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2. NEW YORK EVENTS
3. LOS ANGELES EVENTS
4. SAN FRANCISCO
5. NEW ENGLAND EVENTS
6. MID WEST
7. PHILADELPHIA EVENTS

NEWS

Grimshaw Wins South Korea’s National Ecology Center

Following a concept design competition, Grimshaw, in association with Samoo Architects, has won the national environmental visitor attraction in the Seocheon Province. Selected by the Ministry of Environment, Grimshaw’s winning scheme for the ‘Ecorium’ is an architectural model of efficient sustainable technology, providing South Koreans and tourists alike with an educational connection to the tropical, subtropical, mediterranean,temperate and polar biomes of our world.
Grimshaw’s proposal features arched biome enclosures, ‘windows to the sky,’ optimized to maintain the health and growth of tropical plants during the winter by capturing as much low-angle sunlight as possible. Maximum transparency is achieved by virtue of a cable-supported glass envelope suspended from parabolic steel compression arches. The structures are arranged in a sequence that recall a meandering river; visitors will move through botanical exhibits, aquariums, exhibition halls, a 3D theatre and restaurants, before re-emerging by way of a rooftop garden with views of the immediate outdoor eco-park.
The winning competition scheme offers an immersive and unique educational experience with the intent to reveal and exhibit global climate change and its impacts on ecosystems.

2010 Design Build Competition
Call for Entries has been posted
Entry Deadline April 7, 2010
http://www.dreamhomeawards.com

The Chicago 2010 Initiative
Deadline: 03.15.2010
Among the questions we seek to answer through this competitive event are: “How can we use design to bring to connect a community to positives of its past while bringing the all the benefits of today’s technologies?” Also, “What are ways we can utilize form and function to instill worth, pride, and hope to regions of disenfranchisement and disillusionment?
Specifically, challenge one is to spur greater urban renewal of this locale through the proposal of a design for a Chicago Union Stockyards Museum & Education Center incorporating the landmark gate and expanding the park. The second design challenge is provide sustainable residential spaces which encourage assimilation and foster dignity, community and opportunities for immediate vocational participation to immigrant communities currently dwelling in less than desirable conditions in many Western European countries and in the U.S.
Finalists will be chosen from among the entrants which will then be made available to the public for voting to determine the most practical and pleasing interpretation of the given design project.
http://www.chicagoarchitecturetoday.com/convention.htm

Competition
DREAM HOME AWARDS
Entry and Registration Deadline April 7th
For further details see http://www.dreamhomeawards.com/

VIRGINIA
Friday March 19th 2010 - 8:00AM - Saturday March 20th, 2010, 05:00PM
Virginia Design Forum IX: An Architecture of Necessity
The Byrd Theatre + VirginIa Center for Architecture, 2908 W. Cary St.
The forum brings together five internationally renowned designers in Richmond, Virginia to explore architecture’s social agency. Speakers include David ADJAYE, RIBA, Teddy CRUZ, AIA, Julie EIZENBERG, AIA, Andrew FREEAR, and the event will be moderated by Clay RISEN.
What is the task of architecture? To transform one city, one neighborhood, or one shelter? To create lasting solutions? To appeal to the human spirit?
http://www.virginiaarchitecture.org/DesignForum/index.html


NEW YORK  (Back to top)

WALES WEEK IN NEW YORK
1ST – 7th March 2010
*****Organized by the Welsh Assembly government
Wednesday, 3rd -7th March: :
DYLAN THOMAS EXHIBIT
An exhibition of some rare Dylan Thomas manuscripts and other artefacts at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (http://www.themorgan.org/home.asp
Thursday, 4th March:
CONCERT AT CONSULATE RESIDENCE
Evening event for members of the music industry in New York in honor of Welsh composer Karl Jenkins hosted by the British Consul General Sir Alan Collins at his residence. With performance from Only Men Aloud!
Friday, 5th March:
ST DAVIDS SOCIETY BANQUET AT THE YALE CLUB
St Davids Society Annual Banquet at the Yale Club, New York. Welsh composer Karl Jenkins to receive the Hopkins Medal. Performance from Only Men Aloud!
Saturday, 6th March:
EVENTS AT NY LIBRARY & CARNEGIE HALL
3.00 pm It’s Alec Templeton Time! at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
8.00pm Music Masters of Wales at Carnegie Hall: Distinguished Concerts International NY to present a performance of works by Karl Jenkins and Arwel Hughes at Carnegie Hall to include US premier of Euphonium Concerto written and conducted by Karl Jenkins. http://www.dciny.org/
Sunday, 7th March:
GREENWICH VILLAGE WALKING TOUR + CHURCH CONCERT + OFFICIAL WELSH ASSEMBLY RECEPTION (INVITATION ONLY)
Dylan Thomas Walking Tours of Greenwich Village guided by Ianto Roberts
4.00pm: Welsh-Canadian organist David Enlow presents ‘The Organ Works of Cesar Franck’
at Rutgers Presbyterian Church, 236 West 73rd Street
6.30– 8.00 Private reception for clients and guests of the Welsh Assembly Government, Visit Wales, and International Business Wales at the Morgan Library. Evening to include a performance from Only Men Aloud!

