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2020-01-26
Grenfell Inquiry To Restart With Statements From Private Firms
Guardian Web
The companies which wrapped Grenfell Tower in combustible cladding will finally face public scrutiny when the inquiry into the loss of 72 lives restarts this week. About 200,000 unseen documents, from private emails to phone transcripts and commercial agreements, will be released during 18 months of hearings examining decisions taken in the months and years before the fire, its immediate ... Read More
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2020-01-25
Death Toll From Turkey Earthquake Rises to 29
Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The death toll from a strong earthquake that rocked eastern Turkey climbed to 29 on Saturday night as rescue crews searched for people who remained trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings, officials said. Speaking at a televised news conference, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said earlier in the day that 18 people were killed in Elazig province, where Friday ... Read More
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2020-01-27
Should Architects Work for Repressive Regimes? (Guardian)
Guardian
Sun-kissed walkways in the sky, platefuls of seafood ceviche, a private helicopter pickup from the beach – the Instagram account of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has unfolded like an escapist travelogue epic in recent weeks, as his adventures in Latin America have taken their place in his dizzying globetrotting itinerary. But there is one photograph he hasn’t been so keen to share with his ... Read More
2020-01-23
Blair Kamin: Once Threatened Frank Lloyd Wright Cottage in Suburban Chicago Will Be Moved to a Park (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Tribune
Here’s good news for everybody who loves architecture: Instead of being smashed to bits to make way for yet another mega-house, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed cottage in Glencoe will be moved to a park in the North Shore suburb. Why should you care? Because Wright was a genius who expanded architectural possibilities with his pioneering use of materials and exquisite manipulation of interior ... Read More
2020-01-23
NYC Subway Chief Andy Byford Resigns After 2 Years
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The man who earned the unlikely nickname “Train Daddy” as chief of New York City’s beleaguered transit agency announced Thursday that he was taking himself out of service, resigning after two years of trying to improve the Big Apple’s often frustrating subway and bus systems. In his resignation letter, Andy Byford, a British executive with experience in transit systems all over ... Read More
2020-01-21
Nonprofit Prepares for Construction of $145M Affordable Housing Project in San Diego
San Diego Union-Tribune
One of the most ambitious projects in Father Joe's Villages' history kicked off Tuesday as the nonprofit prepared to begin construction of a residential project that will include about 400 units for people facing homelessness. When it opens in about two years, the Saint Teresa of Calcutta Villa project at 14th and Commercial streets in San Diego will double the amount of units Father Joe's ... Read More
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2020-01-22
Notre Dame Renovation Chief Says Rebuild Won't Be Rushed
Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — The French army general in charge of rebuilding fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris says renovation work will begin in earnest later this year. Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin told a French parliament commission Wednesday that workers are still securing the structure. Concerns persist that Notre Dame's vaulted ceilings could collapse. “Even if we are rather confident and even if ... Read More
2020-01-23
Recession? What Recession? Builders Have High Hopes for 2020 (Dallas Morning News)
Dallas Morning News
Jan. 23--LAS VEGAS -- Homebuilders are headed into 2020 in the best mood in years. Low interest rates and good economy are driving more buyers to their doors, and worries about a possible recession have subsided. "What a great time to be in our industry," said Sheryl Palmer, CEO of Arizona-based Taylor Morrison Homes, a major builder in North Texas. "Each year we think we only have another ... Read More
2020-01-23
Inga Saffron: Can Centre Square's Renovations Make Us Love Brutalist Design? (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Jan. 23--Maybe if the monumental concrete architecture of the '60s and '70s had been called Expressionist instead of Brutalist, the buildings from that period would be faring better. For all their intellectual and artistic merit, those skyline-size sculptures have become the problem children of architecture. They were never the public's favorites when they were new, and now they are reaching ... Read More
2020-01-22
Blair Kamin: Better Signs and Other Fixes Coming to Chicago’s Confusing Downtown Pedway System (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Tribune
It was just another frustrating morning in the pedway Tuesday. Emerging from the CTA’s Red Line station at Lake Street, I came upon a door leading to the pedway beneath Macy’s that refused to open. I used another one. The Macy’s pedway is better-lit and cleaner than it was in 2018, when the Tribune’s Mary Wisniewski shamed Macy’s into fixing it, but it remains a down-at-the-heels gateway to ... Read More