
(our thanks to AIA/Chicago's Joan Pomaranc for bringing this event to our attention.)
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"Kenneth Yeang is an internationally renowned architect specializing in the design of "green" architecture, or ecologically-responsive large buildings and master plans. He has designed more than a dozen high-rise towers and over two hundred projects worldwide, including the 40-story eco-tower Elephant and Castle in London; the 24-story IBM building in Malaysia; the 15-story Mesiniaga Building, also in Malaysia, which received the prestigious Aga Khan Award; and the National Library in Singapore, honored by the government of Singapore with a Green Platinum Prize, the highest award for a green and sustainable building. His most recent book is Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design."Also this Friday an exhibition, Ken Yeang: Green Design and Planning in Architecture, will open at I space, running through November 11th. I space is located at 230 West Superior, 2nd Floor, Chicago
"The balance of commercial and cultural facilities meant to be the basis of the area's rebirth and regeneration is also gone, sabotaged by the supine political response to the escalating demands of those bereaved families whose inconsolable grief required the elimination of the plan's cultural components on the disturbing and specious grounds that the arts and liberties that mark a free society equaled disrespect, or less honor to the dead. They became Ground Zero's censors and de facto designers, eliminating buildings and dictating content to a commission that seemed to have no clue about appropriateness or professional expertise."Finally, in CSO fiddling away chance to forge digital future, Chicago Tribune music critic John von Rhein exposes the management of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's complete and willful failure to come to grips with the evolving world of digital classical music. It's been years since the London Symphony created what has become its own, incredibly successful music label, to which the San Francisco Symphony has followed suit. The BBC streams its Prom concerts. The New York Philharmonic has put its concerts on ITunes, where they've become runaway bestsellers. The Metropolitan Opera is offering its productions on Sirius Satellite Radio. The Philadelphia Orchestra has begun selling downloads of concerts on its own website, both as MP3's, and, for a slight increment, in higher-quality lossless formats that we audiophiles prefer. (You can even download a recent performance of the Beethoven 5th conducted by the orchestra's music director Christoph Eschenbach for free.)