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  AIArchitect This Week—September 2, 2002

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Are you having any trouble whatsoever with your existing EF 3.0 electronic AIA documents software? Then click this button to gain access to a free upgrade (a 2.6 meg file) right now. Here's a user's success story to tell you why the EF3.0 PLUS upgrade is such an improvement. (If you're not the person in charge of contract documents in your firm, do the person who is a favor and forward this email.) Full Story

Piano Honored Anew with UIA Gold Medal
The International Union of Architects (UIA) awarded Renzo Piano, Hon. FAIA, the 2002 Gold Medal at its World Congress in Berlin last month. Full Story

A Massachusetts Institute of Transformation
Students returning this fall to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus may have trouble recognizing their old stomping grounds. A massive building program that is harnessing the talents of several AIA Gold Medalists and Pritzker Prize winners is changing the face of the Cambridge campus and aiming to create new spaces that enhance the culture of the campus through design. Full Story

McGraw-Hill Construction Conference
to Feature Three Major Events
It's almost that time of year again when construction industry leaders gather in the nation's capital to share information that will help them—individually and collectively—set the course for business in the year to come. This year's McGraw-Hill Construction Conference Series, October 21–23, in Washington, D.C., offers a hat trick of special events: The 64th annual Outlook Executive Conference, the ENR Construction Summit, and the Business Week/Architectural Record/AIA "Good Design Is Good Business" Awards Gala. Full Story

BEST PRACTICES
Going Underground to Cool an Historic Museum
In 1989, The Octagon museum needed a new HVAC system. Borrowing on an office-building concept, the architect created new exhibition space, increased humidity and temperature control, and facilitated archaeological discovery by simply going underground.
(Well, it wasn't all that simple.) Full Story

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  This Just In

Why the Towers Fell DVD Available
The AIA Audiovisual Collection now has the NOVA public-television investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center on DVD. Following a team of forensic engineers from Ground Zero to scrap-steel yards, beginning mid-September 2001, the NOVA reporters documented one of the most massive, difficult, and detailed building-failure investigations in history. Full Story

Pictured is the 2002 Institute Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design-winning Lakeshore East Master Plan, Chicago, by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, Chicago, with associate architect The Office of James Burnett, Landscape Architect, Houston, for The Magellan Development Group, Ltd./Near North Properties, Inc. Photo Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP.Heads Up! Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design Deadlines Draw Near
There still is time to submit entries for the 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 6. 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 4. 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 2003 AIA Awards program online.

Photo courtesy of First National Bank.PROJECT WATCH: Geese on the Wing—A Harbinger of Fall
A 58-bird-strong gaggle of bronze geese is gathering to grace the imminent opening of the 40-story First National Tower, Omaha, designed by Leo A. Daly. The sculpture itself, dubbed "Spirit of Nebraska's Wilderness," is the handiwork of wildlife sculptor Kent Ulberg. Some of the geese will sit in a fountain-adorned park area, where the fountain's jets are specially designed to make the big birds appear to be taking off in flight. Others, attached to building and light poles, will appear to be flying across the intersection. A final group will find permanent refuge in the building's glass-and-steel five-story atrium. Boasting eight-foot wing spans, the metal geese are 1-¼ times as large as the Canada geese after which they are fashioned. Each piece weights 200–300 pounds. Building, park, and geese are expected to be completed in September.

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