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Today's News - June 2, 2004

A university research building articulates its purpose with muscle and grace. -- We lose an international architect of an earlier age. -- A Bangladeshi architect explains the pitfalls of globalization: the "onslaught of showpiece models of architecture from alien cultures…" -- Conservation architecture is a lucrative career in India. -- An Arab village designed by a Dutch competition because it "will generate a bigger international echo than it would in Israel." -- Nine Shanghai satellite towns for 500,000 people will be everything from an English village to a German "auto-town" complete with a BMW plant (did somebody channel Disney?). -- Paying for the privilege of being a most livable city? Say it ain't so! -- The battle continues over the fate of 2 Columbus Circle. - Melbourne University's Newman College is "architecture of the raw nerve, low art and unpolished…" -- Fast-tracking a new generation of U.S. embassies: a kit of parts so you'll know where the coffee machine is no matter where you are. -- Architect defends his boxy design for Anchorage museum expansion. -- Miami's own Holyrood: new performing arts center late and way over budget. -- The civic center that isn't but would have put Tallahassee on the world architecture map. -- Lessons for new Philadelphia library from Seattle and Salt Lake. -- New life for Wall Street landmark and Edinburgh's Odeon cinema. -- Supreme awards for New Zealand architecture. -- The massive mosques of Malaysia.