A Belfast firm of architects is bidding for its third deal in India to counter the effects of the downturn in construction at home.

Hall Black Douglas in the east of the city has already completed work on a shopping mall in India and this week announced a contract to design accommodation for elderly people with dementia near Mumbai.

Now the practice is bidding for work on a large apartment block in India after building up a relationship with a client for over two years.

Director Alistair Beckett was tight-lipped on the value of the work it has done so far in India.

But he said the downturn at home architecture is the profession which has contracted the most in the collapse of the construction market had forced it to look overseas.

Its thought to be the only Northern Ireland architecture firm working in India, a territory it first explored on an Invest NI trade mission, though some have entered the market in the Middle East.

We worked exclusively at home for the first 20 years of the practice, said Mr Beckett.

But then there were diminishing workloads at home, and we saw the opportunity for the Indian market, and its just a market we felt comfortable in. It is based on British law, its English speaking and they respect UK design.

He said the variety of work it had done at home had left it in good shape to benefit from a range of opportunities available in India.

Fortunately we were quite diverse in our portfolio, with health care, churches, community groups and conservation projects.

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01/30/2013 . Architects (UK) have mapped out North American tour plans which will have the band on the road this spring and summer.

They will kick things off in March when they join Enter Shikari's headline tour which will also feature Heartist and Crossfaith.

The band will also take part in this year's South By So What?! Festival on March 16 where they will join Breathe Carolina, Attack Attack!, and Chelsea Grin.

They will be returning this summer to take part in this year's entire run for the Warped Tour.

The band will be touring in support of their latest album, Daybreaker, which was released last summer.

Enter Shikari Tour Dates: 03/06/13 - Boston, MA @ Royale 03/07/13 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza 03/08/13 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts 03/09/13 - Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar 03/10/13 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade 03/12/13 - St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre 03/13/13 - Orlando, FL @ The Social 03/15/13 - Houston, TX @ The Studio at Warehouse Live 03/16/13 - Grand Prairie, TX @ QuikTrip Park - South By So What?! 2013 03/18/13 - Tucson, AZ @ The Rock 03/19/13 - Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater 03/20/13 - Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction 03/22/13 - San Diego, CA @ Soma Sidestage 03/23/13 - West Hollywood, CA @ Roxy Theatre 03/24/13 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades 03/26/13 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre

Vans Warped Tour 2013 Tour Dates: 06/15/13 - Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre 06/16/13 - Portland, OR @ Portland Expo Center Parking Lot 06/19/13 - Chula Vista, CA @ Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre 06/20/13 - Pomona, CA @ Pomona Fairplex 06/21/13 - Pomona, CA @ Pomona Fairplex 06/22/13 - Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre 06/23/13 - Ventura, CA @ Ventura Country Fairground At Seaside Park 06/26/13 - Las Cruces, NM @ NMSU Practice Field 06/27/13 - Mesa, AZ @ Quail Run Park 06/28/13 - Las Vegas, NV @ Venue TBA 06/29/13 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Utah State Fairpark 06/30/13 - Denver, CO @ Sports Authority Field at Mile High 07/03/13 - Noblesville, IN @ Klipsch Music Center 07/05/13 - Toronto, ON, CA @ The Flats At Molson Canadian Amphitheatre 07/06/13 - Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center 07/07/13 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center 07/09/13 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Farm Bureau Live At Virginia Beach 07/10/13 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion 07/11/13 - Mansfield, MA @ Comcast Center 07/12/13 - Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center 07/13/13 - Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 07/14/13 - Hartford, CT @ The Comcast Theatre 07/16/13 - Scranton, PA @ Toyota Pavilion 07/17/13 - Burgettstown, PA @ First Niagara Pavilion 07/18/13 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center 07/19/13 - Auburn Hills, MI @ The Palace of Auburn Hills 07/20/13 - Tinley Park, IL @ First Midwest Bank Ampitheatre 07/21/13 - Shakopee, MN @ Canterbury Park 07/23/13 - Kansas City, KS @ Cricket Wireless Amphitheater 07/24/13 - Maryland Heights, MO @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater 07/25/13 - Atlanta, GA @ Aaron's Amphitheater at Lakewood 07/26/13 - St. Petersburg, FL @ Vinoy Park 07/27/13 - West Palm Beach, FL @ Cruzan Ampitheatre 07/28/13 - Orlando, FL @ Central FL Fairgrounds 07/29/13 - Charlotte, NC @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater 07/30/13 - Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center 07/31/13 - Milwaukee, WI @ Marcus Amphitheatre 08/02/13 - Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Pavilion 08/03/13 - San Antonio, TX @ AT&T Center 08/04/13 - Houston, TX @ Reliant Center Parking Lot

