NEW HOME FOR THE MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a new conference center that will occupy an entire ten-acre (four-hectare) city block adjacent to Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. The complex features the largest indoor theater in the world. Its terraced architecture responds to the sloping site, and its rooftop gardens essentially double the size of the urban park-like quality of adjacent Temple Square. Next week contributing editor Clair Enlow will guide us through this remarkable building.

INTERNATIONAL AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

Worldwide nominees for the Francesco Borromini Award for Young Architects have just been announced, including the New York firm, Normalgroup, and principals Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and Sabine von Fischer, whose work is pictured. The award is given to architects whose works, "in the context and at the time of their realization, have best interpreted the demands of the contemporary world as well as the needs of our collective life, helping our cultural and civic growth." The award winner will be announced in May, 2001. Corrected 2001.0203

APPLYING DIGITAL PAINT BRUSHES

Two architectural designers with a fondness for Prismacolor pencil drawings and watercolor have found their niche creating high-end computer renderings and animations for other architects. Charles Gaushell and Scott Carter of Paradigm Productions, LLC use Lightwave and Piranesi to craft the effects they seek. Next week contributing editor Darlene Brady presents the second part of her series on computer-aided perspective techniques.