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Today’s News - Tuesday, April 30, 2002

Today's lead news story is the Cheung Kong Center Footbridge by Leo A Daly and Ove Arup & Partners, which recently received a Special Award from the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. Since it opened last July, it has become an integral part of Hong Kong's system of urban footbridges. If you missed yesterday's feature, the overview of Moshe Safdie's master plan for Modi'in, Israel, it is both at the bottom of today's newsletter and on the home page.

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Cheung Kong Center Footbridge by Leo A Daly and Ove Arup & Partners Receives Special Award from the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers- ArchNewsNow

Obituary: Rudolph de Harak, 78, Artist and Environmental Designer- New York Times

Architect challenges Dallas on bridges: Calatrava beginning design work on one span that's funded...Dallas leaders sought money for five- Dallas Morning News

Tonight on PBS: "Why the Towers Fell" - A Detective-Story Approach to the Twin Towers' Collapse- New York Times

Buckminster Fuller protege tries to save legacy of famous architect: Southern Illinois University dome...is a tarp-covered, sagging hulk behind a crumbling fence. - Bill Perk (AP)- New York Newsday

Carey Jones unveils £100m Thames-side housing scheme [image]- The Architects' Journal (UK)

Coming to Stevens Institute of Technology: The Center for Maritime Systems on the Hudson - Demetri Sarantitis Architects- AScribe

Commentary: Design offers ways to make ballpark work. By Philip Bess/Thursday Architects- Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

A Friendlier Lincoln Center: 'When it's finished the community will flow through it...'- New York Newsday

Out of fashion, still adored: Revisiting mid-century Modern as Bay Area architects envisioned it - Donald E. Olsen & Associates [images]- San Francisco Chronicle

The man who styled la dolce vita: Gio Ponti at the The Design Museum, London to 3 October. By Deyan Sudjic- The Observer (UK)

Tower housing plan well received: High-rise proposal aired; Welcome wagon greets S.F. tower housing plan. By John King- San Fancisco Chronicle

Devine unveils plan to knock down Festival Hall for high-rise - Cox Rayner- The Age (Australia)

Pensacola Demonstrates a Progressive Approach in Redeveloping Waterfront Property- Environmental News Network

Camden [UK] aims to go up in the world: [nominated] to be designated a World Heritage Site- The Times (UK)

The Master Plan for the New City of Modi'in, Israel by Moshe Safdie and Associates- ArchNewsNow

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