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The University of Wisconsin School of Architecture and Urban Planning has given its 2013 Urban Edge award to New Yorkers Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss. As the winners, the duo has curated a day-long symposium on new approaches to infrastructure that will take place in Milwaukee on Friday, April 5.

On April 18, the American Institute of Architects chapter in New York's Westchester County and Hudson River Valley will celebrate the release of Ezra Stoller Photographer, a new monograph published by Yale University Press. Architectural Record is the media sponsor of the event, which will include talks by Erica Stoller (daughter of Ezra, director of Esto, and co-editor of the book) and former Progressive Architecture editor John Morris Dixon.

Can tall buildings ever truly become carbon-neutral? In its monthly video series, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat asked a promintent group of designers to answer the question. Watch the video after the jump.

Image © Alan Silverman, Skidmore, Owings & MerrillThe street entry of the U.S. consolate in Guangzhou, China, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It is scheduled to open in May.Today the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations announced the firms chosen for new construction and renovation of diplomatic buildings. 

On my annual pilgrimage to visit family in Panama City last week, I checked in on developments at the BioMuseo, Frank Gehry’s new museum on the Amador Causeway that will focus on Panama’s great natural wealth and the history of the isthmus. Gehry Partners senior associate Bill Childers was in town and took me on a tour.

Via Kansas City Design Week onlineKansas City Design Week (KCDW) 2013 kicks off today in the Show-Me State, with a schedule that includes 14 exhibitions, tours, presentations, and workshops.

Image courtesy NBBJSeattle-based firm NBBJ is circulating its design for Google's enormous new 1.1-million-square-foot campus next to the company's current headquarters outside San Francisco. The complex, consisting of nine buildings connected by bridges, will be located on a 42-acre site leased by NASA. There is no word yet on the project's estimated cost or timetable. Paul Goldberger has the full scoop in an article in Vanity Fair.

Harvard's Graduate School of Design will host a conference entitled "Putting Public Space in Its Place" on March 7 and 8.

The AIA announced today that it is joining forces with MIT's Center for Advanced Urbanism to conduct a major research study on the relationship between design and health in urban communities.

PechaKucha, the popular show-and-tell event that has entertained people in more than 600 cities, celebrated its 10th birthday on February 20.