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Today's News - September 21, 2005

Competition opens for Tsunami memorial. -- News Orleans: opportunity to build the first 21st century city. -- Preservationists make plea "to be mindful of the city's architectural legacy." -- Want a new stadium? Pitch it as a hurricane shelter. -- Wetlands opened to development (will we never learn?). -- Exhibition shows a bright future for Melbourne architecture. -- Fate of historic hotel has even preservationists fighting among themselves. -- Preservation and renovation for Oklahoma Heritage Center. -- A new London building wins for fitting its historic context. -- Welch Assembly an icon in the making. -- Architecture defines a retail brand. -- Tiffany & Co. taps Gehry. -- Photography exhibition spotlights mid-20th century Finnish architecture. -- A floating island circles Manhattan.

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Call for entries: Tsunami Memorial International Competition; registration deadline: November 15- Government of Thailand/Council of Architects, Thailand

A New Orleans like the old one just won't do: Displaced residents and urban specialists say rebuilding the city without addressing its problems would be a huge mistake..."This may be the first American city built in the 21st century...the opportunity to be a model for the country." -- Congress for the New Urbanism; Brookings Institution (LexisNexis)- American Planning Association (APA)

Trying to Resurrect the Body of a City Buried in Sludge and History: National Trust for Historic Preservation visited New Orleans on Monday to remind officials to be mindful of the city's architectural legacy.- New York Times

Weston officials pitch stadium as Marlins' home and hurricane shelter [image]- South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Army Corps Opens Tracts of Wetlands to Development...across the United States.- Duluth News-Tribune

Pavilions for New Architecture: advocates a group that could be the makers of our future architecture. By Norman Day -- Harrison + Crist; Neil and Idle; Iredale Pederson Hook; Jackson Clement Burrows; Elenberg Fraser; Cassandra Fahey; Minifie Nixon; Staughtons; BKK [image]- The Age (Australia)

A Harsh Fight Over the Fate of a Stately Old Hotel: Belleview Biltmore...in the center of a fight being played out around the country: preservationists attempting to protect the vestiges of the past versus developers in need of real estate to meet current and future housing demands. [images]- New York Times

Heritage center renovates historic Mid-Continent Life Insurance building -- Solomon Layton (1926); Elliott + Associates- The Journal Record (Oklahoma)

Tower Hill wins London Award for Building in an Historic Context -- Stanton Williams [image]- Gizmag (Australia)

£59m National Assembly building 'will become an icon' -- Richard Rogers Partnership/Taylor Woodrow/Arup- icWales

Forth & Towne: The Store's the Thing: At Gap's new women's apparel chain, architectural design...is defining what the new brand is -- Rockwell Group- Business Week

Tiffany Taps New Designer: Frank Gehry to Create Jewelry Collection for Tiffany & Co.- Business Wire

Skillful and selective photography helped establish legend of Finnish architecture: Slovenian expert studies modernism of 1950s and ‘60s: "Finnish architecture as seen in foreign exhibitions in 1957 - 1967" -- Petra Ceferin; Alvar Aalto; Aulis Blomstedt; Toivo Korhonen/Jaakko Laapotti; Reima and Raili Pietilä; Viljo Revell; Kaija and Heikki Siren [images]- Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)

It's Not Easy Making Art That Floats: Robert Smithson "Floating Island" -- Diana Balmori [images/slideshow]- New York Times

INSIGHT: Vancouverism vs. Lower Manhattanism: Shaping the High Density City. By Trevor Boddy [images]- ArchNewsNow

Op-Ed: Modern Ironies: Notes on Losing the Bunshaft's Travertine House (1963). By Kenneth Caldwell [images]- ArchNewsNow

Sept. '05 Build Business: Marketing from the Inside Out

DVDs: Le Corbusier Plans1905 -1930

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