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Today's News - December 13, 2002

Most of the news today swirls around Lower Manhattan and the Mayor's vision of an "urban village" that the city seemed set on presenting before all the brouhaha that is sure to surround the unveiling of the seven "dream team" proposals next Wednesday. We have included a link to renderings of the Mayor's proposal (we did not get a call back from the Mayor's office regarding who designed them). -- There are some pretty great things happening across the East River as well. -- A Chinese master architect is honored by the Netherlands. -- Fears that a modernist masterpiece could become a sewage plan are allayed. -- RIBA wants to know why so many women drop out of the profession of architecture (wouldn't we all like to know!). -- Plans for airport expansion in Sydney called a "greenwash" by environmentalists. -- Not very kind words for a museum design; the corten steel gets scrapped. -- Hospital expansion seeks to be a good neighbor with Smart Growth strategies. -- On the river with Lewis & Clark & Maya Lin. -- No one seems to know who is building a house on the border of Leo Tolstoy's estate…and more.