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Today's News - August 12, 2002

Urban planning issues proliferate. In Leeds, UK, an architect has established a forum that brings together key players who don't often communicate with each other - or the public. As for Ground Zero, other options are being explored to provide 11 million square feet of office space. Apparently, Herbert Muschamp and the New York Times are taking matters into their own hands with a "package" of notable names that "will resemble something akin to an architectural Pro Bowl" (but no one named would comment). Two young Israeli architects are (for all intents and purposes) censured by the Israel Association of United Architects - an exhibition and catalog they were commissioned to do for the World Congress of Architecture were canceled, fearing they "would damage Israel's image abroad by presenting a uniformly hostile view of the Israeli settlements…" Meanwhile, a "suburban dream" rises in the hills of Jerusalem. Princeton may be sticking to Gothic Revival, but MIT sees an obligation to create significant architecture. New York City has plans for unified street furniture (we really liked the cows). Sports and housing get the go-ahead in Islington, UK. Michael Graves Portland Building was (and still is) "a real deal." On a lighter note, you, too, can live in a manse like Tony Soprano's…and much more.