News from Arts Journal - 01/05/2009
In Libeskind's Jagged Tower Design, Echoes Of Sept. 11
"Daniel Libeskind has proposed a tower next to Manhattan's Madison Square with huge multifloor gashes hacked out of its tubular form. Were it to be built, it would be a crude and unavoidable reminder of the horrors of 9/11. Is it Daniel's revenge?"
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News from Bloomberg - 01/05/2009
Libeskind Flags 9/11, Spurned Master Plan in New Condo Tower
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Daniel Libeskind has proposed a tower next to Manhattan’s Madison Square with huge multifloor gashes hacked out of its tubular form. Were it to be built, it would be a crude and unavoidable reminder of the horrors of 9/11.
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News from New York Daily News - 01/04/2009
Toronto's eats scene mixes haute and humble
The denizens of Toronto are a lot like New Yorkers. Like us, they consider their wildly multicultural home their nation's First City. And like us, Torontonians love to eat.
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News from Times Online - 01/03/2009
Size isn’t all, rules Albert
SPARE a thought for tiny Monaco, playground of the rich and famous. An ambitious plan to make it bigger by building an artificial peninsula over the sea has been scrapped by Prince Albert, the ruler, because of environmental concerns and the global financial crisis.
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News from The Cincinnati Enquirer - 01/03/2009
Owner in Ascent tweaks design
Kathy Comisar's view from her two-bedroom unit at the Ascent offers a sweeping view of the Cincinnati skyline. Yet it also makes her an intimate observer of the surrounding Covington neighborhood.
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News from The Cincinnati Enquirer - 01/03/2009
Life at the Ascent
Kathy Comisar thinks of her condo in the Ascent at Roebling's Bridge not just as a residence, but as part of a living piece of sculpture.
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News from Rocky Mountain News - 01/02/2009
Civic Center plan resurfaces
No matter how much time passes, every whimsical "concept" or high-flying "plan" that has popped up for Civic Center still reverberates with those who want the best for the heart of the city - the simplicity of repairs, maintenance and security.
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News from Toronto Star - 12/31/2008
The AGO is so 2008 ... Next year is all about Koerner Hall
In 2006, Toronto's biggest cultural event was the opening of the Four Seasons Centre for the Arts, followed by the Canadian Opera Company's epic Ring Cycle in its new home.
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News from Toronto Star - 12/31/2008
Next year is all about Koerner Hall
In 2008 it was the AGO that set the town buzzing. In 2009, arts lovers will reserve their biggest cheers for the unveiling of the Royal Conservatory of Music's splendid new concert venue, Koerner Hall.
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News from San Francisco Chronicle - 12/29/2008
The best art of 2008
HIGH: "The State Museums of Berlin and the Legacy of James Simon." Wonderful surprises come at every turn in the Legion of Honor's loan show (through Jan. 18) of objects from various periods and cultures collected and donated by the greatest single benefactor...
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News from International Herald Tribune - 12/29/2008
Book review: 'On Architecture'
The book, by Ada Louise Huxtable, former architecture critic for The New York Times from 1963 to 1982, spans her career.
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News from The Virginia Gazette - 12/28/2008
January 4, 2009
When the bodies have been collected, the streets dredged and the sewers patched, New Orleans will be rebuilt. We can only hope - naively, perhaps - that the task will be carried out by officials smarter and better-informed than the bunglers who left Louisiana vulnerable and aggravated nature's violence with neglect.
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News from Art Daily - 12/27/2008
Serpentine Gallery Announces 2009 Exhibition Calendar
LONDON.- The Serpentine Gallery announced its 2009 exhibition schedule. Rebecca Warren 10 March – 19 April 2009 This Serpentine Gallery exhibition is the first major solo show in a UK public gallery of the work of 2006 Turner Prize-nominated British artist Rebecca Warren.
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News from International Herald Tribune - 12/25/2008
Architecture deluxe and delusional: An era ends
Until the financial crisis, serious architecture was beginning to look like a service for the rich, like private jets and spa treatments. That could be changing.
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Blog from WNYC - New York Public Radio - 12/09/2008
Building Histories (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 09 December 2008)
Most histories of the civil rights movement focus on the South. Find out how activists and organizations in the North shaped the movement. Also: hear the history of the Hemings family of Virginia. Plus, a look at the life of Swiss modernist Le Corbusier -- and a conversation with Daniel Libeskind, one of today's leading architects!
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Blog from WNYC - New York Public Radio - 12/09/2008
Studio Daniel Libeskind (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 09 December 2008)
Daniel Libeskind, one of today’s leading architects, talks about how philosophy, music, theater, and film have influenced his work. His new book with architecture critic Paul Goldberger
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