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The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the recipients of its 2008 Professional Awards.
The jury considered over 500 entries and selected 29 projects to receive awards.
The awards will be presented on October 6 at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia at a ceremony sponsored by Landscape Forms.
"These awards represent the pinnacle of design achievement by the world's leading landscape architects," said ASLA's President, Perry Howard, FASLA.
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On Thursday evening, May 1st, the architecture and design community will gather in San Francisco to celebrate this year's winner of the prestigious Metropolis Next Generation Design Prize.
The unique design competition, now in its fifth year, recognizes outstanding ideas from young architects and designers that make our built environment better, safer and more sustainable.
The individual or team submitting the winning entry for the year is awarded $10,000.
This year, entrants were asked to submit proposals relating to the timely issue of water.
"It's gratifying to see that the Next Generation competition, brings together viable ideas for making our world better.
These designers are realistic, while they're amazingly innovative; they use the prize monies to develop their ideas further," notes the publisher of Metropolis, Horace Havemeyer III.
This year's winning project is from a San Francisco based architect and college professor.
Specifics on the winning project, as well as other ten outstanding submissions chosen for runner-up recognition, will be revealed at the May 1st event.
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The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) presents FORM: Contemporary Architects at Play, a collection of remarkable, new artworks from ten world-renowned architects, including Zaha Hadid, Michael Graves and Bernard Tschumi.
Together the works, constructed in innovative materials provided by Formica Corporation, explore a range of artistic expression from the most creative designers working in architecture today, with designs ranging in scope from domestic pieces to conceptual sculpture.
The fabricated designs will be offered in live auction May 10, 2008 during CAC's Silk & Spice Gala and in exhibition May 3 through August 31.
The exhibition celebrates the CAC's fifth year in the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Hadid's first completed architectural project in the United States.
Auction proceeds benefit CAC exhibitions and educational programming.
"As we celebrate our fifth year in the Rosenthal Center, we want to mark this historical moment with a bit of history-making.
Design is essential to our daily lives -- it is not confined to buildings and structures, but is part of how we live, work and play.
FORM celebrates and advances the centrality of design in our lives," says Raphaela Platow, CAC's Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator.
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Jean Nouvel of Paris, France has been chosen as the 2008 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
The formal ceremony for what has come to be known throughout the world as architecture's highest honor will be held on June 2 in Washington, D.C. at the Library of Congress.
At that time, a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion will be bestowed on the 62-year old architect.
Nouvel who came to international attention with the completion of his Institut du Monde Arabe in 1987 as one of President Francois Mitterand's Grands Travaux in Paris, now has several projects in the United States, including the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis completed in 2006, a 75-story tower (Tour Verre) next door to MOMA in New York, and recently announced plans for a high rise condominium (Suncal Tower) in the Century City district of Los Angeles.
In Europe, some of his other important works are the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art (Paris 1994), the Branly Museum (Paris 2006), the Agbar Tower (Barcelona 2005), a Courthouse (Nantes 2000), a Cultural and Conference Center (Lucerne 2000), an Opera House (Lyon 1993), and Expo 2002 (Switzerland).
Also currently under construction is a concert hall in Copenhagen.
Although the bulk of his work is in France, he has designed projects all over the world, including Japan, Spain, England, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Korea, Mexico, Israel, Brazil, Qatar, Lebanon, Cyprus, Iceland, UAE, Taiwan, Malaysia, Portugal, Kuwait, Morocco, Russia and the U.S.- well over two hundred in all.
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Solar Power in Building Design is a complete guide to designing, implementing, and auditing energy-efficient, cost-effective solar power systems for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings.
From basic theory through project planning, cost estimating, and manufacturing methods, this vital resource offers you everything needed for solar power design success.
Filled with case studies and illustrations, this state-of-the-art design tool covers new solar technologies, design implementation techniques, energy conservation, the economics of solar power systems, passive solar heating power, and more.
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