the twisting, 150-story Chicago Spire than David Fisher's notion of a spinning tower, 60 to 90 stories tall. By Blair Kamin- Chicago Tribune

Tall building with a twist: Calatrava design carries Chicago's lofty aspirations...Even new urbanists, who generally prefer small-scale, street-friendly architecture over look-at-me showstoppers, have been won over. By Whitney Gould [images, video link]- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Is Vancouver building a design gap? Condos, condos going up everywhere, but apparently none are worthy of British Columbia's 2007 Lieutenant-Governor's Awards for Architecture. By Trevor Boddy -- Peter Cardew; Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden; Patkau Architects; Bing Thom; Hughes Condon Marler [slide show]- Globe and Mail (Canada)

What an Architect Knows About Marketing: Scott Wyatt asserts that architecture and marketing have a lot more in common than most people think...what marketing pros can learn from a day at the ballpark. -- NBBJ- AdWeek

I'm Still Here: ...I. M. Pei officially retired from Pei Cobb Freed and Partners. But at age 90, he's still designing buildings in Europe, the Far East, and the Middle East, following the sun and an inner light.- MIT Technology Review

Jane's Walk the right step; Urban pioneer Jane Jacobs would likely approve inaugural walks in her honour...It seems now that the heroic days of urban activism are long over. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star

Jefferson Award Presented to John Peterson: Building better architects -- one project at a time. Through its flagship program called the 1% Solution, Public Architecture has encouraged design professionals nationwide to do more and better pro bono work.- San Francisco Chronicle

Call for papers: "Tectonics: Making Meaning," all about interdisciplinary design - for a December conference at at the Department of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Technology in Eindhoven, the Netherlands; deadline: June 15- CHEOPS, Study Association of Architecture, Building and Planning

Through fire and ice: The Norwegians' architecture stands up to glaciers, snowstorms and dangerous drivers - and it still looks beautiful. They could teach us a few things..."Extreme North" is unshowy, satisfying and quietly thrilling... By Jonathan Glancey -- Erik Selmer; Hareide Designmill; Odd Thorsen AS Design and Arkitektur; Helen and Hard Arkitekter; Snohetta; Sverre Fehn- Guardian (UK)

Cultural Copenhagen: Architecture and Design Festival, May 18-20- Easier.com (UK)

8th annual Doors Open Toronto: ...up to 150 buildings of architectural, historic, cultural and social significance open their doors to the public May 26-27- Doors Open Toronto

Reed Kroloff Appointed Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art- ArchNewsNow

The Field Paoli Forum: Roundtable with Author and Environmental Activist Hunter Lovins- ArchNewsNow

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