Welcome to Chicago and the AIA National Convention and Exposition 2004!
We created a special section of AIArchitect just for convention news and we will update it frequently as the news comes in. Election results and synopses of the general sessions will be posted Saturday, June 12.

A Dozen Interpret the “New Home on the Range”
The AIA Committee on Design on May 28 selected 12 award winners in the New Home on the Range competition, which challenged architects and architecture students to design the seminal single-family home of the 21st century. The jury named first, second, and third place winners, plus nine honorable mentions. The jury was composed of Chair David Brems, AIA, Gillies Stransky Brems Smith PC; David Greenbaum, FAIA, SmithGroup; Ed Hord, FAIA, hord|coplan|macht; Lance Hosey, AIA, William McDonough + Partners; and Ronnette Riley, FAIA, Ronnette Riley Architect.

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Metropolitan Transportation Authority Unveils Plans for Lower Manhattan Transit Hub
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) released drawings for a five-story glass cupola to top the new Fulton Street Transit Center hub in Lower Manhattan. The design, by the London firm Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners and engineer Arup, aims to bring order to the tangled collection of transportation portals underneath, with a high-visibility transit station that allows light to filter down. The hub would connect to Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center PATH commuter train terminal, another soaring glass structure that rebuilding officials unveiled earlier this spring.

AIA, NIBS to Create Network of Building Enclosure Councils
The AIA and the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) Building Environment and Thermal Envelope Council (BETEC) have forged a partnership intended to reinforce the design community’s leadership in the crucial area of building enclosures. The agreement, signed May 18 by AIA Executive Vice President/CEO Norman L. Koonce, FAIA, (right) and NIBS President David Harris, FAIA, will establish a network of building enclosure councils (BECs) in major cities across the U.S.

Indiana Library Wins National Award for Innovative Green Roof
The 2004 Green Roofs for Healthy Cities conference jury on June 3 selected Oaklyn Library, Evansville, Ind., to receive one of six national awards for green roof innovation. Bill Brown, AIA, Veazey Parrott Durkin & Shoulders’ project architect, accepted the award for the design team, which included Roofscapes, Inc., who provided the technics of an irrigated roof with integrated ponding elements, and landscape architect Storrow Kinsella Associates, who determined the best native plant mix for the rooftop and site meadows, and associate architects, Engberg Anderson Design Partnership, Milwaukee. Guided by community consensus, the architects designed the library into a steeply sloped site, creating an earth-sheltered building with a natural meadow roof integrated with the site’s restored meadow ecosystem. The result, reports the architect, is an “energy-efficient facility filled with natural daylight, a low-maintenance natural landscape, and a construction cost well below the proposed budget.” This project earlier earned the 2003 Design Honor Award from AIA Indiana. For more information, visit Green Roofs for Healthy Cities online.
Photo © Jim Geiser.

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