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• "... the Chrysler Building is getting a new owner, Jerry I Speyer, who co-owns Rockefeller Center. He is expected to pay $220 mil for the 1930 tower ... badly needs $100 mil in renovations." (nyt_97.11.30)

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• "Utzon tiles to go as Opera House changes its skin"
  -- "It is possibly the biggest retiling job attempted in Australia." (Bernoth A, smh_97.11.20)

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• "Neon Lights to Match Big Hopes on 42nd Street"
  -- "This Building Will Never Be Dark" (nyt_97.11.19)

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• "Retirees Say NO to Parents' Communities." (wsj_97.11.14)

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• "Dapper Don's Lair Is Up for Sale"
  -- "Could the former headquarters of the Gambino crime family re-open as a 'Planet Mob' theme restaurant?" (wsj_97.11.14)

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• "Building a Classier Image
  -- Can Renoir survive where Elvis impersonators hold sway?" (nyt_97.11.13)

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• "The changing shape of space should sound a cautionary note to builders, developers, and bankers." (wsj_97.11.13)

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• "Architects' Aim: Building Synapses In Active Learners."
  -- "When it comes to schools, architect Steven Bingler is more interested in hermit crabs." (wsj_97.11.12)

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• "Leaks Cause Buckets of Woes." (wsj_97.11.12)

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• "A Green Medal for the Sydney Games?"
  -- "The Green movement needs it." (Stone B, Roberts M, nwk_97.11.17)

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• "So, You Folks Said You Wanted a Home With a Little History ...?"
  -- 'mock-Mediterranean' Heaven's Gate, Nicole Brown's condo, OJ Simpson's Brentwood Estate, Menendez Mansion (nwk_97.11.17)

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• "Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Keep Fighting Over Memorials."
  -- "At issue: the plans to build a 50-foot-high modernistic Air Force Memorial... in all its metallic splendor ...in shouting distance from the Marines' ..." (Gasparino C, wsj_97.11.12)

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• "A house is not just a home ... -- remember to unplug your lamps at night."
  "So says Mary Cordaro, 'building biologist,' whose San Fernando Valley home reflects a nature-based aesthetic aimed at amplifying 'the lifeforce in your house' ... an ecological retrofit ... an atmosphere of negative ions ... to fight electro-pollution and help maintain healthy body voltage ..." (Beasley D, r_97.11.08)

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• "George Bush Presidential Library and Museum is dedicated Thursday ... -- The library and museum complex ... includes an apartment for the Bushes to stay when they are in town, as well as a burial plot ..." (Benedetto R, usat_97.11.04)

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• "Bat Chic" -- "They'd be fools not squiggle in." (nytm_97.11.02)

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• "Life of the Party"
  -- "When it was first proposed, this inventive building enraged some neighbors, who waged a costly, bitter battle against it and delayed construction for a year." (Walsh M, lat_97.11.02)

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• "Jet Cuts Ribbon for New Buffalo" (bw_97.11.01)

  
  

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