Archinect - News 2024-11-08T06:54:01-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150143540/chennai-india-s-sixth-largest-city-is-nearly-out-of-water Chennai, India's sixth-largest city, is nearly out of water Alexander Walter 2019-06-27T15:54:00-04:00 >2019-06-27T15:54:23-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c0/c0babe41105f5e376adbb78e48b9a26f.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In India's sixth-largest city, lines for water snake around city blocks, restaurants are turning away customers and a man was killed in a brawl over water. Chennai, with a population of almost 10 million, is nearly out of water. In much of India, municipal water, drawn from reservoirs or groundwater, typically runs for only a couple of hours each day. That's the norm year-round. The affluent fill tanks on their roofs; the poor fill jerrycans and buckets.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Chennai, the Indian metropolis with a population estimated to be larger than New York City, is facing a grim water shortage, and residents hope that officials can come up with short- and long-term measures to prevent "Day Zero" &mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town_water_crisis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">just like Cape Town</a> famously did during its severe water crisis two years ago.</p> <p>Tarun Gopalakrishnan, a climate change expert at the Indian Centre for Science and Environment told NPR that the situation was shocking but not surprising; a crisis as the result of "a toxic mix of bad governance and climate change."<br></p> https://archinect.com/news/article/57499569/editor-s-picks-282 Editor's Picks #282 Nam Henderson 2012-09-18T11:58:00-04:00 >2012-09-18T12:49:22-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/rb/rblnhojknks6zrbx.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The NYT reported that Pedro E. Guerrero, a former art school dropout , died on Thursday at his home in Florence, Ariz. w. wynne A.I.A. offered up the following "Pedro has a wonderful book about his photographic work, and I am sadden to hear of his death. Mr. Wright called him &lsquo;Peter&rsquo;, but the story of his life with FLW is very nice and interesting account of the middle career of Mr. Wright."</p></em><br /><br /><p> <strong>News</strong></p> <p> <br><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/57281940/pedro-guerrero-flw-s-photographer-dies-at-95" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The NYT reported</a>&nbsp;that Pedro E. Guerrero, a former art school dropout who showed up in the dusty Arizona driveway of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939, boldly declared himself a photographer and then spent the next half-century working closely with him, capturing his modernist architecture on film, died on Thursday at his home in Florence, Ariz.&nbsp;<a href="http://archinect.com/people/cover/55179150/w-wynne-a-i-a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">w. wynne A.I.A.</a>&nbsp;offered up the following "<em>Pedro has a wonderful book about his photographic work, and I am sadden to hear of his death. Mr. Wright called him &lsquo;Peter&rsquo;, but the story of his life with FLW is very nice and interesting account of the middle career of Mr. Wright.</em>"</p> <p> Bustler announced that <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/57078712/new-york-architect-deborah-berke-selected-for-berkeley-rupp-prize" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">architect Deborah Berke, founder of New York City-based firm Deborah Berke Partners, was selected as the first recipient of UC Berkeley&rsquo;s College of Environmental Design (CED) inaugural 2012 Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize</a>.&nbsp;<a href="http://archinect.com/aaron-willette" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Aaron Willette</a>&nbsp;commented "<em>I had the pleasure of working with Deborah at Ghost 10, and to nobody's surpri...</em></p>