9.14.07 Submission: OUTRAGE!
NYC streets are littered with poorly maintained and decrepit newsracks. The Municipal Art Society invites you to submit photographs of the dirtiest, most unkempt, most repulsive newsracks in the city to help persuade elected officials to commit to repairing and maintaining them. Multiple photograph entries are welcome (amusing caption optional). Newsracks that are also illegally placed (within 15 feet of a fire-hydrant, in a bus-stop, within 5 feet of a corner area, etc.) will be given special consideration. The winner will be rewarded with a $100 gift certificate for Urban Center Books.

9.14.07 Submission: P/A Awards
The P/A Awards recognizes unbuilt projects demonstrating overall design excellence and innovation. All entries must be commissioned by paying clients for execution. Judging will take place in October 2007. Winners will be notified in November 2007, honored at a celebration in NY in January 2008, and published in the January 2008 issue of ARCHITECT. Architects and other design professionals practicing in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico may enter one or more submissions. Proposals may be for any location, but work must have been directed — and substantially executed — in offices in any one of those three countries.

9.15.07 Submission: Richard Blinder Award
The Richard Blinder Award, an award to honor the life and work of Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners founding partner Richard Blinder, FAIA, will be presented bi-annually by the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation. The award will go to the best proposal exploring the preservation of an existing structure, complex of buildings, or genre of building type through addition, renovation, or other means for use for a cultural purpose. The subject of the submission may be a real project or a polemical exercise. The proposal must demonstrate that it fosters architectural preservation in the U.S. The award will not exceed $15,000. It will be granted to an architect holding a professional degree or a valid license to practice architecture. Grants are awarded only to individuals, not organizations or university-sponsored research projects.

9.25.07 Call for Nominations: 2008 YAF Advisory Committee
The National AIA Young Architects Forum (YAF) Advisory Committee (AdCom) is seeking to fill five positions for 2008. The committee provides multiple opportunities for leadership development, networking, funded travel, not to mention a vehicle for supporting and encouraging young architects nationwide. Nominees must be young architects (licensed within the last 10 years) for at least the first year of their term. The committee will make the selection for vice-chair, communications adviser, events adviser, public relations adviser, and regional liaison adviser in early October.

9.30.07 Call for Papers: Preserving New York — Then and Now
The New York Preservation Archive Project is calling for papers for a one-day symposium, titled Preserving New York — Then and Now, to be held on Saturday, February 16, 2008, at the Museum of the City of New York. The symposium will focus on issues that have inspired and shaped the preservation movement in NYC for nearly 100 years. Papers will be presented in panels, followed by a question and answer period. Proposals are encouraged that examine a range of topics, including, but not limited to: the role of the civic sector, individual preservationists, professionalism in preservation, the role of the media, aesthetic regulation vs. historical commemoration, and preservation advocacy and outreach efforts.

11.01.07 Call for Proposals: Milka Bliznakov Prize
Virginia Tech’s International Archive for Women in Architecture (IAWA), a departmental research and outreach center in the School of Architecture + Design, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, invites architects, scholars, and researchers to honor IAWA founder Milka Bliznakov through their research on women in architecture and related design fields. This annual prize of $1,000 is awarded following a two-stage process. The prize will be awarded to the completed project that best demonstrates an important advancement to the recognition of women’s contributions to architecture and the related design fields while encouraging the use and growth of the IAWA.

11.09.07 Competition: 2008 Pillars of the Industry Awards
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Multifamily is now accepting entries for the 2008 Pillars of the Industry Awards for multifamily housing. The annual awards honor recipients in more than 30 categories representing all facets of the multifamily housing industry. Since 1990 the awards have honored superior achievement in apartment and condominium design, development, marketing, and management. Winners will be recognized at an awards gala held in conjunction with NAHB’s Pillars of the Industry Conference, held on April 2, 2008, at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, CO. Applications will be accepted until Nov. 9; entry binders are due Dec. 7.