The 55 works at the Parrish Art Museum cover the years 1984 to the present, when Aycock developed an increasingly elaborate visual vocabulary, drawing upon a multitude of sources and facilitated in part by the use of computer programs. The Grey Art Gallery’s installation (on view through July 13) focuses on the years 1971–1984 and features 48 works, including detailed architectural drawings, sculptural maquettes, and photo documentation for both realized and imagined architectural projects.

The exhibition will travel next to Santa Barbara, where the two parts will be on view concurrently at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, from January 25 through April 19, 2014.

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The objective of Hill’s contract is to obtain the full range of engineering and administrative expertise necessary to assist and support the State Department’s Office of Construction Management in its effort to build and renovate diplomatic facilities abroad. The range of services required spans engineering expertise to administrative and support services with skill sets and experience that match the State Department’s need for engineering services in support of diplomatic construction projects.

Amy’s body of work displays a rigorous focus on evolving environmental and sustainable concerns, in her field of instruction, her research and in her exhibitions. In addition to her position as owner and principal of her ACA firm in San Francisco, Amy serves as Associate Professor at California College of the Arts, where she heads the Undergraduate Interior Design program through a self-authored curriculum. Her achievements in Design include a number of exhibitions, including her InDisposed Exhibition which showed in Los Angeles and New York, numerous grant awards from CCA and elsewhere, publication in various prestigious journals and other periodicals. She has been a regular Architecture Division Faculty Mentor for ENGAGE, a community outreach/service-learning initiative, and a consistent and reliable Educational Leader to aspiring design students.

Art Basel’s Conversations program will be officially launched in Hong Kong on Thursday, May 23, offering audiences first-hand access to renowned cultural speakers and opinion-formers from across the international artworld, and extensive opportunities to learn about the latest developments in contemporary art from across Asia and beyond. The Salon program will provide a platform for shorter presentations, such as artist talks, panel discussions, book launches and lectures.

Conversations and Salon will be held daily from Thursday, May 23 to Saturday, May 25 in the auditorium at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The symposium begins Saturday morning, June 8, with an exclusive preview of the MoMA exhibition led by its curator Jean-Louis Cohen.

Lectures at the Center for Architecture will follow. Speakers include architect Peter Eisenman, FAIA, Yale Professor Stanislaus von Moos, Columbia Professor Mary McLeod, MoMA’s Chief Curator of Architecture and Design Barry Bergdoll, and Jean-Louis Cohen, will discuss how Le Corbusier’s ideas about New York City influenced his work and how, in turn, Le Corbusier’s legacy impacted the city’s built environment.

The second day, Sunday, June 9, will be a tour of the United Nations Headquarters (seen above). Led by Assistant Secretary-General Michael Adlerstein, FAIA, and Public Information Officer Werner Schmidt – both from United Nations Capital Master Plan – participants will explore the building’s architectural history, including Le Corbusier’s contentious collaboration with the project’s main architect Oscar Niemeyer. The guides will also highlight the recent restoration of the Secretariat, which houses the UN’s working spaces, and the historic renovation of the three Chambers of the Conference Building.

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One of the prototypes from last year - blankets designed by Snøhetta - is now being produced by Røros Tweed and will officially launch at the show this year.

Check out Insidenorway at the ICFF (May 18-21) in Booth 922.

The 160,191 square meter project looks to revitalize the historic inland seaport of Chongqing with leading retail, restaurants, bars, spas and entertainment options of today. The project will also usher in a new era of high-end residential units that display modern design.

In efforts to appeal more to commerce, the Starry Street Retail District has been designed to allow retailers to optimize their individual look and feel of brands, creating an ideal point where business and leisure converge.

Located at 100 Civic Center Drive, next to the Newport Beach Central Library, the 117,000-SF project, which has been under construction since May 2010, adds 17,000 sq ft to the two-story library, a new 450-space parking structure, an 88,000-square-foot office building, and a community room and city council chambers totaling a combined 12,000 sq ft, and creates the city’s fifth-largest park at 14 acres, with its first-ever dog park. Construction costs totaled approximately $110 million. The new civic center, which officially opens in May, is currently slated for LEED Silver certification, with the possibility of LEED Gold. The new Civic Center creates a centralized location for all of Newport Beach’s residents.

Construction was broken down into three stages: The first phase, which began in May 2010, involved massive dirt removal and shoring work to prepare for the new parking structure and park; the second phase included constructing the parking structure, and began in early 2011; the final phase of the project began in early 2011, encompassing the library, park and city hall building construction.