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NEW PORT RICHEY --

Plans are underway to give a popular Pasco county park a makeover.

For the first time last week, New Port Richey city councilmembers looked at renderings for Sims Park.

According to our partners at the Tampa Bay Times, the renderings are part of an ambitious three-phase master plan created by JAHarchitects, LLC.

New additions include a four-story parking garage, bigger restroom structures and relocating the playground fronting Main Street. A new playground is also planned for the northern edge of the park, across from Orange Lake.

Work on some items, like relocating the playground and creating docks on the riverside of the park will get started right away. Cost estimates for those requests hover around $1.8 million.

The council is expected to have a staff proposal to vote on at an upcoming meeting.

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For 86 years, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has reigned as the city's most majestic building, a golden crown perched in splendid isolation atop its Fairmount hill. Yet, there is a good reason it is still sometimes called the "Greek garage." Inside, the great temple remains a work-in-progress.

Now, a plan to expand the museum by burrowing deep into its rocky hillside, conceived and designed by celebrated architect Frank Gehry, promises to remedy this unfinished business, completing and polishing the masterpiece in time for its centennial in 2028.

Though no start date has been announced, museum director Timothy Rub revealed Thursday that architects were wrapping up construction drawings, a prelude to actual construction. In a lengthy interview, Rub gave the most extensive outline to date of the museum's plans.

It's been a long time coming. The Art Museum first announced its intent to expand in 2005, when the late Anne d'Harnoncourt was still at the helm, and hired Gehry a year later. The museum has finally decided to unveil the project formally by putting Gehry's architectural models and renderings on display. "Making a Classic Modern: Frank Gehry's Master Plan for the Philadelphia Museum of Art" opens July 1.

Gehry, who turned architecture upside-down two decades ago with the billowing titanium waves of his Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, is best known for sculptural, otherworldly buildings. But with this design for Philadelphia, he plays brilliantly against type. No evidence of his bravura will be visible on the museum's Kasota limestone walls, and the interior changes will be dominated by straight lines.

This self-effacing strategy has paid off in a big way. It is a fine, thoughtful design, meticulous in its logic and attuned to a city that likes to march to its own drummer.

If the museum can raise the roughly $350 million needed to complete Gehry's laundry list of improvements, the golden temple will emerge both more dignified and more approachable than it is now. All museums are exploring ways to draw in younger visitors, and this design is driven by that goal.

So, entrance doors will be thrown open at street level as a democratizing gesture. Pathways through the enormous, U-shaped building will be made more intuitive by establishing visual connections with the busy city below the hill. Murky spaces, like the Great Stair Hall, will be bathed in natural light. Surface parking lots that mar the west terrace will be banished, replaced by gardens and public space.

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What is 5,000 square feet, and will be built and torn down within seven days?

A pop-up law firm constructed by designers and architects from Genslers Washington office. The temporary office, which Gensler is branding the law firm of the future, will be an exhibit at the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference and expo in Toronto this week.

It will showcase features that are becoming familiar to many law firms in Washington that have recently moved to new office space or revamped their existing offices: A more open floor plan, standard-size offices (as opposed to big corner offices for senior partners and smaller ones for junior lawyers) and more communal areas such as touchdown spaces for people from the firms other offices who are in town for a few days and need a temporary work space.

Gensler representatives will be guiding conference-goers mostly lawyers and law firm office administrators on short tours of the pop-up law firm, explaining each component and why it works in a law firm setting.

We emphasize the point that there is no one-size-fits-all solution, said Steve Martin, a principal at Gensler in the District. Its taking these components and assembling them in a way that reflects who they are as a firm and provides flexibility so they can adapt and change over time.

The project is the first of its kind for the design and architecture firm, and is a culmination of two years of work done by about 40 Gensler employees in Washington. It was financed by internal grants from Genslers board of directors, which funds research projects proposed by Gensler employees. Gensler partnered with furniture companies Herman Miller and Steelcase, which are providing the desks and chairs, and Microsoft and Thompson Reuters, which are providing the technology equipment for the exhibit.

Gensler has been working with many law firms to incorporate more modern, efficient design into their office space. In the Washington region, Gensler has worked with McDermott Will & Emery; Dickstein Shapiro; Hogan Lovells; Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox; Troutman Sanders; Chadbourne & Parke; Fried Frank; Clifford Chance; and Seward & Kissel to design their new or existing office space.

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Architects involved with the building of the Umlalazi-Nkandla Smart Growth Centre are taking Kombani Consulting to court over money it is owed.

