ArchitectureWeek Notes 2006.0705

ArchitectureWeek Editors editor at architectureweek.com
Wed Jul 5 17:52:28 PDT 2006 

Dear ArchitectureWeek Readers,

With the main ArchitectureWeek magazine on one of our occasional breaks (roughly placed around the various global observances of solar extremes and equalities), this week we're highlighting the headline items we gather from across the Web every week.

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And here is today's selection of the latest design and building news from around the world:

A Little on the Top, for Environment's Sake - New York Times, 2006.0704
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/science/04observ.html?ex=1152158400&en=48001c50ff28c327&ei=5087%0A

A Towering Failure - Opinion at New York Daily News, 2006.0701
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/431704p-363800c.html

An Open-and-Shut Case for Good Drives - Reliable Plant, 2006.07 Edition
http://www.reliableplant.com/article.asp?pagetitle=An%20open-and-shut%20case%20for%20good%20drives&articleid=1908

Award for Replacement Opera House Architect Sparks Debate - Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2006.0629
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1674475.htm

Brownstone Brouhaha - New York Daily News, 2006.0629
http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/430807p-363186c.html

Buildings that Connect People with Nature - BuildingGreen.com, 2006.0705
http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm?fileName=150701a.xml

California Targets Formaldehyde in Panel Products - BuildingGreen.com, 2006.0705
http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm?fileName=150702a.xml

Chicago Skyline Soars Higher Still - The Standard, 2006.0630
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=16&art_id=21823&sid=8582464&con_type=1&d_str=20060630

CN Tower Awes, but Area Has Its Flaws - Toronto Star, 2006.0629
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1151490012885&call_pageid=970599119419

Condos Crushing Modern Buildings  - Journal-Constitution, 2006.0702
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/0702modern.html

Construction Strike Imminent in NYC - Times Union, 2006.0702
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=496610

Disasters Fuel Search for Safer Windows - Yahoo News, 2006.0627
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060627/detu024.html?.v=50

EDC 2006 Excellence in Design Awards  - EDC, 2006.07 Edition
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Cover_Story/30a48e73c0deb010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0____

Elevator Death Bares Systemic Ills - Japan Times, 2006.0704
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060704b4.html

Former State Architect Proposes School Design Reforms - New Schools Better Neighborhoods, 2006.07 Edition
http://www.nsbn.org/publications/newsletters/summer2006/4.php

Friends in High Places - U.K. Sunday Times, 2006.0702
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2101-2247192,00.html

Future Uncertain for Local "Great Wall" - Sierra Star, 2006.0630
http://www.sierrastar.com/news/story/12385962p-13112424c.html

Green Building 101 Series by Inhabitat - Dexigner, 2006.0705
http://www.dexigner.com/architecture/news-g8714.html

Green? It's a Bit of a Gray Area - San Francisco Chronicle, 2006.0702
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/02/REG2NJNI4V1.DTL

Herzog & de Meuron Offer Their Vision of the MoMA - New York Times, 2006.0630
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/30/arts/design/30cura.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Holl Designs Museum's New Bloch Building - Journal Star, 2006.0702
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/07/02/sunday_am/doc44a2c478425eb179556600.txt

In Durham, Visit Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art - San Luis Obispo Tribune, 2006.0703
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/14957359.htm

Integrating Built and Natural Environments - Dexigner, 2006.0705
http://www.dexigner.com/architecture/news-g8715.html

Jaap Penraat Dies at 88; Saved Hundreds in Holocaust - New York Times, 2006.0702
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/nyregion/02penraat.html?ex=1151985600&en=a4353f3e47911b9e&ei=5087%0A

Katrina Spawns Cottage Industry  - Houston Chronicle, 2006.0704
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4024535.html

Kenya: Using Computers To Draw House Plans - AllAfrica, 2006.0704
http://allafrica.com/stories/200607050552.html

Lake Plan for Monumental Footbridge - City News, 2006.0629
http://www.citynews.com.au/news/Article.asp?id=4851

Listening to Clients Helps Architecture Firm Stay Relevant - San Diego Union-Tribune, 2006.0705
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20060629-9999-1b29mcgraw.html

Living Steel Announces Winners of Competition for Sustainable Housing - Canadian Architect, 2006.0623
http://www.canadianarchitect.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=57512&issue=06232006

Look to France for Viaduct Alternative - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006.0630
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/275919_viaduct30.html

Many New-Built Schools 'Mediocre' - BBC News, 2006.0703
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/5143030.stm

