Tristate AIA hosts two day convention in Atlantic City

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Just two months after Steve Jobs presented plans for a new Apple headquarters that may or may not be designed by Foster + Partners, fellow technology behemoth Google announced plans to augment its Mountain View, California campus — or “Googleplex” in Silicon Valley parlance — with a new facility designed by Ingenhoven Architects. The German firm is best known for high-performance buildings in Europe, including Luxembourg’s European Investment Bank addition, Frankfurt’s Lufthansa Aviation Center, and the RWE Tower in Essen, and Google promises that its new facility will be no less ambitious when it comes to sustainability.

The Royal Institute of British Architects announced the shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize today. All six of the projects that made the cut are by designers previously in the running for the prize. Two contenders—David Chipperfield Architects and Zaha Hadid—have won for other work in past years.

Photos (c) Laura MirvissMayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled two blocks of the new East River Waterfront Esplanade in Lower Manhattan this afternoon, the first stretch of land completed in a $165 million project to revitalize two miles of City-owned shoreline property.

At last May's convention, the AIA launched a competition for architects to design their own Barbie Dream House. They have now selected the five finalists for you to vote on.

More than 50 communities throughout the U.S. will receive a chunk of more than $6.5 million in federal funding for public arts initiatives and restoration projects as part of the new “Our Town” grant program, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today.