A new island development for Abu Dhabi and more rumours about Gehry’s Atlantic Yards
June 3rd, 2009 | by ecadman |Just when you thought that work in the Middle East was drying up, along comes Abu Dhabi with plans for a while new island district. The question is, will it be an island of starchitects a la Saadiyat Cultural Island, or something a little more accessible?
In New York there’s more troubling rumours around Gehry’s Atlantic Yards, and there’s a respectable shortlist to create Melbourne University’s new architecture faculty building.
Architectural firm Ellerbe Becket tapped to re-evaluate Frank Gehry’s Atlantic Yards arena design
Rumours of further trouble for Gehry’s New York project. More at New York Daily News
Hudayriat Island next on the development agenda
Abu Dhabi considers plans for a new island development. More at The National
University of Melbourne Architecture Building Competition: finalists announced
Six practices – Denton Corker Marshall; Diller Scofidio + Renfro; John Wardle Architects & Office dA; KoningEizenberg with William J Mitchell and Gehry Technologies; McBride Charles Ryan; Sauerbruch Hutton with NH Architecture – on the shortlist to build a new faculty building for Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. More at Arch Daily
Shepherd Fairey promotes SMS restoration plans during Venice art biennial 09
As Venice gears up for the start of the art biennale on Sunday, Shepherd Fairey unveils a poster campaign to promote the restoration of the city’s architectural heritage. More at Design Boom
Govt rental scheme scuppers green intentions
Concerns in Australia that the push for affordable housing will result in unsustainable development. More at Architecture and Design
$10 Million Donated to High Line Project
The media mogul Barry Diller and his wife, the fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg have made a $10 million challenge grant to the High Line, the former elevated railway along the Hudson River that is being converted into a landscaped walkway by Diller Scofido + Renfro. More at the New York Times
The project has its own Sundance short film channel!
Liam Gillick, the British artist representing Germany, outlines the challenges of working in a “problematic Fascist building”
Gillick has a whinge about the architecture of the German pavilion. More at The Art Newspaper
zerOgroup/Unique wins ‘PRAÇA DO NATAL’ Competition in Brazil
zerOgroup/Unique has won a competition to design a new icon and Christmas square for Natal, in Brazil, organised by the prefecture of Natal and the Institute of Brazilian Architects. More at Bustler
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One Response to “A new island development for Abu Dhabi and more rumours about Gehry’s Atlantic Yards”
By Serge Zaleski on Oct 16, 2009 | Reply
Perhaps a ‘Bad’ architecture international award with a series of categories
• Obnoxious aesthetically
• Pretentious beyond belief
• Environmentally insensitive