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AWARDS

The Next Level in Green: 2014 AIA COTE Top Ten

The AIA’s premiere sustainability award selects a new crop of projects that lead the way forward.

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COTE Top Ten award recipients

RENOVATION AND REUSE

Adapting Visions of Sustainability Call for Existing Buildings to Adapt as Well

Nearly half of this year’s AIA COTE Top Ten Award recipients are renovated and adaptively reused projects.

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BNIM's COTE Top Ten Plus winner

GOVERNMENT ARCHITECTURE

BNIM’s COTE Top Ten Plus Winner Sets the Pace for Utility Efficiency

A state agency that protects consumers by regulating utility companies has cut their own utility expenses to a minimum.

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Business

WORK ON THE BOARDS

The Winter Doldrums Drag On Through March at Architecture Firms

A return to subpar scores after a few months of modestly positive billings means that this decline likely indicates more than a severe weather-related blip.

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ECONOMIC FORECASTING

New AIA Economic Indicator Measures Value of Design Contracts

Measuring changes in the value of design contracts can extend the predictive ability of the ABI back by six months, as design contracts become architecture firm billings, and eventually construction spending.

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The Business of Design Video: AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker, Hon. AIA, on the Economic Trends of the Second Quarter of 2014 >

Design

AIA Minnesota Honor Awards

COMPONENT AWARDS

AIA Minnesota Honor Awards: The Look (and Feel) of Architecture

AIA Minnesota’s Honor Awards recognize architecture for your hands; projects that use tactile, richly textured materials to evoke shared memories of place.

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WEB EXTRA

WEISS/MANFREDI, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center

2014 Institute Honor Award for Architecture.

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AIA Convention 2014: Circling Back to Chicago’s Loop

Chicago’s urban epicenter has transformed into a vibrant 24/7, live-work neighborhood in the years since the last AIA convention there.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Sustainability, Resiliency, Security

How sustainability, resiliency, and security will shape architecture will be the topic of Friday’s panel with urban revitalization consultant Majora Carter, sustainable suburban redevelopment expert Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, Perkins+Will healthcare architect Robin Guenther, FAIA, and disaster resiliency activist Rachel Minnery, AIA.

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AIA MEMBER COMMUNICATIONS

The AIA’s official e-newsletter was honored for its 2013 AIA Convention dailies by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).

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News and Resources

JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES

» Career Center | Featured Jobs | Career Center Pricing Update | View AIArchitect Featured Listing Rates
» RFP: Tinicum Township, Pa., Master Plan
» RFI: Biddeford, Maine, Mill District Redevelopment
» Competition: Reanimate the Ruins Detroit
» Competition: AECOM Urban SOS

FROM THE AIA

» Advocacy: Your Guide to the Latest Trends in Project Delivery—Design-Build, Public-Private Partnership, and More
» AIA KnowledgeNet: PMKC a/e ProNet Scholarship Applications Due May 16
» Pre-AIA Convention 2014 Session on June 25: When Change Means Going International
» At the AIA New York Center for Architecture: Barcelona New York City Urban Bridge—A Year of Catalan Architecture in New York
» Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholarship Deadline is May 19
» Eight AIA Members Declare Candidacy for Elective Office: Deadline is April 25 | Listen to AIA Candidate Speeches from Grassroots

AROUND THE PROFESSION

» Seattle Design Festival Call for Events: Design in Motion
» Harvard GSD Announces Seven Finalist Candidates for $100,000 Wheelwright Prize Traveling Fellowship
» Register for the Annual NOMA Conference in Philadelphia, Oct. 1–4
» New ULI Report—Building for Wellness: The Business Case
» Public Architecture Releases 4th AIA 1% Case Study: Shadow Hills Riding Club by the Woodbury University School of Architecture
» USGBC Market Briefs: How Many LEED Projects and Professionals Are in Your State?

MEDIA SCAN

» Philadelphia Inquirer:
Inquirer’s Saffron, critic of the built environment, wins Pulitzer
» Public Architecture:
Q&A with Katherine Darnstadt, AIA, of Latent Design
» Washington Post:
Nation’s infrastructure jeopardized by fragmented thinking, government
 

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