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Today's News - November 9, 2004

High design for lowly garbage in Hiroshima. -- Does SimCity stimulate city planning? -- Too much respect in Whitney's expansion plans? -- Saarinen finally getting his due. -- Diana's fountain too much work (and not much fun). -- Affordable housing project to rise in Aspen. -- Chicago suburb to get arena (courtesy of Sears), but not everyone is convinced it's a good idea. -- ArtsPark scheduled for Florida city. -- Danish architects offer insights into historic preservation in the Virgin Islands. -- Q&A with a "sustainable biz pioneer." -- San Francisco Green Festival a cornucopia of sustainability. -- Beijing bathrooms going from foul to fragrant (and a four-star rating system). -- Lawsuit claims Freedom Tower copyright infringement. -- U.S. Postal Service launches "Masterworks of Modern Architecture" stamp series.

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Beauty in Garbage: Naka Incineration Plant...real-time science museum and tourist destination. By Fred A. Bernstein - Yoshio Taniguchi [images]- ArchNewsNow

Playing with Urban Life: How Simcity Influences Planning Culture - Forrester, Alexander, Rybczynski- The Next American City

Whitney Museum's New Plan: A Respectful Approach: Such humility may seem laudable...The risk is that the building will ultimately be too subdued... By Nicolai Ouroussoff - Marcel Breuer (1966); Renzo Piano [images]- New York Times

Saarinen rising: A much-maligned modernist finally gets his due. By Clay Risen [images]- Boston Globe

London Journal: Diana's Park Memorial Today: A Font of Faultfinding: No running. No wading. No throwing things. The rules are many at the Princess of Wales fountain. - Kathryn Gustafson- New York Times

Shaw team selected to build Aspen's Burlingame Ranch affordable housing project. - Poss Architecture and Planning- Aspen Times

Suburb tells plan for arena near I-90: Hoffman Estates to use Sears land...caution [urged] in dealing with venue developers with big plans and little cash.- Chicago Tribune

City [Miramar] picks ArtsPark designer - Mario Cartaya & Associates- Miami Herald

Helping bring the past to life: Touring Danes offer V.I. architects tips on historic preservation- Virgin Islands Daily News

Ray Matter: Ray Anderson/Interface, sustainable biz pioneer, answers Grist's questions- Grist Magazine

Everything Is Green at This Fair: San Francisco's Green Festival is a cornucopia of environmentally conscious products and services- Wired magazine

China Hopes to Flush Smelly Toilet Image: Beijing will use the 2004 World Toilet Summit, starting Nov. 17, to showcase efforts to transform the capital's lavatories from foul to fragrant, from crude to cultured. (AP)- Environmental News Network

Ex-Yale student sues designer of Freedom Tower, alleges copyright infringement - Thomas Shine; David Childs/Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (AP)- NY Newsday

Art and Architecture Building will appear in new stamp: 12-stamp set tiled the "Masterworks of Modern Architecture"...included with Guggenheim Museum,High Museum of Art and Vanna Venturi House... - Paul Rudolph; Robert A.M. Stern- Yale Daily News

Second Look: George Washington Bridge Bus Station / Pier Luigi Nervi, 1963: One of Nervi's few completed projects outside Italy is a superb example of the poetry he wrought from ferro-concrete. By Fred A. Bernstein- ArchNewsNow

-- TEN Arquitectos/Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos, SC: Educare Sports Facilities, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

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