Starting a new architectural practice is a big decision. One of the next big decisions for the architectural entrepreneur, and one that has long-lasting implications, is deciding what form of business entity will be appropriate for your current as well as your future practice. While a licensed architect can certainly just go out there and practice as a sole proprietor, formation of an appropriate business entity shields the architect from personal liability in most business contexts.[1] Continue reading “Designing the Right Entity”
Month: January 2014
Exhibitions Take Center Stage at Recent FamilyDay@theCenter Programs
With the close of another calendar year and 2014 just begun, there’s no better time to reflect back on our final youth and family programs in November and December of 2013. Using two exhibitions currently on view at the Center for Architecture as a launching pad, families created their own take on these utopian, imaginative, and even historical projects. Continue reading “Exhibitions Take Center Stage at Recent FamilyDay@theCenter Programs”
In the News
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In this issue:
– Skating in a Winter Wonderland
– Rikers Undergoes Rehabilitation
– Match-Maker, Match-Maker Make Me a Public Art Installation
– Above the Banyan Tree
– Modern Makeover Makes for a 19th-century Building
– Separated in Design Phase
Names in the News
STV Group’s Chief Executive Officer and President Milo Riverso, Ph.D., PE, CMM, has been honored with Manhattan College’s 2014 De La Salle Medal for excellence in corporate leadership …
Executive Director of New Yorkers for Parks Holly Leicht will join the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as the Director for New York and New Jersey…Gina Pollara has stepped down as Executive Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park… Continue reading “Names in the News”
New Deadlines
01.12.14: Call for Submissions: AIANY Emerging New York Architects Biennial Ideas Competition 2014 – Queensway Connection: Elevating the Public Realm
01.13.14: Call for Entries: National Endowments for the Arts Our Town Creative Placemaking Grants Program
01.13.14: Call for Expressions of Interest: Mumbai City Museum North Wing Design Competition
01.13.14: Call for Entries: Historic Districts Council Design Awards
01.14.14: Call for Registration: eVolo Magazine’s 2014 Skyscraper Competition Continue reading “New Deadlines”
On View: At the Center for Architecture
On View
“Practical Utopias: Global Urbanism in Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo”
Through 01.18.14
“Building Connections 2013”
Through 03.01.14
“Arch Schools 2013”
Through 03.22.14
Upcoming
“Booming Boroughs: Redesigning Aging-in-Place in NYC”
Opening 01.09.14
“Considering the Quake: Seismic Design on the Edge”
Opening 02.13.14
Sighted
12.11.13: At a breakfast briefing at Craft in New York, Anabelle Selldorf, FAIA, Principalof Selldorf Architects, gave an update on her firm’s expansion and renovation of the two existing buildings of the Clark Art Institute: the Museum Building and the Manton Research Center, in Williamstown, MA. Continue reading “Sighted”