[ad_1] “Who brought the handkerchief? It’s going to be a long night” Liz Diller Anthony Vidler said at the beginning of the memorial service for Anthony Vidler on Saturday, January 27, at Cooper Union University Hall. Vidler, a beloved professor, architect, author and former dean, died last October at the age of 82. The event was originally scheduled to last two hours, but instead lasted three hours, with tributes and tributes paid by a host of architectural luminaries whose orbits were linked to—or were initiated by—Tony’s scholarship and teaching.The meeting was attended by many prominent figures including Tom Mayne, Deborah…
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[ad_1] Members of the Spanish-speaking community are calling on the Riverhead Board of Education to increase language accessibility during school board meetings and other interactions. The request came primarily from members of the Alliance, the Center for Solidarity and Accompanying Migrants (CASA) Education Committee and the Ministry of Rural Affairs and Migration, who raised the concern at the Jan. 23 school board meeting. “I understand the importance of parents being involved in their children’s schools,” Emilse Hernandez, a parent whose child will attend kindergarten in the district, told the board through an interpreter. “But we can only be part of…
[ad_1] Aly El-Bassuni, president of owner relations, will lead Aimbridge’s new owner relations team. Aimbridge Hospitality, a Plano-based global hospitality company and the world’s largest third-party hotel operator, announced plans to strengthen and simplify its U.S. operations, including adding a dedicated owner relations team to its structure and moving to two A dedicated operations department called Aimbridge chooses Aimbridge for full service. AImbridge said the changes reflect its commitment to delivering the most comprehensive, performance-driven management services in the industry, while emphasizing its goal to become the clear third-party leader among owners, brands and employees. The company said the new…
[ad_1] February 9, 2024February 9, 2024 The Society of Registered Architects (SARA) recently appointed Master of Architecture student Cierra Davies as National President of the Society of Registered Architects (SARA). For Davis, the journey into this role has been filled with advocacy and support. While serving as a graduate assistant, Davis was co-designer on a project that won a SARA NY Design Award. “Our project and my initiative caught the attention of SARA National Executive Director Fabiyan Pembelski,” explains Davis. “He immediately became my mentor and offered me the position shortly after.” student advocate As a founding member and…
[ad_1] Sean Mooney is professor of biomedical informatics and medical education at the University of Washington School of Medicine Appointment of directors NIH Center for Information Technology (CIT). He is expected to officially take office in mid-March to replace Ivor D’SouzaThe NIH said Thursday that Andrea Norris will serve as acting CIT director upon her retirement in 2022. In this role, Mooney will be responsible for a $400 million IT portfolio that includes cloud-based services, collaboration tools, networks that support research and supercomputers that enable researchers to perform large-scale data analysis. Director of the National Institutes of Health Monica Bertagnoli…
[ad_1] thomas tyler [Photo: DeSimone Consulting] Industry leader Thomas W. Taylor, PE, has joined DeSimone Consulting Engineering as a principal and director to help lead its structural engineering practice in Dallas. DeSimone is a leading engineering and construction services consulting firm headquartered in New York City. Taylor brings decades of structural engineering experience to DeSimone. Taylor joins DeSimone from Datum Engineers, the company he merged from Frank Chappell & Associates, which he later built into one of the most respected firms in Texas. The company said Taylor, known as an “architect’s engineer,” has served as a project manager and principal…
[ad_1] While the state school education department is implementing the teacher recruitment process through the Pavitra portal, the education department has not appointed officials/employees/non-government personnel of any office in the state as a medium for teacher recruitment. State Education Commissioner Suraj Mandhar has given clear instructions that all candidates should beware of any form of impersonation and fraudsters trying to deceive candidates. The teacher recruitment process 2022 has been launched through the Pavitra portal. (representative picture) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The teacher recruitment process 2022 has been launched through the Pavitra portal. Candidates have started filling up the priority list…
[ad_1] Susan Jones On Jan. 25, approximately 800 Pitt employees received email notifications that their Fair Labor Standards Act designation was changed from overtime-exempt to non-exempt, or vice versa. The changes were prompted by a review conducted by the Office of Human Resources as part of the Payroll Modernization Initiative. Payroll director Maureen Pastin said about 70% of those affected will move from salaried to hourly employees, with the rest going in the other direction. After the new job catalog was released in August, Human Resources proactively decided to review the FLSA status of certain employees under the new job…
[ad_1] Renowned architecture firm MAD Architects recently unveiled an impressive new train station in southeastern China. The entire scheme revolves around rebuilding a 100-year-old train station, completely rebuilding it brick by brick, and it now serves as a large modern transport hub partially sunk underground. Designer: MAD Architects The original station known as Jiaxing Railway Station or Forest Railway Station was built in 1907, later destroyed and rebuilt in 1937. After another redesign in 1995, in 2019 it was deemed too small to meet modern requirements and MAD was commissioned to completely transform it. The station was an important transportation…
[ad_1] Jiaxing is a historic city located 60 miles southwest of Shanghai. There, MAD Architects, founded by Ma Yansong (with offices in Beijing, Rome, Jiaxing and Los Angeles), completed a new train station, marking the studio’s first transportation infrastructure reconstruction and expansion project. MAD Architects was tasked with replacing a dysfunctional train station that operated in Jiaxing between 1995 and 2019. At just 43,000 square feet, the abandoned station is too small for a city of 1.4 million people and counting. Designed to facilitate the development of the rapidly expanding city, the new train station’s design is emblematic of what…