Archnewsnow.com Website Review

EDITOR'S NOTE: We're heading to our Internet-less digs this afternoon - with high hopes the cable guy will appease the technology gods...if Meanwhile: Breaking News! Word is that 2018 Vincent Scully Prize goes to Inga Saffron of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Robert Campbell of the Boston Globe - two of the best! (No news reports posted before we posted.) Hewitt pens a portrait of Venturi as both a mentor and an architectural legend: For young architects, Bob and Denise were as important to the culture as television personalities. They were attractive, witty, and hip. He lived during a challenging period, accepting all of its problems and contradictions with good humor and grace (a lovely read). -- O'Sullivan parses Scotland's high hopes for Kuma's V&A Dundee: It's not yet entirely clear to what extent the plan to replicate the Bilbao Effect will work. Certainly, the museum itself is impressive, but the kind of jobs provided by a visitor influx would mainly be low-paid and insecure, and might do little to meaningfully improve the city's economy. -- Bennes comes, more or less, to the same conclusion: Kuma's V&A Dundee is striking without being spectacular. Despite the inevitable comparisons to the Guggenheim Bilbao - it remains to be seen whether Dundee can capitalize both locally and internationally on the interest it sparks. -- Kafka considers whether Stanton Williams' revamp of London's Royal Opera House will become a public amenity: It is betting big on audience engagement - but it retains an air of formality that may prevent it from becoming an intimate or comfortable place for non-ticket holders to hang out. -- Walker and Lange consider lessons from the 1984 Olympics, and what LA 2028 could do for Los Angeles - the city faces even greater challenges around housing and displacement. Can LA make the 2028 Games work for all Angelenos? -- Hess makes the case for preserving Pereira's Los Angeles Times building: What would be lost? One of L.A.'s most vivid symbols commemorating its ambitious rise from provincial outpost to