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Today's News - September 8, 2004

Prefab, bamboo, and straw in our future. -- Goldberger looks at a development designed by (mostly) starchitects, but "at heart, a plain-vanilla subdivision," and then waxes poetic on everything from contemporary architectural culture and suburban planning to the architectural future of lower Manhattan. -- New National Museum of the American Indian still raising questions of ethics, aesthetics, and authorship. -- Meanwhile, a conference in Chicago explores the relationship between American Indians and museums. --Height is the challenge for Halifax developers; and a Halifax architect finds his Modernist voice rooted in local tradition. -- Kansas City stadium: city forgot to tell contending architects it has to be green (oops!). -- Not everyone is happy with competition-winning design to "build" churches in the North Sea. -- Opening of Pawson-designed monastery in the Czech Republic brings "rows of architects in their own priestly all-black uniforms" (and the monks changed their minds abut Calvin Klein designing their robes). -- The Eiffel Tower's newest neighbor will be a museum (maybe). -- Another look (and lots of pictures) of MIT/Gehry car of the future. -- Children's furniture grows up with style.