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Today's News - October 13, 2003

Stirling Prize winner has the "X" factor, and "will anger those who think the architectural establishment…cannot bring itself to give its Oscar to buildings that look relatively ordinary." -- Architect/LMDC member quits board, but still has high hopes for Ground Zero. -- China tries to balance its future with its past. -- Iraqi architect struggles with his past and is pragmatic about his future. -- A riveting two-part Op-Ed takes on Modernism, Ephemeralism, Blobism, Infrastructuralism, theoryspeak, and the "Museum Formerly Known as Craft" at 2 Columbus Circle: "One of the most important buildings in the history of 20th-century architecture will soon be vaporized." -- Racing car HQ is a whiz. -- Urban dwellers in Vancouver offer a civics lesson. -- In Seattle: "Where is that next generation of architects who will design our city when the current reign of dinosaurs ends?" -- Two thumbs-up for Baltimore's new art college center. -- Moving away from cookie-cutter school design. -- A "remarkable" winning design for a nature center in Hawaii. -- Ottawa airport: doggy grass included. -- Roche returns to Oakland to give his 1969 masterpiece a facelift. -- Museum show about museum design moves to Miami.