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Today's News - February 17, 2003

ArcSpace this week takes us to Germany, Denmark, and New Jersey. -- Opinions about WTC finalists abound: "[Libeskind] foresees meaningful public spaces shaped by moving architecture." -- "The two finalists are as different as pastrami and cornbread." -- The cause of the "confusing course of the trade center redevelopment process…an almost total absence of demand for excellent architecture, and a flawed system of undergraduate and professional education…" -- Building codes to get tougher. -- Shanghai wants more green space, historic preservation, human-scale buildings, and "fewer dense city blocks of sun-blocking monstrosities" (where have we heard that before?). -- New office complex for Los Angeles. -- Columbia University hires big names for grand plans. -- If Barcelona can do it, why not elsewhere - including a California town with Disney-esque dreams. -- Good school design doesn't have to be an oxymoron. -- Modular and pre-fabricated the way to go for urban niches? -- Urban green space losing ground in Melbourne. -- Neighborhoods not as neighborly as intended. -- Huge convention center in shadow of Petronas Towers to include aquarium. -- "It's a race against time and the wrecking ball" for treasures in South Florida. -- Falmouth (U.K.) museum soon to set sail. -- Diller + Scofidio bask in the limelight of a major retrospective, their first major building (and a major NYT spread).