News Junkie

New York New York plus Graft’s Russian Jewish Museum

It’s a pretty New York heavy news round up today, with more rumblings from Atlantic Yards, the opening of the High Line and New York University’s new building proposal.

Thom Mayne has been announced as artist in residence for the LA film festival, and SanDiegoans (is that right?) are protesting against a jail expansion using twitter.

Outside of the States, nineteen pro-bono designs have been unveiled to rebuild the burnt homes in Victoria, Australia and Graft unveils its plans for the Russian Jewish Museum.

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Pascall & Watson get the Louvre and green schools for the US

So, the House of Representatives has passed a bill to build one of the  most ambitious schools programmes in recent history. But it’s not the first time that something like this has been passed by the House and ignored by the Senate. Fingers crossed it goes through this time.

Elsewhere there’s some late criticism of Zumthor’s Pritzker win, RMJM lands a big project in Ireland and Pascall & Watson are appointed architect’s of record for the Abu Dhabi Louvre.

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Zumthor not “this holy, mystical guy in the alps” and conversations with Frank Gehry

News Junkie kicks the week off by finding out a bit more about two of the world’s most respected architects…

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‘Bright spots’ in Australia, Zumthor pics and more drama in India

Peter Zumthor’s Pritzker win is still dominating the architectural headlines, but Mass Studies 2010 pavilion and ‘bright spots’ in Australia also caught BD’s eye today. Elsewhere, thousands of Indian architects face being stripped of their title as the government continues to express unhappiness with the CoA.
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