The University of California at Berkeley has scrapped high-profile plans for a $143-million art museum by the Tokyo firm Toyo Ito & Associates Architects, the museum's director said Wednesday. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the university canceled the project after raising only $81-million of the $200-million it sought in a capital campaign for the museum. But the museum's director, Lawrence Rinder, said it would still build an "innovative and affordable" new museum at some point.

The Toyo Ito building, planned for a site in downtown Berkeley, was to have replaced museum's current home, a poured-concrete Modernist structure on Bancroft Way that dates to 1970. Designed by Mario Ciampi and associates Richard...

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Former President George W. Bush is to unveil this design for his presidential-library complex at Southern Methodist U. Wednesday afternoon. (Robert A.M. Stern Architects renderings)

The George W. Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University will be a fairly contemporary structure whose clean lines call to mind the shapes of Georgian architecture without replicating its ornament and details, according to drawings that the former president and his wife, Laura Bush, are scheduled to release at a press conference this afternoon.

But USA Today had the drawings online Tuesday evening, along with an article that described "a lantern-shaped roof that will...

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Hunter Hall is Southern Vermont College's first new building in 17 years. (Southern Vermont College photo)

Southern Vermont College has opened a 41,000-square-foot, $7.5-million building that mixes living space for 110 students with a science lab, a computer lab, offices, a wellness center, and a glassy atrium. The building—the college's first new structure in 17 years—also includes a simulation lab in which nursing students can practice procedures on interactive patient simulators. Called Hunter Hall, the building was designed by Centerline Architects.

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The California Institute of Technology wants its newest building to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines to solve information-science questions—and save energy and water at the same time.

Frederick Fisher and Partners designed Caltech's new interdisciplinary-research building. (Caltech photos)

The 47,000-square-foot, $22-million building, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology, is a sharp-looking classroom-and-office facility that is intended to earn gold-level certification in the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. It was designed by the Los Angeles firm...

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