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Now that Orlando officials have approved a Major League Soccer team, it is time to decide what the stadium will look like.

Mayor Buddy Dyer and City Soccer Club President Phil Rawlins are meeting with architects in Kansas City Tuesday to discuss the design of the new Major League Soccer stadium reports the Orlando Sentinel.

It will feature a modern, state-of-the-art look that will cost $84 million and seat about 18,000 fans. It will also have corner terraces, club seats, luxury suites, and a premium club with a restaurant and bar.

Populous, the firm hired to design the new stadium, is known for designing stadiums around the world, and even Orlando's own Amway Center.

The new stadium will be built in Parramore, bounded by Church St., Central Blvd., Terry and Parramore Ave.

Stadium construction is expected to begin this year and be completed in 2015. In the meantime, the Lions will play at Disney's Wide World of Sports.

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The state chapter for the American Institute of Architects rang in the new year welcoming three area architects to its board.

Lisa H. Nice of Post Architects and Samuel Herpin of Remson/Haley/Herpin Architects have been elected to the 2014 Louisiana Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Board of Directors Executive Committee.

Nice, a Baton Rouge-based architect will serve as first vice president/president-elect. Herpin, who also works in Baton Rouge, will be the secretary/treasurer during this term.

Angela M. Morton has also been elected to the local AIA board. Morton, of Mathes Brierre Architects of New Orleans, will serve as vice president for District B.

Others elected to the 2014 Board of Directors Executive Committee were William A. Tutor, of Alexandria, president; George Minturn, of Natchitoches, vice-president-District A; and Brent A. Frick, of Lafayette, vice-president-District C.

Immediate Past President Jeffrey K. Smith, of Hammond, will also serve on the Executive Committee.

Representing America's architects since 1857, the AIA has nearly 80,000 members nationally who are licensed architects, allied partners and emerging professionals.

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Even after the windfall of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time Presents series of exhibitions in 2013, there's still a significant list of postwar Los Angeles architects and designers whose careers remain underexplored.

Among the most intriguing is the designer Deborah Sussman, whose work with Jon Jerde on the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics made a cameo last summer in "Overdrive," PSTP's anchor show at the Getty Museum.

Now Sussman, still working at age 82 at Sussman/Prejza, the firm she founded in 1980 with her husband, Paul Prejza, is getting a solo spotlight in "Deborah Sussman Loves Los Angeles," an exhibition running through Jan. 19 at Woodbury University's WUHO Gallery in Hollywood.

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It is a modest but charismatic show. And a timely one, since the role of female architects and designers and how they've been overshadowed by their male collaborators and clients has been much debated in recent months.

Sussman's body of work isn't as vast or significant as that of Denise Scott Brown, the architect excluded from the Pritzker Prize given her husband and partner Robert Venturi in 1991 or Julia Morgan, who last month won the American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal in hyper-posthumous fashion, more than 55 years after her death.

But it is more than rich enough to sustain an exhibition like this one, filling the narrow WUHO Gallery with photographs, wall graphics and items under glass.

And in the end, the show's most meaningful themes aren't limited to gender or the nature of creative partnerships. They also include the way Sussman helped graphic design take on a bigger, quasi-architectural scale in the 1970s and 1980s and how the cultural identity of Los Angeles was forged in those decades.

Sussman's work, in that sense, provided a bridge between two definitions of graphic design one about text and the other about the city as well as between two eras in L.A. design history.

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PHOENIX - Right in the heart of the hustle and bustle of downtown Phoenix sits a majestic ruin: Phoenix's historic First Baptist Church.

On the outside it appears to be in great shape, but looks are deceiving. One you walk inside you realize it's just a shell.

"This was finished in 1929, just before the depression. It was a big church; 1,400 or more people were here for services. It was designed for chorale singing and mass choirs," said Terry Goddard, former Arizona Attorney General and the self-proclaimed protector of the church.

