4th Annual 'Architects For Animals' Raises Money, Awareness For NYC Feral Cat Initiative January 26, 2014 5:00 AM

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New York (CBS New York) The fourth annual Architects For Animals: Giving Shelter event takes place on Thursday, January 30th at Manhattans Steelcase Showroom at 4 Columbus Circle.

This fundraiser will benefit the Mayors Alliance For New York Citys Animals and will feature nine outdoor cat shelters designed and created by some of the citys leading architectural firms.

Check out video from the 2013 event in this episode of All For Animals with 1010WINS Susan Richard:

According to the Mayors Alliance, these imaginatively designed yet practical structures will keep cats safe and warm during the winter months. Following the exhibition, the shelters will be installed in pre-determined outdoor locations throughout New York City where colonies of community cats are cared for by certified caretakers. All of the cats have undergone TNR. Trap, neuter, return, Alliance President Jane Hoffman told 1010 WINS, is the key to keeping down cat intake at Animal Care and Control, so its really crucial to our whole mission of reducing euthanasia at our city shelters.

Some of the past outdoor cat shelters designed through the Architects For Animals initiative; Animals lovers at the 2013 event; Community cats being cared for on the streets of NYC. Photo Credit: Mayors Alliance for NYCs Animals-NYC Feral Cat Initiative)

This years participating architectural teams include Bailly & Bailly, Carlton Architecture, Francis Cauffman, deSoto studio Architects, Incorporated, Elham Valipay and Haleh Atabaki of Mish Mish, M Moser Associates, Two One Two Design, and Zimmerman Workshop Architecture + Design, to name a few.

Admission is a $25 donation ($10 for Certified TNR Caretakers) and includes the exhibit, hors doeuvres, and drinks. A raffle also will be featured this year. You may RSVP in advance online at AnimalAllianceNYC.org.

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Iconic Stokehouse restaurant is torn down following Friday night's blaze, with Port Phillip mayor Amanda Stevens promising "the best possible outcome" for the venue's future. Nine News.

Architects say the fire that burnt down St Kilda's much-loved Stokehouse restaurant on Friday night has provided an opportunity to build a new landmark beach destination on the foreshore.

''It's about time inner Melbourne had a really exciting piece of beach architecture,'' said Philip Goad, professor of architecture at Melbourne University.

Hundreds of people watched on Friday night as a fire that took hold in the restaurant's kitchen razed the building. Port Phillip Council has demolished the remains.

The ruins of the Stokehouse reveal the task in rebuilding. Photo: Paul Jeffers

And, like the debate following the St Kilda Pier kiosk fire in 2003, locals and urban design experts are divided over what should be rebuilt on the Stokehouse site: a heritage replica of the early 1900s building or a contemporary venue.

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''I would like to see a similar process to the one engaged in to rebuild the historic St Kilda pier kiosk,'' deputy mayor and local councillor for the area Serge Thomann said.

The restaurant sat on Crown land, and the state government and the council in conjunction with the Van Haandel Group, which holds a 21-year lease over the site, will decide what happens.

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HARVARD -- Seeking to fit the existing Town Hall renovation plan or a revised version of it into the remaining $2.2 million left in the construction budget, selectmen agreed last week to sit down with LLB architects to review the design with that aim in mind.

When the Town Hall Building Committee brought a revised budget to selectmen last year that was $1 million more than the original $3.9 estimate endorsed by Town Meeting, voters were asked to up the appropriation by that amount. They said no, first at a Special Town Meeting and then at the ballot box.

Now, the challenge is to move the project forward with the money available.

Opening the discussion at their recent meeting, held at Volunteers Hall while Town Hall was closed for asbestos removal, Chairwoman Marie Sobalvarro said the task at hand is to "capture our intent ... in delineating what we want LLB to do" before meeting with the architects. The gist of it was they'd like one or two schematics that would keep the cost within the budget or at least in the "ballpark" and with about $25-$35,000 of the remaining budget still earmarked for schematic design, it's doable, she said.

Sobalvarro said her read of the contract indicates that asking LLB to scale back the existing design to fit the budget is not only a reasonable request, it shouldn't cost extra.

Selectman Leo Blair suggested they proceed on that premise, reminding LLB of its obligation to fix the current design to fit the budget, but also asking for a second version. "If they're smart," they'll agree, he said.

"We need to scale down the scope of this thing," Blair continued, but asking the architects to recreate the same design for less could be a "pointless task." The big cost drivers are the big changes, he posited, such as a pricey new HVAC system and interior makeover, both of which can be left out in a downsized re-do of the design. "I think they'll do it for nothing or very little," Blair said. "My hunch is they'll want to help."

With the contract due to expire in September, board members agreed it's time to act.

"Do we keep the addition or not?" asked Selectman Lucy Wallace. She noted a choice the board discussed previously between keeping the 1950s addition, fixing it as needed, versus removing the addition and either replacing it with a new one or simply making do without it, squeezing existing office and storage space into the original building footprint.

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