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Sustainable Family Center Under Construction in New Orleans
The New Orleans Family Center, the city’s first post-Katrina sustainable building project, has begun construction on the site of the historic New Orleans Mission, severely damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The 4,400-square-foot, two-story, $1.5 million family center is the result of the Gulf Coast Rebuilding Fund, a corporate partnership led by California-based HomeAid, a nonprofit builder of transitional housing; Tulane University’s School of Architecture; and two New Orleans architecture firms.

Green SMU Engineering Building Is Teaching Tool
A new building for engineers on Southern Methodist University’s Dallas campus is helping to educate classes of sustainability-savvy practitioners. SMU’s Embrey Building, the first university building in Texas built for a LEED® Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council, embodies a teaching tool that offers students lessons on sustainability in its every nook and cranny.

New York Library Presents “Love in Small Change” by Pradeep Dalal, Assoc. AIA
The Art Collection at Mid-Manhattan Public Library currently is showing "Love in Small Change," a photo exhibition by emerging Indian-American artist Pradeep Dalal, Assoc. AIA. Dalal’s series of autobiographical works draws on his early adulthood in India and reveals the often fragmented but potent workings of memory.