A WWE Hall of Famer, Pat was legendary for his contributions to the industry dating back to the late 50s. The first-ever WWE Intercontinental Champion, Pat was also the man who came up with the idea for the first-ever Royal Rumble, which has been one of the most legendary and memorable events in WWE for over three decades. In his book titled, Accepted: How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE, Pat explained how he came up with the concept for the first Royal Rumble. The difference between WWEs Royal Rumble and a traditional over-the-top-rope battle royal is that the participants come into the match at two-minute intervals not all at the same time at the beginning of the match. I wanted to create something special. You did indeed, Pat.

I remember Pat being there for my very first match against Charlotte Flair at NXT Takeover in 2014. He was there all day backstage reminiscing with anyone who would let him share old stories. I specifically remember Pat with an iPad in his hand, sitting with Bret Hart at a table watching one of Brets matches. Pat was saying he wasnt great with technology, but someone helped him pull up a match of Brets on the iPad, and Pat was marvelling at Brets in-ring work. In any conversation Ive ever had with Pat, he expressed to me how much he loved watching Bret perform. The image of Bret Hart and Pat Patterson sitting together, laughing, reminiscing about the industry they both love, stuck in my head. I remember thinking of how legendary it was to see two of the greatest Superstars this industry has ever seen, from two different generations, talking about the sport they loved. It also reminded me of how WWE brings people together in the best and most unexpected ways.

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the first time ever, USC Architecture will recognize five honorees during next weeks 61st Annual USC Architectural Guild Awards. Among the distinguished honorees and selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award is Art Danielian, FAIA of Danielian Associates Architects + Planners.

This years honorees represent exceptional architectural thinking and business acumen that combine incredible design projects with thoughtful social impact. They are united in the local focus yet global reach of their work, said Milton S. F. Curry, dean of USC Architecture. We are so pleased to honor these talented professionals at our annual event that helps support student scholarship and programming, directly benefiting the next generation of architecture and design leaders.

Art Danielian is the founder and chairman of Danielian Associates Architects + Planners, an international architecture and planning studio with multiple office locations. Since its inception the firm has designed over one million units of housing and amassed nearly 700 awards on over 5,500 project sites around the world.

I am extremely honored to be the recipient of this years Lifetime Achievement Award, said Art Danielian, FAIA. The USC School of Architecture, Professors, and Deans truly shaped my career and my passion for the built environment. The strong foundation I received there was the springboard for my 50+ year career in the field of residential architecture.

Art received his bachelors degree from the USC School of Architecture in 1963. Opting to specialize in residential housing, he became a true pioneer in the field by integrating market research and the principles of market-driven design into his architecture and planning studio. He went on to introduce many residential design innovations throughout the course of his career, including the wide and shallow lot concept and combo-condos. Among his many accolades, Art Danielian became the first architect to be inducted into the California Building Industry Associations Hall of Fame.

About Danielian Associates

Led by a new generation of architects, Danielian Associates is an award-winning architecture and planning studio celebrating over 50 years of delivering extraordinary design. The firms culture celebrates its passion, creativity, and commitment to an art and science that is the foundation of the built environment. For more information, please visit http://www.danielian.com.

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Founded in 1958, the USC Architectural Guild provides guidance and insight into real-world experiences for students beyond the classroom. The Guild encourages their alumni and non-alumni members and peers leaders in architecture, design, construction, engineering, finance, and real estate development to give back and lead the way in career development and mentorship. Through knowledge, networking, and know-how the Architectural Guild enriches and amplifies the USC education, inspiring architectural students to find purpose, meaning, and fulfillment in their pursuits.

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A thunderstorm raged in the background as I spoke to the architect Sumayya Vally over the phone from her hometown of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Luckily, the 30-year-old architect knows how to weather a storm. She has dedicated her career to pushing against conventional architectural practices in an effort to carve out a new design language for the African continent that celebrates its varied textures and cultures.

Vally is the brains behind this years prestigious commission to design the pavilion for Londons Serpentine Galleries. Its an honor that has been accorded to famous architects from Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid; shes the youngest to take up the mantle.

Vallys firmwhose name, Counterspace, expresses her interest in elevating the quotidianhas designed a pavilion focused on the theme of community gathering. The pavilion will include detachable components that will be placed in marginalized neighborhoods across London. Following community events at these locations, the parts will be returned to the central structure.

The projects aesthetic is inspired by gathering spaces common to those neighborhoods, fromopen-air markets to religious centers.It is really important for me that architecture not just includes people who are generally excluded from the discipline or from the profession, Vally says, but also draws on the workings of other places and the intelligences in those spaces.

