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The first in an annual exploration of the most innovative, interesting and forward looking new work in design of all kinds.
Selected from around the world, Brit Insurance Designs of the Year presents 100 projects nominated by a group of internationally respected design experts, curators, critics, practitioners and enthusiasts.
These projects fall within seven categories: architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport.
The exhibition gives an overview of the most significant achievements in design and architecture in the last year, whether they are projects by a practice, a team or an individual.
An international jury, each with expertise in their respective fields, will select a winner for the Brit Insurance Design Awards, recognising the best of contemporary design from around the world in each category as well as an overall winner.
These winners will be announced and presented in March 2008.
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The exhibition confronts the environmental challenges related to rapid and extensive urbanization in China and illustrates the value of international and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Co-Evolution displays four visionary projects - the results of collaborations between Danish architects and professors and students from leading Chinese universities.
This exhibition at the Center for Architecture is financed by the Danish Ministry of Culture.
Related Programs organized by the AIA New York Chapter, the Center for Architecture Foundation, the Danish Architecture Centre, People's Architecture, and the AIA New York Chapter International Committee.
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The Academy of Architecture for Justice (AAJ), a knowledge community within the American Institute of Architects (AIA) that focuses on the planning, design and delivery of justice architecture, has established a Sustainable Justice Committee.
The group will be co-chaired by Susan K. Oldroyd, AIA, LEED AP, committee chair and Ken Ricci, FAIA.
The purpose of the committee is to promote and support sustainability in the planning, design and construction of law and justice facilities.
To this end, the committee plans to publish a guide to sustainable justice and propose a LEED-J (LEED for Justice) rating system to the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
In noting that best practices are continually evolving, Ms. Oldroyd said, "Our mission is to increase practitioners' awareness about this important subject by organizing lectures and conferences on this subject.
The November 5-7, 2008 AAJ conference in San Francisco, for example, will feature tours of justice sector facilities that have been successful in rethinking sustainable approaches to design, construction and operation."
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The Miami office of international architecture, planning, engineering, interior design and program management firm LEO A DALY announced the appointment of Ricardo J. Fernandez, as vice president and director of design.
In this capacity, he will spearhead the design efforts for various projects, including those in the civic, commercial, transportation, hospitality, education and healthcare sectors.
Fernandez has more than 25 years of leadership experience as studio head and design principal with major international design firms, where he has led the planning and design of a wide range of building types.
Notable among these built and proposed projects are the various transportation components of the Miami Intermodal Center (under construction); the Florida International University School of Life Sciences and Public Health in Miami; the mixed-use Rockwell Center and Kilometer 17 in Manila and Mexico City respectively; a planned 74,000-seat, tension-cable roofed stadium in Chicago; and the renovation and expansion of landmarks such as the Civic Opera House of Chicago and the Detroit Athletic Club.
"I am looking forward to working with our talented studio of designers and sharing my experience with very diverse programs; I have been fortunate to be involved over the years with significant projects that make a positive impact at the scale of the city," says Fernandez.
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Hong Kong, says the Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid, is where "it all started." In 1983, the London architect's revolutionary design won the international competition for The Peak Club, a residential and sports facility in the former British territory's tony mountainside district.
The project was never built, but the award was one of the first public acknowledgements of her work and a key early boost to her career.
These days, mainland China, host to the 2008 Olympics, has no shortage of impressive new structures by the biggest names in architecture, so it is no surprise that Hong Kong, which reverted to Chinese rule in 1997, feels the need to embrace innovative real estate ideas.
But the reasons for enlisting design stars highlight the cultural and economic differences that remain between the two places.
On the mainland, the government- bankrolled sports centers and cultural venues that excite architecture enthusiasts are intended to underscore the country's rise as an economic and political force to be reckoned with internationally.
Hong Kong has a far more pragmatic attitude: Design, it seems, is an investment that serves economics and, increasingly, commerce.
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