After 40 glorious years, hymns were silenced as the congregation packed up and moved out, leaving the structure abandoned. To make matters worse, on a cold February day in 1984 tragedy struck the church: a fire broke out inside the sanctuary. The fire continued to burn for two days, causing the roof to collapse.

Although the charred remains act as a scar of it's dark days, the ruins give off a romantic and charming vibe making the future still very bright.

It was former congregation members and a few notable names that have seen the charming potential contained within the church and halted the demolition.

For the past 20 years, this 40,000-square-foot building has transformed into an open-air sanctuary for thousands of birds and nearly 50,000 honey bees who've made camp within the old rose windows. However, a few local architects have drafted plans to renovate the old building.

For the main sanctuary, architects envision a beautiful garden amongst the angelic ruins or an open-air concert venue beneath the starry Arizona sky.

The hallways are dark and tattered, but there are dozens of abandoned rooms that have the potential to be renovated into office space, high-end residential living or even the addition of a black box theater. These are just a couple ideas that have been suggested.

Deep within the basement sits an abandoned boiler, however, could you imagine turning it into a giant pizza oven?

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REG Architects, founded byRick Gonzalez Jr., received two merit awards in December from the Palm Beach Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. REG was cited for its work in renovating the Cultural Council of Palm Beach Countys headquarters at 601 Lake Ave., Lake Worth.

The building opened in 1940 as a movie theater and later was used to house a contemporary-art collection, a disco and a restaurant. Palm Beach philanthropist Mary Montgomery donated the building to the cultural council. Said Gonzalez, Its a classic example of adaptive reuse.

The work was financed with a $700,000 grant from the Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency.

The other merit prize awarded to REG is for a private equestrian center on 60 acres in Wellington. Hedrick Brothers Construction received the Builder of the Year Award for the project.

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Making merry IberiaBank and Arnstein & Lehr LLP partnered for a fourth year to hold the Heartfelt Holiday Toy Drive to benefit children served by the Achievement Centers for Children & Families. More than 700 toys were donated by employees and the public.

Some were distributed on Dec. 18 at the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium. Santa Claus appeared and handed a toy to each of the 60 children in attendance. They also were treated to a tour of the museum and planetarium.

The toy drive is held in collaboration with the National Arts Institutes Kids Rule the Arts. I wish everyone could see the huge smiles on the childrens faces, said Jennifer Brancaccio, market president for IberiaBank. Steven Daniels, managing partner at Arnstein & Lehr, said the firm is happy to continue the partnership, which ensures that underprivileged children have a memorable holiday.

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PR awards The Gold Coast PR Council, which honors excellence by local public relations and marketing professionals, will host the 10th annual Bernays Awards Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 24 at Boca Dunes Golf & Country Club, 1400 Country Club Drive, Boca Raton.

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NEW YORK (AP) Art Garfunkel answered the door to his Manhattan apartment holding a framed black-and-white picture of two smiling men. It was a test.

Correctly identifying Phil and Don Everly in the picture would reveal me as a journalist knowledgeable about music and the roots of Garfunkel's career. Flustered, I failed. It should have been obvious.

The Everly Brothers, who will blend their voices no more following Phil's death at 74 Friday from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, were the architects of rock 'n' roll harmony. Simon & Garfunkel were unimaginable without them. John Lennon and Paul McCartney took their cues, too. Their harmonies (and don't forget George Harrison) formed the bedrock of the Beatles' sound.

Like Garfunkel, Phil sang the high notes. He had the lighter colored hair. He would step away from the microphone, like on "Cathy's Clown," to let older brother Don sing a few lines alone and you noticed how unremarkable Don's voice was unadorned. Only when that voice merged with his brother's as a single, new voice did it become special.

Sweet as they sounded, their hits resonated because they taught a huge post-World War II generation as it was growing up that love wasn't all roses, blue skies and candy. "Bye bye love," they sang. "Bye bye happiness. Hello loneliness. I think I'm a-gonna cry."

