As last week's episode was taken up by Pritzker-hooplah, this episode takes a look back at the major news items of the last week(ish) and gets you caught up with what's been happening in Archinect news.
We discuss: the recent photo exhibition on homelessness at USC (which closes tomorrow!); the Treasury Department's controversial new practice of tracking and identifying secret buyers of luxury housing; how BIG's 2 World Trade Center is now in limbo after "anchor tenant" Rupert Murdoch has pulled out; the demolition of yet another not-beloved-enough Brutalist building; the big ol' chunk of cash the U.S. now has to prepare for driverless cars; and the ongoing debacle over the Tokyo Olympic Stadium, as Zaha Hadid Architects accuses Kengo Kuma Associates of copying their design, while Japan won't pay ZHA until they hand over the design copyrights.
Phew! What a week. All original news postings are available in the shownotes.
Listen to episode 49 of Archinect Sessions, "The Haves and the Have Nots":
Shownotes:
Photos of the Herbivorous Butcher shop, designed by Ken
Our interview with Squint Opera, who put together the promo video for BIG's 2 World Trade Center
Donna's h/t to Luke Sumner's comment on homelessness: "What makes our communities unsafe is the lack of safe [places] to sleep. The lack of housing. Not the presences of folks living outside." (@luke_sumner)
The guy who built his own self-driving car in his garage.
"It’s about recognizing someone as existing": Photo exhibit depicts L.A.'s homelessness crisis
U.S. to start tracking secret buyers of luxury real estate
Rupert Murdoch suddenly pulls out of 2 World Trade Center deal
The U.S. just got $4 billion to spend on self-driving cars
Did Kengo Kuma copy elements of Zaha Hadid's Tokyo Olympic stadium?
Tokyo Olympics refusing to pay Zaha Hadid for work on the national stadium
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The link to @luke_sumner is broken, so here is the correct one. Link.
Ken mentions DOCOMOMO: the international committee for Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement.
Many years ago DOCOMOMO gave support to an Archinect Forum initiative to do a charrette to save the Grosse Pointe Library by Marcel Breuer, and it worked! I don't have time to hunt it down right now, but it's here somewhere...
http://archinect.com/news/article/72503/grosse-pointe-public-library-receives-50-000-grant-to-preserve-historic-central-branch-library
http://archinect.com/forum/thread/52121
http://archinect.com/forum/thread/51113
Thank you Steven! That was such a cool project, and a really early example of totally online collaboration.
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