Serpentine Pavilion 2020/2021 designed by Counterspace, Design Render, Interior View, Counterspace.

In this extraordinary year, the opening of the pavilion has been postponed to summer 2021. The delay has been a challenge for Vally, but she also sees value in having the extra research time and space to engage more deeply with the communities involved in the project. She hopes that the environment brought about by this years reckoning over racial justice will make audiences more receptive to her ideas.

When we touch on the critical attention she has received as a result of being tapped for the prestigious commission, Vally begins tearing up. She is finally being taken seriously, which she sees as a glimmer of hope and affirmation on a journey that has not always been easy.There are natural obstacles that come with being a woman and of color and being in the profession that Im in, she says.

The architect is Indian South African; she grew up in an Apartheid township in Pretoria that was previously an Indian-only area. Her grandfather was a migrant and a store owner in inner city Johannesburg, and she describes the long walks she took from his store to the Johannesburg Public Library as formative parts of her childhood. She recalls feeling struck by the juxtaposition between the imposing Italianate structure of the library and the rich textures of the citys streets.

A slice of London that inspired the design forms of the pavilion. Image courtesy Sumayya Vally.

Vallys home city has played a central role in shaping her understanding of land, place, and the power of architecture to connect people. But she gained this hard-won knowledge by seeing architectures potential as a weapon. She internalized the toxic infrastructure of Apartheid city planning, which used everything from radioactive mine waste dumps to sewage plants and industrial zones to segregate the races.

I think that all cities to a degree are like this, but Joburg is a really extreme example, Vally says.

Before the Serpentine commission, most of Vallys work has been closer to home, including a project for theBrixton mosque in Johannesburg in which Counterspace transformed the structure of an old Dutch church with a minaret of light that appears five times a day.

The architect will touch on the social impact of architecture and urban planning in a part-performance, part-lecture in the Serpentines art and ecology festival later this week. She will also take part in a conversation about zero-carbon architecture with architect Yasmeen Lari. Vallys design for the Serpentines pavilion includes bricks made from recycled rubbish; inventiveness and reuse are second nature, she says, given her roots in an area where resources are scarce.

Vally formed Counterspace with a group of students back when she was still a student at theUniversityof theWitwatersrand and the University of Pretoria. She had grown weary with the curriculum.

We were learning stuff that was about a first world or a developed world, and I just really felt the hunger to be working through things that were more in sync and in tune with what was happening around me in the city, Vally says.

Counterspace began as a side project alongside her full-time job as a researcher at established firms in the city, as well as various teaching responsibilities. Even in the most boring or the conventional work, I did try to push my own agenda and expand the brief as much as I could and weave in a lot of research themes that we were working on, Vally says, adding that being able to easily code switch and inhabit multiple worlds at once became a particular strength.

I think for the most part conventional practices didnt really understand what I was doing or working on, she observes. We were perceived as outliers and a lot of the time people didnt understand how it was architecture or related to the architectural profession.

Serpentine Pavilion 2020/2021 designed by Counterspace, Design Render, Exterior View Counterspace.

Today, Vally is more confident in her own position as an outlier, and she is optimistic about how architecture can be a force for change, particularly within her own context in Joburg, and more broadly across the Global South. There is so much richness that is waiting to be translated into new design forms, she says.

Today, she is inspired by architecture that is not static, or interested in memorializingthinking about design as an expression of embodiment is what lights her up. Architecture, as she sees it, can be akin to performance and ritual; more expression than edifice.

Other architects often ask me if I have aspirations to build, she says. I absolutely have aspirations to buildI just want to build differently.

Sumayya Vally will be in conversation with architect Yasmeen Lari on December 6 as part of the Serpentines free online arts and ecology festival. Her filmIngesting Architectureswill also be screened as part of the event.

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The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features the conversion of an abandoned hospital in western Germany into an office.

David Chipperfield Architects has turned the former St Vincenz Hospital in Paderborn into a new headquarters for Tap Holding a family-run company in the DIY-craft market.

Originally built as a monastery, the building's hidden historic walls were revealed during the renovation and three new office wings built.

One reader said the office is "so beautiful it takes my breath away".

Other stories in this week's newsletter include a duvet-style dress designed to be worn during video calls in lockdown, a black-timber retreat byNorm Architects and the James Dyson Sustainability Award winning product.

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Ukraine is seriously considering the imposition of sanctions on the Viennese Coop Himmelb(l)au architecture firm and its director, Wolf Prix, for involvement in the Kremlin's project on construction of an opera house in the occupied Sevastopol.

