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Four
State Components Receive Government Affairs Assistance Grants
AIA Colorado, AIA Florida, AIA Montana, and AIA Ohio will receive
Government Affairs Assistance Grants ranging from $1,250 to $3,000
for high-priority, precedent-setting government affairs initiatives.
The Government Affairs Advisory Committee (GAAC) awarded the matching
funds to these components for assistance with legislative, regulatory,
and legal initiatives related to government-affairs activity that
affects public policy and architecture practice.
Istanbul’s
New Housing Trends: Caught Between Global and Local?
Over the last two decades, Istanbul’s socio-cultural and urban
identities have been transforming radically. Turkey’s globalization,
internationalization, and rapid flow of information have played
a significant role in changing this grand old city and her people.
This rapid economic and social change demands continual redefinition
of urbanization and housing concerns, say professors Ulku Altinoluk
and Hulya Turgut of Istanbul’s Yildiz Technical University
Faculty of Architecture. Especially for newly emerging urban areas,
it is essential to define what a “good quality environment”
means to users today, they say.
AIA
Northern Virginia Chapter 2002 Design Awards Celebration
The AIA Northern Virginia Chapter bestowed four awards of excellence,
seven awards of merit, four associate/intern awards, and a special
citation for lighting design and design interest in a cost-effective
solution at the chapter’s annual awards ceremony June 7 at
the new Gannett USA Today headquarters in McLean, Va. The winning
projects are located in Virginia; Washington, D.C.; Maryland; West
Virginia; Florida; and California.
Your Kiplinger Connection (members
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exclusive access to three stories a week to help them manage their
practices and plan for the coming year. (Nonmembers
may subscribe to The Kiplinger Letter.)
HR: Telecommuting coming back,
midsize firms outsourcing HR. Office Tech:
High speed satellite Internet coming in 2004. The
Economy: Expect a 4 percent gain for 2004.
Project
watch
Branding to the Max: HGA Redesigns Portions
of General Mills’ Bell Tower
Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc. (HGA)’s new design for
three floors of the General Mills Bell Tower in Minneapolis has
silly rabbits, doughboys, and a Wheaties-inspired, basketball-themed
conference room cheering and inspiring clients and workers alike.
By creating flexible spaces, providing access to daylight and exterior
views, and encouraging collaboration through the floor layout with
color, graphics, and wayfinding, HGA’s design met overall
goals expressed by the famous food maker. In addition, each floor
design had to support a special departmental feel or identity. Careful
listening to each department’s work habits and business goals
allowed HGA to design solutions that met team needs and objectives—and
personalities.
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Please, Don’t Make Me Negotiate
Fees
When asked at the 2003 AIA convention how he would be able to keep
intact his overall design concept for the World Trade Center rebuilding,
Daniel Libeskind commented, “Architecture is about negotiations.”
Architects know they have to negotiate on behalf of their building
designs, write Steven J. Isaacs and John D. Kidd, teachers of effective
negotiation at the Advanced Management Institute in San Francisco.
Yet when a client says that the design fee
has to be cut to stay within budget, many architects fail to negotiate
successfully, if at all. “How strange!” the authors
say.
World Trade Center Memorial
Contest Attracts Record Entries
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced last week
that it received 5,200 submissions from 62 nations and 49 states
for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition, making it the largest
design competition in history. The competition, which the LMDC is
administering, was created to select a memorial to honor the victims
of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the September
11, 2001, attacks.
Practice!
Practice Practice!
Three new classes available from AIA eClassroom
AIA eClassroom has just added three new practice-oriented distance
learning programs to its repertoire of continuing-education classes
for architects. Drawn from the highest rated presentations at this
year’s AIA national convention, these programs offer two credit
hours each.
AIA CAREER CENTER
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Director, Capital Projects and Tenant Construction,
Denver •
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