Three of the AIA New York Chapter 2011 Design Award winners are featured in the “Best in Show” showcase exhibition at the Center for Architecture: the Hypar Pavilion Lawn and Restaurant by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXFOWLE Architects (Architecture, Honor); the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (Interiors, Honor); and the Lincoln Center Public Spaces by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXFOWLE Architects, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects (Urban Design, honor)…

The American Academy in Rome has chosen the 2011/12 Rome Prize winners, including Lonn Combs, AIA, principal of EASTON + COMBS (Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize), and Jiminie Ha, Creative Director and Founder of W/– — — Project Space (Rolland Rome Prize); Hugh Hardy, FAIA, founding partner of H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, will spend the spring of 2011 as the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence…

The NYC Department of Buildings First Deputy Commissioner Fatma Amer, P.E., has retired after nearly 30 years of public service, and Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Thomas Fariello, RA, has been appointed as Acting First Deputy Commissioner… A Retirement Celebration for Amer will take place at the Center for Architecture, hosted by ACEC New York, AIANY, and REBNY, at 6:00pm, 04.20.11. All are welcome!

Aedas has established an office in Toronto, Canada… Thornton Tomasetti appointed Thomas Z. Scarangello, P.E., Chairman and CEO; Aine Brazil, P.E., LEED AP, Vice Chairman; Dennis C.K. Poon, P.E., Vice Chairman; and Robert P. DeScenza, P.E., LEED AP, President… Jan Lakin, Assoc. AIA, has been named Editor-in-Chief of the IIDA publication Perspective…