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11.09.02
Several more Golden Lion awards were dished out at
the opening of the Venice Biennale on the weekend. Last week Toyo
Ito was presented the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
Now he has been joined by Alvaro Siza (best project Lion
for the Ibere Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre (in Brazil). The
Dutch pavillion also won an award. Other prize winners were Zhang
Xin, and the City of Barcelona (just for being so damn
sexy).
VENICE
BIENNALE
06.09.02
What can be built from paper? If it's next Sunday's
New York Times, perhaps a lot. Architectural critic Herbert Muschamp
has mustered some of the best urban designers he can find and filled
14 pages of Sunday's paper with proposals for the site. The move
is apparently a response to the lacklustre "official"
ideas for the site presented recently by the Lower Manhattan Development
Corporation (whose name says it all). Because of the Times' influence
and circulation, these ideas could become serious competition for
the LMDC proposals.
NEWSDAY
06.09.02
Lofty
battles at the WTC SF Chronicle 04.08.02
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LINK
TO THE FEATURE (NY TIMES 08.09.02 REGO REQUIRED)
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LINK TO BUTTERPAPER
EDITORIAL 08.09.02
06.09.02
Toyo Ito has just been awarded this year's Golden Lion
Award at the opening of the 8th
Venice Biennale. Ito set up his 'Urban Robot' architecture studio
at the age of 30 in 1971. His reputation has steadily grown in the
last 15 years and his unpredictable ideas-driven work is now turning
up around the planet. This summer he designed the temporary Serpentine
Pavilion at Hyde Park in London.
Ito interview 2001 at designboom
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Towering
ambition
Re: Sydney, Harry Seidler. Blues Point Tower interview.
(SMH 27.09.02)
Drawing
Manhattan, Block by Block
Re: New York. Italian architect works full time drawing the city.
(NEWSDAY 25.09.02)
Students
try Third World construction and living
Re: Illinois, U.S. Architecture students get a taste of poverty: "In
the U.S., we build an infrastructure, then a house and then inhabitants
move in. But in most of the world the inhabitants move in, they build a
dwelling and probably never get an infrastructure. It's totally reversed."
(STARPRESS 25.09.02)
Wanted:
a planning process that works
Re: Melbourne. 100 architects petition minister for planning..
(AGE 24.09.02)
Urban
warfare is a simple development application away
Re: Sydney, the joys of applying for a development application.
(SMH 23.09.02)
An
architect who's all heart
Re: Australia. Architect Catherine Hart is a finalist in the Business
Woman of the Year awards..
(NEWS LTD 22.09.02)
Holes
in the ground, towers in the sky...
Re: Melbourne. New buildings everywhere.
(AGE 22.09.02)
Buying
into history has its rewards
Re: Auckland. Vintage office buildings looking more attractive as 80s
buildings start to show their age.
(NZH 21.09.02)
RMIT revival puts new face to an old court
Re: Melbourne. Old Magistrate's Court to be done up and connected into
RMIT by Peter Elliott.
(AGE 18.09.02)
Tower
for church site under fire
Re: Melbourne. 12 storey tower to be built behind Scots Church in Collins
Street.
(AGE 18.09.02)
Wow
factor eclipses contents of new art museums
Re: Venice Biennale, Bilbao Effect. Jacques Herzog fumes over the Guggenheim
in Bilbao, brand-name galleries, MoMa, and a lack of argument within the
profession.
(NZH/Independent 16.09.02)
Daring,
whimsical and rusty
Re: Melbourne. The new Wood Marsh designed ACCA opens in Sturt Street.
This article includes several photos.
(Age 16.09.02)
Geelong
still hoping for Bilbao effect
Re: Geelong. Yep, they're still trying for the Guggenheim, or any other
brand name gallery that'll take them. (Age 15.09.02)
Crackdown
on ugly flat syndrome
Re: Sydney. Another element in Premier Carr's multi-residential beautification
program deals with ugly garages and a lack of landscaping.
(SMH 12.09.02)
Leaky
houses blamed on stingy buyers
Re: New Zealand. Leaky building syndrome - blame pinned on owners, builders,
architects, just about everyone really...