Museum Growth, Rehab Fueling Building Boom - Colorado Springs Business Journal, 2006.0702
http://www.thepbj.com/story.cfm?ID=9338

My Home: Richard Murphy, Architect  - Independent Digital, 2006.0705
http://money.independent.co.uk/property/homes/article1159795.ece

National Art in a New Light - South Florida, 2006.0702
http://www.southflorida.com/news/cl-ca-smithsonian2jul02,0,1827019.story?coll=sfe-news-headlines

National Museum in New York, for Public and for Profit - New York Times, 2006.0702
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/sports/02museum.html

New Board and Code of Ethical Conduct Established - NZ Registered Architects Board Press Release, 2006.0630
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0606/S00479.htm

New Law Funds Programs to Help Gulf Coast Recover and Rebuild - AIArchitect, 2006.0630
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek06/0630/0630katrina.cfm

New Library Focuses 'on What People Want Most' - Ottawa Citizen, 2006.0701
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=12560ed6-4436-4a34-a1e4-df9958882dcc&k=37200

Oldham Library + Gallery = Lifelong Learning - World Architecture News, 2006.0630
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=399

On Fifth Ave., Glamour in Glass and Steel - Newsday, 2006.0704
http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-etlede4805246jul04,0,7717391.story?coll=ny-features-print

On the Mississippi, a Vision Steeped in an Industrial Past - New York Times, 2006.0704
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/arts/design/04nouv.html?8dpc

Open API available with Tekla Structures 12 - Tekla press release, 2006.0629
http://www.tekla.com/user_nf/default.asp?root_id=6037&id=20038&Remote=0&mode=readdoc

Popping the Cork on a New Headquarters - New York Times, 2006.0702
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/business/yourmoney/02sqft.html

Ray Cole to Direct UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture - Canadian Architect, 2006.0704
http://www.canadianarchitect.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=57791&issue=07042006

Renderings So Real They Fake You Out - Roanoke Times, 2006.0702
http://www.roanoke.com/business/technology/wb/wb/xp-72044

Renovating a Master's Shrine - New York Times, 2006.0701
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/01/arts/design/01yale.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Roof Gardens Planned for Top of Mall - Metro West Daily News, 2006.0702
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=134414

Sarasota County Is Eco-Serious - Herald Tribune, 2006.0702
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060702/REALESTATE/607020368

SCI-Arc Sensibility - Los Angeles Downtown News, 2006.0703
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2006/07/03/entertainment/entertainment02.txt

Security Flaw in AutoCAD 2007 Password Protection - AEC Cafe, 2006.0628
http://www10.aeccafe.com/goto.php?http://www.evanyares.com/the-cad-industry/2006/6/28/security-flaw-in-autocad-2007-password-protection.html

Skyscraper Projects for Bulgaria's Bourgas - Sofia Echo, 2006.0703
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/skyscraper-projects-for-bulgarias-bourgas/id_16196/catid_23

Straw Houses to Serve Seasonal Workers - Richmond Times-Dispatch, 2006.0705
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149188939106&path=!news&s=1045855934842

Students Examine Benefits of Green Roofs  - South Bend Telegraph, 2006.0704
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16878181&BRD=1719&PAG=461&dept_id=25271&rfi=6

Tall, Skinny ... Stable  - San Francisco Chronicle, 2006.0702
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/02/BAGD5JO3A41.DTL

The Gas Ceiling  - Guardian Unlimited, 2006.0703
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1811364,00.html

The Label Game: Certifying 'Green' Wood - Healthy Building News, 2006.0629
http://www.healthybuilding.net/news/060629labelgame.html

The New Megalopolis - Newsweek, 2006.0703
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13528839/site/newsweek/

The Zweig Letter announces 2006 Hot Firm List - ZweigWhite press release, 2006.0705
http://www.zweigwhite.com/news/item.asp?prID=251

Thoroughly Modern but Downright Neighborly - New York Times, 2006.0629
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/garden/29thompson.html

Through a Glass, Spectacularly - Chicago Sun-Times, 2006.0703
http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-zgoda03.html

Transforming Cargo Containers into a Weekend Studio - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006.0704
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/276293_architecture04.html

Wall News, All the Time - The Slatin Report, 2006.0630
http://www.theslatinreport.com/story.jsp?StoryName=0630omn.txt

Wisconsin Honors Architecture for Craft, Care, Context - AIArchitect, 2006.0630
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek06/0630/0630aiawisconsin.cfm

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