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New York Yankees Break Ground on Stadium
Iconic Yankee Stadium will live on in a new incarnation that combines modern with tradition—thanks to one of AIA’s own. “But don’t call it New Yankee Stadium,” says Earl Santee, AIA, principal-in-charge and senior principal at HOK Sport. “It’s Yankee Stadium.” Located in New York City’s Bronx borough, Yankee Stadium has a storied baseball history. An asymmetrical, open-air ballpark originally built in 1923 and reconstructed in the ’70s, “The Stadium” has hosted 37 World Series and many great players. But the time has come to continue that legacy in a new, more functional ballpark. Kansas-City based HOK Sport + Venue + Event designed the new $800 million Yankee Stadium, financed by the Yankees. It will replicate design characteristics of the 1923 structure while adding today’s amenities. Groundbreaking was held on August 16. The stadium will open in 2009.

AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion Nominations Due Oct. 27
Nominations are due October 27 for the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education. The annual honor, awarded jointly by the AIA and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), pays homage to a living individual who has made outstanding contributions to architecture education—primarily in North America—for at least 10 years and whose teaching has influenced a broad range of students. For more information, contact Stephanie Burns, in the AIA Honors and Awards department, sburns@aia.org or 202-626-7586, or visit the AIA Honors and Awards Web site.

AIA Tampa Bay Selects 2006 Design Award Winners
AIA Tampa Bay chose nine outstanding projects to receive the chapter’s 2006 Design Awards. These awards—which recognize excellence in architectural design by students, graduate architects, and registered architects from within the chapter’s seven-county region in west central Florida—were chosen from a field of 58 submissions. The 2006 jury members, all from The Boston Society of Architects, were: Nathalie Beaucais, Allston Development Group; Robert J. Taylor, AIA, Taylor & Burns Architects; Steve Brittan, Burt Hill; and Alec Anmahian, AIA, Anmahian Winton Architects.