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Today's News - May 12, 2004

Jane Jacobs as eloquent as ever with darkly titled book, "Dark Age Ahead." -- Is China "an experimental playground" for foreign architects, or "a living experiment" in constructing 21st century cities? -- Perhaps it's a case of "horror vacui, or fear of emptiness." -- Housing "with a high groovy and glamor quotient for rock-bottom prices": prefab just gets hotter and hotter. -- Award winner has solution for leftover remnants of Boston's Big Dig: Beautiful, sustainable housing. -- Green roof conference heading to Oregon. -- What happened to the big plans (and money) for Ground Zero? -- Plan A for Pasadena convention center expansion scrapped for Plan B because it won't look like an "architectural experiment" 20-30 years from now (maybe they should visit China?). -- An "Opportunity Center" has high hopes to help "to stop the spiral of homelessness." -- Florida project will not be "standard South Florida fare." -- Milwaukee and university to share architect. -- Edinburgh's design champion gets a deputy. -- Auckland architect wants to save its historic heart. -- New design magazines in Israel not really up to snuff. -- Scottish landscape wins big. -- New book examines what's wrong in the construction industry - and offers some imaginative solutions.