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Today's News - August 20, 2002

Benjamin Thompson, who passed away on Saturday, influenced urban center renewal (and home furnishings) just about everywhere (we present the tribute from his home town paper, and there is also an in-depth obituary in the New York Times). In case you didn't find it yesterday, there's a link to the RFQ for the WTC site (and another call to build high). An Australian offers his irreverent take on the irrelevance of internship in architecture. Now we have "sick building syndrome" in schools (though it's probably been around for awhile…if our school days memories serve). Time magazine devotes an entire issue to the environment. Shanghai wants to put a cap on skyscrapers while developers in Vancouver want to go higher. Australian architects will have to be registered if they want to design housing. The Royal Ontario Museum is offering a sidewalk cyber-vision of Daniel Libeskind's crystal addition. Jordan attempts to save some landscape from over-development. Engineering prowess saves Fallingwater. UTS gets a $60 million makeover to appeal to foreign students. An intriguing question: will we one day be able to clone our cities? …and much more.