Architecture

Three of the seven designs submitted for the future of Ground Zero are leading in popularity.

January 17, 2003 - The New York Times

Cell phones are popular but ugly metal cell towers are not. Cities are requiring that antennas be disguised as trees, rocks, cacti, or church steeples.

January 16, 2003 - Wired

The Bay Area's signature structures are not churches or skyscrapers, but massive billboards.

January 15, 2003 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Architect Peter Eisenman responded to Frank Gehry's remark about the 'demeaning' pay given to design teams to develop proposals for Ground Zero.

January 15, 2003 - The New York Times

Architects and councillors criticize the plan to revitalize Toronto's waterfront.

January 15, 2003 - The Toronto Star

The biggest development of modernist houses in decades is springing up, sleek and angular, in Southampton Town.

January 15, 2003 - Newsday

The blast furnaces that powered the American Century are in danger of demolition if landmark status or funding cannot be secured.

January 14, 2003 - CNN

In Seagrove Beach, Florida, homes reminiscent of Florida's early settlers -- called 'crackers' -- have become popular.

January 14, 2003 - Wall St. Journal

Roger Thoma envisions building the kind of habitat that once dominated the lakeshore before people built marinas and docks and lined the river and lake bank with steel walls.

January 13, 2003 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

This week's Smart City radio show addresses the issue of livability in cities.

January 12, 2003 - Smart City

Critics say Quebec Square, a shopping center in northeast Denver planned for the New Urbanist redevelopment of the city's former airport is a "paean to the automobile."

January 10, 2003 - The Rocky Mountain News

Celebrity architect Rem Koolhaas' unusual design for a skyscraper in Beijing -- his largest project to date -- uses an innovative structural system.

January 9, 2003 - Newsweek

If urban areas are to improve, the public must become a more savvy consumer of good architecture.

January 9, 2003 - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co will develop the plan for a $500 million community for St. Charles County, Missouri.

January 9, 2003 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dan Burden is on mission to make America's cities walkable -- and livable.

January 9, 2003 - The Kansas City Star

The surge of theater-building around the world may slowing down.

January 7, 2003 - The Economist

Architecture critic Robert W. Duffy does not like the proposed 'retro' design for a new stadium in St. Louis.

January 7, 2003 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Assessments of the seven new Ground Zero proposals.

January 7, 2003 - MetropolisMag.com

As director of the D.C. Office of Planning, city planner Andrew Altman is very influential in reshaping the area.

January 7, 2003 - The Washington Post

Renowned architect Frank Gehry has managed to stay out of the debate over the future of Ground Zero. Why?

January 7, 2003 - The New York Times