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Today's News - August 2, 2002

As we near the anniversary of 9/11, opinions are really beginning to fly, and there's a renewed flurry of attention to "terror-proof" design. NIMBY (Not In MY Back Yard) is, in some cases, turning to YIMBY (Yes…) - with some reservations, of course. Last week, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (UK) got behind KPF's Heron Tower, but this week joins the fray in putting the kibosh on Renzo Piano's "shard of glass." It's a face-off between Arata Isozaki and an Italian art critic who calls the design for a new exit at the Uffizi Gallery "a seven-story-high bed frame." A London editorial asks why Princess Diana's memorial fountain can't have a nice lion or a spouting fish. A home by Michael Graves goes up in smoke. Stonehenge just may be saved from tourist traps and mounds of litter…and much more.