AIA Florida Offers Helping Hands Amid Hurricane Devastation
AIA Florida is serving as the central information source for members to learn more about the state’s hurricane recovery and assistance efforts. The component is joining public officials and allied organizations in relief and recovery efforts, reaching out to its own members who need assistance, and keeping others up-to-date on state resources for hurricane victims, reports AIA Florida Communications and Public Relations Director Lauren Larson. The component is committed to providing members with the most up-to-date information regarding the assistance of fellow Floridians post-disaster.

Heads Up: Awards Nominations Due October 15
Kemper, Whitney Young, Young Architects, Thomas Jefferson, and Collaborative Achievement Awards All Due
Whom do you admire most within the profession? Be they young architects or seasoned professionals, humanitarians, social activists, or educators, stand up and get them nominated for the national honor they deserve. Nominations for many of the AIA’s national awards are due next month, so read on! (Pictured is Robert A. Odermatt, FAIA, recipient of the 2004 Edward G. Kemper Award for significant contributions to the profession through service to the AIA.)

This Just In: Interiors Awards Deadline Extended to September 24
Due to conditions caused by the recent hurricanes, the postmark deadline for AIA Honor Awards for Interior Architecture has been extended to September 24. Call 202-626-7563 for more information.

Shining Stars at AIA Northern Virginia Design Awards
AIA Northern Virginia feted the recipients of its 2004 Design Awards, presented at a gala this summer at the award-winning Discovery Communications World Headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. David King, AIA, SmithGroup, and Jim Williamson, Gensler, discussed the design and development process of the Discovery Communications project and Design Awards Committee Chair Randall Mars, AIA, Randall Mars Architects, and committee member Carolyn Rickard-Brideau, AIA, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, presented the awards.

Registration Opens for Flight 93 Memorial Competition
Entries to honor 40 heroes who crashed 9-11 jet in Pennsylvania
On September 11, 2001, the passengers and crew of Flight 93 courageously gave their lives thwarting a planned attack on our nation’s capital. Some 500 yards from the site of their crash in Somerset County, Pa., will be built the Flight 93 National Memorial, a permanent tribute to the heroes on that plane. The Flight 93 National Memorial Project Partners (the Families of Flight 93, Flight 93 Advisory Commission, Flight 93 Memorial Task Force, and National Park Service) announced on September 8 a two-stage competition to design the permanent memorial.

LEEDing by Example
AIA Honolulu is the first to achieve Gold LEED-CI in Hawaii
AIA Honolulu has attained great bragging rights. The chapter’s new office was recently awarded Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI™). A participant in the LEED-CI pilot program to establish criteria and a rating system for sustainable interior spaces, AIA Honolulu’s office is one of only 10 certified LEED-CI projects in the nation.

project watch
Healthy Minds in Healthy Bodies in a Healthy Building
Rios Clementi Hale Studios designs a new LA meeting place for nonprofits and neighbors
Rios Clementi Hale Studios built the basic tenets of The California Endowment, the state’s largest private not-for-profit foundation, into the design for the endowment’s new multipurpose facility. The architects transformed “inclusiveness, diversity, accessibility, transparency, and good health” into the design of an 118,000-square-foot center, which broke ground last month in Los Angeles. The endowment’s 6.5-acre campus will provide nonprofit organizations throughout the state with an array of meeting and learning facilities to promote good health for all Californians.

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Barragán House Named World Heritage Site
Among the 34 new properties added to the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage List is the Luis Barragán House and Studio outside of Mexico City. The 1948 concrete complex, with its simple lines and saturated colors, represents an outstanding example of the Pritzker Prize-recipient’s meditative Modernism. The 5,000-square-foot house consists of a ground floor and two upper stories and fronts a small private garden. UNESCO chose the complex to add to its list because “the work of Luis Barragán exhibits the integration of modern and traditional influences, which in turn have had an important impact especially on the design of garden and urban landscape design.” After Barragán’s death in 1988, the house was restored and opened to the public as a museum in 1994. Some 10,000 people each year absorb its beauty and serenity, just as the architect designed it. This year’s additions bring the total of World Heritage sites to 788 properties: 611 cultural, 154 natural, and 23 mixed properties in 134 countries. (Pictured is the roof terrace, photo by Armando Salas Portugal.) For more information, visit UNESCO online.

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Exemplary Justice Facilities Combine Openness and Security
In selecting the best among justice facilities submitted to the AIA Committee on Architecture for Justice facilities review for 2004–2005, the jury was heartened to see many displaying innovative and subtle security solutions rather than the bunker mentality that is too often the sign of these times of heightened security awareness. Especially innovative were federal courthouses, possibly due to their budgetary advantages, reports Jury Chair Beverly J. Prior, AIA, who goes on to highlight developments and opportunities for improvement by justice-facility type.

Pennsylvania Highlights Its Green Roots
Building GREEN in Pennsylvania, a series produced by Penn State Broadcasting Media Solutions and distributed by Penn State Media Sales, offers a look at the keystone state’s extensive building sustainable design programs. Divided into three DVDs, but also available on the Web and on VHS tape, the program helps make the case for green design as a business tool; offers case studies from profiles of six green schools, including three LEED™-certified projects; includes a compilation of lessons learned; and provides information about furnishing high-performance green buildings and designing and implementing a total office recycling program. The program was developed for the Governor’s Green Government Council and the Department of Environmental Protection. For more information visit the GGGC Web site.

GSA Celebrates a Decade of Design Excellence
Agency issues call for entries for 2004 program
The U.S. General Services Administration is calling for entries for its 2004 Design Awards program to honor the outstanding projects that result from partnerships among the country’s finest architects, artists, and engineers and the federal government. All submissions must be received by November 1.

National Trust Calls for “Distinctive Destinations” Nominations
Entries due October 29
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has worked with historic cities and towns across America to promote their unique heritage as great travel destinations through its Dozen Distinctive Destinations™ program. Each year for the past five years, the trust honors 12 communities nominated by individuals and organizations that offer enjoyable historic, natural, aesthetic, recreational, and cultural experiences. Each has a dynamic downtown, commitment to historic preservation, interesting architecture, cultural diversity, an economic base of locally owned businesses and walking access for residents and visitors.

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