Mayor reveals shape of things to come at AIA exhibition.Mayor Michael Bloomberg Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. officially opened a new two-part exhibition at the Center for Architecture that celebrate public projects that will shape New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's neighborhoods. Called 'Going Public 2' the two installations--Case Studies of the Mayor's Design and Construction Excellence Initiative and City Snapshot(s)--document the scope, quality, and diversity of public work in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . The exhibition is presented in concert with the 2006 American Institute of Architects The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Organized in 1857, the Institute conducts various activities and programs to support the profession and enhance its public image, including periodically awarding the AIA New York Chapter Theme, Architecture as Public Policy. Said Fredric Bell, FAIA FAIA Florida Association of Insurance Agents FAIA Food Additives and Ingredients Association (Kent, UK) FAIA Fellow, American Institute of Architects (honorary position) , executive director of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY), "The Chapter's mission is to help the public become as engaged in and informed of the city's architectural existence as possible. 'Going Public 2' gives people a chance to see the incredibly inspired projects being proposed and created in their neighborhoods that will become a part of their everyday lives and shape their communities." Case Studies of the Mayor's Design and Construction Excellence Initiative, highlights the efforts of Mayor Bloomberg together with the City's public works agencies, to enhance the built environment. It will showcase seven projects that exemplify how the New York City Department of Design and Construction is redefining what public architecture can be in the twenty-first century. 'Case Studies' is curated by Thomas Mellins and will be displayed in arotating cylinder designed by Truck Product Architecture. The wire and paper structure, standing over four-teen feet high and 13 feet in diameter, serves as the main display unit for the renderings of the seven projects. The seven projects are: Rescue Company 3 (Polshek Partnership Architects) at 1647 Washington Avenue, Bronx; Family Intake Center (Polshek Partnership Architects)at 151 East 151st Street, Bronx; Surf Avenue Pedestrian Bridge (weisz + yoes architecture) at West 8th Street and Surf Avenue, Brooklyn; Queens Hospital EMS Station (Dean/Wolf Architects) at Goethals Avenue and 160th Street, Queens; Glen Oaks Branch Library (Marble Fairbanks) at 256-04 Union Turnpike, Glen Oaks, Queens Glen Oaks is a neighborhood in the easternmost portion of the New York City Borough of Queens. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13.[1] The postal ZIP code for the area is 11004 which also includes the Queens neighborhood of North Floral Park. ; QMA QMA Queens Museum of Art (Queens, NY) QMA Quiz Magic Academy (arcade game) QMA Quarter Midget Association QMA Quantum Merlin Arthur QMA Qatar Monetary Agency Queens Museum of Art The Queens Museum of Art is a major art museum in the Queens borough of New York City, USA. The museum occupies a structure originally built for the 1939 New York World's Fair, held in Flushing Meadows Park, a park designed and built primarily to host the fair, under the (Grimshaw Architects with Amman and Whitney) at Flushing Meadows, Queens; Remsen Avenue Yard (Kiss + Cathcart) at 855 Remsen Avenue, Brooklyn. The Center for Architecture is at 536 LaGuardia Place, between W. 3rd St. and Bleecker. the exhibition runs through December 31, 2006. |
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