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Dear ArchitectureWeek, It was a hot day and a long bus ride from Midtown Manhattan to Ewing Township, New Jersey, to get a sneak peek of the restoration in progress of Louis Kahn's Bath House, forever geographically misplaced near Trenton. Two dozen or so intrepid architecture and design journalists, including yours truly, munched on box lunches and watched My Architect on the bus's overhead TV monitors as we rumbled down the Jersey Turnpike toward one of Kahn's pivotal projects from the early 1950s.

With so much emphasis placed on Building Information Modeling BIM lately, the capitalized Information sometimes threatens to overshadow building aesthetics. But in the latest release of Revit, Autodesk is starting to restore the balance.

Dear ArchitectureWeek, As I walked through west Chelsea, near the Hudson River shoreline of Manhattan, a palpable sense of change was afoot 8212; especially striking considering the impact of the recession on new construction across the nation. Among an aging urban fabric of midrise warehouse and residential buildings, many in various stages of renovation and repair, several new projects stood out.

It's not often that an architect gets to add to a building that he or she worked on years before, especially after a span of 50 years. But that's the case for the new expansion of Yale's David S. Ingalls Rink, originally designed by Eero Saarinen in the early 1950s.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to the new Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas, is that the building doesn't look like a theater at all. It's a basic box elongated upward. The typical theater configuration, with an auditorium surrounded by a public lobby and backofhouse support spaces, has been completely reshuffled by architects REX and OMA into a vertical stack.