Monday
22 March 2010
News Junkie is back with the news round up which today features an Australian ex-Trade Union boss and Calatrava justifying the huge price tag for the World Trade Centre hub.
Plus Stephen Holl enjoying controversy in Norway, the nano homes that could help solve Mumbai’s chronic shortage of affordable housing and why architects need to go back to school.
Despite the best efforts of the Ennis House Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright’s house has hit the market and is being sold as a private property for a cool $15 million. Seems that keeping the house in good working order was just too expensive for the Foundation to keep paying out.
Also in the US, Hadid and van Berkel’s Burnham Pavilions open to the public. And despite construction activity grinding to a halt in Dubai and investors holding their heads in their hands in despair, all is not over for the Dubai approach to development, says the LA Times.
Looks like Russia has been rumbled. Apparently their “big building site” for the 2014 Winter Olympics has hardly been touched and is hosting guerrilla gardeners.
And poor Calatrava, whose design for the World Trade Centre transport hub took a bit of a battering earlier this week, has now had his design for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra scrapped.
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