Home Yesterday's News Contact Us Subscribe Today's News - June 20, 2003 Taking down damaged building no small task. -- Opinions continue to fly around Ground Zero design. -- Smart bricks? -- Finding greenbacks in brownfields. -- Urban developments panned and praised in Syracuse, Toronto, Washington, DC suburbs, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Chicago. -- Big box stores have an eye on Manhattan. -- Alliance for US/UK healthcare design firms. -- What really created the "Holyrood fiasco." -- New courthouse praised and panned. -- Renaming and reshaping a museum. To subscribe to the free daily newsletter click here Last Days for a Survivor of Sept. 11: The battered and disfigured Deutsche Bank building...deemed beyond repair- New York Times On a New Path: Daniel Libeskind has backed off demands for direct design control over a new Ground Zero PATH terminal...- NY Post Opinion: Free Larry! My analysis unveiled no hidden groundswell of support for opera houses or housing projects to replace dense commercial real estate at the site.- NY Post Smart Bricks, or a Dumb Idea? ...part of the movement toward "smart buildings"- Wired magazine Squeezing Green Out of Brownfield Development- National Real Estate Investor Developer With Stealth Reputation Changes Tactics: proposed supermall DestiNY USA planned for Syracuse...- New York Times Toronto architect Raymond Moriyama lauds community development corporation to oversee the evolution of south downtown- Canada.com Urban Experiment Revisited: After 15 Years, Planners Sharpen Their Vision of Kentlands. By Benjamin Forgey - Duany Plater-zyberk & Co.; Leon Krier; Congress for the New Urbanism- Washington Post Phoenix ready to start promoting Plaza perks: $600 million expansion of the Phoenix Civic Plaza- Arizona Republic City Observed: Transit Villages: Maybe, at long last, we will start taking mass transit seriously... By Sam Hall Kaplan- KCRW.org (Los Angeles) High Rise Resurgence in Chicago - Pei Cobb Freed; Lohan Caprille Goettsch Architects [images]- New York Times Big-Box Comes To The Big Apple- National Real Estate Investor Aukett and US architect TRO/The Ritchie Organisation to create healthcare giant: Alliance...will form £100m-turnover operation.- Building (UK) Bovis breaks its silence over £375m Holyrood debacle: Project team is released from gagging order...- Building (UK) Holyrood fiasco: Bovis answers its critics: written responses to Building's questions- Building (UK) An instinct for a skinny house: Lisa Rochon talks to a designer who left his rational mind behind to carve from the narrow site of a former garage a landscape of hills and bridges - Paul Oliver- Globe and Mail (Canada) Verdict split on new courthouse: Appearance panned, praised - Poggemeyer Design Group; HDR Architecture- Toledo Blade Trading Baskets for Plastics: the only museum in New York dedicated to American craft has vanished...- New York Times Summer Reading: Below Ground Level: Creating New Spaces for Contmeporary Architecture; Santiago Calatrava: Artworks; Architectural Guides to 20th Century Architecture; Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings; Kas Oosterhuis: Architecture Goes Wild; Steel and Beyond: New Strategies for Metals in Architecture; Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence Note: Pages will open in a new browser window. External news links are not endorsed by ArchNewsNow.com. Free registration may be required on some sites. Some sites may expire after a few days. Yesterday's News © 2003 ArchNewsNow.com.