Grand Central Terminal will celebrate its centennial in 2013. The Architectural League and the Transit Museum invite you to submit a sketch or drawing that captures and/or re-imagines the iconic building. Deadline: Tuesday, July 3, 2012.

Two exhibitions, and three panels celebrating and speculating on the Manhattan street grid.

Thanks to all of the Omnibus devotees who came out to share the love, our BlockParty last week.

Announcing a juried competition for essays that reflect on the Manhattan street grid as paradigm, rubric or muse for urban life, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the plan that established Manhattan's street grid. Deadline: February 1st, 2012

Gregory Wessner, curator of The Unfinished Grid, moderated a panel discussion about the living legacy of the 1811 plan and new proposals imagining Manhattan’s infrastructural future.

Socrates Sculpture Park and the Architectural League invite architects and designers to apply for a new design/build residency leading to an exhibition at Socrates next year.

Introducing Making Room: a research, design and advocacy project to shape New York’s housing stock to address the changing needs of how we live now.