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Working Meeting - Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Are you interested in learning more about our organization, our projects and volunteer opportunities? Our monthly Working Meetings are for discussing current work and meeting prospective volunteers. These meetings are usually followed by informal conversation over drinks at a local pub.January Newsletter
Our (first!) quarterly newsletter is now online, with information about new and current projects, upcoming events, and a look back at 2008. Click here to download. (1.5MB PDF)
Architecture for Humanity New York and the Red Hook Vendors Announce Results of Design Competition
Architecture for Humanity New York and the Food Vendors Committee of Red Hook Park, Inc. are pleased to announce the results of the design competition: "A New Marketplace for the Red Hook Park Vendors – An Open Call for Ideas."
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Marketplace for the Red Hook Vendors: Jury Selection
Due to scheduling issues, the competition jury date has been moved to Friday, December 5th. Selected entries will be announced (and all entries displayed) at our Holiday Party on December 11th.
Marketplace for the Red Hook Vendors: A Month-Long Competition
Architecture for Humanity New York (AFHny) announces a short ideas competition in search of innovative concepts for a new market place for the Red Hook Food Vendors in Red Hook Park, Brooklyn.
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Join us for Park(ing) Day 2008!
This Friday, September 19th, from 7:00am to 7:00pm, we will take over a parking spot on Madison Avenue between 73rd & 74th (one block south of the Whitney Museum). Our parking spot will be transformed for the day into an outdoor art studio/workshop, to let New Yorkers contemplate the people, architecture, energy and refuse of the city around them.
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Volunteers needed for Open House New York
The 2008 Open House New York weekend is October 4th and 5th, and the Center for Architecture would like our help.
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Late-August Meetup
Join us Thursday August 28 from 7:00 - 8:30pm, at the Farrow and Ball Showroom in SoHo (112 Mercer St), as we celebrate the selection of our organization’s new directors and kick off a fall season of volunteer opportunities.
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New Directors Selected
Architecture for Humanity New York has been very busy over the past few years. We've recently completed work on a clinic in Morningside Heights for Care for the Homeless. We are continuing our work at The Point and at High Bridge Park. And we are starting new projects, including work with the Red Hook vendors, and a new health clinic at Washington Irving High School with the Institute for Urban Family Health.
We have also redesigned our organizational structure, expanding our leadership to nine directors, to keep our projects running smoothly, ensure that we continue to offer challenging and exciting opportunities to our volunteers, and deliver excellent work to our clients and partner organizations.
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Myanmar Reconstruction Appeal
AFHny is supporting Architecture for Humanity's efforts to raise funds for reconstruction efforts in Myanmar after last weekend¹s cyclone Nargis. To help with rebuilding in ways that are sustainable from ecological, social, and economic perspectives, see AFH's Myanmar Rebuilding Appeal at http://www.architectureforhumanity.org
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BCI Shelter
The AFHny BCI Shelter project was recently profiled on greenbuildingsNYC.com.
Architecture & Recovery
Kate Stohr, journalist and co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, will be at the Museum of Arts and Design on Thursday, April 17th, to present work of architects and designers who have responded to humanitarian and natural disasters, including significant projects from Architecture for Humanity's Katrina reconstruction work in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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"What if New York City..." Competition Winners Announced
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Commissioner Joseph F. Bruno today announced the winners of the "What If New York City…" post-disaster housing design competition.
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This Holiday season give the Gift of Home to a family displaced by Katrina
Dear friends - We bring glad tidings of an excellent way to give your loved ones something special and meaningful this holiday season! The ABC Home and Planet Foundation is making it possible through their Gifts of Compassion program for you and your loved ones to support AFHny in rebuilding homes for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Through the ABC website, you can provide a design stipend for pro bono design services and construction work to create a new home in collaboration with a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
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"What if New York City..." - A Design Competition for Post-Disaster Provisional Housing in New York City
With global warming comes a higher risk of severe storms, and coastal cities like New York City need a plan to house thousands of people in the event of a severe storm. AFHny invites you to enter the new design competition "What If New York City..."
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