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Today’s News - Monday, March 11, 2002

Good Morning and good news! ArchNewsNow home page "debuts" today with two feature articles - and a new look! We thought it particularly appropriate to begin this new adventure with an essay about what elements are important to create thriving public spaces. After all, is there a larger public space than this place we call the Internet? "Critical Ingredients in Urban Placemaking" by Randy Shortridge, AIA, (RTKL) introduces INSIGHT, an ANN series written by industry professionals intended to be an interesting mix of observations, opinions, and musings on a range of subjects. (If you have Insights you'd like to submit, please do.) For "Fermenting Culture," Imagination and Robinson Keefe Devane (RKD) Architects take us through the transformation of a former Guinness fermentation plant into a dynamic corporate and public visitors center in the heart of Dublin. Click on the "Home" link above to see the feature articles. Kristen Richards, Editor-in-Chief

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Rebuilding New York: Not so Quiet on the Eastern Waterfront - Marilyn Jordan Taylor/Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Ken Greenberg/Urban Strategies; Arup- GRID

More Attention to Security in Designing Buildings: `Hardened' structures, carlike safety glass and high air intakes are some of the precautions being taken (free registration-required)- New York Times

Sprawl-Weary Los Angeles Builds Up and In (free registration-required)- New York Times

Common ground: By shooing vagrants, S.F. plazas have gone from bad to worse -- now planners plead for city to put out the welcome mat By John King- San Francisco Gate

Nouvel's Guthrie [Theater] design inspires architectural critiques - Jean Nouvel; Architectural Alliance- Minneapolis Star Tribune

Cultural funding a waste of tax dollars: study - Suddenly, everyone's an architecture critic: Royal Ontario Museum by Daniel Libeskind- The Toronto Sun

Bellevue [Washington] reaching for its future: City works on fashioning a downtown with soul- The Seattle Times

A Sense of Mission for Affordable Housing- Washington Post

It's a Mall World After All: In Harvard 'Guide to Shopping,' Some Real Finds - Rem Koolhaas- Washington Post

Culture cascades to the street: The new Austrian Cultural Forum has been likened to a vertical stapler. - Raimund Abraham- Financial Times

The Tile is Cracked: Formica files for bankruptcy- VisualStore

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