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No Alternative
01.05.2009
LPC ire over St. Vincent's latest Village tower plans
Courtesy St. Vincent's
Arch Enemies?
12.29.2008
Debate flares over bid to alter landmark Jefferson Memorial grounds in St. Louis
John Shappell/flickr
All Consuming
12.19.2008
AN's gift guide brings you a trove of holiday treasures, both silly and serious
Courtesy Matter
Show Me the Way
12.19.2008
Proposals exhibited for New York wayfinding system
Julia Galef
Broad-Based Powers
12.17.2008
LA philanthropist's new museum coming into focus
Down We Go
12.17.2008
AIA billings index hits new lows for second straight month
Going Once, Going Twice, Sold!
12.17.2008
Empire State Building drawings auctioned
Courtesy Wright
LA Planning Czar Resigns
12.16.2008
Jane Ellison Usher, often at odds with city officials, steps down
AIA Honors 3 More
12.11.2008
Announces 25-year, social justice, and service awards
Jonathan J. Klein/via flickr
Rough Waters
12.11.2008
LA County weighs thorny development options in Marina Del Rey
courtesy Marina Del Rey CVB
NY FEATURED SECTION
Courtesy CASE
Making A Case For Innovation
The Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) is an innnovative new program in which researchers and students at Rensselaer Polytechnic are working wtih Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to push buildling science into the 21st century, and to respond to the urgent environmental concerns of architects and developers today. For director Anna Dyson and her students, the best way to build green is to rethink everything we know about materials. Anne Guiney and Sara Hart get a first look at the future.
CA FEATURED SECTION
Tim Griffith
China Express
Despite the downturn, China is still the place to be for Western architects seeking large-scale work and a meaningful role in the global architectural dialogue. Amara Holstein checks in with California firms doing business in this complex, frenetic market, and finds that technology helps them thrive, yet also opens the door to new challenges amid Asia's fast-forward culture of building.
DIARY
Courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
My Paradise: A Hundred Years of Finnish Architects' Summer Houses
AIA San Francisco
130 Sutter St.
1/5/2009

For a few scant summer months of the year, the Finnish landscape affords its people time to bask in the nation’s magical extremes. Since the latter part of the 19th century, the tradition of leaving the urban environment and communing with nature became a part of Finnish culture,...

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COMPETITIONS
ImagineConey
Deadline :Thursday, January 15, 2009

ImagineConey is an initiative of the Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) to create new ideas for the future of Coney Island to restore the area to its former position as a great entertainment and amusement area-the "world's playground." After consulting with world-class architects, engineers, amusements designers and creative producers, MAS needs your ideas for its future. Please send, in words or graphics, your ideas for the future of Coney Island, including ideas for Events and Activities, New Amusement rides, Design Ideas, Housing and Retail-Related Ideas, as well as thoughts, memories or photos that may spur others to generate ideas. The ideas will be displayed online at imageconey.com, and at an exhibit that will open at MAS in January 2009. 

imagineconey.com

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