AIA Tennessee Honors 16 Projects
Sixteen projects waltzed away with design awards at the AIA Tennessee’s 2005 annual meeting and convention in Nashville. The international jury, chaired by Brian Ambroziak, and including Salvatore Canciello, AIA, Sasaki Associates, Boston; Jon Coddington, AIA, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind.; and Sigismund Sliwinski, Sliwinski Lenschow Architekten, Berlin, Germany, deliberated over 80 submittals, recognizing those with the most outstanding design.

1887–1896: A Decade of Outreach, Inclusiveness, and Internationalism
Join architectural historian Tony Wrenn, Hon. AIA, as he explores the Institute’s fourth decade, which witnessed inclusion of its first woman member, a consolidation of the country’s two major architects’ societies, formal recognition by our British peers, and a fair the likes of which had never been seen before.

AIA Documents Software Update Now Available
AIA Contract Documents software, version 2.0.5, offers all the agreements and forms you need to go from design to ribbon-cutting. This update offers five new contract documents—scope of services documents B203, B209, B252, B253, and Architect/Consultanting Architect Agreement C105—and many software enhancements. This update is free to all existing customers. For a complete list of enhancements and to get your update, visit the Contract Documents portion of the AIA Web site.

Deck the Walls on a Budget
Do you have big, blank walls in your building that need some spicing up? Digital technology might be able to help. Large-scale, computer-generated murals can now be produced, and reproduced, in a timely and budget-conscious fashion. Facilities such as offices, hotels, bookstores, hospitals, restaurants, and banks can fill large, interior open areas with art that meets both size requirements and creative themes.

FROM THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE
Listening Before the Leap
Newly inaugurated AIA President Kate Schwennsen, FAIA, took a precious quiet moment in the lull before the new year to reflect on the Institute and her responsibility to “listen like never before to what architects are saying about practice, education, the shape of the profession, the AIA, and the world our profession serves.”

‘The Building Building’ Celebrates Its Silver Anniversary
Once upon a time, a dedicated committee presented a proposal to Congress for a National Museum of the Building Arts. The proposal, titled “The Building Building,” outlined an institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating the built environment. That was 1978. Two years after the proposal, Congress chartered the National Building Museum. In 2005, the National Building Museum celebrated its 25th anniversary. Since opening its doors in 1980, approximately 400,000 visitors annually have, as predicted, arrived to appreciate architecture.

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HGA Merges Victorian and Modern at Como Park Visitor and Education Center
So famous is the 1915 Victorian Como Park conservatory as a type, that if you look in many editions of Webster’s under greenhouse, you’ll find a picture of the historic building, says HGA Architects and Engineers Project Lead Designer Kara Hill, PhD, AIA. Hill says the HGA team took its cues for the new Modern Visitor and Education Center for the Como Park Zoo and adjacent Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in St. Paul from the way plants follow the sun, particularly crucial in the Minnesota climate. “It’s that phototropic quality that I think is unusual in our project,” she says.

Your Kiplinger Connection (members only, AIA.org login required)
The year ahead: Ten turning points include cooling housing market, higher interest rates, retiring boomers, and Gulf coast construction.
Real estate: Military base closings are development opportunities.
Postal rates: Expect substantial increases across the board.
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