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Today's News - March 10, 2003

Libeskind as master of architecture, politics, and budgets ("Daniel is good at getting the best bang for your buck. It's called value engineering…," says Nina. "It is the bargain-basement of all the schemes in the competition," says Daniel.) -- Memorial competition "efforts fascinating even to those of us who are not American." -- Hometown proud of Pentagon Memorial designer. -- Souvenirs of disasters. -- Honeymoon over for NYC mayor's housing plans? -- On a lighter note, at Cannes "deals are done that will change the face of a score of cities…[then architects] go back to being herbivores in black polonecks and funny glasses." -- Gehry to make music Miami. -- Environmental architecture in Taiwan. -- Smart growth at odds with developers in Virginia. -- Mixed-use mega-project in Dubai. -- The Twentieth Century Society tried, but 1970s library in Birmingham, UK, has no future as site to be "a kind of mini-Manhattan." -- High praise for new Seattle skyscraper, but "If that gronky old parking garage…hogs the spotlight, we may look like a city of rubes that has let library architect Rem Koolhaas pull something over on us." -- A wealth (or dearth) of visions for Baltimore development. -- Big bucks for shoddy school work in Miami. -- A new book examines the Palestinian conflict, and how "each side has enlisted architecture as part of its political rhetoric." -- A new publication explores The Next American City.