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Today’s News - Tuesday, April 9, 2002

Our newest feature on the home page highlights Architectural Resources Group's masterful reclamation and adaptive re-use of two all-but-abandoned "Richardsonian Romanesque castles" on the campus of the San Francisco Theological Seminary. The historic preservation project has not only helped increase the seminary's enrollment, but has restored a great sense of community pride. (Click "Home" above)

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Missing architect sought internationally: A missing persons report has been sent out...in the hopes of finding 28-year-old Benedicte Maxwell Iversen, an Oslo architect- Aftenposten (Norway)

International Competition: Blackpool Swivelling Wind Shelter. Deadline: June 6, 2002- Archeire.com

April 9-15: Milan Design Week 2002 Preview- designboom

Sept 11: Memories and memorials [a selection of memorial Web sites]- New Zealand Info Tech

New designs iron out Logan's tangles: ...will create a $4.4 billion transformation - Cambridge Seven Associates; TAMS; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Selbert Perkins Design; VHB; Ripman Lighting- Boston Herald

Design winner for $118 million Queensland Gallery of Modern Art: Architectus and Davenport Campbell and Partners; Donovan Hill and Peddle Thorp to design $75 million extension of the State Library- The Age (Australia)

Big Dig readies to choose designers: About 150 firms express interest...to remold downtown Boston- Boston Globe

Opinion: Urban blight a fitting symbol of National Capital Commission decay- The Toronto Star

Design team to unveil revitalization for Dundalk: Enhanced waterfront, links to city are key - Urban Design Assistance Team- Baltimore Sun

Op-Ed: Don't Grow Dumb, California: It is not growth that California needs to fear, but "dumb growth"...By Jeff Lambert, AICP- PLANetizen

Towers' Collapse Raises New Doubts About Fire Tests: ...do not...account for plastic and synthetic combustible materials...unknown in the 1910's when the "standard fire" used in the test was developed.- New York Times

Homeless Boomers? AARP warns nation ‘on the verge of crisis’ in housing elderly people- Inman News

There but for the grace of Gaudí: The Vatican wants to canonise Antonio Gaudí, but Barcelona is bent on wrecking his reputation- Guardian Unlimited

Celebrating Architecture With Curves in All the Right Places. By Roger K. Lewis- Washington Post

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