In the sumptuous "All I Have to Do is Dream," the romance is frustratingly unrequited. "I need you so, that I could die," they sang. "When Will I Be Loved," they wondered. Even success was fraught with worry: the couple in "Wake Up Little Susie" fretted over whether anyone would believe their excuses when they fell asleep watching a movie.

With their two acoustic guitars and a sound that referenced rock and country, the Everlys would be categorized today and be mostly on the country music charts. Thankfully, things were freer when they were young and their music was heard by everyone.

Phil and Don Everly pioneered another rock staple: feuding partners, often brothers, who were never as compelling apart as they were together. Phil famously threw down his guitar and walked offstage during a 1973 gig in California, prompting Don to tell the crowd, "The Everly Brothers died 10 years ago." Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks carried on that fractious tradition, as did Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis.

Simon & Garfunkel invited the Everly Brothers to be their opening act for a 2003 tour. Paul Simon, often exasperated by his on-again, off-again partner and quite accomplished on his own, couldn't help but be amused by the irony of two partnerships where real-life harmony didn't match what was onstage. Phil and Don hadn't seen each other for three years before meeting in the parking lot before the first show.

Famous fans paid their debts. Simon and Garfunkel could have invited anyone for that 2003 tour. McCartney opened the door for "Phil and Don" in his 1976 hit "Let 'Em In" and wrote the single "On the Wings of a Nightingale" for their 1984 reunion. Rockpile partners Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe recorded an EP of Everly covers and Edmunds produced the "EB 84" album.

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Information privacy: the architects #39; perception
This talk by Dr. Irit Hadar from the University of Haifa was presented at the IBM Research - Haifa full-day seminar on information privacy on Monday, October...

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Generally speaking, architects are brilliant and creative people with a wide range of talents. That sort of versatility is part of what makes them good architects in the first place. But let's be honest. Just because some people are good at a lot of things does not mean they're good at everything. Take yachts, for instance.

For whatever reason, architects like to design yachts. It doesn't matter if they know anything about how boats work or what actually makes a vessel seaworthy. They like to design yachtsespecially superyachtsand they like them flashy. What tends to ensue is an elastic set of assumptions about the balance between form and function. Or lack thereof.

Let's look at a few examples, and try to discern the yachts that can actually float from the yachts that look like the architect's design software got a virus and just mashed up a bunch of volumes into a single alien form.

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Here's a great example of a famous architect who likes forms that seem highly incompatible with nautical engineering. Hadid recently designed this "concept superyacht," which, to be frank, looks like a cross between a moth-eaten cigarette and an alien turd. Boatbuilder Blohm+Voss said in a press release that Hadid "created an intense connectivity between the various decks and elements of the design." She created something intense alright.

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It's almost hard to tell if this is even a boat. Shaped like some sort of ray, Timon Sager's futuristic ship, dubbed the Bairim, features a no-resistance design that's meant to let it zip through the ocean with efficiency. The wide open cabin makes for a comfortable living space, with floor-to-ceiling windows on either side and, apparently, a movie theater. Because that's what everybody wants to do with then get on a boat: watch Jaws.

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You probably know Norman Foster's style from "The Gherkin" in London or the Hearst Tower in New York City. Believe it or not, his firm's aesthetic carries over into its nautical work. The 120-foot-long Ocean Emerald was christened in 2009 and is currently shared by a bunch of multi-millionaires. The outside looks like a chrome-plated cocoa bean. The inside looks like a Norman Foster museumsince he literally designed every surface and object on the boat.

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ARCHITECTS OF EVOLUTION - Universe Without Design (OFFICIAL) New Single
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The House Is Free, But You Have to Take It With You
Two architects are giving away their house in pricey Arlington, Virginia, but there #39;s one condition -- whoever takes it is responsible for moving it. Two arc...

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