Archive for April, 2008
UTAH BUSINESS MAGAZINE – “A plan put in motion, if it has a solid foundation, is a plan that can govern the history of a community for hundreds of years,” said Glen S. Leroy, dean of the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University. Leroy was a keynote speaker at the Salt Lake [...]
THE ANN ARBOR NEWS – A Boston architect and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design has been named dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Read Story
AP (via International Herald Tribune) – (Rome) Rome’s new mayor said Wednesday he is considering removing a structure that American architect Richard Meier built in the heart of the Italian capital to house the “Ara Pacis,” a 2,000-year-old sacrificial altar. Read Story
GREENSOURCE.CONSTRUCTION.COM – For years, trying to duplicate the “Bilbao effect,” museums have competed to be more spectacular. Now, it seems, they’re vying to be more virtuous-virtuous as in green. In San Francisco, Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Sciences, due to open next October, aims to be the nation’s first LEED Platinum museum. In Denver, David [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES – (Minneapolis) Since Open Book made its debut in May 2000, however, a steady flow of arts organizations have followed, including the Guthrie Theater, designed by Jean Nouvel, who recently won the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Then there is the Mill City Museum, the MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis Central Library and [...]
INHABITAT – Spring is off to a fresh start in New York as Harlem’s first affordable green community blossoms to life. Situated on West 153rd Street, David & Joyce Dinkins Gardens offers 85 units of affordable housing in addition to a 25,000 square foot youth center and a community garden. Jonathan Rose Companies and Harlem [...]
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE – (New Canaan, Conn.) Bassam and others with modernist homes—boxy, low-slung structures with glass walls and stark angles—hope a new preservation effort will secure the genre’s place in architectural history and help save others from demolition. Read Story
THE NEW YORK TIMES – (New Haven) It could be an art gallery opening. The guests, most of them still in their work attire, sip wine while milling about the assorted watercolors and photographs of residential towers and theater complexes. But there are a few too many protractors and blueprints scattered around. Read Story
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES – (via Chicago Tribune) That was all prelude, it turns out, to a grander architectural vision, unveiled at a news conference Thursday. Produced by Los Angeles firm Johnson Fain, along with HKS Architects and Rios Clementi Hale Studios, the plan calls for a pair of low-slung pavilions outside the stadium: one [...]
NEWSDAY – Architect Laszlo Kiss has a point to prove.
Fossil fuels are dirty, increasingly expensive and destined to run out, he said. So if you’re building a new house, why not make one with the lowest possible “carbon footprint,” or human impact on greenhouse gas emissions? Read Story (w/ video)