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The American Institute of Architects named 15 recipients for the 2013 AIA Young Architects Award, an honor served for architects licensed 10 years or fewer.

The winners include Virginia Elaine Marquardt, AIA, an architect at DLR Group in Santa Monica, Calif.; Andrew Caruso, AIA, head of intern development and academic outreach for Gensler in Washington, D.C.; and Derwin Broughton, AIA, an architect for Garland, Texasbased Ron Hobbs Architects, local Board of Adjustments member, and member of the AIAs Young Architects Forum.

Former Young Architects Forum communications adviser Deepika Padam, AIA, of San Franciscos Blend Architecture, was also named a Young Architect Award honoreeas was 2012 Young Architects Forum chair Jennifer Workman, AIA, of Good Fulton & Farrell Architects in Dallas.

Two of the honorees head their own studios in Minneapolis: John Dwyer, AIA, of John Dwyer Architect, and Alissa D. Luepke Pier, AIA, founder of A.D.L. Pier design and a commissioner on the Minneapolis Planning Commission. Another honoree, Susannah Drake, AIA, is the founding principal of New Yorks dlandstudio. Eric R. Hoffman, AIA, is a professor of practice at Washington University in St. Louis.

Other 2013 award-winners are Matthew Dumich, AIA, project manager at Chicagos Valerio Dewalt Train Associates; disaster-response specialist Rachel Minnery, AIA, of Seattles Environmental Works; and Katherine Darnstadt, AIA, of Latent Design in Chicago.

Three of the winners of this years Young Architects Award winners hail from Chicagos Skimore, Owings & Merrill office, where they serve as associate directors: Thomas Hussey, AIA; Brett Charles Taylor, AIA; and Lucas Tryggestad, AIA.

The architects will be recognized by the AIA at a celebration in Washington, D.C., on March 20 and at the AIA National Convention in Denver on June 22.

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University administrators are under fire from a group of Harlem-based black architects that claims that Columbia unfairly shut its members out of a job on the Manhattanville campus because of their race, despite their high qualifications.

After receiving the go-ahead to construct the new campus in 2009, administrators signed the Community Benefits Agreement with neighborhood residents. The agreementin addition to promising $76 million for economic development and community projectsmandated that 35 percent of all non-construction contracts go to minority-owned firms.

Administrators maintain that they are working toward that goal, but the architects group, Arch527, claims that minorities have not been given sufficient opportunities to participate in the expansion.

Its a not-so-subtle, insulting slap in face, Zevilla Jackson Preston said. Preston, a member of Arch527, is a licensed architect with almost 20 years of experience. The project administrators had a lot of nerve to tell us that they were flying architects down from Europe to work on the project when there were equally qualified Harlem architects right down the street.

Although Arch527 architects did not receive contracts for larger projects on the Manhattanville campus, Kevin Barnes, another Arch527 member, said he was offered a variety of smaller projects, all of which were on sites smaller than 200 square feet.

Despite feeling snubbed, Barnes said he then submitted another proposal to renovate a Manhattanville storefront, but never heard back from administrators.

According to Preston, the pattern of offering these smaller projects began when Arch527 started collectively lobbying for Manhattanville contracts in 2011. After University administrators told a group of her colleagues that they would not participate in the expansions more lucrative projects, Preston said they were offered a number of smaller projects between 500 and 550 square feet.

They offer a project on Broadway that is worth $20,000, which is a drop in the bucket for professional architects like us, Preston said. Even after we have offered to work collectively and pair up with architects already hired for the project, the administrators still turned us down.