A director at Johannesburg architecture firm Mashabane Rose Associates filed papers in the high court in Pretoria in a bid to get payment for two invoices totalling about R800 000. (Cornel van Heerden, Gallo)

An architecture firm involved in the design of the plannedUmlalazi-Nkandla Smart Growth Centre, also known asZumaville, in Nkandla, has approached the courts in a bid to get back money owed to it, the Sunday Times reported.

A director at Johannesburg architecture firm Mashabane Rose Associates, Phil Mashabane, filed papers in the high court in Pretoria in a bid to get payment for two invoices totalling about R800000.

Mashabane Rose Associates completed a feasibility study and mock-ups of the planned R2-billion village for Kombani Consulting. Kombani was contracted by the rural development and land reform department to do the work.

In court papers, Mashabane claims Kombani contracted his company in January 2011 in a partly oral, partly written as project manager and architect for the village, and then did not pay R741802 and R55060.

The department and Kombani director Tinyiko Maswanganyi have each accused the other of approving the appointment of Mashabane Rose Associates.

First town of its kind At a meeting earlier this month, President Jacob Zuma, who has a homestead in the KwaZulu-Natal area, said that the Umlalazi-Nkandla Smart Growth Centre would be the first town of its kind to be built by black people after democracy.

Nkandla municipal manager Sthembiso Mthembu said at the time he did not know about the project besides what he had gleaned through the media.

I dont understand why, if a town is going to be built in our area, were not part of it as the Nkandla municipality, the Sunday Times quoted him saying. Sapa

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.-- Lenny and Philip Rampulla have been working diligently behind the scenes donating their time and talent to help renovate the historic St. George Theatre.

But now it was time for the cultural community to come out and celebrate the gifted architects, who were honored Saturday night with the Georgie Award for their outstanding contributions at the 10th Anniversary Red Carpet Gala at Borough Hall.

"I really like flying under the radar, but to be recognized in front of family and friends is a big deal," said Lenny Rampulla, who also accepted the award on behalf of his brother who was unable to attend the event. "This building is nearest and dearest to my heart. We all on Staten Island set to benefit from this theatre."

The Rampullas have their fingerprints all over the new designs of the landmark venue -- from the marquee, the rigging, the glass elevator, the front entrance, the restrooms, and the loading dock to the new tier seating.

"They've been so generous in lending their expertise, and they have a passion for the arts, too," said Dr. Joseph Motta, the gala co-chair. "It's wonderful to be a part of this. The theatre is an incredible masterpiece. It's a focal point of the Island."

The event was celebrating 10 years of programming, renovating and restoration of the theatre, and kicked off with Fred Cerullo, president and chief executive officer of the Grand Central Partnership, and Advance editor Brian J. Laline, chairman of the St. George Theatre Board of Directors, sharing their appreciation of the Rampullas.

"This man cares," Laline said. "They've done so much work and have been a part of so many structures on Staten Island."

Luanne Sorrentino and Doreen Cugno, executive directors of the St. George Theatre, took a moment to look back at the past decade to see how far they've come.

"We're honored to be celebrating this event. I can't believe it's been 10 years," Ms. Cugno said. "Our mother's dream was to save this theatre. It's become a vibrant, cultural community center."

After the awards presentation, guests hustled over to the theatre to see a performance by Martin Short. The funny man entertained the audience with jokes about Republican Rep. Michael Grimm and embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling.

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Cape Town - Architects who designed the planned R2bn town at Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal are embroiled in a bitter legal battle over R800 000 they claim is still owed to them.

According to the Sunday Times, Johannesburg architects Mashabane Rose Associates, who did the feasibility study and mock ups of the town known as Zumaville claim they are owed the money by Kombani Consulting which was originally contracted to do the work.

However, the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, which is tasked with the job of developing the new town, has distanced itself from the matter and is going ahead with plans to have consultants formalise the master plan of the new town.

Phil Mashabane, from Mashabane Rose Associates, says in papers before the High Court in Pretoria, that he entered into a partly oral, partly written agreement with Kombani director Tinyiko Maswanganyi in January 2011 in that his company was appointed as project manager and architect for the new town.

But Kombani, which was appointed by the department as project manager of the town, has denied entering in such an agreement.

Earlier this month, Zuma assured local business leaders that plans to build the town in his Nxamalala village - officially known as the Umlalazi-Nkandla Smart Growth Centre - had not been scuppered and that they would be back on track within the next few months.

Uthungulu district municipality Mayor Thembeka Mchunu said private investors would be involved but she would not give names. The building of the R2bn, 200ha town, which is a mere 3.2km from Zumas Nkandla homestead, is being overseen by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform.

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