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Licensed and aspiring Black architects selected to design facades for new retail pavilions at Camp North End. Clockwise from top left: Marcus Thomas, Melanie Reddrick, Hasheem Halim and Aleah Pullen. By Katrina Louis January 29, 2021 Two dozen candidates answered the call in December when New York-based ATCO Properties & Management announced that it wanted Black architects, and emerging Black architects, to be part of the next development phase of Camp North End.  Twenty-four submissions for the design competition were narrowed to 10, and on Wednesday, four winners were announced.  Two lic...

By Sam Bradley-19 January 2021 08:30am How can you support team learning from home? We ask readers of The Drum from brands, agencies and everything in between for their advice on real problems facing today’s marketing practitioners. Since the first lockdowns of last year, self-improvement projects have seen many of those liberated from their commute pick up new tricks. But while many were trying their hand at breadmaking or portrait-painting, time away from the hubbub of the office has made it harder to keep professional skills as sharp. And efforts to train and develop staf...

Uni stocks up on masks for students returning to campus We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement The University of Technology Sydney has ordered thousands of masks for students to wear on campus this year as students increasingly get the option of attending more classes. The university sent the students an email informing them they may be required to wear the masks when they return in March. Many people have become accustomed to wearing masks, including on public transport. Credit:James Brickwood The University of Syd...

How the Pandemic Shaped the CES Agenda This Year Categories such as healthcare and smart home devices will figure more prominently CES has adjusted its agenda to reflect pandemic-era trends. Getty Images January 7, 2021 When the trade group behind CES—the Consumer Technology Association—first began planning this year’s show amid the height of the pandemic’s first wave last April, organizers had little idea of what the world, much less, the event, would look like come this January.

Now streaming on: "Noel" tells the usual story of sad strangers who seek happiness on Christmas Eve, with the variation that most of the characters are stark staring mad. Christmas is a holiday fraught with hazards, anyway, and these people are clearly not up to it. Thanksgiving is the most angst-free holiday, with no presents to buy, no cards to send, and mountains of turkey. But the genre of Thanksgiving movies is dominated by miserable, destructive family reunions; only the wonderful "What's Cooking" gives the holiday a break. Advertisement If Thanksgiving in the movies is about lethal fam...