At 1205 Good Hope Rd. SE, piles of beat-up, old tires fill the vacant buildings display window. Bits of dead leaves and broken glass carpet the floor. The disembodied limbs of a science-class skeleton poke eerily out from the mess, the plastic fingers grasping at nothing.

Is it brilliant social commentary? Or is it just junk?

According to the Districts Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services, it doesnt matter: The display, which is one half of a controversial public art installation, is a safety hazard. It will be removed Monday.

The announcement, which came this past Wednesday, is the latest chapter in the weeks-long saga of The New Migration, a pair of storefront works designed by Bronx-born and Yale-educated artist Abigail DeVille. Installed as part of the citywide 5x5 public art project and orchestrated by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, DeVilles piece is intended to represent the dual challenges of gentrification and urban decay.

But to Anacostia residents walking past the installation Saturday afternoon, the collection of debris sends an entirely different message.

Its making Southeast look bad, says Andrea Teku, a Ward 8 native. Theyre trying to fix up this block, and this is just making it worse.

The debate has ping-ponged back and forth for nearly a month: DeVilles work was installed with fanfare and a community parade organized by the artist but soon drew criticism in the form of telephone complaints, messages scrawled on a protest sheet posted on the window and several outraged proclamations from Ward8 council member Marion Barry, who called the work despicable.

In a neighborhood that has long been a byword for urban neglect, the debris-filled storefronts seem to many like an affront. That stretch of Good Hope Road is pocked with a number of cracked and boarded-up windows even the two Department of Housing and Community Development-owned buildings where The New Migration was installed usually are empty. Only in Anacostia, residents thought, would the city fill a window with trash and call it art.

I dont see something like that up in Georgetown, says Kim Brown, shaking her head.

On Sept.12, the Commission on Arts and Humanities announced that it would uninstall the piece, but by the next week the commission reversed course. After hearing more messages of support, the commission decided that it would be inconsistent with our mission to take down the work, Lionell Thomas, the commissions executive director, wrote in a statement at the time.

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KSQ Architects has joined the elite 1 percent of architecture firms with 100 or more employees* with the addition of nine staff members across the firms five offices. The growing staff is indicative of KSQs overall growth on a national level with new project wins, and the addition of engineering services and a new focus on the healthcare market.

OKLAHOMA At the firms office in Tulsa, Clint Frederick joins KSQ as Marketing Coordinator. Mr. Frederick received an Environmental Design degree from Oklahoma University and has 14 years of experience in the AEC industry. He was previously the Marketing Manager at MATRIX. Christian Garcia-Arreguin, LEED AP BD+C, also joins the Tulsa office and offers the firm an international design background. She studied climate and sustainable design at both Oklahoma State University and University of Sheffield, and received her Bachelor in Architecture at Universidad Popular Autnoma del Estado de Puebla. She joins KSQ as an Architectural Intern.

NORTH CAROLINA KSQs new Charlotte, NC, office (KSQ/Peterson) welcomes Doug Kopec, CDT, CSI, as Senior Construction Contract Administrator. A graduate of North Carolina State University, Mr. Kopec brings over 15 years of design and construction administration experience to the firm, and has extensive experience in healthcare projects and experience in clinical science buildings in the higher education design sector. Stefan Pinheiro joins as an Architectural Intern after recently receiving his Master of Architecture at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He gained experience in healthcare, commercial, residential and civic projects during previous internshipsincluding rebuilding an entire community after its destruction in the 2004 tsunami. Scott Broadfield, LEED AP, joins KSQ/Peterson as a Mechanical Designer. Mr. Broadfield brings over seven years experience in both large and small healthcare projects to the firm, and received his degree from Illinois State University. Roger Edenfield is set to join KSQ/Peterson as a Plumbing Designer, and brings 16 years of experience in the field to the firm. Mr. Edenfield previously worked with Environmental Air Systems in Greensboro, NC, and is an active member in the American Society of Plumbing Engineering.

