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HAMMOND, La. (AP) - Architects assigned to determine the cost for campus improvements at Tangipahoa Parish's public schools say they have found five major projects that should be done with a year or two.

The Daily Star reported (http://bit.ly/1omMfLk) the assessment is part of a long-standing desegregation case against the school district that has led to federal court orders affecting many areas of school operations.

The district already has achieved unitary status - the legal term for integration - in areas of transportation and extracurricular activities.

To reach unitary status in facilities, the district must show the condition of schools is comparable throughout Tangipahoa.

An improvement costing $100,000 or more requires court approval to ensure it is contributing to the larger desegregation effort.

Christopher Bankston, principal architect with Gasaway Gasaway Bankston Architects, said the assessment will be used by a federal judge to determine priorities for improvements.

The most expensive project identified is renovation of the gymnasium at Amite High School. Its estimated cost is more than $3 million.

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After celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2012, Cannon Moss Brygger Architects embarked on a project to move their Spencer office from 20 W. Sixth St. to a more visible and spacious location in downtown Spencer.

Matt Barstad, project manager and designer, has plenty of work space available to review drawings in his office at Cannon Moss Brygger Architects. (Photos by Randy M. Cauthron)

"It sort of helped to fulfill a goal of the firm in all three locations," Matt Barstad, project manager and designer with Spencer's office, said. "We wanted to invest in the downtowns of all three towns."

The first work was done in Sioux City, followed by Grand Island and then in Spencer.

"We were looking to be back on Grand Avenue in the midst of the hustle and bustle," Barstad said.

Calling it a "contemporary setting in an old building," Barstad said the doors opened on the new office space in April to strong reviews. The offices provide the firm a facility to showcase its own capabilities in the renovation and repurpose arena.

The "fun space" meeting room overlooking Grand Avenue is one of the many popular open area features of Cannon Moss Brygger Architects downtown office.

The wide open office space at Cannon Moss Brygger Architects allows for an interactive and collaborative work environment.

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Before the directors of the new Walt Disney Animation movie Big Hero 6 settled on their story, they created the world in which its set: a jammed, vibrant place called San Fransokyo.

A mash-up of San Francisco and Tokyo set in the not-too-distant future, San Fransokyo is a dense, hilly city with cable cars and cherry blossoms, Victorian row houses and glittering neon billboards.

The filmmakers idea never stated in the film is that in a parallel universe after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the city split off and an influx of Japanese immigrants helped rebuild it.

San Fransokyo is a quintessential example of the craft of world building, the process of constructing a wholly imaginary universe for films, television, video games and other media, that involves creating the look of everything from buildings, vegetation and vehicles to the way light refracts and how people look, move and talk.

A version of production design on steroids, world building is enjoying increasing recognition as an art form thanks to the ambitious worlds created for such fantastical live action films as Avatar and the Harry Potter series, and video games like Grand Theft Auto and Halo.

Concept art for Big Hero 6 showcases San Fransokyo during the day. (Disney)

Though science fiction films as far back as Star Wars and Blade Runner depicted created worlds, ever-more sophisticated computer graphics programs, including one Disney developed in-house and is debuting with Big Hero 6, have enabled creators to bring more densely designed worlds to the screen.

Directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams from a loose adaptation of a little-known Marvel Comic by Duncan Rouleau and Steven Seagle, Big Hero 6, which opens Nov. 7, follows a rebellious robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada (voiced by Ryan Potter) and a guileless, inflatable healthcare robot named Baymax (Scott Adsit) as theyre drawn together by a devastating event. Four other motley heroic characters Hiro meets in the science lab round out the team of 6 in Big Hero 6.

The film marks the first time another division of Disney has taken on a Marvel property since the media giant acquired the comic book company behind Captain America and The Avengers in 2009.

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Twelve local and international architecture practices have been invited by the Art Gallery of New South Wales to submit a concept design for Sydney Modern project, a $450 million expansion of the art gallery. Five practices will move on to produce conceptual designs in the final round of the competition.

The Sydney Modern vision for expansion and transformation is much more than just a building project, says Dr. Michael Brand, gallery director. Through this invited competition the gallery is seeking ideas that will create an architecturally ambitious, intelligent, sensitive, sustainable, and highly functional design. Our site overlooking Sydney Harbour will inspire each of the invited architectural practices, all of whom have extraordinary design skills.

The invited architectural practices are: Candalepas Associates Sydney David Chipperfield Architects London Fender Katsalidis Melbourne Herzog & de Meuron Basel Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Tokyo Kengo Kuma & Associates Tokyo Kerry Hill Architects Singapore Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos Madrid RPBW (Renzo Piano Building Workshop) Genoa RMA Architects (Rahul Mehrotra Architects) Mumbai Sean Godsell Architects Melbourne Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects New York

The Sydney Modern Jury, chaired by Dr. Brand, selected these practices. The jury will select up to five architectural practices to proceed to the second stage of the competition in early 2015.

Sydney Modern Jury members include: Dr. Michael Brand, (chair) director, Art Gallery of New South Wales Kathryn Gustafson, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (Seattle) and Gustafson Porter (London) Michael Lynch, CBE AM CEO West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Hong Kong Professor Toshiko Mori Robert P Hubbard, professor in the practice of architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design Professor Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2002 Professor Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki-based architect, professor emeritus, and widely published writer Hetti Perkins, member of the Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon Aboriginal communities and internationally acclaimed curator, filmmaker, and author

Based on these final submissions, the jury will select an architectural practice in April that will work closely with the gallery and stakeholders to develop a detailed design.

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Architects are being offered the chance to redesign Birminghams Centenary Square in a new competition launched by the city council.

With the transformation of surrounding buildings underway with the new Library of Birmingham finished and work on Paradise Circus, Arena Central and the Metro extension due to start - the council believes it is now the time to look at the square itself.

A competition for the public space is now being launched through the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Landscape Institute on behalf of the city council.

The competition is open to registered architects, landscape architects, urban designers and students of these disciplines worldwide.

And with Enterprise Zone funding available, as well as public realm spin off cash from the various developments there is likely to be funding on the table to turn any designs into a reality.

Council deputy leader Ian Ward said: This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for designers and the city council to shape what we hope will become a space accessible to both residents and visitors.

I am looking forward to seeing some truly innovative ideas put forward by designers from around the world.

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