Architecture

Washington Post editorial approves of architect Rafael Viñoly's plan for the extension to the Kennedy Center.

January 26, 2003 - The Washington Post

Churches, mosques, and synagogues are looking for ways to make their buildings more energy efficient.

January 25, 2003 - The Christian Science Monitor

Architect Rafael Viñoly designed the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia and lead the "Think Team" that designed a proposal for Ground Zero.

January 24, 2003 - The New York Times

International architect Rafael Viñoly has been selected to design the Kennedy Center expanstion.

January 23, 2003 - The Washington Post

A building design by Antoni Gaudi, conceived in 1908, is to be entered in the WTC site competition.

January 21, 2003 - The New York Times

The New York Post reports that talks to transfer the WTC site to the city are underway.

January 21, 2003 - New York Post

Last month's World Trade Center reconstruction proposals reveal that the architecture profession is hopelessly mired in a failed past.

January 20, 2003 - Planetizen

Is Boston's preoccupation with history resulting in timid, dull, and ugly architecture?

January 20, 2003 - The Boston Globe

A provocative exhibition explores the future of architecture, urban planning, abd building technologies.

January 19, 2003 - The Washington Post

Toronto's waterfront is an asset.

January 18, 2003 - The Toronto Star

Portland designer Kevin Cavenaugh's projects prove that urban infill doesn't need to be boring or unprofitable.

January 18, 2003 - Business Journal Of Portland

Three of the seven designs submitted for the future of Ground Zero are leading in popularity.

January 17, 2003 - The New York Times

Cell phones are popular but ugly metal cell towers are not. Cities are requiring that antennas be disguised as trees, rocks, cacti, or church steeples.

January 16, 2003 - Wired

The Bay Area's signature structures are not churches or skyscrapers, but massive billboards.

January 15, 2003 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Architect Peter Eisenman responded to Frank Gehry's remark about the 'demeaning' pay given to design teams to develop proposals for Ground Zero.

January 15, 2003 - The New York Times

Architects and councillors criticize the plan to revitalize Toronto's waterfront.

January 15, 2003 - The Toronto Star

The biggest development of modernist houses in decades is springing up, sleek and angular, in Southampton Town.

January 15, 2003 - Newsday

The blast furnaces that powered the American Century are in danger of demolition if landmark status or funding cannot be secured.

January 14, 2003 - CNN

In Seagrove Beach, Florida, homes reminiscent of Florida's early settlers -- called 'crackers' -- have become popular.

January 14, 2003 - Wall St. Journal

Roger Thoma envisions building the kind of habitat that once dominated the lakeshore before people built marinas and docks and lined the river and lake bank with steel walls.

January 13, 2003 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer