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Today's News - August 2, 2004

We lose a master of historic preservation. -- RIBA calls for serious study of New Urbanism. -- Italian eco-designs include high style. -- Olympic buildings worthy of the gods. -- A look back at some big dreams and grand schemes for New York. -- A Florida town razing its history may make its boom growth go bust. -- A college campus banishes Modernism (seems classical columns and lots of red brick make for photogenic marketing materials). -- U.K.'s Brighton pier is beyond rescue. -- Low and high marks for Gehry museums in Jerusalem and Biloxi. -- University of Illinois project is a labor of love for Pelli and son. -- A library in east London is a grand feather in young British architect's hat. -- A park in Houston is reborn as the playful space it was meant to be. -- AIA Miami celebrates its first woman president in over 50 years. -- Toronto's enigmatic architect. -- Exhibitions: another take on MoMA's "Tall Buildings" and Lebbus Woods in Pittsburgh. -- An Australian artist transforms Le Corbusier's Chandigarh into a giant "theme park of modernity" at the 11th Indian Triennale.