February 12, 2016
courtesy AIA Kentucky
Bluegrass Winners AIA Kentucky has given out its annual Design Excellence Awards. This year, three projects won honor awards and five won merit awards. [ARCHITECT]
National Building Museum
Church Talk The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., is donating its design and construction archives to the National Building Museum, where its contents will be digitized, organized, and conserved, and likely used in future exhibitions. [ARCHITECT]
New FAIAs Congratulations to the AIA’s 2016 class for the College of Fellows. [ARCHITECT]
Construction Crystal Ball Nonresidential construction spending exceeded economist expectations for 2015 and is forecast to continue its upward climb through 2016 before slowing slightly in 2017, according to the AIA’s latest semi-annual Consensus Construction Forecast. [ARCHITECT]
Awards and Competitions
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is now accepting submissions to its fourth Wheelwright Prize, an open, international competition for early-career architects that supports travel-based research. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 15, 2016. Read more about the Wheelwright Prize.
The Architectural League has announced a call for entries for its Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, focused this year around the theme of (im)permanence and time as a defining characteristic of architecture. Entries are due Feb. 17, 2016.
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge recognizes initiatives that take a comprehensive and anticipatory design approach to advance human well-being and the health of the planet’s ecosystem. The Buckminster Fuller Institute awards one $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a design solution that addresses complex global problems. The application window will open on Jan. 15 and entries are due by March 1.
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