"For some time now, rumours have been circulating about Coop Himmelb(l)au's involvement in Putin's flagship project in Crimea: the construction of an opera house in the occupied Sevastopol. In early October, I called the firms director, Wolf Prix, and tried to persuade him not to ruin his reputation by participating in this indirect and yet unequivocal legitimization of the annexation," Ambassador of Ukraine to Austria Oleksandr Shcherba posted on Facebook.

As the Ambassador noted, the director of Coop Himmelb(l)au, unfortunately, rejected his arguments.

"At the present stage, when the rumours are vividly confirmed by the Russian media, I have no choice but to express my regret and inform architect Prix that Ukraine is seriously considering the imposition of sanctions on him and his bureau. Our partners around the world will be informed that once respectable architecture firm now concludes dubious agreements with Putin," Oleksandr Shcherba stressed.

Earlier, director of the Coop Himmelb(l)au Viennese architecture firm, Wolf Prix, confirmed in a comment to the APA Austrian news agency the fact of his bureau's involvement in two projects in Russia: construction of a museum and theatre complex in Russias city of Kemerovo and construction of an opera house in the occupied city of Sevastopol, Crimea.

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In case you hadnt noticed, theres a lot going on in the world at the moment. We wont list it all here, but lets just say that for every piece of news that causes stress or anxiety, theres an equal amount of things to be grateful for and appreciative ofbe it time with family during quarantine or the ability to continue working towards a goal. In light of the holiday season, we asked designers and architects what theyre thankful for this Thanksgiving. Heres what they had to say:

These days, especially leading up to Thanksgiving, I find myself feeling newly grateful for the essentialsfood and shelter. In particular, Im thankful that weve been able to continue our collaboration with the San Francisco Marin Food Bank, designing spaces to help them do their excellent work feeding unprecedented numbers of people in the Bay Area. Im also enormously grateful for my co-workers, now spread across California and around the world, and the way theyve continued to do amazing, thoughtful, creative work while sheltering at home.

I am thankful that there are people out there in America these days who believe in the power of design, want to create their own place to live, and are not afraid of a good, daring construction project.

First, being remote and isolated prompted us to increase our inter-office communication about things outside of traditional work, adding new slack channels for pets, cooking, entertainment, and kids. These social channels have not only replaced the water cooler conversations but boosted social connectivity. Employees sharing pictures of their garden yields, or a beautiful sunset from their house, or their cats, or a TV show theyre enjoying. Its a light during a rather dark time.

Also, due to rapidly fluctuating project schedules and scopes, we have been able to loan staff between peer firms, even outside Portland. Given that the work is all remote, the barrier to loan staff to a firm in San Francisco or Bellingham is removed, and these couple month stints that our employees have been able to do at other firms has been such a gift. Its allowed us to minimize staff reductions during this volatile time.

Ive never been so aware of the air I breathe and the wonderful people who inhabit my orbit and have graced me and my business with support and kindness. Its hard to choose just one thing to be grateful for because when more than 250,000 Americans have lost their lives to COVID-19 and life-threatening inequities for Black Americans are front of mind, Im grateful for life and for the people in my life who work so hard every single day for a better world.

I think the thing that Im most grateful for is that we might be on the verge of a global vaccine that can actually save peoples lives. I cant think of anything on my mind that feels more urgent at this point.

Im thankful to still be able to contribute at a creativity level in this world. Thats the challenge of the moment is still being able to work and feel like youre a contributor and we feel fortunate that were in a position to be doing that still.

I am grateful for the love of family, the good cheer of friends, the loyalty of my talented staff, and the opportunity that our great clients have afforded us to work on such varied and interesting projects. I am grateful, too, for the good health of all of the above, which as this insidious COVID-19 pandemic has shown us allis not a given. As an old friend once said, I am happy to be here, to be vertical and still taking nourishment. Happy Thanksgiving all!

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In the not-too-distant past, standing around a kegerator and staring at the metal siding of a utilitarian warehouse was the extent of a taproom visit. But not so today, where going to a brewery is an experience in which the setting is as much of a draw as the draft selection. Case in point: Central Machine Works, which opened last November on East Cesar Chavez Street. A 1940s-era metal works and machine shop that once built airplane parts during World War II, it was converted into a near-10,000- square-foot brewery complete with a German-style beer garden and live music space. Spearheaded by David Clark of Kartwheel Studio, it includes revolving art installations, overhead lights from New Yorks original JFK International Airport, custom leather booths, and decorative pieces repurposed from the spaces past, including a 110-year-old machine that used to turn metal stock. With much of its faade kept intact, as well as employees well-versed in the history of the building, its like a museum visitalbeit one that serves housemade lagers and sessionable pale ales.

