The 2012 AIA New York Chapter Design Awards for Architecture, Interiors, Urban Design, and Un-Built Work honored 36 projects and the firms behind them. The complete list can be found here.

Lee Skolnick, FAIA, and the late Ralph Lerner, FAIA, HKAI, were honored with John Q. Hejduk Awards for Architecture from Cooper Union…The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art announced the winners of the Arthur Ross Awards for Excellence in the Classical Tradition, including Rhett Butler (Artisanship); Francis Morrone (History/Journalism); and Edwina von Gal (Landscape Design)…CIVITAS will present the 2012 August Heckscher Award for Community Service to Carmine Branagan, Director, National Academy Museum and School and Penelope Maynard and Lynden Miller for the Transformation of Central Park’s Conservatory Garden…Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts will honor several projects and buildings as part of its 29th annual meeting and awards ceremony, including 875 Park Avenue by FSI Architecture (Restoration Award); National Academy Museum & School by Bade Stageberg Cox Architecture (Renaissance Award); The Frick Collection Portico Gallery by Davis Brody Bond (Transformation Award); Central Park Conservancy: East Meadow (Distinctive Achievement Award); 7 Gracie Square (Extra Mile Award) and Schaller & Weber (Good Neighbor Award)…

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) commends the U.S. State Department for moving forward with a shortlist of nine design teams for the New Embassy
Compound in Mexico City, Mexico—the first State Department project solicited under the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) new Design Excellence program; the shortlist includes AECOM/Snohetta; Allied Works Architecture; Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Buro Happold; Ennead Architects; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects…Five teams have been shortlisted to design the University of Buffalo’s new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, including Cannon Design, Diller Scofidio + Renfro/Gensler, Grimshaw Architects, HOK, and Rafael Viñoly Architects… 

Vishaan Chakrabarti, director of the Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE) at Columbia University’s graduate school, is joining SHoP Architects as its seventh partner… Brian T. Ahern, Assoc. AIA, has joined GreenbergFarrow as the firm’s residential studio director…