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Today's News - October 25, 2002

National Architecture Award winners announced in Australia. - Many alumni are not pleased with Cornell's plan to break up architecture, art and planning department. -- Another report (with images) of dreams for Toronto's waterfront. --Chicago's urban planning based on a Stephen King film "might save some historic buildings and prevent future Block 37s;" and preservationists become activists. -- Deadline to register for Olympic stadium design competition is November 4 (link to site included); and Spanish and Chinese architects seek alliances. -- An exhibition of architectural drawings from the 1960's and 70's is "a cautionary tale about what happens when visionary architects start taking the future for granted," says Herbert Muschamp. -- A modern glass building to be transformed into a brick turn-of-the-century building (not in the article are the "before" and "after" images, and an architect's comment "this is going back to Omaha for inspiration"). -- A retooled aquarium design is part of big plans on Long Island. -- Singapore construction companies are encouraged to go global or get stuck in local. -- A call for health care design champions in the UK; design experts to help maintain community character in Australia; and a small town thinks big in Malaysia. -- It will probably be dubbed "the tuning fork" when a new transportation hub opens in South London. -- Murcutt muses on the elements of design at Cornell. -- Dubliners can watch the transformation of their city on the Web. [Note: Don't forget that many of us need to turn our clocks back one hour this weekend.]