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Today's News - September 1, 2004

We lose an American master. -- In Australia: plan for a taller Adelaide full of holes, and a call for a government architect in Canberra. -- A Lebanese architect warns against relying on foreign starchitects, "each one just throwing their little icon in Beirut." -- San Francisco's attachment to the past keeping it from moving forward. -- Not even preservationists will mourn the passing of "ugly" U.S. Mission building in Manhattan…a "senior U.S. diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, put it more bluntly: "They should have blown up the architect." -- Pittsburgh hospital hires consultant to look at some pretty big numbers. -- A new home in the heart of town for Edinburgh's film festival. -- Celebrations for European Heritage Days begin in Barcelona. -- Beijing launches its own Biennale. -- Potty parity "not a frivolous issue." -- Submissions due and an impressive jury lined up for Cityscape Architectural Review Awards 2004. -- Ground Zero documentary doesn't mince words. -- Austrian architect honored in New Zealand.