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Today's News - Monday, July 2, 2007

ArcSpace brings us Hadid stepping out at Lincoln Center and real unnaturalism in Copenhagen. -- The "delicate beast" that is Atlantic Yards. -- A Virginia community looks to the future by restoring the past. -- Dunlop on saving modernist buildings from the wrecking ball and "sins of redesign." -- A call to save Stone's "superb" Stanford Hospital, and a "grand old lady" in Ohio. -- A look at Lutyens' legacy, and the woman behind the restoration of his Viceroy's House in New Delhi. -- Glancey on an architectural trailblazer in a quaint medieval market town. -- Affordable housing and green design: not an oxymoron. -- Kamin's hearty applause for a building that fits into a cherished Chicago landscape. -- Holl's Herning Centre of the Arts in pix. -- Piano takes on a winery. -- Some call to scrap Hadid's Transport Museum design for something cheaper. -- Pearman's take on FOA's social housing project in Spain. -- Seismic changes in California building code? -- 13 stellar names on shortlist for Abu Dhabi museum. -- 18 shortlisted for Living Steel competition for sustainable housing. -- Hadid's London retrospective is "stunning and long- overdue."

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-- Erik A. Frandsen: The Real. Unnaturalism, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
-- Zaha Hadid: Metapolis II, Ballet National de Marseille, Lincoln Center, New York City

Official Sees Possible Risk in Big Project in Brooklyn: ...Atlantic Yards behemoth — 8 million square feet of apartments, offices, stores and an arena planned for 22 acres near Downtown Brooklyn — may in fact be a delicate beast. -- Frank Gehry- New York Times

Restoring the Past to Improve the Future: The restoration of a historic theater is part of an array of changes intended to reinvigorate a once-thriving African-American community in Virginia. By Fred A. Bernstein -- Livas Group Architects- New York Times

Saving our remarkable modernist buildings from the wrecking ball and sins of redesign: The Glass House's Preserve the Modern initiative could...lead us to better ways to preserve an important body of work before it is lost. By Beth Dunlop -- Philip Johnson; DoCoMoMo- Miami Herald

Stanford Hospital worthy of preservation: Distinct vision of architect is evident: ...a building of tremendous architectural significance...So what can be done with this superb hospital building? ...Stanford's legacy is for the centuries, not just a quarterly profit statement. By Alan Hess -- Edward Durell Stone (1959)- Mercury News (California)

Preservationists push to save ‘grand old lady’: Seneca County (Ohio) looks to raze courthouse -- Elijah E. Myers (1883); MKC Associates [slide show]- Toledo Blade

Lutyens' Legacy: ...his reputation has been revived--partly because of Sunita Kohli's scholarship and her restorations of Viceroy's House and Hyderabad House in particular.- Forbes

Designing Woman: Architectural restorer Sunita Kohli bridges both cultural and historical divides.- Forbes

Miracle of Ledbury: How a quaint medieval market town became an architectural trail-blazer...one of the most intriguing and exciting new buildings in Herefordshire, one that deserves to set a precedent in the way we nurture development in market towns. By Jonathan Glancey -- Alex Clive- Guardian (UK)

Incorporating Green Design Elements to Enhance Multifamily Communities -- Roschen Van Cleve Architects; Dattner Architects; Elton + Hampton; Earth Pledge; Goody Clancy; Cooper Roberts Simonsen; MacArthur, Means and Wells; Inglese Architecture; Katherine Austin; Icon Architecture [images]- Multi-Housing News

Screen stars: Foreign Office Architects [FOA] came to international stardom with Yokohama Port Terminal. Now it’s low-cost social housing in Spain, and that takes imagination too. By Hugh Pearman [iamges]- RIBA Journal (UK)

Ravinia's new dining pavilion makes its debut: ...an architectural occasion, one that serves up a reminder that buildings with even the most prosaic of functions have the capacity to do good or do harm to cherished landscapes. In this case, the results merit hearty applause. By Blair Kamin -- Lohan Anderson- Chicago Tribune

Steven Holl Architects unveils design for the Herning Centre of the Arts in Denmark. [images]- Building (UK)

Rising out of a Tuscan hillside, a £7m wine cellar by Renzo Piano: ..."a noble factory which both produces and elevates wine to a higher level"- Guardian (UK)

Shock call to scrap city’s £74m transport museum and replaced with a cheaper building. -- Zaha Hadid- Evening Times (Scotland)

Campus Shake-Up: When voters passed Proposition 1D in November to give $10.4 billion for school construction, few realized that embedded in it were 59 words that would lower seismic safety standards at community colleges across California. "It was a stealth bill"...- Inside Bay Area (California)

International design competition: 13...practices have entered an international design competition to design...Sheikh Zayed National Museum, Abu Dhabi. -- de Portzamparc; AN Tombazias; Tschumi; Eisenman; Dar-Al Omran; Foster; Hollein; Bellini; Fuksa; Moriyama & Teshima; Shigeru Ban; Bofill; Snohetta- ArabianBusiness.com

18 Shortlisted in 2nd Living Steel International Competition for Sustainable Housing in in Brazil, China and UK -- Andrade Morettin Arquitetos; Brasil Arquitetura; Collins and Turner; Dubosc and Landowski; Perkins+Will; Sebastian Irarrazaval Architects; Anderson Anderson; Atenastudio+cityfoerster; China Southwest Architectural Design And Research Institute; David Knafo Tagit Klimor; nARCHITECTS; IAUS School Of Architecture, Tsinghua Univ.; Cartwright Pickard; Feilden Clegg Bradley; Hideto Horike and Urtopia; Icesa; Mei Architecten en Stedenbouwers; Roccatelier Associati [images]- Living Steel

Angry Bees to Abstract Design, Zaha Hadid's Vision Celebrated: The first major retrospective of her work to be seen in the U.K. at the Design Museum in London is a stunning and long- overdue display...The integrity of her skill shines through.- Bloomberg News

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