Architecture

Peter Calthorpe and Andres Duany are among those involved in shaping the rebuilding efforts after hurricane Katrina.

January 23, 2006 - Associated Press

Meier, Piano, Calatrava, oh my! A host of starchitects have descended on Hotlanta, spicing up downtown's skyline.

January 23, 2006 - Creative Loafing Atlanta

New Urbanism pioneer Andres Duany says the movement could change affordable housing and predict growing demand for experts.

January 22, 2006 - Orlando Business Journal

The new headquarters of pre-eminent think-tank RAND received a LEED Gold certification for a building design that reflects the ideals of the institution.

January 21, 2006 - GreenBiz.com

They seemed like a good idea at the time, but planners now find skywalks drain life from the streetscape below.

January 16, 2006 - Associated Press

The guest organizer gives a preview of the exhibition, which will open in late summer.

January 16, 2006 - The New York Times

A shopping mall plan grows in Sibiu, a town to be nominated to the UNESCO World Heritage List and as the 2007 cultural capital of Europe.

January 15, 2006 - INTBAU News

A unrealized 1905 design by Frank Lloyd Wright is resurrected from the dead -- celebrities donate money to help fund the construction, which will be erected on the shores of Lake Erie.

January 15, 2006 - The Buffalo News

Architects and planners hope to add an interesting block of buildings to "boring" Orlando.

January 13, 2006 - The Orlando Sentinel

Multiple lawsuits from major clients dampen the "starchitect's" success.

January 12, 2006 - The New York Observer

Mary Newsom, a Knight Fellow and editor for the Charlotte Observer, responds to criticism that New Urbanism is elitist.

January 11, 2006 - The Naked City

A raging fire guts Adler & Sullivan's 1891 K.A.M./Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood and, in silencing the rich echoes of over a century of human aspiration, offers a potent reminder of how architecture channels urban memory.

January 9, 2006 - Repeat

Roger K. Lewis argues that there's no way to safely rebuild New Orleans the way it was. Let nature take its course, and build over the water instead of building in harm's way.

January 9, 2006 - The Washington Post

The Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal and Urban Design Associates publishes a 'Pattern Book' offering details and techniques for building and renovating Gulf Coast houses.

January 9, 2006 - Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal

Nearly 100 years after the city's devastating 1906 earthquake, San Francisco's architecture still leaves it particularly vulnerable to another temblor.

January 8, 2006 - The Los Angeles Times

How the opinions of smart growth practitioners are critical for a process that results in transportation choice, transit performance, and successful community investment by the FTA.

January 7, 2006 - Smart Growth Online

PPS offers striking images of great places (and a few not-so-great) from around the world. [Includes photos.]

January 6, 2006 - Project For Public Spaces

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose adding special toll lanes -- some exclusively for trucks -- to the state's most congested freeways and easing environmental reviews to speed construction.

January 6, 2006 - The Los Angeles Times

Prefabricated housing used to be a dirty word in the housing business. Today, many designer prefab houses are an affordable and elegant solution -- maybe even the "holy grail of modernism".

January 5, 2006 - Wired Magazine

The emerging and controversial Israeli barrier wall is in some ways a model of planning reduced to its most primitive goal: separation.

January 3, 2006 - International Herald Tribune