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BUILD BOSTON 2003 The World Trade Center in Boston was a hotbed of educational activity in mid-November, 2003 as some 15,000 architects, engineers, contractors, owners, and assorted construction professionals attended the 19th annual Build Boston conference.
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AIA GOLD MEDAL FOR SAMUEL MOCKBEE The late Samuel Mockbee, FAIA, has just joined Thomas Jefferson in an elite club of architects who have received AIA Gold Medals posthumously. The widely admired Mockbee was a practitioner and educator until his death in 2001. The American Institute of Architects announced on December 4, 2003 that they would confer on him their highest honor.
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GOOD DESIGN, GOOD BUSINESS The 19-story Price Tower by Frank Lloyd Wright has recently been restored to productive use. A childbirth clinic in Japan is leading an effort to change public attitudes toward women's health. And a new building for the venerable Natural History Museum in London provides much needed climate-controlled labs for delicate specimens.
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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
Quake Levels Historic City in Iran, Killing at Least 5,000 — National Post, 2003.1229
Tower Design Comes Up Short, Rudy Says — New York Post, 2003.1229
Spectacular Medieval Complex on Old Silk Road Lies in Ruins — Independent Digital, 2003.1227
After Year of Push and Pull, 2 Visions Meet at 1,776 Feet — New York Times, 2003.1226
Rain Causes Mudslides and Floods in California — New York Times, 2003.1226
Thousands in Iranian City Killed in Quake — AP at Duluth News Tribune, 2003.1226
Hearst Mansion Survives Calif. Quake — Yahoo News, 2003.1222
Architects Unveil Revised Freedom Tower Design — New York Times, 2003.1219
Architects Head East; China Draws World's Best — San Francisco Chronicle, 2003.1217
Deal Leads Architect to Lower His Sights, and the Trade Center Tower — New York Times, 2003.1217
Final Deal Reached on Trade Center Tower — San Francisco Chronicle, 2003.1216
Farnsworth House Saved — Chicago Tribune, 2003.1213
WTC'S 'Watergate' — New York Post, 2003.1212
The New Look at Ground Zero May Be the Oldest — New York Times, 2003.1211
A '51 Mies Classic Comes Down to the Wire — New York Times, 2003.1211
Rem Koolhaas wins the Royal Gold Medal — RIBA Press Release, 2003.1211
More Revisions in Plans for New York's Tallest Tower — New York Times, 2003.1210
Holyrood: Firms Poised to Sue — Sunday Herald, 2003.1207
Mies van der Rohe Structure on the Auction Block — Louisville Scene, 2003.1207
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