Congressional Inaction Leaves Funding Bills Hanging
Congress has left itself a lot to do when it returns in September. The two lawmaking bodies deferred work on several major construction spending and appropriation bills until after their August recess. Chief among this legislation is the reauthorization of the transportation, aviation, and water-resources bills.

Everything’s Coming Up Roses in
Baton Rouge

Chapter presents Rose Awards to seven
local firms

AIA Baton Rouge selected seven local firms—and eight buildings—to receive its prestigious 2003 Rose Awards. These awards recognize members of the chapter for their outstanding architecture, and this year’s collection of disparately attractive winners include a Catholic Church, Porsche dealership, and planetarium. Recipients received their award certificates at the chapter’s Summer Social at the end of July.


AIA Hawaii Bestows Highest Honor on Botsai
Noted building forensics and seismic design expert, founding dean and professor emeritus of the University of Hawaii School of Architecture, and 1978 AIA President Elmer E. Botsai, FAIA, received the AIA Hawaii State Council’s highest award in June, the Medal of Honor. Internationally recognized for his work, Botsai currently consults with Group 70 on building diagnostics. (Photo © Doug Blagriff.)

Lily Graces Chicago Navy Pier Walk
This 12x9x9-foot sculpture by Dee Christy Briggs, Assoc. AIA, “Lily,” is one of 34 that will grace Chicago’s Navy Pier Walk from now into October. In her study of “three-dimensional handedness,” says the 1994–95 president of the American Institute of Architecture Students, the “composition is made from two handed forms, a left and a right, which are combined into one about their center.” The Navy Pier Walk is a showcase of public sculpture. “I’m looking for works that are not only aware of art’s public mission, but go to great lengths to draw unexpected audiences to them,” said Pierwalk 2003 Juror David Pagel. For more information, visit the Pierwalk Web site. Photo by Albert Vecerka/ESTO.

Project watch
Hastings & Chivetta Create Longest Continuous Floor Span for Former Olympic Venue
St. Louis-based Hastings & Chivetta Architects, Inc., has renovated the existing 1996 Olympic swimming and diving venue at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, turning it into a student recreation center and creating a 175-foot continuous floor span, the longest ever known. The design transformed the single-purpose facility into a venue usable for many of the university’s recreational activities.

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People are the biggest asset of any architecture firm, and there are a lot of ways to improve how we interact, says Boyce Appel, a management consultant who has specialized in human relations at design firms for more than 30 years. “The things that I’m most interested in are foundational issues that confront a professional design firm. They deal with conflict, culture, climate, performance feedback, how to deal with bad times, and the partner politics and dynamics.”

Scholarships Available for AIA Leadership Institute for Community Involvement
If you have a keen interest in increasing your personal involvement and effectiveness as a leader in civic and community service, the 2003 AIA Leadership Institute at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 8-11, can help you make it happen. Because the AIA is committed to the architect’s role as community leader and contributor to society through participation on civic and community boards, as elected or appointed officials, or in volunteer activities, it has designated funds for tuition assistance for participants of the 2003 AIA Leadership Institute.

Heads Up! Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design Deadlines Draw Near
There still is time to submit entries for the 2004 Institute Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design program: Entry forms must be completed, submitted with the entry fee ($375 per entry for AIA members and $750 per entry for nonmembers), and postmarked no later than September 5. All submission binders must be sent to the AIA Honors and Awards Department, 1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20006-5292, Attention: Institute Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design, and postmarked no later than October 3. To request the call for entries or for more information, contact the AIA Honors and Awards Department, 202-626-7563 or rmartin@aia.org. Or you can access a PDF file covering the 2004 AIA Awards program online. (Pictured is restored housing from the Howard University–LeDroit Park Revitalization Initiative, Washington, D.C., by Sorg and Associates, P.C., a 2003 Honor Award for Urban and Regional Design winner. Photo © Anice Hoachlander.)

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