(NZH 12.09.02)
Artist
takes aim at architect over rejection
Re: Melbourne. The Republic Tower's public art billboard in the new
after "war on terror" work vetoed by residents. Nonda Katsilidis
cops the flak.
(Age 10.09.02)
Goodbye
Emohruo, hello Metalika: the band becomes a flat
Re: Sydney. Naming blocks of flats and a hint of why the names are getting
so bad.
(SMH 12.09.02)
Liberating
the heart of the city
Re: Melbourne. Visiting Dane Jan Gehl includes Melbourne in his Reconquered
City list - with just 8 other cities. << Leaving urban planning
to the market leads straight to the abandoned city.>>
(Age 06.09.02)
A
little space to just hang
Re: Melbourne. Julie Eizenberg of Koning Eizenberg visits home and talks
about the "third space".
(Age 06.09.02)
As
public life becomes more private, can the city survive?
Re: Melbourne. William Mitchell is in town from MIT, and wonders about
the future of the digital city.
(Age 06.09.02)
Romancing the Salisbury stones
Re: England. Denton Corker Marshall - description of their visitors
centre design at Stonehenge.
(SMH 03.09.02)
Trams overtake buses in battle over city network
Re: Sydney. Sydneysiders get serious about trams.
(SMH 30.08.02)
Utzon
remasters his vision
Re: Sydney, Denmark. Utzon's progress on the Opera House renovation
master plans. Also, an elderly Sir Davis Hughes (who edged Utzon out of
the original project) questions the appointment.
(SMH 30.08.02)
Southbank
turns 10
Re: Melbourne. The Southgate shopping complex opened 10 years ago, reminding
Melbourne that it had a river. Prof. Evan Walker is full of praise.
(Age 30.08.02)
Sculptor
renowned for monumental abstractions
Re: Basque Region. Eduardo Chillida, sculptor and trained architect,
dies aged 78. Also here is the artist's website.
(National Post 29.08.02)
A policy of containment
Re: New York. LOT/EK architects - housing in shipping containers. LOT/EK
(IHT 27.08.02)
Pentagon
memorial draws 1,600 proposals
Re: Washington DC. The rebuilding has finished at the Pentagon - and
it looks just the same which is distressing the relatives. A memorial is
to be built.
(CNN 23.08.02)
Anything
but the kitchen sink
Re: Women and architecture. <<Kerstin
Thompson, another of the handful of female principals, is even more succinct:
"There is a sense that high design only comes about through being an
arsehole.">>
(SMH 23.08.02)
Historic
Fort St site will offer silo living
Re: Auckland. The old Northern roller mills in Fort Street are being...
erm... transformed into neoclassical apartments... by Manson Developments
and Peddle Thorp. (NZ Herald 21.08.02)
Unveiling
our new multimedia world
Re: Melbourne. Description of the new centre for the moving image (ACMI)
at Federation Square. (The Age 20.08.02)
Developers:
please don't stuff up Melbourne's grandeur
Re: Melbourne. Opinion piece condemns height of new HWT building on
Exhibition Street. (The Age 17.08.02)
Blessings
aside, work begins to restore St Paul's spires
Re: Melbourne. St Paul's spires in dangerous condition. (The Age 17.08.02)
Big
Dunny plans go down the toilet
Re: NSW. Dunedoo misses out on the next big thing. (The Age 17.08.02)
Major
refit for leaky tower as investors head to court
Re: Auckland. Architects being sued over leaks in 5 year old tower.
(NZ Herald 14.08.02)
Are
Politics Built Into Architecture?
Re: Israel. Turmoil within the architecture association after exhibition
vetoed. (NY Times 10.08.02) Registration Required
Lofty
battles at the WTC
Re: New York. Planning vs. architecture and the explosion of the six
pack. (SF Chronicle 04.08.02)
We
could have a real city of sails
Re: Auckland. A PR consultant sums up Auckland's built environment and makes
a few suggestions. (NZ Herald 01.08.02)
One architect's vision at Uffizi is another critic's eyesore
Re: Italy. Uffizi renovations turn into a headache for Isozaki. (Nando Times
01.08.02) KOOLHAAS
& CO.
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