POSTCARD FROM BULGARIA Dear ArchitectureWeek, I believe that architecture is the means of creating an enduring symbol that marks our past, expresses our natural longing for eternity, and at the same time mirrors our continuous motion into the future for years to come. — Published 2001.0124
	POSTCARD FROM FRANKFURT Dear ArchitectureWeek, This building is a real antidote to a dark, drizzly day. I've been wanting to visit some buildings by Gunter Behnisch for some time, and I'm very pleased to have seen this one — the German postal museum. — Published 2001.0117
	CELEBRATING, RAIN AND SHINE The house called Rainwater is a complex composition of four simple volumes — residence, guest house, office, garage — each capped with a planar steel roof rakishly tilted to channel water down to a single cantilevered corner. — Published 2001.0110
	SPECIAL TREATMENT AT VENT VERT The Vent Vert Spécialité shop at Morumbi shopping center in São Paulo, Brazil is devoted to beauty treatments with the participation of several perfume and cosmetic brands for both women and men. — Published 2001.0117
	ARONOFF ADDITION - A FIELD GUIDE TO META-NARRATIVES I am often asked how I like the new Aronoff addition to the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, designed by Peter Eisenman. After all, I work there every day and I am an architect. Well, that's easy: I like it. It's airy and spacious, visually engaging, and reasonably functional. But, most important, it is entertaining to talk about. — Published 2001.0103
	ARCHITECTURE FOR THE GODS Recent religious architecture in the Americas appears at first to have no unifying theme, except for the fact (of course) that this architecture is for the gods. There is certainly no agreement on style: here you will find a bit of everything—Traditional, Historicist, Classical, Modern, and everything that has come after Modern, and is still coming. The gods, it appears, are much more relaxed about the sanctity of a proper style than your average architect is. — Published 2000.1220
	INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR LIFE After a long history of many uses, an industrial site in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, has been regenerated into an architectural celebration of life itself. The new £70 million International Centre for Life is seen as the flagship millennium project exploring genetic science in the UK. — Published 2000.1213
	DREAMING ON THE RIVER When architect Moshe Safdie, known for his urban sensibilities, approached the design of a science museum on the flat American prairie, he developed a geometric complexity as challenging as the exhibits within. — Published 2000.1206
	CASA LUIS BARRAGAN: POETRY OF COLOR In 1947, the famed Mexican architect and Pritzker Prize-winner, Luis Barragan, designed a house for himself in Tacubaya. The house is now a museum honoring his work, but photographs of it are hard to come by. Now, over 50 years after the house's construction, architects at Estudio Bonta in Buenos Aires have recreated it in a computer model that captures the spirit of the place. — Published 2000.1129
	2000 BUSINESS WEEK / ARCHITECTURAL RECORD AWARDS Can architecture really improve a company's bottom line? Do innovative architects have a special affinity with "new-economy" corporations? The American Institute of Architects thinks so. In demonstration of this belief, they have recently unveiled ten winners of the third annual awards program co-sponsored by Business Week and Architectural Record magazines. — Published 2000.1115

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