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Today's News - Monday, August 13, 2007

ArcSpace brings us Pei Cobb Freed in Luxembourg and a gallery on Princeton University's Second Life campus. -- Beijing's building marathon also building a "great wall of criticism." -- A prolific King weighs in on Transbay Terminal proposals: what soars, what falls flat. -- Experts weigh in on what is needed to save deteriorating city centers in the Philippines. -- Kamin on good news/bad news re: two Chicago treasures and the "hole in the city's safety net for preserving historic structures." -- Buffalo joins the growing trend rescuing old building parts for re-use. -- A major makeover for the Israel Museum. -- Gehry's Napa winery finally gets the go-ahead. -- His Manhattan adventure too safe by design or because NYC has been "in a process of fossilization for several decades now"? -- Britain's newest weapon against crime: design. -- Architecture students making homes sweet homes in design/build projects. -- Harvard nabs Mostafavi from Cornell. -- Qingyun Ma of USC Architecture School to curate 2007 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale. -- Call for comments: Cradle to Cradle draft. -- Call for applications: 2007 Richard Blinder Award. -- Call for Proposals: 8th Annual Milka Bliznakov Prize to advance the recognition of women's contributions in design. -- A new exhibit offers a new take on Edinburgh's leafy spaces.

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-- Pei Cobb Freed & Partners: Musée d’Art Moderne, Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
-- Scope Cleaver: Gallery of the Arts, Princeton University Campus, Second Life

A marathon of building for Beijing Olympics: This ancient metropolis has long enjoyed iconic structures - the Forbidden City, the Great Wall...Now it has the Bird's Nest, the Water Cube and the Egg.... This quick-changing architectural landscape, though, is now facing a great wall of criticism. -- Sasaki Associates; Herzog & de Meuron; PTW Architects; Paul Andreu; Rem Koolhaas; Norman Foster; Alfred Peng/Alfred Peng; Ma Yansong/MAD- Mercury News (California)

Transbay Terminal tower designs have chance to redefine San Francisco: The competition...isn't a beauty contest. It's a gamble in city-making... By John King -- Rogers Stirk Harbour/SMWM/AAI Architects/Arup/Olin Partnership; Pelli Clarke Pelli/Peter Walker/WRNS Studio/Ned Kahn/Rana Creek; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill(SOM)/Tom Leader Studio [images, links]- San Francisco Chronicle

Rebirth of Transbay Terminal: What soars, what falls flat. By John King -- Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners; Pelli Clarke Pelli; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill- San Francisco Chronicle

Is there hope for our cities? Experts reveal the urgent need to save what is left of the country’s mostly deteriorating city centers in order to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants -- Instituto Cervantes; Joycelyn B. Mananghaya; Andres Perea- Manila Bulletin

Good news, bad news: Modern structures fall outside city safeguards: The Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, a modernist gem of architect Edward Dart, was demolished last week, exemplifying a hole in the city's safety net for preserving historic structures. By Blair Kamin -- Louis Sullivan [image]- Chicago Tribune

Mining Buffalo's architecture for 'spare parts': ‘Deconstructing’ area’s old structures rescues parts for reuse...The reuse movement is small but growing. -- Buffalo ReUse; Building Materials Reuse Association [images. links]- Buffalo News

A Museum to Get Lost In, and How Israel Is Fixing It: The Israel Museum embarks on an $80 million expansion and renovation that will transform the way a visitor navigates and experiences it. -- Alfred Mansfeld/Dora Gad (1965); James Carpenter Design Associates; Efrat-Kowalsky Architects; Lerman Architects [images]- New York Times

A Gehry Signature in the Napa Valley: Dignitaries convened last month to celebrate the long-delayed groundbreaking of the Hall Winery...expected to be completed in 2010 at a cost of more than $100 million — will be built in three phases... [images]- New York Times

Gehry's blancmange wobbles NY: Critics have accused Frank Gehry's new IAC headquarters of being too safe. I blame New York. By Steve Rose- Guardian (UK)

Design Alliance: Fighting crime from the drawing board: ...independent Alliance of design experts will raise the profile within industry of how innovative design can tackle crime. -- Design and Technology Alliance [images, links]- 24dash.com (UK)

Homes sweet homes: University of Utah architecture students provide houses for Navajos through design/build projects -- DesignBuildBluff [images]- Deseret News (Utah)

GSD (Finally) Chooses Dean: Harvard nabs Mostafavi from Cornell...will replace Alan Altshuler in January.- The Architect's Newspaper (NYC)

Dean of USC Architecture School to Curate 2007 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale that opens December 1...themed "City of Expiration and Regeneration"... -- Qingyun Ma/MADA s.p.a.m.- AZoBuild.com (Australia)

Call for comments: Cradle to Cradle Draft: McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) will launch a new level, called Basic; deadline: August 31- Interior Design Newswire

Call for applications: James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation 2007 Richard Blinder Award: ...proposal must demonstrate that it fosters architectural preservation in the United States; deadline: September 14- Fitch Foundation

Call for Proposals: 8th Annual Milka Bliznakov Prize: Proposals may include an original project, research, or scholarly work, which contributes to and advances the recognition of women's contributions in design; deadline: November 1- Virginia Tech International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)

Paradise regained: Jardins Publics aims to put a fresh perspective on Edinburgh's leafy spaces. But is the grass really greener, asks Jonathan Jones- Guardian (UK)

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