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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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architecture stories: 55 news summaries

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Architect: Crunch Will Topple 'Wow Factor' Buildings

Architect believes financial meltdown will cause building 'mood shift'

Nov 4, 08 9:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Attention-seeking skyscraper projects are likely to be early victims of the financial crisis, architect David Chipperfield predicts in a Bloomberg interview. "Wow-factor" buildings like London's "Shard of Glass" have proliferated during years when there's been plenty of money around, but a shift in mood is likely to... More »

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architecture • skyscraper • buildings • architect • financial crisis

 Sorry, Bono: 
 Economy 
 Shelves 
 U2 Tower 

Tallest building in Ireland would house band's studio

Nov 1, 08 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Not even Bono is immune to the gloomy economy. Plans for a record-breaking Dublin skyscraper partly financed by the band U2 are on hold thanks to the global crisis, AFP reports. The U2 Tower, designed by architect Norman Foster, would be the tallest in Ireland and house a studio for... More »

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architecture • Bono • Ireland • Dublin • credit crisis • Norman Foster

 Paris Lifts 
 30-Year Ban 
 on High Rises 

City drops 30-year ban on new high-rise construction

Sep 27, 08 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ambitious new towers will soon be thrusting into the Paris sky now that the city has decided to drop a ban on tall buildings, the Times of London reports. The Eiffel Tower is likely to remain the city's tallest, but by 2012 it will share the skyline with a 590-foot... More »

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architecture • France • Paris • Eiffel Tower • Herzog and de Meuron

(Newser) - Thinking of early retirement? Not if you're an architect, writes Witold Rybczynski in Slate. Few architects achieve greatness before middle age and many do after, such as Frank Gehry, Louis Kahn, and Le Corbusier, who all designed masterpieces in their sixties. "I want to spend whatever time I have... More »

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architecture • retirement • architect

 Berlin Opens Hitler's
 'Future City' Tunnels 

Network provides glimpse of megalomaniac's plans for world capital

Aug 27, 08 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Berlin has opened three vast tunnels under the city built as part of Adolf Hitler's vision of a grandiose Nazi capital, Reuters reports. The tunnels were to house a transit system beneath planned boulevards, squares, and huge buildings, including a Great Hall with room for 180,000 people. The Albert... More »

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architecture • Germany • Berlin • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Third Reich • Albert Speer

GLOSSIES

 Sacred History
 Resonates in
 Kathmandu

Traditional building practices coexist with global trade in Nepal's capital

Aug 17, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Decades of restoration have kept up the medieval splendor of a region long hidden from the world: Kathmandu Valley. Started by Germany in the 1960s and later spearheaded by a Harvard professor, the repairs have maintained many of the area's stupas and pagodas, Lucinda Lambton writes for Vanity Fair—... More »

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architecture • UNESCO • Nepal • restoration • Kathmandu • preservation • tradition

 Retro Park West
 Defines Luxe Living

1920s-style condo building has sold $2 billion in units

Aug 5, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a condo market full of colorful towers, 15 Central Park West appears 80 years out of date—and is the best-selling apartment building in history. Its 19-story limestone exterior, graced with terraced setbacks and a 20s-style tower, may seem "severe," Paul Goldberger admits in Vanity Fair—but... More »

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architecture • New York City • Vanity Fair

Architect: China Stadium
Is 'Trojan Horse' for Liberty

Herzog defends decision to design for China

Jul 30, 08 9:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - There’s no shame in designing a cultural icon for China’s government, says Jacques Herzog, the man behind the already famous “Bird’s Nest” Olympic stadium in Beijing. Though he deplores the regime’s political record, Herzog saw taking the project as a way to change more in... More »

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China • architecture • human rights • 2008 Beijing Olympics • stadium • Trojan • political freedoms

Green Housing: From Good Idea to Good Business

Architects, not automakers, have the power to halt global warming

Jul 15, 08 11:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - With US homes on average twice as large as they were 50 years ago—and, of course, dwarfing those in all other developed countries—rethinking our idea of "home" is as crucial to cutting global warming as switching to a smaller car, says architect Edward Mazria in Fast Company.... More »

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environment • sustainable living • architecture • green building • sustainable development • design • green technology • green home

New York Times Dismantles Rods After 3rd Climber

Newspaper building has become a hot spot for daredevils

Jul 10, 08 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - After the third man in 5 weeks scaled the facade of the New York Times building, the newspaper has begun removing dozens of the distinctive horizontal rods that sheathe the new skyscraper. Opened last year and designed by Renzo Piano, the building has attracted death-defying climbers who have ascended all... More »

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architecture • New York Times • stunts • Renzo Piano • New York Times building

