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February 2008
- LA Museum's Extension Has Split Personality
  
  Los Angeles Times | Feb 7, 08 1:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Critics are assessing Los Angeles's newest art institution, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, housed in a building by Renzo Piano on the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It's a strange mix of public and private: The new building—to open Feb. 16—was funded by billionaire benefactor Eli Broad and integrated with LACMA before Broad announced that his collection won't be permanently housed there, after all. More »
January 2008
- Behold, the Worst Building Ever
  
  Esquire | Jan 31, 08 9:38 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Ryugyong Hotel in downtown Pyongyang is surely one of the worst architectural failures in history, Eva Hagberg writes in Esquire : Not only has the 105-story building—which sucked up an estimated 2% of North Korea’s annual GDP from 1987 to '92—never opened, but the pyramidal “hotel of doom” is such an eyesore that the government routinely edits it out of official skyline photos. More »
- Mahony Griffin: Unsung Genius
  
  New York Times | Jan 1, 08 9:38 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - You may never have heard of her, but you have seen her work. Marion Mahony Griffin illustrated much of Frank Lloyd Wright's early work. She also illustrated the work of Walter Burley Griffin, her architect husband. She may have been one of America's greatest architects in her own right, the New York Times reports, overlooked because of her self-effacing nature and the tendency of scholars to pursue "great men" theories of history. More »
December 2007
- Oscar Niemeyer Threw Life a Curve or Two
  
  Der Spiegel | Dec 16, 07 6:17 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Oscar Niemeyer turned 100 this weekend, but the famed Brazilian architect is still planning for the best years of his life: he’s still developing bold designs—including a museum that resembles a giant eye—starting a magazine, and he recently remarried. Niemeyer, who soared to fame in 1956 after dressing Brazil’s capital in exalted curves, has also kept his communist ethic, Der Spiegel says. More »
- Best New Buildings of 2007
  
  BusinessWeek | Dec 6, 07 1:10 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Looks weren't all that mattered to BusinessWeek and Architectural Record in choosing their 2007 architectural awards. "Contribution to business" was important, too. Their top picks: InterActive Corp. Headquarters, New York—Gehry Partners Young Center for the Performing Arts, Toronto—Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects US Census Bureau Headquarters, Suitland, Md.—Skidmore, Owings & Merrill More »
- LEDs Light Up Europe, As Bulb Makers Switch
  
  Economist | Dec 1, 07 2:10 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Europe is going low-e with LEDs, presaging a trend about to spread worldwide. The Italian village Torraca, for example, just switched all of its streetlights for light-emitting diode fixtures, and Dutch electronics giant Philips has snapped up an American firm in a plan to push similar changes in the states. LEDs use an eighth of the power of incandescent bulbs, the Economist reports, stay cool, and can last for ten years. More »
- 2 Downtowns, 1 New Museum
  
  New York Times | Dec 1, 07 10:22 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - New York's New Museum, the scrappy showcase for contemporary art founded in a SoHo loft 30 years ago, reopens this weekend in a building Nicolai Ouroussoff describes as "a series of mismatched galleries precariously stacked one atop the other." For the New York Times ' architectural critic, the building, designed by the Japanese architectural firm Sanaa, "succeeds on a spectacular range of levels." Not since the Museum of Modern Art opened in the 1930s "has a museum seemed so in touch with the present." More »
November 2007
- MIT Sues Gehry for Negligence
  
  Boston Globe | Nov 6, 07 5:35 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - One of the most famous buildings on the MIT campus is plagued by design flaws, the school says, and it has sued Frank Gehry, alleging the world-famous architect provided "deficient design services" for the $300 million project. The university paid Gehry $15 million to design the Stata Center, which opened in in 2004—and immediately began to fall apart, MIT charges. More »
- Palatial Design, Modest Price
  
  Chicago Tribune | Nov 4, 07 10:33 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Students of urban design should take a lesson from a new condominium development in Chicago's northern suburbs, the Chicago Tribune' s architectural critic Blair Kamin says. Its three 20-story buildings in Skokie not only "create an instant skyline for a suburb that doesn't have one," they use Lego-like layers of glass and aluminum to create "an ever-shifting profile that unfolds with cinematic theatricality." More »
October 2007
- 10 Years on, Bilbao Still Wows
  
  Bloomberg | Oct 28, 07 7:48 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao is ten years old this week, freshly buffed and looking better than ever, Bloomberg reports. The birthday is marked by a successful show of American heavyweights like Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel and Richard Serra. Bilbao continues to benefit from the cultural attention garnered by the building, but Guggenheim projects seeking to replicate the "effect" elsewhere have stalled. More »
- Muschamp, Critic's Critic, Dies at 59
  