The same could be said for Vista Brewing in Driftwood, which has become as popular on weekends as the original Salt Lick BBQ. Brewmaster Pat Korns traditional, low-ABV beers are now standard-bearers in the field, but much of Vistas foot traffic can be credited to Stephen Oliver of OPA Design Studio. Taking advantage of the bucolic surroundings, Oliver decided to create an indoor-outdoor connection that produced a sense of retreat. Not one mature tree was removed in the fabrication of the companys two main structures (a tasting room and a 5,000-square-foot brewery with underground draft lines running between them), which uses large bi-folding casement windows to frame the view of the Hill Countrys rolling hills. An on-site garden and 16-hive apiary, which provides ingredients for its restaurant, are an easy stroll from an outdoor beer garden complete with an exterior tap wall.

That effort to bring the natural beauty of a site in-doorsas well as to bridge a connection between a brewerys operational aspects and its public interface have become hallmarks of Oliver, whos emerged as the unofficial architect of the Central Texas craft beverage industry. At Live Oak Brewing Company, he used the canvas of its 22,000-square-foot campus near the airport to construct a natural amphitheater within a grove of oaks for a beer garden whose sightline leads directly to the taproom and a bar framing its massive BrauKon brewhouse.

Whether converting an old Tejano nightclub into Oddwood Ales brewery and pizza kitchen or overhauling the former Uncle Billys Brewery & Smokehouse on Barton Springs Road into the aquatic-themed site of Austin Eastciders second facility, Oliver knows how to make the best out of any situationand that has transformed the functional into the fantastic all across the city.

Once, just being a brewery where people could visit and sit around at picnic tables was such a novelty, he says. But now there is so much competition, a cool space factors into a decision where you want to hang out. I love creating places where the city just kind of goes away, and theres room to stretch and play.

Detoxifying is (seriously!) on the agenda.

Disc Golf at Live Oak Brewing Co.The free-to-use nine-hole disc golf course at this urban oasis is just the type of activity to pair with a classic, clove- forward hefeweizen and a cool spring afternoon.

Lotera Brunch at Independence Brewing Co.Cap off an eventful weekend with some Mexican bingo and a bowl of hangover-curing menudo from on-site food truck Margiez Place.

Pints & Poses at Circle Brewing Co.Even if you dont sip your complimentary beer, this $15 classwhere certified yogis guide participants through an hour of detoxifying Hatha yogais well worth the price of admission.

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Peter Barber Architects has created six terraces of brick housing in Charlton, south London, for Greenwich-council owned developer Meridian Home Start.

Named Sandpit Place, the development contains 32 homes in three rows of back-to-back terraced houses. Like the studio's nearby Rochester Way scheme the homes were built for Meridian Home Startand willbe available to those working locally at discounted rents.

"The project is street-based terraced housing," explained Peter Barber Architects founder Peter Barber. "To some extent, the houses themselves borrow their layout from Victorian mews houses," he told Dezeen.

"Being pretty square in plan and stepping back at the rear to allow light and ventilation and private roof terraces instead of back gardens."

The development was built on a previously walled-in site that contained a disability resource centre.

Peter Barber Architects arranged the30 two-bed houses and two one-bed homes on a series of pedestrian streets that were designed to open up the site and connect the homes to the existing estate.

"Our project is arranged in a ladder of streets which provide a handy cut-through for people... to the bus stop, corner shop and out to the main road," said Barber.

"The new streets we have made link to existing streets and public routes," he continued. "That way we hope it might help it to feel like part of the neighbourhood and that people living close by feel connected with it, and newcomers might settle in more readily."

The majority of the homes have an open plan kitchen and dining room on the ground floor as well as a toilet, with a bedroom and bathroom on the first and an additional bedroom on the second floor.

All of the bedrooms open out onto a terrace, with many having access to two. All of the homes also have small privates spaces alongside the pedestrian streets.

"People in each house have loads of outside space a front garden, balconies and two rear courtyard/roof terraces. Each house has some outside space that feels quite public and some that feels very secluded," said Barber.

"We like terraced houses because of the way that they make an edge to the street. At Sandpit Place we have given people big front gardens," he continued. "People are starting to sit out there are paddling pools, baby bouncers, pots with flowers, bikes and loads of other stuff. They are starting to look lived in."

The Sandpit Place development demonstrates Peter Barber Architects' belief that street-based housing is the key to creating more homes in London.

"We think that the street is the basic building block of the city and that urban housing should be laid out in streets," explained Barber.

"Over the years we have experimented with numerous house/housing types mansion blocks, cottage flats, terraced housing, courtyard housing and back to backs. This mews variant is the most recent and we think is quite a good model for medium density lower rise street-based housing."

