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June 16, 2006
In the Fold
The National Trust reprinted a 2003 story that a developer planned to restore the Pauper Lunatic Asylum on Roosevelt Island, employing the CT firm Becker & Becker, as part of its 120 million development. The Asylum architect also designed lower Manhattan's landmarked Customs House. The Brooklyn Historical Society's 'Design Your Hood' opened June 10, showcasing high schoolers' take on Fulton Mall. Landmarks Conservancy's quarter page Times op-ad condemning the plan to move Madison Square Garden to the Farley Post Office. The 125th annual Architectural League meeting, June 26th. Christopher Gray's OMA story on the Dow Jones houses on the west side. New LPC designation on Staten Island, as reported by the Real Estate Observer. If New York could even apply a quarter of the energy Chicago has been towards its transporation and environmental policy, we might not be drowning in hostile motor vehicle traffic. Chicago is planning a 500-mile network of bike paths to be completed by 2015, thru the massive encouragement and support of Mayor Daley. What is New York's strategic 20 year plan for transportation policy, yea, burying the BQE.
A short interview with MVRDV, who ask: "“How can you beat them?”...“We have to compete with quite heavy opponents,” he continues. “New Urbanism in the US is highly politicised and very successful, and there’s the retro architecture in Europe which is like an oil spill going over the European landscape.” Reinventing the small apartment house in Toronto, one beautiful block at a time. From Foreign Policy, a short list of the biggest problems some of the worlds megacities face, and the likelyhood that these could be surmounted. ArchVoices wrap up of last weekends AIA convention in LA. Explore the beautiful medieval Medinas of Morocco. Archinect interview with Wes Janz, of One Small Project. A year long pilot study in London to air condition the steaming Tube stations.
Posted by jmarston at June 16, 2006 12:33 PM