  New York Times | Oct 3, 07 6:24 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Architecture critic Herbert Muschamp died of lung cancer last night at age 59, the New York Times reports. Muschamp wrote for the Times during a “surge of exuberance” in architecture, and his personal style grabbed readers for more than a decade. Said the Times editor who hired him, “Herbert’s criticism was full of passion—too much for some readers.” More »
September 2007
- Calatrava Unveils Designs for Chicago Spire Interiors
  
  Chicago Tribune | Sep 30, 07 6:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Taking a page from Frank Lloyd Wright's book, architect Santiago Calatrava has created a '"total design" for his Chicago Spire, which will be the the world's tallest residential building upon completion. Unlike Wright, who could be downright dictatorial about what furniture would be placed in his houses (and where), Calatrava's interior designs are mere suggestions. More »
- Acrosanti: Sipping From a Utopian Well in the Desert
  
  New York Times | Sep 16, 07
  
  I'D stopped to use the bathroom at the McDonald's three miles from Arcosanti, the famously never-finished experimental city in the Arizona desert. This is cactus country, an arid hour north of Phoenix, and the McDonald's and Arcosanti were the most prominent outposts of civilization for miles. I asked the woman at the register what she'd heard of the place. %u201CVery bad, very bad. The people there ...%u201D she trailed off, searching for a word that might capture the terribleness. %u201CI've heard it's a cult.%u201D Sold.
August 2007
- 10 Modern Chicago Masterpieces
  
  Chicago Magazine | Aug 28, 07 9:34 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In a city known for its early 20th Century buildings, Chicago Magazine names 10 early 21st Century masterpieces, boasting that these structures make Chicago "a global epicenter of architecture." GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER (2006) John Ronan Architects, 7200 South Ingleside Avenue STATE STREET VILLAGE (2003) Murphy/Jahn Architects, 3301 South State St. JAY PRITZKER MUSIC PAVILION (2004) Frank Gehry, architect, Millennium Park More »
July 2007
- Dubai Tower is World's Tallest
  
  Al Jazeera | Jul 21, 07 3:59 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An unfinished skyscraper in Dubai is now scraping the sky at 1,680 feet, surpassing Tawain's Taipei 101 as the world's tallest building. The Burj Dubai, which began construction in September 2004, will cost $1B and consist of more than 160 floors and 56 elevators when completed in 2008. More »
June 2007
- 150-Story Chicago Spire to Begin Construction
  
  Chicago Tribune | Jun 27, 07 8:30 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Chicago Spire, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, is finally under way. Following an ownership change, a design change and a name change, what will become the nation’s tallest building will be completed in 2010. More »
July 2005
- Building A Tall Building
  
  NPR | Jul 27, 05
  
  Michele Norris talks with Blair Kamin, architecture critic for The Chicago Tribune, about the proposal to build what would be the tallest building in the United States. A Chicago developer says as a residential tower it would not be a target, but there is a real tension there about whether it can be a real symbol on Lakeshore Drive. And then there's the traffic.
January 2005
- Philip Johnson, America's dean of architecture, dies at 98
  
  Chicago Tribune | Jan 26, 05
  
  Philip Johnson, the aristocratic, often-outrageous dean of American architecture, who helped launch every major building style from the 1930s onward and who made his controversial mark on numerous American skylines, is dead at age 98. Johnson died Tuesday night at his home in New Canaan, Conn., his lawyer, Joel Ehrenkranz, said Wednesday. The cause of death was not known. An architect, curator and patron, the Cleveland native brought glass-box modernism to America, then led the postmodern revolt against that style with a skyscraper shaped like a Chippendale highboy. He then championed another...
January 2004
- Less or more Miesian? In the midst of Chicago's famed I.I.T. campus, new buildings by Rem Koolhaas and Helmut Jahn offer radically diverse responses to the Mies van der Rohe legacy
  
  Art in America | Jan 1, 04
  
  he Illinois Institute of Technology's chief claim to architectural fame rests with Mies van der Rohe, who was responsible for the plan of the Chicago campus, conceived between 1939 and 1941, and for 22 buildings, the last dating from 1956. Following Mies's retirement from his post as head of the school's architecture department in 1958, other architects added to that number, but the last of their efforts was realized in 1971, and in the intervening three decades, no work of any consequence has appeared on the campus. That was the case until 2003, when complexes by two internationally recognized...
May 2001
- Architect Frank Gehry, Ahead of the Curves
  
  Washington Post | May 27, 01
  
  Four years ago California architect Frank Gehry put the gritty Spanish city Bilbao on the world culture map with a curvy, photogenic branch of New York's Guggenheim Museum. In the same captivating design he also dramatized -- and somehow legitimized -- the Guggenheim's bold expansionist strategy. Now, the parent museum is returning the favor. Laid out on the spiraling ramps of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterly New York Guggenheim are hundreds of models, drawings and photographs covering three decades of Gehry's work.