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U.S. Markets to Watch: Commercial/Multifamily Development Click on Graphs to View Larger + Data courtesy Urban Land Institute/PricewaterhouseCoopers Development 1= Abysmal, 5=Fair, 9=Excellent A recent report by the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers projects that most development sectors will not recover until 2012 or even 2013. The office, industrial, retail, and hotel sectors will all fare poorly, according to the study, which was released November 5 during the ULI’s annual conference in San Francisco. But the report offered hope to some. It said that niche sectors including medical, senior housing, and student residences could buck the otherwise dire trend, and

Photo courtesy Wikipedia NYC Mayor Bloomberg has announced a 30-point plan to bolster the region's green economy. Related Links: Buildings Figure Large in PlaNYC NYC and London Ponder Long-Term Sustainability Mayor Blooomberg Promotes Congestion Pricing As an expansion of PlaNYC, the sustainability plan of New York City, Mayor Bloomberg has announced a 30-point proposal to bolster the region’s green economy. Programs will aid green businesses and provide training for 13,000 new jobs, doubling the workforce in the green sector over the next decade, according to the mayor. Four areas of focus will foster this growth: green buildings, onsite renewable energy,

Photo © Laurie Lambrecht Donald Albrecht is the curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York. In recent years, he also has served as curator of the traveling exhibition Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, the first-ever retrospective of the influential Finnish-American architect. The exhibition was prompted by the 2002 donation of the Eero Saarinen and Associates office archives to the Yale University School of Architecture. Since opening in Helsinki in the fall of 2006, the show has been presented in Oslo, Brussels, Cranbrook, Detroit, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, and St. Louis. It lands in New

Dia Art Foundation is having a homecoming. On November 6 the nonprofit organization announced it will construct an exhibition space at 545 West 22nd Street, just steps from a facility it shuttered five years ago. Currently Dia’s staff and board are writing a program for the new building. Its director, Philippe Vergne, says architect selection should take place within several months.  Photo courtesy Dia The site of Dia’s future home in Chelsea. Related Links: Dia Art Foundation Plans New Gallery Dia: Beacon High Line Park Whitney Unveils Piano Designs for Downtown Branch Dia was established in 1974 to support large-scale,

A new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) laboratory in La Jolla, California, is back on track after receiving funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The $102 million lab, designed by a team led by GouldEvans architecture, Gibbens Drake Scott engineering, and Architects | Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker, had been on hold since the beginning of 2008 due to a lack of funding. Image courtesy GouldEvans GouldEvans has designed a new lab for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Related Links: Architects Get Slice of Stimulus Pie GSA Awards $435 Million Contract GSA Contracts Start to Surge Special

Before moving into its new home in 2007, the University of Arizona's architecture program had been housed in some unlikely locations over the years: in the 1960s, classes were held in a former Safeway store, and until 2007, an old Episcopal church. “When we moved to our new building we took the altar and rectory table with us,” remarks Ron Stoltz, the director of UofA’s College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, “but otherwise the new building is a complete departure from our past.” Photo © Robert Reck University of Arizona, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Related Links: CCNY Architecture

Jason Rodriguez Photo courtesy of AP/Wideworld A former employee of engineer-architect Reynolds, Smith & Hills Inc. entered the company's downtown Orlando office shortly before lunch on Friday and shot and killed one employee and wounded five other people. The alleged shooter, Jason Rodriguez, 40, then fled the building and was apprehended without resistance about four hours later by Orlando police. “Clearly, this has been a sad day for the close family at RS&H,” said Mike Bernos, spokesman at the company’s Jacksonville headquarters. “We’re saddened by the event. Our greatest concern is for our associates in the Orlando office.” Reached by