WORK-ON-THE-BOARDS SURVEY
Business Slips at Firms in July
Chief Economist Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA, tells us that billings at architecture firms took a dip in July, quite unexpectedly because they had been exhibiting steady growth for each of the prior four months. Significantly, residential firms reported the steepest decline in billings in July. These firms have reported the strongest gains for the first half of the year. Baker also reports that architecture firms are optimistic about conditions over the second half of the year.

September Conference in Washington, D.C., Focuses on Securing Critical Infrastructure
CAJ program will concentrate on security and building design
In a world changed forever by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, architects are responding to a heightened responsibility to understand the nature of the threats and risks to the built environment. As part of that responsibility, they are joining with owners, users, architects, engineers, and law enforcement security specialists to define an appropriate built world for future generations.

National Design Museum Honors I.M. Pei and Lella and Massimo Vignelli
Target, GSA honored for corporate achievement; other awards finalists named
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum announced August 1 that architect I.M. Pei, FAIA, of Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners, and designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli, Vignelli Associates, will receive the 2003 National Design Awards for Lifetime Achievement and will be honored at an October 22 benefit gala chaired by AIA Gold Medalist Richard Meier, FAIA, in New York City.

Project watch
“Puttin’ on the Glitz” in Sioux City
Photographer documents Orpheum Theatre renovation
The Sioux City Orpheum, designed originally by Chicago’s Rapp & Rapp in 1927 and reopened in all it opulent glory after a 2001 redesign by FEH Architects with theater restoration specialist Ray Shepardson, GSI Architects, recently became a star in its own right. Filmmaker/photographer and native Sioux Cityan George Lindblade has transformed more than 100 videotapes and thousands of photographs he shot over the last five years into “Puttin on the Glitz,” a just-released documentary telling the building’s rags-to-riches story “from neglected relic to sumptuous showplace.”

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Health Care: To stem the soaring costs of health care, insurers are covering alternative therapies. Travel: Business travel will increase only slightly next year. Telecom technology is filling the gap. The Economy: The refinance boom is over. Home buying and remodeling will ease only slightly, though.

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