3.22.05 | Metropolis | When it was announced in the beginning of this year that Ed Feiner, the chief architect of the General Service Administration (GSA) and founder of its Design Excellence and the Arts Program, would be retiring as of January 31, the design community knew that it would be losing one of its leaders. No more than two weeks after the announcement word came that Feiner would be joining the Washington, D.C. office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) as director of office operations.

3.15.05 | The Architects' Newspaper | The Architectural League of New York has named its newest crop of Emerging Voices. Since its inception in 1982, the program has served as a coming out for architects and designers, giving promising new talents a platform to share their ideas and work. 2005’s featured firms talk about beauty, vent pipes, blue trees, and asking whether or not a client actually needs a building.

3.3.05 | Frances Anderton speaks with Niels Diffrient about being the champion of ergonomics and the recent Freedom Chair.  Prior, she discusses the eagerly anticipated Smart Car with LA Times Auto Critic Dan Niel.