Big Name Semi-Finalists for the St. Petersburg Pier Design Competition

Six New York City firms were selected, including BIG, which Saitowitz said had designs of past projects that were "jaw dropping."

On Friday, a five-member panel narrowed down a list of 23 firms and teams competing to design a new $ 50 million Pier to nine semifinalists. They are:

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  West 8 Urban Design, New York City


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  Michael Maltzan Architecture, Los Angeles


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  BIG, New York City


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  James Corner Field Operations, New York City


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  HOK, Tampa


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  Frederic Schwartz, New York City


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  Weiss/Manfredi Architectural/Landscape/Urbanism, NYC


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  Farshid Moussavi Architecture, London


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  !melk Urban Design, NYC

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Winner of the AIA Architect Barbie Dream House Design Competition

The winning design has been selected in the AIA Architect Barbie Dream House competition, hosted by the American Institute of Architects. The entry submitted by New York architects Ting Li, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP and Maja Paklar, Assoc. AIA, received the most public votes, out of the 8,470 votes registered.

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Delicious Library 2 Wins Apple Design Award

Delicious Library 2, which has a snazzy new UI based on Core Animation, wins an Apple’s 2007 Design Award for Best Leopard Application. Still no screenshots of it though.

For discussion of Core Animation and how it might change interfaces, see here: Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple’s New Animated OS.

The other winners are:

Best Mac OS X User Experience: Coda. Panic.

Best Mac OS X Developer Tool: CSSEdit 2.5. MacRabbit.

Best Mac OS X Game: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade 2.0. Blizzard Entertainment .

Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution: Papers 1.0. Alexander Griekspoor and Tom Groothuis.

Best Mac OS X Dashboard Widget: BART Widget 1.0. Bret Victor.

Best Mac OS X Student Product: Picturesque 1.0. Zac Cohen.

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