| Earthquake in Iran: Call for Help...to architects, designers and engineers, preferably locally based, to lend design services...- Architecture for Humanity |
| The rush to rebirth: The rapid pace of reconstruction in Beirut, still scarred by years of civil war, is bringing a vision of cultural wholeness to the city. By Nicolai Ouroussoff - Bernard Khoury; Edward Durell Stone; Jean Nouvel; José Rafael Moneo; Steven Holl- Los Angeles Times |
| Designing India: Looking for Mr Vision: Combined with a good architect, what you need is a developer with a vision...[or] goes bizzare...you will have cities full of monstrosities. - Charles Correa; Louis Kahn- The Economic Times (India) |
| Building Better Bomb Resistance: ...data resulting from such tests will not only help architects design stronger buildings, but also push engineers to create new building materials.- Wired magazine |
| The Highs: The Buildings (and Plans) of the Year. By Herbert Muschamp - Frank Gehry; Rem Koolhaas; Richard Meier; Wood & Zapata; Zaha Hadid; Greg Lynn; David Childs/SOM; Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa/Sanaa; 9/11 memorial competition; Center for Architecture; Central Park- New York Times |
| The Lows: Banner Year for Lost Opportunities. By Herbert Muschamp- New York Times |
| Modernism: An Old Dogma's New Tricks: It's freer now, not so dependent on dogma (or perhaps it's just that there are more competing dogmas than ever before). By Benjamin Forgey - Frank Gehry; Helmut Jahn; Rafael Vinoly; Daniel Libeskind; Thom Mayne/Morphosis- Washington Post |
| Cézanne's vision turns ugly: Uproar as painter's timeless landscape [in Médan] is threatened by new housing estate- Guardian (UK) |
| Convention center: Soaring design tinged by controversy. By Patricia Lowry - Rafael Vinoly; Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| Clear sailing may finally lie ahead for Pier Wisconsin: Finalists' proposals receiving rave reviews in design competition. By Whitney Gould - Hammel, Green & Abrahamson; Arquitectura [images]- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
| Gehry: "I'm just an architect, I'm a dumb architect..."- The Times (New Jersey) |
| Superbugs new target for CABE health design campaign- HD - The Journal for Healthcare Design and Development (UK) |
| Toledo Public Schools dream moves closer to reality: Bids for first school project to go out in February...[for] $821 million, decade-long building and renovation project - Allied Toledo Architects (Munger Munger + Associates, SSOE Studios, Duket Porter MacPherson, The Collaborative, Inc.)- Toledo Blade |
| Fresno Metropolitan Museum plans for new building: Museum board must weigh design, cost of project. - Michael Maltzan- Fresno Bee (California) |
| Brightening Up London: commissioned images projected onto 10 buildings around London [images]- Guardian (UK) |
| Disability Discrimination Act (UK) compliance workshops through April '04: DDA comes into full force on October 1- HD - The Journal for Healthcare Design and Development (UK) |
| National Association of Students of Architecture (NASA) sends architecture students over the moon- Times of India |
| Modernism for Sale: Richard Mandel House by Edward Durell Stone [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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-- Competition winners: Shigeru Ban; Jean de Gastines & Philip Gumuchdjian, Centre Pompidou - Metz, France
-- Competition winners: Foreign Office Architects: The Music Box, BBC Music Centre, White City, London
-- Foster & Partners: Elephant House, Copenhagen Zoo, Denmark
-- Half-way mark: Santiago Calatrava: Turning Torso, Malmø, Sweden |
