Historic petition to unionize in architecture hits snag on eve of vote by NY firm, but Architectural Workers United isn't done with sector organizing, says Architectural Record, ENR sister publication.
Though most construction in New York City has been halted, architects hired for city projects were stunned to get orders last week to stop all ongoing design work.
Modernist architect Henry N. Cobb, a founding partner of Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners, known to friends as Harry, died March 2, 2020, one month before he would have turned 94.
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, the prestigious art, architecture and engineering college, will end its long history of free tuition, starting with the 2014 freshman class, the Manhattan-based school said on April 26. To keep the college from closing one or more of its three schools, incoming students will cover 50% of tuition. Current students and those entering this fall will be exempt; last year, graduate students began paying tuition.The college faces a $12-million annual deficit, even after leasing a former engineering-building site for a mixed-use tower, now nearly complete. Previously, scholarships covered tuition costs.“The
Projects by Frank Gehry and Jean Nouvel, as well as ongoing work at the World Trade Center site, were inundated by the storm surge that accompanied Hurricane Sandy.
