Saturday
20 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.
If only all competitions made the shortlist public… the entries for the Calgary National Music Centre tell you nearly everything you need to know about the practices on the shortlist.
In other news, the UAE struggles to produce innovative architects says a local tutor (not really news, but nice to see it being discussed), the Philippines is churning them out and New Zealand and Japan strike up a fast track registration deal.
While some people (News Junkie included) still value the old-fashioned architectural drawing, there’s no denying BIM has some advantages and planners love it. Wisconsin is just the latest area of the world to begin demanding BIM models in the early stages of planning.
Meanwhile in New York, there are signs of life for the Arts Centre originally proposed by Daniel Libeskind for the World Trade Centre site, but will it still have Gehry on board? How do we stop important privately-managed buildings from becoming ‘ghost architecture’? And Coney Island gets a nod of approval.
It has finally happened; Obama has remembered that Urban regeneration was a key part of his pre-election policies. You can watch the video of his speech on the White House website, but cynics like News Junkie will want actions rather than words.
Elsewhere, Murcutt blames fusty planning officials for lacklustre architecture in Australia, SOM’s Sears Tower gets renamed and Jean Nouvel transforms the Ile Seguin.
Benetton has made a name for itself by being controversial. Its clothes might be mind-numbingly dull, but its advertising campaigns were unforgettably shocking in the early 90s. And now the fashion brand has found a new way to attract attention – although it can’t possibly have predicted quite how controversial an international design competition in Tehran would actually be.
Also in today’s news round up; a perfect fall in Shanghai, a new gallery for Miami and Cooper Union’s new architecture MA. Plus – is crazy the new modern?
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