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Today's News - January 28, 2005

Evidence-based design study may change healthcare design. -- Tate Modern has expansion plans. -- A pesky preservationist helps save a Philadelphia gem. -- A San Francisco building "says a lot about the state of architecture in today's Bay Area." -- Renewing libraries on a shoestring. -- Kansas City wants to get out from under its freeways. -- An artful expansion for empty nesters. -- Toronto as a cultural capital of Canada - once all the new museums and theaters are done. -- April is National Landscape Architecture month. -- Corbu and Robert Moses take on off-Broadway.

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Architects await new research process: Evidence-based design study at hospital could influence future building projects - Farrow Partnership Architects; Watkins Hamilton Ross Architects- Globe and Mail (Canada)

Booming Tate Modern reveals expansion plan - but will it be able to fill all that space? - Herzog & de Meuron- Guardian (UK)

A pesky preservationist, and time, help Boyd Theater live on; Clearly, when it comes to urban preservation, stalling can work. By Inga Saffron- Philadelphia Inquirer

In South Beach, you can peer into the future (if you peek inside); ...says a lot about the state of architecture in today's Bay Area. Things are loosening up... By John King - MBH Architects- San Francisco Chronicle

Renewed libraries speak volumes: They make a little go a very long way. By Christopher Hume - Philip Carter- Toronto Star

The Concrete Bungle: Kansas City's engineering giant helped choke downtown with freeways. Now it's cashing in on its mistake. - HNTB- The Pitch (Kansas City)

An Empty Nest Transformed for New Uses - Lorcan O'Herlihy [slide show]- New York Times

Toronto to be named a cultural capital of Canada: ...yearlong festival of the arts, pegged to the expected completion of new buildings for the Canadian Opera Company, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art.- Globe and Mail (Canada)

National Landscape Architecture Month Set for April 2005- American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Robert Moses, a Towering NYC Figure, Is Deconstructed in "Boozy: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Vilification of Le Corbusier and, More Importantly, Robert Moses," Feb. 13-March 5- Playbill

Artful Elegance: University of Oklahoma Mary and Howard Lester Wing/Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art by Hugh Newell Jacobsen, FAIA, opens tomorrow [images]- ArchNewsNow

Morphosis: Caltrans District 7 Headquarters, Los Angeles, California

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