Post-Katrina housing fits designers’ agendas. But can the city live with it?: The style wars between the modernists, the traditionalists, and the free-thinking blobists were the farthest thing from Vernessa Rogers’ mind when she was asked to choose from a group of sleek house designs commissioned by actor/architecture buff Brad Pitt. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
No Gothic style for this library: Helmut Jahn is either daring or he’s crazy. We’ll know better when the ellipse-shaped glass dome of his planned, mostly underground library takes its place amid the Collegiate Gothic buildings of the University of Chicago in fall 2010. [Chicago Tribune]
Award for world’s best building – and it could be a bus garage: Unsung local architects are to be pitted against the globetrotting mega-stars of the profession in an attempt to seek out the best new building in the world. Zoos, police stations and dentists’ surgeries will have as much chance of winning the inaugural World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards as cutting-edge football stadiums and airports, the organisers promised yesterday. [Times]
Modern American architectural gems set for auction: Both the Esherick and Kaufmann are beneficiaries of the fashion for the new trophy homes, the modern architectural masterpieces that now command million-dollar premiums but were sold - or often failed to sell - as tear-downs less than two decades ago. [IHT]
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