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Charlotte Worthy Architects, a high-end residential Architecture firm in Manhattan, is seeking an Administrative Assistant for a part-time to full-time position. The Administrative Assistant would begin his/her role in a part-time capacity and transition into a full-time capacity.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Project-Related Responsibilities:

* The ideal Administrative Assistant would be willing to learn AutoCAD to assist the Architects and Principals with various drawing tasks

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* In-office responsibilities will resume when the firm returns to the office.

Applicants should have strong communication, organization, time-management, and interpersonal skills. Proficiency in Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Adobe is required. We are looking for a professional, detail oriented, and energetic candidate to fill this role and are eager to fill the position with the right person. Please be willing to learn new skills and adapt to the demands of the position as they change and grow.

Interested parties should send a cover letter and resume toesther@charlotteworthyarchitects.com

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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.

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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.

About the USC Architectural Guild

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.

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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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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the home furniture market in the US and it is poised to grow by USD 8.08 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of over 2% during the forecast period. The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current market scenario, latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment.

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The market is fragmented, and the degree of fragmentation will accelerate during the forecast period. Ashley Furniture Industries Inc., Inter IKEA Holding BV, Klaussner Home Furnishings, LaZBoy Inc., Pier 1 Imports Inc., Raymour & Flanigan Furniture, Restoration Hardware Inc., Roomstogo.com Inc., Steinhoff International Holdings NV, and Williams-Sonoma Inc. are some of the major market participants. Although the growing real estate industry will offer immense growth opportunities, the inherent threat from the re-used furniture market is likely to pose a challenge for the market vendors. In a bid to help players strengthen their market foothold, this home furniture market in US forecast report provides a detailed analysis of the leading market vendors. The report also empowers industry honchos with information on the competitive landscape and insights into the different product offerings offered by various companies.

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Bruce Hodgson of Artichoke explains why carefully conceived, beautifully executed joinery is vital to the evolution of a period house in the 21st century.

Restoration requires the same approach that was first used to create a beautiful period house: an unyielding commitment to the best design, techniques and, of course, materials.

Another is time, which is, without a doubt, our favourite tool. Today, its a rare commodity, but, in the past, it was a key ingredient in the creation of fine buildings.

Time transforms every stage in the process, from planning and design to making and installing beautiful cabinetry and architectural details. It allows you to focus on elements that are vital to both the structural integrity of a piece and its appearance.

Adequate time means that every design is completely bespoke and the team is freed of the constraints of pre-existing templates or by work we have done for other clients.

It allows you to get under the skin of what it takes to make truly great joinery, offering an understanding of scale and proportion, through to materials and almost imperceptible details. These are qualities that all contribute to a sense of harmony that makes a design feel appropriate to a period setting.

Almost every period building has evolved over time, as it passes from one owner to the next. The interventions we make for our clients are merely the latest chapter in that story. They also allow our clients to make a house their own, yet keep its spirit alive.

But any intervention has to be extremely carefully handled and youll see many that havent been, both in the past and in the present day. By listening to the architectural needs of a house, as well as the needs of our clients, its possible to create spaces that are sympathetic to one and a delight to the other.

As well as creating a home with enormous integrity and character, you are building a legacy that will contribute to our future heritage. One of the reasons Britain is so beautiful is because we have a respect for the past.

What is exciting is that we live in a golden era of restoration. Knowledge, experience and craftsmanship are creating opportunities that would never have been possible before.

The focus has to be on how the house is used by its owners and how it can be manipulated around their needs while maintaining authenticity and warmth. There is no need for a period house to feel like a museum.

There is enormous satisfaction in reviving the character of formal rooms with joinery and architectural detailing that evoke the spirit of the age in which they were built. Over the years, however, we have also developed a deep understanding of how houses work and, as well as formal spaces, we often focus on practical areas.

Recently, we were commissioned to work on a Regency property, the transformation of which involved adding new rooms that would act as a valve between the outside world and the interiors. It comprised a series of domestic spaces that are understated, but luxurious.

The result of the works is a house that offers the best of both worlds: it remains true to its origins, but also serves as the ideal space for living, working and entertaining.

For more information, see Artichokes website at http://www.artichoke.co.uk or call telephone 01934 745270.

In the revival of interest in English country houses, beautifully designed joinery is often overlooked. Bruce Hodgson, founder of Artichoke,

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The founder of a secular conservation charity that has pledged to turn a landmark building into an educational centre admitted her true intention was to spread the spiritual doctrines of a notorious occultist.

The Boleskine House Foundation (BHF) has submitted plans to restore the fire-ravaged hunting lodge, previously owned by Aleister Crowley, on the banks of Loch Ness.

Its proposals to rebuild the ruined property later bought by Jimmy Page, the Led Zeppelin guitarist are set to be approved next week.

The B-listed property was reduced to a shell by fires in 2015 and 2019

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In public the foundation has insisted its intention is to turn Boleskine into a centre dedicated to promoting Highland history and conservation.

However, Kyra Readdy, 34, who established the charity with her husband Keith, 39, privately admitted her real motive was to

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As the American Prairie Reserve works to build the largest natural wildlife refuge in the lower 48, a group of ranchers on the fringes of the reserve fight back. In this three-part series, we explore restoration ecology in the United States, and how it could save our planet.

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UN Decade on Restoration

Factsheet: UNEP and FAO June 2020

UN General Assembly Resolution on the Decade of Restoration

UN: The value of nature

The American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project at SUNY-ESF

The American Chestnut Foundation

The Campaign to Stop GE Trees

Report: Biotechnology for Forest Health: The Test Case of the Genetically Engineered Chestnut

Tiputini Research Station

The American Prairie Reserve

Video: National Geographic Last Wild Places: American Prairie Reserve

High Country News Article: Montana refuge divides tribes and ranchers

Save the Cowboy Stop the American Prairie Reserve (Facebook Page)

United Property Owners of Montana

Article: Anti-American Prairie Reserve resolution passes Montana House committee

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