“City Beautiful” Comes Alive in Daniel Burnham Documentary
| After the overreaching of Modern city planning—barren plazas, rows of soulless apartment slabs—urban design got a bad rap.
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Virginia Tech Student Wins Yéle Haiti Competition
Virginia Tech architecture student Christopher Morgan has won an international competition to design the Yéle Music Studio in the Cité Soleil area of Port-au-Prince.
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A Golden Anniversary for a Philip Johnson Museum
This October, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute’s Museum of Art (MWPAI) in Utica, New York, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Philip Johnson-designed home with an exhibition commemorating the work of the illustrious Modernist and Postmodernist architect.
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Expanding Horizons: Analyzing the Balfour Beatty/Parsons Brinckerhoff deal
Ian P. Tyler, a chartered accountant who now runs London-based contractor Balfour Beatty plc, admits to “never being good” at the accounting business.
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Stantec to Acquire San Francisco’s Anshen + Allen Architecture Firm
Stantec says that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Anshen + Allen, one of North America’s leading health care architectural firms with more than 200 employees and offices in San Francisco, Columbus, Boston and London.
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Chicago Plans $4B Urban Village
A planned two-mile relocation of Chicago’s South Shore Drive, about 10 miles south of the city’s downtown, is spurring a $4-billion megaproject to turn the vacant 530-acre site of a former U.S. Steel mill on Lake Michigan into a new community with nearly 14,000 housing units.
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Design Competition to Enliven St. Louis Arch Park
In 1947, a visionary named Eero Saarinen won an architectural competition to design what would become his best-known structure, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
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Reviving a Modest Masterpiece: The Trenton Bath House
To many architects, Louis Kahn’s 1955 Trenton Bath House in Ewing, New Jersey, just restored by Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects (FMG), exudes everything that worked in 20th-century architecture.
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In Aspen, Demolition Looms for Modernist Building by Harry Weese
A little-known building in Aspen, Colorado, designed by the late Chicago architect Harry Weese—whose most celebrated work is the Washington, D.C., Metro system—is threatened with demolition.
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Newsmaker: Playwright June Finfer
Some years back the Chicago-based playwright and filmmaker June Finfer discovered stories about architecture to be packed with drama, and increasingly focused on this topic in her work.
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