Vancouver Sun

The third-floor room at Vancouver city hall is funeral-quiet while everyone waits for architect Paul Merrick to respond to the critiques of his design ideas for the Olympic village. One after another, the architects and landscape architect from Vancouver's urban-design panel have told him they can't see how the sketches he's shown them say anything about what is supposed to be this revolutionary new development's defining characteristic -- its green, environmental design. And more than one comments disparagingly on the idea of making this look like a "fishing village" -- a concept that had been floated by some people from the Millennium team in a recent newspaper article.