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Today's News - February 3, 2004

Edinburgh has a new guru/design champion/tsar with grand visions for the city (and pedestrians). -- Goldberger does much to clarify the architectural machinations at Ground Zero. -- Insights into the machinations of architectural divorces. -- Is the a future for design/build studios in education? -- Taking on the overlapping visions of environmentalists and New Urbanists: "The problem for both…is that the ruralization of America is their worst nightmare." -- The greenest building in the world is in India. -- An eco-house in Australia gets everything right - so why is it so ugly? -- 9/11 changes midtown Manhattan office tower design. -- A digital skin planned for Boston creates a task force to come up with a general city policy for this new kind of design. -- Manhattan's "new condo coast…with cutting-edge, brand-name architecture" becomes "catnip for the city's restless buyers…" -- "…that little concrete block bathhouse in Trenton" was Kahn's favorite building. So why is it so difficult to save it? -- An Oscar nomination for "My Architect" might help. -- Chicago lakefront competition yields a variety of visions. -- Computer technology in the hands of clients? -- High-tech gets low marks from one architect. -- It's a long shortlist of finalists in multi-family housing design competition.