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Today's News - September 24, 2002

New York magazine compiles its own stable of "starchitects" for Ground Zero (and some readers' submissions aren't bad, either). -- A new director for the Museum of the City of New York promises a downtown home (its intended location, the Tweed Courthouse after an $89 million restoration, is given over to the Board of Education - will they end up putting back all the acoustic tile ceilings and cubicles?). -- Madrid and Sydney have high-rises on their horizons. -- A new research team in Japan is designed to raise the level of domestic museums to European levels. -- Elizabeth Farrelly has her say in two articles about fat architecture and (dare we say?) fat-headed architects. -- Los Angeles has lost one of its most visionary developers. -- A helpful synopsis of reviews of Moneo's LA cathedral. - There's money on Gehry doing for Panama what he did for Bilbao. -- Light pollution moves up in the ranks of urban ills. -- Foes of smart growth have a human face…and much more.

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Rising to Greatness: ...architectural visionaries, who looked into a blasted void and saw whole new worlds. By Joseph Giovannini - Zaha Hadid; Morphosis; Kohn Pedersen Fox; Eisenman Architects; Coop Himmelb(l)au; Wood + Zapata; Lebbeus Woods [images]- New York Magazine

Museum of the City of New York Names Director: Susan Henshaw Jones, president of the National Building Museum- New York Times

Plans for Madrid’s tallest tower unveiled - Reid Fenwick Architecture/Geoffrey Reid Associates; Pei Cobb Freed [image]- The Architects' Journal (UK)

Highrise Hesitancy: Larrikin [tower] twins just what the doctor ordered - Denton Corker Marshall [image]- Sydney Morning Herald

Museum, design firm will form joint research unit - Tanseisha Co.- Japan Times

Built world needs an obesity summit: The average NSW home has grown by a terrifying 60 per cent since 1985, writes Elizabeth Farrelly.- Sydney Morning Herald

Yet again, an industry [architecture] starts to believe its own advertising: By Elizabeth Farrelly- Sydney Morning Herald

A Vacancy for L.A. Developers: Bold plans for L.A. have given way to bottom-line building. Ira Yellin was an exception; his death leaves us one less visionary. By Nicolai Ouroussoff- Los Angeles Times

To Most Critics, New L.A. Cathedral Is a Triumph - Jose Rafael Moneo- Los Angeles Times

Panama builds $40 million biodiversity museum in bid to attract tourists - Frank Gehry (AP)- SF Gate

"Savings By Design" Awards Honor Energy Efficiency Integration and Design Excellence in Nonresidential Buildings - Ross Drulis Cusenbery Architecture; Siegel & Strain Architects; EHDD Architecture; Blackbird Architects- Northern Light

Putting a lid on the light: Inefficient use of artificial light is having a detrimental effect on creatures great and small- Christian Science Monitor

The Human Face of Smart Growth Opposition: ...smart growth is not the universal win-win its proponents make it out to be.- Reason Public Policy Institute

Builder in Line for Lincoln Center Renewal Post - Peter M. Lehrer- New York Times

From Caterpillar to Butterfly: DuPage Children's Museum by Peter J. Exley Architect/architectureisfun and Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Architects Planners- ArchNewsNow

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