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Today's News - October 10, 2002

Tomorrow, the shortlisted design teams for Ground Zero will get their marching orders - they might actually allowed to be a little creative. -- Meanwhile, the site is an active construction site with results that may be temporary or permanent - no one knows for sure. -- London loses the Aga Khan's cultural center to Toronto. -- Canadian architects are said to be a quiet sort, but they're making their marks at home and in New York. -- Taipei is serious about its urban landscapes and national parks - one superintendent loses his job for using ugly cement viewing platforms on a scenic peak. -- Milwaukee expands RiverWalk. -- Bucks County, PA, is looking for a courthouse architect. -- High-tech study of Gaudi's cathedral underway. -- Shades of woes in Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes plague an early residential design by Eisenman. -- A new condo complex will bestow Philippe Starck's vision of "liberty, equality and fraternity…on the masses." -- Shades of California and Denver: brush fires and housing developments - and who's responsible. -- Plans for an "Eden Project, junior" is gaining momentum: a 12th Century abbey would be turned into an "ecological university." -- Gehry reshapes contemporary education…and more.