News from New York Daily News - 05/13/2010
The Closer : Hot, new Richard Meier building; cool ways to decorate your home and more
New York's architectural and real estate elite came together last week at Sotheby's auction house (72nd St. and First Ave.) to celebrate a building in Tel Aviv . Developer Nicolas Berggruen, a member of the New York art, finance and social scenes,.
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News from Haaretz Daily - 05/11/2010
Longing for the impossible
"I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew. Anti-Semitism was prevalent in the U.S. during World War II," says Peter Eisenman.
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News from Deutsche Welle - 05/10/2010
Five years on, Berlin Holocaust Memorial is a landmark of remembrance
Now five years old, Berlin's Holocaust Memorial serves as a landmark of remembrance and a symbol of collective conscience - even as the structure threatens to crumble. DW looks at the memorial's past, present and future.
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News from Deutsche Welle - 05/10/2010
Opinion: Berlin Holocaust Memorial is symbol of historical conscience
Five years after its construction, the Berlin Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe has become part of Germany's political culture, says Deutsche Welle's Cornelia Rabbitz.
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 05/05/2010
How to Build a Monument to Nazi Evil Without Celebrating It
Berlin's new "Topography of Terror" exhibition center documents, doesn't honor, the Gestapo and the SS. These were some of the most evil 11 acres in Germany, a place where Nazi leaders hatched plans to terrorize millions as casually as you might send an email. Heinrich Himmler had an office there. So did Adolf Eichmann, the "architect of the Holocaust." It was there that, in a matter of months ...
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News from Fox News - 05/04/2010
Germany's Holocaust memorial marks 5th anniversary, says millions have visited
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Holocaust memorial has attracted millions of visitors since opening five years ago and is now one of the capital's top 10 tourist attractions, an official said Tues...
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News from AP via Yahoo! News - 05/04/2010
Germany's Holocaust memorial marks 5th anniversary
Germany's Holocaust memorial has attracted millions of visitors since opening five years ago and is now one of the capital's top 10 tourist attractions, an official said Tuesday.
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News from New York Times - 05/03/2010
By the Architects, for the People: A Trend for the 2010s
Richard Meier’s plans for a Newark mixed-use development are part of a trend in architecture to elevate the lives of ordinary people.
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News from New England Sports Network - 04/26/2010
New Jets and Giants Stadium Comes Under Criticism for Obstructed-View Seats
Imagine paying $1,200 a year for Jets or Giants season tickets -- plus a $4,000 one-time "personal seat license" fee -- only to show up to the first game at the new Meadowlands football stadium and realize you have a giant steel pillar blocking your view. For some unlucky fans, that nightmare could be a reality. According to the New York Post, each of the two mezzanine end-zone sections has four ...
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News from Gothamist - 04/25/2010
Some New Meadowlands Seats May Really Suck
Some very unlucky spectators at Giants and Jets games will be getting a better view of steel beams instead of the field. The Post went on a visit to the new stadium and found , "Each of the two end-zone mezzanine sections has four pillars supporting the upper deck -- unsightly and archaic steel structures that experts say are routinely avoided in modern stadium design. Behind each column are ...
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News from New York Post - 04/25/2010
New Meadowlands stadium filled with view-obstructing beams
What a bunch of blockheads! These are the worst seats in the new $1.7 billion Meadowlands football stadium -- so bad the Giants and Jets scrapped selling tickets for them because the only action fans would see is paint peeling on the massive columns in front of them. Each...
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News from Jackson Free Press - 04/14/2010
Building a Better World
For more than 20 years, a quiet revolution in American architecture took place in Canton.
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News from Cornell News Service - 04/14/2010
Koolhaas: Elevators and air conditioning helped revolutionize U.S. architecture
From buildings that reflect a society's values to those that represent only their designers, famed architect Rem Koolhaas illustrated contrasting conventions of architecture in an April 13 lecture in Kennedy Hall's Call Auditorium.
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News from Art Daily - 04/13/2010
Joseph Rosa Appointed New Director of U-M Museum of Art
oseph Rosa is the Art Institute of Chicago's chief curator of architecture and design. ANN ARBOR, MI.- Joseph Rosa, the Art Institute of Chicago's chief curator of architecture and design, will become the new director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art , the university has announced today.
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News from Elmira Star-Gazette - 04/11/2010
A year to recall history
It is hard to believe that five years ago, the victors in the Second World War gathered on the Mall in Washington and on the beaches of Normandy to commemorate the 60th anniversary of V-E Day on May 8.
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News from Sky News Australia - 04/04/2010
Berlin Holocaust memorial cracking
Germany's Holocaust memorial, a solemn maze of concrete grey slabs in central Berlin, is starting to crack.
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News from Sydney Morning Herald - 04/04/2010
Cracks in Berlin Holocaust memorial
Germany's Holocaust memorial, a solemn maze of concrete grey slabs in central Berlin, is starting to crack.
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News from Yale Daily News - 04/02/2010
School of Architecture runs on starpower
The Yale School of Architecture has had a long-standing tradition of bringing practicing celebrities to teach, and that has become an even greater priority under the tenure of Dean Robert A.M. Stern ARC ’65.
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News from Times Online - 04/01/2010
Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust memorial cracking up on eve of five-year ceremony
Positioned around the corner from Hitler’s bunker, Berlin’s Holocaust memorial is the largest in the world.
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News from AFP via Yahoo! News - 04/01/2010
Cracks mar Berlin Holocaust memorial anniversary
Germany's Holocaust memorial, a solemn maze of concrete grey slabs in central Berlin commemorating the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, split public opinion when it was erected five years ago.
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