 AIA Cleveland Exhibit Is Where Art and Architecture Meet
Local component lets the public play architect
AIA Cleveland’s ArchiTECHture exhibit gave visitors the tools to try their hand at building design and explore the role of the architect in society. Organized by the AIA Cleveland Government Affairs Committee, the exhibit was a chance to increase their public visibility in a setting that explored the link between art and technology. 
TVS’s McCormick Place 3-Million-Square-Foot Addition Opens in ChiTown
 Chicago convention goers will rejoice, knowing that the TVS-designed, $882 million, 3-million-square-foot McCormick Place West expansion opened August 2, eight months ahead of schedule and on budget. The West Building adds 470,000 square feet of exhibit space, 250,000 square feet of meeting space, and a 100,000-square-foot ballroom seating 10,000 people, one of the largest ballrooms in the world. A new enclosed walkway over Martin Luther King Boulevard connects the new building to the existing center and completes the boundaries of the enormous McCormick Square. The building’s brick on its west side—employed with precast concrete and glass—shows solidarity with the neighborhood’s historic buildings. The expansion building, which boasts a rooftop garden offering great views of the Windy City, has applied for LEED® certification from the U.S. Green Buildings Council. For more, visit the architect’s Web site. (Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority.)
 Help Save the World: Be Part of Fuller’s Design Science Revolution
Buckminster Fuller Institute launches challenge and $100,000 prize
The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) announced the launch of the first annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge on July 12, the 112th anniversary of Fuller’s birth. The Challenge will award a single $100,000 prize annually to support “the development and implementation of a solution with significant potential to solve the world's most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth's ecological integrity.” Entries will be accepted beginning September 4 and until October 30. The first prize will be conferred in June 2008, coinciding with the opening of the first major retrospective exhibition of Fuller's work in the U.S. at New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Entry forms will be available electronically on September 4. To receive an entry form announcement or for more information, visit the challenge’s Web site.
 NAAB Announces Executive Director
The National Architectural Accrediting Board directors selected Andrea S. Rutledge, CAE, to be the next NAAB executive director, effective October 1, 2007, to replace Sharon C. Matthews, AIA. Rutledge, who is currently the managing director of the AIA Alliances team, has been responsible for programs and services in support of the AIA College of Fellows, Young Architects Forum, traditionally underrepresented groups, emerging professionals, and architecture educators. She also has represented the AIA in establishing and sustaining relationships with related professional organizations and the architectural collateral associations, of which the NAAB is one.
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