Nineteen Projects Take Top AIA 2008 Housing Awards
The AIA is pleased to announce the 19 recipients of its 2008 Housing Awards. The Housing Awards program, now in its eighth year, recognizes the best in housing design and promotes the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and a valuable national resource. The categories are:

• One- and Two-Family Custom Residences
• One- and Two-Family Production Homes
• Multifamily Housing
• Special Housing.

Joining Man and Woman with Steel and Glass
A unique collaboration births Moscow City Palace Tower
The partnership of RMJM-Edinburgh Group Design Director Tony Kettle and Edinburgh College of Art Professor Karen Forbes yielded the design for Moscow City Palace Tower, a mixed-use project that combines office space with a wedding chapel. Through its collaborative nature and formal themes, the tower illustrates the idea of joining a man and a woman in marriage.

Journalism 3.0—By Polshek Partnership
The third building in the Newhouse School of Public Communications takes it into a world of collapsing boundaries and converging media.
Polshek Partnership’s Newhouse III addition to Syracuse University’s journalism school makes literal and symbolic comments on the role of the press, as the words of the First Amendment are printed in laminated glass on the façade and extensive use of glass refers to the press’s responsibility to practice and promote democratic institutional transparency. The new addition acknowledges the previous Newhouse buildings’ architectural traditions by gradually changing its volumetric language and materiality.