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10.31.08 Call for Entries: 2008 Earth Awards This annual $10,000 prize program supports the development and implementation of an eco-solution that will improve the...
09.30.08 E-Oculus will be publishing a special tribute issue in memory of Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA, who recently passed away. A Call For Tributes has been posted, and...
Events: Buckminster Fuller Symposium: On Architecture, Design and Science; On Influence and Contemporary Art Location: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science...
Last week, Google launched a public transportation search engine to rival HopStop. HopStop is my main source of information when I am trying to figure out how to go from...
In this issue: · Here Come the Jets · Towers Stack in Tribeca · A Kahn at Last? Four Freedoms Will Be Engraved on Roosevelt Island · Common...
The Cooper Union Student Eco Initiative is looking for designers who have an opinion on the current trend of green design. The school is collecting responses from...
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) selected 13 individuals for honorary membership for their work in education, government, and environmental activism,...
09.19.08: Park(ing) Day inserted mini parks onto spaces usually reserved for cars. This spot was located across the street from the Center for...
09.29.08 Request for Proposals: 2009 Mies van der Rohe Award The biennial Mies van der Rohe Award is hosted by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der...
09.16.08 To commemorate the seventh anniversary of 9/11, this issue of e-Oculus includes articles, news items, and commentary on some of the events and developments at...
Event: The High Line: Reviving New York's Avant-Garde Architecture Location: Museum of the City of New York, 09.11.08 Speakers: Neil Denari, AIA -- Principal, Neil M....
View from the Grand Concourse down 161st Street. On the left: the existing Yankee Stadium. On the right: the new Yankee Stadium under construction. Jessica...
In this issue: · 9/11 Memorial Museum Pavilion Plans Unveiled · MCNY Overhauls for First Time in 76 Years · Brooklyn Courthouse Gets a New Life --...
High school juniors at Bergen County's River Dell High, a NJ school that lost three students in the World Trade Center collapse, are piloting a 9/11 curriculum that the...
The Rockefeller Foundation awarded the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal for Lifetime Leadership to Peggy Shepard, executive director and co-founder of West Harlem Environmental...
09.04.08: The annual Architect's Regatta took place offshore from the World Financial Center. Nineteen teams competed in two races. Daniel Frisch Architects took the...
09.15.08 Request for Qualifications: From the Ground Up: Innovative Green Homes This competition seeks to provide a new model for formerly vital, urban residential...
09.03.08 It's been three years since Hurricane Katrina, and even though Hurricane Gustav did not do as much damage as initially predicted, now is the time to reflect on...
Exhibition: Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s Location: Museum of Modern Art, through 03.02.09 Urban Renewal in New York Project, New York,...
Event: Public Ecologies at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie Location: Van Alen Institute, 08.06.08 & 08.14.08 Speakers: Dr. Clive G. Jones -- Ecologist &...
