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Cooper-Hewitt Director Departs

11.20.2008

Paul Thompson to head the Royal College of Art

Behnisch Does Baltimore

11.18.2008

German architect wins competition for UB law school

Courtesy University of Baltimore

Editorial: Public Transit In Every Pot

11.17.2008

To get a truly Green New Deal, let's update Herbert Hoover's vision of American prosperity to include transportation of every kind.

That Other Queens Rezoning

11.14.2008

After 11th hour deals, proposals for Hunter's Point South and Willets Point pass City Council

courtesy nycedc

Willets Point-Man

11.12.2008

Queens Rep flips on Iron Triangle plan after winning affordable housing

WILLIAM ALATRISTE/Courtesy NYC City Council

Pedal Parking

11.11.2008

NYC rolls out bike storage requirements, delays new rack designs

verbos/Flickr

What Recession?

11.10.2008

Green firms see bright future in dark times

2008 U.S. Artists Fellows Announced

11.10.2008

Five architects and designers take home $50,000 prizes

Fair Trade

11.07.2008

Cash-strapped city gets developer to rebuild two Midtown schools

Courtesy SOM

You Win Some, You Lose Frisco

11.05.2008

A slew of transit and planning initiatives pass in SoCal, but SF loses out

NY FEATURED SECTION

Courtesy Great Park Design Studio

Green XL

The best new ideas in sustainability are the biggest. AN surveys large-scale green strategies in Orange County's Great Park, investigates the next generation of sustainable skyscrapers in New York, and asks whether the growing number of eco-friendly green roofs carry truly urban-scale benefits.

CA FEATURED SECTION

Iwan Baan

No Building Left Behind

For the second year AN has compiled what we think are some of the best-conceived, best-designed schools in the West. There's a wide variety here, but all share one thing: innovation -- from building a science school inside an existing biomedical laboratory in Phoenix to transforming a depressed Los Angeles neighborhood with a campus that opens to the community.

DIARY

James Bleecker

High Line: New Photographs by James Bleecker

Allen Sheppard Gallery

530 West 25th St.

11/19/2008

While the preservation and reuse of the High Line is mostly about what occurs on top—the center of attention these days—the artist James Bleecker argues, “The essence of the High Line is what you see from below.” In anticipation of the opening of the first section of the High Line public...

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COMPETITIONS

AIA Housing Awards

Deadline :Friday, December 12, 2008

AIA Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community invites architects to submit entries that emphasize the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit and a valuable national resources. Categories for this award program include one and two family custom residences, one and two family production homes, multifamily housing, and special housing. All architects licensed in the U.S. are invited to submit their completed, built projects located in the U.S. Additionally, owners of structures or projects fitting the eligibility guidelines may submit those projects for review. Projects completed since January 1, 2004, are eligible.

www.aia.org/awp_housing

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