Sunday, 7th March 2010 – 8.30AM – 4.30PM
HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL CONFERENCE
March 7: “The Next Generation” Conference Panels
This year’s Conference Panels will bring together a distinguished group of preservationists, educators, community activists and non-profit leaders from New York City’s five boroughs to present their views in a series of panel discussions: “New Landmarks: Modern, Vernacular and Cultural Sites” and “New Audiences: Identifying and Partnering with Diverse Populations” and a keynote address delivered by Fran Leadon,
Saturday, March 7, 8:30am-4:30pm, at St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street between Court and Clinton Streets, Brooklyn. Full day admission is $45/person, $35/person for Friends of HDC and seniors. Fee also includes continental breakfast, box lunch, and afternoon snack. Entrance fee will be waved for students with valid university ID (meals are not included). For reservations, please call (212) 614-9107

Tuesday, 9th March 2010 6.00pm – 8.00 pm
Open House Party at St George’s Society Office
Members only

Sunday, March 15- 22, 2010
THE NEW YORK DESIGN FESTIVAL
The New York Design Festival offers a week of exhibitions, educational programming and special events to celebrate New York City and its role as the leader in the fields of art, architecture and design. The festival is anchored by the Architectural Digest Home Design Show  (March 18–21, Pier 94), DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS' DINING BY DESIGN (March 18–22, Pier 94) and Go Green Expo  (March 19–21, Pier 92), and is supported by NYC & Company


Thursday, March 18th, 2010
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST HOME DESIGN SHOW
Architectural Digest Home Design Show • March 18–21, 2010
Pier 94 • 55th Street at Westside Highway, NYC
A series of programs have been designed specifically for the Design Trade
11-12pm Beyond Architecture with Annabelle Seldorf A Lamis and Donald Albrecht
12.30-1.30pm Selling Design in a Changing Economy; Mitchell Gould, Dakota Jackson and Vincente Wolf
2-3pm The Power of Paradox with trend expert Robyn Waters
4-5pm Design Dialogue with J Bricker S Roessner and Cheryl Durst
Admission is free to all events –


Design USA: Contemporary Innovation – (closing April 04)
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2 East 91st Street New York, NY, USA
Design USA celebrates the accomplishments of the winners honored during the first ten years of the prestigious National Design Awards. The exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction design, and fashion. Developed in collaboration with the renowned firm 2x4, Design USA focuses on innovation through the lens of technology, material, method, craft and transformation.

Wednesday, March 28th (closing)
Anish Kapoor: Memory Exhibit at the Guggenheim
With the inauguration of the Deutsche Guggenheim in 1997, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank launched a unique and ambitious program of contemporary art commissions that has enabled the Guggenheim to act as a catalyst for artistic production. Anish Kapoor: Memory is the fourteenth commission project to be completed since the program’s inception and is the Guggenheim’s first collaboration with Anish Kapoor, an artist celebrated for his expansive vision and profound aesthetics


LOS ANGELES  (Back to top)


SAN FRANCISCO  (Back to top)

Thursday, 25th March 2010 - 6pm
Business Meeting
Location TBD


NEW ENGLAND  (Back to top)

BOSTON
Monday, 1st March 2010
PRESS LAUNCH OF DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
Opening of an exhibition on the Welsh in the American coalmining industry and Welsh immigration into the US at the Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In association with the Welsh Assembly Government and Big Pit National Museum/ National Museum Waleshttp://www.anthracitemuseum.org/ March 1: Press launch Press launch of new yearly Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers at the British Consulate-General in Boston.http://www.thedylanthomasprize.com
*****Organized by the Welsh Assembly government


MID WEST  (Back to top)


PHILADELPHIA  (Back to top)