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Today’s News - Monday, April 8, 2002

Our newest feature on the home page highlights Architectural Resources Group's masterful reclamation and adaptive re-use of two all-but-abandoned "Richardsonian Romanesque castles" on the campus of the San Francisco Theological Seminary. The historic preservation project has not only helped increase the seminary's enrollment, but has restored a great sense of community pride. (Click "Home" above)

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George Mason National Memorial by Rhodeside & Harwell Incorporated- ArchNewsNow

Iconic NYSkyline TV Tower Proposed - Kohn Pedersen Fox [image]- GRID

Designer of the Carnegie Science Center expansion creates a daring, dazzling architecture. By Patricia Lowry - Jean Nouvel- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Affordable housing meets resistance: Architect Hsieh Ying-chun has committed himself to creating affordable housing...but has come up against a wall of local political and financial interests- Taipei Times

But Are They Learning? America spends billions annually to build and renovate schools. How much of that money actually improves learning?- Education Week

Urbanities: Frank O. Gehry Has a Gripe: forum on “The Role of Creativity in the Future of L.A”- LA Weekly

Architext: Blurring the edges: architects...seem convinced that, in order to appear sophisticated, they too have to express themselves in gauzy riddles. By Arrol Gellner- Inman News

Do architecture critics matter? by Francis Morrone Upon the publication of "Why Architecture Matters" by Blair Kamin.- The New Criterion

How Much Change Is Too Much? The destruction of [Neutra's] Maslon house again shows how toothless American preservation remains.- New York Times

Has Houston architecture lost its edge? Some think so, while others find beauty in small projects- Houston Chronicle

Launching a Flotilla of Ferry Terminals - Kennedy & Violich Architecture; Ken Smith Landscape Architect; Jan Hird Pokorny Associates; Gruzen Samton; FTL Happold; William Nicholas Bodouva & Associates; Thomas Balsley Associates; Schwartz Architects; Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum- New York Times

Johnston building might become thing of past: The neglected structure with a cast-iron front might not be salvaged- Baltimore Sun

Two films step inside visions of worlds built and unbuilt: You don't see a lot of films on the subject of architecture... By Robert Campbell- Boston Globe

Simplicity moves the world: Swedish Architecture of the 20th Century exhibition opens in Bratislava- The Slovak Spectator

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