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Tribute to Feilden. -- Architects with designs on compassion: "Perhaps...the profession will rediscover its unique role in ensuring the right to dignified shelter for all people, at home and abroad." -- Baltimore's architectural future looking bright. -- Transit villages a hopeful future for Canadian suburbs. -- Demolishing the old to build the new may not be the best way to go. -- Thumbs-up for recycling a cannery. -- Philadelphia tower not much to look at until you get inside. -- Mr.Gehry builds his dream house. -- Exhibit sparks new hope for Kahn memorial to Roosevelt in New York. -- Deadlines for Bottom Line Design and Solutia awards. -- 2005 AIA Honor Awards - 35 are picture-perfect. -- Archeworks students and Haworth team up to keep old furniture out of landfills. -- What to do with your closets full of old computers, printers, fax machines: e-Bay joins the tech world to recycle old electronics.

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Obituary/Tribute: Richard Feilden/Feilden Clegg Bradley, 54: Imaginative architect with a love for teamwork who was a catalyst for creative and environmentally sensitive design- The Times (UK)

These architects have designs on compassion: ...a small but growing contingent of architects whose clients would settle for just a roof over their heads.By Whitney Gould - Architects Without Borders; Shelter for Life; Architecture for Humanity- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The shape of things to come: A look at groundbreaking regional architecture for 2005 - and beyond. By Edward Gunts - Boggs & Partners; Chermayeff, Sollogub and Poole; Freelon Group/RTKL; William Rawn Associates/Grimm and Parker; Cho Benn Holback + Associates/Castro Arts [images]- Baltimore Sun

Unlocking gridlock in suburbia: York Region is planning a series of `transit villages' — four regional downtown centres where people can live, work, shop, dine and play — without ever getting into a car. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star

Opinion: More Constructive Ways To Build a City: Architects need to think ahead, and demolition crews need to replace the wrecking ball with a lighter touch. With better planning, we can build smarter. By Lance Hosey- Washington Post

Not much to look at, on the outside: Comcast Center will be big and boring, its goodies hidden inside. By Inga Saffron - Robert A.M. Stern Architects; Laurie Olin- Philadelphia Inquirer

Topping off retail center that was cannery: Addition to Can Company will occupy last unused part of old manufacturing site. By Edward Gunts - Ziger/Snead Architects; Castro Arts- Baltimore Sun

Mr. Gehry Builds His Dream House: It is the work of a man who has achieved a measure of inner peace...Yet it is anything but complacent. By Nicolai Ouroussoff [images]- New York Times

An Elegy for a Memorial, and for the Man Who Designed It: Devotees of Roosevelt and of Louis I. Kahn are hoping that it is not too late to reconsider Kahn's 2.8-acre memorial... By Julie V. Iovine - Kahn (1974); Mark K. Morrison [image]- New York Times

Business 2.0/frog design Bottom Line Design Awards; registration/nomination deadline: January 14- frog design

Solutia International Design Awards for architects, interior designers, automotive designers; deadline: June 30- Solutia

Great Beginnings: 13 Projects Celebrate the New Year with 2005 AIA Honor Awards for Architecture [images]- AIArchitect

Eleven Projects Capture 2005 AIA Honor Awards for Interior Architecture [images]- AIArchitect

Eleven Projects Receive 2005 AIA Regional and Urban Design Honor Awards [images]- AIArchitect

Furniture reborn: Haworth, students explore recycling: Collaborative efforts looks for ideas to keep old pieces out of landfills - Archeworks; Eva Maddox; Tigerman McMurry- Holland Sentinel (Michigan)

PC Makers, Critics Join EBay Recycle Push: www.ebay.com/rethink, where consumers can go to resell, recycle or donate used electronics.- Reuters

-- Richard Meier: Jesolo Lido Village, Jesolo Lido, Italy
-- Rojkind Arquitectos: casa pR34, Tecamachalco, Mexico
-- Travel: Design Hotel, Great Eastern Hotel, London
-- Book: Eating Architecture, Edited by Jamie Horwitz & Paulette Singley

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