Dubai High Rise Would Add Novel Twists

Revolving floors just one of 80-story tower's planned innovations

Jun 26, 08 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - If heights make your head spin, a planned 80-story tower in Dubai might not be the place for you. Set to be the "world's first building in motion," David Fisher's design features doughnut-shape floors that rotate 360 degrees around a fixed cement core, the AP reports. It would... More »

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architecture • alternative energy • construction • Dubai • real estate development • new construction • building • architectural plans • energy conservation

glossies

 Daring Architecture 
 Energizes Beijing 

Some buildings work, some don't, but overall vibe among residents is a good one

Jun 25, 08 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some of the world’s most adventurous architects have found a gung-ho partner in Beijing, the most noticable payoff being the soon-to-be completed CCTV headquarters—"a dazzling reinvention of the skyscraper," writes Paul Goldberger in the New Yorker. Other creations, such as an ovoid peforming arts center dismissed... More »

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China • architecture • Beijing • Forbidden City • cctv • new construction • automobile

McMansions Make Way for Green Pads

Smaller homes built to strict LEED specs are all the rage

Jun 22, 08 8:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - When it comes to building green, a LEED rating is the ultimate cachet-- but they're tough to get, the New York Times reports. And homes approved by the Leadership in Energy and Evironmental Design council tend to be small and pricey, with one platinum-certified four-bedroom house in California on the... More »

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architecture • green building • environmentalism • green energy • green construction • green • green home

 Iconic Sign Is Fabulous Indeed 

Nearly 50 years later, designer discusses her creation

Jun 14, 08 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's been nearly a half-century since the iconic "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign went up on the Strip, and Betty Willis is still as sharp as she was when she designed it, Las Vegas Weekly reports. Willis created the neon design back when the Strip still intersected dirt... More »

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architecture • Las Vegas • design • Nevada • icons • Las Vegas Strip

ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

 Jewish Museum
 in SF Unsettles 

But architect too distracted by secret signs, allegories, writes NYT critic

Jun 9, 08 7:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Architect Daniel Libeskind won worldwide acclaim for his stark, unsettling Jewish Museum in the heart of Berlin. Now the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco has moved into a new Libeskind-designed building. But as a critic for the New York Times observes, the Bay Area institution shies away from the... More »

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architecture • San Francisco • Jews • Judaism • Daniel Libeskind • Contemporary Jewish Museum

Architects Vie for Best Wobble

Abandoning profession's firm foundations, designers cook up gelatin gems

Jun 7, 08 5:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don’t accuse them of playing with their food; the finalists in the 2008 London Festival of Architecture’s Jelly Design Contest aren’t fooling around. Using what Americans would call gelatin, “a vast range of architectural motifs and techniques have been used to spectacular effect,” an event... More »

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food • architecture • England • design • sculpture • University College London

 Damn Straight!
 Leaning Tower
 Stabilized 

Tower shored up for at least another 300 years

May 29, 08 3:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Italian engineers have stabilized the leaning Tower of Pisa, safeguarding it from toppling over for at least another 300 years, the Times of London reports. The famously off-kilter tower began tilting shortly after construction started in 1173, and was in danger of falling. Engineers didn't try to straighten it completely,... More »

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architecture • Italy • engineering

OPINION

 China's Olympic Wonders Dazzle—at First

Beijing tried to impress, not deal with deeper issues

May 26, 08 5:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Beijing's new Olympic buildings will impress the world at first glance, Paul Goldberger writes in the New Yorker. The National Stadium boasts a lattice of crisscrossing beams, and the blue-gray Aquatic Center seems underwater with its translucent plastic pillows. But peel back the paint, and see evidence of what enrages... More »

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China • architecture • Beijing • 2008 Beijing Olympics • stadium • migrant labor

ANALYSIS

Guggenheim Vegas Failure
a Rare Stumble

Starchitect Koolhaas bears some blame for museum's woes: critic

May 13, 08 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Now that the shutdown of the Guggenheim Museum's Las Vegas satellites is complete, many in the art world are faulting museum leaders in New York for not understanding the realities of the Strip. But for one LA Times critic, it's not just the Guggenheim that misread Vegas. Rem Koolhaas,... More »

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architecture • art • Las Vegas • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Las Vegas Strip • Venetian • Rem Koolhaas

 Capital Ambition Feeds
 Beijing's Building Boom 

China developing reputation as architectural showcase

May 2, 08 12:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - The new Terminal 3 at Beijing airport—the largest building in the world—is not only the gateway for visitors streaming into the Chinese capital for this summer's Olympics. It's also the capstone for an unprecedented building program that has transformed Beijing into a world-scale architectural showcase. The New York ... More »

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China • architecture • Beijing • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Beijing Capital International Airport • Norman Foster • airport terminal • Rem Koolhaas • Herzog and de Meuron

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