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Today's News - November 12, 2004

A call for architectural idealism for an architecture of our time. -- London's big plans for 2012 Olympics. -- In Canada, transit-oriented development takes hold, big plans for old airport area, and not all are pleased with plans for university's "Boulevard of Dreams." -- South Carolina university new green dorm dispels myth that green costs more. -- Another new high-rise for Chicago. -- Big bucks for big makeover of Madison Square Garden. -- Clinton Library wow's former nay-sayers. -- Urban Land Institute winners announced. -- Murcutt visits Buffalo. -- Vladimir Kagan still going strong. -- Celebrating the 40th anniversary of MoMA's "Architecture Without Architects" show.

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Opinion: An Architecture for Our Time: If we look at why avant garde architects have lost their idealism, it can help us understand what sort of architecture is needed in our time. By Charles Siegel- International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU)

London 2012 has unveiled a stunning vision of how the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games would look if London's bid is successful. - Foreign Office Architects [link to images]- London 2012

Train spurs development: Transit-oriented development is a concept sparked in the U.S. and Europe about 15 years ago...in Le Village de la Gare...train station is the hub of the community- Daniel Bellavance [images]- Montreal Gazette

A white elephant becomes a phoenix: A $350-million project is leading the transformation of the Mirabel [Airport] area- Globe and Mail (Canada)

University of British Columbia Starts Down Its Boulevard Of Dreams: University Boulevard Architectural Design Competition: professor emeritus has led a campaign since 2001 against what he referred to...as "the commercialization of University Boulevard..." (EOI deadline: November 30)- Straight (Vancouver)

University of South Carolina Opens World's Largest 'Green' Dorm: ...built for the same cost as a traditional residence hall, debunking the myth that building green costs more...- Boudreaux Group; Little Diversified Architectural Consulting [images]- University of South Carolina

Developer plans condo hotel in an 82-story high-rise on Wacker Drive - Teng & Associates- Crain's Chicago Business

Madison Square Garden hires architects for $300 million upgrade - Brisbin Brook Beynon; Gensler- Crain's New York

Hope becomes reality: The Clinton presidency brings Little Rock a library...“presidential library” sounds like something of a bore.If the interior is anything like the exterior of the building, the center will be anything but. - Polshek Partnership [image]- Arkansas Times

Best of the Best: Urban Land Institute Announces Ten Winners for the 2004 Awards for Excellence Competition- Urban Land Institute (ULI)

Pritzker-Prize winner Glenn Murcutt to deliver Clarkson Lecture next Wednesday: "Architecture: Working with Place, Technology and Culture"- University at Buffalo Reporter

A Furniture Designer at Home in Modernism - Vladimir Kagan- New York Times

40th Anniversary of "Architecture Without Architects," Bernard Rudofsky's MoMA exhibition... unintentionally reaffirmed a secular stereotype, and officially coined the architectural version of the myth of the noble savage.- Archinect

In His Own Words: Luxembourg's New Concert Hall by Christian de Portzamparc [images]- ArchNewsNow

Beauty in Garbage: Naka Incineration Plant...real-time science museum and tourist destination. By Fred A. Bernstein - Yoshio Taniguchi [images]- ArchNewsNow

Second Look: George Washington Bridge Bus Station / Pier Luigi Nervi, 1963: One of Nervi's few completed projects outside Italy is a superb example of the poetry he wrought from ferro-concrete. By Fred A. Bernstein- ArchNewsNow

-- TEN Arquitectos/Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos, SC: Educare Sports Facilities, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

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