2011 OCULUS Editorial Calendar
If you are an architect by training or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, note that OCULUS editors want to hear from you! Projects/topics may be anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.

2011 Themes:
Spring (President’s Theme): Design for a Change: Buildings, People, Energy
[Closed]

Summer: AIANY Design Awards 2011
[Closed]

Fall: Interior Activity
Architects as interior designers; Changes in corporate culture = transformation of the workplace; Architects designing products/Multi-disciplinary cross-overs; Rebranding hospitality, restaurants, retail to attract new audiences; Interiors as laboratories for small firms.
Submit story ideas by 04.22.11

Winter: Up, Down, and Sideways: Density and Transportation
Density enabled by transportation: mass transit, cycling; Moynihan Station; Regional connections; Housing Authority: former purposeful disconnect, now reintegrating back into neighborhoods; How a century of New York skyscrapers has/is/will affect the architecture, planning, and culture of the city and the world.
Submit story ideas by 08.19.11

For further information, contact OCULUS Editor Kristen Richards: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.

03.25.11 Registration Deadline: Save A Sample!

04.04.11 Call for Entries: suckerPUNCH International Ideas Competition for LIC Cinema

04.08.11 Call for Entries: EcoHome Design Awards

04.09.11 Call for Entries: Dekalb Market — Not Just A Container

04.26.11 Call for Entries: Think Space — Geopolitical Borders

05.03.11 Call for Entries: Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals

07.15.11 Call for Entries: The Mid-Polis — 2011 Open Building Competition Challenge

10.07.11 Call for Entries: 2011 NOMA Student Design Competition