 AIA North Carolina Honors 25 Excellent Projects
AIA North Carolina held its Design and Chapter Awards August 22.
The jury selected 25 projects from 105 entries submitted by AIA
members across the state. The award categories are Honor, Merit,
Committee on the Environment (COTE), and Tower and Wood Design.
There was one Chapter Citation. 
 Former Newseum to Become a Cultural Center
The Lukmire Partnership plans to transform the former Newseum site
in Arlington, Va., just across the Potomac River from Washington,
D.C., into a new cultural center. The space has been unoccupied
since 2002 when vacated by the Newseum, which relocated to downtown
D.C. The Lukmire Partnership plans to convert the space into a
53,000-square-foot showcase for the arts that will include an exhibition
gallery, a black box theater, a ballroom for cultural dances and
lessons, and restaurant and retail space. The yet-to-be-named cultural
center is seeking LEED ® Silver—Commercial Interiors
and is scheduled to open October 10, 2010 (10/10/10). The original
building, designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates, features an iconic
globe dome from its days as the Newseum that will be carried over
to the new facility.
 Winning Concept Chosen for Daniel Burnham
Memorial
The first-place winner of a design competition for a memorial celebrating
Daniel Burnham’s impact on Chicago was announced in July. The
proposed site for the memorial is on the Museum Campus just north
of the Field Museum. The competition, formally known as the Burnham
Memorial Design Competition, is privately funded by the Richard H.
Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust and overseen by the AIA Chicago Foundation.
The winning concept for the memorial was created by Chicago-based
David Woodhouse Architects, LLC (DWA). The competition is part of
the Burnham Plan Centennial Celebration honoring the legacy of Daniel
Burnham and his fellow architect Edward Bennett's Plan of Chicago,
the first planning document guiding the growth of an American city.
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