NEW YORK The firms White Plains, NY, office has added three new staff members. Project Manager Marsha Leed, R.A., AIA, LEED AP, joins KSQ with 18 years of experience in architecture and project management. She is active in AIA, USGBC, and on the Dutchess County Environmental Management Council. She has been involved in over 30 New York City School Construction Authority Projects, and is a graduate of SUNY New Paltz. Ben Alling is an Architectural Intern who has worked on commercial, residential, naval, healthcare and community space projects. A cum laude graduate of the New York Institute of Technology architecture program, Alling has studied architectural history and design in The Netherlands and is currently focused on current K-12 projects at KSQ. Adam Lopes is a graduate of Wentworth Institute of Technology and received his Masters in Historic Preservation at Pratt Institute. His participation in a summer studio in Venezuela resulted in his final project and presentation displayed at Casa Borges. He was previously with Prudon & Partners, LLP. He also joins KSQ as an Architectural Intern.

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Jonathan Coleman doesn't foresee any big changes to the health service under his watch.

He's the new minister of health in Prime Minister John Key's cabinet, and he's been promoted to the front bench.

He says he'll be following on where his predecessor Tony Ryall left off. Mr Ryall retired after six years as health minister.

"I will be following Tony's approach, it wouldn't be common sense to make any big changes," he told NZ Newswire.

"The health targets have worked really well, and the DHB structure, so changing it isn't something we would be looking at."

Dr Coleman, a former GP, says he's thrilled to get the job.

"I've trained and worked as a doctor and then I went into politics, it brings those two strands together and I'm hugely excited."

Along with health, he's been given sport and recreation.

Mr Key says that's because he wants an emphasis on obesity prevention, and the two areas link well together.

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The Kennedy School of Government has submitted preliminary plans to the City of Cambridge for a dramatic remodeling of its physical campus, including the addition of 77,000 square feet of new building space, that school leaders hope will complement ongoing changes to pedagogy and interdisciplinary research.

The plans are set to go before the citys planning board during a hearing on Tuesday. If approved, construction on the more than $100 million dollar project would likely begin following Commencement and aims to be completed by Jan. 2018, according to the Kennedy Schools executive dean, John Haigh.

Including three new buildings and the elevation of the schools current courtyard, the project looks to be one of the largest capital expansions on Harvards Cambridge campus in recent history and will increase the schools current square footage by more than 30 percent.

The school is currently is comprised of two main structures: the Belfer, Littauer, and Rubenstein buildings, which are all adjoined, and date from the 1970s and 1980s; and the separate Taubman building, which was completed in 1990. Under the current plans, the two structures would be adjoined, as a new Gateway building would connect Taubman to Belfer, a West building on the site of the schools current parking lot would connect Rubenstein to Taubman, and a South building would connect Littauer to the new West building.

Among other additions, there will be six new classrooms, a student lounge and study area, a new dining area and event space, a conference room above the dining room, a winter garden atrium, and a flexible common space that HKS officials refer to as skunk works.

The building plans are a major component of the Kennedy Schools $500 million capital campaign, which made creating a campus that amplifies our mission, one of its four priorities. As of late August, the school has raised $355 million in gifts and pledges, according to Kennedy School spokesperson Doug Gavel.

We need to have a campus that amplifies, magnifies, and supports our mission and strategy, Haigh said in an interview on Friday.

HKS Dean David T. Ellwood 75 told The Crimson in September that the schools current classroom setup is designed for lecturing and discourages group discussion and collaboration. The remodeled campus will aim to remedy that.

If we want to get to a place where we do teaching and really help people change the world, if we want to fundamentally reshape the future of ideas and the like, we have to do more, Ellwood said. And we also have to have flexible space where people can do things, create new innovative ideas, and do the sorts of social entrepreneurship that people are doing, and the like.

Haigh said that a large percentage of the total cost of expansion has already been secured.

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