Completing the WTC Dream Team: Foster, Rogers, Maki Reveal Tower Designs
World-renowned architects Lord Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers, and Fumihiko Maki joined New York Governor George E. Pataki and World Trade Center developer Larry A. Silverstein at 7 World Trade Center on September 7 to unveil designs for the three World Trade Center towers. The three towers—plus Santiago Calatrava’s transportation hub, currently under construction—will occupy the length of the east side of the World Trade Center site.

Gehry to Address “Architecture and Perception” at Neuroscience Conference
1999 AIA Gold Medalist Frank Gehry, FAIA, will present the keynote address at the 2006 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting October 14 in Atlanta. As part of their annual series titled "Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society,” the society reports that Gehry’s talk, titled "Architecture & Perception,” will center on “the ideas and assumptions about how people perceive and interact with architectural spaces that inform his work.”

Architects, Educators Unite to Advance K–12 Education
The Architecture + Design Education Network (A+DEN) will host its first national conference for design educators October 27–28 in Chicago. The conference aims to bring leaders and practitioners of architecture, design, and education together to identify and explore ideas that advance K-12 design education.

From the Angle: Gore Highlights AIA Public Policy on Sustainability
In a speech September 18 at New York University School of Law, former Vice President Al Gore expounded on the message of his latest documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” by highlighting an AIA public policy and partnership with the U.S. Conference of Mayors as examples of significant energy reduction initiatives that advocate “all new buildings be carbon neutral by 2030, using zero fossil fuels to operate.”