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Today's News - November 22, 2002

'Tis the season for urban waterfronts: Two docks in Amsterdam take on new life as a suburban-style housing project, pick up an award for urban design, and get star billing at an exhibition at Harvard Design School. -- WTC plans in progress are "almost too fantastic to be described" (we'll get to see them in December). -- Montreal's planned $3 billion waterfront development welcomes public input. -- Penn's Landing in Philadelphia may get an ersatz London Eye. -- An international competition to overhaul pockets of shoddy buildings in the UK. -- Xanadu or an urban village for New Jersey's Meadowlands. -- Template design for hospitals. -- New hospitality in Kabul, and theme park suites elsewhere. -- Retail goes green in Montreal. -- A Stalin-era architect watches his buildings decay. -- In tough times, good news for architecture students in Canberra. -- Troubled times for government projects in the UK. -- Chicago Athenaeum's American Architecture Awards…and more.

Editor's note: We've received a notice from The Architects' Journal (UK) that it is going to become a "paid-for website (for most information)" beginning on Monday…we'll see what remains free access…sad news indeed.