Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web Working Draft Published 30 August 2002: The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released its first public Working Draft, Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web. Comments are welcome. This document establishes a reference set of principles and good practice for Web architecture, including identifiers, formats, and protocols. Visit the TAG home page . (News archive)		A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals In a response to the need for rebuilding at the World Trade Center site, the Max Protetch Gallery in New York City opened an exhibit featuring design proposals from more than 50 architects from around the world. ARCHITECTURAL RECORD and other organizations helped with the planning of the event, which opened on January 17, 2002, and ran through February 17. Below, RECORD presents 61 of the architects' presentations, some of which are accompanied by descriptions submitted by the architects. A story on the Protetch exhibit can be found in the March issue of Architectural RECORD. For more information on the Max Protetch gallery, visit www.maxprotetch.com. To read RECORD Editor in chief Bob Ivy's account of the gallery opening
Architects push 'Year of the Built Environment' The Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) has strongly supported the decision taken recently by the Australian Procurement & Construction Ministerial Council that 2004 should be nominated as .The Year of the Built Environment.. Mr Graham Jahn, RAIA President, congratulated the W.A. Minister for Housing & Works, Tom Stephens for putting forward the proposal to the Ministerial Meeting. .This proposal is aimed at increasing the community.s interest in the quality of the built environment,. said Mr Jahn. .Primarily, the objective would be to foster awareness in the community of the role they can play in determining the nature of the built environment,. he said. To promote this idea, the RAIA is currently gathering support amongst organisations with interests in the built environment. Planners, Engineers, Property Councils, Master Builders, Housing Industry and Local Government Associations, have all been invited to participate. .To date, the response has been overwhelmingly in favour of the proposal and already a number of these organisations are considering initiatives which could be included as activities during 2004.. said Mr Jahn. The RAIA is writing to the Prime Minister, the Hon. John Howard and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Alexander Downer seeking their support for Australia to take forward a proposal to the United Nations for 2004 to be recognised as .The International Year of the Built Environment.. ENDS (See more at RAIA news).