In London, Peter Barber Architects has previously completedfive terraces of affordable homes in Greenwich, a housing scheme fronted with brick arches in east London,a reinterpretation of Victorian back-to-back housing in Stratfordand a terrace of mews houses that feature oriel windowsin Finsbury Park.

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At the start of 2019, Architects played their biggest ever headline show at Londons Wembley Arena. A celebration of unity in a world that inspires daily despair, it cemented their status as one of the very best bands around, as well as proving just how ambitious, cathartic and inspirational their furious anthems could be.

We could have done with some more of that this year. But thanks to the small matter of a raging global pandemic, tonight is only the second live show Architects have been able to play in 2020. And while we might be having to watch it from home, the band are just as impressive as they've ever been.

As they take to the iconic stage of Londons Royal Albert Hall to kickstart the campaign for new album For Those That Wish To Exist (out February 26 and available to pre-order now), vocalist Sam Carter stands in the middle of the empty room and launches into the snarling fury of Nihilist. With every shot capturing just how deserted the venue is, maybe all our gods have abandoned us, but Architects arent a band to wallow. Sure, the ferocious call to arms sounds strange without the roar of the crowd, but its no less powerful. With everyone feeling the weight of these strange times, the likes of Modern Misery, Gravedigger and Broken Cross are even more visceral.

Rather than just playing the hits to an empty venue and hoping it still connects, Architects twist their live show to suit an online event. A venue-wide light show dials up the theatrics and shows off just how expansive the space is a world away from the intimacy the band normally conjure while the title cards for each song make the stream seem more like an anthology of emotionally-charged short films than a gig.

Tonight, the closest we get to crowd interaction is seeing a crew member air-drumming from the sound desk and us typing blergh into the live chat. Without that crowd to bounce off, the group has to lean on their more cinematic elements. The dynamic Gone With The Wind is more haunting than its ever been while the epic Death Is Not Defeat is given the space to soar. But with the band huddled in the middle of the room, its the achingly beautiful stripped-back renditions of Momento Mori and A Wasted Hymn that really pack a punch.

The surprises dont end there, though, with Architects debuting three new songs. Live, For Those That Wish To Exists lead single Animals is even more direct. Blending industrial rage with bursts of arena-pop, the marching track is urgent, ambitious and brilliant. Wed call it the catchiest thing Architects have ever done, but that title belongs to the vicious Dead Butterflies; a honey-dipped synth-led rager. Elsewhere, theres no messing around with the urgent Discourse Is Dead, which channels a palpable rage but doesnt shy away from glitching electronics. Excited for the future, all three tracks feel like confident leaps forward from a band whove never been afraid to try new things.

Want proof? Look at tonight. Most rock bands have shied away from the now-necessary world of livestreams, worried the lack of physical connection will make the whole thing hollow. But Architects were never going to just sit around and wait for normality to return. Aware of the differences but finding new ways to connect, their livestream is a masterclass in how to do it, and proof that heavy music reaches beyond the mosh pit. The group have spent their career finding hope in misery and tonight, thats never been more unifying.

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Escape to a modular timber retreat in Italy by Teke Architects

Teke Architects createsmodular, off-grid countryside retreat, MU50, made of prefabricated wooden elements in ItalysMediterranian Coast

A relatively small and modest structure has appeared among the pine forest on a secluded spot of theMediterranean Coast of Italy. It is Genoa-based architect Onur Tekes latest offering, a simple but striking retreat for a private client.

The project istitled MU50 standing for Modular Unit 50 and hinting at the way this design works. The structure may be used in this case as a holiday home, but itssmall-scale, modular, off-grid nature means it can beadaptable to a wide variety of sites and even, potentially, uses. Whats more, it is also recyclable.

Asimple act of repeating and combining a small number of relatively simple building elements can produce a wide variety of spaces fit for different uses from a small meditation room to a dwelling, says Teke.

Through its simplicity, flexibility and choice of materials, this structure is intended to bring beauty to the users daily lives; to allow them to incorporate it in their quotidian landscape and to connect with the surrounding nature reducing at most its carbon footprint, explains Teke.

The house consists of two untreated Larch structuraltimber frames. Glass wraps around the structure to open up the interior to views and nature, butmanually operated timber shades protect privacy and the interiors from harsh sunlight when needed. The spaces inside are clean and minimalist.

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The projects environmental impact is reduced by maximum use of natural lighting and ventilation,photovoltaic panels on the roof and a ground source heat pump. Clever use of eco-friendly technologies, a low tech approach and the modular system developed through it,meanthis little getaway can be enjoyedguilt free.

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