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Today's News - August 16, 2004

This week on ArcSpace: Montreal and Queens, NY. -- Preservation plans for the White City in danger of going down the tubes. -- New buildings in China are not so pretty in pink. -- Fate of Chicago's equivalent of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in limbo; real estate mogul called to task: "The issue is the link between ownership and stewardship." -- For London Royal hospital project, it's not so much the design as the Private Finance Initiative (PRFI) that's on trial. -- A luxury resort with a sometimes heavy-handed Wrightian veneer. -- In Valencia: "If Gehry is the "tortured, self-examining" Bob Dylan of architecture, Betsky said, then Calatrava is its Luciano Pavarotti." -- Kenzo Tange's son making his own architectural marks. -- "Startling" industrial buildings by Barkow Leibinger. -- A Shanghai gem restored by Venetians. -- Audi showrooms take off with hangar design. -- An architect's surfboard is "her inspiration for structures to make people smile." -- The $82 million house Gehry never built - now see the movie. -- A traveling exhibition displays the "flamboyance" of contemporary Japanese architecture.