Both Barnes and Preston also accused Columbia of having them think they would be working collectively with other black architects, while secretly pitting them against one another.

Barnes said he was never told that only one architect would be selected for each smaller project, and called the hiring process exclusionary. Columbia spokesperson Victoria Benitez said in an email that the University was building robust commitments with firms owned by minorities, women, and locals, which Columbia abbreviates to MWL.

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The companies that built London's iconic Olympic Park are now allowed to boast about their work, after the government paid 2m to the British Olympic Association (BOA) to get around a promotion ban.

The architects, engineers and construction firms which designed and built the infrastructure that allowed the Olympics to happen had been forbidden from advertising their work in promotional materials before, during and after the games, as part of the general restrictions that were placed on advertising in the UK to safeguard the exclusivity deals of the event's official sponsors. The ban even extended to architecture firms submitting their work for industry awards.

Even after the Games were finished the ban remained, and the government was in no rush to lift it -- a decision that the Royal Institute of British Architects' president Angela Brady derided at the time as "totally wrong". The problem hinged on the fact that companies needed to pay the International Olympic Committee to be allowed to advertise themselves as being directly involved in the Games, but the government's payment of 2m to the BOA resolves this with the creation of a "supplier recognition scheme". Companies can now apply to for a free license to, in the words of the BOA, bask in the "stardust" of the Games.

The legislation that prevented companies from associating themselves with the Olympic Games unless they were official sponsors had to be passed for London to get the Games, but it was met with strong criticism from those who felt it was overreaching and draconian. The ban had proven so unpopular with architects that it had even spawned a protest movement, led by Peter Murray of New London Architecture. The "drop the ban" campaign came about as British firms realised that even after the Games had finished the government was in no rush to repeal it and allow them to promote their work.

Responding to the news, Brady issued a statement saying: "The majority of the architects and designers we were standing up for in the campaign were young small businesses who just wanted to be able to promote their work. It's great that they are now able to speak freely about their contribution to the success of the 2012 Games and get the recognition they deserve."

For several of the most high-profile buildings, their architects will have no need for the extra exposure. Everyone knows that Zaha Hadid's firm was responsible for the Aquatics Centre, for example. However, there are myriad unsung heroes behind the Olympic Games who were prevented from making the most of their work, such as STL Communications -- the Guardian reports that the company was restricted to issuing an 150-word statement about their providing phones for the opening and closing ceremonies.

Maria Miller, secretary for culture, media and sport, said: "By lifting these restrictions we will be able to maximise the economic benefits from the Games. Now we have removed the barrier, companies can capitalise on the role they played at home and abroad by really selling their involvement in one of the biggest and most successful projects this country has ever put on."

The BOA also claims that this will help "tens of thousands" of companies, which now "have the potential to win significant contracts from future host nations". Many of the contracts for Rio 2016 have already been allocated, however, to the frustration of many.

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As part of the annual Celebrate Architecture event this year, architects and designers will use the 2013 Parade of Homes as the basis for a design competition.

The idea for the competition came from Brian Johnson, a principal with Collaborative Design Architects and treasurer of the Billings Architectural Association.

In past competitions held in conjunction with Celebrate Architecture, architects came up with designs for a Habitat for Humanity House and plans for "pocket parks" in downtown Billings.

Johnson said he conceived of the Parade of Homes competition as a way of encouraging designers and architects to work more closely with builders and contractors.

He worked on the project with the Home Builders Association of Billings, which persuaded four contractors to place their building lots in the competition.

Each lot will have its own requirements for the house in question, in terms of style, budget, size and so on. Architects and designers can create plans for any or all of the houses.

The entries will be judged by a panel consisting of two professors from the Montana State University School of Architecture, two people from thehome builders groupand an advanced appraiser.

Based on that panel's selections, the Billings Architectural Association will award a $1,000 prize for the best design for each lot.

That doesn't necessarily mean any of the designs will be used to build a house for the Parade of Homes. But Johnson said the builders who own the lots will have the option of awarding a $5,000 prize for any of the submitted designs.

The builders could then use the design to create a house for next fall's Parade of Homes.

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