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Today's News - October 29, 2002

Environmental Defense doesn't give up having a beautiful office just so it can be "green." -- MIT museum has a new Curator of Architecture and Design. -- New architecture in San Francisco is proof that "that celebrity status is no guarantee of great design." -- Lord Rogers' solution could work anywhere: "a massive infusion of planning, design and engineering skills - a sort of regeneration Marshall plan." -- NY or SF: U.S Olympic Committee will decide this week - issues include housing, transportation, smart growth, toilets, and cigarettes. -- Proposed design guidelines for Toledo largely adapted from posh Fort Collins, Colorado, but developers say the city should be happy with anything it gets (yikes!). -- An exhibition shows that "after a long sabbatical from the design of mass housing, British architects are making their way back" (not all successfully). -- High-end housing and office space in Moscow; a waterfront development in Wakefield, UK; and "shonky" builders in Australia better beware. -- High praise for the engineers who help make the "starchitects" shine. - Toronto has high hopes for its new opera house; not so high hopes for Edinburgh's City Council HQ. -- Good news for Baltimore's waterfront and Beijing University. -- Four architecture firms are being interviewed at Cornell this week to design the $25 million Milstein Hall, the new home of the College of Art, Architecture and Planning's architecture department. Meanwhile, the debate heats up about plans to split up AAP…and more.